Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYannually in the report of the German Agency for the Protection of theConstitution (Bundesverfassungsschutzbericht), each year some 10,000criminal investigations are initiated in Germany on account of “propagandaoffenses,” that is, for nothing other than expressing opinionswhich displease the authorities. In his novel 1984, George Orwell callsthis class of offense “crimethink.”A particular type of federal German thought crimes is “incitement ofthe masses.” Crime statistics show that one can be found guilty of thatoffense almost exclusively if one is considered to be a “right-winger,”as a result of which “right-wingers” are overrepresented in these statisticsby a factor of around 10 to 20:1 when compared to “left-wingers.”Now the first quotation from our unnamed author:“Another very important thing about the courts today: there is notape recorder, no stenographer, just a thick-fingered secretary withthe leisurely penmanship of an eighteenth-century schoolgirl, laboriouslyrecording some part of the proceedings in the transcript.This record is not read out during the session, and no one is allowedto see it until the judge has looked it over and approved it. Onlywhat the judge confirms will remain on record, will have happenedin court. While things that we have heard with our own ears vanishlike smoke – they never happened at all!” (3/521)When we compare the Federal German court procedure with this, weare forced to conclude that the German court system is even worse,since in proceedings before a District Court, just as the present case, noprotocol is kept at all about who says what and when. Over there youcan see the court reporter sitting at his computer, but all he is doing thewhole time while I am talking here, is to play with his mouse, giving alittle click here and a little click there. Absolutely no protocol is kepthere. You yourselves as judges might make your own little personalnotes now and again, but they are of necessity rudimentary and furthermoremade at your own personal discretion.This complete lack of a protocol opens the floodgates to error andarbitrariness and enables you as judges to perfectly immunize your verdictagainst any attempt at refutation, because how can anyone provewhat took place here in the courtroom?Judges are just humans, and hence they cannot possibly keep everythingin their heads which goes on during a trial. This alone is a goodreason to make verbal records obligatory.100