“It’s absurd to think that the crime of ‘ethnic intimidation’ was meant to include citizens who angrily rant at cops who are arresting them.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/hate-crime-cops-nazi-black-man
“An angry American traveler found herself plunged into German legal waters this month after allegedly calling federal police officers ‘Nazis’ during a dispute at Frankfurt International Airport. Police say the woman, a 49-year-old professor, became ‘unreasonable and irritated’ when they told her she had too many liquids in her carry-on during a screening for explosives. The issue of too many liquids morphed quickly — by her own account – into a tail-chasing argument over her deodorant: They insisted it must go; she claimed that made no sense since it was a solid.”
With her Christian Democratic Union party facing increasing losses at the hands of German voters fed up with zero economic growth and state-run facilities bursting at the seams handling millions of Middle Eastern war refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun shaking a stick at the Internet:
Merkel cautioned that public opinion was being ‘manipulated’ on the internet. ‘Something has changed — as globalisation has marched on, (political) debate is taking place in a completely new media environment. Opinions aren’t formed the way they were 25 years ago,’ she said.
Europe’s bureaucrats were one step ahead, and in a shocking move, on Wednesday the EU Parliament voted on a non-legislative resolution which calls for the EU to ‘respond to information warfare by Russia.’ Russian news websites RT and Sputnik news agency were alleged to be among the most dangerous ‘tools of Russian propaganda.’