C. J. Hopkins

C. J. Hopkins   (satirist, playwright, Covid dissident)
Born	1961
Residence	Berlin,  Germany
Nationality	US
American political satirist based in Berlin. A prominent Covid dissident, he was persecuted by the German judicial system on trumped-up charges.

Christopher Jaynes Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. A prominent Covid dissident, he was persecuted by the German judicial system on trumped-up charges.

Playwright

His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), and 7 Stages (Atlanta). His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe.

Covid

Hopkins was a prominent Covid dissident, writing about the "New Normal" as a new form of totalitarianism with a number of satirical texts.

Judicial persecution

Note the scarcely visible swastika in the picture.

The tweet on the left reads, "The masks are ideological-conformity symbols. That is all they are. That is all they have ever been. Stop acting like they have ever been anything else, or get used to wearing them." Note the scarcely visible swastika in the picture. The hashtag translates as "Masks are not a benign measure." The one on the right is a quote by Karl Lauterbach, the Minister of Health of Germany, tweeted by Welt, a national newspaper. It reads "The masks always send out a signal."

With the standard technique of using negative connotations of Nazism to criticize a currently serving government official, in August 2022, Hopkins retweeted a quote by the German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, adding the image from his book cover (see images on left and right). In August 2023, Hopkins was sent a "punishment order" by a German judge, with the choice of 60 days in jail or a 3,600 euros fine, for broadcasting images "intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization."

 

A Quote by C. J. Hopkins

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Totalitarianism	“One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it.”	5 May 2021	OffGuardian

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