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

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
thentic, however, is the following quote of Frederick the Great, which
goes into the same direction: 274
“You need to know that the least of peasants, and what is even
more, the beggar is just as much a human being as is his majesty,
and he has to find justice by that fact that all humans are equal before
the law; it may be a prince suing the peasant or vice versa, then
the prince will be equal to the peasant before the law: and in such
affairs it has to be proceeded purely by justice with no regard to the
person. The justice councils in all provinces have to only comply
with this. And wherever they do not go straight forward with justice
without regard of person or class and put aside natural justness,
they shall get in trouble with his royal majesty. A legal council
which exercises injustices is more dangerous and worse than a gang
of thieves; one can protect oneself against those, but nobody can
protect himself against rogues who use the robes of justice to carry
out their vicious passions; they are worse than the biggest scoundrels
in the world and deserve double punishment.”
And if you look into the German Penal Code, the maximum sentence
I face here due to alleged incitement of the masses is five years imprisonment,
whereas the maximum punishment for false imprisonment by
an official is ten years. Here you have Frederick’s double punishment!
For the last personality I want to quote here I go back once more to
Socrates, who was also the first I have quoted. Socrates had blisteringly
criticized the warfare of the generals of democratic Athens against
Sparta and had consequently been indicted for high treason. In his defense
speech, before he had to drink the famous cup of hemlock, he
stated the following, among other things: 275
“I am the gadfly that God has attached to this city […], and all
day long and in all places I am always fastening upon you, arousing
and persuading and reproaching you. You would not readily find
another like me, and therefore I should advise you to spare me… If
you strike at me, […] and rashly put me to death, then you will remain
asleep for the rest of your lives, unless God in his care sends
you another gadfly.”
274
Bruno Frank, Friedrich der Große als Mensch im Spiegel seiner Briefe, Deutsche Buch-
Gemeinschaft, Berlin 1926, p. 99.
275
Apologia, Sec. 30e/3la; quoted acc. to Karl R. Popper, The Open Society…, op. cit. (note 70),
vol. 1, p. 194.
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