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

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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY<br />

IV. Remedy<br />

Already the German Basic law touches upon the fact that a right to<br />

resist exists only if no other remedy is possible. Mahatma Gandhi argued<br />

similarly: 234<br />

“Before a transition to civil disobedience is permissible, all parliamentary<br />

means to remove the injustice must have been exhausted.”<br />

Hence I want to explain now that “other remedies” are indeed no<br />

longer possible, and this not only with regard to parliamentary means,<br />

as Gandhi has demanded, but also with judicial, human rights, public,<br />

scholarly, or media means.<br />

1. Parliamentary Remedy<br />

Acts of the German parliament are unfortunately the primary reason<br />

for the violation of civil rights, because the unconstitutional laws passed<br />

by the Bundestag have been enacted specifically in order to penalize<br />

historical dissent and even more explicitly in order to suppress a disliked<br />

political opposition. 235<br />

Petitions to the Bundestag are being fobbed off with cheap commonplace<br />

phrases, as for instance in the case of a complaint against the<br />

illegal interpretation of the principle of “self-evidence” (article 244 of<br />

the German Penal Law) by the German judiciary. 236 The answer of the<br />

petition committee basically stated that the judiciary, when interpreting<br />

the Penal Law verbally, must not apply the principle of “self-evidence”<br />

as they do. But that doesn’t change the fact that they do it anyway, and<br />

they do this with the full and expressed backing of this parliament.<br />

When objecting that article 130 German Penal Code is nowadays<br />

used to illegally restrict freedom of science, the German Member of<br />

Parliament Horst Eylmann merely stated in a typical manner that the<br />

“necessary scholarly pursuit of historical Holocaust research” would be<br />

defended by the German Federal Constitutional High Court, if need<br />

234 Quoted acc. to M. Blume, op. cit. (note 215), p. 260; allegedly from Young India, 9 June 1920,<br />

but I did not find it in CWMG online.<br />

235 The two tightenings of Germany’s censorship laws (art. 130) in 1994 and 2005, designed to<br />

suppress revisionism, were both triggered by controversial public statements on Third Reich<br />

history by party officials of the heavily ostracized German right-wing radical party NPD, who<br />

the German political establishment has been trying to ban for decades, so far without success.<br />

236 See about this the 5th lecture of my Lectures, op. cit. (note 55).<br />

194

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