German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has banned a major faction of the far-right “Reichsbürger” movement. Some leaders of the group, the “Kingdom of Germany,” have been arrested, including its self-declared king.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt has banned the far-right group “Königreich Deutschland” (“Kingdom of Germany”), a faction within the so-called “Reichsbürger” (Reich Citizens) movement, accusing it of trying to establish a “counter-state” within Germany.
The ban came as police on Tuesday conducted raids on the properties of key members of the group in seven German states, making four arrests, including that of Peter Fitzek, the self-declared monarch of the “Kingdom.”
Security authorities believe Fitzek to have founded the group in 2012.
No we haven’t. If you opt out of a vote, you are still treated as if you have an obligation to obey its result. That’s not how “deciding together” works. When you put magical words where something well-proven should be, you get Putin.
Some existing mechanism spitting out rules is not “the society”.
There’s such a thing as mandate, and there is such a thing as a source of a right, and so on.
None of the laws you can find are well-founded in these. Official mechanisms make laws outside of their mandate all the time, and nobody cares about sources of right, replacing that logic with a stick.
Which means that a legally literate person understands everything can be contested. Calling that “not playing by the rules” is an attack at the dignity of your equal, you peer, who is trying to dispute philosophy and law with you. They may be clumsy, but their right to contest statements in those is never in question.
I mean, the USA has that 9th amendment, all it says is that rights are transcendent and the constitution can only confirm them, it’s not a source of rights and rights are not limited by what’s said in the constitution.
This is just amazing. Because without accepting that rights are transcendent you encounter contradictions only resolvable by violence everywhere.
And this “rules of the society” thing you’ve said means just that somebody is more potent at violence than me. It’s a return to barbarism.