If you want to see the Orwellian end result of the loaded “defender of democracy” rhetoric prominent in US establishment political circles since Barack Obama first entered the White House in January 2009, look no further than modern Germany. The sitting government of this deeply troubled Western European nation is conducting an ongoing brazen assault on the personal liberties of its citizenry, and it is doing so in the name of preserving the “constitutional order.”
Germany’s Interior Ministry and the benign-sounding Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth on Feb. 27 launched a sweeping new project called “Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking.” What it boils down to is a government effort to get individuals to inform on family members and friends engaging in wrongthink.
