Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY2. General deterrence: To make a deterring example in order that nobodydare rebel against governmental truth dictates will work onlyas long as the disinformation policy toward the public succeeds,which is increasingly less the case. Publishing the events during thisvery trial, for instance, will open the eyes of thousands, tens of thousands,maybe even hundreds of thousands. At some point in timethis will result in an avalanche effect, as this injustice will drivepeople onto the barricades as soon as they learn about it.3. Resocialization: In fact everything done to me is a crass desocialization.One constantly destroys the base of my material existence, myfamily, and so on. It is not I who is in need of resocialization, butthis German society is, which demands the persecution of peacefuldissidents or at least lets it happen with a shrug!4. Faith in the state under the rule of law and in legal security: Anyonefinding out about the conditions and contents of this kind of trial willlose the last bit of faith in this state. And that includes Jews!5. Revenge and retaliation: This archaic reason for punishment is theonly one which you can invoke here. He who runs out of argumentsresorts to violence. Hatred and destruction is all this state can do inthe face of peaceful dissent.PostscriptumEven the former President of the German Federal ConstitutionalHigh Court and later President of the Federal Republic of GermanyProf. Dr. Roman Herzog has repeatedly stated that “from time immemorialthere has been a right to resist by those violated and a right toemergency relief for all citizens” in case of government encroachmentson human dignity and on the human rights. 254 According to Herzog,each single constitutional article of the Basic Law of the Federal Republicof Germany – the statutory civil rights also among them – is,“viewed by daylight,… nothing else but the specific elaborationon a fundamental principle of the constitutional nature of the state,254 Roman Herzog, “Das positive Widerstandsrecht” in: Festschrift für A. Merkel, Munich 1970, p.102; quoted acc. to Klaus Peters, Widerstandsrecht und humanitäre Intervention, OsnabrückerRechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, vol. 61, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 2005, p. 184(Dissertation at Univ. Osnabrück 2004/2005).206