July 21, 2026
The Goose-Step Two Step
Timothy Birdnow
Ideas don't really go away.
They cab be suppressed, they can ultimately become antiquated, but they don't just disappear - they mutate.
Take Germany. Once the home of the Nazis then East Germany because home to the most vile and despotic of all Communist countries with the Stasi carefully watching everyone.
And now....
Yes, the land of Goebbels and company is making free speech illegal, punishable by imprisonment, if it goes against what Herr Fuehrers want.
Germany hasn't learned a thing from WWII and the Cold War it seems.
FTA:
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians.
The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbols ban that Dr Zitelmann was investigated for, has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the "political insult" law also reached record levels in 2025.
The surge in cases is so vast that the UN has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics.
Dr. Zitelmann was in hot water for posting "Nazi imagery" when in fact he posted a photo of Hitler and compared Putin to the hateful Nazi. Zitelmann is a professor of history.
(He was being prosecuted under a post-war law making Nazi imagery illegal. This shows why anything but free speech is oppressive; you can't even criticize a thing if the law makes use of imagery illegal.)
That these laws are being used more and more in Germany should surprise nobody as it has been a worldwide trend among the Left to impose speech codes to silence critics and the U.S. was no exception under Joe Biden. Biden's Administration took steps to suppress opposition speech, going so far as to creating "truth squad" and strongarming social media into canceling Conservatives.
I know; I'm one of those who has been cancelled over the years.
At any rate the goose-step is alive and well in der Fatherland and it will return across the globe if the Left ever gets back into power here.
BTW does anyone notice the irony? The historian mentioned above compares Putin to Hitler but Zelensky has implemented laws in Ukraine very much like what he was in legal jeopardy over in Germany. Seems to me none of these countries are liberal democracies with inalienable rights.
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