Reprinted with permission from No Tricks Zone
Just like the 1030s, and again Munich. There’s no question that freedom of science and speech are under heavy attack in Germany after dozens of distinguished but dissenting scientists have seen their long planned science conference cancelled due to intimidation by leftwing extremists.
Germany caving in to leftist extremists. A skeptic climate conference gets cancelled at last minute due to coercion. Image: Antifa action in Phoenix, 2017, cropped from Carptrash – I, Einar Kvaran, License: CC BY-SA 4.0
This latest climate conference cancellation comes just after leftists coerced the University of Hamburg to disinvite political leaders from making speeches.
The same has also just occurred at the famed University of Göttingen.
The problem of suppressing open discussion has deteriorated to such an extent across Germany over the recent years that even according to leftist Spiegel 75% of journalists and writers are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about the state of free speech in Germany!
Free speech in Germany is in state of crisis.
Munich NH Congress Center bullied, cancels at last minute
The latest free speech suppression and intimidation has unfolded in Munich: The 13th International Climate and Energy Conference, sponsored by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and CFACT, has seen its contractual agreement torn up, and was booted out of the conference facility at the last minute.
Pressured by “left-green mob”
According to EIKE spokesman, Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, “a left-green mob” pressured the hotel management of the NH Congress Center in Munich(Aschheim) “to illegally cancel the accommodation contract”. EIKE went to court and demanded revocation of the termination in an emergency motion. However, today a Bavarian court just ruled in favor of the conference center, citing “security reasons”.
EIKE is a non-profit organization like the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The Jena-Germany based EIKE plans every year a scientific conference on current climate and energy topics. This year it was planned to take place on November 22nd in Munich. But now its attendees will have to make new last minute plans.
More than 200 scientists and attendees had booked, many paid
More than 200 international scientists and experts had long since booked and paid for their travels, as well as their hotels. Many of them in the conference hotel NH Congress Center. Some of them were planned to come from overseas, the USA, Canada and Australia. Media representatives also asked to be accredited, this year much more than usual.
Distinguished scientists were to appear
But the problem is that the 13th International Climate and Energy Conference is one that allows alternative – NON-ALARMIST – views on climate science to be presented, for example by distinguished scientists such as astrophysicists Nir Shaviv of Israel and Prof. Henrik Svensmark of Denmark. More than a dozen were slated to speak.
Antifa intimidates NH Conference Center
However, this open scientific discussion was too much to take for the far left-green Antifa and other like-minded radical organizations. This time they really mobilized against the “climate change deniers”.
At its Facebook site the radical leftwing Antifa organization recently called on its followers to take aim at the Munich NH Congress Center for hosting the EIKE event, posting at its site the following comic image:
Antifa posting: “Strike against EIKE! Put the heat on climate deniers!”
EIKE has published scientific works and peer-reviewed publications and is involved in the promotion of scientific education. The conference was intended to continue extend this work.
The agreement to host the conference at the NH Congress Center Munich was duly signed by both parties already back in May and was followed shortly afterwards by a “substantial down payment”, according to EIKE. Everything was settled. Then came the science brownshirts.
Mob descends on NH hotel, disturbed guests, staff
The initial spark setting off the protest of the NH Congress Center Munich (Aschheim) hosting the EIKE climate conference was launched by editor Paul Gäbler of the Berliner Tagesspiegel, who publicly slandered EIKE as an “AfD-near climate denier think tank”. The AfD is Germany’s new and growing right party that has has been surging in recent polls and elections nationwide. It’s the only party in Germany that challenges alarmist climate science and acknowledges natural climate drivers.
Journalistic intimidation
In September Gäbler called the management of the NH conference hotel and asked if the positions of EIKE were known to them.” At first NH management declined to comment, but “journalist” Gäbler persisted and the NH caved in, issuing a delcaration: “Denial of man-made climate change is not compatible with the values of the NH hotel group.” and said it would review the matter.
Mob descends on the conference facility, management caves
But it remained quiet for a while. Requests by EIKE as to whether the accommodation contract was endangered remained unanswered on the part of the NH management in Berlin. But then NH management panicked after Munich Antifa and auxiliary groups from the environmental scene mobilized. On November 9th, a mob of 15-20 people appeared inside the hotel and disturbed guests and employees.
They mixed in with the guests in the lobby and distributed a flyer to employees and guests, announcing further activities in case the conference took place.
According to the hotel management of the NH Congress Center in Munich-Ost (Aschheim), they apparently “forced” them to cave in “by singing songs and distributing leaflets”.
NH Munich Conference Center gets a hate letter
At the same time, an open letter from the Munich Environmental Institute was sent to the NH Munich Conference Center management demanding they not make conference rooms available to EIKE.
The letter begins by telling the NH Munich Conference Center how influential the Institute fancies itself to be, and claims “EIKE denies man-made climate change and is trying to influence political parties and public opinion.”
The letter ends by demanding the NH Munich Conference Center management “not provide the climate change deniers any space.”
“Please disinvite EIKE.”
Thus the NH management terminated the contract (in spite of the previously granted contract extension) due to a perceived “danger to its guests and employees.”
Big win for violent radicals, loss for free speech
The Berliner Tagesspiegel (TS) reported triumphantly at the news: “NH hotel group disinvites EIKE, climate change deniers have to find a new venue,” was the triumphant headline in the leftist Tagesspiegel.
“This is comparable to the behaviour of arsonists who first set a fire and then proudly report about it,” commented EIKE.
German court green lights coercion, suppression of speech
All attempts by the EIKE Board to avert the contract cancellation, which was demonstrably based on defamation and lies, did not alter the NH Conference Center decision. EIKE took immediate legal action against this, hiring well-known law firm Steinhöfel, but to no avail. The conference is cancelled.
German rule of law is failing
At its site, EIKE called the coercion and intimidation to force NH to shirk its contractual obligations a “particularly serious case of coercion and blackmail for the suppression of scientific facts.”
“If the rule of law still works in this country, the court should make a decision in our favour,” EIKE wrote.
No longer a constitutional state
With that, the German court has de facto ruled it can no longer protect and uphold the rights of persons to dissent and to speak freely. The court ruling sends a dangerous signal to radical leftwing organizations that it’s open season on dissenters.
EIKE writes that all hotels and conference centers throughout Germany “are already so afraid of Antifa and their thugs, as well as their green auxiliary troops, that they have no more confidence in the protection by our constitutional state. This makes them willing opportunists. A constitutional state that allows this is no longer a constitutional state.”
On the brink of leftist anarchy
The last minute, sudden cancellation by the Munich NH also results in hefty damages to a number of parties involved in the conference. “Travel expenses have now been spent in vain,” EIKE says. “Perhaps the NH-Conference Center would even come to its senses, recall the rule of law and bring charges against the Antifa (Unknown).”
Caving in to extreme leftist pressure sends the wrong signal, EIKE warns. “The reputation to have given way to the pressure of the street will perhaps deter more future visitors of the NH Conference Center than visitors who have apparently forgotten where it leads if fascists of all colours, whether left, green or brown, are not fought with all means of our constitutional state and immediately brought before the judge.”
The end of neutral logical law and order in addition to the end of logical discussion/science/honest estimates/real engineering and so on, is the end of end.
There is a difference in protecting free speech, say the speech of a bunch of right wing guys, yelling stuff as compared to protecting scientific/logical discussions:
… which in this case, would have been real scientists coming to discuss peer reviewed data, real world data, and so on that, using power point slides and so forth, that disproves CAGW.
Comment:
Science is not a fight. All of the science concerning AGW/CAGW is incorrect. There are a dozen independent observations and analysis results that support the assertion, that human CO2 emission is responsible for less than 5% of the recent rise in atmospheric CO2.
And on November 9th, too.
What else happened on November 9th in Germany?
– 1848: End of the March Revolution
– 1918: Declaration of a German Republic after WWI.
– 1923: Hitler’s putsch in Munich
– 1938: Reichskristallnacht, a planned attack disguised as grassroots, against Jews in all of Germany. Was used as an excuse to abolish the Weimar Republic and install the Third Reich.
– 1967: Start of the 68-movement
– 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
I don’t usually follow the MSM news, but on November 9th and 10th I look at the headlines. The cancelled conference didn’t appear, and no wonder.
I always thought this would end with a green flag with a white circle in the middle and a national socialist crooked cross in the circle…
Crooked Cross? I thought that it was Crossed “S”s or Lightning Bolts
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Updated.
They’ve found an alternate location, but are keeping it secret.
I imagine ANTIFA will follow someone and make a ruckus. This will be interesting and sad.
Mourning Free Speech.
They could come to the USA. Texas is good, as is Wisconsin, and the gangbangers in Chicago would view the crowds as an opportunity to rob everyone in sight.
Imagine if the Na3is and Hit1er youth became an international movement.
That’s the future that’s becoming the present.
Ecofascism will lead to a (probably nuclear) war.
This is quite worrying but as usual contains the seeds of its own failure. I take enormous heart from the billions who know nothing of all this crap and who are consuming fossil fuels ad lib, becoming part of the huge worldwide rising middle class and who may, if they are lucky, allow Germans to polish their boots.
UPDATE:
EIKE informs they managed to find an appropriate place in Munich, on time and that all the reservations as well as dates remain valid. Unfortunately, for safety reasons, they have to keep the location secret. Free speech in Germany! (But only if you do it in secret).
https://notrickszone.com/2019/11/19/radicals-bully-nh-munich-conference-center-force-cancellation-of-13th-skeptic-climate-conference/
Time to cancel our military protection of these leftist thug regimes.
Alinsky rule number one- Power is not what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have . Bluff. The 20 or so was probably the entire contingent of Brownshirts.
The organisers were bluffed. One of the other Alinsky rules- the threat is worse than the thing itself. This amplified the threat.
Gutless wimps caving in emboldens these Brownshirts.
Perhaps all businesses should be given a summary of the Alinsky rules for radicals so they can be prepared.
So this is Merkel’s legacy? I hope she’s proud of herself. Good grief, when you can’t even open your mouth without being verbally stoned by someone whose viewpoint is different from yours and who won’t listen to an opposing view, what do you do?
Gee whiz, folks, if these people really are this rabidly opposed to any opposing or different viewpoint, what does that say about them? And if you point out that removing all carbon from the atmosphere (which is physically impossible right now) WILL (NOT would) raise atmospheric oxygen levels to a poisonous 35% level, which will kill off everything except insects and plants, do you really think they’d listen, EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN LIKE THAT BEFORE AND SHOWS UP IN THE PALEONTOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL RECORDS?
It is difficult to change the viewpoint of someone whose mind is made up, and other than making fun of them when the “deadline for whatever” comes and goes and nothing happens, you are kind of banging your head on the wall.
Best thing to do is keep track of what does NOT happen and rub their noses in those failed predictions. They are entitled to their notions, just as you are to yours, and trying to argue and change their minds, which are made up, is ridiculous.
And these fanatics? The reality is that they are simply looking for excuses to be destructive and cause trouble, which was really what was behind Hitler’s ability to attract disgruntled German youths. They were looking for an excuse to make trouble and got the go ahead from him. Merkel is a powerless, damp rag with no place to go and she will never EVER change her idiotic path to self-destruction, any more than Hitler did.
A few years ago, NATO decided to have a conference in Chicago. The CPD were on the alert. A protest was planned and the cops were out in force, and believe me when I say they had no qualms about shooting anyone making trouble then, and would/will do the same now, even though the gangbangers are running loose everywhere. (Glad I don’t live there any more!) In fact, a small group of troublemakers planning to set off a homemade bomb in the Loop were tracked down and busted before they could anything really, really bad.
There are plenty of places in the USA where this conference can be held without this kind of disruption and with the protection of real law enforcement, instead of a bunch of wienies hiding behind desks. And, yeah, the REAL cops are available to keep order while it’s going on.
It’s a shame that the German people are still the wienies that they were in the first half of the 20th century. Just a shame.
Merkel is a shameful opportunist who has done and will do absolutely anything to hold on to power. I was initially ambivalent about the Brexit vote, but now I can’t wait to be free of this utter shambles. I know the UK will still tow the green line, but at least we’ll only have to pay for it once…..
Andy Mansell
Welcome aboard. 🙂
In Germany in the late 1920s and into 1933, street protests were conducted by paid mobs.
From the International Socialists and National Socialists, both authoritarian.
So far, there seems to be only one paid mob– the “antifa”. But it is authoritarian.
Europe shows that on every great experiment in authoritarian government, the governing classes eventually granted themselves the privilege of state murder.
Fourth Century Rome.
In the Sixteenth Century, authoritarian bureaucrats corrupted the Church into a venal and murderous police state.
And the current authoritarian experiment began around 1900—and continues.
However, it is inspiring popular uprisings by ordinary folk, unguided by intellectuals.
A clear example of how freedom of opinion works for Germans.
Go to the LMU, Ludwig-Maximilian Uni, München, and visit the White Rose Memorial at the entrance. This group, and the Scholl family, was executed for handing out leaflets criticizing the government 1943.
https://www.weisse-rose-stiftung.de/white-rose-memorial-exhibition/
Every student there passed that memorial every day.
Antifa are in fact anti-deutscher. They showed their true face in Dresden not long ago, calling for Bomber Harris to do it again, with Union Jacks, in English. Bomber Harris was the genocidal Dresden fire-bomber after the war was militarily over.
Interesting that antifa turns up in climate thuggery. Time to follow the money trail….
Firestorms produce a lot of CO2 and black carbon.
The bombing of Dresden was a woeful decision as the city was not a strategic military target, had no military industry or collateral.
Patrick MJD
Taylor writes that an official 1942 guide to the city described it as “one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich” and in 1944 the German Army High Command’s Weapons Office listed 127 medium-to-large factories and workshops that were supplying the army with materiel.
Colonel Harold E. Cook, a US POW held in the Friedrichstadt marshaling yard the night before the attacks, later said that “I saw with my own eyes that Dresden was an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies supporting and transporting German logistics towards the east to meet the Russians”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
If you have to rely on Wikipedia for fact…anything is possible. The city was firebombed!
Patrick MJD
And London wasn’t?
Yes, the city was firebombed (AKA carpet bombing or saturation bombing). Nobody was disputing that fact. What they were disputing was your contention (without attribution) that “the city … had no military industry or collateral”. Instead of addressing Clyde’s point you dismissed it with “but Wikipedia” and instead attacked a position nobody was proposing (IE whether or not Dresden was firebombed)
If you don’t like the wiki article, then try going directly to the sources that wiki cites:
For what Taylor said, that comes from his book Dresen: Tuesday, 13 February 1945
https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_b8e7
What cook said comes from Connald Miller’s book Masters of the Air – America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany.
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Air-Americas-Against-Germany/dp/0743235452
As the Guardian published Churchill’s classified diaries not long ago, one can see he did not want to negotiate with German Generals (very likely von Staufenberg around the time of the failed plot) but rather the total destruction of the German state. And look at Churchills Operation Unthinkable – to arm the defeated Wehrmacht to attack the Soviet, again, without missing a step. That is what anti-deutscher means.
Saner heads organized the Marshall Plan.
Insane heads like Mr. George Kent, Maj. Vindman (Am-Ukrainian) are right now calling for a war with Russia, using an already totally destroyed Ukraine as sparkplug, even Pelosi is doing a Churchill cameo.
As Zelensky’s backer Kolomoisky said in the NYT, war with Russia to the last Ukrainian.
This from an oligarch who did everything with Obama, Biden to start , realized what it actually means.
Well the good news is Germany is loosing it’s advantage and descending into hell due to its crazy green rules so this just speeds up the end of the EU.
All working out well.
Science has a proud history in Germany of conforming to prevailing political opinion.
At one time some German academics went along with the search for Atlantis, and its supposed place as the cradle of Aryan man. That makes even the lunacy of CC look relatively believable .
Looking on the bright side, there’s no reason to believe that German science will fail to accept AGW as having been fallacious from the start, just as soon as things turn cool, or if the political landscape should change 🙂
Push! Push! Push! The debate rages.
Gang Green.
Hard at work.
I am appalled by the connivance of the police and state with these thugs.
If you wear a mask and utter threats against other people, kindest action the state should perform is strip off the mask and investigate the funding of this street theatre..
The failure of public authorities worldwide indicates they really are working together.
Remember the Green Peace assault on a Russian Oil platform?
Have they ever dared return to Russia?
Time is rapidly approaching when public tolerance for masked thugs and their police enablers will snap.
Hopefully the hotel can be sued to recover all the travel and booking expenses that have been lost due to it’s cowardice.
I was thinking the same thing.
UPDATE: EIKE informs they managed to find an appropriate place in Munich, on time and that all the reservations, as well as dates, remain valid. Unfortunately, for safety reasons, they have to keep the location secret. Free speech in Germany! (But only if you do it in secret). More info here
https://notrickszone.com/2019/11/19/radicals-bully-nh-munich-conference-center-force-cancellation-of-13th-skeptic-climate-conference/
Braids are a new mustache.
Merkel is clearly a traitor. Eventually, traitors are exposed and captured as the regime falters to meet their fate at the hands of the very angry mob that know they have been betrayed by their self-professed “leaders” that turned out to be traitors. The henchmen of the traitors will share their leader’s fate.
Law and order is not in a good state at this stage, so normal societal protections are not in place- traitors beware.
Thus, traitors and their Brownshirt henchmen typically come to a very, very sticky end.
The warmists and their PC brigade may be winning at the moment, but the tide will turn eventually as the People wake up. It is our duty to expedite that awakening.
This is about obtaining science outcomes, I don’t want any part of armed revolutions or to provide some poor sod a “sticky end”.
I didn’t read High Treason’s post as suggestion that you or anyone else here should. It seems to me it was more a pointing out a historical reality. Such totalitarian movements never end well. IE when the regime falters, it’s leaders end up meeting their fate (sticky end) at the hands of the very mob they whipped up to gain/hold onto power.
The only part of the post that could be seen as urging your to take part is the last sentence “It is our duty to expedite that awakening” but we expedite that awakening by shining the light of truth upon the deceptions and lies, not by any “armed revolutions or providing some poor sod a sticky end”
OT: Governments (other than just in Australia) are increasingly not defending the presumed ‘right’ to free-speech. Courts and authorities deny the presumed right to dissent or discuss facts and alternate views, or to freely associate minus intimidation and threats. Spineless sovereign democratic constitutional nation-state blames the law abiding victims.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/19/thugs-bully-munich-conference-center-force-cancellation-skeptic-climate-conference/
Sorry Charles, I actually meant to post the above into Jo’s blog, delete if you wish.
You have no right to free speech in Australia, presumed or otherwise. You can not be denied something you never had.
Take 5 minutes and read the attorney generals statement on the matter and I mean actually read it
https://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAndProtections/HumanRights/Human-rights-scrutiny/PublicSectorGuidanceSheets/Pages/Righttofreedomofopinionandexpression.aspx
The right to free speech and expression is not absolute in Australia and never has been.
An Australians has no rights, you never did have and you never will have, except those signed by our government in international agreements (which are few and extreme).
Our law works by making things illegal (things you can not do) anything not illegal is your right.
Do you think I didn’t know this?
Well to be precise the Queen, as head of State, reserves the right to dismiss duly elected prime ministers and disolve government.
There, it’s not as bad as you thought.
Skeptics seem to think that a few years of cooling will put an end to warmism.
Warmists are not cognisant to the pure fact’s, it is a belief system that guides them. It is a cause, a calling. The Pope is onboard, as are most other religious heads.
Alarmiism regarding warming is still growing, it’s not stalling. It’s easy, one doesn’t have to understand it, just become part of the movement.
Wasn’t Griff in Germany recently?
If their protest is legitimate then why all the masks and sunnies? Oh yeah, they are cowards!