Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wedesday that a hate crime investigation was under way after a social media post identified a noose at the city’s popular Lake Merritt. Police said they searched the area on Tuesday and found five ropes attached to trees.
Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.
“Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create,” Sengbe said.
“It’s unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanting to have a good time got misinterpreted into something so heinous,” he told the station.
Schaaf said officials must “start with the assumption that these are hate crimes.” However, the mayor and Nicholas Williams, the city’s director of parks recreation, also said it didn’t matter whether the ropes were meant to send a racist message.
“Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public,” Schaaf said. “It is incumbent on all of us to know the actual history of racial violence, of terrorism, that a noose represents and that we as a city must remove these terrorizing symbols from the public view.”
“The symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. It’s evil, and it symbolizes hatred,” Williams said.
Due process and guilty until proven innocent is one of those horrible racist things invented by dead white men.
But Williams and Schaaf sum up the diseased leftist psyche that is at the heart of this insane national meltdown.
It doesn’t matter whether the ropes were exercise equipment put up by a black man or nooses. There is a symbolic need for them to be nooses. Actual facts are irrelevant. The psychodrama of indictment, guilt and atonement, our endless Salem Witch Trials, are what this is about. The assumption must be that they are nooses and no amount of facts can ever disprove this need for the noose.
The Left wants the psychodrama and doesn’t care about black people or reality.
The Syrian Huseein S. (31 years old) has to serve 3 years and 9 months in prison, his compatriot Fadi A. (16 years old) was sentenced to one year on probation.
The two had previously smoked marijuana together with two Stralsund girls in 2019, after which the 12- and 16-year-old were raped by them.
At the trial, the defendants complained that they had had “a difficult time” in Syria. S. also said that the girls had been provoked because they had been sitting with him late at night.
The 16-year-old was given a lenient sentence because he turned himself in after the crime and was on drugs. However, in addition to his sentence, he will have to do 250 hours of community service and start an education.
The German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will no longer send police officers to Berlin for relief missions. The reason for this is the recently passed anti-discrimination law in the capital.
The state’s Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier (CDU) told the dpa news agency on Wednesday that he now sees as a reversal of the burden of proof, for example in the case of racism allegations against officials. “We cannot accept that,” emphasized the CDU politician. Police officers should not run the risk of suffering legal disadvantages during operations in Berlin.
The state anti-discrimination law passed by Red-Red-Green coalition in Berlin is designed to protect citizens and associations from discrimination, for example when dealing with authorities, checking tickets or dealing with the police. If a court finds discrimination, the person concerned receives compensation from the State of Berlin. The law is the first of its kind in Germany. It provides for a so-called burden of proof relief, according to which it is sufficient if a person concerned can claim any incident was “mostly likely” credible.
Critics, on the other hand, speak of a reversal of the burden of proof. Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer (CSU) also announced to the dpa that for the time being federal police officers will no longer be sent for deployments to Berlin. “I cannot subject my officials to this discrimination, where they must then prove that they have not discriminated.”
Several interior ministers of the federal states had already considered suspending support missions in Berlin due to the new regulations. On Wednesday, Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) criticized the move in an interview on rbb-Inforadio saying that every citizen should have the opportunity to defend themselves against illegal treatment of police officers. A reversal of the burden of proof is, however, the wrong way. He said he would not allow the legal position of police officers from Brandenburg to be undermined.
Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg had announced that they would reconsider further deployments by their officials to Berlin. Should they experience disadvantages due to the anti-discrimination law, they will no longer send support. Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia, on the other hand, had announced that they would continue to send police officers to the capital.
Berlin’s Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel (SPD), repeatedly criticized the law. Claims for damages will in all cases be directed against the State of Berlin, not against individual officials, he said on Inforadio. He accused his colleague Stübgen of not having read the law, which is why he has now sent him the text. He classified the debate about the new Berlin regulation as “political folklore”.
The State Anti-Discrimination Act is also the subject of discussion at the Interior Ministers’ Conference in Erfurt, which started on Wednesday.
Ever since Donald Trump announced he would designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, calls have emerged to pursue the violent far-left mobs and their shadowy backers internationally. Official budget number from the German government show this includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The budget for Angela Merkel’s Chancellery totaled €3.19 billion 2020, of which more than half, €1.82 billion, went to the Chancellor’s Office for Media and Culture. The office was created by Merkel’s forerunner Gerhard Schröder (Social Democrat) in 1998 even though the German constitution explicitly delegates cultural affairs to the states and not the federal government. Despite its apparent unconstitutionality, it now serves as a kind of propaganda ministry for the German Chancellor, with its own world-wide public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (German Wave).
Former US ambassador in Berlin Richard Grenell frequently sparred with Deutsche Welle on Twitter over their pro-Iran and anti-US coverage. Deutsche Welle fired back and called Grenell “Donald Trump’s agitator in Berlin”, a remarkable way for an ally government’s network to treat the US ambassador.
Now, a parliamentary query by the conservative AfD party has revealed over €1 million out of Merkel’s media/propaganda budget 2019 went to fund Soros-funded NGO “Neue deutsche Medienmacher” (New German Media Makers – NdM), whose avowed goal is to increase “diversity” in German journalism by promoting ethnic minorities (New Germans) in the media and establishing “speech guidelines” for journalists. Merkel’s 2020 NdM funding totals €291.000 so far, according to the German federal government.
The New German Media Makers is headed by left-wing Spiegel columnist Ferda Ataman, who has frequently raised hackles among conservatives with seemingly racist remarks. Thus NdM awards an annual negative award for reporting it deems insensitive, called the “Goldene Kartoffel” (Golden Potato). “Kartoffel” (potato) is a racial epithet used by Muslims for ethnic Germans, a euphemism for the Muslim slur “Kaffir”. “Kaffir” ranks among the most grievous insults for non-believers in the Islamic world, tantamount to using the “N word” in the USA. In South Africa, you can go to prison for using the “K word”. Nonetheless, Ataman and the New German Media Makers continue to use the term and make light of its racially defamatory meaning.
During the onset of the Corona pandemic, Ataman stirred controversy with a tweet implying German doctors are racist and would give preferential treatment to ethnic Germans, causing a storm of outrage in the hard-pressed medical community.
In April, Ataman published an essay on the website of hard-core leftist “Antifascist League” (Bund der Antifaschistinnen – VVN-BdA), avowing her support of violent left-wing Antifa. The Antifascist League VVN-BdA has been classified as extremist by Bavarian secret policeand recently lost its tax-deductible status due to its overt political agitation. In her essay, Ataman compared the AfD, the largest opposition party in the Bundestag, to the National Socialists and fascists, announcing her intent “to fight to make Antifa socially acceptable.”
Last year, Antifa members attacked AfD member of parliament Frank Magnitz from behind, nearly killing him. No arrests were made. AfD members are frequently attacked in Germany with no effort at finding the culprits, including leading figures like Jörg Meuthen, Beatrix von Storch, Uwe Junge and Guido Reil.
In February 2019, left-wing Antifa website Indymedia published “assassination instructions” for attacks on AfD members, and just a few days later, four members of the AfD youth wing were attacked on their way to a screening of a film on the Warsaw Ghetto, including one Jewish member who felt “reminded of the 1930s.” No arrests were ever made.
A freelance member of Soros-funded hate watchdog Amadeu Antonio Foundation was arrested February 2019 for torching the car of an AfD politician in Berlin. The Amadeu Antonio foundation is headed by former Stasi secret agent Anetta Kahane. and also funded by the Merkel government to the tune of €1.1 million in 2019 and €837.000 in 2020 to date.
In March of this year, AfD chair Tino Chrupalla suffered smoke inhalation and had to be hospitalized when his car was torched outside his home. On May 16, three members of conservative auto workers union Zentrum Automobil were attacked by a mob of approx. 40 left-wing extremists on their way to an anti-shutdown protest in Stuttgart outside Mercedes HQ. One of the men, Andreas Ziegler, was shot in the head point-blank with a tear gas gun, leaving Ziegler comatose. The MSM took five days to even report the near-fatal shooting, employer Mercedes has yet to comment. Ziegler has now emerged from the coma. No arrests have been made.
In a video statement (English subtitles), AfD foreign policy spokesman Petr Bystron demanded of the German government: „How do you explain to your taxpaying citizens that German Chancellor Angela Merkel spent over 1.2 million Euros in 2019 on racist, anti-German NGOs which support violent, extremist Antifa?”
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas recently documented US Antifa members acknowledging their financing by George Soros funded NGOs. Several members of the violent “BLM” riots in the USA have been shown to have ties to Soros NGOs. In Germany, it seems it is the federal government funding Soros NGOs with taxpayer Euros, who then finance Antifa and far-left activists to function as a shadow army of Blackshirts to exert violence against the political opposition. Undercover journalist Christian Jung has documented the extensive ties between Antifa and local governments in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Bremen, who finance grafitti-covered “culture centers” and illegal squats as Antifa HQs, and pay salaries and even rents for far-left “activists” to monitor, harass and threaten the political opposition.
A sophisticated network of radical left-wing computer hackers will also dox and expose conservative politicians in Germany and attempt to ruin their lives. In February, when conservative Christian Democrats were discussing the possibility of forming a center-right minority government with the Free Democrat Party tolerated by the AfD in the state of Thuringia, hackers attacked conservative lawyer Ralf Höcker, exposing his personal information and even hacking the e-mail list of a right-wing air gun mail-order site in Hungary, claiming Höcker was a customer. (Höcker denies this.) His address was released and Höcker received what he called “very credible threats”. Höcker, whose wife was pregnant at the time, was forced to withdraw from politics and resign as speaker of the conservative “Values Union” within Merkel’s party.
Several leading AfD politicians, including Beatrix von Storch, Alice Weidel and Petr Bystron have called for Germany to follow Donald Trump’s lead in designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. Leftist politicians and MSM journalists rallied around their Antifa allies in defense. The German government funded left-wing Open Society-related NGOs to the tune of at least €9 million Euro in 2019s, the AfD query found.
Video Petr Bystron: Why does the German government finance violent, extremist Antifa supporters?
With fanaticism and iconoclastic fury, the statues of southern Confederate leaders, such as Robert Lee, were the first to fall. An easy job, how can we disagree?
Then they went to hit the stones of Christopher Columbus, the “exterminator of Indians”. Here they had a small jolt, given that he is still the man who discovered America and we are talking about five centuries ago.
Following that, on to the monuments to Thomas Jefferson, the Enlightenment statesman who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Here it was a little more controversial, but not much, because Jefferson may have been a hero of the separation of church and state, a Founding Father, but he was still a famous slave owner.
Removing the Columbus statues should be the easy part, like deleting Andrew Jackson’s name and face from American highways, campuses and currencies, The New Republic wrote last week. “Who is next? George Washington? Teddy Roosevelt? Abraham Lincoln? You certainly won’t agree with their demolition.” Instead, a resounding Yes.
Now in Boston, the famous statue to the president who paid with his life for the liberation of the slaves of America is about to fall. For some years now the ever-green terrain of “diversity” has been plowed well against Lincoln as well. “Was Lincoln an incorrigible racist?” asked slavery scholar Manisha Sinha in the Washington Post.
For over a hundred years, the Lincoln statue has dominated Park Square in Boston, in homage to the president known as the “Great Emancipator” – of black slaves. Lincoln is seen standing over a black slave who is on his knees, while one of the President’s hands is stretched out over the man who has broken the chains on his wrists. Now a black man, Tory Bullock, asks to bring down the statue, because Lincoln is not a liberator to him, he sees only a white man standing over a kneeling black boy.
Boston Mayor Marty J. Walsh said he was in favor of removing the statue, a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, which was donated to Boston in 1879 by Moses Kimball. He says that in addition to removing the statue, it could be redone to embody equality.
How about a kneeling Lincoln, in homage to the humiliation that is worn so prevalently in the West today? And why not go on to bombing Mount Rushmore, where you see George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, two slave owners?
America is comparatively new, it has no history such as Europe. Its history is to be found in these monuments and the men they memorialize. Take them down and you will have an empty public space to be filled by the ideological, grotesque manias coming out of liberal universities.
At this rate, these anti-racists will ask to repaint and change the name of The White House to The Black House. It may have already happened as I write this article.
After his statements on Tuesday that the Koran is more dangerous than the Corona virus, the head of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Norbert Hofer, says he is confronted with countless insults and death threats in social media. This shows that his words “may not have been completely without foundation”, the party leader sees his criticism confirmed.In the APA interview, Hofer reported death threats and insults in “the worst kind as well”, mainly on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or via direct messages. In numerous contributions – including the APA transmitted by the Freedom Party – the Freedom Party leader is called a ” son of a bitch” who “will burn in hell”. Several users also expressed the hope that Hofer would “die”. Others made themselves more explicit: “If one day one finds you dead on the street, don’t be surprised,” wrote one user, for example.Hofer also said he would take legal action: “I won’t put up with anyone threatening to kill me.”It’s a misguided community trying to put me under pressure. Although he had not expected it, he was not shocked and would certainly “not let himself be banned from speaking” by “oh so peace-loving people”.The collected evidence, which is constantly increasing, will be handed over to the security authorities as well as to the legal representation, the Freedom Party said. At the same time, Hofer reported “very, very many responses from Austrians” to his appearance, which were positive.Hofer has “no understanding at all” for negative criticism of his statements from politics or from religious leaders. “I would like people to develop a certain sensitivity to certain undesirable developments,” he rather said. “If I had said similar things about the Bible, those people who are now agitated would probably have remained silent,” said Hofer, who is faced with two charges of incitement and vilification of religious teachings. For him it was clear that it was always about the interpretation of the Koran.You can find some problematic texts in the Bible, “but we have experienced humanism and the Age of Enlightenment,” he said.
