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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
far as interpretations of the Basic Law are concerned and if not otherwise
indicated.
The present trial takes place only because the prosecutor claims that
a conflict of civil rights has occurred between my exercise of freedom
of speech and science on one hand and the human dignity of a particular
group of the populace on the other hand.
Article 19, paragraph 2, of the German Basic Law determines that in
case of such a conflict a balance has to be found between the different
civil rights which may not undermine the essential content of the affected
civil rights.
Let us first turn to the right to freedom of science as determined by
article 5, paragraph 3. As shown before, the essential content of science
is that any hypothesis can be chosen freely and that the results of research
activity may be determined only by verifiable evidence, but not
by pressures exerted by external sources.
Human dignity simply does NOT depend on where one seeks the
truth or where one thinks to have found it, but that one is allowed to
doubt in the first place; next that one is permitted to seek the truth, and
finally to proclaim what one deems to have found. The will toward the
truth is the divine spark in us humans, is therefore an integral part of our
human dignity.
After all the things I have stated so far it should also be clear that
there can be no entitlement to certain research results, and most certainly
not a civil right. There are no exceptions to this, for anybody, as such
exceptions would contradict both the categorical imperative of a “universal
law” and the principle of equal treatment, which is itself a civil
right included in the German Basic Law, isn’t it, Mr. Prosecutor?
As an example of what the consequence would be, if the rules applied
in Germany regarding the National Socialist persecution of the
Jews were to be transformed into a universal law, I may bring up socalled
creationism. As is known, there is an increasingly strong movement
among fundamentalist Christians especially in the United States
that rejects the theory of evolution, and this not just because it contradicts
biblical claims. Deep down in their innermost feelings these individuals
consider their human dignity violated by the claim of modern
biology that we humans have descended from an ape-like creature. The
theory of evolution is unconscionable for these Christians, and they
consequently try to have books on this topic removed from libraries and
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