We have, both online and in Issues 249 and 250 of Ketzerbriefe, reported on the putsch in Romania (1) (not by a military junta, but by a judicial body eliminating the constitution), i.e. the two raids carried out by the so-called “Constitutional Court” (=VGH) in Bucharest: on the one hand the MEP Diana Şoşoacă was unconstitutionally excluded from the presidential elections on 5 October 2024 because she was against the EU and NATO (to which there is, of course, no reference in the constitution), and on the other, the entire presidential elections were annulled on 6 December 2024 because of the unwelcome result, which meant the election victory of the until then unknown champion of the sovereignty of Romania and opponent of any further military support for Ukraine, Călin Georgescu, was prevented. However, the “Sovereignists” – as Călin Georgescu, George Simion’s AUR (Alliance for the Unification of all Romanians) and Anamaria Gavrila’s POT (Young People’s Party) call themselves – in contrast to the arbitrary state of the "Sorosists" and “globalists”, as they fittingly designate the Romanian henchmen of the 400 giga-rich American families and their leader Soros and their subservient EU weasels – only protested rather powerlessly against the first constitutional violation with a brief statement condemning the suppression of Şoşoacă instead of calling on the rightly outraged people to take to the streets.( 2) The other side, of course, immediately turned the knife again by annulling the entire presidential elections on 6 December 2024 via the “Constitutional” Court (which meant that the run-off between the best-placed candidates did not take place). Even after this second coup, Simion foolishly told people to keep off the streets and remain calm, which meant him disqualifying himself as a suitable champion of the restoration of a Romanian state of law and order.

But the Romanian people did not let this hold them back, and so, on 12 January 2025, tens of thousands of supporters of Georgescu demonstrated in front of the government seat in Bucharest (in which the “Constitutional” Court also resides) and demanded the immediate repeat of the run-off. Notwithstanding this the Sorosist government announced that the re-run of the annulled presidential election would take place on 4 May 2025.

Even when Călin Georgescu was arrested on 26 February 2025 on the way to submitting his application to stand for the election rerun and was only released, and then on humiliating conditions  (3), after many protests, by both the other Sovereignist leaders and thousands of his supporters, the Romanian people were fierce and determined: More than 100,000 Romanians, based domestically and abroad, about a third of whom were younger than 30, took part in an impressive protest march to the government seat on 1 March, 2025 and presented a united front against the putschist vassal regime: “New elections now!”, “Călin Georgescu is the President!”, “We’ll die, we’ll die for Călin!”, “Predoiu [=Interior Minister], ignore us at your peril!”, “Get Soros out of our country!”, “Traitors!”, “Rise up, Romania!”, “If we stick together we’ll get rid of the criminals!” Unfortunately, the podium speeches were lame (4), and there were absolutely no instructions to inform the people what they should do next; Simion merely hyper-intelligently announced that there was a “Plan B”. Then there was complete silence from the party leadership for days.

Six days later, on 7 March 2025  (5), Georgescu, accompanied by Simion and Gavrila and numerous supporters that had gathered in front of the Central Electoral Office, finally submitted his application to stand for the election rerun together with more than 324,000 signatures from supporters.  On the evening of 9 March 2025 the Central Electoral Office suppressed the admission of Georgescu to the election once again with the justification, among other things, that someone who had been the cause of the cancellation of the previous election should under no circumstances be allowed to stand again… And then they curse the Third Reich, which was just as cynical but could not have been more cynical than this…

All day, several hundred at first, then several thousand people demonstrated for Georgescu’s admission in front of the Central Election Office, which was sealed off by a massive police presence. When the crowd reacted with angry but peaceful protests against the suppression of Georgescu’s candidacy (amongst other things by singing: "We’re not leaving here, we’re not going home until freedom has been won!” and slogans such as: "We’re not giving in!" and "We don’t want to be ruled by criminals!"), the state apparatus pulled troublemakers out of their long-prepared top hat and its heavily armed police and had the peaceful Georgescu supporters, who were trying to escape, surrounded and chased through the streets, with batons and tear gas deployed. The dull reaction of the Sovereignist leaders to this act of violence was Simion announcing a telephone conversation with Georgescu for the following day: “And then we’ll do what Georgescu says”. His solution that next day was to exhaust “all democratic means” (but where is democracy when the people are no longer allowed to vote for whomever they want? And what, apart from the election of a determined opposition, is this “democratic means” supposed to be, if there are no referendums, i.e. no original democracy, anyway? What “democratic means” would there be to help against Hitler or Pinochet, for instance?!). Oh... he meant going to the “VGH”, which had just violated the constitution  – which is, incidentally, not a “democratic” means, but merely a legal one. As was to be expected, two days later the Bucharest cynics rejected Georgescu’s appeal against the suppression of his participation in the election rerun by referring to the putsch against Şoşoacă, i.e. they justified the new constitutional violation with the previous one. Then the Sovereignists literally left the protesting people out in the rain: several thousand people, who despite having their ID cards checked and photographed in front of the “Constitutional” Court, which was surrounded by double rows of armed police, demanded that Georgescu be admitted to the election, remained in helpless anger at the news of this repeated constitutional violation. Upon this, hooded special units (B.S.I.J. = Brigada Specială de Intervenție a Jandarmeriei) marched up and encircled the crowd, preventing any of them from leaving, while further armed police units stood ready for action in countless police vans in front of and at the parliamentary building. But the demonstrators stood firm and did not disperse even when confronted by this act of violence; this did not happen until much later, because neither Georgescu, Simion nor Gavrila wanted to speak to the crowd...

Later than evening, Georgescu turned to the people via Facebook, in order to quintessentially announce, in a kind of farewell speech, that his task had been to shake up the Romanian people so that it could take its fate into its own hands. Oh, yes, indeed… Now that this mission had been fulfilled, he would like to say thank you and that it had been an honour to fight alongside the Romanian people. Those who know will certainly now be reminded of the final scene of “Life of Brian”, in which the “Liberation Front” fighters take their leave from him as he is hanging on the cross. Although the Sovereignists had already been discussing whether Simion should stand for election instead of him at this time, Georgescu left it to “the conscience of each individual as to whether he wanted to support another candidate”, which meant that he was de facto leaving the (shaky) united front. On the evening before, in particular, at the last mutual appearance of Georgescu, Simion and Gavrila, Georgescu seemed very groggy, pale, worried and inwardly absent. Since he has since then withdrawn completely from the public eye and seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth, there is a distinct suspicion that by withdrawing he has given in to a massive threat. If this is the case, the only upright thing to do would have been to make this blackmail public instead of leaving his supporters, or rather the fighters for the sovereignty of Romania, in the lurch. As the leader of a political movement, you cannot just say “farewell” when the opposition doesn’t stick to the “rules of the game” and moves on to open violence (we've seen it all before; it’s by no means unexpected). And anyone who does not want to be as strong and goal-orientated as his opponents must not start the fight, because nothing has such a devastating and demoralising effect as disappointed hope.

The next day Simion and Gavrila announced that they had both, in agreement with Georgescu, decided to submit their applications to stand for election so that in case one of them were suppressed there would at least still be one representative of the Sovereignists to vote for; but if both were accepted, one of them would withdraw his candidacy because this election was not about the policies of their parties but about the restoration of democracy and the rule of law. Should that candidate be victorious, Georgescu, who has actually already been voted president, would take up “a position in keeping with his importance", they said. That was ok, without doubt. Since both candidates now required 200,000 supporting signatures from people entitled to vote for their candidacy, but the closing date for this was already just three days later, 15 March 2025 at 24:00 hours, they called upon everyone inside and outside of Romania to mobilise forces in order to gather the necessary signatures in this extremely short space of time. After the helpless rage and desperation of the day before, the people followed the call gratefully and promptly: in Italy, for example, the vote collectors met on the motorway and handed the signatures to a Romanian woman who then flew to Bucharest that night; in Vienna, people signed in Romanian grocery stores, etc.; this concentrated effort by all forces meant that after just two days, on 14 March 2025, Simion was able to submit his application to the Central Election Office with 640,000 signatures and Gavrila a day later with more than 400,000 signatures. Just compare this to the spineless Germans who allow themselves to be wound up and plundered without any resistance!

The Romanian people fighting for their sovereignty, even after Georgescu’s withdrawal, were determined to resist the violence, but the crowd that accompanied Simion and Gavrila to the submission of their applications was, as was to be expected, much smaller than was the case before with Georgescu; they also shouted almost exclusively just two slogans: “New elections now!” and “Georgescu is President!” But increasingly we also heard people say - demoralisation was clearly spreading - that they would not be taking part in the next presidential election because it was illegal anyway.

While the “Constitutional” Court nodded Simion’s and Gavrila’s applications through on 16 and 19 March 2025 respectively, the candidacy of Diana Şoşoacă was once again rejected on 17 March 2025 with reference to the first act of violence carried out against her in October 2024. Wearing boxing gloves, she had submitted her application with over 200,000 signatures on 11 March 2025 and as she did so, she severely criticised the exclusion of Georgescu, although she did not hide the fact that she was - rightly - furious at him and all the other Sovereignists who had not protested after she had been excluded on 5 October 2024. On the day of the ruling by the Bucharest cynics, Şoşoacă appeared along with several members of their party S.O.S. in black mourning clothes bearing a wreath with a ribbon on it fittingly saying: "The day democracy was executed". They demanded to be admitted; when this was denied them they hung the wreath on the door of the “Constitutional” Court, struck up a dirge and held small protest banners in the air which amongst other things depicted an executioner beheading democracy with his axe. And once again: “Thinking of Germany at night puts all thoughts of sleep to flight...”

On 20 March 2025, one day after Simion and Gavrila had been accepted for participation in the presidential elections, masked special units raided and searched the apartments of 19 Georgescu supporters throughout Romania, analogously to the ban on COMPACT in front of the cameras of the previously informed compliant media (Antena 3, CNN etc.). Here, several persons were arrested, such as the Romanian influencer Bogdan Peşchir, who was subsequently dragged off to Bucharest by special units under all kinds of humiliating conditions (among other things, the police forced him to take off his peaked cap and sunglasses and pull down the collar of his pullover, which he had turned up, in front of the baying mob of media hyenas, so that pogromists would easily be able to recognise him in future). He was then remanded in custody on the charge of having “bribed” people to vote for Georgescu during his TikTok appearances, which is crazy nonsense. How online “bribery” is supposed to have worked in 30-second clips in practical terms remains a secret known only to the henchmen of the judiciary, because the only purpose of this arbitrary act was to cover this constitutional violation over with some kind of “foreign interference” and pick out individual supporters in a a terrorist fashion and condemn them in front of the baying media mob.

Since both Simion and Gavrila were now eligible for the election rerun, they came to an agreement to the effect that Gavrila will withdraw from the election so that only one representative of the united front of the Sovereignists will stand. All the polls assume that Simion will enter the run-off as the winner of the first round of voting, and so he has warned promptly on numerous occasions - and rightly so - that from now on there is a massive threat of election fraud on the part of the Sorosists, especially in the run-off; he has called for international election observers to be sent to the country in May. He would admittedly have been better served by mobilising the people like Trump did, because it should not be too difficult to work out what “international election observers” that are tethered to the EU are going to “observe”.

But the opposition still has some terror cards to play: the judiciary apparatus has already initiated criminal proceedings against Simion for “incitement against institutions of the state”. He faces criminalisation and prison - and how that works in Romania is sufficiently known from the Inquisition trials against Gregorian Bivolaru (see this site and Ketzerbriefe Issues 128, 130, 181, 198, 200 and 206). But on the other hand he is suddenly being courted by the truth press: shortly after Georgescu’s election ban, interviews with Simion appeared in seemingly benevolent Western Bloc journalists in the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, the France Soir, the Washington Post and Le Monde among others - this phenomenon is called “sandwiching” in American media jargon. However, this side never had interviews with Georgescu: instead, there was the unison chanting of the shrill mantra of "far-right Putin crony" whenever silencing didn’t quite work. It is to be feared that following on from the sadly weakened and broken original, Simion will now also be softened or, failing that, eliminated in a cold, “judicial” way.

Since the European governments, as lackeys of the Soros-Rockefeller gang, are trying to force a war with Russia even at the cost of a few European Hiroshimas, they will prevent a Romanian government, and therefore one of a front-line state, that refuses to join in with this, by all means necessary.( 6) This is why the resistance of the Romanian people and above all their struggle for the sovereignty of their country must be broken at all costs. The steadfastness of the Romanian people deserves the highest of praise (similarly to the American people in the last presidential election)! But it is not organised, and its involuntary, and certainly illusion-filled leaders want to oppose the unjust nation on the legally set official channels as much as possible, strike the sails at the merest gust of wind and call for moderation rather than determination among the protestors who are, after all, willing to sacrifice a great deal, instead of at least going into exile in either Hungary or, even better, the US (which would certainly take them in now and from where they could damage the EU quislings of their country much better than they could from its prison cells). This means that the people have been betrayed and sold out and will, sooner or later, dissipate in disappointment and resignation under the pressure of the continued violence. The ongoing violations of the Romanian constitution can in any case not be reversed with such timid and feeble people’s representatives at the helm, and the European precedent of suppressing the participation of uncomfortable presidential candidates in elections is being used as a model (even if it was not already a contrived pioneering act in a border state), as the example of Le Pen in France shows. If the Romanian leaders had been as determined and uncompromising as Saddam Hussein or even Lenin, the Romanian resistance really could have been the spanner in the works of the sinister machinations of the gang and a role model for the rest of Europe. The demoralisation that is presumably to come will lead to there being nothing left but to start again from scratch, with a slogan of Lenin’s – “patiently explain”!

Michail Rodinescu & Beate Skalée

(1) See "What is going on in Romania?" Parts 1 and 2. We prefix the previous constitutional violations and their consequences here briefly for the purposes of clarity, which does, however, make some overlaps inevitable.
(2) So the principle of "Resist the Beginnings" was unfortunately as far away from them as it was from the German people in 1972 in regard to the berufsverbots (occupational bans) ordered by state saint Willy Brandt, with which the whole deprivation of rights and disdain for the constitution began in Germany.
(3) He has to register with the police every week, report every change of residence and present himself immediately if he is summoned by an authority, is not allowed to possess a weapon and must not make any statements in public or on social media that are “fascist”, “racist”, “anti-Semitic”, “xenophobic” etc., but what constitutes a statement of this kind is, of course, determined randomly by the lying press or the state prosecutor…
(4) One exception is the fighting speech by the chairman of the Bulgarian party “Rebirth”, Kostadin Kostadinow, who reported on the ban of a referendum initiated by his party against the introduction of the euro in 2026, the demonstrations against the ban, and the introduction of the euro itself and thereby called for cooperation among all the democratic forces, also internationally. Have you heard about this in the truth press?
(5) On 6 March 2025 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected Georgescu’s complaint against Romania regarding the annulment of the presidential elections with the crazy justification that it was only responsible for parliamentary elections! Since when have civil rights been restricted to parliamentary elections?!? Just two AfD MEPs also condemned the putsch with appropriate severity, incidentally, but most of the EU talking shop refused to even put the topic on the agenda – silence is golden, or at least worth thirty pieces of silver.
(6) This means that the war-hungry Western European governments would seem to find only one thing about Hitler and his "Operation Barbarossa" that is bad: that he acted on his own and for the ruling class of his country and not on the orders of foreign armies from overseas. Otherwise there is no distinction - or can you find one?

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This article was written before the mutilated Romanian elections, whose result was difficult to predict, but now Simion has received 41% of the vote in the first round, nearly twice as many as the next EU bondsman candidate. So it will be interesting to see if the run-off or the entire election will be annulled, although a government against 41% of the voters requires a genuine dictatorship. Or will a half-hearted, bribed opposition candidate or even one who was fake from the start betray the people in the long term? Let's see what the result is, but it will to an extent be less interesting than its backstory.

After the first major electoral success of the oppositional party Rassemblement National (RN), which has been defamed and discriminated against for decades and has even been cut off from standard bank loans, the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris (comparable to a county court in Germany) has now, on March 31 2025, passed a scandalous judgement against this party, which criminalises it in an unprecedented manner and, if it is not lifted, means nothing less than the end of free elections in our neighbouring country:

Persistent breach of constitution in advance of the Romanian presidential election and the hunting down of democratic demonstrators. What the “truthful press” is not reporting: In Issue 249 of the KETZERBRIEFE we documented the putschist conditions in Romania: on the one hand the presidential candidacy of Diana Şoşoacă was rejected by the electoral commission with the purely political and therefore naturally inadmissible justification that an opponent of NATO and the EU must not be allowed to become the state president of Romania, and on the other the election that subsequently took place without her candidacy was annulled because the presidential candidate the people had given the most votes to, the previously largely unknown Călin Georgescu, whose main demand was the immediate cessation of support for Ukraine, did not suit EU policy as guided by the US mega capital.

Constitutional Court makes a mockery of the constitution – The perversion of the presidential elections 
On 5 October 2024, the Romanian Constitutional Court, in a mockery of the constitution of its country, denied the Romanian MEP and chairwoman of the oppositional party Partidul S.O.S. Româ­nia, the lawyer Diana Șoșoacă, the right to stand for the presidential election on 24 November 2024 because of her political views. In summary, this court proclaimed: An opponent of NATO and the EU such as Șoșoacă must on no account be allowed to become state president; her candidature alone would threaten the irrevocable “integration of Romania into the Euro-Atlantic structures”. This “integration”, i.e. the subjugation of the country to the rule of the “four hundred families” of the USA (analogous to the approximately 400 Roman senators of, say, Numidia or a Greek pseudo-state that the empire had subsumed to its “sphere of influence”), supersedes the constitution of the country that has been absorbed, and that’s all there is to it!!

Curtea Constituțională batjocorește Constituția – Perversiunea alegerilor prezidențiale

Interzicerea candidaturii europarlamentarei Diana Șoșoacă la alegerile prezidențiale din 2024. Batjocurind Constituția țării, Curtea Constituțională a României (CCR) a privat-o europarlamentara română și conducătoarea Partidului opoziției S.O.S. România, avocata Diana Șoșoacă, pe 5 octombrie 2024 de dreptul de a candida la alegerile prezidențiale din 24 noiembrie 2024 pe motivul opiniilor sale politice. În rezumat, CCR proclama că o opozantă NATO și UE precum Șoșoacă nu trebuie să devină președinte sub nicio formă, deoarece doar candidatura ei ar amenința „integrarea irevocabilă a României în structurile euro-atlantice”. Această „integrare”, adică, în limbaj simplu, subjugarea țării la dominația celor „400 de familii” din SUA (analogă cu cea a celor aproximativ 400 de senatori romani asupra, de exemplu, Numidiei sau a unui stat pseudo-grecesc pe care imperiul îl adăugase în „sfera sa de influență”) este mai presus de Constituția absorbitei țări, și cu asta basta! De altfel, doar „integrarea României în structurile euro-atlantice” îi poate „garanta” existența sa statală – nu a existat România înainte?! – și îl obliga pe președintele său să respecte și să protejeze apartenența la UE și NATO. Astfel, la alegerile prezidențiale trebuie să fie admiși doar acei candidați care, fără nicio îndoială, asigură îndeplinirea acestei obligații.  (1)

Această negare a dreptului de vot garantat în Constituție înseamnă desființarea dreptului de vot. Dacă poporul nu are voie să voteze pe cine dorește, atunci nu are voie să voteze deloc. (2) Numai reglementările formale privind candidatura sunt permise (de exemplu, privind depunerea la timp a candidaturii și altele asemănătoare). În România acestea sunt: cetățenia română a candidatului, depunerea a cel puțin 200 000 de semnături de alegători eligibili în sprijinul candidaturii (aceasta sunt peste 1% din alegătorii eligibili – pe care mai întâi trebuie să le aduni ca și candidat individual sau ca un nou partid de opoziție, încă mic), fără activitate în fosta poliție secretă „Securitatea”, vârsta minimă de 35 de ani, sănătate mintală și fără condamnare definitivă la o pedeapsă cu închisoarea în cursul căreia dreptul de a candida este revocat pentru o anumită perioadă încă neexpirată în ziua alegerilor. Aceasta este suficient de restrictivă, dar este totul.

By electing the new president, the American people have defeated the monopoly capitalists – a hard struggle, and it will take a long time, and the obstructions will be wild and tough, just like Allende, Emperor Julian (who wanted to restore freedom of religion) and the tribune Gaius Gracchus. We admire all his rapid measures that are having the monopoly capitalists, who are in charge of the world press, foaming at the mouth.

But Trump is committing an evil deed and making a grave error with the unfair treatment of the Palestinian people. We would appeal to him:

With his election victory, achieved against the roaring, world-wide orchestrated multi-billion dollar media of the US ruling class—called “the swamp” by their local opponents, “the Good Club” by themselves—, with Donald Trump, who defied attempted assassination, attempted electoral fraud and a delirious judiciary in the service of this “Good Club”, the US American people won against their own ruling class (who saw the time coming to establish the first total world domination and then to reduce both, wages and living standards to the lowest possible world level also for the US people). For the time being, Trump's steadfastness has screwed this up, but above all, the incipient development of antibodies against the brain infection by the one-size-fits-all media of the US ruling class. Unfortunately, the Europeans are far away from this; they still are fully occupied by the hypnosis of the S/R gang, respectively under the S/R controlled one-size-fits-all media. An awakening of the people from this media hypnosis has only just begun in the USA, just as the awakening of many Europeans from their Catholic hypnosis only began at the time of the Reformation and then in the Age of Enlightenment.

Our today's Europeans, as inhabitants of the “showcase of the West”, i.e. the US-directed military bloc, trained to eat ideological bullshit for a very long time (because they were able to look down on the near Eastern bloc, which remained unattractive due to military overload, and allowed them to rise above it with stupid pride), are only very, very slowly and clumsily waking up from their decades-long hypnosis, and the brownies of the S/R gang (“The Good Club”), respectively the local rulers, who own or control all the media, from the Springer Group to the news magazine DER SPIEGEL, are getting nervous, tripping over with hysteria and war obsession in favor of their masters and are therefore heading straight for a new totalitarianism whose completeness is in none below to that of Hitler and Theodosius II, i.e. the mature Christian antiquity. But also the US people, for the time being freed from the worst nightmarish pressures, are facing difficult battles; may they keep their wits and consistency and fight every lie in time!

The now published ruling of the Federal Administrative Court dated 14 August 2024 (BVerwG 6VR 1.24) shows that it is no point in talking of a “victory for freedom of the press” having been achieved here. On the contrary: the court ruling is paving the way to abolishing freedom of the press:

As we have already said, the court has expressly signed off on the legal trick of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which mendaciously turns the press company COMPACT into an "association" and then, in breach of Article 5 of the German Basic Law – freedom of the press! – ­banning it in accordance with association law. This means that the door is open to the censorship and destruction of any oppositional publication. The groundbreaking, and in reality extremely evil, importance of the ruling lies in this main idea, which is why the court has exclusively put precisely this fundamental point at the forefront of its decision as an "official guiding principle": "The banning of an association ...  can also be decreed as an instrument of ´preventative constitutional protection´(!) ... against media organisations." – this is a blatant instruction manual for future censorship!

In accordance with the court ruling, in the ongoing procedure to ban COMPACT the (secret) police may, expressly before returning the "secured and confiscated evidence and property” (i.e. secured on their raids), “create hard copies of documents (files, bank statements etc.) and electronic storage media (including computers and laptops with internal drives, notebooks, tablets and external drives, memory sticks, memory cards, NAS storage, SD cards, DVDs, CDs) and analyse mobile telephones and SIM cards."

Because the procedure to ban COMPACT is, of course, ongoing!

Finally, only for the application of COMPACT-Magazin GmbH as the editor of COMPACT – as legalese would have it – was the delaying effect of the appeal against the ban provisionally restored. All further applications were rejected! Those of the film production company and those of Jürgen Elsässer, his wife and all his other colleagues who had also all been attacked in their private apartments! For this reason the court has obscenely decided that these victims of raid and censorship will have to pay most of the considerable court costs and even the costs of the Ministry of Law Enforcement themselves!

Our demands remain unchanged: 

The complete restoration of freedom of the press and freedom of information!

The reversal of the Compact ban in regards to both the magazine and the YouTube channel COMPACT-TV!

The immediate return of the confiscated production equipment and other assets (accounts, cash and private property)!

The deletion of all the stolen data and information in the possession of the secret police!

The complete rehabilitation of and compensation for the COMPACT team!

The German Federal Administrative Court partially suspended the immediate enforcement of the COMPACT ban today, which means that the magazine (the YouTube channel, COMPACT-TV, is not mentioned in the court’s press release) can be published again temporarily.

We would like to congratulate Jürgen Elsässer and his colleagues on this partial victory in the fight for freedom of the press and freedom of information!

However, we must not overlook the fact that according to its press release (the decision itself has not yet been announced), the German Federal Administrative Court has no qualms about the truly scandalous legal trick of simply redefining a press company or a publishing house as an “association” and then banning it in accordance with association law, which means that there will allegedly have been no breach of the constitution, i.e. the blatant violation of Art 5 German Basic Law ("Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.").

If this unconstitutional tort is not rejected in no uncertain terms, the doors to the censorship and destruction of any “undesirable” publication will be thrown wide open.

For this reason our demand remains:

 The complete restoration of freedom of the press and freedom of information!

The reversal of the Compact ban in regards to both the magazine and the YouTube channel COMPACT-TV!

The immediate return of the confiscated production equipment and other assets (accounts, cash and private property)!

The complete rehabilitation of and compensation for the COMPACT team!

We wish to protest in the strongest possible terms against the monstrous ban on COMPACT Magazine, COMPACT-TV and the police raids on Jürgen Elsässer and his colleagues, who made use of their right to freedom of speech that is guaranteed in our constitution:

German Basic Law, Art 5 Para 1:
Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.

Compare the following official statements for yourself:

1) Press release from the Federal Ministry of the Interior on 16/07/2024:
Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser: "Today I have banned the right-wing extremist "COMPACT-Magazin". It is a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene. This magazine hounds Jews, people of migrant descent and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable way.
Our ban is a heavy blow to the right-wing extremist scene. The ban shows that we are also prepared to go after the ‘intellectual arsonists’ who promote hate and violence against refugees and migrants and aim to overcome our democratic state. Our signal is quite clear: We will not allow the definition of who belongs to Germany and who does not to be defined in ethnic terms. Our constitutional state will protect all those who are exposed to hostility because of their faith, their origin, their colour or their democratic stance.
I would like to thank the security authorities both on a national and federal level for their closely coordinated, consistent measures. I would especially like to thank the emergency forces who have been searching various properties since the early hours of this morning."

2) The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) on the Nazis’ Editors’ Law of 4 October 1933:
“The Editors’ Law, which had already been passed by the cabinet on 4 October 1933 and come into effect on 1 January 1934, changed the work of Germany’s journalists fundamentally. It was the crucial instrument of National Socialist media control - but not the first step.
Soon after the government led by newly appointed Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler came to office on 30 January 1933, the National Socialists began their policy of the enforced conformity of societies, associations and institutions. The aim was to take control of societal life as a whole. This also applied to the media.
In terms of National Socialist policies, one had to "either say a clear yes or a clear no, and this yes or no would not tolerate any ifs or buts", propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had already said in a speech to foreign press representatives on 6 April 1933. "The intellectual forces of German journalism that commit themselves to a ‘Yes’ can be certain to receive the most cordial of material and non-material support from the government."
The social democratic and hard left-orientated party press of the SPD and KPD had already been banned by the Nazi regime after the Reichstag fire in February 1933. What the National Socialists were still missing was a legal means of dealing with the bourgeois press. This function was fulfilled by the Editors’ Law.” (German Federal Agency for Civic Education on the purpose of historical clarification, 29/12/2018)

“... by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:15-20)

Since our foundation we have always taken inspiration from Voltaire:
“I don't share your point of view, but I will certainly defend to the death your right to express it.”

»Look how close they put their country to our military bases«
Ever since the US had accomplished the downfall of the Soviet Union (by driving the Soviet Union to completely exhaust its economic resources in the arms race) and then, consequently, the breakup of its defence alliance with the Eastern European states, the US government has been relentlessly, though contrary to its promises (but what do they care about what they promised yesterday?) pushing its own military bloc into Eastern Europe with the aim of destroying Russia, the last sovereign state on the globe apart from China, and of chopping it up into vassal states – in short, of completing the first unrestricted world domination in human history.

For this purpose only, NATO has gone through an excessive military buildup since 1990 instead of disappearing together with the Warsaw Pact, in order to form the largest war machine of all times, now consisting of 30 states, with a military budget about twenty times that of Russia: After pocketing the GDR, the »North Atlantic« Pact received the green light from the Biden-led US Senate in 1998 to incorporate Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, then in 2003 to swallow the three Baltic states on Russia’s northern flank, Romania and Bulgaria on its southern flank and Slovakia and Slovenia in the middle section. NATO’s declaration in Bucharest in 2008, enforced by Bush Jr., that it would also incorporate Ukraine and Georgia as member states was already the barely veiled ultimatum that Russia should hand over the Black Sea and tolerate US nuclear missiles and missile interceptors even in its historic heartland (»Little Russia«), which would mean capitulation – the final solution of the Russian question after 13 union republics with 137 million inhabitants had been broken out of the Soviet Union and 14 states had been integrated into NATO.

When it was reported a few weeks ago that Hamas had once again fired rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip, and this time nastily enough at a major civilian event, the majority of recipients of this news probably assumed that this was yet one more of the countless episodes from the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian permanent war, and thus did not pay any major attention to the incident.