Posted on 01/26/2020 9:02:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
Thirteen police officers sustained minor injuries in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday when protesters pelted them with stones and fireworks during a demonstration against the banning of a leftist website.
Eleven officers were attacked with stones and glass bottles and two sustained injuries from fireworks.
The protest began peacefully in front of the Federal Administrative Courthouse in the largest city in Saxony, where a lawsuit against the ban is due to be heard later this week. […]
Around 1,600 people, according to police figures, had gathered for the demonstration in Leipzig to protest a ban of the online leftist platform “linksunten.indymedia.org”. Only 500 had been expected. Leftists groups and online activists had mobilized their followings for the protest. […]
Germany’s Interior Ministry blocked the web platform in 2017, saying the site was the most influential internet forum for violent left-wing extremists in Germany. …
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Good for the protesters. I wonder if they’ve tried to ban conservative websites.
They do ban Conservative sites regularly, with no comment from the leftards. It seems these people know nothing of irony.
“Good” for those protesters who were throwing rocks, glass bottles and sticks at the cops, thus injuring 13 policemen?
I disagree. It sounds like their version of Antifa or Anarchists. For once, the Muslims are not the primary bringers of this violence.
You’re congratulating leftist violence, seriously?
The US Constitution guarantees peaceable assembly, not sectarian violence of any kind.
I wonder what “conservative” means in this context.
“You’re congratulating leftist violence, seriously”?
I’m against banning free speech, I’m not for leftist violence.
The Left are ruthless and have no scruples. As you know, they’ll wipe us out if they can ever do so.
I’m against banning free speech on the internet, I’m not for leftist violence.
These violent leftists act to promote the very “diseased mind” mentality you mention in your tagline. They are not working to change the Basic Law so that Article 5 resembles the USA’s First Amendment.
- Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
- These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons and in the right to personal honor.
- Arts and sciences, research and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.
Thanks for clarifying.
It’s what I thought you meant.
100+ years later and the Bolsheviks are still plaguing Germany.
No problem. I should have been more clear. Thank you.
I’m against banning free speech on the internet, I’m not for leftist violence.
The left is totalitarian. They deserve no sympathy for what their totalitarian government does to them.
Okay. If by “the protesters” you meant peaceful ones, I do tend to agree, even if they do stand for godless totalitarian leftism.
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