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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYsequent years unfortunately confirmed Prof. Mußmann’s fears, as thedismantling of civil rights has since briskly continued.These statements of this expert for police law were an importantconfirmation for me that I do not suffer from a subjective distortion ofreality when coming to similar conclusions. It was also a confirmationfor my view that it is high time to actively oppose this deterioration ofcivil rights, because it is no doubt easier to stop and revert misdevelopmentstoward a police surveillance state at the outset rather than to opposea full-fledged police state. The German saying “Parry the Onsets!”(equivalent to: A stitch in time saves nine!) was appropriate during the1960s and 1970s. Today we citizens have to fend off a decay of civilrights which in the meantime has advanced quite far!IV. Legal Situation1. Prime GuidelineBefore elaborating on the currently prevailing legal situation withregards to my case, I wish to explain that for me the chief guideline isnot Germany’s Basic Law or any interpretation of it by the GermanConstitutional High Court. This is so not at least because my activitieshave reached far beyond the realm of German law. Instead of this, ImmanuelKant’s Categorical Imperative is my supreme lodestar: 147“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the sametime will that it should become a universal law.”This principle of a universal law will serve me as a leitmotif for thesubsequent observations.2. Civil Rights and Conflicting Civil RightsMy following statements are based on the work by K.H. Seifert andD. Hömig (eds.), Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, 148 as147 Immanuel Kant, Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, Riga 1788, p. 54 (§ 7 “Grundgesetz der reinenpraktischen Vernunft”; new: Meiner, Hamburg 2003, p. 41); Engl.: Grounding for the Metaphysicsof Morals, 3rd ed., Hackett, Indianapolis 1981, p. 30; also quoted in my Lectures, op.cit. (note 55), p. 527.148 Karl-Heinz Seifert, Dieter Hömig (eds.), Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2nded., Nomos, Baden-Baden 1985.122