yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
protesters have set up a camp near the parliament in berlin and i was there yesterday. police are permanently present in great numbers. to give you an example how absurd the level of state repression is, it was not allowed to sing or chant in any other languages than english or german because the police didn't have an interpretor for every language and someone might say something anti-semitic (such as "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free") or someone might say a forbidden word, such as "intifida", or a forbidden sentence, such as "fuck netanyahu". arabic was allowed between 18h and 22h because there was an interpreter available during those times. before and after, it was forbidden again.
of course, non of this is constitutional and you will always win in front of a court, but the damage haven been done by that time already, you will have been arrested, you will have been harrased, you will have been registred and you will have been put on some list of people that will be monitored, let alone the incredible amount of administrative and bureaucratic shit you will have to go through for months. then, in the end, when the court decides you have done nothing wrong, there will be no consequences at all, and everything remains the same.
of course, non of this is constitutional and you will always win in front of a court, but the damage haven been done by that time already, you will have been arrested, you will have been harrased, you will have been registred and you will have been put on some list of people that will be monitored, let alone the incredible amount of administrative and bureaucratic shit you will have to go through for months. then, in the end, when the court decides you have done nothing wrong, there will be no consequences at all, and everything remains the same.