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The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich

CJ HOPKINS
FEB 4, 2024

So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.

Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.

I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).

The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
crime” charges.

Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.

The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
are still interested in actual journalism.

The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”

My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.

Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
italics mine):

“… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”

Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
law gave the government the power to override individual rights
prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
institutions.”

The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
questioning had opened the door.

A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
“the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.

Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.

I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
bluff.

Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
law and fundamental democratic principles.

This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
“Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.

“New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”

In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.

The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.

Michael Ejercito wrote:

>https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>
>
>The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>
>CJ HOPKINS
>FEB 4, 2024
>
>So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>
>Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>
>I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>
>
>The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>crime” charges.
>
>Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>
>The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>are still interested in actual journalism.
>
>The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>
>My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>
>Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>italics mine):
>
>“… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>
>Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>institutions.”
>
>The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>questioning had opened the door.
>
>A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>“the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>
>Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>
>I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>bluff.
>
>Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>law and fundamental democratic principles.
>
>This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>“Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>
>“New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>
>In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>
>The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>
>Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>what it is they have become.
>
>That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>
>Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>conditioning.
>
>In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.

HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>>
>>
>> The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>>
>> CJ HOPKINS
>> FEB 4, 2024
>>
>> So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>> me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>> something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>> there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>>
>> Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>>
>> I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>> Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>>from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>> Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>>
>>
>> The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>> them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>> crime” charges.
>>
>> Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>> launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>> diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>> the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>> a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>> books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>> are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>>
>> The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>> pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>> Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>> independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>> which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>> Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>> covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>> against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>> attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>> government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>> are still interested in actual journalism.
>>
>> The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>> sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>> Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>> every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>> intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>> and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>>
>> My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>> pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>> Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>> is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>>
>> Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>> italics mine):
>>
>> “… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>> specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>> management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>> constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>> through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>> methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>> promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>>
>> Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>> dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>> processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>> the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>> Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>> convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>> severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>> law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>> prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>> emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>> was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>> institutions.”
>>
>> The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>> court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>> there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>> prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>> questioning had opened the door.
>>
>> A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>> enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>> the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>> artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>> considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>> Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>> explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>> “the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>> York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>>
>> Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>> prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>> first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>> like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>> American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>> with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>> in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>> trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>> support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>>
>> I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>> totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>> weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>> varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>> bluff.
>>
>> Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>> officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>> who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>> law and fundamental democratic principles.
>>
>> This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>> “Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>> Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>>
>> “New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>> totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>> authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>> to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>> violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>> crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>> whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>> pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>> between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>>
>> In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>> totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>> put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>> walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>>
>> The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>> judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>> out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>> segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>> solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>> of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>> or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>> new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>> Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>> Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>>
>> Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>> Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>> dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>> arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>> calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>> are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>> up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>> what it is they have become.
>>
>> That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>> forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>> and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>> me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>> Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>>
>> Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>> somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>> of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>> want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>> and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>> that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>> short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>> cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>> conditioning.
>>
>> In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>> while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
>
> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>
> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
> longer effective.
>
> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>
> So how are you ?
>
I am wonderfully hungry!

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>>>
>>>
>>> The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>>>
>>> CJ HOPKINS
>>> FEB 4, 2024
>>>
>>> So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>>> me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>>> something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>>> there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>>>
>>> Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>>>
>>> I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>>> Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>>>from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>>> Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>>>
>>>
>>> The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>>> them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>>> crime” charges.
>>>
>>> Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>>> launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>>> diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>>> the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>>> a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>>> books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>>> are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>>>
>>> The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>>> pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>>> Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>>> independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>>> which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>>> Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>>> covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>>> against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>>> attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>>> government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>>> are still interested in actual journalism.
>>>
>>> The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>>> sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>>> Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>>> every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>>> intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>>> and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>>>
>>> My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>>> pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>>> Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>>> is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>>>
>>> Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>>> italics mine):
>>>
>>> “… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>>> specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>>> management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>>> constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>>> through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>>> methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>>> promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>>>
>>> Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>>> dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>>> processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>>> the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>>> Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>>> convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>>> severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>>> law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>>> prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>>> emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>>> was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>>> institutions.”
>>>
>>> The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>>> court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>>> there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>>> prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>>> questioning had opened the door.
>>>
>>> A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>>> enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>>> the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>>> artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>>> considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>>> Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>>> explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>>> “the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>>> York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>>>
>>> Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>>> prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>>> first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>>> like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>>> American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>>> with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>>> in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>>> trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>>> support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>>>
>>> I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>>> totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>>> weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>>> varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>>> bluff.
>>>
>>> Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>>> officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>>> who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>>> law and fundamental democratic principles.
>>>
>>> This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>>> “Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>>> Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>>>
>>> “New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>>> totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>>> authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>>> to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>>> violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>>> crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>>> whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>>> pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>>> between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>>>
>>> In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>>> totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>>> put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>>> walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>>>
>>> The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>>> judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>>> out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>>> segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>>> solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>>> of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>>> or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>>> new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>>> Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>>> Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>>>
>>> Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>>> Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>>> dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>>> arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>>> calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>>> are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>>> up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>>> what it is they have become.
>>>
>>> That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>>> forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>>> and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>>> me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>>> Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>>>
>>> Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>>> somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>>> of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>>> want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>>> and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>>> that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>>> short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>>> cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>>> conditioning.
>>>
>>> In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>>> while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>>>>
>>>> CJ HOPKINS
>>>> FEB 4, 2024
>>>>
>>>> So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>>>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>>>> me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>>>> something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>>>> there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>>>>
>>>> Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>>>>
>>>> I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>>>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>>>> Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>>> >from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>>>> Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>>>> them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>>>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>>>> crime” charges.
>>>>
>>>> Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>>>> launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>>>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>>>> diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>>>> the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>>>> a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>>>> books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>>>> are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>>>>
>>>> The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>>>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>>>> pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>>>> Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>>>> independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>>>> which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>>>> Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>>>> covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>>>> against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>>>> attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>>>> government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>>>> are still interested in actual journalism.
>>>>
>>>> The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>>>> sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>>>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>>>> Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>>>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>>>> every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>>>> intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>>>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>>>> and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>>>>
>>>> My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>>>> pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>>>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>>>> Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>>>> is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>>>>
>>>> Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>>>> italics mine):
>>>>
>>>> “… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>>>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>>>> specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>>>> management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>>>> constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>>>> through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>>>> methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>>>> promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>>>>
>>>> Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>>>> dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>>>> processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>>>> the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>>>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>>>> Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>>>> convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>>>> severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>>>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>>>> law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>>>> prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>>>> emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>>>> was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>>>> institutions.”
>>>>
>>>> The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>>>> court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>>>> there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>>>> prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>>>> questioning had opened the door.
>>>>
>>>> A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>>>> enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>>>> the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>>>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>>>> artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>>>> considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>>>> Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>>>> explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>>>> “the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>>>> York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>>>> prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>>>> first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>>>> like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>>>> American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>>>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>>>> with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>>>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>>>> in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>>>> trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>>>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>>>> support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>>>>
>>>> I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>>>> totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>>>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>>>> weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>>>> varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>>>> bluff.
>>>>
>>>> Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>>>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>>>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>>>> officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>>>> who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>>>> law and fundamental democratic principles.
>>>>
>>>> This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>>>> “Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>>>> Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>>>>
>>>> “New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>>>> totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>>>> authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>>>> to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>>>> violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>>>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>>>> crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>>>> whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>>>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>>>> pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>>>> between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>>>>
>>>> In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>>>> totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>>>> put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>>>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>>>> walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>>>>
>>>> The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>>>> judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>>>> out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>>>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>>>> segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>>>> solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>>>> of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>>>> or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>>>> new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>>>> Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>>>> Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>>>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>>>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>>>> Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>>>> dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>>>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>>>> arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>>>> calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>>>> are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>>>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>>>> up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>>>> what it is they have become.
>>>>
>>>> That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>>>> forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>>>> and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>>>> me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>>>> Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>>>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>>>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>>>>
>>>> Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>>>> somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>>>> of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>>>> want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>>>> and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>>>> that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>>>> short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>>>> cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>>>> conditioning.
>>>>
>>>> In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>>>> while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
>>>
>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>> longer effective.
>>>
>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>
>>> So how are you ?
>>
>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>
> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>
> Laus DEO !
>
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>>>>>
>>>>> CJ HOPKINS
>>>>> FEB 4, 2024
>>>>>
>>>>> So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>>>>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>>>>> me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>>>>> something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>>>>> there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>>>>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>>>>> Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>>>> >from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>>>>> Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>>>>> them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>>>>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>>>>> crime” charges.
>>>>>
>>>>> Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>>>>> launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>>>>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>>>>> diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>>>>> the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>>>>> a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>>>>> books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>>>>> are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>>>>>
>>>>> The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>>>>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>>>>> pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>>>>> Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>>>>> independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>>>>> which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>>>>> Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>>>>> covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>>>>> against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>>>>> attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>>>>> government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>>>>> are still interested in actual journalism.
>>>>>
>>>>> The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>>>>> sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>>>>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>>>>> Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>>>>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>>>>> every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>>>>> intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>>>>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>>>>> and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>>>>>
>>>>> My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>>>>> pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>>>>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>>>>> Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>>>>> is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>>>>> italics mine):
>>>>>
>>>>> “… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>>>>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>>>>> specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>>>>> management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>>>>> constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>>>>> through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>>>>> methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>>>>> promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>>>>> dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>>>>> processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>>>>> the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>>>>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>>>>> Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>>>>> convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>>>>> severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>>>>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>>>>> law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>>>>> prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>>>>> emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>>>>> was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>>>>> institutions.”
>>>>>
>>>>> The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>>>>> court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>>>>> there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>>>>> prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>>>>> questioning had opened the door.
>>>>>
>>>>> A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>>>>> enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>>>>> the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>>>>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>>>>> artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>>>>> considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>>>>> Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>>>>> explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>>>>> “the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>>>>> York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>>>>> prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>>>>> first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>>>>> like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>>>>> American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>>>>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>>>>> with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>>>>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>>>>> in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>>>>> trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>>>>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>>>>> support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>>>>> totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>>>>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>>>>> weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>>>>> varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>>>>> bluff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>>>>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>>>>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>>>>> officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>>>>> who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>>>>> law and fundamental democratic principles.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>>>>> “Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>>>>> Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>>>>>
>>>>> “New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>>>>> totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>>>>> authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>>>>> to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>>>>> violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>>>>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>>>>> crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>>>>> whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>>>>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>>>>> pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>>>>> between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>>>>> totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>>>>> put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>>>>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>>>>> walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>>>>> judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>>>>> out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>>>>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>>>>> segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>>>>> solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>>>>> of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>>>>> or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>>>>> new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>>>>> Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>>>>> Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>>>>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>>>>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>>>>> Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>>>>> dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>>>>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>>>>> arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>>>>> calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>>>>> are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>>>>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>>>>> up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>>>>> what it is they have become.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>>>>> forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>>>>> and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>>>>> me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>>>>> Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>>>>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>>>>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>>>>>
>>>>> Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>>>>> somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>>>>> of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>>>>> want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>>>>> and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>>>>> that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>>>>> short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>>>>> cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>>>>> conditioning.
>>>>>
>>>>> In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>>>>> while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
>>>>
>>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>>> longer effective.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>>
>>>> So how are you ?
>>>
>>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>>
>> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
>> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
>> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
>> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
>> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
>> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
>> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
>> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
>> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
>> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>>
>> Laus DEO !
>>
> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:19:13 -0800, Michael Ejercito
<MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:

>HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1anyxep/the_resistible_rise_of_the_new_normal_reich/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
>>>>>
>>>>> CJ HOPKINS
>>>>> FEB 4, 2024
>>>>>
>>>>> So, the German authorities have filed an appeal to overturn my acquittal
>>>>> in criminal court last week. Apparently, their plan is to keep putting
>>>>> me on trial until they get a judge who is willing to convict me of
>>>>> something, or to bankrupt me with legal costs. Silly me, for a moment
>>>>> there, I was actually starting to believe this was over.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me quickly review how I got here for anyone just tuning in.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am an author and a political satirist and commentator. In August 2022,
>>>>> I posted two Tweets criticizing mask mandates and making fun of Karl
>>>>> Lauterbach, Germany’s Minister of Health. Both Tweets included an image
>>>> >from the cover artwork of my latest book, The Rise of The New Normal
>>>>> Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The German authorities did not appreciate those Tweets, so they (1) had
>>>>> them censored by Twitter, (2) had Amazon ban my book in Germany, and (3)
>>>>> dragged me into criminal court and prosecuted me on trumped-up “hate
>>>>> crime” charges.
>>>>>
>>>>> Last week, a judge acquitted me of those charges, after which she
>>>>> launched into a tirade in which she insulted me at some length, and then
>>>>> strapped on a “Covid mask” and stalked out of the courtroom. During her
>>>>> diatribe, she made a big show of proclaiming that, by acquitting me of
>>>>> the fabricated hate-crime charges, she was proving that “Germany is not
>>>>> a totalitarian state” … you know, the kind of totalitarian state where
>>>>> books are banned, political speech is censored, and dissident authors
>>>>> are harassed by the police and subjected to ridiculous show trials.
>>>>>
>>>>> The judge didn’t have much choice but to acquit me, because the relevant
>>>>> German law is clear, as my attorney had reminded her in his pretrial
>>>>> pleading, and because my case had received some international press.
>>>>> Also, the public gallery was packed, and there was a fair amount of
>>>>> independent media in the courtroom. Unlike the German mainstream media,
>>>>> which have been churning out government propaganda like the proverbial
>>>>> Goebbelsian keyboard instrument for years, and which were too busy
>>>>> covering the totally-organic government-sponsored mass demonstrations
>>>>> against the government’s only political opposition to devote any
>>>>> attention to my political prosecution, the banning of my book,
>>>>> government censorship, and so on, some of the alternative German media
>>>>> are still interested in actual journalism.
>>>>>
>>>>> The prosecutor, who appeared to be drunk or on some kind of high-grade
>>>>> sedatives, was very clearly unhappy to be there performing in front of a
>>>>> sold-out house. He spent the proceedings hidden behind one of those
>>>>> Plexiglass “anti-Covid” panels that cashiers still have to sit behind in
>>>>> grocery stores and other retail establishments, so I couldn’t make out
>>>>> every word he slurred. The gist of his argument was, although I didn’t
>>>>> intend to “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda,” I nonetheless “disseminated
>>>>> pro-Nazi propaganda,” by comparing New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany,
>>>>> and “unnecessarily using a swastika in an artwork.”
>>>>>
>>>>> My favorite part of the prosecutor’s argument was made in a pretrial
>>>>> pleading to the court, not during the actual trial itself. He accused me
>>>>> of “relativizing the Holocaust” because he claimed that comparing New
>>>>> Normal Germany to Nazi Germany is factually inaccurate, which assertion
>>>>> is revealing, and just staggeringly ignorant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here’s a translation of the excerpt from his pleading (emphasis in
>>>>> italics mine):
>>>>>
>>>>> “… the accused is interested in relativizing this Nazi tyranny, which is
>>>>> also the aim of supporters of this ideology in a different form. By
>>>>> specifically using the swastika, the accused equates the crisis
>>>>> management measures of the years 2020-2022, which came about within
>>>>> constitutional procedures and were enacted and implemented by and
>>>>> through democratically legitimized institutions, with the dictatorial
>>>>> methods of the Nazi regime and thus – regardless of his intention –
>>>>> promotes the normalization of National Socialist ideas and actions.”
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, the history of the transformation of Germany into a Nazi
>>>>> dictatorship by means of “constitutional procedures and democratic
>>>>> processes” is extremely well-documented. In the election of July 1932,
>>>>> the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in the
>>>>> Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler
>>>>> Germany’s chancellor. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler
>>>>> convinced von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree, which
>>>>> severely curtailed the liberties and rights of German citizens. And then
>>>>> the Enabling Act of 1933 was passed by the Reichstag on March 23. This
>>>>> law gave the government the power to override individual rights
>>>>> prescribed by the constitution, because of a so-called “state of
>>>>> emergency.” All this “came about within constitutional procedures and
>>>>> was enacted and implemented by and through democratically legitimized
>>>>> institutions.”
>>>>>
>>>>> The judge did her best to stop me from reciting all that history in
>>>>> court, to prevent me from “relativizing the Holocaust” again, right
>>>>> there, in her courtroom, in front of everyone, or to prevent the
>>>>> prosecutor from coming off as a jackass, but it was too late, her
>>>>> questioning had opened the door.
>>>>>
>>>>> A hilarious episode then ensued, in which the judge projected king-size
>>>>> enlargements of my Tweets on a screen with an overhead projector, like
>>>>> the ones they used to use in elementary school, and then interrogated me
>>>>> at considerable length about whether the swastikas in the offending
>>>>> artwork were “on the mask” or “behind the mask.” For a moment, I
>>>>> considered requesting a recess in which to ask the artist, Anthony
>>>>> Freda, to prepare, sign, and telefax a notarized affidavit to the court
>>>>> explaining the details of his creative process and his state of mind at
>>>>> “the time of creation,” but I remembered that it was only 6AM in New
>>>>> York, which I thought might be a bit too early for Anthony.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the whole trial was as farcical as it sounds, but, the thing is,
>>>>> prosecutions like mine are never meant to make it into court in the
>>>>> first place. The game the German authorities were playing is somewhat
>>>>> like the plea-bargain game that the prosecutors play in the USA, which
>>>>> American readers will be familiar with from watching all those cop shows
>>>>> on television. The way this game works in Germany is, they charge you
>>>>> with a misdemeanor crime, and hit you with a hefty fine, but one that is
>>>>> significantly less than what you will have to pay a lawyer to fight it
>>>>> in court. They are counting on you just paying the fine, and avoiding a
>>>>> trial, where a judge can double or triple your fine or even sentence you
>>>>> to prison. It doesn’t matter if they have no actual legal arguments to
>>>>> support the charges. It’s basically just a bullying tactic.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have never responded well to bullies. I have an aversion to
>>>>> totalitarians, fascists, and other such authoritarian control freaks who
>>>>> get their rocks off intimidating, and dominating, and preying on the
>>>>> weak. My natural instinct, when threatened by bullies and other
>>>>> varieties of fascist creeps, is to get all up their faces and call their
>>>>> bluff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which doesn’t always turn out so well. Cops, for example, will just beat
>>>>> the living snot out of you if you get up in their faces, as will most of
>>>>> your hardened criminal types. But it typically works with petty public
>>>>> officials and other such “respectable authorities” … or at least those
>>>>> who are forced to maintain the appearance of adherence to the rule of
>>>>> law and fundamental democratic principles.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is an important point, because it is The New Normal Reich’s
>>>>> “Achilles Heel.” I explained this in a previous essay, Pathologized
>>>>> Totalitarianism 101, back in November of 2021.
>>>>>
>>>>> “New Normal totalitarianism — and any global-capitalist form of
>>>>> totalitarianism — cannot display itself as totalitarianism, or even
>>>>> authoritarianism. It cannot acknowledge its political nature. In order
>>>>> to exist, it must not exist. Above all, it must erase its violence (the
>>>>> violence that all politics ultimately comes down to) and appear to us as
>>>>> an essentially beneficent response to a legitimate ‘global health
>>>>> crisis,’ and a ‘climate change crisis,’ and a ‘racism crisis,’ and
>>>>> whatever other ‘global crises’ GloboCap thinks will terrorize the masses
>>>>> into [a state of] mindless, order-following hysteria […] This
>>>>> pathologization of totalitarianism is the most significant difference
>>>>> between New Normal totalitarianism and 20th-Century totalitarianism.”
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words, this new, emerging form of global-capitalist
>>>>> totalitarianism cannot afford to look like “totalitarianism.” It can’t
>>>>> put on jackboots and black leather trench coats and start goose-stepping
>>>>> around with big fascist-looking banners, and putting people up against
>>>>> walls and shooting them, at least not here in the heart of the empire.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only way this form of totalitarianism works is if people like my
>>>>> judge, and the countless thousands of New Normal Germans that have been
>>>>> out in the streets here displaying their unquestioning allegiance to the
>>>>> Reich, and demanding the banning of political opposition, and the
>>>>> segregation and persecution of “the Unvaccinated,” or displaying
>>>>> solidarity with Ukrainian neo-Nazis, or supporting Israel’s liquidation
>>>>> of Gaza, or whatever they’ve been instructed to unquestioningly support
>>>>> or display solidarity with tomorrow … the only way it works (i.e., this
>>>>> new totalitarianism) is if people, and not just German people, but
>>>>> Americans, and Brits, and Canadians, and Australians, and “Good New
>>>>> Normals” all throughout the West, are allowed to keep telling themselves
>>>>> and each other that they’re “the good guys,” the ones who are “defending
>>>>> democracy,” as they march us down the road to totalitarianism.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I know, I’m repeating myself. I am going to keep repeating myself.
>>>>> Because the only way this doesn’t all end in an extremely ugly and
>>>>> dystopian scenario is if we get through to those “Good New Normals.” I’m
>>>>> not talking about trying to convince them of anything, or winning
>>>>> arguments about “the virus,” or “vaccines,” or Israel, or Trump, or
>>>>> calling them names. I am talking about confronting them with what they
>>>>> are doing. I’m talking about short-circuiting their mental programming —
>>>>> even if just for a few fleeting seconds — by holding an accurate mirror
>>>>> up to them, and forcing them to look directly into it, and recognize
>>>>> what it is they have become.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is what I did in criminal court last week. It’s why the judge was
>>>>> forced to acquit me, and why she felt compelled to deliver that tirade,
>>>>> and strap on her mask to make a big statement. She could have convicted
>>>>> me. She probably wanted to. In her mind, and in the minds of most New
>>>>> Normals, people like me are existential threats. However, to convict me,
>>>>> she would have had to watch herself make a mockery of the law and behave
>>>>> like a fascist … like a totalitarian functionary.
>>>>>
>>>>> Call me a hopeless idealist if you want, but I have to believe that
>>>>> somewhere deep down inside even the most fanatical New Normals (or most
>>>>> of them anyway) is a decent human being, with principles, who does not
>>>>> want to be a fascist (or a least doesn’t want to look like a fascist),
>>>>> and who can still be reached, if they can be forced into the position
>>>>> that judge was forced into last week. I have to believe that each brief
>>>>> short-circuit, each momentary glimpse at themselves in the mirror,
>>>>> cumulatively, over the course of time, is eating away at their mental
>>>>> conditioning.
>>>>>
>>>>> In any event, that’s the theory I’ve been operating under for quite a
>>>>> while. I guess I’ll try it out again at my next show trial.
>>>>
>>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
>>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>>> longer effective.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>>
>>>> So how are you ?
>>>
>>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>>
>> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
>> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
>> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
>> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
>> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
>> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
>> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
>> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
>> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
>> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>>
>> Laus DEO !
>>
> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
>
>
> Michael

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:00:49 -0500, Loose Sphincter, the unhappily married
gay neo-nazitard, whined again:

>> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
>>
>>
>> Michael
>
> What about AIDS or monkeypox, gook? Surely the quack must have passed
> on some STD to you.

Stop projecting, you loose, gay neo-nazi asshole!

--
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" I love eating the Shit out of Poor Helpless Dumb Goran Razovic! LOL"
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Loose Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:19:13 -0800, Michael Ejercito
> <MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:
>
>> HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>>>
>>> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
>>> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
>>> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
>>> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
>>> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
>>> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
>>> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
>>> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
>>> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
>>> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>>>
>>> Laus DEO !
>>>
>> Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
>>
>>
>> Michael
>
>
> What about AIDS or monkeypox, gook? Surely the quack must have passed
> on some STD to you.
>
Which quack would that be?

Michael

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