If such hate speech is satire, why are others condemned for obvious actual satire?
And the verdicts themselves are only one part of the scandal: At least as serious are the criminal prosecutions, the house searches, the sadistic pleasure of public prosecutors in depriving people of their livelihoods by confiscating their work equipment and mobile phones, the defamation as ‘right-wing’, the psychological terror and, of course, the financial burden imposed on innocent citizens because they oppose those in power.
The obvious double standards reveal that a form of ideological justice is spreading in the courts, which is permanently undermining confidence in the rule of law. Research by Junge Freiheit has revealed that the judge in charge of the case has links to the Amadeu Antonio Foundation*. It would not be unfounded to suspect bias.
Against this backdrop, the SPD’s attempt to establish two radical left-wing lawyers as constitutional judges proves to be a preliminary goal of the intention to instrumentalise law and jurisdiction in order to silence people who disagree with those in power. In this way, the judiciary is to be restructured right up to the highest positions.
*He noted that one of the members of the board of the think tank is Anetta Kahane, a former asset of the notorious East German spy agency known as the Stasi.
Kahane, who sits on the think tank’s board of trustees and also runs the far-left Amadeu Antonio Foundation, was criticised in 2016 by German historians after a group linked to Kahane was tasked by the government to monitor “hate speech” on social media platforms.