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CJ Hopkins \u2013 Off-Guardian March 19, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Make fun of the Germans all you want, and I\u2019ve certainly done that a bit during these past few years, but, if there\u2019s one thing they\u2019re exceptionally good at, it\u2019s taking responsibility for their mistakes.<\/p>\n

Seriously, when it comes to acknowledging one\u2019s mistakes, and not rationalizing, or minimizing, or attempting to deny them, and any discomfort they may have allegedly caused, no one does it quite like the Germans.<\/p>\n

Take this Covid mess, for example. Just last week, the German authorities confessed that they made a few minor mistakes during their management of the \u201cCovid pandemic.\u201d According to Karl Lauterbach, the Minister of Health, \u201cwe were sometimes too strict with the children and probably started easing the restrictions a little too late.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Horst Seehofer, the former Interior Minister, admitted that he would no longer agree to some of the Covid restrictions today, for example, nationwide nighttime curfews. \u201cOne must be very careful with calls for compulsory vaccination,\u201d<\/em> he added. Helge Braun, Head of the Chancellery and Minister for Special Affairs under Merkel, agreed that there had been \u201cmisjudgments,\u201d for example, \u201coverestimating the effectiveness of the vaccines.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This display of the German authorities\u2019 unwavering commitment to transparency and honesty, and the principle of personal honor that guides the German authorities in all their affairs, and that is deeply ingrained in the German character, was published in a piece called \u201cThe Divisive Virus\u201d in\u00a0Der Spiegel<\/em>, and immediately widely disseminated by the rest of the German state and corporate media in a totally organic manner which did not in any way resemble one enormous Goebbelsian keyboard instrument pumping out official propaganda in perfect synchronization, or anything creepy and fascistic like that.<\/p>\n

Germany, after all, is\u00a0\u201can extremely democratic state,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0with freedom of speech and the press and all that, not some kind of totalitarian country where the masses are inundated with official propaganda and\u00a0critics of the government are dragged into criminal court and prosecuted on trumped-up \u201chate crime\u201d charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, sure, in a non-democratic totalitarian system, such public \u201cadmissions of mistakes\u201d \u2014 and the synchronized dissemination thereof by the media \u2014 would just be a part of the process of whitewashing the authorities\u2019 fascistic behavior during some particularly totalitarian phase of transforming society into whatever totalitarian dystopia they were trying to transform it into (for example, a three-year-long \u201cstate of emergency,\u201d which they declared to keep the masses terrorized and cooperative while they stripped them of their democratic rights, i.e., the ones they hadn\u2019t already stripped them of, and conditioned them to mindlessly follow orders, and robotically repeat nonsensical official slogans, and vent their impotent hatred and fear at the new \u201cUntermenschen\u201d or \u201ccounter-revolutionaries\u201d), but that is obviously not the case here.<\/p>\n

No, this is definitely not the German authorities staging a public \u201caccountability\u201d spectacle in order to memory-hole what happened during 2020-2023 and enshrine the official narrative in history. There\u2019s going to be a formal \u201cInquiry Commission\u201d \u2014 conducted by the same German authorities that managed the \u201ccrisis\u201d \u2014 which will get to the bottom of all the regrettable but completely understandable \u201cmistakes\u201d that were made in the heat of the heroic battle against The Divisive Virus!<\/p>\n

OK, calm down, all you \u201cconspiracy theorists,\u201d \u201cCovid deniers,\u201d and \u201canti-vaxxers.\u201d This isn\u2019t going to be like the Nuremberg Trials. No one is going to get taken out and hanged. It\u2019s about identifying and acknowledging mistakes, and learning from them, so that the authorities can manage everything better during the next \u201cpandemic,\u201d or \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d or \u201cterrorist attack,\u201d or \u201cinsurrection,\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n

For example, the Inquiry Commission will want to look into how the government accidentally declared a Nationwide State of Pandemic Emergency and revised the Infection Protection Act,\u00a0suspending the German constitution and granting the government the power to rule by decree, on account of a respiratory virus that clearly posed no threat to society at large<\/a>, and then unleashed police goon squads on the thousands of people who gathered outside the Reichstag to protest the revocation of their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

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Thousands gathered outside the Reichstag building in Berlin to protest the "New Normal" totalitarianism this morning, so the police declared the demonstration illegal and turned the water cannons on them … are you satisfied yet, totalitarians? pic.twitter.com\/j70CHsEWWM<\/a><\/p>\n

— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n