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Lee Heidhues 3.12.2024
Germany has its own Donald Trump party, formerly known as the Republican party in America.
Trump’s Republican party is free to run roughshod over American democracy. What will remain of it should “far right” extremist Trump win the presidential election this November.
The difference between Germany and America is the presence of a judicial system which is not beholden to fascist organizations like The Trump party.
The German judiciary is now taking up the matter of the extremist AfD and may label it a case of “suspected case of far-right extremism”
Labeling The Trump party “far right” extremists will never happen in America.
Particularly since the Supreme Court is now doing Donald Trump’s political chores. Ironically The Trump party is using the safeguards of the American Constitution to cement Trump’s “far right extremism” hold on the American government.
America’s fascist roots run deep. Trump is trolling the swamp.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.12.2024
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party is challenging the country’s domestic intelligence agency in court, saying it was not justified in labeling the party a “suspected case of far-right extremism” in 2021.
The designation makes it easier for the BfV spy agency, known by the English title the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, to investigate and surveil AfD members. It can also facilitate the use or recruitment of informants from within the organization.
The higher regional court for North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster has scheduled two days for the hearing, which opened on Tuesday. Whether a verdict would follow on Wednesday was not immediately clear.
The AfD unsuccessfully challenged the designation at a different court in 2022, this is its second appeal.
The prior court verdicts — which were reached in the same state, hence the location for this week’s appeal — supported the BfV defining the political party as a case warranting suspicion and monitoring.
It cited reports and evidence provided by the domestic intelligence agency, and the party appearing to use ethnicity as a key factor in its definition of a German people. This runs contrary to Germany’s postwar constitution, drafted soon after Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship, that explicitly forbids racial persecution. It also noted evidence of xenophobic agitation and some of the party’s members’ more extreme comments and statements.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-afd-appeals-suspected-far-right-extremist-status/a-68503781
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