Everyday life in Germany in 2022; this was filmed in Nuremberg a couple of days ago (video, 2m 20s):
https://twitter.com/i/status/1478060593198342154A lone woman in her 50s or 60s, walking her little dog, is stopped, surrounded and harrassed by first three, then five, eventually
seven young black-uniformed mercenaries, two of them brandishing their batons, one of them filming the outraged onlookers. "Hey, what are you doing?" "Leave the lady in peace!" "Shame on you! She's old enough to be your mother!" -- but the snazzy black uniforms make the thugs immune to shame. I still have no idea what crime this woman is alleged to have committed. At any rate, when the cops actually grab this
alte Dame and force her up against the wall and she shouts "Help! Help!", a whole bunch of passers-by are audibly angered and start to cross the street to help her...
...until the arrival of Big Boss Cop, the candy-coloured clown with the
impressively loud voice, ordering everyone to get back on the sidewalk.
Forget "Mass Formation Psychosis" or any of that amoral, shallowly-psychologising, pseudoscientific, excuse-making crap. What we're looking at is
naked terrorism (a child could see it) -- a carefully-coordinated campaign of mass intimidation, a slow coup by a depraved and ruthlessly-lying ruling class and its army of careerist servants, against a now largely (but
not wholly) bamboozled and demoralised populace.
Insult is added to injury when ordinary human beings with an intact moral sense, a still-functioning brain, a healthy capacity for anger, and an ounce of care for others are yelled at, treated like potential criminals, and lawlessly ordered off the road. QED. See the film above. NO "mass psychosis" -- on the contrary. A sane collective empathetic response crushed by one fat bully who knows he has the power of the State behind him, that he has a mobile hotline to police HQ, and that he has seven clueless, ambitious and unscrupulous young shits -- armed with batons -- already there as a first line of defence.
ON EDIT: The woman is well-dressed, well-groomed and well-spoken, a prosperous member of the middle class, confident and articulate, perhaps a headmistress or an academic or a company-owner, maybe retired, maybe not. She is not some wildly vituperative drunk, not some raging lunatic, and certainly not the
dangerous horde of evil neo-Nazis your media will have taught you to hallucinate. She is
obviously no threat to anyone. Her harmlessness doesn't help her, though, nor does her sanity or her smart outfit or her healthy sense of the absurd. ("Oh, what nonsense, I never said any such thing. [She laughs briefly, sincerely and sanely.] I did not say you were daft. Stop putting words in my mouth that I never uttered.") Undeterred, they fuck her up.
There's a lesson in there somewhere, especially for the prudent spectators and furloughed fence-sitters, particularly for those now comfortably Zooming in "safe" countries or "safe" rural areas.
PS As far as I can make out, the
only thing that ridiculous juvenile gang of cops & copettes actually accuse her of is
disrespecting the police. (How dare she?) Allegedly they had heard her use the word "bekloppt" (daft. silly, nonsensical, cracked, nutty) and presumed it was directed at them. That was enough to get her surrounded, interrogated, forced up against a wall, publicly humiliated, handcuffed and (presumably) arrested.
The poor bloody wee hound was treated with more respect than she was.
There's a lesson etc.