The Federal Police Commissioner of Germany has expressed disapproval of police officers’ membership in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The Federal Police Commissioner of Germany has expressed disapproval of police officers’ membership in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
See, this is something that can’t happen in the USA (yet,) but is easy-peasy in the rest of the world.
Don’t give avowed authoritarians positions of power. Yes, their membership in a hate group can be used to limit their opportunities. You make a choice by joining a recognized hate group, you gotta own it.
……except in the USA, where hate groups are just fine and dandy for governmental spots. (Perhaps encouraged in some cases.)
Yet another thing the rest of the world gets right that we’re sorely behind on.
The US government is a hate group.
America largely believes the right to free expression and speech outweighs the risks brought on by those rights.
The problem is now we have a lot of fascists and we are going to lose those rights