Police admit that there was no evidence of any crime beyond expressing outlawed opinions.

German police ransacked the homes of ten people in Berlin’s suburbs last week. Families in Spandau, Tempelhof, Marzahn, Hellersdorf ,and Pankow were raided by police units because someone living in those homes had expressed outlawed opinions on the internet. Specifically, the ten were united by having been outspoken critics of Germany’s policy of accepting mass migration from the Islamic world.

The raids should be no surprise given that the Germans looked to a former Stasi official as who leads an anti-Nazi NGO as a partner for the official internet censorship unit. Police spokesman Stefan Redlich admitted that while many of the men had anti-migrant opinions, “the men do not know each other according to previous findings,” and police had no evidence of any conspiracy to commit crimes. The sole offense, for which nine were arrested and booked, was expressing officially-disapproved views towards Muslims.

According to Breitbart news:

In some of the homes searched police were forced to admit they hadn’t found anything at all, but Redlich justified the raids saying they were maybe, “people who just once expressed their hate-opinion.” One of the raids in particular was prompted by a Facebook comment… Police announced that the raids show Germans that they are not as safe online as they might think.

A useful lesson, no doubt, although ideally the dangers are not supposed to be from the police. This is what you can expect when the police are trained by organizations founded by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Germany has a long history of being less friendly to free speech than many places in the West. However, in the wake of the Cologne attacks the German authorities have seemed far more inclined to crack down on criticism of government policy than on migrants who engage in rape. The German government’s Interior Ministry reached down to local police to make them strike the use of the word “rape” from their police reports, and has arrested only thirty people in connection with more than a thousand rapes and sexual assaults on that occasion alone.

Meanwhile, the mass immigration has increased crime at a rate far beyond what the German police can handle. The sexual assaults, which Germany has proven totally incapable of either controlling or prosecuting, represent less than one percent of the increase in crime in just one year.

The censorship threats are not limited to Germany, either. Scottish police posted a warning aimed at internet users, suggesting that they use the internet “safely” or else they “might receive a visit from us.” The British police’s submission to Muslim Brotherhood doctrine was enforced by Prime Minister Tony Blair as part of his attempt to curry favor with the Muslim community. It impeded the investigation of a child-rape ring in Rotherham, England. It appears that the lesson has not been learned by police even yet.