By Monica Showalter

How do you know a movement has caught fire?

When the symbols start appearing.  Everyday symbols, placed preposterously, mockingly, giving a scandal a name and associating it with the tangible, the popular.  It’s very effectively used in Latin America, where housewives in Chile started the practice, banging on pots and pans to protest the communist Allende-Castro puppet regime’s signature socialist food shortages.  Coat hangers for abortion supporters, underwear for Clinton protesters — when it happens, it’s a popular movement that’s taken off. 

And in this case, the instrument is blow dryers and curling irons, and the target is House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who turned up at an expensive San Francisco hair salon to get her hair done, not even wearing a mask, while everyone else had to stay home, and every salon had to legally remain shut, ostensibly out of fear of COVID, an old crisis that has since peaked.  The unused blow dryers are now turning up in trees, as loony decorations, a tangible symbol to show that the public is outraged.  And that’s one heck of a memorable protest.

After all, the rules that keep salons shut are not observed by the elites.  Just little people have to play by those oppressive rules. 

It’s the work of angry hairstylists, who have been forced to pay a disproportionate price for COVID, as have gyms, churches, small “nonessential” businesses, schools, restaurants, bars, and other small fry — and stay closed, pretty much forever, until the last COVID case goes away.  There is no other plan put out by the blue states, and that’s effectively a death sentence on their businesses — for nothing.  Most were never big spreaders, and all have options to lessen the risk of spread through masks and social distancing, but no matter — the tyrants order the businesses to stay shut — except in the case where some animals are more equal than others.  Right, Nance?

It’s getting to be outrageous — and outrageous acts of oppression merit outrageous acts of protest.  One can only hope Nancy Pelosi will be followed by blow dryer protests wherever she goes.

It’s fascinating that the hair salons are at the spearhead of this movement rather than other types of businesses, which are sure to follow.  There have been incidents in Texas and Michigan where salon-owners and barbers have refused to close doors and triggered legal incidents.  There’s the case of Brandon Straka, a hairdresser who has had enough of Democrat rage and founded a movement to get away from them called #WalkAway.  Straka is gay, and there are many gay people in the trade.  The gay movement in particular has been extremely good as the use of symbols — triangles, rainbow flags, equals signs…  Now there’s the blow dryer rebellion.  And hairdressers have been known to play pivotal roles in revolutions.

Let’s hope this one gets ever wilder and more impressive, forcing Pelosi and pals into ending their petty little satrapy of shutdowns.  

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/blow_dryer_rebellion_angry_beauty_parlor_owners_hang_blow_dryers_from_tree_near_nancy_pelosis_home.html

In the wake of the violent attack on a priest and his brother during Holy Mass in the Berlin church of St. Joseph, a security service is to be set up there starting next Sunday. This is reported by the “Catholic News Agency” (KNA) with reference to the press spokesman of the diocese of Berlin, Stefan Förner. This should make clear that the archdiocese takes the incident seriously, said Förner.According to Förner, a security concept for the church already exists – but no security service was present during the attack last Sunday. The brother of the clergyman who was knocked down by an unknown person during the sermon, Mr. Holger Doetsch, had previously called for a security service in the churches in an interview with the newspaper Tagespost. The priest in question is an employee of the Apostolic Nunciature.When asked about his condition, Doetsch replied to the Tagespost: “Not good, you take that seriously. It has become deeply engraved in my mind.I was remembering the incidents of Taizé and the attack on Brother Roger and the murder of the French priest Jacques Hamel. According to his perception, it was “a planned attack on the church. And this must have consequences”.

As KNA further reports, the concern of the archdiocese of Berlin is the health of the priest concerned, his brother and the altar girl standing directly next to him, as well as the attendant faithful.”The visible physical consequences are – thank God – not serious for the attacked men, the uncertainty on the other hand, which the aggressor caused, will remain”, so diocese speaker Förner.St. Joseph’s Church is currently used as a replacement for St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, which is currently under reconstruction. Clergymen of the Pope’s embassy and the military bishop’s office regularly celebrate services in the Berlin Cathedral.

https://www.die-tagespost.de/kirche-aktuell/aktuell/nach-angriff-ab-sonntag-sicherheitsdienst-in-berliner-kirche;art4874,211644

Yesterday, Wednesday evening, a train attendant of a regional express called the federal police. One passenger refused to leave the train. He also did not comply with the request of the police officers and had to be brought to the station under duress.

In Aachen, a 34-year-old man boarded the Regional Express 1 to Cologne. When a German Railroad company train attendant in Langerwehe noticed that he did not have a valid ticket, he asked him to leave the train. However, the passenger ignored the employee’s order. The federal police were then called, and they took him to Cologne Central Station. The Afghan only left the train under duress.He behaved extremely violently and unreasonably towards the emergency services. In the police station, the officers found a black “nunchaku” while searching his backpack. He also carried a hidden knife on his wrist. Both weapons were confiscated. Since he had no identity documents, he was arrested. The federal police initiated an investigation for illegal residence, violation of the weapons law and fare evasion. Further investigations will be conducted by the Cologne police.

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For a crime taken to court – and the prosecutor wearing a headscarf? Suspected criminals, whether atheist, Jew or Christian, must now prepare themselves for this in Berlin. What was previously considered impossible, because the state is obliged to neutrality, is to come true in Berlin.

Responsible for this: Senator of Justice Dirk Behrendt (Greens). He causes thereby an éclat in the Red-Red-Green coalition. Wednesday, early evening in the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, incredulous amazement from the Social Democrats and the Opposition: Behrendt commented on the latest decision of the Federal Labor Court in Erfurt on the Berlin Neutrality Law.

A Muslim woman was awarded 5,129 euros in compensation for discrimination because she was not hired into the teaching profession in the state of Berlin because of her headscarf.

The Erfurt judges criticized: If a prospective teacher is rejected because of a headscarf according to the Berlin law, it must be justified more clearly, why the headscarf disturbs the school peace – an individual case decision.Senator for Schools Sandra Scheeres does not rule out filing a constitutional complaint against the latest ruling of the Federal Labor Court. She said this during question time in the Berlin House of Representatives on Thursday. “It is important to me that we have a neutral situation in the Berlin schools so that no conflicts are carried into the schools. We must do everything possible to ensure that we have a peaceful environment for the students,” said Scheeres. As soon as the verdict is available in writing, the next steps will be considered.She was “not satisfied” with the verdict. It was about a ban on religious signs as a whole, not just the headscarf. Scheeres emphasized that this was important in order to maintain peace at school. “If there are conflicts with a teacher, this has an impact on the pedagogical work of the entire college. I receive daily letters from teachers and school administrators that we should stick to this line.

Justice senator Behrendt draws completely different conclusions in contrast to Scheeres – although the Federal judges did not explain the law itself explicitly for unconstitutional. And although the neutrality act continues to apply in the state of Berlin.

In the future, female legal trainees of Muslim faith will be allowed to read the bill of indictment in court wearing a headscarf. This was announced by Justice Senator Behrendt in the Legal Affairs Committee. The only restriction: In addition to the woman wearing the headscarf as prosecutor, the respective instructor is also to sit.And it must be clear to everyone in the courtroom: The prosecutor with head scarf is in training and is accompanied by a training public prosecutor, as Behrendt said. And in the same way also the representatives of Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats interpreted him.In the left-wing coalition, Behrendts decision is seen as arbitrary and as an affront. Social Democratic Party (SPD) legal expert Sven Kohlmeier told the Tagesspiegel newspaper: “Here we as a coalition must find a unified line. Dirk Behrendt’s going it alone is not good”.

Christian Democratic legal expert Sven Rissmann accuses the Senator of Justice of “wanting to create facts”. A headscarf for civil servants, especially in the core area of state power in the judiciary and police, is politically and socially unwanted.

In the Social Democratic Party (SPD) the fear of the consequences of the Behrendt-decision is spreading: Can a public prosecutor be banned from wearing a headscarf in the future if she was already allowed to wear a headscarf during her preparatory service as a prosecutor and as a civil servant on probation?Also the opposition factions of Free Democratic Party (FDP) and AfD say: Behrendt tears down legal and institutional firewalls on his own. In the currently heated debate between the Left and Right, the decision could lead to additional radicalization.The Red, Red and Green government coalition is divided anyway after the decision of the Federal Labor Court. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) insists on the state’s obligation of neutrality – especially in court or with the police. The Social Democrats fear that the political floodgates could open.The Greens, on the other hand, see teachers wearing headscarves as a sign for the future in multicultural Berlin – so that children learn to “deal with diversity and difference”. This includes a “diverse faculty” in the schools. The realities at the schools are intended to create acceptance “in society as a whole”.For the Greens and the Left, the previous neutrality act goes against the grain. After the Erfurt ruling, they are demanding an amendment – because of the goal of anti-discrimination. Also senator of justice Behrendt had criticized the law repeatedly. “In the multi-religious society it must be about what someone has in his head and not on his head,” he twittered.Curiously, while parts of the left and the Greens are celebrating the verdict of the federal labor judges, other parts of the two parties are complaining about the return of religion in the state. Especially since Christianity is losing influence in Berlin. Not even a quarter of the citizens of Berlin belong to one of the two Christian churches. In contrast, Islam is gaining influence.Civil servants in the civil service are required to uphold neutrality in their job – politically and ideologically-religiously. Therefore Behrendts initiative also deals with the question: Should civil servants be allowed to openly display their faith to citizens? Or rather, to put it more bluntly: Is it still possible to place a judge with a headscarf in the courtroom despite the obligation of neutrality? Or a policewoman with a headscarf in employment? So far, this is not allowed.

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