{"id":67139,"date":"2024-04-03T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67139"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:43:30","slug":"german-domestic-intelligence-chief-defends-his-efforts-to-police-the-thought-speech-patterns-of-citizens-outlines-the-novel-offence-of-systematic-delegitimisation-of-state-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67139","title":{"rendered":"German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct”<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The German Interior Ministry continues to defend\u00a0its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents<\/a>. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), our domestic intelligence service and political police, have sacrificed substantial popular regard in the face of this campaign. According to a poll published last month,\u00a0a plurality of Germans believe that the BfV are being misused for political purposes<\/a>. The sentiment is prominent across all parties, except of course for the Greens, who believe that all is well with the Federal Republic.<\/p>\n

The creepy, dissolute and rodent-looking BfV chief, Thomas Haldenwang, has taken to the pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine to defend the conduct of his office and his plans to shape the \u201cthought and speech patterns\u201d of ordinary people through official repression.<\/p>\n

The thing about \u201cFreedom of expression,\u201d Haldenwang explains, is that it \u201cis not carte blanche for enemies of the constitution<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, public discourse has repeatedly featured headlines and articles calling the work of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)into question. There is talk of an \u201copinion police,\u201d a \u201clanguage police\u201d and even a \u201cgovernment security service.\u201d They say the BfV discredits political opinions \u201con command\u201d as extremist as soon as they depart from the social and political mainstream, or when they embark upon criticism of government action or the work of the democratic parties.<\/p>\n

One thing should be unmistakably clear: Freedom of opinion prevails in Germany \u2013 and that is a good thing! Freedom of opinion is a fundamental element of our constitution and one of the greatest assets of our liberal democratic order. As such, it is also protected by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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German domestic intelligence chief defends his efforts to police the “thought & speech patterns” of citizens, outlines the novel offence of “systematic delegitimisation of state conduct” The German Interior Ministry continues to defend\u00a0its controversial and widely criticised plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents. The Federal Office for the Protection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12888,33189,359,379,5570,1869],"class_list":["post-67139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-domestic-surveillance","tag-eugyppius","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-pre-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67140,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67139\/revisions\/67140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}