A German newspaper editor has been sentenced to seven months in prison… no, she didn’t shoot or rob anybody… for making fun of the Minister of the Interior.
This is crazy. “I DO NOT hate freedom of speech! And I’ll have you locked up in jail for saying that I do!”
Our own country was founded largely by Europeans who’d had their fill of Europe. The nations of Europe can’t seem to kick the tyranny habit. It’s not just Germany. In the United Kingdom 30 people are arrested every day–that’s some 12,000 a year–for “offensive online messages” https://freespeechunion.org/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for-offensive-online-messages/).
And they had the gall to be offended when our Vice President J.D. Vance called them out on it.
“Do you think the American taxpayer is going to stand for that?” he said. “You get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?”
No, they don’t much care for free speech over there. And now they’re proving it.