Why Lauren Southern May [UPDATE: Could Have] Faced Up To 3 Years Under Wiretapping Laws In Dresden, Germany

When The Cops Are Looking To Arrest You On Trumped-up Charges, Any Little Violation Will Do

UPDATE: Lauren Southern showed up again. Obviously.

I've been wrong before, but my sleuthing has picked up some signs that Lauren Southern may be facing up to 3 years in a German prison. Which doesn't mean she's going to prison, necessarily. It just means they have some serious legal leverage to get her agree to apologize, stop reporting on Bilderberg, or to agree not return to Germany. I'll tell you why I think so.

Lauren Southern And other independent media being constantly monitored by cops.
Photo courtesy of +Luke Rudkowski @LukeWeAreChange

Southern appears to have been in a German railway station called Bahnhof Dresden-Neustadt around lunchtime, being allowed to finish one last slice of pizza before the police, one of them armed with automatic rifle, sprung the trap.

Probably leaving for France anyway when she stopped transmitting to social media. If so, it was the German government's last chance to nail her. 

And Lauren's Last Chance to Nail The German Cop

Building Identified as Lauren Southern's last known location may be her point of departure for France, Belgium, and London

Since she spent a few days documenting the Bilderberg Conference and pretty much making Dresden, Germany look like the totalitarian state of North Korea, (which is only true during the conference, I'm sure), the judge may impose something even more draconian.

Looking at it from the German government's point of view, it's bad enough to have a popular blonde reporting from the undeniably important Bilderberg conference at all. 

But it's substantially worse when that popular blonde sounds so damn reasonable and insists on sticking to facts she can substantiate, rather than relying on easily-dismissed conjecture, embellishment, or departing from them to fill in the gaps in the story.

Which admittedly, I'm doing in this article. 

Some of they guys who report for InfoWars and Press For Truth have been known to embellish on occasion, such as using the word "arrest" when a police officer actually said "detain". [Timecode 26:14]

Or asking leading questions like saying "anti-fascist is another name for leftist" and adding details (such as protesters being paid) which don't appear in a Google-translated version of this German article:

These are some of the reasons I suspect her stubborn insistence on objectivity and upcoming itinerary as a member of the independent press (not, to my knowledge, owned or controlled by advertising or parent companies) potentially could make her the world's most important political news reporter (if you're a populist) or public enemy number one (if you're a anti-Brexit pro-globalist).

And many of the reporters you trust every night to deliver fair, objective reporting on the evening news, in your newspapers.

listening to her favorite philosophy show every morning, and being a conservative, Lauren appears to have demonstrated a moral objection to speculating when almost anybody else would, even dressing up her hedgehog in a tinfoil to poke fun at those who assume they've been shadowbanned by Twitter.

And when Facebook deleted her post, she gathered the evidence rather than engaging in speculation.

And it's why I could be wrong. Lots of likely things could have happened. A dead battery, lost charger, a broken or confiscated phone, and then hopping onto a slow train to France, unable to fix the technical difficulty.

And those things would make a lot of sense.  If she weren't traveling with her camera-shy cameraman and a computer. According to her Snapchat (LaurenCherie) and Dan Dicks' livestreams that's what she's doing.

Video Shows Lauren Is Traveling With Her Phone, Laptop Computer, And A Rebel TV Cameraman

If you're a Dresden Polizei riding a reporter's ass at the Bilderberg Konferenz, and looking to score big points with your chain of command, how could you make a legal arrest?
You could scare the reporter into violating wiretapping laws, for example. After all, reporters have to obey the law, just like cops do. Well, they're supposed to, anyway. And if you can snag someone on a Friday afternoon or Saturday, they may have to wait all weekend to get arraigned.

Reporters gonna report, amirite?  So the idea that you might pressure someone into snapping a naughty video when they're technically not supposed to isn't too far-fetched. Especially if that's what you do for a living. If your perp is a few feet away from a public space, then she's technically not in a public space, which makes any covert recordings illegal.

Why does does it matter if it's public? Because German wire tapping laws, like some U.S. states, appear to forbid secret recordings without the other person's knowledge and consent. Particularly recording the words spoken by someone else without their knowledge.

Another reason to be especially careful to obey the letter of the law in Dresden is that within the state of Saxony alone (in what was East Germany) there are still 4,100 former Stasi still working in the civil service and police force, even 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to the Financial Times Deutschland.

Even now, 10% of police in neighboring Brandenburg are former Stasi

And "judges who spied for the Stasi embedded in the German legal system." Under Soviet occupation, these police were legendary for their use of psychological tactics, including making very credible-sounding threats, lengthy detainment,

If you're in a public space, as long as it's otherwise legal, you can record pretty much any conversation you want because there's no expectation of privacy.

It's why police are understandably very careful what they say and how and where they say it, particularly when they may be on a livestream being watched by 2,500 people or so.

Such as 15 hours ago when Dan Dicks was stopped for his 7th identification check and then threatened with detainment (Timecode 26:14) if he's seen within 100 meters of the Hotel. (About the length of a football field.) 

If one of these cops wanted to speak to you alone, you'd want to record it, too.

Lauren's a particularly reasonable-sounding woman, unlike some. As a reporter for Canada's Rebel TV, her ability to thinks quickly on her feet is legendary, she knows the rules, even when challenged, and it's safe to say she's one of the top 3 conservative reporters in Canada.

And now, there's a decent chance she's the best reporter in a Dresden jail cell.

And if so, it's worth it. Imagine having the chance to catch a Bilderberg cop pulling you aside and making threats, as Luke Rudkowski reported . He didn't get the alley-way encounter on tape, so we have to take his word for it.

But as a witness in court, I'd guess Luke's story would sound very compelling and relevant to a jury.

Particularly if it's the same police officer.

Normally, people don't press the issue. But if it's a cop looking to nail you on something good, wiretapping will do.

Punishable by up to 3 years or a fine:

 Whoever, without authorization:

1. makes an audio recording of the privately spoken words of another; or

2. uses, or makes a recording thus produced accessible to a third party,

shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine

As the police spent days detaining and/or harassing and stalking a dozen or so independent journalists reporting on Bilderberg from Dresden, Germany. Including reportedly threatening journalists in the "secret zone" and or "security zone". Hard to tell with those German accents.

Last known photo, courtesy of Lauren Southern's Facebook Profile
Southern was asked to follow police into a corridor.

I was keeping an especially close eye on Lauren. Because I'm a fan with a crush and some extra time on my hands. 

But not closer than the police. Because dude... That would just be creepy.

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I didn't finish this post because it turns out Lauren Southern showed up again while I was writing it.

You know who still hasn't turned up after 16 days? Internet Aristocrat.