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County in New York Makes Masks Illegal, Removes Maskies from Meeting
Republicans in Nassau County, New York passed a bill against wearing masks (aka face diapers) in public places Monday.
Proponents of the ordinance argued the ban would help combat crimes committed during protests.
According to the Gothamist, the debate preceding the vote was described as being ‘raucous’.
“Presiding Officer Howard Kopel said the Mask Transparency Act was introduced in response to “antisemitic incidents, often perpetrated by those in masks” since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Progressives called the measure part of a “culture war” that targets demonstrators supporting Palestine in the ongoing war,” the Gothamist said on Monday.
When it came to a vote, the bill passed 12-0 with all seven Democrats abstaining.
The bill makes it a misdemeanor offense punishable with a $1,000 fine and up to one year in jail.
Ironically, the bill was sparked by Muslim and Islamist sympathizers protesting for Palestine, a religious group known to wear masks for religious reasons.
There are exceptions for religious and health reasons, but generally bars groups from wearing masks in public, regardless of if they’re engaging in criminal activity or not.
With the exceptions for religious and health reasons, it may be hard to prosecute protestors for wearing masks as proving a motive of why they’re wearing them may be impossible.
The main goal of the legislation is so that people cannot conceal their identities.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is expected to sign the bill into law.
Democrats proposed a similar bill, which aimed to enhance charges against those wearing masks in the commission of a crime, not a blanket ban.
“Our bill respects individual freedoms by not imposing blanket prohibitions on wearing masks in public. Law-abiding citizens could wear masks for health, safety, religious, or celebratory purposes without fear,” Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton said. “Unlike the broad and punitive Republican bill, our approach avoids unconstitutional overreach and respects personal liberties.”
The debate turned raucous as maskies and bare-facers clashed in a heated argument.
“Debate on the bill became volatile as both those for and opposed lined up to speak, and police arrested one woman opposing the bill, carrying her out of the room in handcuffs,” the Gothamist said.
There has been a historical precedent in banning masks due to the crimes normally associated with it.
“Proponents of banning masks in public point to an 1845 state statute aimed first at insurrections by Hudson Valley tenant farmers who used disguises to attack police. The law was later used to combat the Ku Klux Klan. It has mostly been enforced as disorderly conduct, a violation punishable by $250 and up to 15 days in jail,” the Gothamist said.
More Knife Attacks in Germany Committed by Syrians
A Syrian migrant with a Dutch passport is alleged to have committed a knife attack against a four-year-old girl in a supermarket in the southern German city of Wangen im Allgäu in April, and seriously injured her. The perpetrator and the victim did not know each other. The girl was in the supermarket with her mother when the incident happened and had to be operated on after the stabbing.
A psychiatric report was ordered to check the 34-year-old man’s mental state. The prosecution has accused him of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
The motive of the perpetrator remains unclear but the man was already known to the police, as he had acted aggressively before. He is said to have come to Wangen im Allgäu in 2023 to visit his sister and her family. A few months before the knife attack, he had been in the same supermarket and acted violently towards his relatives, including the children.
The family threw him out of the house, after which he spent the night in various places in the city, including in an underground car park and in the forest. During this time, he again attracted the attention of the police. He temporarily stayed in a homeless shelter and the police were alerted again after he punched a fellow resident in the face.
Another Syrian citizen, a 17-year-old man was arrested at the weekend for stabbing a family of five last week in Stuttgart. One of his victims, a 37-year-old man, was in critical condition in hospital. The perpetrator and two other migrants first started insulting the family. When their attempts at provocation went unanswered, they took out their knives, and the Syrian man followed up on his threats with violent action.
This case is particularly disturbing, as the attacker had apparently committed 34 criminal acts in 31 months—but the police have kept letting him go. The serial offender, who was born in Syria and came to Germany as a refugee, has been accused of, among other things, bodily harm, robbery, coercion, damage to property, credit fraud, and fraudulently obtaining benefits.
His temporary residence permit in Germany was only valid until November of last year. He has applied for an extension, and as long as that is not approved, he can legally stay in Germany.
The two stabbing incidents not only highlight how crimes committed by migrants are not being taken seriously enough by law enforcement, but also how dangerous foreigners are allowed to stay in the country.
Support for resuming deportations to both Syria and Afghanistan has increased after a spate of violent knife attacks in recent months, and the murder of a policeman by an Afghan failed asylum seeker. However, despite the leftist-liberal government vowing to deport dangerous criminals, it hasn’t followed through with actions.
A German court ruled last month that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians in Syria, which in theory means that dangerous Syrian criminals could legally be deported back to their home country. The ruling could significantly impact deportation cases, because the German government has so far classified Syria as an unsafe country of origin and rejects deporting failed asylum seekers there.
Authorities should “consistently deport all those who have no reason for asylum and no right to be here, who are criminals and abuse our hospitality. They have to return to their home countries as quickly as possible, including to Syria and Afghanistan,” the prime minister of the state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer told Die Welt in an interview.
Responding to a question, he said the government should not shy away from negotiating with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, or the president of war-torn Syria, Bashar al-Assad, in order to speed up deportations. He added that the goal should be to reduce the number of immigrants “from the current 300,000 to 50,000 or 30,000” per year.
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Once Called Conservative, Germany’s CDU Party Now Courts Far-Left Alliance to Keep Out AfD
Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) were once coined a “conservative” party, but over the years, they have seen a dramatic shift towards the left. Now, they look to further cement this leftward shift following regional elections in autumn of this year, where the party is already signaling it will join a coalition with the newly formed BSW party led by Sahra Wagenknecht.
In many eastern states, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is well in the lead, but BSW has chipped into that lead. In many states, the only possible coalition that could form, based on current polling, involves some combination of the AfD and CDU, or the CDU and BSW.
The CDU is clearly moving in the direction of the BSW and rules out any possible coalition with the AfD.
The newcomer left-wing party, the Alliance of Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), which bears the name of its founder, now has 10 percent support nationwide, according to the latest polls.
The party is just one percentage point behind the governing coalition Green Party and five percentage points ahead of the smallest party in the coalition, the Free Democrats (FDP). Its popularity is shown by the fact that the conservative CDU is now seeking the party’s cooperation at the regional level.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz said he could not “imagine a coalition with Ms. Wagenknecht at the federal level.” However, CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann does not rule out coalitions between his party and BSW at the state level. “Whether the CDU will form a coalition with the BSW in the states must be decided locally,” Linnemann told the Funke media group. “We have a party conference resolution not to work with either the AfD or the Left.”
The CDU and the BSW, in other words, are going to work together to keep the AfD out at the local level in eastern states such as Saxony and Brandenburg. That benefits both parties. The CDU maintains power in the east, the BSW gets some semblance of power, and the CDU does not have to change any of its federal policies, such as arming Ukraine, at the federal level.
The BSW, for its part, has also ruled out an alliance with the AfD.
As some of the polls show in the eastern states, AfD may be on top, but if it has no coalition options, the party has nowhere to go. The CDU, although it is openly telegraphing it will work with the far left, does not appear to be harmed by this stance in the polls, where it is performing nearly as well as the AfD in many of these states.
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At the federal level, BSW has reached 10 percent in the polling, according to Insa. Another key finding of the Insa poll is that, despite the smear campaign by the majority of parliamentary parties, support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to grow. The party, whose main ambition is to fight illegal immigration, now stands at 18 percent, while the opposition CDU/CSU alliance remains in first place with 30 percent. The SPD, the strongest party in the governing coalition, is third with 15 percent, followed by the Greens and BSW with 11 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
The latest poll comes less than a month before the parliamentary elections in Saxony and Thuringia on Sept. 1.
The AfD could be the winner of the two east German elections, but the BSW is also making strong inroads in both states.
Analysts say the rise in support for the two parties suggests that they could gain significant strength in the Bundestag, which others have called populist, following next September’s parliamentary elections. For now, however, the focus is on Saxony and Thuringia.