00:01:25.520Just very briefly, one of the things that your organization does,
00:01:28.880and it's very worthwhile, essentially,
00:01:31.980seeing how continental Europe is going,
00:01:34.660is that you try to help where you can with the legal expenses
00:01:39.540of people who are being persecuted, effectively on free speech, civil liberties stuff, which
00:01:48.860brings us straight up then to our first guest today, who was actually on Tucker a couple
00:01:56.820of days ago. CJ Hopkins is an American in Germany who is being prosecuted. Now, I know
00:02:05.740going to go into the details and explain exactly why he's being prosecuted um but the thing that
00:02:13.260really leapt out at me here is that this guy isn't a right winger this guy is a left winger who left
00:02:21.860america in 2004 over the um i think the iraq invasion very strongly objected to that spent the
00:02:31.440last 20 years in germany um i think he's i think the term is he might have been slightly radicalized
00:02:40.700over covid like a lot of people on both sides of the spectrum literally on both sides of the
00:02:47.300spectrum people woke up to the degree to which our governments are lying to us brazenly lying to us
00:02:54.400But he pushed out a tweet, which was a satirical tweet based around the swastika image.
00:03:05.740I have to say, right, five years ago on Getter, I even changed my profile to the swastika emblem that was made a part of injection needles, just to highlight the point.
00:03:21.620But he's being prosecuted for something very similar.
00:03:24.000why don't you just um explain what has happened and before i hand the microphone over to you i
00:03:30.320just want to say folks and we'll i'll do this at the end if any of you want to consider
00:03:37.680donating to andrea's organization and andrea's organization has already helped and done what it
00:03:46.160it has done what it can so far with Mr. Hopkins' legal expenses over in Germany.
00:03:54.000So hat tip to you there, Andrea, great work.
00:03:57.240But why don't you just explain to us then what is taking place in Germany right now
00:04:09.400So as you say, CJ Hopkins is a traditional left winger.
00:04:13.780He's been in Berlin for 20 years now with his wife, who incidentally is a Jew.
00:04:19.380And during Covid, he had a kind of, you might say, awakening as to the political circumstances
00:04:26.460which plague the Western world at the moment and for quite some time now,
00:04:31.480which is degrowing authoritarianism within the EU and within our elites.
00:04:37.340During Covid in Germany, they shut down Parliament.
00:04:40.800They basically suspended civil liberties and they basically rode roughshod over the Constitution with emergency measures and special laws, if you like.
00:04:51.580And these emergency measures, which CJ Hopkins, you know, saw firsthand as he was living in Berlin,
00:04:58.200reminded him very much of the emergency measures the Nazis used after the fire at the German parliament in the 1930s,
00:05:07.240where the Nazis also instituted emergency measures and declared a national emergency
00:05:12.360as an excuse to shut down and curtail civil liberties.
00:05:17.200So he basically said, it's all happening again in a different form,
00:05:21.240and this is a new kind of totalitarianism.
00:05:23.620And since Mr. Hopkins had been writing as a celebrated playwright and novelist and satirist,
00:05:30.740for many years now, he decided to write a book composed of his essays.
00:05:35.180That book, published in 2022, was called The Rise of the New Normal Reich, which, of course, is a reference to the Third Reich.
00:05:48.260Even the book's cover, which is what the German authorities object to, is basically, if you might say, a ripoff of a famous history book by a man called William Shire, and that book is called The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
00:06:04.160That history book has a big swastika on it.
00:06:07.440For Hopkins' book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich,
00:06:11.500he basically put that swastika on the book's cover, his own book's cover,
00:06:15.040and put a COVID mask in front of the swastika,
00:06:18.840so that the swastika was to be seen peeking out through the COVID mask in the outline.
00:06:24.820And what he was basically trying to say was,
00:06:26.780if you remove the COVID mask, the mask from the COVID measures,
00:06:31.680What you'll find behind those measures is something very authoritarian.
00:06:35.480He was then accused of breaching Germany's law, which is the Criminal Code's statute number 86A,
00:06:45.640which is a law which forbids the use of anti-constitutional symbols,
00:06:51.240or to be precise, symbols which are inimical to the constitution,
00:06:55.280such as the swastika, which belongs to the National Socialist Party and its exponents.
00:07:00.720Which is quite crazy because actually the law, that particular law, only forbids the use of such symbols if they are used in a way which is in affirmation of the Nazis
00:07:13.740It can be used in academia or when you're criticizing the Nazis, no problem with that
00:07:19.400Famous German magazines like Spiegel and Stern in 2024 used that very swastika on the covers of their magazines0.76
00:07:28.440The Spiegel even had it covered, not by a Covid mask, but by a huge German flag.
00:07:34.960But whereas Mr. Hopkins is being persecuted by state prosecutors in Berlin and Germany right now,
00:07:41.880the Spiegel and the Stern, these famous magazines, have not had their offices raided
00:07:47.220or any legal troubles at all for doing something very similar.
00:07:50.360so it was basically an ironic use of the um of the of the swastika rather than trying to rally
00:07:59.020germans to resurrect the third reich um you mentioned something the the rise the rise and
00:08:07.660fall of the third reich william l shire one of the best books i've read ever read in my life
00:08:14.460especially on the rise of the third reich the phenomenon of it i think it's like a cbs
00:08:18.980correspondent um in germany throughout the 30s and he he uh after the war he put all of his
00:08:26.040collections together his notes that he was making throughout the 30s wrote wrote wrote the book the
00:08:31.080one of the great takeaways of that book that i still remember i read this book like 30 or so
00:08:35.200years ago um is that he says he he goes through and he says that in academic faculties at the
00:08:42.580universities you only needed 30 percent of nazis convinced nazis on the faculty for the whole of
00:08:49.940the faculty to go over to totalitarianism to to to to fall in line with the the party line
00:08:59.040not that the other 60 percent were nazis they just didn't want to fight they just they just
00:09:04.780didn't have the fight in them so they um they yielded funnily enough so that just basically
00:09:10.720It goes to show that 30% of a population, if it is militant enough and radical enough, can force evil on the rest of a people.
00:09:21.280And I think the analogy with COVID is absolutely spot on there, because that's exactly what happened with the science community, right?
00:09:29.480When it came to COVID, you had some extremely militant people pushing the COVID line in extremely important positions.
00:09:36.380and they browbeat everyone else into falling in line with the vaccine mandates.
00:09:44.440On the subject of this, of C.J. Hopkins' prosecution in Germany right now,
00:09:51.100our very good friend on the war room, Peter Bystron,
00:10:20.240And he was prosecuted because the court said,
00:10:23.620and I think he had to pay like a 10,000 euro fine in Munich or something.
00:10:26.460The court said, the prosecutor said,0.75
00:10:29.000these mainstream politicians right they weren't afd they were all either cdu or or or the um the um0.51
00:10:37.520the democratic socialists they were giving the nazi salute it was it was the nazi salute and
00:10:44.060therefore um that that's prohibited i guess under the same section here 86a uh and they find him
00:10:51.980they find him and that is the nature of the german beast right now so just very quickly
00:10:58.760Andrea, on this point, I've got to give a shout out in a moment to our sponsor. But what's next
00:11:05.500for CJ Hopkins in terms of his legal fight in Berlin?
00:11:13.260Well, what's next is basically the highest court in Germany, which is going to, well,
00:11:20.900it has just decided a couple of months ago that it won't hear his appeal or his request for an
00:11:27.260appeal. And they didn't give any justification for why they wouldn't accept his appeal when he
00:11:33.000was, you know, fined for that. Now, next will be the sentencing hearing where the precise amount
00:11:40.260of money, I think, will be determined, which he must pay. Initially, for those two tweets where
00:11:46.820he showed the cover of his book, he was fined 3,600 euros. Or alternatively, if he didn't want
00:11:54.900to pay the fine he could go to jail for 60 days which is an outrage of totalitarian proportions
00:12:00.780you just have to think 60 days in jail as an option rather than paying 3600 euros for a book
00:12:08.880cover which criticized the nazis and likened covid measures to nazis which is a bad thing so
00:12:17.100that's next the other thing which cj hopkins is attempting to do and we support him fully in this
00:12:24.220is to challenge the outrageous and scandalous search of his house on the 26th of November
00:12:32.2602025. Yes, three armed police officers on that 26th of November came to his house and they
00:12:41.280basically, well, searched it, interrogated his wife and confiscated his computer. This is a new
00:12:48.260chart, which has come up, which is unrelated to the first charge of the tweets. The state
00:12:53.800prosecutor in Berlin has gotten it into his head that the book itself, or rather the cover of the
00:12:59.660book, is also a violation of that law, 86A. And he's being accused of having published and
00:13:08.060distributed the book. And the police officers went into his house to collect evidence to establish
00:13:13.460that even though it is clear he's the author which means basically an author is being punished
00:13:18.460in a very severe way in two different forms firstly for the tweets which we've discussed
00:13:23.740and now because of his book the book itself indeed this is a kind of modern book banning
00:13:29.900which we are trying to you know counter here and on amazon once those tweets were basically reported
00:13:37.540to the state prosecutor through Germany's industrial censorship network, which has all
00:13:42.900kinds of reporting institutions throughout the land. The company called Amazon, which everyone's
00:13:49.420heard of, banned his book on Amazon in Austria, the Netherlands and in Germany. So this goes way
00:13:55.460beyond a mere state intervention. Big capitalist companies, and I'm sure CJ Hopkins, if he's
00:14:01.020listening, will be very happy to hear this. Big capitalist companies once again have proven
00:14:05.520themselves a servant of the machine. The next stage for the Berlin authorities will be to
00:14:12.400get everyone to hand in the copies of their book and burn them in the public square.
00:14:17.300All right, stand by, Andrea. I'll be back with you in just 60 seconds. Got to give a quick shout
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00:31:58.760welcome back so where do you think that footage was taken folks we're in the middle east pakistan
00:32:09.000perhaps could be one of the arab countries saudi arabia where do you think was taken
00:32:16.440hat tip to our friends at visigrad 24 on x for pushing that out that was the uk romford in essex
00:32:25.320Did you recognize that as Romford in Essex?
00:32:28.420Did you know that in Essex, supermarkets have now spontaneously ordered themselves to have sex segregated lines at the checkouts in the UK?