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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
eral government, the same lie about my alleged call for murder appeared
also in a special publication directed against revisionism published
by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
251 From there this festering lie apparently keeps spreading cheerfully,
yet no one seems to bother to read in my paper what I actually
wrote.
One cannot expect any remedy either from these kinds of media who
so complacently and uncritically spread even the most malicious lies.
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Hence it has to be concluded that no other remedy is any longer possible
but resistance. It is self-evident that every government will always
contradict such an analysis of its citizens, because that government has
yet to be invented which voluntarily relinquishes its power to its citizens
and which admits to commit injustice. The more authoritarian a
government is the more massive and violent its counter reaction will be
to any announcement or act of peaceful, civil resistance. Hence the official
self-assessment of a state cannot be a guideline. One thing is for
certain, though: A state which wants to offer remedies listens, but does
not punish. But it seems evident that in the present case there is no such
inclination, is there?
I may round off this topic with a quotation from Karl Popper, who
also emphasized that one ought not to wait with one’s resistance until
the government has deteriorated into an “evident regime of injustice:” 252
“Such an anti-democratic move on the part of the rulers is, of
course, a much more serious and dangerous thing than a similar
move on the part of the ruled. It would be the task of the [ruled] to
fight this dangerous move resolutely, to stop it in its inconspicuous
beginnings.”
And not just when the liberal democratic order has completely vanished
into thin air. Then it may be too late.
251
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (ed.), Rechtsextremistischer Revisionismus. Ein Thema von
heute, Cologne 2002, p. 21.
252
The Open…, vol. 2, op. cit. (note 70), p. 163.
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