A new law being proposed in the municipality of Berlin would make civil servants who are accused of racism guilty unless they can prove themselves to be innocent.
The law is being put forward by the Senator for Justice of the State of Berlin, Dirk Behrendt of the Greens party. Representatives of the German police are objecting to it, saying that it would turn officers into “fair game,” according to a report by Die Welt.
Jörn Badendick, the Vice Chairman of Germany’s police union, voiced his objections. He provided an illustration of the sort of trouble police would encounter if the law were to be passed. He pointed out that, since the majority of Berlin’s illicit drug dealers are black, the dealers would only need to accuse officers of racism when they try to control them in order to derail the entire process.
The stated purpose of the law is to make it easier for migrants and minorities to defend themselves if they feel they have been victimised by racial discrimination or harassment by civil servants, including police officers. The bill includes a so-called “presumption rule,” which says that the burden of refuting an allegation falls upon the accused.
“This is an absolute insult towards our emergency services,” said Hans-Jürgen Kirstein, the Chairman of the police union for Baden-Württemberg. “We will ask the Ministry of the Interior to stop sending our personnel to Berlin.”
Michael Stübgen, the Minister of the Interior for Brandenburg, also said that the law would be tantamount to a reversal of the burden of proof to the detriment of first responders.
The ruling coalition in Berlin’s city government, which includes the Greens, is standing by the proposal despite these criticisms, however, claiming that it is only about protecting minorities from discrimination. They are further accusing those who oppose it of distorting the facts about the law. All of the opposition parties in Berlin’s Senate are against it, however.
Berlin’s police frequently clash with the city’s migrant communities, who often specifically target law enforcement and emergency services personnel, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today notified Congress of a finding that should make China think hard about its next move with regard to Hong Kong.
Today, I reported to Congress that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, given facts on the ground. The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong.
The United States is not abandoning Hong Kong. Pompeo makes that clear in the second half of his tweet.
His report is mandated by a law Congress passed and President Trump signed last year. That law, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, builds on existing American law under which Hong Kong is treated separately from mainland China in trade and travel.
The Department of State shall certify annually to Congress as to whether Hong Kong warrants its unique treatment under various treaties, agreements, and U.S. law. The analysis shall evaluate whether Hong Kong is upholding the rule of law and protecting rights enumerated in various documents, including (1) the agreement between the United Kingdom and China regarding Hong Kong’s return to China, and (2) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Hong Kong Human Rights Act went onto the books as China was making early moves to clamp down on Hong Kong’s unique status. Pompeo’s report is the first such certification done since the law was passed amid China’s provocations.
Since 1997, Hong Kong has lived under “one state, two systems,” in which the former British colony’s citizens enjoyed democratic rights including free speech despite being part of communist China, where there are no democratic or individual human rights. Hong Kong is the gateway through which most foreign investment flows into China, helping fuel its rise as a superpower. But because Hong Kong has been the goose that laid China’s golden eggs, previous regimes in Beijing were reluctant to change Hong Kong’s special status.
Current Chinese Premier Xi Jinping has not seen fit to preserve Hong Kong’s autonomy. In February 2019, Hong Kong’s security bureau (under orders from Beijing) recommended its government pass amendments to extradition laws that would allow Hong Kongers to be extradited to mainland China for prosecution. This would begin the process of putting Hong Kong under Beijing’s very strict repression of free speech and protest. It would effectively end “one state, two systems” and make Hong Kong subject to Beijing’s whims, where human rights are of no value.
Hong Kongers took to the streets in protest. Those protests went on for months, until the Hong Kong government withdrew the extradition amendments in late October 2019.
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests continued and earned global support including from the Trump administration.
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, took the spotlight off Hong Kong. China covered up and misdirected its role in the pandemic, but continued moving against Hong Kong’s freedom. Just this month, the communists passed a hugely oppressive national security law aimed at Hong Kong.
The law, which is expected to ban sedition, secession and subversion of the central government in Beijing, will be introduced through a rarely used constitutional method that could effectively bypass Hong Kong’s legislature.
News of the plans was met with immediate criticism by opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong, human rights groups and the US State Department.
While this was happening in Beijing, communists set about physically removing pro-democracy lawmakers from parliament in Hong Kong itself, so the city’s rump government would acquiesce to the mainland by vote.
Secretary Pompeo’s report does not by itself change Hong Kong’s status. It is a strong signal that the United States stands ready to act, short of war, on Hong Kong’s behalf.
Under a series of laws passed before and after the British returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, the United States treats Hong Kong differently from the mainland in a number of important ways. One of those involves investment. Hong Kong recognizes basic rule of law; mainland China, in keeping with communism, does not. The vast majority of foreign investment funnels into China by way of Hong Kong because Hong Kong provides a safe and reliable conduit. Beijing’s subjugation of Hong Kong changes everything.
If Congress or President Trump move forward with Pompeo’s report, Hong Kong’s special status will go away. Sanctions and tariffs imposed on China will also be imposed on Hong Kong. The cities and China’s economy will suffer. International divestment from China will likely speed up, as foreign companies operating through Hong Kong are at greater risk of arbitrary treatment by the communists. The pro-Beijing South China Morning Post:
Under the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act passed by the US Congress last year, the administration must decide annually whether governance of Hong Kong is suitably distinct from China.
Options available to the administration – which may in part depend on Beijing’s reaction, analysts said – include higher trade tariffs, tougher investment rules, asset freezes and more onerous visa rules.
Individuals who violate the human rights of Hong Kong can also be targeted for sanctions individually, according to the summary of the law.
The State Department shall notify Congress if any proposed or enacted law in Hong Kong negatively impacts U.S. interests, including by putting U.S. citizens at risk of rendition to China.
The President shall impose property and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons responsible for gross human rights violations in Hong Kong.
A predictable left-of-center reaction foreshadows the political discussion to come in the U.S.:
“I believe that this will hurt Hong Kong people in myriad ways,” said Richard Bush, a fellow with the Brookings Institution and author of Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan. “Among other things, it will confirm the People’s Republic of China view that the US wants to undermine its rule of Hong Kong.”
Beijing has spent the past 17 months undermining Hong Kong’s special status. The United States has consistently reacted and condemned China’s actions. Bush’s comment may as well have come from the Chinese foreign ministry. The United States has an obligation to respond if that status becomes a fiction. Hundreds of American companies operate in and through Hong Kong. It is one of the world’s financial hubs.
The next move is China’s to make.
Xi met with the heads of the People’s Liberation Army this week and told them to “scale up battle preparedness.”
You probably don’t need any more reasons to avoid the lousy junk food served up by the moonbats running Burger King, not after feminist fries and the way it encouraged sociopathsto throw its milkshakes at Brexit supporters. But just in case:
A select group of Burger King customers now have a safe new way to enjoy their Whoppers — and make a fashion statement in the process.
It’s all thanks to the chain’s all-new “social distance crowns,” which are designed to help in-store customers stay six feet apart from one another.
Available in Germany, where the social distance crowns may have to compete with pool noodle hats:
A new movie depicting the 2015 German migration crisis is a good example of how the liberal mainstream is in effect brainwashing the country’s population to embrace liberal pro-migration ideas, Georg Spöttle, a security policy analyst at the Nézőpont Intézet think-tank, told Magyar Nemzet in an interview.
He was referring to the movie “Die Getriebenen” (The Driven Ones), which aired on German national television channel ARD on April 15, which portrays the crucial autumn of 2015 when German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to open Germany to an immigration wave of one million people. ARD is publically funded by German taxpayers with a fee they are required to pay every year.
The film is based on the eponymous 2017 book by journalist Robin Alexander. While the book itself is a strongly critical look at the events as suggested by its title, where the “driven ones” are the politicians caught in the stream of the events, the movie is widely regarded as an ode to Chancellor Angela Merkel. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is also negatively depicted in the film.
Spöttle said that while strong economic ties — such as the presence of BMW, Audi and Siemens in Hungary — are a potent stabilizing factor in the two countries’ relationship, attacks against the conservative government of Hungary will likely remain a permanent fixture of the liberal media and political circles.
“These [attackers] include Die Welt, Spiegel and the young Brusselite elite, most of whom have no appreciable life experience. They have probably only seen migrants in the Homeland TV show, and they still recite a pro-migrant liberal dogma,” Spöttle said in the interview. “[But] overall, bilateral relations between the two countries will remain balanced in the future.”
Answering a question about how these left-radical ideas are making their way into the liberal mainstream, Spöttle said it was a kind a brainwashing.
“This is the result of the so-called ‘sensitization’, which in practice equates to brainwashing. The liberal doctrines — from gender theory to refusing the conservative family model — are being pounded into them from middle school to graduating from university and those who voice opinions different from these are being marginalized.”
The Hungarian analyst pointed to disturbing trends in Germany for those who deviate from accepted opinions or voice dissent.
“During the so-called ‘Aktionswochenende’ (action weekend), police and secret services can detain people and confiscate their storage media for as little as posting things on social media which do not conform with the democracy concept of the liberal mainstream,” Spöttle said. “Presenting the dark side of immigration has become a very strong taboo and a single such post can break a career. That is why many of my police officer colleagues have deleted their Facebook accounts.”
He added that traditional expressions of national pride can also be a reason for branding someone.
“If someone is proud of their national identity, their flag, wants to live in a traditional way or drink beer after the Bavarian fashion, they are immediately branded Nazis.”
Regarding the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in Laupheim, the Regional Court of Ravensburg has now sentenced three accused men. For Judge Franz Bernhard it is obvious: The three men, then aged 19, 20 and 32, raped a 14-year-old girl on the 13th of November 2019 and sexually abused her 13-year-old girlfriend. They committed the crime in Laupheim, in the Vorholz solar park near the federal highway B30. All three were sentenced to prison for this.The men who had been remanded in custody since the crime had admitted to the sexual acts, but they stated that they were consensual and that the girls had not told them their age. “We don’t believe that,” said Judge Franz Bernhard in the verdict. According to the court, the 14-year-old girl had been made will-less – by alcohol and drugs. She even vomited several times and fell asleep.According to the court, the two girls had been using social media that night to ask where else they could hang out. Thereupon the three now convicted men are said to have contacted them. They picked up the girls that night and took them to the garage at the Laupheim solar park near the federal highway B30. There they then committed sexual assault on the victims.
The oldest of the accused, then 32 years old, was sentenced to a total sentence of 3 years and 6 months for a violation of the narcotics law and for sexual acts of the 14-year-old girl. He had also rented the garage in the solar park where the crime took place.
The youngest of the offenders, then 19 years old, was sentenced by the judge to 3 years and .6 months – both for rape and for other sexual acts with the 14-year-old. Also for the sexual abuse of children on the 13-year-old, who witnessed the rape of her friend. However, he was convicted under the juvenile criminal code. The Syrian’s personality, the court stated, had considerable deficits, both “with regard to his image of women and to education and language.
His brother, who was 20 years old at the time, was also sentenced to 3 years and 6 months by the Regional Court of Ravensburg according to adult criminal law. For sexual abuse of children, to the detriment of the 13-year-old and for sexual acts with her 14-year-old friend.
Two other men, aged 27 and 34 years, are said to have been involved. These were under investigation for failure to provide assistance and for drug offences. They are still at large, as the conditions for an arrest warrant have not been fulfilled.
An elderly white man in a nursing home in Detroit, Michigan was beaten horribly by 20-year-old Jaden T. Hayden, who recorded the whole incident on video, sparking a firestorm on social media and prompting President Donald Trump to decry the abuse of the defenseless man.
In the shocking footage, Hayden repeatedly punches the elderly man, identified as Norman Bledsoe, in the face. However, Blesdoe was not the only victim of Hayden, who recorded himself beating another woman living in the nursing home. Another video that the suspect himself uploaded and shared also suggests that he was responsible for a “drugging prank” in the same nursing home.
The video of the abuse of the elderly man was spread widely and seen by millions of social media users.
Hayden allegedly uploaded a number of racially charged videos to YouTube, with one entitled “Why black people became slaves”. In the video, the suspect proclaims that “the black race is the chosen race, the black race was supposed to rule the earth, but now…they have to go to the white man for everything and that’s not good.”
The Youtube video has added a racial dimension to the incident and raised calls to investigate the incident as a hate crime.
Internet users also pointed out that what appears to be Hayden’s Youtube channel also had two other videos that featured abuse of elderly patients. Although Hayden’s channel has been removed by Youtube, the graphic videos he uploaded have been archived.
Although Hayden, who was a patient in the nursing home supposedly for rehabilitation, was arrested by the police, the case left many people wondering why the incident received little to no coverage on many major news networks. For example, CNN has not done a single article
Once footage of the incident went viral, President Trump took to Twitter to condemn the abuse of the elderly man, writing, “Is this even possible to believe? Can this be for real?’ Where is this nursing home, how is the victim doing?”
It appears that the suspect may have made multiple videos of himself abusing elderly victims. In the first one that went viral, a man grabs the camera and films himself punching an elderly man in the face multiple times. The victim tries to shield his face from the blows. The victim is then grabbed by the neck and pulled off the bed.
The aggressor proceeds to turn the camera around to show the injuries he has caused his victim, which shows the elderly man with blood streaming down his face.
He is then heard saying on camera, “This b**ch-a** n****r wouldn’t get off my bed.”
A separate horrific video was also posted on social media appearing to show the same man abusing another elderly victim.
In the footage the suspect holds his fist in front of the camera and then launches the attack on the elderly victim who is lying in bed.
It is not the only incident caught on video of African Americans abusing elderly white people in nursing homes, with noted conservative commentator James Woods posting the video of another shocking case on Twitter that has reached over 1 million views.
Nursing home abuse is a huge issue in the US as about five million seniors are victims of abuse each year. This means that one in ten seniors have experienced some form of abuse. It is also estimated that many more seniors are abused each year but are unable or unwililng to report it.
According to the World Health Organization, one in six elderly people have experienced abuse. The 2017 study, based on research in 28 countries in different parts of the world, suggests that almost 16 percent of people of 60 years of age or older have dealt with some kind of physical or emotional abuse. However, WHO added that seniors report only about one in 24 cases of abuse.
A snapshot of senior care in Europe
Senior care in the United States ranks especially poorly compared to other wealthy nations. A 2017 Commonwealth Fund international health policy survey of older adults examined 11 wealthy countries and found the U.S. ranked at the bottom or near to the bottom in categories that included affordability, timeliness of care, care coordination, and access for senior care.
One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. healthcare system is the lack of affordable and affordable coverage, but nearly all of the subjects of the study had access to universal healthcare through Medicare as they were 65 or older.
The study found that senior care in Europe was far better, but stark differences were still noted between countries. In countries like Norway and Sweden, which ranked near the top, rates of economic vulnerability for seniors were the lowest.
Other news reports have found that countries in Central Europe are reportedly becoming an attractive destination for seniors in countries like Germany and Austria.
“I came to this home not only because of financial reasons but because it is very nice here and I can afford it. In Styria or anywhere in Austria I would have to pay double what I am paying here,” said Heinrich Farber to Reuters about moving to a Hungarian nursing home.
Another patient, Hannelore Konemann, said, “My husband died three and three-quarter years ago and I just couldn’t handle being alone. I just had to have people near me. How can I describe it? The first visit here was to look around. He showed me all the different rooms and this was the icing on the cake and then it was clear for me that I would have to come here. And the fact that I would get such nice rooms I would never have dared dream of. In Germany, you get one small room, like a bird cage.”
Concerns have still been raised about elderly people moving to different countries, including language barriers and the amount of confusion and alienation that can potentially arise in such situations.
The Netherlands is another example of a country in Europe where senior care is given priority, and which has been lauded for its well-run public nursing home system.
The Netherlands made the decision decades ago to remove the responsibility from families to care for the elderly and create a public care system for this group of people.
“Today, the Netherlands has a very good network of outpatient services and other help for households,” said Dr. Vincent Horn, a research associate at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
Austria, has also implemented quality-assured 24-hour care into law in 2007, ensuring every senior is entitled to a certain level of care in the country.
Still, there are cases of elder abuse in Europe as well.
The Council of Seniors of the Czech Republic says there are no statistics about elder abuse available for the country, but that many cases of abuse go unreported.
“The number of cases we know of is only the tip of the iceberg. It is estimated that 85 percent of cases of abuse are not reported at all,” stated Jan Lorman, the director of the Život 90 institute.
In 2019, Czechs were moved by the case of abuse in one of the nursing homes in Ostrava in the east of the country. As several nurses in the Slunečnice nursing home were accused of emotional abuse of the residents. The inappropriate behavior of caregivers was pointed out by Seznam Zprávy journalists, who infiltrated the nursing home and followed the situation in the facility for eight months.
Journalists noted that the elderly people were exposed to humiliating practices, with one of the residents being undressed by a nurse in the common areas.
“You pig, you stink again,” said one of the nurses to another patient.
While nobody was physically abused in the Czech incident as was the case in the recent U.S. arrest, the news came as a shock in the Czech Republic.
Since 2017, seniors in Czechia are classified as particularly vulnerable victims of crime, which guarantees them special treatment when reporting crimes. In terms of ensuring justice for the elderly, the Czech law is fair, says vice-chairman of the Council of Seniors of the Czech Republic Miland Taraba, pointing out that judges usually decide for the toughest sentence possible.
In this RAIR Foundation USA exclusively translated video,independent German journalist, Miró Wolsfeld, discusses a letter sent from the State Ministry of Culture of the Free State of Saxony to parents warning them if they do not sign a ‘health certificate’ and send it with their children to school every single day, their kids may be confiscated by the state.
Wolsfeld also addresses evident mass surveillance in Germany (again) presumably taking place under the guise of contract tracing for the Chinese coronavirus. “First, we’re constantly being monitored with whom we go out to dinner, when and where,” he said. “Now the government threatens to take the children into custody,” Wolsfeld continued.
“From May 25, 2020, the school will not be able to accept children without a health certificate signed daily,” the letter warns (as translated). “As parents, you are obliged to collect your child from school immediately if your signature is missing for the specific day,” the letter, which is signed by Christian Piwarz of Angela Merkel’s party, the “Christian Democratic Union of Germany” continues.
The tyrannical state government further warns that children are at risk of being taken by authorities if the daily requirement is not met:
“If you do not comply, the school is ultimately obliged to turn on the regulatory office – right up to taking your child into care…”
The ridiculous requirement of a daily ‘health certificate,’ along with the ominous threat that children would be taken from parents, has been compared to forced adoptions and state-sponsored child abduction from political opponents that took place in the communist police state that existed in East Germany before the wall fell.
After controversy spread in German media, the government clarified that the phrase “taking your child into care” may only be a temporary situation (as translated):
“The term taking into care describes the temporary placement of children or adolescents in a home or a foster family. The youth welfare office can carry out this measure if the well-being of the child in their own family is at risk (…) means Children can be taken into care by authorities from their family, which can be temporary or permanent. Taking into care can be carried out if there is a serious risk to the well-being of the child. “
If the government is trying to reassure parents, this “clarification” would likely offer little solace. The local government website explains (as translated):
“In the first few days, the educational institutions should react kindly once the form has been forgotten. However, from May 25th, the school is not allowed to take in a child without a health certificate signed daily.”
How generous of them.
The controversy is addressed byMiró Wolsfeld:
Children are historically exploited by communist governments and turned against their families. Germany is no different. The Chinese coronavirus has acted a springboard for hard left governments to flex their tyrannical muscle. Currently, there is a proposal to give German citizens so-called immunity cards, which people would have to maintain to prove they are vaccinated.
RAIR’s Amy Mek has reported on similar instances of child abuse in Germany (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).
It is inconceivable that parents would ever agree to the ridiculous requirements proposed by the lunatic leftists in Saxony. Hopefully the good German citizens will be able to push back on this horrific policy and fire the tyrants who conceived of it.
Many thanks to Miss Piggy for the translation:
A letter to parents from the school authority in Saxony is really causing outrage at the moment.
The letter is about a health confirmation form that parents now have to fill out every day for school for their children.
The worst thing isn’t filling out the health certificate form itself, but what parents are threatened with if they forget to fill it out or simply don’t want to. The state of Saxony is threatening parents with absolute severity if they don’t comply.
The school is obliged to call in the public order office, which could lead to and include taking the child into custody. Yes, you read it right. They really are threatening to take children away from their parents if they don’t fill out this stupid form and give it to their children. That’s how you can tell how that the government is going completely crazy. First, we’re constantly being monitored with whom we go out to dinner, when and where.
Now the government threatens to take the children into custody.
Completely insane! And at this point, it should be mentioned that children are not an at-risk group. But they’ll act as if it were a huge danger, in order to have an excuse against parents who see all these measures critically, and then use this pretext to scare them. But as they say in the letter:
“We are doing this for the health and education of OUR children.” Yeah, sure.
