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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
infamy of the media to even mention the trials against revisionists, i.e.
the victims of terrorism, simultaneously with those against terrorists.
The next criterion is the recognition of the inmate as a political prisoner
by civil rights organizations. This is problematic for the present
issue, though, as the opinions persecuted by the German authorities are
generally considered to be right-wing or right-wing radical. Most civil
rights organization are traditionally on the political left, however, which
has historical reasons, as the civil rights movement is by its origin a
left-wing idea rooted in the French revolution. Hence inmates who are
categorized as being on the political right – whether justly or unjustly so
– usually face difficulties finding an open ear with leftist organizations.
In this context I may draw your attention to a letter of the German
civil rights organization “International Society for Human Rights”
(www.ishr.org/) of 30 October 1996, a copy of which I gave you recently.
The ISHR is an organization which had been established, among
other things, because leftist civil rights organizations like Amnesty International
hardly showed any inclination to denounce civil rights violations
in Eastern Block countries during the Cold War, especially in
former communist East Germany and with regards to German ethnic
minorities in other east European countries. Since their formation and
due to their engagement on behalf of political persecutees in the Eastern
Block, the ISHR in Germany has itself been attacked regularly by leftist
group, at times even violently. For several decades now they find themselves
societally persecuted in Germany.
I had received this letter by the ISHR, a copy of which I gave you, as
a response to my inquiry, whether the ISHR are in the position to recognize
me as a political persecutee and to support me accordingly. The
then executive chairman of the ISHR responded to this with the telling
words:
“I believe that the ISHR does not have the energy to see through
a trial without suffering damage to itself.”
In other words: The ISHR feared to become a victim of societal persecution
itself, should they publicly campaign for freedom of speech for
revisionists as well. How bad does it have to be in a society when even
civil rights organizations are afraid of persecution, should they dare to
campaign for political prisoners?
The Italian civil rights organization “Associazione Uomo e Libertá”
displayed somewhat more courage, when they informed me in spring of
2006 that they had recognized me as a victim of socio-political persecu-
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