by Robert Williams
- [German] Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it clear that he wants to end anonymity on the internet.
- Internet anonymity makes it harder to arrest people for inconvenient speech — “hate speech” and “insults” — and Germany’s police have been raiding the homes of such internet participants for years. Merz himself has filed hundreds of criminal complaints against ordinary German citizens perceived to have insulted him online, including against a 71-year-old pensioner who committed the unconscionable crime of calling him “Pinocchio” on Facebook….
- Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the totalitarian strain has become just as strong, if not worse. The government has been making examples of citizens who protest the mass migration, which has been continuing across the UK’s open borders.
- By contrast, the men who were arrested on September 27 for what is believed to have been an Iranian-orchestrated attempted attack on England’s RAF Fairford air base, used by U.S. warplanes to carry out strikes on Iran, were all released on bail the next day.
- [T]he UK government has released more than 70,000 criminals early since 2024 under the Labour government’s plan to “combat jail overcrowding.” So far, since their release, a third of those released have committed new crimes. One man sexually assaulted a woman the day he was freed. Some of the victims of the criminals released early have fled the country.
- The room they are eager to make in prisons seems to be for ordinary citizens fed up with how their country is run and had the gall to state it. That is how it works in totalitarian systems. Criminals are freed so that dissidents can take their places.
- Over three years of pro-Hamas protests inciting violence in the form of calling for a “global intifada” and “intifada revolution is the only solution” on the streets of Britain, not a single protester even came close to that kind of sentencing, even though Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK. Protesters who wore the Hamas paraglider symbol or the Hamas headband were convicted of terrorism offenses but discharged by friendly judges and never served any time in prison.
- It is evidently all right to be carried away by emotion in favor of Hamas’ mass slaughter, dismemberment and rape of Jews. The judge even seems to be saying that their view is understandable… When it comes to trying to protect your family from predatory third-world illegal male migrants arriving by the thousands on the shores of your country, that is not all right.
- This seems to be how the UK “justice” system works. If you support Hamas, a terrorist organization, it is considered either not really support at all, or not to cause “serious harm.” Instead, protesting illegal immigration must immediately be punished with unconditional prison sentences. If this is not an example of the state emboldening terrorism, it would be hard to say what is.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it clear that he wants to end anonymity on the internet. “I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking,” he said. In other words, he wants the government, and the big tech companies, to know exactly who is behind every single comment, tweet, and meme on the internet. Pictured: Merz delivers a speech in Munich on October 24, 2026. (Photo by Alexandra Beier/ AFP via Getty Images)
Germany’s governing coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), increasingly desperate to cling to power as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) continues to hammer them in the polls, is turning ever more totalitarian.
For a start, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it clear that he wants to end anonymity on the internet.
“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking,” Merz said back in February. “In politics, we engage in debates in our society using our real names and without visors.”
In other words, Merz wants the government, and the big tech companies, to know exactly who is behind every single comment, tweet, and meme on the internet.
