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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYOn occasion of awarding the Peace Prize of the German BookTrade 263 to Mrs. Prof. Dr. Annemarie Schimmel in 1995, the formerFederal German President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog stated the following:264 “When we enter into a dialog with one another, we bring alongsome essential, non-negotiable things. Among them are freedom ofspeech and more than anything else that no one comes to harm onaccount of his convictions. A long, often bloody and gruesome historyhas taught us in Europe that these rights must never again be subjectto negotiation.”At that time I probed further and asked the President whether he iswilling to take a stand for freedom of speech for revisionist scientists.And here is his response which he sent to me: 265“Herr President has received your letter of 4 December [1995,GR]. He asks you to understand that he will not permit being instrumentalizedas intended by you.”Look at those hypocrites! During celebratory speeches they pay lipservice, but when it comes down to the matter, they wimp out!George Orwell once said fittingly: 266“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell peoplewhat they do not want to hear.”Freedom means in particular the right to tell the Powers That Bewhat they least want to hear. For every dictatorship allows expressingthose opinions which don’t bother the Powers That Be or with whichthey even agree. Hence that cannot be the yardstick by which to measurea free and open society.Of course reasons are given why it is allegedly necessary to makeexceptions for the topic dealt with here, hence to ignore civil and humanrights. About this I want to quote a jurist who has thoroughly analyzedthe problems surrounding article 130 of the German Penal Code, namelya former colleague of yours, Herr Schwab, 267 the retired PresidingJudge at the District Court Günther Bertram. He has authored an articlewith the title “The State under the Rule of Law and the Amended Lawon Incitement of the Masses,” 268 which appeared in the German law263 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.264 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 Oct. 1995.265See G. Rudolf, Kardinalfragen, op. cit. (note 47) p. 308.266 In the original preface to his novel Animal Farm.267 The Presiding Judge of the present trial.268 “Der Rechtsstaat und seine Volksverhetzungs-Novelle.”210

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