Die Bantam-Bedrohung

[Grant]

Real Estate Agent, Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, of the House of Reuss, has been arrested, along with 25 others part of the Reichsbürger Movement, for being part of a plot to overthrow the German government by seizing control over the Bundestag.  Prince Heinrich was apparently one of the two ringleaders of the plot.  The Reichsbürger Movement does not recognize the current German government as legitimate and wishes to return to the Bismarckian German Empire created in 1871, with Prince Heinrich as head of state.  Prince Heinrich XIII was arrested with his life partner, Russian citizen Vitalia B.  The Reichsbürger Movement has been linked to COVID skepticism and QAnon type "Deep State" conspiracies.  In a 2019 speech given in Zurich, he complained about the Rothschild family and said the First World War was forced on the Kaider by international financial interests (funny speech to give in Switzerland). 

The rest of the House of Reuss says that Henrich XIII broke off ties with the rest of the family a decade earlier. 

Second ringleader has been identified as Rüdiger von Pescatore, a 69 year old retired Heer officer, who seemed to top out as the commander of Fallschirmjaegerbattalion 251, once a part of the Bundeswehr special forces division. 

Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, a former member of the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party, and a current judge in the Berlin district court, was arrested and was supposedly in line to be the Justice Minister of the new German Empire.  She was supposedly obsessed with QAnon and other conspiracy theories. 

[Fenring]

You know, when you started reading your post I read "real estate agent" and kept that in RAM as I read "a plot to overthrow the German government by seizing control over the Bundestag" and I immediate short circuit thought was that this is brilliant, they'll overthrow the government by purchasing the building and then evicting them.

[Grant]

No one ever suspects the real estate agent.  That's why Phil Dunphy went on to seize control of California.  That's the part of Modern Family they didn't want to show you.

So far, the nationalists are not doing such a good job at coup d'etats in the 21st century.  Certainly not as successful as the communists were I would guess.  I will now compile a scorecard of coups and their records in the 20th century.  Where would you draw the line between a revolution and a coup?  Or is it basically the same thing? 

[Grant]

Severely disappointed in the FSB.  The KGB would have been knee deep in this.  The guy even had a Russian girlfriend.  Apparently the only government they can still put their finger on is Belarus.