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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
divergent opinions – including those they abhor – actually increasing
or diminishing? Has freedom of thought truly become an irreducible
demand made upon German society by its citizens? […]
But when freedom of thought is not continually subjected to critical
challenge, it runs the danger of dying out.”
Karl R. Popper, whom I have already quoted copiously, has argued
along the same line in his classic work The Open Society and Its Enemies:
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“those who are not prepared to fight for their freedom will lose it.”
II. The State as the Target of Resistance
But what if the State is the target of resistance, because it unjustly
curtails freedom? I have been dragged into court by the Police Department
for State Protection. Hence the state believes that it has to protect
itself from me, because I am allegedly somehow threatening it. I am
considered to be an enemy of the state. But I do not want to be this, and
I do not think that I am one. I have indicated several times during my
biographic deliberations that I was gladly prepared as an adolescent and
as a young man to get involved for this state, for this society, and to
serve it. My enthusiasm for this state waned only when I had to recognize
how this state persecutes well-meaning citizens only because they
have different views on aspects of history. I have commented several
times about this tragedy of governmental misconduct, like for instance
in the appendix to the book Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte, from where
I may quote: 204
“Anyone who tries to make the legitimacy of the Federal Republic
of Germany’s existence hinge on the truth or falsehood of historiography
about a detail of contemporary history (and almost all the
major media and many politicians have been doing this lately) suffers
from a profound misconception of the foundations of this our
republic, which is not based on the Holocaust but on the acceptance
of its citizens and on inalienable human and national rights. At the
same time, such a person commits two unpardonable sins. First, he
gives the actual enemies of this republic an easy means for destroy-
203 Karl Popper, The Open…, op. cit. (note 70), vol. 2, p. 287.
204 Ernst Gauss, op. cit. (note 125), p. 406f.
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