Far-Right Threatens Extreme Violence After Ban on Berlin Anti-Lockdown Rally

[Nexus2]

Twenty-thousand people were expected to gather in Berlin on Saturday, but city officials blocked the march. Now, the far-right want to see those officials publicly executed.

German far-right activists have vowed to defy a government ban on a huge protest against coronavirus restrictions, after officials moved to prevent the event becoming “a stage” for COVID-19 deniers and right-wing extremists.

About 20,000 people – a motley mix of coronavirus deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing extremists – were expected to attend Saturday’s rally in the German capital, organised by a group called Querdenken (“lateral thinking”)

But Berlin’s city government banned the protests Wednesday, citing the risk to public health, as protesters at a previous rally earlier this month had ignored rules requiring them to wear masks and observe social distancing.

The ban has drawn a furious reaction from the protest’s organisers and would-be attendees from the far-right. The organizer, Stuttgart-based businessman Michael Ballweg, said the ban had confirmed his movement’s fears that the pandemic would be used as a pretext to restrict basic rights. He said he was challenging the ban in court, and assumed the protest would go ahead as planned.

Source: Vice

[DFW]

1. On the news here last night

An appeals court overturned the ban, and let the march go ahead as planned

[llashram]

5. it's not over

there are higher courts and Merkel...

[secondwind]

2. The whole world is in turmoil.

And Putin is licking his chops.

[Iterate]

3. Robert Kennedy Jr. will be speaking there.

He has founded an EU chapter of his nutter Children’s Health Defense organization and will be there to promote it, among other things.

Among their other delusions is the expectation that a million people will attend. I wish they had spent half as much effort researching how a system of belief, any system of belief, that isn't grounded in reality leads to disaster.

[llashram]

4. germans don't play

these RW confetti brains would end up laying in the street bleeding out.

[dalton99a]

6. How Russians have helped fuel the rise of Germany's far right

https://theconversation.com/how-russians-have-helped-fuel-the-rise-of-germanys-far-right-105551
How Russians have helped fuel the rise of Germany’s far right
November 1, 2018 5.32pm EDT