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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
“At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to
disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the
end of civilization.” (p. 8)
Just five years later the discussion about the right to civil disobedience
resurged as a consequence of the student movement and the protest
against the Vietnam war. On occasion of this profound protest, Fromm
made the following interesting observation: 217
“As long as people worship idols they will always find an attack
on these idols to be a threat to their own vital interest. There is
probably no threat that has produced more hostility and destructiveness
in the history of Man than the threat to idols; the fact is that
people always deceive themselves when they believe their own gods
to be the only true ones. [218] But this deception in no way alters the
fact that a threat to the idols is one of the mainsprings of the mobilization
of human aggression. […] A person can easily be persuaded
that his vital interests are threatened even though they are not. He
can be brainwashed – as the expression is when speaking of an opponent
– or ‘educated’ as one says when referring to oneself.”
This fits nicely into our topic. It is indeed not difficult to figure out
due to which idol I am exposed to governmental aggression here and
now.
The next and so far last discussion about civil disobedience ensued
in the years 1982/83 on occasion of NATO’s decision to deploy modernized
nuclear weapons in West Germany as well as in the wake of the
protest of the environmental movement against the peaceful use of nuclear
energy and various large industrial construction projects like for
instance the planned western runways of the Frankfurt airport. 219 In
view of these at times escalating mass protests, the German Social
Democratic Party (SPD), which had been freshly relegated into the opposition,
conducted a discussion function within the framework of their
“Culture Forum of Social Democracy.” In it a series of experts dealt
with the question when and under which circumstances a right to civil
disobedience exists. In justification of civil disobedience the renowned
217 Ibid., p. 141f.
218 The German text adds here “…, and the gods of the others to be the true idols.” Über den Ungehorsam,
dtv, Munich 1985, p. 144.
219 In extension of the Frankfurt airport originally two additional runways had been planned, but
due to the massive and extremely violent protests only one was constructed at the time. The second
additional runway is being built as I write these lines (2010) – with hardly any protest, as
the environmental movement seems to have petered out.
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