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To: golfer72 who wrote (1383968)	12/18/2022 10:40:17 AM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 1578011

A Nation of Snitches Posted on December 17, 2022 by Baron Bodissey Facing a winter of freezing and starvation, the German authorities are planning to deal with the crisis in the predictable manner of failed states everywhere: by cracking down even further on dissent through the use of anonymous snitches. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Pleiteticker.de. The translator’s comments are in square brackets: Bundestag decides to set up anonymous nationwide reporting offices A new law provides for the nationwide creation of reporting offices in companies with fifty or more employees and authorities. Not only anti-constitutional statements should be reported there, but also statements below the criminal liability threshold. In order to protect whistleblowers, police officers should now be allowed to denounce anonymously — even if there is no criminal offense in the room. Companies with fifty or more employees and authorities should set up internal reporting offices. The Federal Ministry of Justice and other federal authorities are also to act as external reporting offices. The draft law on whistleblower protection, which has now been passed by the Bundestag, is intended to protect against reprisals. “Whistleblowers” are intended to protect against disadvantages, for example, being protected against dismissal. The burden of proof does not lie with the aggrieved whistleblower. Reports on anti-constitutional statements by officials should also fall under whistleblower protection. Because officials must show loyalty to the constitution. [This is utter rubbish. If they’d shown loyalty to the constitution, then most old party politicians in Germany would already have been arrested.] Oral statements or digital messages can be reported. This is intended to protect the state apparatus from being infiltrated by “Reich citizens” and other enemies of the constitution. Whistleblower protection should also apply to reports below the criminal liability threshold. The extent to which these reports are followed up on is not clear from the draft law. This means that any police officer can denigrate anonymously — even if it’s not even about a crime. The law provides that whistleblowers be given the opportunity to remain anonymous. In addition, reporting offices should be obliged to investigate anonymous reports. An intentional or grossly negligent false report will be punished as an administrative offence. [That means a slap on the wrist for those who have destroyed a life.] In addition, the informing person should pay compensation. It is unclear to what extent anonymous reports can be traced back. Reports are to be deleted two years after the end of the procedure. Afterword from the translator: Somehow, out of the blue, 1933 came to my mind. The informers will certainly be happy about this; they are most likely already drooling in anticipation and will most certainly try to outdo each other on how many people’s lives they can “legally” destroy. Let the witch-hunts begin, in the best Germany of Snitches and Liars. I can already see them in my mind’s eye roaming the streets, cafeterias, bars and offices with the malign self-importance of those whose bigotries are backed by the state. I never thought that I would come to despise the country of my birth, but what I can see, looking in from the outside, is a political “Elite” that sits on a dunghill of HATE.