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Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown: AfD Thuringia State Chairman Björn Höcke Fined $35,000 for Saying “Everything for Germany”

In Germany, free speech is under siege, and the latest victim is Björn Höcke, the chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)’s Thuringian state branch. Höcke, a true patriot fighting for his nation’s self-determination, achieved AfD’s inaugural first-place finish in a state election.

Höcke was slapped with fines totaling around $35,000 for simply uttering the phrase “Alles für Deutschland” – “Everything for Germany” – in public speeches.

The ruling parties in Germany have been weaponizing the judicial system against the AfD, and this latest outrageous ruling from the Federal Judicial Court seeks to silence patriots who dare to put their country first.

Höcke’s troubles began in 2021 when he ended a rally speech in Merseburg with the words, inspiring crowds with a call to national pride. Prosecutors claimed the slogan echoes Nazi-era, leading to his first conviction and a €13,000 fine in May 2024.

He faced a second trial for a 2023 event in Gera, where he prompted the audience to complete the phrase, resulting in another €16,900 penalty.

The slogan “Alles für Deutschland,” however, has deep roots in German history. Originating in the 16th century, it became a rallying cry in the 19th century for national unity during the Unification Movement.

King Ludwig I of Bavaria famously used it in an 1848 proclamation, declaring “Everything for my people! Everything for Germany!” to inspire his people during revolutionary times.

The Nazis later co-opted the phrase as the paramilitary SA Storm Division’s motto, engraving it on daggers and belts, which is the basis for the judicial ruling against Höcke, despite the fact that Social Democrat and Christian freedom fighters were using the slogan in opposition to the Nazi Party.

Post-World War II, during the Marshall Plan era, the slogan returned to symbolize dedication to national recovery amid economic revival.

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Marco Rubio: U.S. Will ‘Respond Accordingly’ to Brazil Jailing Jair Bolsonaro

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement on Thursday, immediately following the news that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had been sentenced to 27 years in prison, vowing that America would “respond accordingly” to what he deemed a human rights abuse.

Bolsonaro, a conservative who governed from 2018 to 2022 after suffering a debilitating assassination attempt that continues to cause severe health problems today, stood accused before the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil of attempting and failing to stage a coup following his defeat in the 2022 election. Bolsonaro lost that election narrowly to incumbent socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose participation in that election many Brazilians challenge as illegitimate given his conviction on corruption charges in 2017. The STF overturned Lula’s conviction on dubious procedural grounds and its election oversight analog, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), heavily censored the Bolsonaro campaign while allowing Lula to spuriously disparage Bolsonaro as a “cannibal” and a “pedophile.”

The STF and TSE’s interference in the election, both under the auspices of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, prompted many Bolsonaro supporters in Brazil and around the world to question the integrity of Lula’s victory. The STF turned these questions into a prosecution of Bolsonaro and several others in his inner circle, who it claimed had attempted to violently overthrow the Lula administration following the president’s inauguration.

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Unhinged Democrats Claim Moving To A Small Town To Raise Your Kids And Bring In Jobs Makes You A White Supremacist

Ninety minutes from the noise and congestion of Nashville, nestled in the quiet hills and secluded hollers of the Upper Cumberland, sits historic Gainesboro, Tennessee. A town of about one thousand people in a county of more than 12,000, Gainesboro is like many bucolic little towns in this region: peaceful, safe, almost like taking a time machine back to the ’90s in all the best ways. These attributes drove me to move my family and my real estate business here after years in urban hubs.

Having grown up just down the Cumberland River in rural Trousdale County, the last thing I expected to encounter after moving to Jackson County was an organized, resourced, and aggressive progressive faction attempting to make inroads into the community.

If I stumbled onto a network like this in my small town, it could be happening in your small town too.

If you followed the Nashville press last year, you probably saw the storyline. NewsChannel 5’s Phil Williams ran a series about “Christian nationalists” coming to rural Jackson County, replete with ominous music and interviews cherrypicked to stoke fear.

I run a rural real-estate company. We buy old properties, fix them up, and invite customers to rediscover small-town life. Yet in that initial media onslaught, my company was presented as a caricature (“Menace arrives in Mayberry!”). We don’t blame any good faith locals who initially fell for it — big-city camera crews are disruptive in many ways. But we do blame the well-oiled operation behind it all.

These reports targeted two of my customers who have a right-wing political talk show. They’ve never spoken on behalf of my company, RidgeRunner, but the Nashville reporter attempted to paint their political commentary as somehow defining how our company runs its business. Along the way, Williams made numerous factual errors: calling us a “Christian nationalist developer,” which we aren’t; erroneously labeling us as “an out of state developer,” which is ironic given his reporting about our company’s headquarters in Gainesboro (not to mention my Tennessee roots).

Whatever you think of the customers featured in the report, the motive of the reporting was obvious — baselessly tar newcomers (and anyone near them) as misogynists, racists, fascists, and use other typical smears from corporate media. Of course, all these accusations couldn’t be farther from the truth. And they weren’t harmless lies. In the aftermath of the TV reporting, the customers that Williams targeted received credible death threats from Antifa types out of Nashville. Some of my employees, customers, and I had our addresses doxxed by liberals in local Facebook groups.  

Many locals saw right through it, but some people were scared. And most of all, the Nashville audience enjoyed having all their priors confirmed about the “scary,” “backward” rural heart of Tennessee.

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White House requests $58 million to increase security for executive, judicial branches after Charlie Kirk shooting, sources say

The Trump administration is sending a $58 million request to Congress to increase security for the executive and judicial branches in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News Saturday.

Punchbowl was first to report the news.

A White House official confirmed the extra funds would be directed to the U.S. Marshals Service and would also include enhanced 
protection for Supreme Court justices.

Additionally, the Trump administration expressed support for increased funding to protect congressional lawmakers, but may defer to the legislative branch on that.

This all comes ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline. 

CBS News previously reported on a new pilot program for House members that launched in August that provides an extra allowance for members to hire personal security or make upgrades at home.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said late this week a “deliberate” and thorough review of the program is underway. The Senate is also considering additional safety precautions.  

“We’ve got to protect people who run for public office or no one will, and that’s heavy on our hearts and minds, as we also, you know, work through the trauma of what happened,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. 

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan told CBS News that the department expects to track more than 14,000 threats to members by the end of the year, significantly outpacing previous years. Sullivan said USCP will be operating at a “heightened posture” going forward. 

“We’re prepared to continue to react and keep the members of Congress safe,” Sullivan said.

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Western politicians are not looking after the national interest – whose interests are they looking after?

On Tuesday, Richard Werner, Professor of Banking and Economics at the University of Winchester, joined Rick Sanchez on RT’s ‘Sanchez Effect’ to discuss Europe’s economic woes.

In Western countries  that are in economic and greater fiscal difficulties,” Prof. Werner said, “we have people in charge who do not look after the national interest and have other motives, other goals.”

To help us begin to understand what these “other motives” and “other goals” are, we turn to a speech made around 2001 by the late Dr. Michael S. Coffman at the Granada Forum.  Dr. Coffman passed away in 2017, as reported by InfoWars.

Dr. Coffman had a PhD in Forest Science.  He was a retired paper industry executive, a property rights advocate and a global warming sceptic known for his work with Environmental Perspectives, Inc. and Sovereignty International, focusing on issues such as Agenda 21, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the perceived threat of a New World Order.

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Deranged Leftist Tries to Kill Elderly North Carolina Man Over Trump Banner

More left-wing political violence.

A leftist ripped down a North Carolina business owner’s Trump banner and tried to kill him.

On September 6, a deranged leftist pulled over his vehicle and ripped down a pro-Trump banner hanging on a sign near one of the business owner’s buses.

Mark Thomas, the owner of Paddle Inn Rafting Company, said he saw the suspect on surveillance video rip down the Trump banner, so he went outside and fired his rifle as a warning.

“He walked up to the sign. When he stood up at the sign I though ‘I can’t believe this’,” Thomas said told Fox Carolina. “I watched him until he reached up and pulled the sign down. It’s just a shock.”

“I let him know that somebody’s watching him and didn’t appreciate it,” Thomas added.

The suspect is then caught on surveillance video sticking a firearm out of the sunroof of a green Jeep Grand Cherokee and firing toward Mark Thomas.

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Tens of thousands protest against legal crackdown on Turkey’s main opposition party

Tens of thousands of people protested in the capital Ankara on Sunday against a court case that could oust the head of the main opposition on Monday after a year-long legal crackdown on hundreds of its members.

Live footage showed crowds chanting for President Tayyip Erdogan’s resignation while waving Turkish flags and party banners.

The court decision on Monday whether to invalidate the 2023 congress of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) over alleged procedural irregularities could reshape the party, rattle financial markets and influence the timing of a general election set for 2028. The court could also delay the ruling.

Speaking at Sunday’s rally, CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said the government was trying to cling to power by undermining democratic norms and suppressing dissent following opposition victories in local elections over the past year.

Ozel also called for a snap general election.

TURKISH OPPOSITION VOWS TO RESIST

“This case is political. The accusations are slander. Our comrades are innocent. What’s being done is a coup — a coup against the future president, against the future government. We will resist, we will resist, we will resist,” Ozel said in his address to the crowd.

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NPR’s Luse: Kirk ‘Said Some Extremely Bigoted Things’ and That’s Why Some on Left Downplay His Death

On Friday’s edition of NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute,” host Brittany Luse stated that Charlie Kirk “said some extremely bigoted things. Because of that, I have seen and heard some folks who are saying something like, this type of violence shouldn’t happen, but I’m not mad that it did happen to this person, meaning Charlie Kirk.”

Luse said, [relevant exchange begins around 12:55] “[L]ooking to the left, Charlie Kirk was undeniably a polarizing figure for his, at times, extreme conservative views. He said some extremely bigoted things. Because of that, I have seen and heard some folks who are saying something like, this type of violence shouldn’t happen, but I’m not mad that it did happen to this person, meaning Charlie Kirk. What would you say to someone who takes that kind of stance in this politically-charged moment?”

Guardian Reporter Abené Clayton responded, “I think that’s a tough one, you know what I mean? Because it’s like, even that comes with its own dangers. You know what I’m saying? I’m a black woman. To me, the things he was saying [were] like, no, this just does not work for me, this is racist, this is trifling. And I also think there’s a little bit of pressure from other folks on the left to see Democratic lawmakers say, like, this person was horrible, this is bad, yes, but also look at what he said. I think that’s what people want, but that’s not super advisable if we’re trying to create an environment of, like, peace, safety, and justice for everyone.”

At the beginning of the show, Luse stated, “America is divided on how to respond to this moment. I have seen some people on the right calling for revenge. I’ve seen some people on the left indifferent or even cheering that this right-wing pundit, who frequently spouted bigoted views, was killed. I’ve also seen people of all political backgrounds fearing for what the shooting and the reaction to it mean for this country’s future.”

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Ongoing Hate Campaign of the Democrat Apparatus ‘Led Directly’ to Charlie Kirk Assassination

The political assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is the result of the ongoing hate campaign of the Democrat apparatus — an apparatus that has been charging full steam ahead with this dark rhetoric for the last decade — Andy Surabian, adviser to both Vice President JD Vance as well as Donald Trump Jr. said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

“We are not talking about a flippant comment where one elected Democrat, you know, here or there, you know, called President Trump a fascist, or Charlie Kirk a Nazi, you know, or so be it,” Surabian, a friend of Kirk’s, said.

“We are talking about a coordinated messaging campaign that has been going on for the last decade, that has been coordinated between Democrat nonprofits —  places like Media Matters — Democrat politicians, Democrat donors, Democrat political operatives,” he explained.

“Ok, this has been an ongoing messaging campaign to castigate 50 percent of the country as Nazis and fascists. So we’re not talking about a flippant comment from some random,” he emphasized, making it clear this is not about a singular offhand statement.

“We are talking about the talking points that come out of the Democrat apparatus that has been — this has been going on now for 10 years — where they are repeatedly doing this over and over again, purposely, all these groups, we know all these groups are coordinating,” he said.

Surabian said all one has to do to see an example is look at Media Matters’ website, look at Charlie Kirk, and “read the archive of all their, all their vicious smears and disgusting lies they put out about him, and then see how the Democrat politicians and media figures repeat those lies.”

“This has been donor-funded. Ok. This is donor-funded. This has been activated by operatives and media figures and repeated by Democrat politicians for a decade now,” he said, making it clear that this has been an “ongoing campaign to label anyone associated with Donald Trump a Nazi, and it’s evil.”

“I can’t repeat this enough. This is not a case of a flippant comment. This is not a case of somebody getting a little overzealous with their commentary. …. No no no. This is coming from the very top of the Democrat Party. The biggest donors, the Democrat think tanks, nonprofits, and politicians are funding this stuff,” he said.

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A Turning Point For The Radical Left?

Charlie Kirk’s assassination will mark the moment the cultural tide turned.

It was a few minutes before 3pm on September 10th, I had just joined a Zoom call with Addison Wiggin for our weekly planning session around a book project we’re working on. Moments after I joined he said “Oh my God, Charlie Kirk has just been shot  – at an event in Utah”.

We talked a bit about the ramifications of what this could set off – and speculated on whether he would pull through.

Later in our call we learned he had succumbed to his wounds, and the symbology was not lost on me: it was the day before Sept 11th, one of those dates everybody remembers exactly where they were.

Because what was certain then was that the world had just changed. We were in a whole new ballgame, uncharted territory, and we’re still in it today.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination feels similar. Most people had never heard him speak—and are now forming their opinions from whatever their preferred media mouthpiece says.

Given the left-wing, illiberal stranglehold on media and culture, none of it is flattering. Conservatism is routinely conflated with the “far-right”  (whatever that means these anymore) and is treated as ipso facto morally reprobate.

The Left Dances on Charlie’s Grave.

The hot-takes poured out within minutes, showing exactly where the lefties wanted to steer the narrative:

  • MSNBC host Matthew Dowd initially speculated that the shot may have come from “a supporter, shooting in celebration” but later pivoted to, (paraphrasing) “Awful people, say awful things to awful consequences”.
  • Rachel Gilmore (basically Canada’s Taylor Lorenz) – ruminated that Kirk being murdered by what turned out to be a radical antifa-aligned leftist might make the “the far right more extreme”.
  • Democrat politicians like Mark Kelly were quick to link the shooting to escalating political rhetoric
  • Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also pointed to the Jan 6 protestors – but omitted the two attempted assassinations on Trump that occurred since.

None of this should be a surprise – the West’s political and ideological left have absolutely no capacity for introspection and barely measurable levels of empathy.

What is surprising, to the left, is the knock-on consequences to their shameful behaviours from a corporate and popular spheres that have had enough with the old zeitgeist  and the cultural pendulum is now swinging the other direction, with a vengeance.

The End of “Diplomatic Immunity” for the Far-Left

Since COVID—and the old order’s failed lunge at a global social-credit technocracy —the public has steadily lost faith in industrial-era institutions:  Big Government, Corporate Media, and late-stage globalism (ESG, DEI, and the rest of it).

The pendulum has swung back through the centre, hitting several key beats along the way—mostly in the form of nationalist or tribal populism.

Oct 7th

Many details of how Oct 7 happened remain baffling to me—but what mattered for the zeitgeist was the reaction by the radical left.

This marked the first real shift in popular opinion—though unevenly (in Canada, Hamas cheerleaders still shut down Toronto streets every weekend).

The backlash focused on academics and labour organizers openly celebrating the massacre, but even Meta—once quick to throttle anything smelling of “Trumpism”—turned its censorship machine the other way, deboosting Hamas content and demonetizing prominent accounts.

The Targeted Killing of Brian Thompson

The targeted murder of United Health CEO Brian Thompson in December ’24 further brought out the berserkers who were lionizing his assassin – but there began to be even more palpable pushback in the zeitgeist against these extremist positions.

Taylor Lorenz made headlines after defending and celebrating the murder, and faced severe criticism on social media platforms and some professional ostracizing, including being uninvited from industry panels and removed from contributor lists at several outlets.

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