New York City authorities have hit upon a brilliant strategy, one that Neville Chamberlain would certainly approve of.

Give the rioters and protesters everything they want while looking the other way as they trash the city. Appeasing mobs and dictators doesn’t work out very well for the appeasers. But those who are being appeased make out like bandits — literally.

The Manhattan District Attorney didn’t exactly get on his knees and grovel to the mob. But his stomach-turning statement on why he wasn’t going to prosecute curfew violators should make decent, law-abiding people turn away in disgust.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr. today announced the D.A.’s Office’s policy regarding arrests on charges of Unlawful Assembly and Disorderly Conduct during ongoing demonstrations against the use of excessive force and killing of George Floyd. Previously, the D.A.’s Office’s policy was to offer individuals charged with these low-level offenses an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal, meaning their cases would be dismissed within six months. Under the new policy, the D.A.’s Office declines to prosecute these arrests in the interest of justice. The Office will also continue to evaluate and decline to prosecute other protest-related charges where appropriate.

“The prosecution of protestors charged with these low-level offenses undermines critical bonds between law enforcement and the communities we serve. Days after the killing of George Floyd, our nation and our city are at a crossroads in our continuing endeavor to confront racism and systemic injustice wherever it exists. Our office has a moral imperative to enact public policies which assure all New Yorkers that in our justice system and our society, black lives matter and police violence is a crime. We commend the thousands of our fellow New Yorkers who have peacefully assembled to demand these achievable aims, and our door is open to any New Yorker who wishes to be heard.”

I get an image of Neville Chamberlain waving a piece of paper in the air and proclaiming “peace in our time.”

Not prosecuting curfew scofflaws and disorderly protesters will lead to more of the same. And if the district attorney won’t stand up and enforce the law, who will?

A curfew is not a suggestion — like when your parents used to tell you to be home by midnight. It’s the law. It’s critical in order to keep the city from going up in flames that protesters understand that actions have consequences — even minor actions like breaking a curfew.

But Vance defeats the entire purpose of imposing a curfew in the first place.

The D.A.’s Office’s policy is designed to minimize unnecessary interactions with the criminal justice system, reduce racial disparities and collateral consequences in low-level offense prosecutions, and enable the Office and court system to preserve resources for the prosecution of serious crimes. If evidence emerges that any individuals personally participated in violence against police officers, destruction, or looting, such individuals will be charged with appropriate crimes.

In this case, it’s vitally necessary to give the curfew violators a “necessary interaction” with the criminal justice system. It’s called a deterrent. Police are a deterrent to violence. An armored car is usually a wonderful deterrent to violence.

Authorities are not dealing with rational, logical thinking. They are dealing with a mob, with mob psychology that is the closest humans get to exhibiting basic animal instincts. Without deterrence, you have chaos. With chaos comes destruction and death.

If authorities want to pull the police back and allow the protesters and rioters to have their way, New York will be a smoking ruin in 48 hours. So the terrified mayor allows the police to try and keep order but then criticizes them for doing so. And the prosecutor decries “police violence” and releases lawbreakers without a by-your-leave from the police.

Cops can’t arrest people if they’re not going to be prosecuted. What’s the point? It’s a wasted effort unless those who break the law and threaten the peace are given a reason not to do so.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/06/06/manhattan-da-wont-prosecute-curfew-violators-urges-more-protests-n502259

The conversation between someone who had to work in the area and security personnel went like this:

“a woman dropped off a relative for a first aid course at the Main Train Station in Düsseldorf:

‘We got there a little earlier to check out the scene in front of the main entrance. Lo and behold, the brick fairy had been there. We took pictures of the nice pile of bricks from the conveniently timed “construction”.I asked the First Aid instructor what security measures he would be taking for the demonstration today. He responded with,What demonstration?’. He was uniformed and disinterested. His response was,‘Let them demonstrate’.I asked the barista at Starbucks if he knew about the BLM demonstration at 2pm? Nope.I went up to a police officer. He was the only one that knew about it. I saw several police patrolling already at 8:30 in the morning.My conversation with the police officer was interesting. I told him [my young relative] was taking a First Aid course today until 4pm. I asked if he knew when the demonstration would be over and what area would be blocked off.He said he wasn’t psychic and it all depended on the demonstrators.I asked him about whether the demonstration was registered and if there wasn’t a specific time period for demonstration to end.Same answer.I told him my [spouse] would be picking my [young relative] up and asked if he could tell me which street would be blocked off.He couldn’t (wouldn’t) tell me and suggested my [relative] take the public transport home or that we pick them up somewhere else in the city.I asked if the demonstration will only take place in front of the train station.He said that depended on the demonstrators.I asked if the police wouldn’t make sure they don’t leave the area.He said that the police wouldn’t contain them because that might provoke a violent reaction.I mentioned the pile of bricks.He said the police assume that it will be a “peaceful” demonstration.I retorted with, ‘like in the U.S.? Eleven people died.’He repeated, ‘We assume it will be peaceful.’I asked, “If it isn’t, will the police stop it?”He said, “Then there will be ugly pictures on the news tonight.”

https://vladtepesblog.com/

President Trump is right to reduce the U.S. military force strength in Germany. But he should now redeploy some of those forces to establish a permanent base in Poland.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s order will reduce the total U.S. deployed strength in Germany from 34,500 to 25,000 personnel. It would also cap the total number of personnel in Germany at 25,000.

This is welcome news. Berlin remains an American ally, but it is one that is unwilling to shoulder its fair defense burden under NATO. The alliance, which remains a critical mechanism of Western security and prosperity (including American interests), expects all member states to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense each year. But in 2019, Germany only spent 1.36% of GDP on defense and less than the 20%-of-total-defense-budget target for equipment spending.

While Germany is increasing defense spending, it is doing so far too slowly. An earlier commitment to meet the 2% target by 2024 has been squashed, with Berlin now saying that it won’t meet that target until 2031 at the earliest.

This is ridiculous for four reasons.

First, it undermines the core NATO principle that allies will share the burden of defending their common interests. Second, Germany is the de facto leader of the European Union and thus should be setting an example in defending Europe’s security. Third, Germany has Europe’s largest economy and can easily afford to meet its 2% target. Fourth, the German military is in desperate need of funding.

But Germany’s record is even worse than this.

Not only does Chancellor Angela Merkel refuse to invest in the armed forces, but she rarely allows the military to deter the alliance’s primary threat actor, Russia. While a German warship is currently involved in a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea, that’s a rare exception to the rule. From the Barents Sea to the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, it is often America and Britain alone leading NATO’s defense. That solitary expression of the alliance’s security interests is incompatible with Russia’s rising threat to NATO’s southern flank.

Some say that it’s unfair to criticize Germany in this manner. They point to Berlin’s significant aid and diplomatic activity in support of the liberal international order. But while those activities are positive, they miss two exigent points.

First, a significant reason Germany is so reluctant to invest in its own defense is that its leaders fear aggravating Russia. This is largely down to Germany’s willful energy dependence on Moscow — a dynamic that reflects the extraordinary shortsightedness of successive German governments, empowering Russian President Vladimir Putin’s energy blackmail of the European periphery. In addition, the we-support-NATO-with-diplomacy argument would have a lot more viability if German aid convoys could obstruct Russian tank and airborne offensives. But they can’t. NATO needs capabilities that can stop invading forces and penetrate area denial strongholds.

That brings us to Poland. While Germany skimps on defense, Poland does quite the opposite. Though far less wealthy than Germany and many other NATO members, Poland meets both the 2% GDP defense spending target and the 20% equipment share target. Warsaw has also shown repeated willingness to deploy its forces on combat operations alongside American units. Deeply pro-American and resolute in the face of Russian intimidation, Poland is an ally to celebrate.

Moreover, Warsaw is desperate for a permanent American military presence on its soil, even offering to pay a significant part of the establishment and operational costs that would be entailed.

Trump can now offer that presence with some of the forces being pulled from Germany. Doing so would put American forces in a better position to defend the Baltics and Poland in the event of a Russian invasion. But it would also show that America values friends that are willing to stand alongside us rather than behind us.

Trump’s undermining of the alliance’s Article 5 mutual defense stipulations is highly ill-judged. Still, he deserves credit for pushing NATO to increase spending. Moving forces from Germany to Poland would send a valuable message to Moscow — and a valuable message to our NATO allies.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-rightly-cuts-germany-troop-levels-but-should-redeploy-some-forces-to-poland

In the early morning of Shrove Monday a 42-man, of Iraqi origin, is said to have killed his wife (30 years old) in Dortmund.

When his wife was discovered by the police in an apartment in downtown Dortmund, the officers soon assumed that she had been killed. The husband was arrested on the spot. Now terrifying further information about the suspected perpetrator’s past became known.

The autopsy of the woman’s body already revealed in February that the “30-year-old Iraqi woman died due to massive violence against her neck. At the scene of the crime, the husband, in response to a question from investigators, said his wife had tried to take his children away. Since then, however, the 42-year-old has remained silent on the case, reports the newspaper “WAZ”.

The couple had married in Iraq in 2011 and had given birth to four children there. In 2017 the family moved to Stolberg near Aachen. They lived in Germany with a temporary residence permit until the end.The 42-year-old had already become violent towards his wife in the past. She and her children first fled to a women’s shelter. They then moved into the apartment on the street Viktoriastraße in Dortmund. According to “WAZ”, the 30-year-old voluntarily hosted her husband again only a few weeks before the crime.

In the meantime, it has become known that the Iraqi has apparently already committed another murder. The mother of four was his second wife. He is said to have killed his first wife in the Netherlands. There he was even in prison before he married the second wife.

Since his arrest, the man is now in custody. He is represented by a lawyer. There is no date set for the trial yet.

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The domestic intelligence agency for the city-state of Hamburg in Germany announced on Friday that there are 50 Hezbollah members in Hamburg and roughly 30 Hezbollah-affiliated associations spread across Germany, JPostreported.

The number of Hezbollah members increased from 30 in Hamburg in 2018 to 50 in 2019 said the new 313-page intelligence report that covers a wide range of threats to Hamburg’s democracy and constitutional system.

The intelligence officials said that “the reason for the clear increase [of Hezbollah operatives] in comparison to last year is the intensive intelligence of the domestic intelligence service, especially in the internet.”

The report noted that “in Hamburg there are roughly 50 Hezbollah supporters who consort… at the Islamic Center Hamburg as well at the Imam Ali Mosque.”

Both the Islamic Center and the Imam Ali Mosque are owned by Iran’s regime and serve as the long arm of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei.

The Hezbollah supporters participate in religious services on Friday and other religious events at the Islamic Center Hamburg and the Imam Ali Mosque, according to the Hamburg report.

The German Interior Ministry last month issued a federal order outlawing Hezbollah in Germany, and also took enforcement measures under the provisions of the order.

The order prohibits any contact with members of the organization and does not differentiate between its various arms – military, political or social. According to the order, any use of the organization’s symbols and the organization’s assets in Germany, if any, would be banned.

Israel’s Kan 11 News later reported that Germany received intelligence informationfrom Israel that helped formulate the declaration that Hezbollah will be outlawed.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned Germany’s ban on his group, calling the German decision a “political decision that reflects Germany’s submission to America’s will and to pleasing Israel.”

In 2013, the European Union blacklisted Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization, while failing to blacklist the group’s political arm.

In March of 2019, the British government designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Earlier this year, Britain’s finance ministry added the entire Hezbollah organization to its list of terrorist groups subject to asset freezing.

There are an estimated 1,050 Hezbollah members in Germany, according to German intelligence. The Hezbollah operatives raise funds, recruit new members, promote the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel, and spread jihadi ideology.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281413

President of Minneapolis Police Officers Federation Bob Kroll says that people should remember George Floyd’s “violent criminal history”, including a home invasion that involved pointing a gun at a woman which resulted in five-year prison sentence. Kroll called protests over Floyd’s death the work of a terrorist movement.

“What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this,” Kroll wrote in a letter addressed to his members that was published on Twitter on Monday.

George Floyd was sentenced to five years in prison in 2009 for an assault and robbery committed two years earlier. He was convicted after pleading guilty to entering a woman’s home and jabbing a gun in her stomach while searching for money and drugs, according to court documents.

According to the court report, the victim said the largest member of the group, who she identified as Floyd, “forced his way inside the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant’s abdomen, and forced her into the living room area of the residence.”

“This large suspect then proceeded to search the residence while another armed suspect guarded the complainant, who was struck in the head and sides by this second armed suspect with his pistol while she screamed for help.”

Floyd, who was accompanied by five other men, never found any money or drugs, but took jewelry and the victim’s cell phone. A neighbor who observed the robbery occur wrote down the license plate number of the perpetrators.

Even before that, he had been convicted of a range of charges from armed robbery to drug possession, the Daily Mail reported.

“This terrorist movement that is currently occurring was a long time build up which dates back years,” Kroll said in his letter.

According to him, some of the city’s issues exist because Minneapolis leaders “have been minimizing the size of our police force and diverting funds to community activists with an anti-police agenda.”

“Our chief requested 400 more officers and was flatly denied. This is what led to this record-breaking riot,” he added.

“I’ve worked with the four defense attorneys that are representing each of our four terminated individuals under criminal investigation, in addition with our labor attorneys to fight for their jobs. They were terminated without due process,” Kroll wrote.

In his letter, he also explained why the police department was not more vocal in the press. According to him, it would have a negative impact on the work and safety of police officers.

“I’ve been a visible target from the groups conducting this riot, politicians on the left allowing it and encouraging it, and liberal media. My visibility during this time would only increase your danger. I’ve received countless death threats throughout this.“

“We see the heroic work being done. We acknowledge it and commend you for it,” he said, telling his co-workers to stay safe.

Many have pointed to the massive loss in black lives directly due to riots and looting and have asked why David Dorn, the elderly black man and retired St. Louis police captain who was shot and killed on videowhile protecting his friend’s pawn shop during the riots, has not received nearly the same media attention and support from the Black Lives Matter movement.

Other black males, such as 53-year-old Federal Protective Services officer Dave Patrick Underwood, a federal law enforcement officer who shot and killed while on duty during riots last Friday in Oakland, have also received little attention in comparison to Floyd.

Floyd’s death last week sparked widespread violent protests across the United States, from New York City to Los Angeles. He died of asphyxiation after a policeman kneeled on him for nearly nine minutes, which was caught on video.

rmx.news/article/article/minneapolis-police-union-chief-george-floyd-had-a-criminal-history

The prefecture of Paris is worried about two new rallies planned this weekend in front of the Embassy of the United States and on the Champ de Mars. The organisers of the tribute to US race riot symbol George Floyd, are seeking to unite several ultra-left organisations, anti-white movements and anti-police collectives.

During the demonstration on June 2, banned by the Paris police headquarters, organised by Assa Traore, the sister of Adama Traoré who died after a police check, the police services had anticipated the arrival of 7 000 up to 10 000 people, in the high range. In reality, 23 000 to 25 000 people showed up in front of the Paris court, the Tribunal de Grande Instance, blocking the ring road, burning trash bins and attacking the police. At the end of this demonstration, the municipal police station of Clichy was set on fire.

According to several sources in the intelligence services, between 10 000 and 20 000 people are expected this Saturday, June 6 in Paris. And “several tens of thousands” will gather for another event, according to these sources, on Sunday at the initiative of SOS Racisme in particular, with a possible concert.

Since the death of the Malian Adama Traoré, public debate has been intoxicated by the extremist version put forward by the Traoré family, who despite the expert reports has repeatedly accused the police of killing their brother. His sister had called for an illegal march to coincide with US race protests this week.

A total of four autopsy reports have been issued for Traoré. Despite claims to the contrary, a French legal report in 2020 showed that Traoré was high on drugs and that there was tetrahydrocannabinol in his blood. The official medical report listed heart failure as cause of death. A report commissioned independently of law enforcement, however claimed asphyxiation as the cause of death.

Race activists argue that his death was the direct result of excessive use of force by the police and this has sparked major protests in Paris, Lyon, and Toulouse under the slogan Justice pour Adama.

These protests have styled themselves after the American Black Lives Matter movement, and are focused on the alleged disproportionate rates of police violence inflicted on blacks and Arabs. But in the US – with 325 million inhabitants – only 10 unarmed black people died at the hands of law enforcement last year.

This prompted Fox host Tucker Carlson to expose the media lies about race violence directed at black people.

Maghreb singer Camélia Jordana, after accusing the police of racist violence, incited crowds to take up arms at the illegal Traoré protest.

On Tuesday, June 2, the singer was seen leading the illegal demonstration demanding “justice” for Adama Traoré. She called for armed revolt.

With her fist raised in a Black Power salute, Jordana, in the middle of a crowd of more than 20 000 people, sang: “Revolution has come! Time to pick up the gun!”

Jordana was also involved in a drug control altercation on the banks of the Seine on Sunday, May 31.

After declaring that black and Arab youths in the suburbs “are massacred for no reason other than their skin colour” by the police, Jordana got involved in a police control for the use of narcotic drugs, attacking the officers who had stopped a suspect involved in multiple assaults and haranguing passers-by.

These demonstrations, held in the midst of a health crisis in France, should be prosecuted and condemned for deliberately endangering the lives of others and involuntary killings, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of Debout la France and Member of Parliament for Essonne, told Valeurs Actuelles.

“The demonstrations that pretend to the death of Adama Traoré in July 2016 are sadly ironic: many people demand an investigation and harsh penalties for recklessness or clumsiness which led to the death of this person… while committing a serious and repeated offense.”

He pointed out that “judicial expert reports in the presence of all the parties concluded that the police were innocent”. But the family now denies the probative value of these analyzes by producing “non-adversarial expertise” – that is to say an expertise carried out by a person paid only by the civil party and without the knowledge of the respondents.

According to Dupont-Aignan, this not a credible argument. “For good measure, family members added a complaint for failure to assist a person in danger. However, this qualification is erased before manslaughter because the same facts can only give rise to a single criminal conviction, generally the most serious offense.”

He said the protesters have probably heard of the Covid-19 pandemic and they know that by coming together they promote the of spread of the Coronavirus and that part of the infected risks death. “At least one person is likely to die as a result of such a gathering.”

Article 1 of Decree No. 2020-548 of May 11, 2020 also prohibits meetings of more than ten people and requires staying at least one meter from the others on public roads.

“By meeting, these demonstrators therefore commit the crime of manslaughter by recklessness and even by manifestly deliberate violation of a particular obligation of prudence or safety imposed by law or regulation,” he said.

If these demonstrators are not arrested, it would would mean a double standard applies to French citizens based on race.

freewestmedia.com/2020/06/06/race-protesters-in-paris-called-to-take-up-the-gun/

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently published its sixth monitoring report on Switzerland.

ECRI is the human rights monitoring body of the Council of Europe — not to be confused with the European Union. The Council of Europe calls itself the “continent’s leading human rights organization.”

ECRI was founded in 1994 by the heads of state of the Council of Europe with the mandate, among other things, to “review member States’ legislation, policies and other measures to combat racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, and their effectiveness”.

The organization is composed of “members designated by their governments… on the basis of their in-depth knowledge in the field of combating intolerance”. They should have … expertise in dealing with racism… and intolerance. ECRI’s members are nominated in their personal capacity and act as independent members”.

ECRI’s monitoring of Switzerland, since its first report about the country was published in 1998, is an illustrative example of the organization’s persistent efforts — and considerable success — over the past two decades in limiting free speech in Europe.

Already in its first report, in 1998, ECRI, despite admitting that “a decrease in manifestations of racism and intolerance has been noted over the last 2-3 years” and that “overt manifestations of [racial prejudice and xenophobia] are rather rare,” told the Swiss media to promote specific narratives:

“It would seem necessary to make the mass media in Switzerland aware of their responsibilities concerning the problems of racism and intolerance …initiatives for combating racism and intolerance by the mass media (eg by presenting some positive cases of a fruitful co-existence between different groups)… are to be encouraged….Codes of conduct in the various media professions, whereby the media practices self-regulation, would seem most desirable”.

Two years later, in its second report on the country, the organization still conceded that, “open manifestations of racism are quite rare in Switzerland.” Nevertheless, ECRI was “concerned that a climate of intolerance or xenophobia towards non-citizens and those who are different from the native Swiss population appears to persist”. No substantial documentation was offered as basis for the allegation — ECRI even criticized in the same report that “little information is systematically collected in Switzerland regarding the extent of racism and discrimination” — but none seemed to be needed, as ECRI’s motivation appeared to be political:

“There still seems to lack [sic] an acceptance of Switzerland as a truly multi-cultural society whose members may feel a sense of Swiss identity alongside another cultural or ethnic identity”.

Throughout the years, ECRI has stressed the media’s central role in promoting specific, politicized agendas. In 2009, in its fourth report, the organization called for the introduction of what is by now a prevalent European practice, especially in Sweden, of not mentioning the ethnic origins of criminals:

“A widespread and recurring problem in the Swiss media is the practice of mentioning the origin of a person suspected or convicted of a criminal offence even when this information is irrelevant. With a concern for transparency, the police admittedly give the media ‘objective’ information on suspects, including their age and nationality, which the media pass on without always questioning its relevance. In some cases, however, this approach seems much harder to justify…”

By 2014, the concept of “hate speech” had found its way into ECRI’s fifth country report on Switzerland:

“Muslims, Black people, the Yenish and the Roma perceive a considerable deterioration of their situation and of the political climate. Refugees, cross-border workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons are also the targets of hate speech. In particular, the Democratic Union of the Centre (UDC) party, which remains the largest at federal level (scoring 26.6% of the vote in 2011), has continued to use extremely intolerant images and language…”

In the same report, the organization also addressed what it saw as insufficient judicial crackdowns on hate speech:

“ECRI considers that the authorities, in particular the prosecution services, should adopt a zero tolerance attitude in respect of all racist statements by politicians… The more freedom politicians are given to make racist statements with impunity, the fewer scruples members of the general public will have about making racist comments…”

Once again, ECRI focused on the media:

“ECRI recommends that the Swiss authorities develop an action plan in close cooperation with media representatives…to tackle the established routines … that can lead media coverage… to have a stigmatising effect on vulnerable groups, in particular Roma and people of colour…”

The organization, however, noted with satisfaction that its earlier recommendations had been followed:

“ECRI is pleased to note that a number of online newspapers have adopted self-regulatory measures, such as more systematic moderation of comments, abolition of anonymity for posters and the automatic closure of the accounts of persons who resort to racist discourse”.

On the other hand, ECRI was unhappy that “the follow-up given by the authorities to complaints concerning racist comments on the Internet was still inadequate”. It recommended that “the Swiss authorities give one or more police units… responsibility for actively combating hate speech on the Internet…”

ECRI’s curious battle to limit free speech, especially that of the media, continues. In its sixth and most recent country report on Switzerland, ECRI berated the media for focusing too much on news items such as the construction of minarets or radicalization, deeming it “intolerant discourse against Muslims”:

“ECRI… notes a sharp rise in intolerant discourse against Muslims particularly in the media. This is believed to be linked to legislation or legislative proposals that affect Muslims in particular… a study which was carried out by the University of Zurich from 2014-2017 on the quality of media coverage of Swiss Muslims in 18 print media outlets… noted that 25% of articles concerned religious symbols in the public space (such as the construction of minarets or wearing the headscarf or Burqa) and 21% concerned radicalisation, while only 2% reported on the daily life of Muslims and 2% covered successful integration… The reporting predominantly condemned a lack of will to integrate and a tendency to radicalisation among Muslims and called for more controls and sanctions. Another study …showed that 85% of Muslim respondents experienced the representation of Islam in the media as rather or very negative. Further, 88% were particularly clear on the responsibility of the media for the deteriorated attitude of non-Muslims towards Muslims”.

The organization said that:

“… states should raise awareness of the dangers posed by hate speech… by combating misinformation, negative stereotyping and stigmatisation; developing educational programmes for children and youth, public officials and the general public; supporting NGOs and equality bodies working to combat hate speech; and encouraging speedy reactions by public figures to hate speech”.

The organization emphasized self-regulation as the “appropriate” approach to “tackling hate speech” especially through the application of “codes of conduct”, and even regulation in some cases, which they believe should apply to both politicians and the media:

“ECRI considers that the use of self-regulation can be an appropriate and effective approach to tackling hate speech…. parliaments, political parties, business organisations, cultural and sport associations… should make it clear that the use of hate speech…is unacceptable and take action to prevent and sanction such use. ECRI specifically stresses the importance of codes of conduct in self-regulatory schemes…political leaders and members of parliament should… adopt relevant codes of conduct. Regarding the media and Internet, where the vast majority of hate speech is generated… ECRI recommends both regulation and self-regulation…”

ECRI noted that Swiss journalists already have a code in place that states that they “must avoid any allusion by text, image or sound to a person’s ethnic or national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation as well as to any illness or physical or mental handicap that could be discriminatory in character.”

As for the Internet, ECRI noted that Swiss authorities had informed the organization that they were “seeking cooperation with relevant Internet service providers to improve the identification of authors of hate speech and to have such content removed as quickly as possible…”

ECRI has done a good job helping Europeans kill free speech.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15859/switzerland-free-speech