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| German intelligence services prevented a coup in the best traditions of the Weimar Republic | |
| 2023-11-25 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gregor Spitzen [REGNUM] Almost a year has passed since the German authorities, with great noise and pomp, stopped the coup attempt by the Reichsburger movement. Then operetta nationalists, degenerate aristocrats, retired military officers and third-rate politicians were preparing to stage a real putsch in the best traditions of the Weimar Republic and plunge the country of victorious democracy into the abyss of an ominous dictatorship. Let us clarify that Reichsburgers are people who do not recognize the Federal Republic of Germany and its democratic structures. According to estimates by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in 2022, about 23 thousand people in Germany belonged to the “Reichsburgers” and similar organizations “United Patriots” and “Supporters of Self-Government”. On December 7, 2022, many honest German citizens, accustomed to unconditionally believing the printed word and the blue screen, experienced a real shock. The media told them that a group of extremists, at best reminiscent of members of the inner circle of “Dr. Evil” from the kitschy Austin Powers films, were going to raise their beloved chancellor and popularly adored ministers to the pitchforks. They also allegedly planned to seize the Reichstag and from there dictate their evil but unyielding will to their confused fellow citizens. Prince Henry XIII Reus , the alleged leader of the putschists, a representative of one of the old noble families and the “heir” to the empty throne of the German Reich, was spectacularly paraded in front of the cameras, handcuffed and under escort . According to the directors of this performance, this confirmed the validity of the accusations of the German intelligence services and law enforcement agencies in the planned conspiracy. Certain politicians, among whom Interior Secretary Nancy Feather
Journalists in the first echelon publications, worried about their professional reputation, gradually began to realize that a bunch of clowns, harmless city madmen and unrecognized “geniuses”, fired from work due to incomplete official compliance, clearly do not belong to a deeply conspiratorial organization that aims to - really serious goals. Many experts agreed that the “Conspiracy of the Reichsburgers” was nothing more than a political technology, a stuffing into the information field designed to shift the focus of public attention from Germany’s economic problems. In a certain sense, he completed his task, and, it would seem, this story could be safely forgotten. However, the fact that a year later it was revived and again thrown into the masses raises serious questions about the competence of those responsible for working with the public in the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the federal republic. The fact that a joke repeated twice becomes stupid, and repeated three times becomes an anecdote, seems to have not been heard in these institutions. Footage of the raids, which were carried out on November 23, 2023 by several hundred police officers in eight federal states of Germany at the request of the Bavarian Prosecutor General's Office, caused burning shame among people with critical thinking. Police in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg, Hamburg and Lower Saxony seized computers, smartphones, and storage media. A total of 21 properties were searched and Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the suspects ranged in age from 25 to 74. It is emphasized that during the raids, even a weapon for firing blank cartridges was found in one of the suspects! The prerequisite for the activation of law enforcement officers was the accusation of creating a criminal organization. The starting point of the investigation was monitoring of the Telegram messenger. There, according to the authorities, administrators of several channels organized “mass contacts with government officials by telephone and email in order to force them to make decisions in the interests of association members . ” Which, translated into human language, seems to mean organizing DDOS attacks and bot invasions. According to the indictment, these actions were aimed at destabilizing the Federal Republic of Germany and its state institutions. In addition, the attackers intended to prevent or at least impede the legitimate actions of the state. “The interlocutors of the suspects, for example, were confronted with the theories of the Reichsburger, accused of committing war crimes and crimes against the person, insulted, and in some cases the Reichsburgers threatened them with violence,” the investigation said in a press release. At the center of the case is 58-year-old Telegram channel administrator Johannes M. from the city of Olching in Bavaria. This person was already arrested in November 2021. He was then charged with creating a criminal organization, inciting people and coercion; the proceedings are still ongoing. The suspect, whose channels have several thousand subscribers, is considered a follower of several conspiracy myths. Among other things, he appealed to his readers to “commit criminal offenses and spread insults . ” For example, the investigation claims that in one of the posts posted, the suspect insisted that police officers should be shot “in accordance with the law.” Be that as it may, the conspiracy that threatens the very foundations of the constitutional order of Germany has now been uncovered, the evil has been punished, and the responsible employees of the German law enforcement agencies will certainly be awarded the highest awards. It is still difficult to believe that leading German media and officials at the rank of federal ministers are discussing this nonsense seriously. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 They're lazy and using their own questionable translation bots, so that's the issue DooDah. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-11-25 07:24 |
| #1 "Nancy Feather" is actually named Nancy Faeser. Feder is feather in German. Come on, Google, get on the stick. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-11-25 05:09 |