Notices by ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /# :blinking_cursor: (celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange)

AfD-Mitglied zu sein oder an die AfD zu spenden, sollte ein Ausschlussgrund vom Staatsdienst sein, da man sich bei diesem immer der freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung verpflichtet und die Mitgliedschaft einer Person in, oder die Finanzierung einer rechtsextremen Partei durch diese Person klare Anzeichen dafür sind, dass sie die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung nicht respektiert, oder sie sogar (gewaltsam) umstürzen möchte, was per Definition Teil einer extremistischen Gesinnung ist.

Kein Beamtendienst für AfD Unterstützer, Deutschlandweit!

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How does banning a party work in Germany, and why do we even want to ban a party?

a simple explanation

One of the German intelligence agencies, specifically the "Bundesverfassungsschutz" (Federal Constitution Protection Agency), has produced a more than 1000 pages long report about the AfD, a party you surely know by now.
The report contains a thorough analysis of AfD's ideology and their connection to extremist groups all over the world.

In itself, this report and the work the agancy does is something like a warning system. The agency itself can not make any decisions about the legitimacy of a party, and neither can they interfere or disrupt a parties political work. All they are allowed to do is to listen in and collect proof of a parties anti-democratic/unconstitutional tendencies and plans using intelligence gathering techniques like hiring informants, tapping phone lines, analyzing network traffic, etc... This is only allowed, if significant concerns have been raised about a parties or other groups members might be acting against our constitution or are planning serious action against our democratic state. If a preliminary analysis confirms those concerns, the agancy gets the power to use said surveillance against the party or organisation.
In the case of the AfD, they have been a suspected extremist party for several years now, allowing the agancy to surveil their communications and inner workings, until they came to the conclusion, that the AfD is indeed fighting our democratic state and are following a right-wing extremist ideology, something that is incompatible with our constitution.

Now that a flag has been raised, there are obvious reasons the party needs to be hindered from successfully eroding or even destroying our democracy. In Germany we have multiple paragraphs in our constitution that allow for a ban of all parties, groups, and organisations that are aggressively attacking the foundation of our free democratic state, are planning to remove the constitution, or to significantly alter it by force or with other antidemocratic means. There are specific extra-strict laws about banning parties since making that too easy would also make it easier for oppressive governments to ban democratic parties.
How that works: The ONLY way to ban a party here in Germany, is to task our supreme court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) to review a parties incompatibility with our constitutional law and to declare a ban on them and all following organisation's trying to bring back that party. The review process often takes years and is extremely thorough since banning a party is a pretty extreme "ultima ratio" measure.

The idea behind banning a party is not to convince them or their voters that they were on the wrong path or to punish them in favor of other parties. The paragraphs for banning a party state explicitly that a ban is only constitutional when it is done to protect the state, it's institutions and citizens from harm coming from said party.
The voters will still be there. The members will still be extremist. But the party as an organized way of preparing harmful actions will be destroyed, and all following attempts to bring it back under a new name, with a new image, etc. will be outlawed as well.

Last but not least, our German supreme court, which specializes explicitly on dealing with issues related to the constitution and the constitutional rights of the people, will not start the process of banning a party on its own. It needs to be tasked with that by either the parliament (Bundestag), the federal council (Bundesrat), or the acting government (Bundesregierung).

After having been tasked with the review, the court will start a long investigation into the organisation, in our case the AfD, and will collect evidence that supports the claim that they are unconstitutional. For that, it also uses the 1100-page report of the "Verfassungsschutz", police reports, other court cases against the party, etc.

Should the court decide the AfD is actually unconstitutional, which in my opinion, and the opinion of many experts here, is highly likely, the party will be banned and ordered to seize all its operations, and to disband their headquarters and all other places they've worked in. They will also be forbidden to found a new party trying to replace it. If the party continues to organize action, not as a party any more but as a banned organisation, law enforcement will enforce the ban and disrupt any action taken by members of it, that contribute to the goals of the former party.

Now that the report is public, the pressure on our government, parliament and federal council is rising to ask the Supreme Court to review a ban of the AfD. If this actually happens remains to be seen.

@tagesschau Aber was ist, wenn du in genau dieser Straße dann eine Waschmaschine kaufst? Transportierst du die dann zu Fuß nach Hause?! /s

@VeroniqueB99 Hitler didn't appear out of thin air. Trump didn't either. The US needs a major rework of their constitution, similar to the one in Germany after the war. The first changes have to be taking away presidential powers, giving a democratically elected parliament most of it and setting up a supreme court that can't be controlled or taken over by any other branch of the government or party. Also, you guys over there need a multitude of parties representing many different opinions and ideologies, so your people actually have a choice. Two don't cut it.
Also there has to be a serious threat to corruption! An independent, public agency that checks for and prosecutes corrupt politicians.
And put some serious gun controls and anti-militia laws into place. The second amendment doesn't work. There is no such thing as a "well regulated militia". Paramilitary groups will always be a danger to public safety.

@rysiek Get Firefox and use Duckduckgo, for example.

Install LineageOS (de-googled android) on your phone (there are good tutorials out there, no root necessary)

Instruct your router to use other DNS services, then 8.8.8.8 (Google)

Idk. There is a lot.