CJ Hopkins goes to jail

Unless he pays a fine of 3,600 Euros instead. What was his crime? Hopkins is a satirist who runs "The Consent Factory" website. He used to show up at Counterpunch with some regularity, until they found his satire too unfunny for them. I discovered him during the lock-down years - one of the few happy take-aways of those bleak times. His crime was mocking a German politician. Going to jail for mocking a politician? Sounds more like Stalin's Russia than a modern liberal democracy to me. Sad to say, there's an awful lot in our liberal democracies that smells more than a little totalitarian to me. There's no finer virtue-signaler in the entire Virtuous West than our very own PM Fluffy, and by God when those truck-driving Freedom Convoy yokels unleashed their horn-honking terror on law-abiding Ottawa, he wasted no time declaring a State of Emergency. To hell with civil rights... those people have UNACCEPTABLE OPINIONS! And that's why CJ is up a 3,600 Euro stump over there in the cradle of fascism. Making sport of a German politician is simply a bridge too far in the age of wokery.