Sarrazin: Freedom of opinion on the brink!

by Adrian von Ferenzcy //

Dr. Thilo Sarrazin kritisiert in einem exklusiven Interview im „Club der klaren Worte“ den Zustand der Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland und den Umgang des Verfassungsschutzes mit politischen Ansichten. 

He emphasizes that freedom of expression is worse than it was 15 years ago and that social discourse is being increasingly restricted.

"People don't understand what an opinion is," says Sarrazin. One example for him is the 2023 report on the protection of the constitution, in which someone who adheres to an ethnic concept of the people is described as right-wing extremist. Sarrazin sees this as a dangerous development: "Even if someone has an extreme right-wing attitude, this is not punishable. Only actions are."

Sarrazin emphasizes that these developments could lead to Germany increasingly going down a "slippery slope", as opinions that do not correspond to the social consensus are censored.

" ... this difference between an opinion, no matter how immoral and no matter how crazy, and a criminal act, this difference must be taken into account, because I cannot censor people because of their opinions. Then you quickly end up on an extremely slippery slope."

"Once you start doing that, there is no natural limit. Then we no longer have anything that distinguishes us from authoritarian systems."

In his new book „Deutschland auf der schiefen Bahn“ he addresses these issues and warns that a society that does not discuss all options could end up making the wrong decisions.

In the interview, he reignites the asylum debate:

Anyone who comes to us and says the word asylum at the border is allowed to enter. (...) When people come to us and are accepted into our welfare state, even though they come from a completely different culture and have a different education and a different background, perhaps also a different faith that doesn't fit culturally and different ideas about the role of women, etc., this creates tensions in our system that endanger Germany's culture and society in the long term. Quite apart from the fact that we are also becoming more and more ethnically alien to each other."

Sarrazin speaks remarkably plainly on the issues that move Germany. You can see the open and blunt exchange, which has not been seen in the media for a long time exclusively in a 100-minute interview.

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5 Responses

  1. What freedom of expression?
    A Pekingese-respecting chancellor's government dominated by the USA cannot allow a free opinion, that would be disastrous in a normal state.
    Since 80% of our state is made up of German militias, that would not be a danger for the uneducated, left-wing fascist road sign government either
    #Uns kann nur die Anarchie retten, siehe auch „Kein Gott, kein Herr“ auf Arte

  2. die Faschistin und Antidemokratin Faeser erfüllt nur den Plan der USA Deutschland zu vernichten weil es seit der „Wiedervereinigung“ nicht mehr gebraucht wird und die USA, das Evil Country, jetzt bis zur polnischen Grenze marschieren kann um den Plan Russland zu zerstören umzusetzen da man an die Rohstoffe des Landes heran will..

  3. The decisive factor for me is the statements:
    1. an opinion is not punishable, at most the intention to commit crimes based on an opinion. This should definitely be made clear to Nancy Faeser so that she can get her panic attacks under control before she wants to ban opinions and magazines. And so that Attorney Steinhöeffel does not have to file a complaint under Article 5 of the Basic Law again, so that the Federal Court of Justice does not have to repeat the finding of 2010 on 11.04.24, namely that the state has no protection of honor and that the limit to the expression of opinion is only crossed when it can be proven that slander or slander is being used.
    2: Das es am fehlenden Willen von Politikern, sich in der Sache schlau zu machen, liegt, dass die Inkompetenz sich so undenkbar weit ausbreitet, was durch § 146 GVG (Weisungsgebundenheit der Staatsanwälte) angeschürt wird, denn selbst bei Verdacht auf schwere Wirtshaftskriminalität werden doch Ermittlungen sehr schnell eingestellt, z.B. die gegen Philipp Amthor und von Gutenberg wg. der dubiosenMachenschaften mit dem Startup Augustus Intelligence , das im Zentrum einer Berliner Lobbyismus-Affäre stand oder aber auch der „vergessliche“ Kanzler oder… Hier wäre mein Wunsch, die Aufarbeitung und Veröffentlichung der Namen und Ergebnisse, auch die der Richter und Staatsanwälte, die ihre Urteile, Beschlüsse oder Unterlassungen (!!!) öffentlich begründen müss(t)en.
    3. Das es wieder „echte“ Entscheidungsträger braucht, Politiker mit Ecken und Kanten, also Integrität und Mut, aber mit Bodenhaftung und Gespür für die Realität. Mut und Integrität wird heute aber leider gerne entweder abgestraft, eingeengt oder schabloniert. Meine Hoffnung ist, dass sich unzählige „gallische Dörfer“ bilden, die zusammen den Feinseligkeiten trotzen und den „Zaubertrank“ der pragmatischen Vernunft weiter anbrauen …

    1. The fascist Faeser cannot be made to understand anything because she is stupidly ideologized and is only implementing the US plan to make Germany ungovernable so that Evil Country can play its occupation status card.

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