CJ Hopkins
So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, obviously, I’ve currently been condemned and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to discuss.
The Berlin District Court has released a so-called “penalty order” or “order of punishment,” in which I am recommended that I am now formally a criminal in Germany, for tweeting two Tweets. According to my attorney, a trial will now be arranged, at which my lawyer will argue the case before the judge that just provided the “order of penalty.” At this trial, the judge will listen diligently to the arguments my lawyer has actually currently made in writing, consider them thoroughly, and find me guilty, once again. Then the judge will reaffirm the “order of punishment.”
Proceed, read that paragraph again.
After my Kafkaesque trial has concluded, my attorney will submit a series of appeals, which will fail, at which point I will need to choose whether to pay a fine of 3,600 Euros or go to German jail for 60 days.
This procedure will take months, if not years, and will cost me God understands just how much cash in attorney’s charges, court costs, and then the EUR3,600 fine. Yes, I’m going to pay the fine. I am not going to German prison for 60 days. Life is too short, and I am aging, and it wouldn’t really accomplish anything other than making a conceited phenomenon of myself.
Nevertheless, what will accomplish something (I don’t know how much, but something) is if I see the entire process through to the end, and shine as much light on it as I perhaps can, because my case is just among lots of such cases, and the genuine story here is not about me, it is about the crackdown on political dissent that is being performed, not just here in Germany, however likewise in other nations all throughout the West.
There are few outlets reporting this story, not outlets with any considerable reach. If you read this column, you’re probably aware of numerous alternative media outlets that are, however the majority of these outlets are quarantined off where “typical” individuals never ever need to see them, and are delegitimized as “undependable sources” and purveyors of “misinformation,” and so on.
There are a couple of bigger sources covering the story, which are also progressively being branded “invalid,” Matt Taibbi’s Racket News, Michael Shellenberger’s Public, Glenn Greenwald’s Locals operations, and I make sure I’m forgetting a couple of more, forgive me.
The point is, unless you’re a club member of the “science-denying, conspiracy-theorizing, hate-speech-speaking, anti-vaxxing, disinforming left-or-right extremist” club– i.e., people who check out odd “malinformationist” publications like The Grayzone, OffGuardian, ZeroHedge, Dissident Voice, and Unlimited Hangout, and who are planning to elect Bobby Kennedy, or, God help them, Donald Trump– you most likely have no idea what I mean when I refer to “the crackdown on dissent” … or you do, and you think it’s just hunky-dory.
I will not mince words. The folks who think it’s hunky-dory are totalitarians. They’re fascists. They applaud the crackdown on dissent. They praise the criminalization of dissent. They applaud the censorship of political speech, of any speech they do not agree with. They want their political challengers in prison. They want everybody who disagrees with them punished. They desire people who upset them cancelled. They desire anyone who refuses to conform to their official ideology erased.
I have been calling these people “totalitarians” and “fascists” for a number of years now. I do not delight in doing that. I’m not doing it gratuitously. A few of these individuals were my buddies. I’m doing that, calling these people “fascists,” and comparing the nascent totalitarianism that is appearing all throughout the West to other, earlier totalitarian systems, like Stalinism (sorry, Marxist pals), and, yes, to fucking Nazi Germany, because, despite the truth that there are many differences, a great deal of it is book totalitarianism. Naked textbook totalitarianism. There isn’t another, better word for it … or for those who are enthusiastically welcoming it.
I’m not going to present the proof for that assertion once again. I have actually done that advertisement nauseam, much of it in my most current book, which is banned by Amazon in several nations, and which bears a warning on other Amazon sitesto “visit the WHO, the CDC,” or your local national health authority, “for the current info on Covid-19 and vaccines” prior to you consider purchasing it, and the cover art of which is about to make me an authorities “hate criminal,” with a rap sheet.
That’s right, as I explained at higher length in a previous column, the pretext for this so-called “hate criminal activity” prosecution is two Tweets I tweeted almost precisely one year ago of the cover art of that very exact same book, which just occurs to record the rollout of the “New Regular” (i.e., the new totalitarianism) in 2020 and 2021.
Here are the two Tweets that constitute my “dislike criminal offenses.”
The one on the left reads,”The masks are ideological-conformity signs. That is all they are. That is all they have ever been. Stop acting like they have ever been anything else, or get utilized to using them.” The one on the right is a quote by Karl Lauterbach, the Minister of Health of Germany. It checks out “The masks constantly send a signal.” The image is the cover art of my book.
Say what you want about me and my writing. I can be” intriguing,” and some of my political satire is bombastically over-the-top, however, as Matt Taibbi put it in a recent Racket Newspiece…
No quantity of drugs exist that if taken in would permit a rational individual to conclude that the writing of CJ Hopkins advances ‘the aims of a previous National Socialist Company.’ Agree with him or not, and I significantly do, he utilized his images to compare the sweeping statements of emergency power that were common worldwide during the pandemic (and were particularly authoritarian in Germany) to Nazi techniques.”
Which is what I am being implicated of, and “penalized” for doing, by the German authorities, i.e., “enhancing the aims of a National Socialist Company” … essentially, promoting Nazism, for tweeting those two Tweets above.
There is no complex legal issue here. Yes, swastikas are banned in Germany if you’re a Nazi or promoting Nazism or Fascism, but they are permitted for the purposes of “civic education, countering anti-constitutional activities, art, science, research study and education, coverage of historical and current events,” and similar functions, according to German law.
Do you seriously believe that the German hate-crime police and the prosecutor and the judge do not understand that? Of course they comprehend that. They’re not total imbeciles. They understand the charges are just a pretext. And they know we know the charges are just a pretext. They do not care. They do not have to. They do not even have to pretend to be following the rule of law. Not anymore. Because they understand most of the masses are with them.
The point of prosecutions like this (and far more major and substantial prosecutions, like that of Julian Assange, for instance) is to send out a message. The naked disregard for the rule of law, the blatant absurdity of the charges, the open contempt for democratic concepts, is all part of the message. It’s not a message about the law. It’s a message about power. Who has it, and who doesn’t. And what occurs to those who refuse to worship it.
The message is not meant for me, or for more important figures like Julian Assange, or the many other less widely known dissidents that are being made examples of currently. We’re simply the medium that communicates the message. We’re the shipment service. The message is for you.
I’m quite sure you’re getting the message. The question is … how are you going to react?
I do not mean by “storming” your capitol. Please do not go out and obtain shot. I mean, are you going to assist shine a light on where we are headed? Because it’s quite fucking dark. Folks are providing to send me cash to help with my legal expenses, and I’m very grateful, because I’m going to require it (and here’s how to do that), but what I believe we need to do is a little more difficult, and costs more, and is far more crucial.
We require to talk to the totalitarians … yes, the ones who wanted to put us in camps. If we can’t get across them, we’re probably screwed. And there is a window of opportunity to do that now. It’s not 2020 or 2021. The mass hysteria has worn away for a lot of people. I understand, not all of them, however for a few of them, a great deal of them. A few of them are lastly reachable.
Gamble, speak with them, the ones you know, or utilized to understand. Try to get through to them. Not the bug-eyed, fanatical, foaming-at-the-mouth types who can’t await the return of the “emergency situation procedures.” The other ones … you understand the ones I indicate. The ones who want out. You can see it in their eyes. Take a chance. Speak to these individuals. Totalitarianism, fascism, it is not an identity. It’s a mindset. No one is born a fascist. People can be deprogrammed. A few of them can. And, at this point, we require all the help we can get.
So, if you are among the kind and generous folks who have actually been asking what you can do to assist and offering to send me money, sure, go ahead and send me the money– thank you, I’ve been overwhelmed by your messages, and I’m sorry that I can’t personally react to all of them– but likewise consider what I’m suggesting, if you can potentially bring yourself to do it. If you can’t, I completely comprehend. Trust me, I am still just as angry as you are. I am injured. I feel betrayed and abandoned. I have a feeling that a few of you feel that way too. So I know what I’m asking when I ask you to speak with the New Typical totalitarians, the ones who might be reachable.
If you can’t yet, don’t. But if you have the ability to, try.
Do not try to encourage them that you were ideal and they were incorrect. Just shine a light on the roadway we’re on. Attempt to get them to acknowledge where we’re headed. Regardless of who was ideal and who was wrong about whatever, we are all going down this roadway together.
Personally, I ‘d rather not ride everything the way to the end and face what is down there this time.