There are others, but just off the top of my head, Ursula Haverbeck has been repeatedly jailed and is currently in jail for speech deemed criminal in Germany. You can find this information in a number of mainstream sources, including wikipedia, although the only sources I can find that have reported on her most recent imprisonment are German-language.
No, that’s fine. You provided the citation, which I genuinely do appreciate and thank you for.
As far as Haverbeck herself goes, all I can say is I’m grateful for the First Amendment. And yes, per your other comment, I am aware that certain political speech is criminalized in Germany, but that’s partly because we and the rest of the Allies forced that on them as part of de-Nazification and the ending of the formal occupation. I’m not saying that because I like the idea of criminalizing speech - I don’t. Rather, no matter how odious I may find said speech, I take the position that the best response is “more speech”.
My take on your comment suggested that this was more along the lines of people who were publicizing the fact that the Cologne rapes were the work of Muslim men and that they did it with impunity and weren’t punished, which, while politically inconvenient, is something that has to be acknowledged because it
does pose a threat to about half the population of the country.
Ironically, the current behaviour of the German establishment does nothing but strengthen the AfD. Suppressing the feeling of a good chunk of the population does not make it go away, it only galvanizes and attracts more to their banner as more and more people just become fed up with an inept, drunk on power establishment. This pattern is repeating throughout Europe and I think it's inevitable the nationalists emerge victorious. The only question is just what kind of mess will they have to fix by then?
Exactly. The Italians just brought a guy in to be their PM despite him
not being a member of the Italian parliament because they’re afraid of Lega winning elections if they were to be called now, because Italy is a monumental clusterfuck and it would have ramifications across Europe if they won and in turn flipped the EU the bird, which would almost certainly happen because the EU is itself a massive dumpster fire.
And I don’t know what the result would be. I do, however, know that this is yet one more reason I thank God every day that I’m an American.