#anyways I'm always abailable for translations lmao o7

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"The AfD (2nd most popular party in Germany rn, not just-far right but literal actual Nazis) doesn't even have to govern to get their politics made. The Traffic Light (current government coalition, made up of the red/green/yellow colored parties, hence the nickname) does the exact same thing."

The TLDR of the article is TTL wanting to speedrun the implementation of laws that are akin to a highly Anti-Democratic racial profiling government surveillance state by using public safety as an excuse.

The long version is that TTL wants to implement a bunch of laws in the form of a "safety packet", that'd not only implement stricter rules for refugees and extension of biometric surveillance, but in fact would also allow the police to stop, question, check, and even frisk anyone in many places without any stated reason.

"Usually, they're not allowed to do that in democracies, and as of right now, the police need a solid reason to do so. The idea behind it is that innocent people shouldn't be target of searches, and it's not the government's business what random innocent people do on streets in their free time.

The only exception until now were at borders, traffic infrastructure, and places with bad cases of criminal activity + no-weapon-zones. TTL wants to get rid of that and enable those "police rights" for the entire country. Their reasoning for this is the implementation of a knife ban."

Basically, they're using a supposed ban on knives as an excuse to allow the police to frisk people anytime, in case they might have a knife on them.

"The GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, aka "Association for Liberty Rights" notices that Control Checks would be possible almost everywhere."

Stated are

literally any kind of public events, from festivals to sports to markets, etc.,

any type of public transit, "crime-burdened" streets, paths, and parks,

and, totally independent of crime frequency, also specific often-used streets, paths, parks, buildings, areas, shopping malls, youth- and education facilities."

So practically everwhere short of your own home.

"This level of control would obviously not just bring up knives. Any one-off consumer of harmless party drugs on the way home from techno-raves has to worry about becoming a side-catch to the polices' knife fishing. Anyone with a spraycan in their backback would become a potential sprayer and has to deal with uncomfortable questions. And anyone on the way to a Demonstration or Football game can be sure to get their bags controlled.

But it's not just workers with maybe-criminal knives who'd have to deal with this. It's all of us. Who really wants to get their private bags searched just to get their wine bottles, tampons, sextoys, books or underwear fingered by police officers. No one should be forced to endure this without reason."

There's also the Racial profiling.

"People have to always assume that anytime, anywhere within the mentioned places, they could be stopped, questioned, and searched, without any reason.

Who gets controlled is purely the choice of the police officers, which are proven to be explicitly racist in its choices."

In other words, racial profiling. The act of assuming certain groups in society are more prone to crime than others based purely on their looks, thus becoming the target of controls/searches more often than others. Which in turn makes numbers for them disproportionately high compared to the other groups, enabling a vicious cycle of racism and skewed statistics.

"The GGF concludes that all of this combined is a intimidation tactic aimed at everyone, but especially people who already had bad experiences with the police." (aka victims of racial profiling). "Plus, there is an extremely high risk of targeted power abuse and discriminating use of those control powers."

Major interference of fundamental rights

"A search in public isn't just annoying, it also exposes civilians in front of others. The GGF talks about a "high potential for stigmata". Because just through selecting a person, the police sends the message that this person is assumed to be capable of being highly dangerous.

Because of this, the GGF things the plans of the Traffic Light are "excessive", talks of "general suspicion", and "massive interference into fundamental rights".

Which it is! Very much so. And includes multiple of the first 19 articles. That's important, because those were explicitly written as a response to the way Hitler originally rose to power + the Holocaust and WW2 as a whole. They're Locked via Art. 79, aka it is impossible for any government to ever change them in any way. Art. 1a, "Human dignity is inviolable", is literally the only sentence of the book anyone can quote. There is a chance this whole law packet will not be able to go through in its entirety, and if that happens, it'll be because of these articles.

And then the last paragraph of the article just says how it's kinda fucked up that this proposal comes from the Traffic Light coalition, which (with FDP and Greens) includes 2 self-assigned civil rights parties, and celebrated itself as a progress party. "Such a dismantling of democratic and liberal achievements probably wouldn't be dared by the Union" (basically USAs' democrats, currently sucking AfD's Nazi-dick in an effort to gain power again after getting the country into this state for 12 years to begin with, would absolutely have tried this too and did before with internet regulations) - "and especially not in this tempo, with which this law packet is shoved through the Bundestag (Lower House of German Government)."

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Also, maybe-inportant background context here is that the focus on specifically knives probably comes from a recent attack where a non-German stabbed a "true proper" German with a knife. (There's also "non-proper" Germans, aka people "with a migration background", aka "you don't look European", aka "your grandparents weren't Nazis so you don't count as German", it's a whole thing.)

In response, Nazis and their suck-ups screamed for stricter regulations against refugees (into which they also include immigrants, migration background havers, really anyone who isn't a Proper German Christian), and a common critique is that The Traffic Light doesn't do enough for public safety and let criminals loose to stab innocent Germans everywhere. Hence, this very blatantly passively-targeted law set.

So BASICALLY, TLDR part 2 if you will, our currently VERY unpopular government is trying to fish Nazi-Voters back by just doing their job for them.

Die AfD muss noch nicht mal regieren, damit ihre Politik gemacht wird. Die Ampel macht genau dasselbe.