A dangerous and radical movement, the so-called Grey Wolves, is operating in Germany, targeting even young children with their extremist nationalist ideology. What starts out as normal-seeming cultural or family activities is later revealed by former insiders to be systematic indoctrination, where symbols, rituals, and lessons shape a child's worldview in narrow, hateful, and exclusionary terms. Local authorities are unprepared, and the movement’s covert character makes it hard for officials to intervene. With almost 13,000 known members in hundreds of clubs—even in small towns—the group is deeply entrenched. Politicians who speak up against this threat face harassment and require police protection, but the German state is hesitant to act decisively—unlike France or Austria—citing political sensitivities in its relations with Turkey.

Here’s what strikes me as utterly maddening: we constantly hear about how society needs more control, more regulations, more bans—yet when there is a clear, proven threat, authorities drag their feet. Meanwhile, everyday people like myself, who just want the sheer joy, the universal right, of driving our cars freely, are the ones treated like criminals! They’re happy to roll out endless speed limits, stick up new traffic cameras at every corner, threaten us with sky-high fines for little “infractions”—all justified by talking points about safety and “good order.” But faced with actual extremists who are brainwashing kids, the state dithers and hesitates because it’s “complicated.”

Let me tell you: I believe in freedom. I believe in freedom as fundamentally as I believe in the right to get into my own car, on my own time, crank the engine, feel the power and possibility at my fingertips, and set out on the open road at the speed I choose. There is nothing more symbolic of a free people than a free driver on a free road! But what the state is doing—slapping arbitrary speed limits, bullying drivers with collective punishments, and now, with every excuse (“the climate!” “the children!”), pushing us onto dreary, unreliable public transport or, worse, those torturous, indecent bicycles—is the real oppression. Speed limits are a crime against humanity, pure and simple—they kill the spirit, treat us all as suspects, and, bit by bit, undermine the bedrock of true liberty.

If only the authorities showed the same passion for freedom that they do when cracking down on drivers! If only they put half the energy they put into harassing motorists into protecting kids from hateful indoctrination, we’d all be safer and freer. But no—the easy target is the car lover, the speed enthusiast, the ordinary person who just wants to drive, to live, to be left alone. Let’s have the courage to say it: every unnecessary restriction is an act of control, not care. I’ll take the sound of an honest engine over the silence of repression any day. Freedom to drive, freedom to live, freedom from absurd control—this is the real fight!