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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
not only forbidden to sell an indexed medium publicly, but also to promote
it publicly. Hence the indexing of politically unwanted material
gets very close to a total censorship, because if you do not already know
in advance what you are looking for and where to look, you will hardly
make a find.
This already unacceptable state of affairs was exacerbated even
more in 2002 with the tightening of the German Law for the Protection
of the Youth. This reform not only extended the authority of the Assessment
Agency, but in addition it mandated that the list of indexed
and confiscated media is no longer publicly accessible. Whereas before
every citizen could find out which media are indexed or even completely
prohibited in Germany by obtaining the respective list from the Assessment
Agency or by consulting it in public libraries, this list is now
only made accessible for libraries and book dealers for their internal
use. To top it off, this list no longer contains those media which have
been confiscated and are thus subjected to book burning. Since 2002
these media are kept in secret lists. This secrecy is meant to prevent the
use of these lists as advertisement material for forbidden media. Hence
the citizens are kept intentionally ignorant by their government about
what is and isn’t prohibited in this country. Yet when a citizen commits
an offense due to his inevitable ignorance, because he has produced,
imported, stored, disseminated, or offered a prohibited medium, the
principle of “ignorance doesn’t protect from punishment” still hits him
or her with full force, even though it is exactly the government which
has, with premeditation, prevented him to remedy his ignorance. And
such a state is then called a state under the rule of law.
I have partly based my presentation about the increasing deterioration
of civil rights in Germany on a lecture which Prof. Eike Mußmann
held in the premise of my then Catholic student fraternity in Stuttgart
back on 19 January 1993. At that time Prof. Mußmann was teaching
police law at the Academy for Public Administration in Ludwigsburg.
At the end of his lecture about the deterioration of civil rights in Germany
Prof. Mußmann stated that he wouldn’t want to live in Germany
anymore in 40 years, if the restriction of civil rights were to continue as
during the first 40 years of the Federal Republic of Germany, because
then Germany would be a police state. 146 The development of the sub-
146 Cf. Lectures, op. cit. (note 55), p. 509.
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