Hello Mission21, many thanks for your post.
'Totalitarian Germany'
- Interesting perspective.
It is becoming.. another Nazi Germany?
- Many historians view that Germany under Hitler was
'Totalitarian State'..
I would define "totalitarian" as: a state in which there is a divide between on the one side the government bureaucracy and on the other side the people, AND where the government and its bureaucracy are intentionally and by design keeping the people subjected to them. I.e. a totalitarian state works on the model of a slave system; in the eyes of the government bureaucracy, the people (outside of the government bureaucracy) are not worth as much as those in government.
My model example for a totalitarian state is Egypt under the Pharaos, and the ancient Mesopotamian states (like Uruk). The king was God, totally above his subjects.
In the past year months in Germany, Germany has in my view crossed the threshold, and changed from a "democratic state" into a "totalitarian state". And it has done this by misuse of the Corona scare. Specifically, on November 18th 2020, the German federal government has passed the law called the "Drittes Gesetz zum Schutz der Bevölkerung bei einer epidemischen Lage von nationaler Tragweite" (Third Corona-Law)
https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=Dritt...pidemischen+Lage+von+nationaler+Tragweite&f=1 , also called the "Infektionsschutzgesetz" (Infection Safety Law), which has (in my view) drastically curtailed basic civil rights from the German constitution. The most important points are this law allows authorities (federal government and local authorities) to violate the right of freedom of assembly, and the right of "Inviolability of the home".
The effect of the first point is that assembly of more than five people is now forbidden everywhere (even in the small town where I live, which is one of the least Corona-affected parts of Germany), unless you first register your meeting with the authorities, after which the police, even when there are only 6 people meeting, will then show up with TWO police officers at your meeting, and will enforce that everyone wears their mask, and that the person who registered the meeting passes around a form in which every attendant enter their name and contact details, and that people keep a distance of 1.5 meters from each other.
The effect of the second point is that authorities are now by law allowed to enter a person's home without warrant, on the mere SUSPICION that you MIGHT be infected, and that the authorities are then allowed to view and make copies of EVERY document in your possession. And it is not possible to refuse the authorities to enter your home, it is only possible to fight the thing AFTERWARD, after it has already taken place.
I have to admit that I personally have not yet seen the second measure actually being enacted. But the first measure (the assembly thing) I have, it is in my view ridiculous. Church services are falling under the same regulation. I am not a church-goer and do not know the details personally, but in the internet am seeing reports saying that going to a church service should now be allowed only when you register beforehand (where?) and even that SINGING(!!) should now be disallowed in church (
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gottesdienste-corona-101.html).
And another thing that you see happening everywhere in Germany is that all of a sudden since about 4 months now, the POLICE is being used in public to enforce the Corona rules (mask wearing, distance) in a way that, in my view, has overstepped into the area of terrorizing the population. There are police in public places everywhere, keeping a look out for mask violations, and they are acting in a heartless way. I've seen a group of 5-6 black-clad police in riot gear accost an old lady in a train station because (allegedly) she didn't follow the mask rules strictly enough. Via rumour (an aquaintaince with an acquaintance working for the police) I heard that police authorities are *instructing* their officers to act in that severe way. As a civilian who has always respected the police as the defenders of public order, I now view them as an instrument that is (it seems to me) being misused by the government for the purpose of instilling fear in the population.
Another thing in Germany is that since about 4-5 months now, EVERY SINGLE restaurant, diner, pub has been totally closed by the government. They have entirely closed down that part of economy. So as a result, people now can only meet in small groups, and either at home or in the open air.
So the thing that is, in my view, happening here is that the FEAR of Corona, as propagated by the mass media, has been misused by the government to put in laws that curtail civil rights (and that repress social life). In my view, the main culprit here is however the PEOPLE, namely the German people are so ridiculously cowardly and law-abiding. It seems they dumbly carry out every stupid law that any authority enacts, regardless of whether the law is sensible and regardless of any pain the law brings them. There is (in my view) almost no spirit whatsoever of rebelliousness.
There do exist small protests, but they are very lukewarm, and the people participating in them are a small minority of the population, I would estimate 5% or less. I've been on the streets in the small town where I live trying to interest people for meetings critical of these laws, and the response I got was that roughly 20% agrees with me, that roughly 40% have no opinion and do not care, and that roughly 40% actually blame me for being irresponsible in pushing for and advertising these meetings (irresponsible because they totally buy into the mass media message that Corona is a total emergeny situation, even though the data says that the number of deaths from Corona are no larger than any normal influenza wave). (But note the majority of these 20% who agree with me cowardly stay at home and never engage in any kind of protest.)
I currently live in the formerly communist, eastern, part of Germany (near Leipzig). Older people who have lived here under the communists tell me that they feel that the situation now is actually worse than under the communists, namely that right now the depth of indoctrination under the population is deeper than under the communists.
A pensioner neighbor says to me that Hermann Göring (of the Nazis in 1933-1945) has said in the Nuremberg Trials that the only thing he had needed to keep populations suppressed was FEAR. I think the same thing is happening right now, in Western Europe as a whole.
With regard specifically to your question about Nazis: It's slighly more subtle than that. The same thing is happening all over Western Europe; that is governments seem to be doing (or attempting) the same everywhere in Western Europe. The problem is in my view especially bad in Germany because the population in Germany is by nature so cowardly, so much on the side of valuing safety above freedom. (My analysis is that all the courageous and freedom-loving Germans probably have already left for the US a long time ago.) And the new totalitarianism is not the old Nazi ideology, but is the new "neo-marxist" ideology (the one that relativizes good and evil, the one that propagates the idiotic new gender nonsense, the one that believes in global warming or climate change and all these new hypes, the one that condones the antifa movement). One characteristic of this ideology is that it *demonizes* all critics: discussion is not welcomed, but instead divergent opinions are treated as "sin", and people not touting the line are viewed as less than human (exactly as under the communists in Russia). The mass media in Western Europe are constantly spouting vitriol against Poland and Hungary (whose governments are to some extent resisting those neo-marxist hypes), and have been doing exactly the same against Trump and his movement. I'm not very familiar with US politics, but I would tend to classify Biden as sitting in the same camp as those neo-marxist / leftist politicians who are now in power in Western Europe and who are right now enacting those over-the-top regulations (which are allegedly to "protect" the population from the "Corona emergency").
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So how is the situation in your part of the world with respect to government rules enacted on the pretext of Corona? How stringent are these rules, how much do they curtail basic civil rights? How are these rules enforced? How does the population react to these rules? Are church services still allowed, and is it still allowed for a person to visit a church service without RSVPing beforehand? Are restaurants and diners still open?
With best Greetings and may the Spirit and the Light be with you.
