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American satirist and playwright C.J. Hopkins has been sent a “punishment order” and a choice: 60 days or 3,600 Euros.
What is his crime? Essentially, his “crime” is insulting the German health minister in a tweet, and using a scarcely-visible image of a Swastika on a mask in a book critical of the global pandemic response.
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CJ Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His political satire and commentary have been published by Consent Factory, OffGuardian, ZeroHedge, ColdType, Rubikon, RT.com, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and many other publications, and have been widely translated. He also publishes articles on his Substack page which you can subscribe to and follow HERE.
Last month we reported that CJ Hopkins’ book had been a bestseller – except in Germany. In Germany, it has been banned. In fact, because of it, he is facing criminal charges, and being threatened with a prison sentence or thousands of Eurodollars in fines. Now that threat has been realised with him receiving a “punishment order.”
“The pretext for the charges I am facing is the swastika behind the mask, which, as I noted in a recent essay, is a play on the international bestseller, The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, by William Shirer, which you can buy in any bookshop in Berlin,” he wrote in early July
Authorities claim that through the use of the mask image, Hopkins was “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organisation.”
On 9 August, Hopkins posted on Substack Notes that the Berlin State Prosecutor, which is investigating him for tweeting the cover art for his book as above, is now officially investigating Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters on “suspicion of hate crimes” – for performing songs from the album ‘The Wall’.
Writer C.J. Hopkins Is Ordered to Jail or Pay a Fine for Using Nazi Imagery on Anti-Authoritarianism Book
The following was originally published by Reclaim the Net on 23 August 2023.
In a fresh blow to free speech, American satirist and playwright C.J. Hopkins is facing a legal punishment in Germany that could send him to jail for 60 days or slap him with a 3,600 euro fine. The start of this legal tangle is rooted in Hopkins’ critique of the German health minister and using an almost invisible image of a swastika on a mask in a book, all in an attempt to lampoon the worldwide response to the global pandemic crisis.
Hopkins was charged with disseminating propaganda content intended to further the objectives of an erstwhile National Socialist organisation.
The judge, who had already rejected Hopkins’ free speech argument, delivered the punishment order, given the case’s non-jury misdemeanour status. As reported by Racket News, Hopkins will, however, have the opportunity to argue for mitigation, though judgment has already been passed.
Despite the complicated legal conundrum he’s entwined in, it’s hard to imagine that Hopkins’ satirical portrayals align with an effort to promote the agenda of Nazism when the point of the work is critical of authoritarianism.
This trend, as Hopkins asserts, opens up a dangerous path toward broad-based censorship.
Racket News, an independent news platform, has pledged to support Hopkins financially when the case reaches its final verdict.
But the battle is not over for Hopkins. In a triumphant display of undying resilience, he highlighted the importance of his case and its wider significance: it’s not just about him, it’s about the relentless pursuit of freedom of speech that seems to be losing ground.
Read the interview with Hopkins on Racket News HERE.
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Shut them up, keep them hungry, confine them in small spaces, and you’ve got a slave race. Others need not apply. The stakeholders rule.
Shut us up, keep us hungry, contain us in small spaces, and they’ve got a slave race. Others need not apply. The stakeholders rule.
One of the delights of being ancient is that one can read current events against a backdrop of history that we actually went through and therefore are not subjected to official revisionism. Correction, we observe revisionism and censorship and know where this is headed.
“So where is it going”, I hear you ask, all agog to receive our pearls of wisdom. Here is mine… the revisionists and censors will be around for several more years and then die horribly as citizens finally appreciate just how heinous their crimes are. Many will be torn limb from limb. Others will be captured by militias and taken to remote locations, there to die lingering deaths as each citizen exacts personal revenge.
Academics will disagree with my predictions, pointing to the lack of empirical evidence of such events. To which I reply, no academics are ever invited to such parties for that very reason. Witnesses with heavy ink are never popular when true justice is being done.
Those who have given Roger Waters and CJ a hard time will fare especially badly. Around a million furious rock fans will avenge Roger’s mistreatment, probably around the same time Germany implodes.
I welcome your vision of justice in the future. Hope you’re right.
Problem is 99.9% of people are guilty.
I say to ‘friends’ (soon to be kicked out) ” you and most people say Covid-19 vaccines are good, I say they are bad, will you hear my explanation? You say Putin of Russia is bad, I say he is good, will you listen to my explanation” They all say “I do not have time”.
By insulting me like this they are suppressing my speech ( why should I give them any more good information, only to not only not be paid for my efforts, but to even be insulted)
We free speechers, like Elon Musk and this poor man Hopkins, are in the minority.
It is not a case of people being asleep, not being awake, they positively want to suppress speech as a way of humiliating the speaker, whether that speaker is CJ Hopkins or myself.
It is an uphill battle, but God is our only hope – in despair, I cannot think of any other logical path by which free speech will be upheld.
Unless 🤔 Mr Tony Ryan, you are a South American, like Chilean or Argentinian, and you actually witnessed such actions of justice being meted out in the past 🙄
I pluck up the courage to say this – like some poor rape victim plucking up the courage to bring his or her case to court.
When I gave Tony Ryan a “+” showing my approval of his comment, the number showing changed from 4 to 5; now he has 6. Good for Tony Ryan. I am happy for him.
But why didn’t this mean person give me a “+”? After all he gave Tony Ryan his/her approval very soon after I had made my comments. Is this his/her way of showing disapproval of my comment, without overtly giving me a “-“?
This type of meanness is an example of “suppression of freedom of speech”
If you have good reason to disapprove of my comments then tell me why, and we can discuss.
I have experienced such meanness many times now on the Expose. It is the reason why I do not contribute financially, and I rarely comment.
Whoever is behind this cowardly bitchiness, please show your face, and if it is the Expose itself, well you have sure succeeded in suppressing my freedom of speech on your own apparently supposedly pro free speech website
Hi Karen, When someone upvotes or downvotes a comment they are expressing their freedom to do so.
Its a little like social media (if you use social media you’ll understand) – it is users of the site who select “+” or “-” on comments. The Expose doesn’t have anything to gain by spending the time required to rate comments, we are short staffed and work very long hours as it is.
I’m not sure if this helps in anyway, but I sign into the site a different way to readers and am not able to upvote or downvote comments. Although people can rate my comments.
I think I’m correct in saying that people don’t need to be a subscriber or signed into the site to vote on a comment if they choose to do so. So it could be any of tens of thousands of daily visitors we have to the site who choose to upvote or downvote a comment.
Hi Rhoda,
Thank you for your comment, and clarification. The Expose does do good articles, which are so necessary for unbiased journalism. We all appreciate it, as mainstream has become so bad these days. ( However, I think the Expose did delete/not print some comments I made in the past. One I remember was when someone was saying many medical/health elites were Jewish; my response was not all Jews are bad, or at any rate no worse than the rest of us. That comment ( I think there were others too) did not get printed.
Thank you for your time. You have been doing a good job Rhoda, it cannot be easy, with some people ( I have seen it in the past) who do not always behave reasonably.
Good Luck to you and the Expose,
Karen
Please pray for the safety of Gonzalo Lira. He was persecuted in Ukraine for his free speech ( pro-Russia) so he escaped to Hungary. No more news of him.
I sent two replies to Rhoda, but the Expose chose not to publish them
Hi Karen, your comments were flagged as potential spam by the spam filter, I can’t see an obvious reason why that may have happened. I have released both of them, they should be showing now.
Suppression of Freedom of Speech is a form of meaness, and it is coming from the common ordinary people, and not from the so-called Elite or Globalists
I wrote a joint email to Boris Johnson, other MPs, and my awful ‘friends’ to explain why Covid-19 vaccines were bad. My ‘friends’ treated me appalingly, but Boris Johnson, bless him, took my advice, and stopped forcing health workers to take the poison jab against their own will. Who are the culprits in the crime of suppression of free speech: the ordinary people or the ‘elites’ like Bojo?
Answer: the common folk are guilty of the crime of suppression of freedom of speech. It is a Cinderella story: they have no interest in anything except themselves, therefore have no knowledge, then they get jealous of the brave souls who are courageous enough to articulate a minority viewpoint that they had not even thought of themselves. They don’t care about the harm they are doing to the brave speaker, and to the world. Pray for them.
It is both , but it is the ‘elites’ who are able to crush the truth. Science that cannot be challenged is , simply , propaganda . But the ‘elites’ only allow their version , and challengers are persecuted using nefarious methods .
THANK YOU pete for your reply 🙏 I rarely am treated with respect on social media so I appreciate it.
I agree with you ‘it is both’ i.e. elites and ordinary people who are suppressing freedom of speech, and suppressing the other side of the argument in a variety of subjects.
I also like your phrase ‘science that cannot be challenged is simply propaganda’. I shall use it in future to challenge some bullies. It is one thing having the right idea or moral values, it is another having mastery of the English language.
‘Freedom of speech’ as a concept should be so obvious and simple, yet it is giving many of us, not least myself a lot of trouble.
What can be done to resolve it? I’m still working that one out 🤔
Yes, ‘elites’ can certainly crush the truth. Always using nefarious means. Some courageous and outspoken anti-vax leader of some African country was found dead etc etc etc
This is a pretty useless post: but when I can think 🤯 of a worthwhile answer and solution to the problem I shall write to you again. I am really at a loss to solve what looks like a simple problem, it is proving very difficult.
I am treated appalingly by my fellow church members.
One member ‘kindly’ suggests I might raise this issue with my local Member of Parliament (MP) rather than amongst the church members.
1) Supposing I am correct and ‘lockdown’ was an ill-conceived policy. Supposing my MP sees my point and this leads to a correction in errors in government policy. Who benefits? Of course the people in my local church group who not only didn’t lift a finger themselves will benefit, but were even nasty to me when I did. Why, as a human being, would I be motivated to work for the benefit of such selfish people for free???
2) Politicians want to be voted in and therefore be popular with the people. When they see that I am an unpopular minority, they will side with the fascist majority obviously.
Maybe in America there is a greater culture of freedom of speech, which gives rise to politicians like Robert Kennedy and Donald Trump. In England because there is a strong culture of suppression of free speech ( take my above church group example ) those sorts of truth-seeking courageous politicians simply don’t exist.
Whose fault is it? THE ORDINARY PEOPLE.
I raise the question amongst my fellow church whatsapp group members: is “lockdown” a wise policy for fighting Covid-19 pandemic?
I am treated appalingly by my fellow church members.
One member ‘kindly’ suggests I might raise this issue with my local Member of Parliament (MP) rather than amongst the church members.
1) Supposing I am correct and ‘lockdown’ was an ill-conceived policy. Supposing my MP sees my point and this leads to a correction in errors in government policy. Who benefits? Of course the people in my local church group who not only didn’t lift a finger themselves will benefit, but were even nasty to me when I did. Why, as a human being, would I be motivated to work for the benefit of such selfish people for free???
2) Politicians want to be voted in and therefore be popular with the people. When they see that I am an unpopular minority, they will side with the fascist majority obviously.
Maybe in America there is a greater culture of freedom of speech, which gives rise to politicians like Robert Kennedy and Donald Trump. In England because there is a strong culture of suppression of free speech ( take my above church group example ) those sorts of truth-seeking courageous politicians simply don’t exist.
Whose fault is it? THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
Why do so many people give Tony Ryan an upvote “+” ( good for him, I’m pleased) but then no comment? Did they even understand what he was saying!
Actually there IS empirical evidence for that. E.g.the public hangings of Mussolini and his mistress by the mobs of Rome following WWII. The killings and head shavings of the French women who slept with Nazi troops. I am working for a lawfully imposd outcome, by using the Godly people’s courts and grand juries we can form ourselves, as we have partially done in Ohio: http://www.occr2021.com
Dear Katherine Hine ( and others )
1) I refer to your point about the public hangings of Mussolini. My reply: the Italian writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci said that in her experience, some people who were pro-Mussolini, later WHEN THE TABLES TURNED, became some of the worst bullies against supposed former Mussolini supporters.
2) Your point about the humiliation of the French women who slept with Nazi troops: again I know you and I both wonder was justice served, or once again were easy scapegoats picked on.
3) Hope your court in Ohio has much success
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