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It's a new Iron Curtain. Six German men and two German women, citizens on paper, tried to leave their homeland for a congress of European minds, the “Remigration Summit” in Italy, a gathering meant to discuss the restoration of harmony between land and lineage.
But they were stopped at a German airport, interrogated for hours, and then banned from going anywhere internationally for two days. By bureaucrats with badges.
The official reason? “They might damage Germany’s international reputation” if they happened to say anything in Italy about what was really going on back home in Germany.
Writes Constantine Von Hoffmeister:
"Free speech, that ancient contract between citizen and state, has become conditional. You may speak but only if your words wear velvet gloves. You may think but only if your thoughts arrive sterilized. You may question but only inside the margins drawn by Davos. And if you dare to assemble across jurisdictional lines with others who refuse the narrative, the exit point becomes a trap. To leave becomes subversion. To travel becomes threat. This is Germany now — a land once torn by a wall of concrete, now ruled by walls made of ideology and algorithm. The surveillance is softer, the chains more invisible, yet the prison more complete. How many minds will wither in silence because they fear that even thinking wrong will mark them?"
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
