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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
When RAF terrorism petered out toward the end of the 1970s, the censoring
of left-wing writings ended almost completely, whereas the indexing
of right-wing writings kept swelling.
As an unsuspicious witness to this one-sided instrumentalization of
this governmental censorship agency against right-wing oppositional
views I may quote the sociologist Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jesse, who has
made the study of right-wing extremism his life’s task. Ironically in a
publication by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
(Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz), he stated in 1990 that the
Federal Assessment Agency has “proven to be a gateway in several way
for a one-sided anti-fascism.” 144 He continues: 145
“Anyway, the procedures of the Federal Assessment Agency for
Media Endangering the Youth are difficult to reconcile with the
principles of a free society, because the written and spoken word
must not be subjected to guardianship.”
“[…] A free society must not suffocate or suppress the free exchange
of ideas and viewpoints.”
The indexing of political or politically undesirable literature as such
would not be that big a drama, if the act of censorship really served only
to keep such literature away from minors. After all, all sorts of pornography
and horror depictions are freely available to adults. You just
have to go to those plentiful special stores and departments accessible
only for adults. If similar special stores existed on a grand scale for indexed,
politically unwanted literature as well, one could live with such
censorship, since this kind of literature hasn’t been written for minors
anyway. But such stores do not exist. Or rather: there once was one single
store like it – in Frankfurt upon Main – which had such a special
department. But because only literature deemed to be right-wing is indexed
in Germany, the left-wingers were opposed to this store, and so it
happened that this store fell victim to an arson attack in the early 1990s
which has never been resolved.
The indexing of politically unwanted media by the German Federal
Assessment Agency therefore does not primarily serve to keep unwanted
literature away from adolescents, who aren’t interested in it anyway,
but in order to let them practically disappear from the market, as it is
144 Eckhard Jesse, Streitbare Demokratie und ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ in: Bundesamt für
Verfassungsschutz (ed.), Verfassungsschutz in der Demokratie, Heymanns, Cologne, 1990, p.
304.
145 Ibid. pp. 287, 303.
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