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Cologne prosecutors charge Twitter user for the crime of assembling a
list of Covid-era insults that politicians and celebrities directed
against the unvaccinated
EUGYPPIUS
JUN 14, 2024
Almost two years ago, on 26 July 2022, a German Twitter user known only
as MicLiberal posted a thread that culminated in his criminal trial this >week. His is but the latest in a long line of such prosecutions the
tactic our rulers increasingly favour to intimidate and harass those who
use their freedom of expression in inconvenient ways.
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MicLiberal committed his alleged offence as Germany was still awakening
from months of hypervaccination insanity. Science authorities and
politicians had spent the winter decrying the tyranny of the
unvaccinated, demanding that we have to take care of the unvaccinated,
and make vaccination compulsory, firing people who protested
institutional vaccine mandates on social media and denouncing the >unvaccinated for ongoing virus restrictions and Covid deaths. Our
neighbour, Austria, even went so far as to impose a specific lockdown on >those who refused the Covid vaccines. Culturally and politically, those
were the darkest months I have ever lived through; they changed my life >forever and I will never forget them.
MicLiberals thread aimed only to memorialise some of the crazy things
the vaccinators had said. It opened with this tweet:
We were complicit!
We marginalised, defamed, discredited, insulted and cancelled people. On >behalf of science!
By popular demand, this brief thread with statements that should not be >forgotten:
There ensued nothing but a series of citations, most of them wholly
typical samples of vintage 2021/22 vaccinator rhetoric, much of it not
even that remarkable. For example, MicLiberal included this statement
from Andreas Berholz, deputy editor-in-chief of the widely read blog Der >Volksverpetzer:
Fact-check: The unvaccinated remain the main drivers of the pandemic.
And he included this statement from former President of Germany Wilhelm >Gauck:
Opponents of vaccination are idiots.
And he posted this old ad from the city of Erkelenz (Nordrhein-Westfalen):
Your party is your grandmothers death. Stay home!
Bild
And near the end of his thread he added this citation, from the the
health economist Willy Oggier:
Corona sceptics forfeit their right to a place in intensive care in the >event of overcrowding.
You might be wondering what crime MicLiberal can possibly have committed
by drawing attention to these already-public statements. The most honest >answer is that his thread achieved millions of views in a matter of
days, and at a very awkward moment precisely when everyone was
beginning to regret all the illiberal and wildly intemperate things they
had said in the depths of the virus craze. He had embarrassed some very
vain and powerful people with their own incredibly stupid words, and
today many are of the opinion that that ought to be a crime in and of
itself.
Alas, things have not yet deteriorated that far. Thus the police and >prosecutors were left to scour our dense thicket of laws for a more
plausible offence. They decided that their best chance lay with a novel >provision of the German Criminal Code (Paragraph 126a). This provision
makes it a crime to disseminate the personal data of another person in
a matter that is intended to expose this person to the risk of a
criminal offence directed against them. On 28 July, two days after >MicLiberal posted his 25 tweets, Cologne police filed a criminal
complaint against him, and afterwards the Cologne prosecutors office
brought charges, arguing that MicLiberal had suggested that the people
he cited were perpetrators and therefore associated them with
fascism. The district court declined to approve the charges, but the >prosecutors appealed to the regional court, where the judges saw things >differently. They believed that a prosecution was warranted because of
the heated social debate surrounding Covid measures, and because >MicLiberals audience was composed of homogeneous like-minded people,
who (in the summary of the Berliner Zeitung) could either form groups
or encourage individual members to commit acts of violence. MicLiberal
had furthermore assembled his citations from a website that the judges
deemed guilty of an anti-government orientation.
We must take a moment to ponder this truly amazing argumentation, which
would seem to criminalise such things as participating in the wrong >discussions before the wrong kind of people and assembling ones (wholly >accurate) data from the wrong sources. In each of these cases, of
course, it is the prosecutors and the judges eager to apply Paragraph
126a to their political opponents who get to decide what is wrong.
Im happy to say MicLiberal was acquitted two days ago at the Cologne >district court, after his lawyer the excellent Jessica Hamed drew >attention to the absurdity of the prosecution:
It is not only legitimate, but even ethically required, to strongly
object to transgressive statements by people who occupy a prominent
position in society, such as politicians or doctors. This is because
these statements were discriminatory and threatened social peace.
Should it be legal [for] the former Federal President Gauck to say: >Opponents of vaccination are idiots, but illegal for my client to say
that others have been insulted, defamed and marginalised by these
statements?
Anyone who makes public statements must expect that their statements
will be commented on, evaluated, socially condemned, and so on. This is >because there is no entitlement to be free from criticism. There is no
right to be able to communicate ones views to the public without >contradiction or criticism
Although this is specifically about my client, it is also being decided
today whether people are being pushed further and further into the
private sphere by threats of punishment. It is obvious that if my client
were convicted today, this conviction would send out a devastating signal.
It is a measure of how far the Federal Republic has deteriorated, that >arguments like these have to be made at criminal trials. Fortunately,
the authoritarian turn in German politics has penetrated the judiciary
least of all, and so there is still some protection for those caught
speaking in inconvenient ways. Emphasis, of course, belongs on some,
because frivolous prosecutions like that of MicLiberal alone suffice as >punishment and signal.
Friends often advise me to take a different tone here at the plague >chronicle. Calling prominent politicians and scientists stupid idiots is
an unnecessary risk, they argue, and could open me to prosecution for
insult; some of my posts about mass migration might be interpreted as
running afoul of criminal provisions against incitement; comparing the >Federal Republic to the DDR may draw the attention of the constitutional >protectors. What we learn from MicLiberals case is that it doesnt
matter at all what you say. All the caution in the world is not
protection enough; if you embarrass and humiliate the right people,
theyll come for you. And I have to admit that it would be quite an
honour to be prosecuted by these flaming fucking egregious retards, I
would wear it as a badge of honour for the rest of my life. As I hope >MicLiberal will.
UPDATE: According to Welt reporter Tim Rhn, the prosecutors intend to
appeal the acquittal. An incredible travesty of justice.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJI am wonderfully hungry!
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1dfwo94/cologne_prosecutors_charge_twitter_user_for_the/
Cologne prosecutors charge Twitter user for the crime of assembling a >>>list of Covid-era insults that politicians and celebrities directed >>>against the unvaccinated
EUGYPPIUS
JUN 14, 2024
Almost two years ago, on 26 July 2022, a German Twitter user known only >>>as MicLiberal posted a thread that culminated in his criminal trial this >>>week. His is but the latest in a long line of such prosecutions the >>>tactic our rulers increasingly favour to intimidate and harass those who >>>use their freedom of expression in inconvenient ways.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle is a reader-supported publication. maybe >>>you subscribe?
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MicLiberal committed his alleged offence as Germany was still awakening >>>from months of hypervaccination insanity. Science authorities and >>>politicians had spent the winter decrying the tyranny of the >>>unvaccinated, demanding that we have to take care of the unvaccinated, >>>and make vaccination compulsory, firing people who protested >>>institutional vaccine mandates on social media and denouncing the >>>unvaccinated for ongoing virus restrictions and Covid deaths. Our >>>neighbour, Austria, even went so far as to impose a specific lockdown on >>>those who refused the Covid vaccines. Culturally and politically, those >>>were the darkest months I have ever lived through; they changed my life >>>forever and I will never forget them.
MicLiberals thread aimed only to memorialise some of the crazy things >>>the vaccinators had said. It opened with this tweet:
We were complicit!
We marginalised, defamed, discredited, insulted and cancelled people. On >>>behalf of science!
By popular demand, this brief thread with statements that should not be >>>forgotten:
There ensued nothing but a series of citations, most of them wholly >>>typical samples of vintage 2021/22 vaccinator rhetoric, much of it not >>>even that remarkable. For example, MicLiberal included this statement >>>from Andreas Berholz, deputy editor-in-chief of the widely read blog Der >>>Volksverpetzer:
Fact-check: The unvaccinated remain the main drivers of the pandemic.
And he included this statement from former President of Germany Wilhelm >>>Gauck:
Opponents of vaccination are idiots.
And he posted this old ad from the city of Erkelenz (Nordrhein-Westfalen): >>>
Your party is your grandmothers death. Stay home!
Bild
And near the end of his thread he added this citation, from the the >>>health economist Willy Oggier:
Corona sceptics forfeit their right to a place in intensive care in the >>>event of overcrowding.
You might be wondering what crime MicLiberal can possibly have committed >>>by drawing attention to these already-public statements. The most honest >>>answer is that his thread achieved millions of views in a matter of
days, and at a very awkward moment precisely when everyone was >>>beginning to regret all the illiberal and wildly intemperate things they >>>had said in the depths of the virus craze. He had embarrassed some very >>>vain and powerful people with their own incredibly stupid words, and >>>today many are of the opinion that that ought to be a crime in and of >>>itself.
Alas, things have not yet deteriorated that far. Thus the police and >>>prosecutors were left to scour our dense thicket of laws for a more >>>plausible offence. They decided that their best chance lay with a novel >>>provision of the German Criminal Code (Paragraph 126a). This provision >>>makes it a crime to disseminate the personal data of another person in
a matter that is intended to expose this person to the risk of a >>>criminal offence directed against them. On 28 July, two days after >>>MicLiberal posted his 25 tweets, Cologne police filed a criminal >>>complaint against him, and afterwards the Cologne prosecutors office >>>brought charges, arguing that MicLiberal had suggested that the people
he cited were perpetrators and therefore associated them with >>>fascism. The district court declined to approve the charges, but the >>>prosecutors appealed to the regional court, where the judges saw things >>>differently. They believed that a prosecution was warranted because of >>>the heated social debate surrounding Covid measures, and because >>>MicLiberals audience was composed of homogeneous like-minded people, >>>who (in the summary of the Berliner Zeitung) could either form groups
or encourage individual members to commit acts of violence. MicLiberal >>>had furthermore assembled his citations from a website that the judges >>>deemed guilty of an anti-government orientation.
We must take a moment to ponder this truly amazing argumentation, which >>>would seem to criminalise such things as participating in the wrong >>>discussions before the wrong kind of people and assembling ones (wholly >>>accurate) data from the wrong sources. In each of these cases, of
course, it is the prosecutors and the judges eager to apply Paragraph >>>126a to their political opponents who get to decide what is wrong.
Im happy to say MicLiberal was acquitted two days ago at the Cologne >>>district court, after his lawyer the excellent Jessica Hamed drew >>>attention to the absurdity of the prosecution:
It is not only legitimate, but even ethically required, to strongly >>>object to transgressive statements by people who occupy a prominent >>>position in society, such as politicians or doctors. This is because >>>these statements were discriminatory and threatened social peace.
Should it be legal [for] the former Federal President Gauck to say: >>>Opponents of vaccination are idiots, but illegal for my client to say >>>that others have been insulted, defamed and marginalised by these >>>statements?
Anyone who makes public statements must expect that their statements >>>will be commented on, evaluated, socially condemned, and so on. This is >>>because there is no entitlement to be free from criticism. There is no >>>right to be able to communicate ones views to the public without >>>contradiction or criticism
Although this is specifically about my client, it is also being decided >>>today whether people are being pushed further and further into the >>>private sphere by threats of punishment. It is obvious that if my client >>>were convicted today, this conviction would send out a devastating signal. >>>
It is a measure of how far the Federal Republic has deteriorated, that >>>arguments like these have to be made at criminal trials. Fortunately,
the authoritarian turn in German politics has penetrated the judiciary >>>least of all, and so there is still some protection for those caught >>>speaking in inconvenient ways. Emphasis, of course, belongs on some, >>>because frivolous prosecutions like that of MicLiberal alone suffice as >>>punishment and signal.
Friends often advise me to take a different tone here at the plague >>>chronicle. Calling prominent politicians and scientists stupid idiots is >>>an unnecessary risk, they argue, and could open me to prosecution for >>>insult; some of my posts about mass migration might be interpreted as >>>running afoul of criminal provisions against incitement; comparing the >>>Federal Republic to the DDR may draw the attention of the constitutional >>>protectors. What we learn from MicLiberals case is that it doesnt >>>matter at all what you say. All the caution in the world is not >>>protection enough; if you embarrass and humiliate the right people, >>>theyll come for you. And I have to admit that it would be quite an >>>honour to be prosecuted by these flaming fucking egregious retards, I >>>would wear it as a badge of honour for the rest of my life. As I hope >>>MicLiberal will.
UPDATE: According to Welt reporter Tim Rhn, the prosecutors intend to >>>appeal the acquittal. An incredible travesty of justice.
In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's >>secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all** >>appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given >>moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly >>contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
"convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and >>self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no >>longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( >>https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ >>) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (DeuteronomyThank you for noting that I have no COVID.
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.
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