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

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

real conflict is most frequently between citizen and government when<br />

dealing with problems of civil rights: 152<br />

“Seen from their historical development, the function of civil<br />

rights is at first that they are a defense right of the citizen against the<br />

deployment of governmental power (BVerfG 1, 104). According to<br />

jurisdiction, this is also their primary and central dimension of efficacy<br />

today (BVerfG 50, 337).”<br />

There can be no doubt that article 130 of the German Penal Code as<br />

a special law aiming at certain opinions is in violation of the principle<br />

of general laws and is therefore unconstitutional. And although this is<br />

self-evident, both the German Supreme Court and the Constitutional<br />

High Court ignore this fact in all their decisions in matters as the current<br />

one and act and sentence against all their other fundamental verdicts in<br />

all other cases about free speech. They even exacerbate the already unconstitutional<br />

legal situation by further eroding the civil right, especially<br />

by preventing an effective defense by means of enforcing the misuse<br />

of the rule of self-evidence and by prosecuting defense lawyers.<br />

In my view one of the causes for this behavior especially of the Constitutional<br />

High Court is that the judges of this court are appointed<br />

based on a political horse-trading between the dominating political parties<br />

in Germany, where political party affiliation and party loyalty is at<br />

times more important than judicial competence. A classic example for<br />

this was the appointment of Jutta Limbach – as quota Social-Democrat<br />

– to the Presidency of the Constitutional High Court, although she had<br />

almost no professional experience in law. That led to unmistakable criticism<br />

even in legal journals. Considering such circumstances, one has to<br />

ask in what sense we can still speak of a separation of powers in Germany.<br />

Hence, the question about the right to resist according to article 20,<br />

paragraph 4, of the German Basic Law imposes itself once more, about<br />

which I will say more later on.<br />

3. Protection of the Youth<br />

As a third legal restriction of free speech in Germany I will now discuss<br />

the Law for the Protection of the Youth, which I am said to have<br />

violated as well.<br />

152 K.-H. Seifert, D. Hömig, op.cit. (note. 148), pp. 28f.<br />

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