Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYpeace and anti-nuclear movements, as their protest is not directedagainst the violated penal laws which punish trespassing, breachingpublic peace, and coercion. This is quite in contrast to revisionism: Herethe resistance is solely directed against the violated and rejected law,because it is not accepted due to its violation of human and civil rights.Hence, in case of the peace and anti-nuclear movements we are dealingwith an example of applying the “small right to resist,” which isgenerally considered illegitimate or illegal, at least within a democracyunder the rule of law. In case of revisionism or in my case, the disobedienceor resistance is directed against an unconstitutional law, and thissimply by ignoring and deliberately violating this and exclusively thislaw. This is an entirely different dimension of disobedience than that ofthe peace and anti-nuclear movements, as it is exactly directly against alaw which – to paraphrase High Court judge Helmut Simon – abolishesthat which is beyond voting, namely freedom of opinion and of scienceand research. This is also a protest against the stealthy erosion of theliberal and lawful character of the Federal Republic of Germany, whichhas been in progress for decades. It is an example of the “grand right toresist,” as laid down in article 20, paragraph 4, of the German BasicLaw, which I invoke here with my full consciousness:“All Germans have the right to resist against everyone who endeavorsto remove this order, if no other remedy is possible.”By so doing I am well aware that the Federal Republic of Germanyhas not yet transmogrified into an “evident regime of injustice,” becausein most societal areas the state under the rule of law functions appropriately.But as stated repeatedly and reinforced with quotations fromcompetent authors, it is the citizen’s – i.e. my – duty to fight the beginnings,as this is always more promising and also possible with less sacrificesas compared to a situation where the state later on has mutatedinto a totalitarian system of injustice.193