Germany: Court Says Spying on the Opposition is Pure Democracy

It would make more sense to just ban the AfD.

I mean, if they’re plotting against Our Democracy to the point where they can be classified effectively as a terrorist group or a criminal gang, then why not just ban them outright?

Well, presumably because allowing them to exist, while ensuring they are never able to get power, and are totally infiltrated by informants, both serves to give false hope to the people and to help security services entrap people.

The Guardian:

A German court has ruled that the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) can be classified as a suspected threat to democracy, paving the way for the domestic intelligence agency to spy on the opposition party.

The court dismissed a legal challenge brought by the AfD last March that delayed plans by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) to put the party under surveillance.

The administrative court in Cologne however found that there were “sufficient indications of anti-constitutional goals within the AfD”, it said in a statement.

As a result, the BfV is allowed to officially classify the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant party as a “suspected case of right-wing extremism”.

The classification authorises intelligence agents to tap the party’s communications and use undercover informants.

This is all fine

AfD leaders had sought to argue that the party had distanced itself from its most extreme members by disbanding the hardline “Wing” faction led by Bjoern Hoecke.

But judges in Cologne said key figures from the faction still had “significant influence” in the party.

The court also criticised the extremist leanings of the AfD’s youth wing, saying along with former “Wing” supporters these members believed that the “German people should be kept ethnically intact and ‘outsiders’ should be excluded as far as possible”.

“This goes against the Basic Law,” the court said, referring to Germany’s constitution.

It’s the basic law that Germany needs to be overrun with foreigners? And then the people have to mix with them?

Who the hell passes a law like that?

This didn’t help…