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| German prosecutors, police and press continue to denounce and investigate an unending plague of 'Nazi salute' incidents |
| 2024-08-10 |
| [eugyppius: a plague chronicle] Once upon a time, the spectre that haunted Europe was communism, but today that spectre is the stiffly extended arm raised to an angle of 45 degrees. Sometimes I cannot sleep at night, so much does the anxiety gnaw at me that a political extremist might be sticking his arm into the air and hailing victory. It is the stuff of nightmares, and the very idea should make you intensely afraid, because nothing conveys confidence in your political beliefs and moral convictions as much as hyperventilating that somebody, somewhere might be mimicking — even by accident! — the signature gesture of a political party that has been defunct for nearly four generations now. The German economy may be caught in an indefinite downward spiral, we may be unable to practice even the most basic border security, stabbings and gang rapes may be on the rise, and the Interior Minister may be unilaterally banning entire newspapers, but at least we can take heart in the fact that our cultural police are sparing no effort to combat that perennial plague of fascist saluting: The Saarland police have opened an investigation into the Austrian right-wing extremist Martin Sellner. The police in Saarbrucken announced that they are investigating him on suspicion of using symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations. Sellner is said to have publicly offered a Hitler salute in the Saarland state capital. The prominent Austrian extremist was in Saarbrucken on Thursday evening to present a book he had written. The event was private and the group Omas gegen Rechts ["Grandmothers against the Right"] organised a demonstration against it. According to the police, Sellner went to this counter-demonstration and "provocatively" promoted his book there. The police added that he was filmed and photographed by several people. Some of these recordings were subsequently given to the police with the comment that they showed Sellner giving a Hitler salute. The few videos of Sellner in Saarbrucken that could be seen on Platform X, however, do not show a Hitler salute. That conclusion seems overhasty to me. In this photo, for example, we see that Sellner is very clearly raising both of his arms. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 The inflatable snowman waving, uh, giving the Nazi salute, was the epitome of this absurd reaction. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-08-10 13:15 |
| #1 Antifa's advice to their "nazi" Kameraden... "The dread salute, deadly... well, charmless, Is easily rendered quite harmless By topping 'White' wrists With red communist fists So reporters insist that you're armless." |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-08-10 02:59 |