Apparently the husband tried to (perhaps unwittingly) circumvent the sanctions placed on him through the accounts of his wife.
Because he literally couldn’t pay bills anymore due to the sanctions! Are you a child? Do you not understand that adults have bills to pay? How do you pay your bills when all your accounts are frozen? She was sanctioned because she paid bills for the family when he no longer could.
There’s definitely some stuff in there that I’d classify as pro-Kremlin falsehoods.
Who decides what constitutes as “falsehoods”? Is it illegal to publish speech that contradicts the narrative that the state has declared to be “true”? Clearly the German government doesn’t think what he did is illegal because he has not been accused of a crime! These sanctions are entirely extrajudicial. He has violated no laws. The EU just doesn’t like his reporting.
According to you, is writing so-called “pro-Kremlin falsehoods” punishable by homelessness and starvation for you and anyone who tries to help you survive? What about pro-NATO falsehoods and pro-EU falsehoods? Or pro-Ukraine falsehoods? What about pro-Israel falsehoods? Why don’t we punish those?
He’s also stated he believes the invasion of Ukraine to be an illegal act by Russia, yet simultaneously promotes the viewpoint that NATO started a proxy war in Ukraine.
It is objectively true and acknowledged even by NATO leaders that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war. And yes it was started by NATO when the US and EU orchestrated the illegal overthrow of the legally elected government in Ukraine by armed fascists to install a proxy puppet which proceeded to start a war on its own people.
There, i said it. Should i now also be sanctioned for saying that? Should my wife be sanctioned for paying my bills when i can no longer do so? Should our children starve because i had the audacity to contradict your sacred narrative?
There’s also some very precise wording going on, e.g. stating he’s not involved with Red anymore after Russia invaded Ukraine, but Red was controlled by AFA Medya, which he was still very much involved with. That same Red was also taking on employees who were also involved with RT.
All entirely irrelevant. None of that is illegal. It is not illegal to work with or for RT (which he doesn’t and never did).
I think there’s some very good reasons that unions and NGOs, which historically have taken on loads of cases of journalists being unfairly censored, aren’t touching this guy with a 10ft pole. The appeals process here is imo too nebulous, but regardless I doubt that he’d actually win the appeal.
They aren’t involved because they are either intimidated that they will be targeted next, or because like many Germans, they too are ghouls who support the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices and voices which have been falsely accused of being pro-Russian.
And of course the appeals process is nebulous because it was intentionally designed to be that way! There is no legal appeal, because, once again: the courts were not involved since they committed no crime! They have to appeal to a labyrinthine and unaccountable bureaucracy, and of course they are unlikely to succeed because they are forced to appeal to the very institutions and people who applied these sanctions and who hate him for his uncompromising pro-Palestinian stance.
And ghouls like you will no doubt feel vindicated when he fails because you cannot tolerate dissenting voices and will gleefully celebrate seeing their children starve for their “crime” of saying something you don’t like.
Did you miss the part where he’s still allowed to withdraw enough funds from the account to pay for the essential bills? He’s not starving and he’s not homeless either. He qualifies for several German social programs that will keep him afloat. He has been sanctioned for nearly a year now, if he was starving he’d have done so by now.
She was apparently hit with sanctions because he put a new car insurance in his own name on her account; that’s clearly circumventing sanctions and a pretty stupid thing to do, especially for a non-essential expenditure like that.
You also keep harping on about the pro-Palestinian stance being an issue, but there’s tons of pro-Palestinian media in the EU, all unsanctioned. Even the state media routinely calls the Israeli crimes in Gaza a genocide, bringing in experts that explain why it should be considered one. It makes no sense that only this guy would get sanctioned for that, and not the thousands of others who report on it just the same. The public evidence just doesn’t support that claim.
gleefully celebrate seeing their children starve
Nobody is starving here. You’ve fallen for a narrative that isn’t true. I also don’t support these sanctions, but I also don’t believe this guy’s narrative here, which contains several distortions of the truth. Hence why I think that even a judge would not revoke the sanctions here and an appeal is likely to fail.
Because he literally couldn’t pay bills anymore due to the sanctions! Are you a child? Do you not understand that adults have bills to pay? How do you pay your bills when all your accounts are frozen? She was sanctioned because she paid bills for the family when he no longer could.
Who decides what constitutes as “falsehoods”? Is it illegal to publish speech that contradicts the narrative that the state has declared to be “true”? Clearly the German government doesn’t think what he did is illegal because he has not been accused of a crime! These sanctions are entirely extrajudicial. He has violated no laws. The EU just doesn’t like his reporting.
According to you, is writing so-called “pro-Kremlin falsehoods” punishable by homelessness and starvation for you and anyone who tries to help you survive? What about pro-NATO falsehoods and pro-EU falsehoods? Or pro-Ukraine falsehoods? What about pro-Israel falsehoods? Why don’t we punish those?
It is objectively true and acknowledged even by NATO leaders that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war. And yes it was started by NATO when the US and EU orchestrated the illegal overthrow of the legally elected government in Ukraine by armed fascists to install a proxy puppet which proceeded to start a war on its own people.
There, i said it. Should i now also be sanctioned for saying that? Should my wife be sanctioned for paying my bills when i can no longer do so? Should our children starve because i had the audacity to contradict your sacred narrative?
All entirely irrelevant. None of that is illegal. It is not illegal to work with or for RT (which he doesn’t and never did).
They aren’t involved because they are either intimidated that they will be targeted next, or because like many Germans, they too are ghouls who support the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices and voices which have been falsely accused of being pro-Russian.
And of course the appeals process is nebulous because it was intentionally designed to be that way! There is no legal appeal, because, once again: the courts were not involved since they committed no crime! They have to appeal to a labyrinthine and unaccountable bureaucracy, and of course they are unlikely to succeed because they are forced to appeal to the very institutions and people who applied these sanctions and who hate him for his uncompromising pro-Palestinian stance.
And ghouls like you will no doubt feel vindicated when he fails because you cannot tolerate dissenting voices and will gleefully celebrate seeing their children starve for their “crime” of saying something you don’t like.
Did you miss the part where he’s still allowed to withdraw enough funds from the account to pay for the essential bills? He’s not starving and he’s not homeless either. He qualifies for several German social programs that will keep him afloat. He has been sanctioned for nearly a year now, if he was starving he’d have done so by now.
She was apparently hit with sanctions because he put a new car insurance in his own name on her account; that’s clearly circumventing sanctions and a pretty stupid thing to do, especially for a non-essential expenditure like that.
You also keep harping on about the pro-Palestinian stance being an issue, but there’s tons of pro-Palestinian media in the EU, all unsanctioned. Even the state media routinely calls the Israeli crimes in Gaza a genocide, bringing in experts that explain why it should be considered one. It makes no sense that only this guy would get sanctioned for that, and not the thousands of others who report on it just the same. The public evidence just doesn’t support that claim.
Nobody is starving here. You’ve fallen for a narrative that isn’t true. I also don’t support these sanctions, but I also don’t believe this guy’s narrative here, which contains several distortions of the truth. Hence why I think that even a judge would not revoke the sanctions here and an appeal is likely to fail.