Germany is considering banning the most popular nationalist party in the country. On Friday, Germany’s domestic spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), designated the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) an extremist organization. This opens the door for unlimited surveillance, infiltration, and a possible outright ban. Euractiv reported:
The agency is now legally allowed to deploy surveillance methods, including recruiting sources and financial investigations, as soon as a party is suspected of extremist ideology. It may also monitor the party’s communications, but only with prior parliamentary authorisation.
In their 1,100-page internal assessment, the agency found that the AfD’s so-called attempt to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society is “incompatible” with the constitution and the principle of human dignity. This is a sneaky way of saying that the AfD holds the uncontroversial view that German citizens should govern Germany.
“This Is Democracy”
The German Foreign Ministry defended the spy agency’s actions, saying, “This is democracy.” The ministry said this was “the result of a thorough and independent investigation to protect our constitution.” Moreover, it justified the decision as an attempt to prevent the rise of another Nazi party. “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped,” the ministry said.
This latest attack on internal resistance to Germany’s suicidal trajectory is not a surprise to those who’ve been paying attention. As Paul Gottfried of Chronicles said back in March 2022, “the present German regime is only technically ‘democratic.’ In reality, it is a grotesque antifascist dictatorship that is explicitly and unapologetically anti-German.”
Mass Migration
The AfD has gained popularity by railing against the country’s mass-migration policies, energy shortages, and the erosion of national sovereignty.
Among European Union members, Germany has experienced the largest influx of migrants by far. According to Eurostat, Germany had, as of 2022, 10.9 million immigrants, whereas Spain accounted for 5.4 million, France 5.3 million, and Italy 5 million. In 2023, Germany handled 329,000 first-time asylum applications, 31 percent of the EU total. Germany has especially been hit hard by Muslim migrants, which hasn’t gone unnoticed. “Islam is not part of Germany,” the party declares.
Politician Björn Höcke passionately summed up the party’s immigration views this way:
Immigration must not be determined by others. We state to the globalization extremists that Germany is not a settlement region. Germany was the homeland of our ancestors. Germany must be preserved as the home of our children. Germany is our home, our country, our nation. Germany is non-negotiable. Let us take back our country.
Green Energy Scam
Regarding the country’s energy woes, as director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Diana Furchtgott put it, the German people have been “mugged” by the reality of green energy. As of 2023, energy prices increased by 28 percent compared to February 2022. In 2022 alone, natural-gas prices rose 39 percent, while electricity surged by 27 percent. Rising energy prices triggered rising food prices. According to Furchtgott:
Food prices increased by 23%, and the price of pork rose by 59%. The most shocking change was the almost doubling of sugar prices.
Like many European countries, especially in western and northern regions, Germany has been conned by the green scam, and its citizens are paying the price. Germany has been phasing out nuclear and coal-fired power plants. Most of its nuclear plants have closed in the last decade. The energy issue played a big role in former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s resignation.
Threat to Globalism
Perhaps what makes AfD most dangerous is the threat it poses to globalism; it recognizes it for the destructive force it is. AfD leader Alice Weidel said, “We reject an interventionist EU that deprives nations of their sovereignty.” The party explains its anti-globalist positions this way:
We stand for the freedom of the European nations from foreign patronage. Rule of law structures, economic prosperity and a stable, performance-based social system are national responsibilities. We reject the “United States of Europe” as well as an EU as a state from which it is no longer possible to leave. Our goal is a sovereign Germany that guarantees the freedom and security of its citizens, promotes their prosperity and makes its contribution to a peaceful and prosperous Europe…. We are therefore opposed to transforming the European Union into a centralized state. If our basic reform approaches cannot be implemented in the existing EU system, we are striving for Germany to leave the [EU] or a democratic dissolution of the European Union and the establishment of a European economic community.
The AfD’s message resonates with the citizens who want their country to remain prosperous and governed by Germans. The party took second in Germany’s recent federal election behind the Christian Democrats. It has since gained popularity and is now tied with the center-right. The party doubled its vote share in February’s federal elections with 22 percent, and has become the largest opposition force in the new parliament.
AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla condemned the BfV’s ruling as “a severe blow to democracy in Germany.”
American Response
The Americans aren’t happy, either. Vice President JD Vance said:
The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it. The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move what it truly is. He tweeted May 2:
Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy — it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD — which took second in the recent election — but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.
Part of a Pattern
The latest attack on the AfD is part of a global pattern. As people around the world awaken to the fact that globalism threatens their standard of living, their culture, and their national sovereignty, they’re choosing leaders who want to reverse course. But the globalists aren’t content to go gently into the night. They use their control on the institutions they’ve hijacked to prevent the will of the people from prevailing.
On May 31, a French court banned presidential front-runner Marine Le Pen from running for public office for the next five years. She was convicted on what many say are bogus charges of misusing European Union funds. It just so happened one of Le Pen’s most popular stances including rational policies to stop the massive influx of Muslim immigrants into the country.
On March 10, Romania’s Constitutional Court reaffirmed a decision by the Central Election Bureau to bar front-runner presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, terminating his candidacy for good. The official reasons for Georgescu’s elimination were that his popularity was the result of Russian election interference and that he lied about campaign funding. Georgescu just so happened to be anti-EU, anti-UN, pro-traditional values, and a fervent nationalist not wholly on board with Western Europe’s proxy war against Russia.
Judicial activists have railroaded Jair Bolsonaro, the former right-wing president of Brazil, after he lost what many claim was a fraudulent election in 2022. In 2023, the courts barred Bolsonaro from public office until 2030 for supposed abuse of power and attacking the legitimacy of Brazil’s voting system. Brazil’s Supreme Court recently ruled that he will stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government. If found guilty, he could face a lengthy prison sentence.
