Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
political prisoners, and the right column indicates whether and to what
degree these criteria apply to me or to revisionists in general.
The first criterion is at the same time the most important. Under
peaceful dissent I understand foremost that no unlawful violation of
civil rights of others is justified or advocated. In my view this is the only
really essential requirement for a legitimate expression of an opinion,
while pornography, depictions of violence, vituperation etc. are not dis-
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Cf. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 1, Collins & Harvill, London 1974,
pp. 457-459, 499f.
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Quote from A. Solzhenitsyn, ibid., p. 42.
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Definition of a Political Prisoner
Criterion Germar Rudolf
1. Peaceful dissent, peacefully presented
(esp. no justification or advocation
of violations of civil rights of
others)
2. Not punishable in the vast majority
of nations
Given (unlike RAF)
Not punishable in 195 of 205 countries (unlike
RAF)
3. Support by civil rights organizations ISHR, Uomo e Libertá
4. Statements of solidarity from All four given
strangers (correspondence, visits, interventions
at authorities, demonstrations)
5. Governmental attempts to suppress Ban of demonstrations; negative social
such statements of solidarity prognosis due to contacts
6. Statements of solidarity by promi- Professors in support of asylum; criticism
nent individuals
against prosecution of opponents (Aly, Hilberg,
Lipstadt, Finkelstein)
7. Statements of solidarity or criticism • Muslim world
against prosecution by media & poli- • England (Index on Censorship, Guardian)
ticians, especially abroad
• Media in general in non-persecuting countries
• German media
8. Restricted right to a defense • self-evidence = ban of evidence
• Prosecution of defense lawyers
9. Persecuting nation’s refusal to rec- Given, in contrast to Czarist Russia
ognize political prisoners despite the
above features
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10. Worse treatment than regular in- Zündel in Canada; non-recognition in Germates.many;
automatic negative assessment of
defendant’s character, negative social prognosis,
no early release on parole, security
measures (incl. fetters); punishment as “social
prophylaxis.” 132