German Politicians Have Not Been This Mad Since The Treaty of Versailles

The Munich Security Conference Kurfuffle

Olaf Scholz and Boris Pistorius crying

I was going to write this week about the Munich Security Conference but the AstroTurfed fallout after the speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance by predominantly German politicians going on stage in performative artistry to “Vogue” Madonna style being visibly shaken to protest Mr. Vance’s speech to an audience of it European peers with Boris Pistorius’ trembling faux rage at the Vice President to Christoph Heusgen emotional closing remarks and crocodile tears and group hug for a politician who supported making Germany dependent on Russian cheap energy and laughed at President Donald Trump at the UN in 2018 when Mr. Trump stated that Germany was on a course to be dependent on Russian energy if it did not change its ways. Maybe his Munich speech needed to be more retrospective and less defensive.

The mainstream press then took the handoff from Europe and fumbled that ball and reinforced the VPs point when CBS’ Margaret Brennan in “Face the Nation” pontificated to Secretary of State Marco Rubio that free speech was weaponized in Germany by the Nazis to propagate the holocaust. As if Hitler and his ilk were free speech advocates according to Ms. Brennan who had her argument eviscerated by Mr. Rubio live on national television on the ridiculous assertion by an experienced “journalist”.

But CBS was not done yet when 60 Minutes, once the flagship of hard hitting investigative journalism, had their “journalist” Sharyn Alfonsi join German prosecutors and gave them the stage on how they crack down on free speech in the name of civility and did not push back when German prosecutor Matthäus Fink stated that Germans “…have free speech as well but it has limits.” And Ms. Alfonsi went along like a nodding ass to this insanity that only proved JD Vance’s point.

When government decides what is “acceptable” speech, and what the “limits” are no matter what the reason whether civility or political reason, it is not free speech. Nor are they treating it as an inherent right granted to oneself as a sentient being. They, in Germany and other parts of the world, including other parts of Europe, are not treating it as a right that government is to protect but as a privilege that government grants and if government grants it, they can take it away at the whim of whatever political or societal manipulation they choose.

The governments, speakers of the conference, and the mainstream media, especially CBS, proved the point that was being made by the VP. If that is their internal policy on free speech, that is their affair, but don’t call it what it isn’t and accept the diverging view with United States on the topic and philosophy of inalienable rights.

So I will not be writing about the Munich Security Conference not because I don’t understand it, but that so much has already been said, and what was said in the detraction-reaction was all too stupid.