On Sunday, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan shockingly claimed that “free speech” was the cause of the German holocaust and rise in Naziism, a stunned Secretary of State Marco Rubio simply replied, “I have to fundamentally disagree with you, Margaret.” The reaction from American observers toward the interview, and in particular Vice-President JD Vance, was much less diplomatic. “This is a crazy exchange,” Vance said.
However, a few hours later the background context for Brennan’s position surfaced, when CBS 60 Minutes broadcast a defense of German laws that make it illegal to say something that can be construed as “insulting.” The CBS segment is naturally alarming to people who will not accept definitions of approved speech determined by government officials; especially for most Americans who have experienced the extreme online control operations by govt interests around the COVID-19 fiasco. Watch (prompted):
This is the mindset that JD Vance encountered following his honest remarks to the Munich Security Conference. The Vice-President outlined in his remarks that Europe was devolving into a totalitarian state, destroying democracy and using the power of government against the freewill and liberty of the European people.
Vance was pointing out the big picture of liberty, freedom and the value of democracy. After citing examples of oppressive EU action that included the nullification of the Romanian election, Vice-President Vance noted in his comments, “there is no security if you are afraid of the voices of your own people,” he said. Continuing, “if you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing the American people can do to assist you.” The EU collective, and specifically the German political leadership immediately decried the brutally honest remarks.
There is a particular irony in Germany saying that controversial speech is not protected speech, arresting people for what the state considers online antagonism, and then decrying Vice-President Vance for calling them out. The need for control is a reaction to fear (inherent insecurity), and the actions by the German government are extreme. However, for Germany this is particularly ironic.
We are only one generation from a time when the German ‘Stasi’ monitored the speech and communication of German citizens in order to maintain a brutally oppressive totalitarian state. Now, in their effort to control the voices of those who oppose government policy, the German politicians are again reverting to the use of a new online German Stasi for exactly the same purpose.
Germany seeks to control speech, control information, and control the voices of those they define as “unlawful” subversives acting against their national interests. CBS 60-Minutes highlights the policy and delivery of the process behind that control, while simultaneously supporting the totalitarian mindset.
In the bigger picture what CBS is doing is highlighting the anti-democratic view the media share, that information and speech must be controlled.
Thanks entirely to President Donald Trump, we are now entering an era where a Great American Awakening is taking place. We are watching moment by moment as newly revealed forces, govt institutions, judicial systems and political entities openly drop their masks, forcefully coming out in opposition to the sunlight and transparency President Trump represents.
Without any motive other than restoration, revelation, understanding and the reprioritization of freedom and liberty inherent in the Make America Great Again proposition, President Trump, DOGE, Elon Musk and all of those amid their teams who are pulling back the curtain hiding corruption, are facing extreme opposition by ‘elites’ and communists who have created decades of institutional control systems.
This supernova blast of Trumpian sunlight upon the corrupt systems of U.S. government has only just begun to penetrate. The tentacles of the metastasis extend beyond our borders into the global institutions those same ‘elites’ and communists have controlled.
From the United States Senate, through the Judicial Branch and across the Atlantic into the European Union, NATO agenda and Brussels, we are only just now witnessing the scale of the problem.
Stay strong!
There are more of us than them.
Ya know, most of these insults were, in the past, bandied about on the street where real physical mayhem could result. Now they are written out where one can choose to read or not. I think this is a better way. More inclusive and it keeps people from bottling their frustrations up until they explode. The only other way is to teach parents how to raise their children in the Lord and provide them a God-filled life. I don’t think these godless heathens will take to that.
The new nazi’s are at work. The generation that saw the first Nazi party is almost all gone and no one there to warn the people of this new danger. So infuriating to watch these idiots expressing their hatred.
Don’t let them live rent free in your mind…
At least make them pay rent for the space…
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
The generation that had to swallow every absurd fantasy as if it were holy writ
They were laughing up their sleeves when they saw there was no end to the outrageous whoppers we would make sacred
There was no one allowed to warn of the old danger so the new danger was inevitable
Honestly.. whenever I see these control freaks, be they European Commission members or supposed Heads of $tate … or even the whining/$creaming perps in our own U.$. CON-grease, what comes to mind is those creatures fron LV-426 .. of Aliens fame; belligerent .. toxic .. quivering, mouth agape slim-dripping ‘acid-for-blood’ .. full-on bad news!
Nuke them ALL, from orbit! Just to be sure..
Just go away … wreck some other planet for a change, you mendacious hacks!.
Senator Joe Biden was one of the main pointmen for the various Muslim lobbies targeting our old friends & allies the Serbian people during the NATO Nazi Bombing of Serbia to help WWII Nazi groups from Bosnia, through Croatia, to Kosovo. Enjoy.
Serbia for Donald Trump – Protest against Joseph Biden visiting Serbia
How did they get Spock’s kid involved in this interview?
The German officials in the 60 minutes interview give credence to some of the worst stereotypes about Germans.
They were laughing it up about their citizens having their civil and human rights stripped from them. Just like in 1945, something will happen someday that will wipe those smirks off their faces.
Goebbles is in Hell giggling at what the new Germany has become.
They really do-ideological blockheads oblivious to the societal ramifications of their moronic conduct
From what I see on vids, German cops are total nutjob SS basturds when it comes to going after citizens for speech, masks, etc. Brutal fckrs.
Eat ze bugs
Goebbles would be so proud of today’s German government.
what a damned minute. I thought American white supremacists is the number one domestic terror threat?/
in 1974 my Dad (and our entire family) was stationed in Germany and insisted that we all visit and “tour” 4 Nazi war prisons. The worst of the worst. His point, was that even though it was morbid, as we grew up, we needed to be reminded that these things really did happen, and that the PEOPLE OF GERMANY were responsible for murdering defenseless human beings. That experience changed me…forever. It still remains to this day as the single moment in my life this awareness that the devil does in fact exist and that people who are without God are fully capable and do the most horrible acts. With smiles, approving nods and an elitist wave of the hand and not so much as a shrug.
this interview reminded me of that experience. the complete absence of any self awareness…a full commitment to some outlandish inhuman commitment to overlord people they simply disagree…destroying their lives. disenfranchising them from society…persectuting the one single thing that Germany of all countries should have not forgotten:
when a person is too afraid to talk out loud about corruption…even if it’s unsavory speech…that is the last line before society repeats the horror show.
Germany is one freakishly perverse state. This should be a warning to every American.
without a prohibition of the central state that stops them from censoring and persecuting speech…we are no better than a fenced in zoo of compliant caged monkeys.
no sir, that will never happen here, we say.
oh yeah? really ? it’s happening now in Germany FOR THE SECOND ROUND.
The more I realize it the US should not be supporting or doing ANY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TRADE WITH THIS GERMANY. they just don’t meet the standards. We can demonize Iran, north korea, china, and yet recognize Germany as some bastion of democracy?
bull shit.
cut them off…we don’t need to have friends like this. some of it might rub off.
God Bless America
Germany allows their media to publish or repeat lies, but not average citizens?
dw.com, August 6 2021:
One year ago, the World Health Organization said vaccinating 60% to 70% of the global population would suffice to reach this target. Now, however, many public health experts — including US immunologist Anthony Fauci — say we should be aiming for a 85% vaccination rate.
:
Professor Karina Top, who studies vaccines and epidemiology at Canada’s Dalhousie University, said reaching herd immunity will depend “on getting enough adults vaccinated, and I know there’s concern in many countries that many adults are not willing to get vaccinated.”
This is a lie. We already knew by late summer 2021 that the COVID jab was not stopping the spread of the virus therefore it could not possibly create herd immunity.
NPR (citing CDC), July 30 2021:
[the study] found no significant difference in the viral load present in the breakthrough infections occurring in fully vaccinated people and the other cases, suggesting the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the coronavirus is similar
noting: it may come as a surprise to most people, but the United States Constitution is the only governing document of its kind and detail that expresses the legal and moral foundations to prohibit a central state from interfering with speech. It was a principle, so well considered, it remains largely unchanged.
compare this to almost every single other “western European” and otherwise considered democracies and what you will find it that they do not describe freedom of speech in the same way. And many of the countries do not even record free speech as a prohibition from the government.
my opinion is that these ancient legacy society have never considered it a valued principle. alas, they never had a revolution!
starting to understand WHY the US is so different.
free speech isn’t really free, like free beer. You have to literally go to war, to establish it…
there is no controversy in this reality. what we call the deep state, is really at its core, a cult of human ego, powered by satan: YOU CAN BE GOD> JUST DO IT> POWER MAKES RIGHT.
God Bless America
That’s because all these European countries are still controlled by the monarchs from behind the scenes.
European parliaments were always just for show. Put in place because the royals didn’t want to all end up under the guillotine.
Oh yeah, always staying glued to the media—wouldn’t want to accidentally think for ourselves or set our own agenda, right? 🤣
Free speech protects against the genocide they are planning. That’s why they hate it. The Globalists want to drastically reduce the populations of all European heritage countries. And they don’t want anyone to notice or talk about it. Before it’s too late…..
JD Vance thread…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1891641139859542270.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
It’s hardly limited to Germany either – most of the EU has headed down that path, particularly the UK.
It has in fact gotten so bad in the UK that now they are stating that you can’t even pray INSIDE YOUR OWN HOUSE if your house happens to be within an arbitrary distance to a baby murder facility.
Here’s a screenshot I took from back in 2020 where their MP said free speech doesn’t even allow the utterance of something that offends another.
Never forget the power of our First Amendment, whose absence which we can now see can/will fragment and destroy the EU:
Europeans have given up national identity, and released their lives to the control of autocrats and thought police.
During the Weimar republic members of the nazi party were charged over 200 times. Their version of the NYT, Der Sturmer,
was charged 36 times for hate/antigovernment speechcrimes
CBS….The Communist Broadcast System.
They’re giving CNN and MSNBC quite a run for their USAID money.
I believe that every diplomat and visiting pol say something that runs afoul of these censorship laws in these countries. Americans owe it to Europe to push back on this to the max.
Look at the smug smile on that evil woman’s face, she’s getting tingles