Off-Guardian – Jan 26, 2024
Two days ago CJ Hopkins announced he had been found not guilty of all charges following his trial in Berlin.
You can read his full announcement on his website. For those of you unfamiliar with the absurd charges brought against him, he has written about them extensively in his columns for us, and if you want to read detailed coverage of the trial itself we recommend Aya Velázquez’s work.
For now, we will satisfy ourselves with saying congratulations on beating the clearly politically motivated bogus charges, celebrating some good news, and sharing the brilliant statement CJ read out in court:
Berlin District Court, January 23, 2024
My name is CJ Hopkins. I am an American playwright, author, and political satirist. My plays have been produced and received critical acclaim internationally. My political satire and commentary is read by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. 20 years ago, I left my own country because of the fascistic atmosphere that had taken hold of the USA at that time, the time of the US invasion of Iraq, a war of aggression based on my government’s lies. I emigrated to Germany and made a new life here in Berlin, because I believed that Germany, given its history, would be the last place on earth to ever have anything to do with any form of totalitarianism again.
The gods have a strange sense of humor. This past week, thousands of people have been out in the streets all over Germany protesting against fascism, chanting “never again is now.” Many of these people spent the past three years, 2020 to 2023, unquestioningly obeying orders, parroting official propaganda, and demonizing anyone who dared to question the government’s unconstitutional and authoritarian actions during the so-called Covid pandemic. Many of these same people, those who support Palestinian rights, are now shocked that the new form of totalitarianism they helped usher into existence is being turned against them.
And here I am, in criminal court in Berlin, accused of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda in two Tweets about mask mandates. The German authorities have had my speech censored on the Internet, and have damaged my reputation and income as an author. One of my books has been banned by Amazon in Germany. All this because I criticized the German authorities, because I mocked one of their decrees, because I pointed out one of their lies.
This turn of events would be absurdly comical if it were not so infuriating. I cannot adequately express how insulting it is to be forced to sit here and affirm my opposition to fascism. For over thirty years, I have written and spoken out against fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism etc. Anyone can do an Internet search, find my books, read the reviews of my plays, read my essays, and discover who I am and what my political views are in two or three minutes. And yet I am accused by the German authorities of disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda. I am accused of doing this because I posted two Tweets challenging the official Covid narrative and comparing the new, nascent form of totalitarianism that it has brought into being — i.e., the so-called “New Normal” — to Nazi Germany.
Let me be very clear. In those two Tweets, and in my essays throughout 2020 to 2022, and in my current essays, I have indeed compared the rise of this new form of totalitarianism to the rise of the best-known 20th-Century form of totalitarianism, i.e., Nazi Germany. I have made this comparison, and analyzed the similarities and differences between these two forms of totalitarianism, over and over again. And I will continue to do so. I will continue to analyze and attempt to explain this new, emerging form of totalitarianism, and to oppose it, and warn my readers about it.
The two Tweets at issue here feature a swastika covered by one of the medical masks that everyone was forced to wear in public during 2020 to 2022. That is the cover art of my book. The message conveyed by this artwork is clear. In Nazi Germany, the swastika was the symbol of conformity to the official ideology. During 2020 to 2022, the masks functioned as the symbol of conformity to a new official ideology. That was their purpose. Their purpose was to enforce people’s compliance with government decrees and conformity to the official Covid-pandemic narrative, most of which has now been proven to have been propaganda and lies.
Mask mandates do not work against airborne viruses. This had been understood and acknowledged by medical experts for decades prior to the Spring of 2020. It has now been proven to everyone and acknowledged by medical experts again. The science of mask mandates did not suddenly change in March of 2020. The official narrative changed. The official ideology changed. The official “reality” changed. Karl Lauterbach was absolutely correct when he said, “The masks always send out a signal.” They signal they sent out from 2020 to 2022 was, “I conform. I do not ask questions. I obey orders.”
That is not how democratic societies function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
Not every form of totalitarianism is the same, but they share common hallmarks. Forcing people to display symbols of conformity to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Declaring a “state of emergency” and revoking constitutional rights for no justifiable reason is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Banning protests against government decrees is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Inundating the public with lies and propaganda designed to terrify people into mindless obedience is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Segregating societies is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Censoring dissent is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Stripping people of their jobs because they refuse to conform to official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Fomenting mass hatred of a “scapegoat” class of people is a hallmark of totalitarianism. Demonizing critics of the official ideology is a hallmark of totalitarian systems. Instrumentalizing the law to punish dissidents and make examples of critics of the authorities is a hallmark of totalitarianism.
I have documented the emergence of all of these hallmarks of totalitarianism in societies throughout the West — including but not limited to Germany — since March of 2020. I will continue to do so. I will continue to warn readers about this new, emerging form of totalitarianism and attempt to understand it, and oppose it. I will compare this new form of totalitarianism to earlier forms of totalitarianism, and specifically to Nazi Germany, whenever it is appropriate and contributes to our understanding of current events. That is my job as a political satirist and commentator, and as an author, and my responsibility as a human being.
The German authorities can punish me for doing that. You have the power to do that. You can make an example of me. You can fine me. You can imprison me. You can ban my books. You can censor my content on the Internet, which you have done. You can defame me, and damage my income and reputation as an author, as you have done. You can demonize me as a “conspiracy theorist,” as an “anti-vaxxer,” a “Covid denier,” an “idiot,” and an “extremist,” which you have done. You can haul me into criminal court and make me sit here, in Germany, in front of my wife, who is Jewish, and deny that I am an anti-Semite who wants to relativize the Holocaust. You have the power to do all these things.
However, I hope that you will at least have the integrity to call this what it is, and not hide behind false accusations that I am somehow supporting the Nazis by comparing the rise of a new form of totalitarianism to the rise of an earlier totalitarian system, one that took hold of and ultimately destroyed this country in the 20th Century, and murdered millions in the process, because too few Germans had the courage to stand up and oppose it when it first began. I hope that you will at least have the integrity to not pretend that you actually believe I am disseminating pro-Nazi propaganda, when you know very well that is not what I am doing.
No one with any integrity believes that is what I am doing. No one with any integrity believes that is what my Tweets in 2022 were doing. Every journalist that has covered my case, everyone in this courtroom, understands what this prosecution is actually about. It has nothing to do with punishing people who actually disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda. It is about punishing dissent, and making an example of dissidents in order to intimidate others into silence.
That is not how democratic nations function. That is how totalitarian systems function.
What I hope even more is that this court will put an end to this prosecution, and apply the law fairly, and not allow it to be used as a pretext to punish people like me who criticize government dictates, people who expose the lies of government officials, people who refuse to deny facts, who refuse to perform absurd rituals of obedience on command, who refuse to unquestioningly follow orders.
Because the issue here is much larger and much more important than my little “Tweet” case.
We are, once again, at a crossroads. Not just here in Germany, but throughout the West. People went a little crazy, a little fascist, during the so-called Covid pandemic. And now, here we are. There are two roads ahead. We have to choose … you, me, all of us. One road leads back to the rule of law, to democratic principles. The other road leads to authoritarianism, to societies where authorities rule by decree, and force, and twist the law into anything they want, and dictate what is and isn’t reality, and abuse their power to silence anyone who disagrees with them.
That is the road to totalitarianism. We have been down that road before. Please, let’s not do it again.
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halleyuhah – well said
“Because too few Germans had the courage to stand up to it & oppose it when it first began”….
Oooooops.. Context failure !
Had the Germans weakly accepted the Communist take over, which was very real & imminent,
The debauchery of Berlin & Hamburg etc etc, would have become the ‘norm’ & far worse than it already was, Like shagging a Mother & daughter combo for a ‘dollar’ + a cigarette, Mind you feet, step over the starving children dying on the pavements…
Taking home the weeks wages in a barra’ would have become a truck..
and the Soviet style Starzi of what became East Germany, would have been instantly implemented.
All the while, German citizens were getting the thick end of French police truncheons in the OCCUPIED western regions, Given to them in 1919.
Me as a German of the time.. Too right I’d have been angry, Crazy like a Kitchen full of Monkey’s.
“lets fight back against our aggressors”.
Proper factual footage of German take back, not Occupation.. of Prussia, (Danzig) the Sudentenlands. & even into Soviet controlled Ukraine, clearly showed happy, smiling people by the thousands.
‘Totalitarian’ ?
I’ll tell you what totalitarian was, Soviet starvation techniques (Twice) of the Ukrainians & the methods of tyranny upon them.
What ? Like the CCCP. ! & the spread there after ! (China, Cambodia, Persia/Iran, N Korea.. The ‘Stans’
to this day after the Russians became a Federation.
1933 to 1939, Totalitarian ? Leave it out, The Germans were never happier, until it was nailed on,
Uncle Joe had expansionist desires in mind.
The option was limited & simple,
STRIKE first in the hope of a win. Since 1919 & the crippling sanctions… Enough was enough.
The rest of the ‘west’ shafted them… to now, Where the WEF(etc) & the COMMUNIST mindset rules supreme.
It was the last Hurrah, tell me again ‘where’ it’s improving & getting better for us ‘whities’….
Things can hardly get better since most Western democracies are now governed by the Jew.For example Australia has an Italian origin crypto jew at the helm.While America’s next election will be between two crypto jews……in both cases immigration of alien peoples continues unabated.
Immigration acts as a barrier against natives overthrowing the Jewish power…..but NOT in Israel itself of course.
The process is the punishment.
Liars should not prosper. Nor should lazy, opinionated people who are too butt lazy to bone up on facts, but merely parrot the nonsense and lies they have been indoctrinated with!
This bonehead has no idea about what happened in Germany, and probably knows even less about the activities of the communist Jews in Russia, but also in Germany, Latvia, and Hungary, during the same decades.
Another idiot who thinks ‘fascism’ is taking over America–whereas in reality its Judeo-Communism.
It doesn’t matter it’s too late remember one of those planet of the apes films when the stupid guard left the door open
@ Glenn Ashton
Supremely well said Glen and so correct. Germany put up a great fight against tyranny but even today if they tried to do this again, guess who would be first to stand against them? Yep their brainwashed fellow Europeans. As some sage here stated recently, “you can’t fix stupid”; the death jab may, inadvertently, do so.
A strange and deadly irony it is fascism as we known it started in Italy by adopting top-down ruthless means which the Italian establishment found necessary to fight against the rising and and equally (if not more) ruthless atheistic communism pouring out of Russia and being supported by International Jewry. He says he against all forms of totalitarianism. Just read about the Red Terror during and following the communist revolution in Russia and what they did to anyone not 100% commie with the Cheka if you have any doubts. The early 20th century was a time of great fear for most people in Europe and the USSR, which we only got a slight taste of during Covid by our governments which have now gone totalitarian.
If not for Hitler’s fascist Nazi party the nation would have gone to the communists in the 1933 election. It was international Jewry which was supporting the communist movement in the USSR and in the West which was also supporting the communist parties in Germany at the time, and following the 1933 election, it was international Jewry which declared war on the Nazis. Of course, even in the 1920’s Hitler and his followers were blaming the Jews for the loss of WWI and the resulting privation in Germany mainly from the reparations in the 1920’s, which any common sense historian by now ought to have connected the dots, in that that very privation caused mainly by the banksters who wanted their loans repaid did intend it to fuel unrest such that the German workers would rise up to form a communist government.
In many ways those Jewish banksters who did more to fuel WWI than anyone else and the mess in Germany in the aftermath have to share in the authorship of their own people’s misfortune in their own steadfast support of communism.
Now we have an alliance in what is called “globalism” with all of the major powers forces: the top-down international banking cartel; the top-down very Nazi-like multinational and monopolistic corporate powers; the top-down totalitarian international “socialist” (i.e. Marxist) movement; the WEF plutocrats; the UN; all of our toady globalist and totalitarian governments and leaders; and of course the leaders of the major international religions and in particular the Vatican.
They do not care if we call it “communism” or “Nazism’, the point is that it is the most oppressive, grasping, totalitarian top-down order which the world has ever seen.
Saw Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, and Conrad Black on YouTube last night trying to blow some steam into the great orange hope. They are “correct” and totally rational in everything they said, but I do not not think they have a clue of what they are up against, which is typical of all ‘conservatives”. They are still relying on systems which have been totally coopted. If we want freedom we have to wake up and realize that being factually right and rational has little weight against all of the evil afoot, and that to right things and be free we are going to have to fight for it. So bring it on.
Good, just another liberal Commie anti-Nazi nutjob we’re supposed to empathize with I guess..
@ Glen…
Hopkins is an entertainment ‘jewe’… and like all ‘jewes’ (and lefty luvvies) can only entertain Authoritarianism as ‘nazi’…
Even though the imbecile moved to Germany…no doubt thinking it had been deloused and zykloned of all it’s nazis only to find it run by authoritarian Bolshevik ‘jewes’ (and lefty luvvies)… who can’t wait to get the camps started…
unsurprisingly…
I don’t trust Hopkins..with good reason…
NB: you may note..and no doubt with a wry smile..that Hopkins was accused of being a ‘nazi’ by the people he accuses of being ‘nazis’.. of course this is de rigueur for the current absurdity that passes for culture… as Godwin sagely noted now decades ago…
Presumably this is the fate of all the old talent-less ‘jewish’ satirists… and the the 3 or 4 people that bother to read their bullshit…
Tripping over their bogeymen only to find their own reflection staring back…
This Jordan Peterson video is one of the best. There are no food shortages, nor if the globalist despots causing the problems butt out will there be. People can and will manage resources and food production and the environment quite well on their own. There are no energy shortages, nor will there be, if the people and nations can manage their own affairs.
The lovely blond quest asks the stunning question – Why is it that we have to ask permission to exist from all these so-called “human-rights” advocate groups and types????
THE REVOLUTION OF GERMAN FARMERS | EVA VLAARDINGERBROEK & ANTHONY LEE | EP 416
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vss5WNGO1pIN/
Hmmm CJ Hopkins…. I’m wondering what the *J* stands for 🙄 could it be jewe by any chance. 😂
@ Tony O’Niell,
& What a fantastic army they were !
More or less took on the whole world, with the exception of a Fascist regime who said they were Allies, but in truth proved to be more of an incompetent, troublesome hindrance. That caused unnecessary problems that proved to be so counter productive,
Imagine a solitary nation today, Who could face up to the :-
Russian federation,
The U.S.A.
Britain,
Canada,
The ANZAC’s Just to name the big hitters of the time, (There were other nations as back up)
&…. Battle hard alone for nigh on 5+ years.
The NSDAP was the solution to rid the world of the strangle hold of the Jew/Communist/Corporate Banking sector trifecta, of ruthlessness that now dominates & rules supreme EVERYWHERE.
Now here’s the thing no one acknowledges. the ’21 years’.
21 years earlier, The German’s had endured the very same thing ! But did remarkably well, because not one square foot of German soil was invaded. Then we all know how they were shafted by the ‘Penny chew’ authorities in the one sided aftermath.
It just so happens to be…21 years since the Yanks & Brits INVADED, quite illegally & under lying accusations, IRAQ. I’m trying to point out the time line, It wasn’t that long between Germany, Picking themselves up, fighting back, & trying to rid themselves once & for all, of the tyranny being forced on them.
TV’s & ‘media’ papers/magazines should have filled the land-fill decades ago, It’s all lies & deception,
I’d say.
There’s a terrible karma/back lash coming our (Brit) way. Since Iraq alone, It’s been Libya, Afghanistan & Syria too, (Why were we involved in any of this ?)
Being considered, Why Wouldn’t people from these nations want to come to ‘Europe’ & exact revenge.
trouble is, they target the ‘public’ with knives & theft, & are too dim to seek out the houses of the bankers & politicos. We too don’t help ourselves. Because we should have done it, without the need for ‘Jimmy Grant’.
Glen Ashton’s comment says more about HIM and his blinkered views than the post! Typical Thick GenZ loser that was lobotomised at birth
the fuckn deutsche in german cities are all by
jew alliied controlrat specialy in last 30 years
brainpissed leftist open borders welcomers + every
demonstration on this political ways are organised +
controled by Israhell (jewish centralrat) wherever
you see an israeli flag . the stupid leftist antifa idiots
follow their jew leaders like sheeple following the wolf .
ONLY HOPE FOR GERMANY ARE ANTISEMIT
MOSLEMS ! from deutsche idiots comes no salvation !
hopefully police takes more antisemitic new aspirants
into their rangs !
Bernard Baruch head of WWI war industries board created Fascism and those are the words of Benito Mussolini. WWIs corporate-government over expenditures are the foundation of Fascism PERIOD now go and read about just what these depraved degenerates did – War is a Racket.
NAZI – National ZIonism – Haskala of Jewish Nationalism started at least by 1600 and the Book “History of Zionism 1600-1918) by Nahum Sokolow is a must read but people can;t understand it nor can most keep their attention or focus longer than a goldfish.
Handel’s Messiah is filled with it of Zion – late 1600s early 1700s
Maimonides in the Capitol building is the beginning and this is from the oral which makes it as old as 2000 years or older
Another controlled op./ limited hangout/ agitprop actor playing his role . If this clown was legit , he would have been disappeared long ago without the public having any knowledge of his existence.
deutsche judges follow jewish orders and accuse
you as nazi or antisemit just as it suits them . we
are in times of katholic inquisition 500 years back !
there is nothing wrong to be nazi + antisemit, but
expensive ! Zündel + Horst Maler + others did learn .
Cloverleaf
He looks like a Yid. (CJ) Commie Jew Hopkins
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman.
@speakthe lie.
Hilarious,
Your monika ‘truth’ You Joke.
Antifa communist.
4-Cough,
Tony O’Neil, who would be first to stand against Germans? It surely would be the “Germans” THEMSELVES of course with the help of the mighty Zentralrat as the invisible but always present noose around their necks. Constant country wide brainwashing since birth and kosher hypnosis mixed with liberated (from what exactly?) wimmin, sex/drug addictions spiced with your friendly needy refugees breeding a “new” future for Germany, who needs “fellow Europeans” to bring “Germany” down? Germany just looks like ANY OTHER democratic gulag in the $ubmissive West. “Never again” says political correct Germany and their puppeteer overlords. And that sounds about right as a statement for Germans in Germany, English in Britain, French in France and anywhere else in the “free world”.