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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
sions which we would not want to abandon. But how are we to change
our views if we are not confronted by arguments but by mere violence?
That really is not a convincing way. Thusly tagged with a unpropitious
social prognosis, we political prisoners can never enjoy early releases
from prison after spending half or two-thirds of our terms, as is granted
to drug dealers, robbers, thieves, and murderers. No, as incorrigibles we
have to spend our terms to the last minute. To top it off, we are
whacked with all kinds of security measures in prison, which exacerbate
life in prison even more. I have still not received any comprehensible
explanation why that is so, though. Do the other prisoners have to be
protected from our thoughts? Or are we taken into protective custody in
order to safeguard us against the other prisoners whose hatred against us
has been fanned by media reports? Be that as it may, fact is that the reason
occasionally given to the public for the harsh punishment meted out
against us is that it is meant to be a deterrent in order that no underling
in this country will dare to utter an opinion divergent from that of the
government. In legalese this term is called “general prevention.” According
to Solzhenitsyn such verdicts in the late Soviet Union were
called “social prophylaxis,” 138 which probably amounts to the same
thing.
III. Development of the Law
Now I want to turn to the development of the law in Germany under
the aspect of the increasing deterioration of civil rights. I may start with
a quote from the speech of the late German political scientist Carlo
Schmid, who, as a Social Democrat, was a member of Germany’s Parliamentary
Council in 1948, which at that time was debating the Basic
Law for the fledgling Federal German Republic. On the question of restrictions
to civil right by general laws Schmid said on 8 September
1948: 139
“We also do not want that one equips these civil rights [in the
Basic Law, GR] with restrictions by general laws, as it is the case in
some constitutional guidelines of the [East German communist]
138
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, op. cit. (note 131), p. 42.
139
Deutscher Bundestag, Bundesarchiv (ed.), Der Parlamentarische Rat 1948-1949, Oldenbourg,
Munich 1996, pp. 22ff.
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