The Most Ridiculous DA on Earth
Berlin prosecutor of American author, CJ Hopkins, insists on making an obviously FALSE claim.
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Back in March I interviewed the American playwright and Berlin resident, C.J. Hopkins, about his ongoing prosecution by the Berlin DA’s office for the alleged crime of “disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda.”
At his first trial in January, Hopkins was found not guilty. However, the Berlin prosecutor appealed the verdict, and Hopkins’s second trial is scheduled to begin at the Berlin Superior Court on August 15.
It seems to me that the Berlin prosecutor must surely be the most ridiculous on earth for making such an obviously false assertion. The facts of this matter are obvious to anyone who has retained the tiniest fragment of common sense. Hopkins did NOT “disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda.”
In fact, he PROTESTED the German state’s fraudulent and totalitarian COVID-19 pandemic response by pointing out how its actions resembled the actions of notorious totalitarian states of the past, the most immediately recognizable being Germany’s National Socialist regime of 1938-1945.
Hopkins couldn’t have made it clearer that he strongly objected to the German state’s actions in 2020-2021, so it is the height of absurdity to claim that his likening of these actions to those of the Nazi government was an act of “disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda.”
The American equivalent would be for a California prosecutor to claim that my comparison of California’s pandemic response in 2020-2021 to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II makes me guilty of disseminating the anti-Japanese racist doctrine for which Congress apologized in 1988.
As we approach Hopkins’s second trial, it remains crystal clear that his statement during his first trial presented the essential facts of the matter.
However, I hope that you will at least have the integrity to call this what it is, and not hide behind false accusations that I am somehow supporting the Nazis by comparing the rise of a new form of totalitarianism to the rise of an earlier totalitarian system, one that took hold of and ultimately destroyed this country in the 20th Century, and murdered millions in the process, because too few Germans had the courage to stand up and oppose it when it first began. I hope that you will at least have the integrity to not pretend that you actually believe I am disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda, when you know very well that is not what I am doing.
No one with any integrity believes that is what I am doing. No one with any integrity believes that is what my Tweets in 2022 were doing. Every journalist that has covered my case, everyone in this courtroom, understands what this prosecution is actually about. It has nothing to do with punishing people who actually disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda. It is about punishing dissent, and making an example of dissidents in order to intimidate others into silence.
We wish to express our heartfelt solidarity with Mr. Hopkins and the best of luck at his second trial.
The prosecutor is not only lying, but actually disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda by emulating Hitler's regime. As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Totalitarians love to accuse any who oppose them of doing exactly what they in fact are doing. Their wickedness is exceeded only by their stupidity, because they seem to actually believe that the whole world does not see precisely what they're doing.
They're like a toddler covering their eyes in a game of hide and seek, in the mistaken belief that no one can see them. It's cute when a child does it. Totalitarians are anything but cute, exhibiting the ugliest aspect of human nature in this fallen world. They worship the father of lies as a means of brutalizing innocent people, exerting all their energies in an attempt to steal their God-given freedom.
You express valid points, grounded in the logic of sound jurisprudence and common sense. However, the Berlin prosecutor 's motivation is neither. It is the imposition of power and control through suppression of speech and thought. As is increasingly true of kindred prosecutors, gov't officials, and woke ideologues throughout the West, logic and rationality are no longer the point. 1984 took another 40 years to reveal itself, but here we are.