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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
sionist theses on the Holocaust were declared an “official offense.” Ever
since the German authorities have been obligated by law to prosecute
revisionists for their published theses, which are considered to be “libel
of the Jews” or “disparagement of the commemoration of the deceased,”
and this even if no criminal complaint by any person directly
affected had been filed.
The second, much more drastic restriction of free speech followed in
1994 as a result of the first round of trials against the then national
chairman of the German National Democratic Party Günter Deckert, the
outcome of which had been deemed a scandal by media and politicians.
In that year a special law was introduced during the revision of article
130 of the German Penal Code, which, for the first time in German judicial
history, expressly aims at the suppression of only one particular
opinion about only one certain topic. Yet inevitably this, too, had to be
a helpless and useless attempt to get an authoritarian handle against the
patriotism and nationalism which had been surging after the reunification
in all of Germany, against the escalating xenophobia in the new,
former communist Länder caused by social tensions, and finally also
against the expansion and dramatic increase of revisionist activities
deep into mainstream society after the publication of the Leuchter Report.
This was succeeded shortly thereafter by another attack on civil
rights by the so-called “great eavesdropping attack,” that is, the government’s
attempt to get sweeping authorities to tap just about anything
and anybody they deem suspicious – a suggested law which later on had
to be somewhat trimmed down.
After 11 September 2001, the – for Germany only alleged – threat of
terrorism had to once more justify the continued curtailing of civil
rights.
Since the social problems and demographic tensions in the eastern
parts of today’s Germany could not be solved by penal law, that is to
say, because the right-wing political opposition had not disappeared, the
thumbscrews were tightened even more in 2005 by adding a special
offense to article 130 of the German Penal Code. The debate about this
new restriction to freedom of speech in the German parliament clearly
indicates that this was a measure permitting the specific and exclusive
prosecution of revisionist historical dissidents and politicians of the
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