Eventually, the court instructed the police to let the demonstration go ahead. And the rest is history " except that it isn't. According to the official narrative, there were no hundreds of thousands of protesters. There were "tens of thousands," and they were all "neo-Nazis," and "Nazi-sympathizers," and "Coronavirus deniers," and "stark-raving mad conspiracy theorists." (Full disclosure: I was there with them, and, yes, indeed, there were some neo-Nazis among the hundreds of thousands in the streets, but, just like at the August 1 protest, these far-right boneheads were a small minority and not at all welcomed by the majority of the participants, no more than the Trotskyists and anti-Semites were welcomed at the 2003 anti-war protests before the US invasion of Iraq, although, yes, they were definitely there.)
In any event, hundreds of thousands of protesters made their way down Unter den Linden, through the iconic Brandenburg Gate, and onward to the main demonstration, filling the Straße des 17. Juni from the Brandenburg Gate to the Siegessà ¤ule. By now, I assume you've seen the pictures. Or maybe you haven't. It's actually fairly hard to find any photos in the media that give you any real perspective.
And, finally, we have come to the main event " which, of course, was not this enormous gathering of totally non-violent, non-Nazi people peacefully protesting the New Normal totalitarianism, nor the speech of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. No, the "story," the official main event, was the "Storming of the Reichstag building by Nazis."
I'll let Mathias Brà ¶ckers handle this part. Here's an excerpt from his recent blog post:
Storming of Reichstag Averted - Democracy Saved!
How do you manage to delegitimize a peaceful mass protest against the corona measures in such a way that the media report not about a protest by hundreds of thousands, but about the "storming" of the Reichstag?
Quite simply: you approve an application by a group of Reichsburger to assemble directly in front of the Reichstag (N.B. the official applicant for this assembly was Ex-NPD-member Rudiger Hoffmann) and station only three policemen in front of the west entrance despite the large police presence everywhere in the area. Then you let a crazy Q-Anon-chick scream into the microphone that "Donald Trump has declared freedom," that "the police have laid down their weapons," and that "everyone should now occupy the steps of the Reichstag," and, presto, you have the images you need to dominate the coverage " a mob of a few dozen people with Reichsburger flags "storming the Reichstag."
Never mind the fact that the massive demonstration at the Siegesà ¤ule (i.e., Victory Column) organized by Querdenken 711 had absolutely nothing to do with this incident, which was carried out by a right-wing-extremist splinter group. The demonstration had already been delegitimized as a protest staged by Reichsburger extremists and tin-foil-hat lunatics in the days leading up to it, and now the visual confirmation was provided.
In a video of the lead-up to the "Reichstag storming" incident, Tamara K., a natural health practitioner, and pretty obviously a far-right wacko, is the "crazy Q-Anon-chick" in question. You can clearly hear her advising the crowd that "there are no more police here," which the video confirms. Or rather, the few police that were there had left the building completely unguarded and pulled back to well behind this assembly of obviously far-right-extremist-type clowns (who, remember, had been granted official permission to stage their assembly at the steps of the Reichstag). This, despite the days and weeks of warnings of a "neo-Nazi invasion" from government officials and the corporate media.
Go ahead, call me a "conspiracy theorist."
Anyway, once the Reichstag steps were thoroughly occupied by far-right loonies and the Reichsflagge were in the right positions (approximately four minutes into the video), the police finally arrived to mount their defense. It was touch-and-go there for a while, but at the end of the day, democracy triumphed. Naturally, there were plenty of journalists on hand to capture this historic drama and broadcast it all around the world.
And there you have it, the official narrative, which Saskia Esken, SPD co-leader, succinctly squeezed into a tweet:
"Tens of thousands of far-right radicals, Reichsburger, QAnon followers, Holocaust deniers, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, and esoterics, who declare the media, science, and politicians 'guilty' and openly call for the storming of the Reichstag and a coup d'e'tat. That is the 29 August Berlin demonstration."
Oh, and yesterday, as I was writing this column, I saw that the Berlin Senate had passed a new regulation requiring the participants of any future protests to all wear masks " so I take back what I wrote in the beginning. It looks like GloboCap, or at least its German branch, has some ham-fisted totalitarianism left in it.
I'll keep you posted on the Gleichschaltung process, and the advance of the New Normal totalitarianism, generally. In the meantime, remember, this is just about a virus! And the Nazis really are coming this time! And looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society " oh, yeah, and the chocolate ration has been increased!
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