The ‘Far Right’ Is Surging In Europe Because The Left’s Version Of ‘Democracy’ Has Failed
Democracy is not in danger; it’s the left's version of 'democracy' that’s threatened as the right is beginning to flex its political muscles.Leftist stabs right-wing politician in German city where Islamic terrorist just went on a stabbing spree
With the European parliamentary elections just days away, radicals in the streets and in the media appear to have ramped up their attacks against right-wing politicians. The right-leaning Alternative for Germany, poised to secure new seats Sunday, is a popular target for such attacks.
On Tuesday evening, one radical slashed 62-year-old AFD politician Heinrich Koch with a carpet knife in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, roughly five miles away from where an Afghan migrant went on a stabbing spree Friday.
According to the German publication Junge Freiheit, Koch — a Rheinau district council member and an AFD candidate for Mannheim city council — spotted a leftist tearing down his campaign posters around 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday, near the market square where Islamic terrorist Sulaiman Ataee murdered a police officer Rouven L., stabbed politician Michael Stürzenberger, and cut up four other anti-jihad demonstrators.
Footage of the incident shows Koch run over to confront the vandal tearing down the posters only to realize he was armed with a knife. Police indicated the 25-year-old suspect, who previously damaged and stole several election posters, stabbed Koch.
AFD Bundestag member Markus Frohnmaier told Junge Freiheit that Koch was taken to the hospital with injuries to his stomach and face.
AFD cochairman Tino Chrupalla said in a statement, "Our members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence and destruction. That cannot stop us. Get well soon, Heinrich!"
Alice Weidel, cochairwoman of the AFD, assigned some blame to the AFD's leftist political opponents and the media, claiming they "are creating a climate in which even extreme physical attacks are no longer shied away from. We condemn this violence and call on people to finally return to the basic democratic practices!"
Markus Frohnmaier, the regional chair of the AFD, said, "It is unacceptable that this mental agitation against our party continues, with surveillance and an attempt to push us out of the democratic political consensus in Germany. Because incidents like the one in Mannheim are the result of this!"
Hans-Georg Maassen, former president of Germany's domestic security agency, similarly suggested the German left has set the stage for future attacks.
"We are currently seeing the seeds sprout," Maassen told Junge Freihei. "We must finally return to social reconciliation, and that can only work if the political left refrains from treating its opponents like enemies."
Mannheim Mayor Christian Specht, who previously intimated the anti-jihad demonstrators stabbed last Friday were partly responsible for their attacker's rampage, said in a statement Wednesday, "This cowardly act is abhorrent and cannot be justified in any way. Anyone who attacks election candidates is calling into question our free, equal, general, direct and secret elections — and thus the basis of our democracy."
"This despicable incident is one of a series of attacks on campaign workers and politicians that are currently being observed throughout Germany," continued Specht. "The hatred and willingness to use violence that are currently breaking out in our society are unbearable."
The AFD has drawn the ire of the left, in part, by criticizing the fallout of Germany's immigration policies and officials' refusal to deport criminal noncitizens.
For instance, Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, a member of the AFD, generated outrage in 2021 for citing government statistics in an X post that showed Afghan and African asylum seekers disproportionately engaged in certain types of violent crimes. Despite the veracity of her statements, Kaiser was charged and convicted with incitement to hatred.
Weeks after her May appeal fell through, there were two instances of migrant knife attacks: one in Mannheim and another in the northeastern German town of Bergen.
In Sunday's election, EuroNews indicated that AFD stands to secure 15 seats in the European Parliament. A June 5 German voting intention poll showed AFD trailing the center-right Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance in second place.
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Ever wondered where the word 'equity' comes from? Well, here’s your answer.
The left loves nothing more than to throw the word "equity" around, especially when addressing the ever-growing list of alleged inequalities in our society.
But where does the word equity actually come from?
American author James Lindsay — who Dave Rubin calls one of the best explainers of “the connection between [woke ideology] and Marxism” — told the European Parliament about the history of the word.
“So, here’s the definition of equity, and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you’ve ever heard of,” Lindsay began. “The definition of equity comes from the Public Administration Literature. It was written by a man named George Frederickson, and the definition is: an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.”
“Does that sound like anything you’ve heard of before?” he asked.
“Like socialism?”
“The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute [and] the type of shares,” he continued. “They're going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital.”
“And so this is my thesis when we say, ‘What is woke?’: Woke is Maoism with American characteristics.”
“Ok, so the idea is that Marxism was really an economic way of redistributing everything,” so that “everyone would be equal,” says Dave. But “everyone’s not equal. There’s always the layer that has all of the stuff, and everyone else gets sort of nothing, and that creates ‘equity’ amongst the people.”
“[Democrats] want to redistribute money” — the idea “we’ll take from [one party] and give to [another],” Dave explains, adding that “they want redistribution when it comes to virtually every part of your life,” including health care and education, among other things.
For all of this equity to become possible, however, “You're going to have to kill a lot of people,” he says.
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Islamists continue to massacre Christians in Nigeria. European Parliament suggests climate change is largely to blame.
Islamic terrorists butchered hundreds of Christians throughout Nigeria on Christmas Eve. In their hours-long attack, Muslim Fulani militants gunned down Christian farmers, hacked up defenseless women and children with machetes, and torched churches.
While willing to express "solidarity" with the victims, the European Parliament appears more than willing to displace blame from the savage ideologues responsible and to instead pin the atrocities on so-called climate change.
A genocide of Christians
According to Open Doors International, Nigeria is the sixth most brutal place in the world for Christians — bad news for its roughly 100.4 million Christian inhabitants. In and outside the country's northern Sharia states, Christians are routinely subjected to enforced Islamization, forced marriage, murder, torture, abduction, rape, and other ideologically motivated brutalities.
Nearly 5,000 Christians were murdered in Nigeria just last year, accounting for 82% of all Christians killed for their faith in 2023, reported the National Catholic Register.
In 2022, Genocide Watch indicated that jihadists slaughtered 6,000 civilians, mostly Christians, in the first three months of the year, then kept adding to their tally.
Nigerian Bishop Wildred Anagbe of the Makurdi Diocese reckons this bloodletting amounts to a genocide, telling CNA that the Christian population is being "gradually and systematically" reduced by Islamists through "killings, kidnappings, torture, and burning of churches."
Mark Lipdo, program coordinator at the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian charity that supports Nigerian Christians, told Christian Today, "These attacks are being seen by local Nigerians as a jihad, like the jihad of 200 years ago. This is why they are targeting Christmas and targeting churches."
"What is happening is a religious war," added Lipdo.
Genocide Watch indicated that terrorists killed over 350,000 in Nigeria between 2009 and 2022.
Climate change massacres
At least 200 Christians were reportedly murdered between Dec. 23 and Christmas Day, 2023, in a series of terror attacks in 26 Christian communities in Nigeria's Central Plateau State. Other estimates put the number at over 230 dead.
Magit Macham, who returned to the area to celebrate Christmas with his family, told Reuters, "We were taken unawares, and those that could run ran into the bush. A good number of those that couldn't were caught and killed with machetes."
After the marauders shot his brother in the leg, Macham dragged him into a bush, where they hid for the night.
Alliance Defending Freedom International noted that hundreds more were injured, eight churches were burned to the ground, and another 15,000 people were internally displaced by the attacks.
As the footage of the mass graves circulated online, Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Sokoto Diocese told Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, "You have no excuses before God or the people of Nigeria," reported CNA.
Empty gestures
Western outfits have suggested that while often acknowledged as an ethno-religious conflict, the attacks are largely driven by bad weather patterns.
Citing nameless experts, Reuters floated the notion that "the conflict is based on the availability of resources rather than ethnic or religious differences."
The International Crisis Group, whose work is supported by George Soros' Open Society Foundations and cited by the Biden State Department, claims that "climate change has aggravated" "farmer-herder violence."
"Increasingly, the security implications of changing weather patterns are visible in deadly land resource disputes between farmers and herders across the continent," added the group.
The European Parliament appears willing to similarly cast the persecution not as a sustained jihad but as a resource dispute caused by the specter of anthropogenic climate change.
Members of the climate alarmist political group Green/European Free Alliance introduced a motion for a resolution last week that grossly underestimated the Christian death toll and criticized the description of the conflict in religious terms. After all, "several factors are to be taken into account such as competition for land fuelled by rapid climate change."
The proposed resolution would have the parliament warn "against an instrumentalisation of the farmers-herders conflict for spreading religion-based hatred" and "cal[l] on the Nigerian authorities to take meaningful steps to identify and address all root causes of the violence in Plateau state, such as competition for scarce resources, environmental degradation and the disappearance of effective mediation schemes."
The climate alarmists' resolution would also have called on European authorities to make African migration to Europe easier and to "ensure humanitarian assistance for those affected and displaced by the violence and climate change."
The European Parliament ultimately passed a modified version of the resolution, which starts strong with an acknowledgement of the murder of Nigerian Christians by "Islamic terrorist groups" and the destruction of 18,000 churches and 2,200 Christian schools since 2009. However, the resolution largely reverts to the language of the climate alarmists' original draft.
"Factors fuelling the clashes overlap and are rooted in, among other things, territorial disputes, ethnic tensions, access to scarce resources and environmental degradation," says the European resolution.
The parliamentarians also acknowledged "the role of climate change, competition for scarce resources and the disappearance of effective mediation schemes in aggravating the farmer-herder conflict."
ADF International highlighted that various parliamentarians have criticized the resolution.
Bert-Jan Ruissen, a Dutch politician and MEP, stated, "Saying that it is a mere conflict between farmers and herders fails to acknowledge the other causes. It is Muslim extremists causing death and destruction."
Hungarian politician and MEP György Hölvényi said, "Blinded by ideology, some people are totally insensitive to human suffering when it comes to Christians. The timing of the attacks, brutal killings, and destruction of churches cannot be misinterpreted and can only be understood as the persecution of Christians, and we should be able to say so."
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MEP says 'some Western hypocritical feminists should be ashamed of their silence' about Hamas' atrocities against women and girls
Assita Kanko, a Belgian member of the European Parliament, excoriated feminists who have failed to decry the heinous atrocities committed by Hamas against women and girls during the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.
"Today, I have a question. A pressing question. For some Western feminists. How can you remain silent, when women and girls are raped, tortured, their bodies carried around naked and spat on by bearded men shouting Allah Akbar? Then you can never call yourself a feminist again," she wrote in a post on X, which also featured a video of her delivering the remarks in a speech. "Every day, including today, some Western hypocritical feminists should be ashamed of their silence on the horror that Hamas men inflicted to women and girls on 7 October."
"The MeToo movement and so-called intersectional feminists do not care about all women. If they remain silent, it means they have lied to us about their commitment to women's rights. Their actions support the oppressor, not the victims," she noted.
"Those who say nothing about these women and the hostages, should not be standing here and speaking about human rights. When you are under attack by terrorists, a cease fire is like raising your hands when you are being shot at. Perhaps it is worth considering that a real lasting cease fire will start with bringing back all the hostages to their homes and the rapists to justice," she declared.
Many people on X hailed Kanko's comments.
Actress Patricia Heaton shared Kanko's post and thanked her.
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Kanko was born in Burkina Faso. She has said that she was subjected to female genital mutilation at 5 years old.
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Socialist EU vice president arrested, accused of taking bribes from Arab state to influence European parliament
A Greek socialist serving as vice president of the European Union's parliament was arrested in Belgium for allegedly taking bribes to "influence the economic and political decisions" of the EU on behalf of Qatar.
The EU vice president's arrest comes amidst 16 raids conducted by Belgian police across Brussels as part of a broader investigation into corruption involving Qatar, Morocco, and socialist members of the EU.
Redistributing Arab wealth to European socialists
Eva Kaili, 44, a member of the European Parliament since 2014, was arrested on Friday along with four Italians, reported the Free Press Journal.
Kaili was subsequently suspended by her Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group in the European parliament as well as back home by her Greek socialist party, Pasok-Movement for Change.
Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, former socialist MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, and Kaili's so-called "life partner," Francesco Giorgi, were reportedly three of the four other persons detained.
A warrant obtained by Politico indicated that Panzeri was accused of "intervening politically with members working at the European Parliament for the benefit of Qatar and Morocco."
According to Belgium's federal prosecutor, €600,000 ($632,606.34) in cash were discovered in the raids. Computer equipment and mobile phones were also seized, and will be examined as part of the investigations.
The Daily Mail reported that the searches were executed as part of a broader probe into "criminal organization, corruption and money laundering."
Qatar is believed to have attempted to influence the European Parliament by "paying large sums of money or offering large gifts to third parties with a significant political and/or strategic position within the European Parliament," reported Deutsche Welle.
Money well spent
Kaili claimed that Qatar, a country with a history of human rights violations, was a "frontrunner in labor rights," despite claims that thousands of migrant workers may have died building stadiums for the World Cup. Late last month, the Qatari government acknowledged that at least 400 workers had perished during construction. Newsweek suggested that nearly 6,500 workers may have died since construction began when FIFA's Executive Committee tapped Qatar as the host 10 years ago.
The Greek socialist also said the Qataris "are a new generation of intelligence, high-educated people. ... They helped us. And they are peace negotiators. They are good neighbours and partners."
Kaili added, "Still, some here are calling to discriminate them. ... They bully them, and they accuse everyone that talks to them or engages of corruption."
\u201c"I alone said that Qatar is a frontrunner in labour rights, abolishing kafala and reducing minimum wage."\n\nEva Kaili, Vice-President of the European Parliament in a plenary speech. She's been questioned in a corruption investigation by Belgian authorities.\n\nIt's appalling.\u201d— Daniel Freund (@Daniel Freund) 1670612517
The Greek socialist said in a video posted to Twitter by the Qatar News Agency, "I believe the World Cup for Arabs has been a great tool for... political transformation and reforms," reported the Daily Mail.
Qatari media claimed that on her recent trip to Qatar, Kaili spoke of "enhancing the understanding between peoples of EU and Qatari people and improving their perception of each other."
It would appear, cash is universally understood.
Kaili's S&D group in the European parliament claimed in a statement that it was "appalled by the allegations of corruption in the European institutions" and had "zero tolerance for corruption."
The S&D party also requested "the suspension of work on any files and plenary votes regarding the Gulf States, particularly visa liberalisation and planned visits.”
The S&D group has ostensibly worked hard in recent months not to upset the Qataris, fighting calls to boycott the World Cup games.
Belgian socialist Marc Tarabella said, "There are high standards of safety in place [in Qatar] for workers, and implementation of minimum wages."
S&D group leader Iratxe García Perez reportedly displaced blame from Qatar to the FIFA, and claimed that the World Cup in the Arab state should be regarded as a chance "to bring everyone together to promote freedom, equality, human rights."
Pfizer executive admits COVID-19 vaccine was never tested to prevent transmission: 'This is scandalous'
In a shocking admission, a Pfizer executive on Monday stated that the company did not know if the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine it developed with BioNTech would prevent viral transmission before bringing it to market last year.
Janine Small, the president of international development markets for Pfizer, testified before the European Parliament's COVID-19 committee Monday on behalf of Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla, who was summoned by the committee but pulled out of his appointment.
During questions, Dutch Member of Parliament Rob Roos, a conservative and opponent of Europe's COVID-19 passports, asked Small whether Pfizer could provide lawmakers with evidence it believed the vaccine would prevent coronavirus transmission before bringing it to market.
"Was the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market?" Roos asked. "If not, please say it clearly. If yes, are you willing to share the data with this committee?”
In response, Small said Pfizer did not know that the vaccine would prevent transmission before bringing it to market.
“Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? No," she admitted.
"These, um, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market. And from that point of view, we had to do everything at risk,” Small said.
Following guidance from public health authorities, many governments in Europe and around the world implemented policies requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to fully participate in public life. These "COVID passports" were issued on the premise that the vaccinated were protected from illness so that they could socialize with other people without risk of spreading the disease.
Roos, who along with a handful of other members of European Parliament objected to vaccination requirements, said in a video Tuesday that the justification for COVID passports "was always a lie."
"If you don't get vaccinated, you're anti-social! This is what the Dutch prime minister and health minister told us. You don't get vaccinated just for yourself, but also for others — you do it for all of society. That's what they said," Roos recounted. "Today, this turns out to be complete nonsense."
Roos said Small's admission that the vaccine was not tested to prevent transmission "removes the entire legal basis for the COVID passport. The COVID passport that led to massive institutional discrimination as people lost access to essential parts of society."
"I find this to be shocking, even criminal," Roos added.
\u201c\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING:\n\nIn COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission.\n\n"Get vaccinated for others" was always a lie.\n\nThe only purpose of the #COVID passport: forcing people to get vaccinated.\n\nThe world needs to know. Share this video! \u2935\ufe0f\u201d— Rob Roos MEP \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 (@Rob Roos MEP \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1) 1665479060
The mRNA vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech was granted emergency use authorization in the United States on Dec. 11, 2020, and later granted Food and Drug Administration approval on August 23, 2021. The vaccine is marketed as Comirnaty and is used for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 12 years of age and older, though it is authorized for emergency use in children as young as five.
In granting an emergency use authorization to Pfizer in late 2020, the FDA wrote that there was no evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.
Public health officials, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, maintain that COVID-19 vaccination significantly lowers the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death for those infected with COVID-19.
"Like all vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infection. Some people who are up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations will get COVID-19 breakthrough infection," the CDC says. "However, staying up to date with your COVID-19 vaccinations means that you are less likely to have a breakthrough infection and, if you do get sick, you are less likely to get severely ill or die."
Prior to the vaccine's approval, Pfizer claimed that studies showed its vaccine was as much as 91.3% effective against COVID-19 and 100% effective in preventing infections in at least one study.
\u201cExcited to share that updated analysis from our Phase 3 study with BioNTech also showed that our COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in preventing #COVID19 cases in South Africa. 100%! https://t.co/E2ksTJSopU\u201d— Albert Bourla (@Albert Bourla) 1617284815
Roos said that the Pfizer executive's admission that the vaccine was never tested for preventing transmission was "scandalous."
"Millions of people worldwide felt forced to get vaccinated because of the myth that 'you do it for others.' Now this turned out to be a cheap lie. This should be exposed."
Over time, the vaccine has proved to have waning efficacy against mutating strains (Delta, Omicron, etc.) of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Health officials have advocated for people to receive COVID-19 booster shots as breakthrough infections have become more common.
Still, officials have claimed, contrary to the evidence that COVID-19 vaccination will prevent infection. President Joe Biden in July 2021 stated, "You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations." About a year later, he tested positive for the virus despite being fully vaccinated and up to date with booster shots.
Outgoing White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's go-to health spokesman during the pandemic, has also given conflicting statements on the vaccine's effectiveness. In May 2021, Fauci told CBS News that vaccinated people were a "dead end" for the virus, saying the likelihood a vaccinated person could transmit COVID was "very, very low."
"When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community,” Fauci said.
However, in August 2021, during the Delta wave, Fauci told Katie Couric that vaccinated people could still transmit the virus. "They’re either without symptoms or only mildly symptomatic,” he said. “So it’s less that it’s going to make the vaccinated person sick. It’s more that it’s going to allow the vaccinated person to transmit it to someone else who might get sick, like a vulnerable person in the family, an elderly individual, a child who’s unvaccinated.”
The point wasn't to prevent transmission, but rather reduce the severity of illness, Fauci explained at the time. "The vaccine is doing exactly what we wanted it to do,” he said. “It’s preventing people from getting seriously ill — that’s the reason why you get vaccinated.”
'You are a disgrace': European MPs trash Justin Trudeau to his face during Brussels visit over 'trampling' of Freedom Convoy protests
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to sit and watch as members of the European Parliament out-and-out denounced the leader to his face on Wednesday over his dictatorial handling of the Freedom Convoy protests.
The progressive prime minister — who last month invoked the Emergencies Act to quell vaccine mandate protests in Canada's capital city — was in Brussels, Belgium, this week to urge European leaders to step up their opposition to Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
But some MEPs were not so keen on taking instruction from someone they view as a dictator, the Toronto Sun reported.
What are the details?
German MEP Christine Anderson offered Trudeau what she called an appropriate "welcome" to the European Parliament by calling the leader a "disgrace" and condemning him for human rights violations.
"It would have been appropriate for Mr. Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, to address this house, according to article 144, an article, which was specifically designed to debate the violations of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law," Anderson began.
"A prime minister who openly admires the Chinese basic dictatorship, who tramples on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists just because they dared to stand up to his perverted concept of democracy should not be allowed to speak in this house at all," the lawmaker continued.
She then ended her short speech with a bang, declaring, "You are a disgrace for any democracy. Please spare us your presence," as the prime minister looked on.
|Yesterday, Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau visited the #EU Parliament to give a speech. I took the opportunity to give him an appropriate "welcome" there. Short, concise and right hitting the bull's eye! #IDpic.twitter.com/qpcQyGTixQ— Christine Anderson (@Christine Anderson) 1648109265
What else?
Another MEP, Mislav Kolakusic of Croatia, joined in on the harsh denunciation of the Canadian prime minister.
During his floor speech, Kolakusic made specific reference to Freedom Convoy protesters' controversial encounter with police horses near Parliament Hill when he called out Trudeau's "tramp[ling] of fundamental values."
The MEP said Canada was once a symbol of the modern world but has recently become a "symbol of civil rights violation" under Trudeau’s "quasi-liberal boot."
“We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block bank accounts of single parents so they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities, mortgages for their homes," he charged, adding, "To you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind."
PM Trudeau, in recent months, under your quasi-liberal boot, Canada has become a symbol of civil rights violations. The methods we have witnessed may be liberal to you, but to many citizens around theit seemed like a dictatorship of the worst kind.pic.twitter.com/FZuc6aDZ1I— Mislav Kolakusic MEP \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@Mislav Kolakusic MEP \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa) 1648060840
Following the invocation of the Emergencies Act, the Canadian government took unprecedented actions to halt protests, including freezing private and corporate bank accounts and threatening arrest for parents who brought children to demonstrations.
Kolakusic concluded with a shot at Trudeau's message to the body by saying united citizens of the world "can stop a regime that wants to destroy the freedom of citizens, either by bombs or harmful pharmaceutical products."
Anything else?
Still another MEP, Cristian Terhes of Romania, protested Trudeau's speech by refusing to attend the plenary session.
The MEP said in a Facebook post that Trudeau can’t come and "teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding their fundamental rights be respected."
"The difference between democracy and tyranny is not determined by the geographical location of political leaders, but by the values they promote," Teres added.
MEP @CristianTerhes has put out a statement after refusing to attend @JustinTrudeau's EU speech today\n\nIn the statement, Terhe\u0219 blasts Trudeau for having horses trample protestors during the Freedom Convoy crackdown\n\nI've translated it and will tweet relevant parts below\n\nTHREADpic.twitter.com/KUR10j0s5b— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf4 (@Cosmin Dzsurdzsa \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf4) 1648075083
German MEP Bernhard Zimniok, too, blasted Trudeau, saying the prime minister should not have been invited to speak. By welcoming the prime minister, he argued the body had sent "an invitation to someone who has been trampling on democratic rights."
"Clearly the values of democracy are being despised by this individual," Zimniok added. "Let us not give someone like this any speaking time in this house of democracy."
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