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German Official Trashes Cost of Living Protesters as 'Enemies of the State'
2022-08-20
[Summit] Says they’re extremists who want to overthrow the government.

A top German official has trashed people who may be planning to protest against energy blackouts as "enemies of the state" and "extremists" who want to overthrow the government.

The interior minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Herbert Reul (CDU), says that anti-mandatory vaxx and anti-lockdown demonstrators have found a new cause — the energy crisis.
Each an anti-totalitarian impulse...
In an interview with German news outlet NT, Reul revealed that German security services were keeping an eye on "extremists" who plan to infiltrate the protests and stage violence, with the unrest being planned via the Telegram messenger app, which German authorities have previously tried to ban.

"You can already tell from those who are out there," said Reul. "The protesters no longer talk about coronavirus or vaccination. But they are now misusing people’s worries and fears in other fields. (...) It’s almost something like new enemies of the state that are establishing themselves."
“Know your place, peasants!”
Despite the very real threat of potential blackouts, power grid failures and gas shortages, Reul claimed such issues were feeding "conspiracy theory narratives."

However, it’s no "conspiracy theory" that Germans across the country have been panic buying stoves, firewood and electric heaters as the government tells them thermostats will be limited to 19C in public buildings and that sports arenas and exhibition halls will be used as ’warm up spaces’ this winter to help freezing citizens who are unable to afford skyrocketing energy bills.

As Remix News reports, blaming right-wing conspiracy theorists for a crisis caused by Germany’s sanctions on Russia and is suicidal dependence on green energy is pretty rich.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Is he related to Liz Cheney?
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-08-20 21:19  

#3  Don't worry Herb, if there is a revolution, I'm sure you will be first out the window.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-08-20 20:19  

#2  'Extremists who want to overthrow the government'. Not to worry, Herb. It's merely a fad like Beatlemania, selfies, or craft beer. Although there does seem to be a lot of it going around these days.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-08-20 14:34  

#1  Deplorables, Germany has them also ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-20 12:29  

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