One of the most picaresque, but in many ways telling, episodes of Germany’s Covid experience occurred on the placid shores of the idyllic Ellbogensee (Elbow Lake) in northeastern Germany.
Eugyppius has been reporting on this man and on the state of the state... it is now dangerous to even name the country, so it seems. Recently a girl was grilled by police fro something that 20 years ago would have sounded patriotic!
A different law (which was referred to by the same expression) concerning insults against representatives of *foreign* states. The statute on Germany itself (para. 188) was retained.
Why?
Perhaps because Germany is anything BUT a 'modern, democratic country'.
Eugyppius has been reporting on this man and on the state of the state... it is now dangerous to even name the country, so it seems. Recently a girl was grilled by police fro something that 20 years ago would have sounded patriotic!
Ain't "democracy" swell?
didn’t Germany revoke lese majeste law in 2017?
A different law (which was referred to by the same expression) concerning insults against representatives of *foreign* states. The statute on Germany itself (para. 188) was retained.
"And, by the way, why does any modern, democratic country even have a lèse-majesté law?"
Because sometimes, the ruler may want to prosecute or persecute vocal opponents to the regime, so others will be warned and know to behave.
And as political opponents might not be obliging enough to commit real crimes, lese majeste or similar under other name(s) is necessary.
Whether it is right, good, justified or even all that effective is an entirely different matter.
No one does bootlicking quite like the German State and its political puppets.
Protect the criminal class at all costs.