Late last week, the assault on the rising Alternative for Germany (AfD) ethno-nationalist mainstream party continued. The federal executive committee of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP), one of Germany’s largest police unions, declared that simultaneous membership in the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) and the police union (GdP) was incompatible. Problem: No union membership could lead to a loss of career.

The left of liberal GdP represents 181,000 police officers. It is one of eight industrial associations of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB). The union is one of three trade unions for police officers serving in Germany.

During a video conference in Berlin on Friday, the GdP made the announcement, saying that it would call on members who profess to be party members of the AfD, support it or even sympathise with it, to leave the union solidarity community. They are no longer welcome in the GdP.

In a document outlining their position and why they have taken it, the GdP wrote a multi-page document which, among other things, defames the AfD as an ‘essentially racist (ethnic pride), nationalist (love of country), inhuman, democracy-and union-hostile party’. The document’s authors also claimed that AfD politicians are ‘partly responsible for hatred, agitation and violence.

The AfD has rejected such allegations and condemned the union’s incompatibility decision. ‘If the GdP takes such a decision shortly before two important state elections, it obviously acts for everyone as the extended arm of the Greens and the SPD, two parties that regularly trample on the interests of police officers,’ said the deputy domestic policy spokesman for the AfD’s Bundestag faction and former police chief commissioner Martin Hess.

‘In order to conduct party politics under the guise of political correctness, the GdP uses anti-democratic methods by trampling on pluralism of opinion,’ Hess added.

Mike Walsh, dissident journalist and historian is clear on his point. ‘If police forces, not just in Germany but elsewhere, are purged of officers holding right of centre political views, all police forces are nothing other than squads of left-wing thugs whose objective ~ or else, is to protect the left-wing regime by any means possible. This explains the brutality displayed by today’s police forces.’  Source