Source: Consent Factory, Inc.
by CJ Hopkins
[editor’s note: CJ Hopkins has been convicted on appeal of his prior acquittal — Germany allows “double jeopardy” — for criticizing the German regime’s COVID-19 authoritarianism. This is an excerpt from his statement to the court – TLK] “Go ahead. Do whatever you feel you need to do to me. Fine me. Send me to prison. Bankrupt me. Whatever. I will not pretend that I am guilty of anything to make your punishment stop. I will not lie for you. I will not obey you because you threaten me, because you have the power to hurt me. You have that power. I get it. Everyone gets it. The German authorities have the power to punish those who criticize them, who expose their hypocrisy, their lies. We all get the message. But that is not how things work in democratic societies. That is how things work in totalitarian systems. I will not cooperate with that. I refuse to live that way.” (10/01/24)