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CJ Hopkins's avatar

To all the commenters urging me to run away from Germany, or scolding me for not having already run away from Germany, or blaming me for my situation because I haven't run away from Germany, please give it a rest. I have never been one to run from a fight. Running away and hiding might be the right strategy for some of you, but it isn't for me. I may leave Germany, on my own terms, once this fight is over, but I'm certainly not going to run and hide from these bullies in the middle of it. Some principles and rights are still worth standing up and fighting for. Freedom of speech is one of them.

Tessa's avatar

I pray for your safety and victory, brother. No lie can last forever, your good heart is destined to prevail

Freedom Fox's avatar

Such thin skins, they can't take a joke...maybe it's not a joke, cuts too close to home, they think it's leaked private photos and emails?

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Gavin Mounsey's avatar

I’ll join Tessa in that prayer.

God speed and much respect from the fascist corporate regime of Canada

Al X. Griz's avatar

I remember talking to you about why you remain in Germany when you visited here in WV. The conviction in your eyes and voice said it all. Godspeed to you, CJ. You’ve got stones and are the real deal.

s r's avatar

You can run but you can't hide. This globalist cabul is coming to a country near you. This will soon be the death of them and it will be due to their fascist Marxist technocratic globalists ways.

sourapples's avatar

i don't know. A Mexican beach is looking pretty good to me

s r's avatar

Already there...their zionist leader has put them under cbdc's

sourapples's avatar

they are pushing for the biometric digital id, but the money hasn't changed...yet anyways

s r's avatar

Absolutely 💯 they are.

Konstantin-'s avatar

Very honorable of you.

Certainly a lot could already be achieved by leaving Berlin for other cities or even the countryside. But some Men are made to fight Titans.

James Orenchak's avatar

I live in a rural area of Germany. Living in a rural area of Germany would not make any difference.

Cynthia Ford's avatar

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

Your silence will not protect you

Audre Lorde

Martine Zee's avatar

Exactly. I admire your gumption. Things can never get better they can only get worse if people don't stand up and fight against oppression.

Roger Mitchell's avatar

You go, CJ. I concur completely. Where would we be if everyone simply quit and ran away because they experienced a spot of trouble? I salute you for your stance and wish you the best.

Eve's avatar

Well said! You reminded me why I subscribe, you're a true dissident.

Bill Poindexter's avatar

Keep up the good fight! People like you who are changing the world making it a better place! God loves you, my friend.

substantial stacks's avatar

The German state has no way to change course without a collapse of the US, Greater Israel and NATO. The Nazis and the holo-cause is the defining narrative for these entities and Germany is the epicenter of that narrative.

Over 90% of Germans are thoroughly brainwashed on this matter and will not change their mind by information. The brainwashing is childhood trauma-based and cannot be undone by any intellectual process. The Germans are also rather enjoying all the money from the EU scam and are now the new Americans.

Stephen Morton's avatar

I wish I had your optimism.

gas stone's avatar

Resistance = resilience; Key for humanity's survival from these Imperial trans humanist's political psychopathy.

Humanity should all resist, you are setting an example.

Gary Weglarz's avatar

Ah, the irony at play in the Gestapo showing up at the door to charge you with being - of all things - "pro-Nazi." You can't make this up.

The Real Mary Rose's avatar

It is so insane and yeah, the irony is off the charts.

Morris's avatar

The irony is totally off the charts! We must all make it common, yet, very personal, knowledge that the power we wrestle against is not the flesh and blood that exists at a time yet so near a penetrating example of pure evil, but we wrestle instead against the powers and principalities of a higher realm than this carnal state we abide within. Not to believe in God is to not believe in the devil. To not believe in neither is to not recognize the need for prayers, an appeal to a higher power to infill us with his spirit, and provoke empower us unto good works, to go before us, to guide us in our governing affairs, and to surround us with a hedge of protection, that we might leave to our posterity a light in the darkness and hope of a future, able to overcome evil, the grave, and death. We turn from God too easily and are too often prevented by pride from confessing our error and finding help. Thus we repeat mistakes that we've yet to learn lessons from. Bless those who hold fast a righteous standard!

The Real Mary Rose's avatar

So well said, Morris. 🙏🎯

RegretLeft's avatar

In the early years of the 1000 Year Reich, people - often, not always, Jews -returning from foreign travel were routinely arrested by the Gestapo. The legal framework was established early - after the Reichstag fire - specifically allowing for prolonged custody without charges - huge change from Weimar. Same op even if advanced technologies of control no longer require the expense of large scale incarceration. CJ can rest - no doubt uneasily - in his own bed for now.

Bill Poindexter's avatar

Total flipping Nazis. You’re right you can’t make this shit up… It’s like something out of a WW 2 world war movie.

DrLatusDextro's avatar

So telling to see low wattage camp guards all dressed in black with faces concealed and shifty staring eyes. The moral cowardice on display in the mirror is for all to see.

Gregg Zuman's avatar

It’s not ironic. It’s fascism. (Or “ANTIFA” as some would have it lol.)

Medical Freedom San Francisco's avatar

Shocking.

A criminal cartel runs every major government on this planet.

Gary Weglarz's avatar

This quote speaks to your point:

“I think there are surveys that say that almost 90% of the population of the world wants this to stop (Gaza), but there is no connection between democratically elected governments and the will of the people. It’s ended. So, the whole charade of Western liberal democracy is as much of a corpse under the rubble as the tens of thousands of Palestinians.”

- Arundhati Roy

VanishingTribe's avatar

I suggested you move to a more speech amenable locale a few years ago. "Reasons" were given for not doing so. I think you need to reconsider. There is obviously a state-sponsored jihad against you. Someone(s) in the government is out to get you, no matter how long it takes. GTFO!

marlon1492's avatar

I was thinking the same thing. It's clear that Germany is no longer a safe place for people who speak their minds. Eugyppius has been reporting similar situations more and more of late and it seems the thought police infrastructure in Germany is much deeper than I could ever have imagined.

I don't understand why hardly anyone seems to care.

Feral Finster's avatar

Europe in general. The european political class have no priority other than The War On Russia and are quick to silence anyone who might get in the way of their grand project.

Catharina Lovreglio's avatar

I care👌🏻and i feel a really big shame for this🇩🇪🫣As a german old woman… I see the parallels to a time 80 years ago, in which my grandma was in KZ👌🏻🫣🤦🏼‍♀️So sorry for CJH🙏🏻🌹

Red Pill Poet's avatar

In case you've not seen this ... https://www.racket.news/p/the-censorship-industrial-complexs ... covers "the thought police infrastructure in Germany" quite thoroughly.

s r's avatar

They'll care once it happens to them

GreaterIsrahell's avatar

...., and then it'll be too late.

Upstream's avatar

Dissenting speech has been criminalized in other countries as well (U.K., Ireland). Soon, perhaps, the rest of Europe. Should they all pour into the U.S. as free speech refugees? Possibly. Or stay and fight as long as the funds last, like C.J. The latter course may spark a popular backlash to gov't restriction.

GreaterIsrahell's avatar

"Should they all pour into the U.S. as free speech refugees?"

Free speech in the US? Bullshit! I know that from experience. I lived there during the so-called "Hostage Chrisis". You know, the one that George Herbert Walker Bush created during the Carter administration, and he prolonged untill Ronnie Raygun was sworn in.

I tried to tell some people about the 1953 overthrow of Mosadegh, and the subsequent 26 years of dictatorship under Reza Pahlavi being the root cause. I was lucky to get out of there with all my teeth and no black eyes even though there were three against one.

MakerOfNoise's avatar

CJ, you should flee to America. You'll stay in spare bedrooms. You'll meet with local sympathizers after dark. You'll drive a loud convertible from city to city, one step ahead of the authorities that want to extradite you. You'll be on an endless underground railroad to nowhere. You could even write about the experience!

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MakerOfNoise's avatar

You've got to hand it to CJ. The man's got principles and he's nobody's bitch.

BlackSheep's avatar

Concur. Time to reconsider (and I hope his wife is by now amenable, if she hasn't so far been). The hassle and exhaustion and disruption of moving can't possibly be worse than this endless ordeal, and people are too distracted and mostly shallow for any resultant free-speech martyrdom (not meant cynically) to matter.

TheLastBattleStation's avatar

Freedom of speech isn’t about people speaking freely, it’s about people being free to listen, or in this context, writing/reading. CJ could win, meaning charges dropped, but if you are relying on government to decide whether you have freedom of speech, you’ve already lost.

BlackSheep's avatar

And that horse bolted the barn long ago there.

Wolfgang Exel Watson's avatar

What can be won by ending up in a German prison cell? Hoping for the Streisand effect? It's way overdue to leave the sinking ship. Especially as an American - as the resuscitated regime hates Trump and America.

BlackSheep's avatar

Nothing to be gained by that, or by staying there even out of prison. No practical ease to enjoy or moral point now to be made by doing that.

I doubt, however, that Mr. Hopkins admires or would be seeking the shelter of Pres. Trump or the current version of the U.S., but rather the customary, vestigial assumption of personal liberty that yet survives here to a significant degree, and will likely make either its last stand or its renaissance here, if there is to be one.

Ray Noack's avatar

Yes . He could move to Montana and say whatever he wants . He could go on Tucker Carlson and call Tucker a Nazi if he wanted . Tucker is used to it . Instant 10 million views .

Lay it all out . You can chime in on JFK , “9/11 ,Iraq, Covid ( especially) in friendly territory.

Also Tucker has sway with Musk .

BA's avatar

Could you do us all a favour and actually provide a name for this mythical locale that is "more speech amenable"?!! The globalist communo-fascist left has succeeded in taking over 90% of this planet. As in; The Revolution is finally nearing completion Comrads. There may be some temporary anomalies such as El Salvador and Argentina but they won't last. And please don't mention Kanuckistan - the once pseudo-free country formerly known as Canada.

VanishingTribe's avatar

It's easier to suggest where NOT to move. Perhaps it would be wise to avoid any of the following:

United Kingdom (13,000+ annual arrests)

Germany (~3,500 annual arrests)

Belarus (hundreds annual arrests)

China (hundreds annual documented arrests/imprisonments)

Russia (hundreds annually under fake news laws)

Turkey (hundreds imprisoned annually)

Vietnam (~40+ annual imprisonments)

Thailand (~50–60 annual charges/imprisonments under lèse-majesté)

Iran (dozens to hundreds annually)

Egypt (dozens imprisoned annually)

Saudi Arabia (dozens imprisoned annually)

Myanmar (dozens annually)

Kenya (hundreds arrested annually during protests, several imprisoned)

Cuba (several dozen annually)

Venezuela (dozens annually)

North Korea (systematic imprisonment, exact annual unknown)

Eritrea (systematic long-term imprisonment, exact annual unknown)

Sources: Freedom House; PEN America; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch

BA's avatar

You missed Kanuckistan (Canada). The current crop of Comrades are busily crafting and ramming through censorship legislation (c-8, c-9 formerly c-63 & c-18 (the latter implemented)). While there may not have been criminal sanctions, as yet, let's not forget what the so-called "Human Rights" cabal (Canadian Human Rights Commission & its provincial affiliates) can do to a person, i.e., bankrupt them. Just ask Ezra Levant or Mark Stein how that works.

Mason B's avatar

But where to, these days?

jay's avatar

or maybe what will happen is that we'll start seeing groups of 500 guys armed to the teeth with lasers that can kill drones in a split second coming in and making the current crop of german jew-obeying dumbasses take their clothes off and handcuff themselves to trees with the last ones still not handcuffed smearing syrup on the others before handcuffing themselves to the trees.

Foxton's avatar

It is surreal in the true sense of the word. I watch with horror what is happening around me and in Europe (I'm in Canada and we definitely have similar issues) and it seems like a bad dream. I know it's real but it is hard to get it to sink in knowing that we are witnessing another totalitarian purge occur right in front of us. The shocking thing is the percentage of people who still think the "authorities" are just looking out for us and keeping us safe. Best of luck with your legal efforts against this crazy regime!

Ray Noack's avatar

Cross the border and move to Montana . It is our “ safe house “

Foxton's avatar

I used to live in Calgary and would pop down to Montana frequently. I'm pretty old so back then it still had a hardcore atmosphere of real cowboys and real cowboy rules. We loved it. Beautiful state. Last Chance saloon at the border with "Big Red" and then down to the bars in Whitefish and Kalispell!

I am not your Other's avatar

So sorry CJ. That is insane.

Rob D's avatar

Well, as a free speech absolutist I wouldn't care even if the book was some kind of "nazi" love fest. I can choose whether I want to read it or not.

Somehow we have been transported to an age where people don't know how to turn the channel, find the off switch, unsubscribe, don't buy, or not read something they don't like. I grew up when we really only had an off switch because the same drivel was on the 3 channels we had available. I will never understand how the younger generations somehow feel like they are "forced" into watching, reading, listening to, or "friending" everyone, when it's never been easier to avoid content you don't want.

Alice in Wonderland's avatar

That, too (the condition of the youth) is by design ~ it has been engineered, and is orchestrated 24/7 by TPTB.

Upstream's avatar

"I can choose whether I want to read it or not..."

No, it's darker than that. The narrative must be controlled. You can't be allowed the choice, you can't even think there is a choice, lest you resist vaccination, or meal worms. Agenda 2030 is coming at us like a locomotive.

Roger Mitchell's avatar

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." -- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Even if Agenda 2030 is going to run us over in just a few years, we can still choose to maintain our own personal freedom of thought, just as Frankl described and Rob D has written. We can be slaves or we can think for ourselves.

Upstream's avatar

Great quote and great sentiment, Mr. Mitchell. But I was hoping we could rise up during this administration, in America, and turn the threat back. There are times I think Europe is past the tipping point, but not the US. Probably emailing your Senators and Representative regularly about the weaponization of gov't, censorship, digital ID, CBDC, and your personal favorites is a good use of representative gov't and of what we still possess of the Bill of Rights.

Sean O'Reilly's avatar

We know what you're getting at in your writings which are vehemently anti-fascist, but fascists tend to have no sense of discernment. I think it's time to get out of Germany before they ruin your life.

Foxton's avatar

The authorities know he's anti-fascist and that's why they are harassing him.

gas stone's avatar

Agree, possibly from his home country.

Franz Kafka's avatar

Fascists have no discernment of course, but they make up for it with a sense of rabid self-preservation. The goons dressed in Swat Black that do the enforcing are just brain-damaged, ambulatory excrement.

Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

Dreadful. So sorry. It’s going to happen to us all in due course.

Wolfgang Exel Watson's avatar

Only if it is allowed to happen. For Germany, that is a given. It's in the German DNA. For the US, there seems to be a bit of a difference still in the DNA. We'll see. For this to happen here, people would have to be entirely disarmed. Like in Germany. I see little chance for that. My neighbors are target practicing with semi-automatic weapons almost every day...

Alice in Wonderland's avatar

Indeed. It is NOT necessarily going to happen to us all. What state of the Union are we talking here? I'm glad to know this, wherever it is, whether it's in The Free State of Florida, or in Maskachusetts (my birthplace and *historically* a freedom fighter stronghold ~ may it become one again!) Anything's possible ~

Feral Finster's avatar

Europeans like being slaves.

Paralleluniversator's avatar

No, that's not true. Ironically it is mainly the big (US)american enterprises that want to make us slaves: FB/META, Google, Apple, Amazon, Pfizer, etc. ...

Feral Finster's avatar

So Pfizer forced poor middle europeans to cancel democracy in Romania (to give one example)? Do tell. And Amazon held a gun to the heads of european institutions and made them cheer?

Paralleluniversator's avatar

I think you know exactly what I meant... There is no need for a gun today, money is king.

Feral Finster's avatar

Ok, so tell us how Amazon.com paid the heads of european institutions and made them cheer.

Arturo 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

No. We don't.

Still waiting for the US peace treaty after ww2.

Feral Finster's avatar

Groveling before senile rulers is a european sport.

Watch how europoliticians abase themselves before American presidents with less self-respect than whipped dogs.

Arturo 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

I still see a meaningful difference between people on the street and politicians, let alone europoliticians.

It's not DNA, it is - in Germany - nearly one century of 'Obrigkeitsgehorsam'. There was very little time for democracy-learning.

Feral Finster's avatar

So what? The politicians orders are still obeyed.

Democracy was basically canceled in Romania for the crime of voting the wrong way. The leading french candidate banned, all to barely a peep.

Giovanni's avatar

Already happening as Dr Mike Yeadon knows for decades! Hamlet)

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

Man-i's avatar

Thats effing crazy. I’m so sorry you have to go through this.

Why do you tolerate this bullshit? Move to Florida!

Sue's avatar

Sure, the "free" state of FL, one of only 5 states in the US where there is NO choice but to get the "REAL-ID".

FL also has a nifty regulation about the state being able to forcibly vax its citizens, only if absolutely necessary, of course. But then again, so does every other state in the union.

Man-i's avatar

the read ID thing was a gift to a political donor. ( thats what these things always are)

The companies that provide the equipment to make ID cards and state drivers licenses lobbied the rep party to get them to make "real ID" mandatory. So now these companies are making BANK providing these services to the various states when people upgrade their licenses. Florida went along with it b/c FL is under republican control. You are being played!

Sue's avatar

No surprise here. The people are always being played, and have been for a long time.

It's of no consequence whether a state is under "republican" or "democrat" control. Buying into that false dichotomy is an example of how too many continue to be played. There's no distinction between the two - it's what some call a uniparty. They all work for the globalist parasites. Both "sides" are intentionally destroying the US.

I wouldn't call the "REAL-ID" an upgrade unless one's on board with the digital-ID. But it won't matter in the end. Whether you got one or not, the monsters have enough data already to funnel all of us into the digital-ID/CBDC gulag.

Susan G's avatar

You cannot get on an airplane without one. That is the reason I got mine. PA, where I live, has non-real ID drivers licenses.

Sue's avatar

Obama started the lie about no "REAL" ID, no plane travel. That convinced a lot of people that they had to get one. It's not true.

Look at the TSA's website. There's a list of alternative IDs that are acceptable. But state DMVs purposely never made that clear.

If you've got a passport or a passport card, for example, you're good to go.

TSA is also now saying they may just charge you $18 if you don't have a REAL-ID.

GreaterIsrahell's avatar

"Obama started the lie about no "REAL" ID, no plane travel. That convinced a lot of people that they had to get one. It's not true."

People listen to what politicians say, and then they don't bother to do their due dilligence and walk straight into the trap. If enough people refuse to get their digital ID, the system collapses.

Sue's avatar

It's true that many people still take what government officials tell them at face value. If there's anything the plandemic should have taught us, it's to be skeptical of everything they say.

Digital-IDs will be made available to everyone through their phones. You won't have to use it, at first. But when they collapse the economy through some false flag BS, and "rescue" us with CBDC, that will be linked with the digital-ID. Then the trap door closes.

At that point, refusing to use the digital-ID will be extremely difficult, if not impossible. When cash disappears, CBDC will be all there is. How will you obtain food, medicine, or anything else if not with CBDC? How will you pay your bills?

If your property tax is unpaid, you'll lose your house.

I agree that if enough people refuse to use the beast system, it could potentially collapse. But how many are in a position to do that? If you're on your own and can live in a tent off grid and are completely self-sufficient, great. What percentage of Americans, or anyone else for that matter, have that ability? People will cave because they cannot watch their kids starve, or go without medical care (such as it is).

The bastards orchestrating this hell have had decades to plan and carry it out. The majority of us are still not even fully aware of the kill box we're being herded into.

Roger Mitchell's avatar

When I moved to Montana years ago, I noticed a lot of bumper stickers which said, "Montana's full. I've heard North Dakota's nice." I've thought about creating one which said, "I'm here. NOW Montana's full."

Fourth largest state by land area. Less than 1.5 million population, most of them clustered in the large urban areas. I like it the way it is.

GreaterIsrahell's avatar

I agree with C.J. about not running away from a fight. When you know you are on the right side of the law there is no reason to run. Staying and finishing it is a moral imperative. That said, the last two countries I would ever go to are Israel and the US. Israel first of course, as usual. Never been there. I lived in the US for a decade and a half, and glad I got out'a there before TSHTF.

Quarrelsome Life's avatar

The irony that the regime is proving your point is hardly much consolation.

This is a disgrace.

Ghostfromthefuture's avatar

Did you at least have a bathrobe or did they provide one? The utter insanity of it is unbelievable. Your book is now, without a doubt, required reading material in this brave new world.

Chris L's avatar

It's ironic that the reason you originally moved from the U. S. to Germany so many years ago is exactly the same reason you now need to leave Germany, except x100. Europe is such a dystopian hell-hole now, get out of there!

Ray Noack's avatar

And the USA is moving in the opposite direction …slowly .

He can join Tucker Carlson as the world’s most hated man .

Tucker said “ You know , maybe we should re visit WW2 . I mean 70 million dead .Maybe we could have made different decisions “ ..Nazi ! Anti -Semite ! Hitler !

vinegaroon's avatar

Do you all know how many times the German authorities have taken similar action against its citizens and residents in the past few years? Haha. Trick question. No one knows. The media doesn't really report it and why would you worry about it anyway? What are you, some sort of right-wing extremist?

Joachim Piprek's avatar

Unfortunately, this kind of lawfare is already familiar from the prosecutions of Füllmich, Ballweg, and many other German dissidents. Stay strong!

Arturo 🏳️‍🌈's avatar

I wonder if Milena Preradovic would have CJ for an interview?

D&R’s Gma's avatar

I have no influence but I have a wallet and I can buy many more copies of your book. Christmas gifts for everyone. Hope that can assist in financial obligations. 🙏🙏

MakerOfNoise's avatar

The German government is saying that you are too good of a writer. Your criticisms are too valid, your arguments are articulated too convincingly, and your examples are too vivid.

For the author that condemns authoritarianism, the mark of success is not found on state TV or in state newspapers. Arrival is celebrated by confiscation of the author's typewriter. Congratulations!