So, my trial for thoughtcrimes in New Normal Germany takes place next Tuesday, January 23rd. It will likely be a one-day affair. It’s open to the public, so, if you’re in Berlin, you can come and watch at the Berlin District Court, Turmstraße 91, Room 371. The proceedings are scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon.
Yes, that’s right, the German authorities are actually putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes. I stand accused of criminal tweeting because I mocked the New Normal German authorities and pointed out one of their many lies. Here are the two thoughtcrime Tweets at issue.
The one on the left reads, “The masks are ideological-conformity symbols. That is all they are. That is all they have ever been. Stop acting like they have ever been anything else, or get used to wearing them.” The one on the right is a quote by Karl Lauterbach, who, believe it or not, is still the Health Minister of Germany. It reads “The masks always send out a signal.”
The image is from the cover art of my book The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021), which was banned in Germany by Amazon, Inc. two days after I tweeted those Tweets … which was also when the German authorities launched the criminal investigation that led to my prosecution and instructed Twitter to censor the Tweets.
Let me back up a bit, and tell you the whole story.
What happened is, I tweeted those two Tweets, and they came to the attention of the Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter (“Hessen 3C”), a department of another department of the Interior Ministry of the Federal State of Hesse. The Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter then reported my Tweets to Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt), which launched a criminal investigation of me.
Also, the Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter instructed Twitter to censor my two Tweets, which Twitter did, and sent me this notice on August 30, 2022.
One day earlier, on August 29, Amazon had banned my book in Germany. I don’t have hard evidence of communication between the German authorities and Amazon yet, but … well, it’s obvious what happened, isn’t it?
The Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter is an official “partner” of the German “National Cyber Defense Center” (Cyber-AZ), based in Bonn, which, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office website, “is not an independent authority, but represents a common, cross-agency and cross-institutional platform.” Cyber-AZ was founded in 2011 as part of the implementation of the Federal Government’s Cyber Security Strategy (CSS).
The “core authorities” of Cyber-AZ are as follows:
- Federal Office for the Military Shielding Service
- Federal Criminal Police Office
- Federal Office for Information Security
- Federal Office of the Constitution Protection
- Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
- Bundeswehr command Cyber Cyberand Information Space
- Federal Police
- Federal Intelligence Service
The Federal Office of the Constitution Protection (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV) is essentially the German FBI. And the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND) is … well, just what it sounds like. Here’s a little tidbit from the BfV website …
“[The BfV’s] main tasks are to monitor and analyse anti-constitutional activities by right- and left-wing extremists and extremist foreigners in Germany and to prevent espionage activities by other countries … The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution works closely with its counterparts at state level and with the other German intelligence services (i.e., the Federal Intelligence Service and Military Counterintelligence Service) as necessary.”
This is the formidable “security” apparatus that has been brought to bear against my Tweets, which allegedly threaten the German constitution by pointing out the German government’s lies about masks and mocking the Minister of Health.
Look, I know what you’re probably thinking, that is, if you’re one of my non-German readers. You’re thinking this Orwellian apparatus is uniquely German and has nothing to do with you. And, OK, you kind of have a point, and you don’t. The structures in Germany and the USA, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, are different, but the game is the same. If you don’t believe me, I suggest you read up on the reporting of this story by Matt Taibbi at Racket News, and Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag at Public (yes, I am persona non grata at Public, but that has nothing to do with the value of their work).
Matt, Mike, and Alex have mostly reported on what Mike dubbed the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” i.e., the US “Thought Police” apparatus, which is natural, as they’re writing for an American audience. But this is not just an American story. And it isn’t a story about Red/Blue politics. And it isn’t a story about “Cultural Marxism,” or “Wokeness,” or “Libtards,” or other such distractions. It’s a story about the evolution of the global ideological/power system that came into being about 30 years ago, and that is gradually going totalitarian on us.
I’ve been covering this story for many years now, satirically and sometimes not so satirically. I’m not going to reiterate all that here. You can read my essays on my blog and my Substack (that is, until Substack is destroyed, like Parler), or you can read my books, unless you live here in Germany. The point is, the global-capitalist system that controls the entire planet we live on is going totalitarian on us, conducting a global “clear-and-hold” operation, cracking down on internal resistance — any and all forms of internal resistance — and it wants us to know this is what it is doing. The system — no, not a conspiracy of bad guys — the system has been broadcasting this message, loud and clear, for a number of years.
The message is, “We, The Powers That Be, are done playing grab-ass. Get in line. Shut the fuck up and follow orders, or we will rain All Holy Hell down on you.” The message is, “Screw Your Freedom!” The message is, “Screw Your Democratic Rights! Screw the Rule of Law! This is the New Normal! We will do whatever we fucking want, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
If you’re having trouble hearing the message, you might want to have a look at this incredibly long thread I compiled, for some reason, in March and April of 2020 …
Or maybe just ask the people in Gaza …
… I think they’re probably getting the message.
Or ask Julian Assange, or Donald Trump, or anyone else that The Powers That Be have decided they need to make an example of … yes, even a little fish like me.
Anyway, I’ll be writing more about that, all that global-capitalist totalitarian stuff, perhaps in my German prison cell. According to the original “Order of Punishment” (I kid you not, that’s what it is called), I was sentenced to 60 days in jail or a fine of 3,600 Euros, but now, because I demanded a trial, the judge can come up with a whole new sentence.
We’ll see how things play out next Tuesday.
Whatever happens, one thing I am looking forward to at my trial is hearing the Berlin State Prosecutor explain how what I did in my Tweets (i.e., displaying a swastika for one of the purposes expressly allowed in Germany) was a “crime,” but when German newspapers do exactly the same thing, which they frequently do, the exceptions to the swastika-ban apply.
See, that’s the funny thing about global-capitalist totalitarianism … the authorities can’t go openly fascist. They are forced to at least attempt to appear to pay lip service to democratic principles, and the rule of law, and all that good stuff, which is why they so often sound like idiots who can’t even mount a coherent argument or make an intelligible public statement.
OK, I need to go read some German legalese.
Seriously, though, if you are in Berlin and have nothing better to do next Tuesday, come on down to the Berlin District Court and meet some of the German Thought Police in person. If things go smoothly, perhaps we can all go out and get a coffee afterwards. And if not … well, maybe bring me a carton of cigarettes and a jar of Vaseline.
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CJ Hopkins
January 16, 2024
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‘This is the formidable “security” apparatus that has been brought to bear against my Tweets, which allegedly threaten the German constitution by pointing out the German government’s lies about masks and mocking the Minister of Health’.
I have a simple question. How can Mr Hopkins’ tweets – whatever they say – possibly threaten, let alone harm, the German constitution except through the agency of German citizens who read them and are moved to acts that somehow affect the German constitution? I don’t know anything about German law, but surely the constitution can be changed only by due process of law, involving at least the government, a majority of the legislature, and a substantial fraction of the citizen body?
And how could Mr Hopkins’ tweets affect any of those except through rational persuasion?
So it seems that the German government – 76 years after the overthrow of Nazi rule – is so dictatorial that it refuses to allow even mild public criticism.
Obviously the German political class – and perhaps most of the German people – have completely failed to grasp the essence of freedom under law. Luckily other more intelligent, more advanced nations – the Chinese and Russians, for example – do grasp those issues.
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It breaks my heart to see you have to go through this, CJ. I feel helpless in the face of the machine’s bullshit and it’s many useful idiots. Thank you for being who you are and for your strengthening of so many of us during the Great Motherfuckery. You’re amazing ❤️🌳❤️
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Lieber Herr Hopkins, ich bin um Worte nie verlegen, aber Ihr Schlußplädoayer im Amtsgericht Tiergarten hat mir die Sprache verschlagen. So großartig sind Ihre Gedanken! Was Sie da den autokratischen Anwürfen des Gerichtes intellektuell entgegenzusetzen hatten, erinnerte mich in der Methodik an die berühmte Rede Georgi Dimitroffs beim Reichstagsbrandprozeß 1933. Bei aller Diskriminierung und Demütigung Ihrer Person durch das deutsche Recht, die nur schwer zu ertragen sind, gehen Sie als Sieger hervor. Als ein Sieger, der die totalitaristischen Züge aktueller deutscher Politik überführt hat. Mein von Herzen kommender Dank dafür.
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Good Luck.
This seems appropriate.
“What do you want to know now?” asks the gatekeeper. “You are insatiable.” “Everyone strives after the law,” says the man, “so how is it that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?” The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.”
#ASSANGE #BEFORETHELAW #KAFKA “THE PROCESS” , A DESCENT INTO FASCIST DYSTOPIA. SHOW TRIAL AT BELMARSH
First published at 08:48 UTC on February 26th, 2020.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zrKosdn6FWgH/
show trial
noun [ C ]
UK /ˈʃəʊ ˌtraɪəl/ US /ˈʃoʊ ˌtraɪəl/
a trial organized by a government in order to have an effect on public opinion and reduce political opposition, and not in order to find the truth
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/show-trial
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Der Holländer wird erscheinen! Die Niederländer wird da sein!
Are you really really really sure there’s no fine prints or procedural hoops I need jump through to be in attendance? Would suck if I’m being told “nein!”. Germans and their Pünktlichkeit…
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Great strategy alienating Matt Taibbi, Michael Schulenburg, Musk, et al as “controlled opposition” who would otherwise have supported you. Good luck on your own.
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Thanks again. Seems we’re going to slide all the way down this hill.
Jerry, WTF?!
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Don’t feel alone CJ, they have convicted a man here in the states named Douglas Makey who put out a meme mocking Hillary. No such action for a person who put out a similar meme about Trump.
They are asking for 7 months in prison, 2 years probation and a 15k fine.
All this is pretty easy to understand it’s really a message to everyone else to say ” look what we did to these people, Now STFU and do what you are told”
I am somewhat agnostic but I will say a prayer for you CJ. I think that might be worth a bit more than someone who prays for every little thing.
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This is disgusting. I only recently found you at someone’s suggestion, and now you’re being tried for something that reflects my own thoughts and helps me formulate coherently. It reminds me of the movie and book by Ray Bradbury – “Fahrenheit 451”. Damn, and on my birthday!
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“We, The Powers That Be, are done playing grab-ass. Get in line. Shut the fuck up and follow orders, or we will rain All Holy Hell down on you.” The message is, “Screw Your Freedom!” The message is, “Screw Your Democratic Rights! Screw the Rule of Law! This is the New Normal! We will do whatever we fucking want, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
I live in Ottawa, Canada, home of the Freedom Convoy and as in Germany and throughout the western world, the curtain has now been pulled back to reveal raw totalitarianism in the form of government-private partnerships, in other words fascism, as promoted by the WEF. Of course this has been a long process spanning a century or more of incremental tyranny that was implemented almost by stealth while we were lulled into a false narrative of wellbeing. While most of us were asleep, the vile and evil fascists were hard at work building a Gulag to house those remaining after the “useless eaters” were culled from the herd. These soulless creatures devoid of basic humanity now occupy most of the highest offices in the land while we the people are facing an existential war for our very survival as a free and sovereign people. Thank you for refusing to submit to tyranny and providing an inspiration for the growing army of people who are now fully awake, highly motivated, fearless and ready to do battle for their freedom. As the old saying goes, freedom was never free.
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If I could be there from my frozen tundra residence in the mountains of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, I would be there, with bells on my shoes.
These ripe bastids.
Your coherent summary here causes me to have a sort of hope for your results next Tuesday.. the type of hope that a prisoner has, on occasion, of walking sunlit mountains again.
May every good thing conspire, with all intent toward your release from this ‘buffoons’ grip’ on us all.
May my God bless this event with EVERY relief for you. Your vindication already exists, he’ll, it shines brightly. This focus is upon their very treacherous and physically insistent grasp on you, as a human being, a grip which must be forced opened, and you are dropped from their further molestations. I’m too old to imagine such a systemic malignancy can be excised, but your very personal removal from the tumorous mass is the sole goal here.
Godspeed, CJ Hopkins.
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The Germans have shown especially in the last several years how little sovereignty they gained back since the late 40s when their Grundgesetz (Basic Law) was dictated to them by the Allies.
What is utterly incredible is that the Germans never re-wrote their draft constitution and the Allie written Basic Law still sands. I guess selling VWs and complying with the West was more important to the ‘good’ Faschists who remained in power.
Toi Toi Toi Cj!
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Dear Mr. Hopkins, my name is Ulrich, and I followed the shameful trial in courtroom 500 today, sitting next to your courageous and beautiful wife. Congratulations to the outcome, but I am almost as angry as you are: this trial should never have happened. There is not only this herd of sleeping sheep here in good old Germany. There is also a relentless apparatus of state bureaucrats one example of them at least we could observe today at work. They are doing the dirty part of the totalitarian job. Even if there is no substance in their accusations, they will nevertheless pull you to the courtroom. The trial as punishment. This is Germany nowadays. The country of JW Goethe and K Marx.
This is to let you know that I feel very much relief about the (expected) outcome, and at the same time shame for this country that you had trusted so much. Thank you so much for your final statement, your words go directly to the core of the matter.
All the best. Ulich
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