{"id":2133,"date":"2025-12-01T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:06:14","slug":"defund-the-riot-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/01\/defund-the-riot-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Defund the (riot) police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascism, as late-stage capitalism, is rising all over the world. Unfortunately, our country is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, our far-right extremist party started a new nationalist youth organisation. Name anything undesirable, such as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic, and they will endorse and praise it as &#8220;manly&#8221; and &#8220;German&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Around 50,000 people from across Germany gathered at the convention site in Giessen to protest the new nationalist organisation and protect our open society.<\/p>\n<p>However, instead of supporting the movement against the fascists, our ruling\u00a0 &#8220;Christian Democrats&#8221;, together with the police, decided to quell the protests and protect the nationalist convention.<\/p>\n<p>They brought in several thousand riot police from all over Germany and gave them free rein to beat up the protesters, which they gleefully did.<\/p>\n<p>Once we have recovered from this right-wing backlash and returned to a humanist society, we must disband the riot police and cut their funding; furthermore, we will then need to offer the individual members resocialization programs to enable them to reintegrate into society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2134\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-1536x813.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20251129_124043-2048x1084.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Water cannon, Sachsenh\u00e4user Br\u00fccke, 11\/29\/25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascism, as late-stage capitalism, is rising all over the world. Unfortunately, our country is no exception. Over the weekend, our far-right extremist party started a new nationalist youth organisation. Name anything undesirable, such as being racist, misogynist, or homophobic, and they will endorse and praise it as &#8220;manly&#8221; and &#8220;German&#8221;. Around 50,000 people from across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/01\/defund-the-riot-police\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defund the (riot) police<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-yp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}