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July 17, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (17⧸07⧸2016)
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 17th of July 2016.
We've finally learned how many women were attacked by immigrant men in Germany on New Year's Eve.
A document leaked from the German authorities says that 2,000 men allegedly assaulted 1,200 German women in one night.
In the days after the New Year's Eve celebrations for 2016, hundreds of women from Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities reported that they had been sexually assaulted by gangs of Muslim men.
The authorities, of course, covered it up.
When this had become too rife on social media to deny, the authorities did then change their story from, it was an orderly and peaceable night, nothing really happened, to, yes, there may well have been sexual assault gangs of Middle Eastern origin.
All it took was for the authorities to be repeatedly revealed as liars who were covering up the fact that these immigrants had committed these crimes.
Don't know what you guys are getting so worked up about.
But yes, the authorities apparently now think that on New Year's Eve more than 1200 women were sexually assaulted in various German cities, including more than 600 in Cologne and about 400 in Hamburg.
But they weren't going to tell you that, which is why this document happened to be a league.
But listen, you don't really need to know the ins and outs of the details.
I mean, that's why they were trying to keep it from you in the first place.
What possible use could you have for this information?
Just because out of these 2,000 men, only four have been convicted, and two of them have been given suspended sentences?
There's nothing to worry about.
It doesn't matter that 1996 of them are still roaming and at large, presumably.
Not that we'd ever find out what the real truth is from the authorities.
That is, until some dangerous Islamophobe leaks to the public the information the authorities have compiled but kept secret from them.
For their own good presumably.
Officials have linked the sexual assaults to the influx of refugees.
My god, how far up the chain does this Islamophobia go?
There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015, says the president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, shortly before he was banned from Facebook.
Many suspects had originally come to Germany from North African countries rather than Syria, officials said.
I suppose it's very nice that he's confirming everything the public already knew, but what bothers me the most is that there was a cover-up to begin with.
He then went on to confirm many people's suspicions that many of the New Year's Eve perpetrators will never be convicted.
We have to presume that many of those crimes will never fully be investigated, and this is because Germany has relatively low CCTV coverage, which makes it more difficult for investigators to identify suspects.
However, what this won't do is prevent the German media from being complicit in this deception, and, I'm not even kidding, whitewashing the event.
New Year's Eve migrant sex attackers shown as white men in documentary.
In a documentary about the mass sex attacks on New Year's Eve, tax-funded public broadcaster NDR has portrayed the criminals as white Germans.
The documentary began by noting that 400 of the sexual assaults which took place in New Year's Eve in Germany this year happened in Hamburg.
Focusing on Hamburg police response to the attacks, it looked at how they were able to investigate the attacks, or not as the case may be.
This is just one of the most amazing things I've ever read.
Consisting of multimedia slides, the documentary focused on three of the cases.
First it showed that of Tunisian suspect Adel K and witnesses identified him as a suspect from a photograph of the night after recognising his distinctive hat.
It's noted that the pictures proving Adele K was at the scene of the crime do not prove he sexually assaulted women.
Explaining this, the documentary showed a sketch of Adel K Sammy in a crowd wearing his distinctive hat.
It then displayed an artist's impression of three white youths grabbing a woman while one of the attackers tries to put his hand under her clothes, as in something that categorically did not happen on New Year's Eve in Hamburg.
I find this very infuriating for many reasons, and not just because it comes after a cover-up, a coordinated cover-up from several major German cities and the German political elite class in general.
But the fact that they're using taxpayer money to produce propaganda to make people think that German people committed these crimes in order to manipulate people into thinking that these migrant men weren't actually responsible for the crimes they committed.
It's despicable.
And unsurprisingly, a court found there were many other errors during the investigation, but I can hardly say I'm surprised, and after they've gone out of their way to lie many times over about this event, I don't even care what the inconsistencies are.
It doesn't really matter to me at this point.
I just expect the German media to lie as a matter of course when it comes to dealing with Middle Eastern migrants.
Since we're on the subject, let's have a look at the direct consequences of Middle Eastern migrants on the local German populations.
Back in February, it was discovered that migrant crime was skyrocketing.
Migrants committed 208,344 crimes in 2015, according to a confidential police report that was leaked to German newspaper Build.
Again, it had to be leaked.
They will not tell you this.
The figure represents an 80% increase over 2014 and works out to around 570 crimes committed by migrants every day.
That's 23 an hour between January and December 2015.
The actual number of migrant crimes is far higher, however, because the report produced by the Federal Crime Police Office includes only crimes that have been solved.
The German Statistics Agency says that on average only half of all crimes committed in Germany in any given year are solved.
This implies the actual number of crimes committed by migrants in 2015 may exceed 400,000.
And not only that, the report includes data from only 13 of Germany's 16 federal states.
Which ones did they leave out?
Oh, I'm so glad you asked.
The report does not include crime data from North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state in Germany, and also the state with the largest number of migrants.
North Rhine-Westphalia's biggest city is Cologne, where I'm sure you know that on New Year's Eve, nothing at all happened.
Don't look at social media.
The report also lacks crime data from Hamburg, the second largest city, and the one that we also know that 400 sexual assaults took place in one night.
And Bremen, the second most populous city in northern Germany.
Further, many crimes are simply not reported or deliberately overlooked.
Political leaders from across Germany have ordered the police to turn a blind eye to crimes perpetrated by migrants, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments, which personally just makes me think the German authorities are mentally retarded.
How they think that they can bring in millions of foreign immigrants who are visually distinguishable from native German citizens just at a glance, and then, when they commit crimes, to turn a blind eye and hope that the native Germans don't suddenly find themselves very annoyed at the new protected class that is allowed to prey on them at will and then somehow expect German people to not have anti-immigration sentiments,
is just beyond me.
If this wasn't so obviously ideological, I would have thought these were the fevered dreams of madmen.
According to the report, this is the breakdown in the ethnicity of the people committing the crimes.
24% from Syria, 17% from Albania, 14% from Kosovo, 11% from Serbia, 11% from Afghanistan, 9% from Iraq, 4% from Eritrea, 4% from Macedonia, 4% from Pakistan, and 2% from Nigeria.
It's amazing just how many of these people aren't fleeing from ISIS, isn't it?
It's worth noting that sexual assault is not by any stretch of the imagination the majority of these crimes that are being committed.
In 2015, migrants were involved in 36,000 reported cases of assault, battery and robbery, roughly twice as many as in 2014.
There were also in 2015 28,000 reported incidents of fair evasion on public transportation, so a pretty minor crime.
There was 1,688 reported sexual assaults against women and children, including 458 rapes or acts of sexual coercion.
Given that there were over a million migrants accepted into Germany in 2015, and there were only 1,688 reported cases of sexual assault or rapes, I don't think it's fair to characterise them as rape fugees.
They're not anywhere near the majority of crimes committed or people committing the crimes, but it is still a huge increase in crimes that Germany normally sees.
I do think it's worth looking at these statistics in comparison to statistics for Germany before the migrant crisis occurred.
For example, for all offences you had about 6 million in a country with a population of about 80 million people.
An extra million people come in and another 400,000 crimes are committed, if not more, which, I mean, that is a huge number.
And when you compare it to something like rape and aggravated sexual coercions, there were 7,539 of them in 2011.
So an extra 1,688 in a year is a massive increase on top of what already occurs.
I say all this because I want to point out to the white middle class exactly why so many people in Germany and on the continent in general are finding themselves leaning towards the right.
There are many small German communities who have been forced to accept an influx of refugees who then turn out to be inclined towards criminality.
The facts are that they're not refugees, they're economic migrants who are on some kind of adventure to get free money from the German state.
And it's your average regular German person who has to deal with these people on a day-to-day basis.
I find it hard to believe that anyone actually thinks that people would not be publicly critical of these migrants given the sheer volume of them that have arrived and the sheer volume of crimes that have occurred because of their arrival.
Personally, I think it's completely reasonable to have criticisms of these events and of these people and of what's going on.
I think to suggest that people shouldn't have criticisms is absurd and I think that preventing people from airing their criticisms is directly against the principle of free speech.
You may remember back in January when German authorities reached a deal with Facebook, Google and Twitter to get tougher on offensive content with outlets agreeing to apply domestic laws rather than their own corporate policies to reviews of posts.
I'm sure many of you have the same thoughts on the subject that I did.
Who decides what is offensive content and what counts as hate speech?
The concern being of course that the pathological self-hatred of the German elite would eventually translate into a censorious campaign against regular German citizens who just want to be able to talk about the consequences of bringing in a million foreign migrants into their communities.
So when this week a married couple is sentenced for a migrant critical Facebook group, it's hard not to feel that my concerns over hate speech and offence have been justified.
A German couple were taken to court and sentenced after they created a Facebook group that criticised migrants and the government's mass immigration policy.
Well I know what you're thinking, these guys must be full-on, goose-stepping neo-Nazis who are busy combing their narrow mustaches and planning an invasion of the Sudafenland, right?
Well it doesn't seem that way.
The couple stood accused of inciting hatred towards migrants via the Facebook group that the pair had created called the Anti-Refugee Movement.
The group is said by the courts to have been a clear incitement against migrants, and as a result, the couple were found guilty of hate speech.
Sounds awful.
The statements on the Facebook group did not seem to contain anything overtly nationalistic or Nazi-inspired, but rather expressed deep concern about the situation in Germany relating to mass migration.
According to the court, the page which has been taken down in its first post stated, The war and economic refugees are flooding our country.
They bring terror, fear, and sorrow.
They rape our women and put our children at risk, which, along with the German flag as the group's profile photo, was enough to bring the couple to court for hate speech.
While perhaps a little one-sided, it's hard to say that these aren't legitimate grievances.
What surprises me most about this, though, is the popularity of this secret Facebook group, or lack thereof.
If this was a public-facing page that had hundreds of thousands of people liking and subscribing and sharing, and was sharing some more edgy content, I could understand Facebook and the German government wanting to censor it.
I wouldn't agree with it, but at least I can understand why they were doing it.
But this Facebook group only had 900 followers, and was private and secret, and not public.
And so someone inside the group must have reported it to the German authorities.
Not only that, though, the Facebook user who reported the page took it a step further and reported it to their local police.
Now, I am personally amazed that any government would think a Facebook group with 900 people in it that apparently wasn't revolving around neo-Nazis or anything like that.
I'm amazed that the time and effort would be put in to find the operators of the secret group, arrest them, try them, and then convict them for hate speech.
This appears to be nothing less than a punitive measure.
To find such a small group that has such a low public profile and prosecute the creators for hate speech is an indication that these people are simply not interested in listening to the other side of the story.
At the trial, Peter M defended his remarks online and said, One cannot even express a critical opinion of refugees without getting labelled as a Nazi.
I wanted to create a discussion forum where you could speak your mind about refugees.
Peter M talked about how in his role as an administrator of the group, he would weed out any pro-Nazi or pro-radical remarks and delete such posts, but Facebook has deleted the page and he couldn't present the evidence to the court.
Personally, I can understand Peter M's concerns.
I can understand why in this current political climate, he would feel the need to create a secret Facebook group to be able to discuss what these refugees are actually doing without being prosecuted.
But the part that really scares me is just how partisan the judge was.
The judge in the case was unforgiving in his verdict on the site, saying that the description of the group is a series of generalizations with a clear right-wing background, as if this is something that is inherently bad, as if a clear left-wing background is somehow preferable.
I'm sorry, I'm just as bothered by the extreme left as I am by the extreme right, but it doesn't appear from the evidence we have that Peter M was part of either.
However, it does appear that the judge himself was very definitely part of the extreme left.
After sentencing Peter M to a nine-month suspended prison sentence and his wife to a fine of 1200 euros, the judge said, I hope you understand the seriousness of the situation.
If you sit in front of me again, you will end up in jail.
That's terrifying.
Because the guy hasn't done anything wrong.
The migrants should be criticized for the things that they are doing.
Not all.
Hashtag not all migrants, but certainly some of them, in fact quite a lot of them.
We're talking 400,000 crimes here.
from a million migrants, or just over a million migrants.
These people are bringing a great deal of pressure and criminality to the natives they are, well, taking advantage of.
And these natives are not even allowed to have secret discussions about what's going on and what's happening to them.
Or else they could end up in jail if not fined and given suspended prison sentences and now a criminal record.
Personally, I find it hard not to categorise this as oppression.
Done by the left apparently.
And before you say, well, it was just one case, no, it was not just one case.
The case bears similarities to other cases where Facebook and the German government have shut down pages critical of migrants.
A 16-year-old girl who complained that she feared for her safety in a video posted to Facebook had her page taken down.
The police in Berlin raided the apartments of several Facebook and Twitter users for their use of anti-migrant comments online.
What the fuck are they raiding them for?
What the fuck do they expect to find?
Cachets of surfaced migrant rocket launchers.
What?
What were you expecting?
They're saying on fucking social media that they're not very big fans of crime committing migrants.
And of course, Pagida leader Lutz Bachmann was also taken to court over comments he made on Facebook and found guilty of hate speech.
Are you surprised that people are starting to support movements like Pagida?
And as I said, this is not just isolated cases.
German police target hate crime in coordinated raids.
German police have carried out a series of raids targeting people suspected of posting hate content on social media.
The coordinated raids on 60 addresses were the first time the authorities had acted on this issue in such a way.
Again, what were you hoping to find?
The answer, of course, is nothing.
These raids are clearly being performed on political dissenters as a way of intimidating and silencing them from speaking out against the policies of the government.
The aim is apparently to tackle what police called a substantial rise in verbal radicalism.
Which I think is the most terrifyingly Orwellian phrase I've heard so far this year.
Verbal radicalism!
People saying things that are so different to the mainstream narrative that they now have to be tackled by police raids.
These crimes typically included glorification of Nazism, xenophobic, anti-Semitic and other right-wing extremism, so political partisanship.
Nothing impartial from the government that's meant to govern and represent the people of Germany.
No no no no.
They have their political position.
They will prosecute people who have a different political position and don't you think they fucking won't?
Honestly, I can't believe a bigger deal isn't being made about this.
These hate speech laws are dangerous.
The definition of what is and isn't hate speech is A. Arbitrary, B. Flexible, and C will always fit the whim of the person doing the prosecuting.
These are not objective measures that one can say yes, he genuinely wasn't or yes he genuinely was.
And don't think this crap is staying in Germany.
We have hate crimes in Britain and now Nottinghamshire Police record misogyny as a hate crime.
Harassment of women is to be recorded as a hate crime in a bid to tackle sexist abuse because that's what we need to do.
Expand the definition of hate crime.
Nottinghamshire Police said it would expand its categories to include misogynistic incidents.
It means abuse or harassment, which might not be a crime, can be reported to and investigated by the police and support for the victim put into place.
Okay, but it might not be a crime.
In fact, it's probably not a crime.
Of course, Nottingham Women's Centre says it's hoped it will give more victims the courage to report incidents.
And Chief Constable Sue Fish claims it will make the country a safer place for women.
Well, holy shit, if you're criminalising people who aren't actually committing crimes, then are you sure it's not just going to wildly inflate the statistics so you can say, hey, we need extra measures because look at all of these new crimes that are occurring.
Nottinghamshire Police is committed to taking misogynistic hate crimes seriously and encourages anyone who is affected by it to contact us without hesitation.
Well, I better contact you because I am affected when you start making up bullshit like hate crimes.
Alright, I am affected because at some point in the future, you will have expanded the definition to mean criticism.
Just like Germany has.
This is where this all comes from as well, right?
Work on the idea first started with the Nottinghamshire Safer for Women conference last year, co-hosted by the police with Nottingham Women's Centre.
BBC TV reporter Sarah Thiel was harassed in the street while reporting on the conference.
Do you want to see what this harassment was?
An online study showed a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, either jeered at or had obscenities shouted at them in the street.
And a large proportion said they'd also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public.
She didn't really seem that bothered about that, did she?
But did you hear what they said?
You know, this is harassment against her.
So, let's have a quick listen again.
That's right.
He wasn't just screaming harassment at this poor internet illiterate.
This was actually a common meme.
Aaron Portlock, who's 26, was at home at this house behind me here in Leslie.
They have final approval and need to have it passed by mid-December.
Now, we're sitting along Machine Avenue.
I was talked to the director you know when you're alive you never know what's gonna happen the oldest is Now they're not.
Suspected charges.
It's a fucking meme, you totalitarian dipshits.
You are constantly ill-informed.
You have no idea what's going on.
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