Author: fredalanmedforth

Get ready for the crazy train because it’s leaving the station and picking up steam. That’s what Democrats are doing now, having fallen completely out of power. They know they have no argument FOR their policies, so they make arguments AGAINST anything Republicans are trying to do. Simply saying “no” means that they absolve themselves of any responsibility, which only really flies with people you obey without question – very good dogs willing to do whatever they are told. In other words, Democrat voters.

Sane people would stop beating their heads against a wall after a while, being smart enough to realize it won’t come down that way and they should try something else. But we aren’t dealing with smart people here; we’re dealing with Democrats, so their response to having their insistence rejected by voters is to insist harder and louder – the kind of thinking that passes through the head of a rowdy drunk being tossed out of the bar while arguing ever louder and more flailingly that he wasn’t doing anything to warrant being invited to leave.

The hill Democrats have chosen to die on is men playing in women’s sports.

You can frame this however you like, boys and girls, men and women, whatever; it’s the same thing at a different age. Biology always wins because biology is reality, and reality is undefeated; just ask any kid who was sure they could fly jump off a garage.

The thing about reality is it is not dependent upon your belief in it, it just is.

When a leftist like, say, John Oliver does an entire edition of his HBO progressive propaganda vehicle on how biology doesn’t really matter, especially in sports, you are being lied to.

Where are the “trans men” (women) dominating or even just performing adequately in men’s sports? If biology and gender are social constructs, sure, someone would break through. And there’s no way we wouldn’t have heard about it – the first girl hitting a home run, .300 or even just above the Mendoza Line in high school baseball will be the subject of a ticker tape parade on MSNBC, so you know they don’t exist yet.

Weirdly, these people celebrate a boy beating girls at anything because they’re pot-committed to the concept that God is continuing to make more and more mistakes in the assembly room in his old age, and it’s not a fad or social contagion in an age where getting attention for any reason is the goal, good or bad be damned.

It’s gross, really.

This is the hill they’re willing to die on. Let them. Help them do it.

Oliver talks so mater-of-factly about children being pumped full of hormones their bodies were not made for or having parts of their anatomy sliced and diced and molded like perverse clay that it’s hard to know if he’s reading what his staff put on the teleprompter or Josef Mengele’s journal.

There is little difference between the two.

Honestly, it’s not really a disconnect, it’s ignorance. The modern left is the natural evolution of the Nazis. Of the entire progressive movement, actually. When leftists are marching holding signs reading “Socialism beats Fascism,” they’ve lost their collective mind.

The Nazis were not known for their sense of humor, so when they named themselves the National SOCIALIST German Workers Party, they were pulling a hilarious prank; they meant it. Communists, socialists and fascists were only slightly different, mostly regarding private property and government seizure. Like male Betta fish, who will fight any other male they are in a bowl with to the death for dominance, the females, the three legs of the progressive stool, fought to be in control, not over the general direction of their evil movement.

We aren’t dealing with people bound by reality here; we’re dealing with people specifically unbound by it. When you know that world record time for the women’s 100-meter dash not only wouldn’t qualify for the men’s Olympic semi-finals but that it is a half second slower than any of the top 10 records for high school boys and still insist there is no biological difference between the only two genders that exist, you are insane.

Democrats are insane. Still, embracing that insanity is easier than trying to sell their policies, I guess.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/men-and-women-are-different-no-matter-what-insane-leftists-say/

On today’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by independent journalist Lewis Brackpool.

Efforts to exclude the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from the German political system—despite it coming second in the recent federal elections and leading national polls for the first time earlier this month—are reportedly crumbling. But establishment figures are scrambling to ensure that this so-called ‘firewall’ remains in place.

Jens Spahn, an ally of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz and fellow member of his centre-right CDU, last week told Bild that politicians must “simply acknowledge … how many millions of Germans voted for the AfD,” in part because they “wanted to tell us [establishment types] something.” He also “recommend[ed] that

We treat the AfD as an opposition party in the same way in terms of procedures and processes as we would any other opposition party.

Hardly the most extreme of proposals, though the response would suggest otherwise.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, who has previously expressed a desire to sack federal police officers who “actively support” the AfD, accused Spahn of being “irresponsible and oblivious to history” because

The AfD is not an opposition party like any other. Anyone who wants to treat it that way and thereby further normalise it is making a serious mistake.

The left-wing SPD’s Matthias Miersch also bashed Spahn as “fundamentally wrong and very, very dangerous,” while the party’s parliamentary manager, Katja Mast, also insisted she would “continue to protect our democratic institutions” by blocking the widely democratically-backed AfD.

Clearly unnerved by this backlash, Spahn later stressed that he “didn’t use the word ‘normalisation’” when discussing the AfD, adding: “Nobody really needs to tell me what kind of people are sitting in their ranks. I know that.”

For its part, the AfD declared on Thursday it is still willing to cooperate with the CDU, praising “more and more leading Christian Democrats” who are “calling for what should actually be a matter of course in a democracy: to finally treat the AfD like any other opposition party.” Party officials added that

The exclusion of the AfD harms democracy—it does not strengthen it.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/merz-afd-firewall-jens-spahn/

For the first time, Muslim students are the largest religious group in Vienna’s schools, underlining the incredible demographic transformation taking place in the Austrian city. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is now raising the alarm.

Muslim students now account for 41.2 percent of all students, while Christian students fell to 34.5 percent. The trend is only growing, and is accompanied by rising problems, including violence in schools, anti-Semitism, and contempt for women.

The data was obtained from the office of Bettina Emmerling, the city councilor responsible for education. Last year, the proportion of students of Islamic faith was 39.4 percent, but now, for the first time, it has crossed 40 percent, reports Exxpress.

Meanwhile, the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is raising the alarm about the rapid demographic change in Austria and Vienna.

“Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country,” said Hannes Amesbauer, security spokesman for the FPÖ.

FPÖ National Council member Maximilian Weinzierl, the FPÖ youth spokesperson and federal chairman of the Freedom Party Youth said:

“What we as the FPÖ have been warning about for decades, but which was always dismissed as right-wing scaremongering, is now reality: Immigration has completely overrun our country….41.2 percent of Muslim students – that’s no longer a minority, that’s the new majority. And it’s not just that Austrian children have become a minority in schools. Even together with other Christian European migrants, they are fewer than non-European Muslims. This is the direct result of replacement migration, asylum abuse, and the denial of reality by the SPÖ, ÖVP, and Greens.

In more and more school classes, German is a second language, and our values ​​are becoming increasingly secondary. Our children are being marginalized by migrants. This is no longer immigration, this is displacement.”

Meanwhile, the government is attempting to head off the problems brought on by Vienna’s exploding Muslim population. According to Emmerling, a politician for the NEOS party, the principles of human dignity, pluralism and democracy, as well as gender equality, must be clear to young people in particular. According to her, “it is during childhood that it is easiest to learn and master acceptance and diversity.”

However, several studies, both from universities and the government, warn that young Muslims in Vienna are not only more religious than average, but also more likely to hold negative or extremist views. These views include anti-Semitism, prejudice against the LGBTQ community, and rejection of women’s equal rights.

“No one in Vienna may live a lifestyle that is based on a fundamentalist interpretation of religious texts, especially if it is anti-women, anti-minority, anti-state or anti-democratic,” said Emmerling.

To address the growing tension in the school system, Emmerling wants to introduce a new, mandatory subject starting in elementary school called “Living in a Democracy,” which aims to teach the basic principles of democracy, ethical values ​​and coexistence on a common basis. Christoph Wiederkehr, the liberal NEOS education minister, has already presented concrete plans in this regard.

As Remix News has previously reported, Vienna’s teachers are resigning en masse due to growing violence and harassment in schools.

According to teachers’ union member Thomas Krebs, teachers are fleeing Vienna’s compulsory schools “in droves.” However, the Vienna state government does not offer any useful ideas on how to deal with the increasing influx of students.

“On one peak day, I even received 20 reports of staff terminating (their contract) for the coming school year,” he stated.

Krebs notes the resignation wave comes down to the Vienna state government failing to require sufficient German language skills when entering school and failing to take action against violence, extremism, and misogyny.

In many schools, the situation is dire. Evelyn Kometter, chairwoman of the umbrella organization of parents’ associations across Austria, notes, “The teacher has to repeat a sentence 10 to 12 times until it is finally understood. But by then, two-thirds of the lesson is already over.”

In her role, Kometter is facing a never-ending deluge of parents complaining about the situations in their classrooms. “For example, there is a mother whose son is in a class with 22 students — only three of whom can speak German.” The result is pure chaos. “The teacher is not taken seriously and is not understood.”

The government’s response is not to improve the situation between teachers and students, but instead race to make space for more newcomers. Krebs states that all green space is being paved over, the government is building container classrooms, and huge school extensions are being constructed. However, there is no government concept beyond this.

“They can think of nothing better to do than to plow up the last green spaces and sports facilities for schools with excavators and construction equipment and to pave them over with containers and huge extensions without any real plan,” said Krebs.

The new data shows that among Christian students, 17.5 percent are Roman Catholic, 14.5 percent are Orthodox Christian, and 23 percent of students do not belong to any religious community. The proportion of Buddhist students is 0.2 percent, Jewish students constitute 0.1 percent, and other religions stand at 0.9 percent. The poll surveyed a total of 112,600 students in Vienna’s primary, secondary, special, and vocational schools.

https://rmx.news/austria/this-is-no-longer-immigration-this-is-displacement-for-the-first-time-muslim-students-outnumber-christians-in-viennas-schools/

It sounds like a bad joke – but it is a bitter reality: two men, convicted of supporting the terrorist organisation ‘Islamic State’ (IS), are back in Warendorf ( North Rhine-Westphalia). Exactly where they were arrested by special forces in a refugee centre last summer.

Now they are on the loose again – despite the fact that, according to the court, they are ideologically close to IS. This is reported by the newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten.
The two Tajiks had allegedly come to Germany as Ukrainian refugees. But instead of seeking protection, they are said to have plotted terrorist attacks and channelled money to IS.
The Federal Public Prosecutor accuses seven men of having founded a terrorist cell with a clear mission: Attacks in Germany and Western Europe – as media-effective and brutal as possible. They are also alleged to have provided financial support to the so-called Islamic State (IS). The group is said to have met several times in changing line-ups to push ahead with their plans. After months of pre-trial detention, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced two of the men last week to one year’s imprisonment each – which, however, has already been served due to the pre-trial detention.

After the judgement, the men were not taken directly into custody pending deportation – but returned to Warendorf, according to the Westfälische Nachrichten newspaper. In other words, exactly where they had once been arrested by special units in a refugee centre. When asked by NIUS about the current whereabouts of the convicted men, the press office of the district town of Warendorf said: ‘I cannot provide any information on this at the moment. However, I can inform you that the immigration authorities have exhausted all possibilities under residence law.’

When asked by NIUS about the security situation in Warendorf, the district gave an evasive answer. The Münster police’s state security service would have to be asked about the current threat situation. He continued: ‘In principle, people who are trained in weapons and adhere to an extremist ideology pose a potential threat to liberal societies.’

District Administrator Dr Olaf Gericke (CDU) vented his anger to the Westfälische Nachrichten newspaper: ‘Anyone who supports such a terrorist organisation obviously rejects our Western values and social order. Such people have no place here.’ The CDU politician calls for consistent deportation.

But the judiciary is hesitating. Because the men in Tajikistan could allegedly face torture, the administrative court has already halted the deportation plans in another case.
A few weeks ago, there was a spectacular incident in Oelde (also in the district of Warendorf): an IS supporter who had already been convicted had barricaded himself in a police station, pulled out a cutter knife, injured himself – and thus prevented his deportation. The plan was clear – and failed miserably: when the IS supporter, who had been sentenced to five years in prison, arrived at the police station in Oelde on a Monday morning in February this year as prescribed, an arrest warrant was already issued. Instead of allowing himself to be taken into custody without resistance, the Tajik went berserk. First he put up a physical fight, then he pulled out a cutter knife, held it to his neck – and injured himself on the stomach. He barricaded himself in the lock area for hours before heavily armed SEK officers secured the building and finally escorted the man to hospital.
Instead of deportation, there was another standstill: an urgent decision by the Higher Administrative Court stopped the measure at the last minute. Since then, the man has been at large again – another setback for the authorities in the fight against convicted extremists.

District Administrator Gericke even wrote to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) – hoping that better diplomatic assurances from Tajikistan would convince the courts.

Nevertheless, in response to an enquiry from NIUS, the Federal Foreign Office announced on Wednesday that it was ‘in ongoing talks’ with the Tajik authorities. How long will the process take? Remains undetermined.

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Judges in the Netherlands have reportedly refused to send asylum seekers back to Belgium over what they saw as a lack of care facilities.

The asylum seekers filed their initial requests in Belgium and should, according to the Dublin Regulation, be processed in Belgium.

According to the regulation, a cornerstone of the Common European Asylum System, the country in which an asylum seeker first applied for asylum was responsible for either accepting or rejecting the claim and the seeker may not restart the process in another jurisdiction

Four Dutch judges, though, were said have overriden this in the case of Belgium due to perceived issues with the care of asylum seekers, Belgian left-wing magazine Knack reported on April 16.

In one ruling, according to the magazine, the judge concerned said:  “There are indications of serious fears that the reception facilities in Belgium contain systemic flaws.”

The case regarded a Georgian man who possibly faced ending up on the streets due to a lack of shelter in Belgium, with too many people on the asylum housing waiting list and Belgium’s capacity to house them having been exceeded.

If asylum seekers systematically ended up having to sleep rough, it could lead to infractions of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights for inhuman or degrading treatment, experts said.

Last year, the former Belgian State Secretary of Asylum Nicole de Moor decided to prioritise migrant families for shelter, putting single men on waiting lists, a policy that the current government has upheld.

NGOs working with and for migrants have said the government should do more to shelter migrants and said it was a political choice not to do so.

They suggested spreading migrants across the country in order not to overload a handful of cities dealing with asylum seekers, or give them “alternative material support” if they did have shelter space available.

The Dutch Council of State has been considering whether Belgium was doing enough for the reception of asylum seekers. Its judgment is expected in June.

The council investigated the same issue last year but reopened the case after receiving new indications of problems, reportedly provided by NGOs.

According to figures from the Belgian Immigration Department (DVZ), 45 people were transferred from the Netherlands to Belgium under the Dublin Regulation last year.

Brussels Signal reached out to the current Belgian State Secretary of Asylum and Migration Anneleen Van Bossuyt but had not received a reply at the time of writing.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/dutch-judges-stop-returning-asylum-seekers-to-belgium-over-lack-of-care-facilities

The U.K. Supreme Court has issued a ruling stating that “woman” in law refers to a biological female, and that transgender “women” are not female in the eyes of the law.

In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled today that legally transgender “women” are not women, since a woman is legally defined by “biological sex.”

Published April 16, the Supreme Court’s 88-page verdict was handed down on the case of Women Scotland Ltd (Appellant) v. The Scottish Ministers (Respondent). The ruling marks the end of a battle of many years between the Scottish government and women’s right campaigners who sought to oppose the government’s promotion of transgender ideology.

In 2018, the Scottish government issued a decision to allow the definition of “woman” to include men who assume their gender to be female, opening the door to allowing so-called “transgender” individuals to identify as women.

This guidance was challenged by women’s rights campaigners, arguing that a woman should be defined in line with biological sex, and in 2022 the Scottish government was forced to change its definition after the court found that such a move was outside the government’s “legislative competence.”

Given this, the government issued new guidance which sought to cover both aspects: saying that biological women are women, but also that men with a “gender recognition certificate” (GRC) are also considered women. A GRC is given to people who identify as the opposite sex and who have had medical or surgical interventions in an attempt to “reassign” their gender.

Women Scotland Ltd appealed this new guidance. At first it was rejected by inner courts, but upon their taking the matter to the Supreme Court in March last year, the nation’s highest judicial body took up the case.

Today, with the ruling issued against transgender ideology, women’s campaigners are welcoming the news as a win for women’s safety.

“A thing of beauty,” praised Lois McLatchie Miller from the Alliance Defending Freedom legal group.

“They looked at the whole argument, not just who goes in what bathroom and trans women. This is going to change organisations, employers, service providers,” Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, told the Telegraph. “Everyone is going to have to pay attention to this, this is from the highest court in the land. It’s saying sex in the Equality Act is biological sex. Self ID is dead.”

“Victory,” commented Charlie Bently-Astor, a prominent campaigner for biological reality against the transgender movement, after she nearly underwent surgical transition herself at a younger age.

“After 15 years of insanity, the U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that men who say they are ‘trans women’ are not women,” wrote leader of the Christian political movement David Kurten.

Leader of the Conservative Party – the opposition to the current Labour government – Kemi Badenoch welcomed the court’s ruling, writing that “saying ‘trans women are women’ was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.”

Saying “trans women are women” was never true in fact and now isn’t true in law, either.

A victory for all of the women who faced personal abuse or lost their jobs for stating the obvious.

Women are women and men are men: you cannot change your biological sex.

The era of… https://t.co/IKjTxwkgoB

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) April 16, 2025

Others lamented the fact that the debate even was taking place, let alone having gone to the Supreme Court.

“What a parody we live in,” commented Reform Party candidate Joseph Robertson.

Rupert Lowe MP – who has risen to new prominence in recent weeks for his outspoken condemnation of the immigration and rape gang crisis – wrote, “Absolute madness that we’re even debating what a woman is – it’s a biological fact. No amount of woke howling will ever change that.”

However, the Supreme Court did not wish to get pulled into siding with certain arguments, with Lord Hodge of the tribunal stating that “we counsel against reading this judgment as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another. It is not.”

The debate has taken center stage in the U.K. in recent years, not least for the role played by the current Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer himself has become notorious throughout the nation for his contradictions and inability to answer the question of what a woman is, having flip-flopped on saying that a woman can have a penis, due to his support for the transgender movement.

At the time of going to press, neither Starmer nor his deputy Angela Rayner issued a statement about the Supreme Court ruling. There has been no statement issued from the Scottish government either, nor from the office of the first minister.

Transgender activists have expectedly condemned the ruling as “a disgusting attack on trans rights.” One leading transgender campaigner individual told Sky News, “I am gutted to see the judgement from the Supreme Court which ends 20 years of understanding that transgender people with a GRC are able to be, for all intents and purposes, legally recognized as our true genders.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-supreme-court-rules-woman-means-biological-female/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa

Dublin’s mayoral election plans were cancelled by the Irish Government because mixed martial arts (MMA) star Conor McGregor might have won, according to local reports.

Irish officials had been preparing a public vote on introducing a directly elected mayor of the Irish Republic capital — a long-awaited reform.

Growing speculation that populist right-winger McGregor, who has become increasingly vociferous in recent years, could run and win, reportedly led the government to abandon the plan.

On April 14, the Irish section of newspaper The Sunday Times said the ruling coalition feared that he would use the election as a political launch pad.

McGregor has been critical about mass migration towards Ireland.

In March, he visited US President Donald Trump at the White House and said Ireland was “at the cusp of potentially losing its Irishness”.  He claimed the Irish Government had “abandoned the voices of the people of Ireland”.

On several occasions, McGregor has said he was open to the idea of running to be president of Ireland.

When, in 2023, major riots broke out in Dublin after a stabbing, McGregor stated on social media: “Ireland, we are at war” and laid the blame on immigration for the riots, which led to an investigation for alleged incitement to hatred.

In reaction he said: “Attempt to scapegoat me all you wish. If it makes you feel better, I will take it. The truth of the many failed policies of this government, however, will never stop being the reason we have innocent children in hospital on life support after being stabbed by a deranged criminal.”

A directly elected Dublin mayor would have significant powers and a substantial budget at his or her disposal

An unnamed minister was quoted by The Sunday Times as saying: “[The Mayor] would essentially have the powers of a minister. It would be a very significant role and the Dublin voter base would be the most amenable … compared to any other part of the country.”

The Irish Government was reportedly concerned after Limerick, in southern Ireland, organised its first direct elections in 2024 and where and an independent candidate won.

“There has been discussion about someone like McGregor potentially doing well out of a Dublin mayoral election. There’s more of a risk there than with any other election because it would be such a powerful position, roughly 60 per cent of the Irish economy comes from Dublin,” another unnamed minister told The Sunday Times.

“It’s not just about McGregor, though. I think central government, whether it be elected people or unelected people, they’re always fearful of transferring power over to some other figurehead which the central government doesn’t control. That’s been an underlying problem with this project since the very beginning,” the newspaper reported the minister as saying.

The minister added that everyone was “concerned” because an independent won in Limerick, not a candidate from one of the traditional political parties.

A source close to the Irish Electoral Commission told the paper there was little political will within the current government to initiate the groundwork for a vote. “There’s no chance that work will happen this year,” the source reportedly said.

“A three-year review will take place for the Limerick directly elected mayor. I can imagine them suggesting the commission wait for that before any moves would be made in relation to Dublin.”

In 2022, the then-Irish government, a coalition of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and the Green Party, created the Dublin Citizens’ Assembly. It was designed to examine and make recommendations on the best model for a directly elected mayor and local government structures for Dublin City and County after earlier attempts in 2016 and 2019.

It proposed that several powers be devolved to the function of mayor and give the post-holder the ability to introduce local taxes.

A Dublin mayor would have a five-year term of office and a maximum of two terms, under the recommendations.

Former lord mayor of Dublin city, James Geoghegen, told The Sunday Times the concerns about who might win were not sufficient reason for cancelling direct elections.

Eoin O’Malley, associate professor of politics at Dublin City University, told radio station Newstalk: “It ends up proving the other side’s point, you know, they’ll kinda say ‘they won’t let me run.’

“And so it gives ammunition to what are essentially extremist politicians, so I think it would be better if, in this case, if the government and if governments generally, just trusted the public.

“The public usually get it right,” O’Malley said.

Wendy Via, chief executive of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told The Sunday Times she considered McGregor a fairly controversial public figure and said his running would have led to “far-right policies become normalised”.

Besides his outspoken political views, McGregor also faced controversy over his private life.

In 2024, he was found liable for sexual assault in a civil trial and was ordered by a court to pay the complainant €250,000. He had denied the accusations and claimed that the sex was consensual.

Brussels Signal reached out to the Irish Government for comment but had not received a reply at the time of writing.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/conor-mcgregor-scare-halts-dublin-mayoral-election

We have 30 NCF Locals branches right across the nation. To find out more about local activities in your area, please email: Locals@NewCultureForum.org.uk Our events are free of charge. This talk was recorded at “A Celebration of England: Magna Carta & the Making of the English”, our NCF Locals regional conference held in Salisbury in March 2025.

Under the innocuous-looking sub-heading titled “Strengthening media diversity — safeguarding freedom of opinion,” the new German coalition contract conceals what George Orwell would recognize as classic doublespeak. The section “Dealing with disinformation” reads:

“Targeted influence on elections and by now commonplace disinformation and fake news are serious threats to our democracy, its institutions and social cohesion. The deliberate dissemination of false factual claims is not covered by freedom of expression. That is why the media supervisory authority, which is independent of the state, must be able to take action against the manipulation of information, hate-mongering and agitation while safeguarding freedom of expression—on the basis of clear legal requirements … We will ensure that online platforms fulfil their obligations with regard to transparency and cooperation with the supervisory authority.”

This is an Orwellian contradiction at its finest. Though implementation details remain unclear, the trajectory is alarming: a government establishing a supposedly “independent” institution that will define truth versus lies—essentially a Ministry of Truth—all packaged as necessary for protecting democracy!

Free speech already under assault

The German establishment has already demonstrated its propensity to crush free expression. As the coalition partners were drafting their contract, the editor-in-chief of the AfD-affiliated Deutschland Kurier received a seven-month suspended prison sentence merely for sharing a satirical meme showing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding a sign reading “I hate freedom of speech.”

The case exemplifies the fatal flaw in policing “fake news.” Yes, the image was fabricated, but didn’t it capture a fundamental truth? Faeser champions laws restricting expression (like Section 188 of the German penal code penalizing criticism of politicians.) As Turkish-German journalist Denis Yücel—a man who himself was imprisoned in Turkey for speech crimes— aptly noted, by failing to condemn this verdict, Faeser effectively confirms she DOES hate free expression.

Truth already sacrificed on the altar of ideology

The coalition’s plans emerge at a time when the boundary between truth and falsehood is already being dangerously blurred in many instances—and certainly not only by far-right contrarians, but by the establishment itself. The Self-Determination Act, which the coalition plans to maintain, allows Germans as young as 14 to legally change their gender. The law threatens fines up to €10,000 for anyone “disclosing” someone’s original identity. The absurd result? German media for example now refer to a biological male who identifies as a woman—an immigrant from South Africa—accused of brutally murdering a Syrian security officer exclusively with female pronouns and nouns, prioritizing subjective identity over objective reality. 

The “fact-checkers” who suppress facts

Government-funded “fact-checkers” have repeatedly suppressed inconvenient truths. The handling of the COVID-19 crisis is a case in point. Some weeks ago, mainstream newspapers revealed that German intelligence services concluded in 2020 that the virus likely originated from a Wuhan laboratory—information shared with then-Chancellor Merkel’s government. Yet the government kept the study which it had commissioned, secret. Instead, this “lab leak theory” was publicly branded a conspiracy theory. Professor Roland Wiesendanger, a distinguished physicist who independently reached similar conclusions, faced public defamation by state-funded fact-checkers. ARD proclaimed there was “Hardly any evidence for lab theory,” while Deutsche Welle ‘s fact checkers questioned whether his work even qualified as a “study.” Wiesendanger faced not just professional smears but legal charges of defamation.

The nature of many fact checkers was also highlighted in a case involving the journalist Roland Tichy, who ultimately prevailed in court against the state-sponsored Correctiv research organization. Tichy’s magazine, Tichys Einblick, had published an article about an open letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres under the headline ‘500 scientists declare: “There is no climate emergency”‘. After the post was shared on Facebook, the fact-checkers immediately intervened, adding the following note to the post: “No: It’s not ‘500 scientists’: claims partly false.”

The court correctly ruled that in “the competition of opinions, there is no objective standard for categorizing ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.” Tichy’s lawyer, Joachim Steinhöfel, rightly pointed out that determining truth or falsehood should remain within the political discourse. It should not be arbitrated by government proxies.

Censorship as admission of failure

The coalition agreement reveals that traditional liberalism and an open exchange of ideas no longer suit the government’s agenda. Since existing fact-checkers have failed to redirect political discourse toward the government line, new censorship laws are deemed necessary.

Even this coalition cannot seriously believe such measures will restore public trust. Still reeling from devastating election results while populist movements gain momentum, they’re resorting to increasingly authoritarian methods. Unable to convince voters through legitimate debate, they’re choosing to suppress dissent instead. This coalition contract, in demanding more censorship, doesn’t protect democracy—it insults voters’ fundamental sense of freedom and justice.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/germany-speech-control-entity-repression-opinion-cdu-spd/