Josh and Stelios talk about the rise in political violence in Germany and the impact it could have on the country's future. They also discuss the growing problem of knife crime and mental health issues in the streets of Hamburg.
00:14:01.760It's general political commentary that you would expect, right, from any outlet that's right-wing in any European country or North America.
00:14:14.400Also, I think I see Batya Anga Sargon, and I don't think she wouldn't qualify as an extremist.
00:14:20.560I don't know about other authors, but...
00:17:02.460Because they are of the left and it helps achieve their political goals.
00:17:05.900And that's a problem with the term far-right, the way that people are using it and the way they allow how they adopt the way the left uses it.
00:17:16.000Because the left is bombarding the public discussion with a question of whether particular policies are far-right or not.
00:17:23.120And no one is asking about the far-left.
00:17:26.120I also like the fact that they're talking about democracy and banning political affiliated people.
00:17:34.280Surely in a democracy, if it's truly a democracy, you would allow any opinions, wouldn't you?
00:17:42.080Because it's the people's voice, you know, you should be allowing any party to run.
00:17:46.800Well, of course, the German constitution forbids that, but we'll get into that a little bit later.
00:17:51.900You could make the argument that a parliamentary democracy has to draw some lines when it comes to anti-parliamentary forces.
00:19:23.420I'm just using this as a sort of showcase.
00:19:25.260But, you know, if you purport to be a democracy, and the party that's doing very well in your democracy gets banned, can you still call yourself a democracy?
00:19:37.320And you're doing it in the name of democracy.
00:19:48.420So, it's to the point where this is sort of old news, now this happened last year, but there were areas in Germany that have classified branches of the AFD as extremist.
00:20:01.200Saxony has, and also Phryngia, Saxony and Holt.
00:20:08.860Sorry, I'm going to be butchering these.
00:20:11.820They've classified them as an extremist group.
00:20:14.640I'm not entirely sure of the implications of this, but it seems like it's just steps in a direction of cracking down on them.
00:20:22.980That's the only reason they would do that.
00:20:24.500Let me just say one thing to tie this with our conversation and what you said in the beginning.
00:20:29.860There was a politician from the AFD party, and she cited some statistics that the police circulated about Afghans being overrepresented in particular crime, especially gang rapes.
00:20:43.580And she was fined, and I think she was persecuted and fined.
00:20:50.440Reading out statistical facts is a criminal offense in Germany.
00:20:53.180Yes, and the question is why they're circulating these facts.
00:20:57.020And my answer is, my suspicion is that they want to drive the narrative towards a purely Marxist understanding of it and saying crime is purely economic.
00:21:07.500The only way to address crime in crime burden communities is by economic means.
00:21:13.520So Germans, you need to be taxed more in order to fund these communities.
00:21:17.360And that's how we come in a situation like the one you mentioned in the beginning, where it says that 47.3% of benefit recipients are foreigners.
00:21:26.980If you're not allowed to look at the data and it's illegal to talk about it, funnily enough, nothing gets done about it.
00:21:33.780So this article I found interesting from a French publication, it says,
00:21:40.200The far-right party's strong results make it a danger to democracy, say its opponents, but banning the party would take several years.
00:21:46.160So that's probably why they haven't done it quite yet.
00:21:48.440And of course, that gives the AFD some time to cover themselves and fight it at least.
00:21:54.640But at the same time, it seems like people are pushing this in motion.
00:21:59.160And considering that the AFD and magazines like Compact Magazine are the ones that are pointing out lots of the problems ailing Germany and providing solutions that aren't just the default solutions that the left and the regime are giving people,
00:22:13.280I don't see them having much of a chance of recovering.
00:22:17.480But I wanted to talk very briefly about how they can actually ban these sorts of things.
00:22:23.840So article 21 in brackets 2 of the basic law, which is basically the German constitution.
00:22:31.100I don't know whether you can look in the notes, Stalios, and read the German word for me because your German is much better than mine.
00:22:45.260It states explicitly that parties which seek to undermine or abolish the democratic order and endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany are unconstitutional.
00:22:55.960So this is the sort of constitutional justification for cracking down on things like this.
00:23:01.140And then a federal court has to determine whether the party should be banned.
00:23:05.000This has happened in the past with the Socialist Reich Party in 1952 and the Communist Party of Germany in 1956.
00:23:12.620I don't see, you know, Communist Parties being banned in this day and age though.
00:23:16.900And also there is another act as well, the Political Parties Act, which also sets rules for formation and, you know, the activities and the financing of political parties.
00:23:25.560And they must adhere to a sort of democratic framework as determined by basically the political elites.
00:23:33.420And if, you know, you're against those political elites, then it's going to be rigged against you, which I think is happening here.
00:23:38.680We also need to add that laws don't apply themselves.
00:25:45.280Yes, and the separation of power is something that leftists hate.
00:25:54.360Because they want absolute power for themselves.
00:25:56.320I think we can see relatively clearly if, you know, we can take the manifesto at its word and it's not all lies and they've just made it all up as a smokescreen, which I don't think is the case.
00:26:04.920This, this is obviously a misrepresentation with political motivations and Germany will suffer for it.
00:26:25.580So, Peter J. Harvey says, by banning a political party, Germany will officially become the thing they fought to eliminate, a dictatorship that will develop into a Nazi state.
00:26:34.340Yes, although it might take a bit of a different form than that, it will become a dictatorship, you're right.
00:27:09.320Just build a separate economy away from them, right?
00:27:14.020There are a multitude of different things that I don't really have the time to go over, but there are plenty of peaceful means you can use to punish people for doing things you don't like.
00:27:40.700The Last Russian says, EU is bankrupt and want to build a database of the assets owned by all citizens, real estate, bank accounts, securities, vehicles, and possibly art and precious metals.
00:27:50.080Yes, the EU is horrifying, and I'm still very, very glad we left it, and I'll be talking about some more European countries soon.
00:27:59.720And it's not looking good for the EU, which is looking good for the state of freedom and the world.