Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
". . . the demonstration called by the right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD) because the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) had already scheduled a rally for the same day in the city centre.
'We simply do not have enough public space for the union and any other groups who want to demonstrate on May 1,' said Helga Kaestner, director of the city's public order department. . . . 'Leipzig cannot tolerate that kind of disruption.'" (Reuters, April 16)
Kaestner added that any counter-demonstrations protesting against "the
extreme right" would also not be permitted.
As you will remember, the right wing party, NPD, and its youth organisation
drew about 5,000 demonstrators in February and March to protest in Munich
against an exhibition supposedly documenting crimes of the German Wehrmacht.
Many more were expected to come to this May 1 rally.
And there is more, showing up Germany, the so-called "democratic country"
as Cyberbully of the West. Consider the following headlines, quotes, observations
and comments from friend and foe alike:
· In another Reuters article, titled "Germany offers pioneering
bill to police the Internet" written by William Boston, we read that
German Technology Minister, Juergen Ruettgers, bolstered the German government's
"pioneering legislation" by opining:
"The Internet must not become a legal vacuum. This country is not prepared to tolerate certain things that appear there . . . "
That article goes on to say that Ruettgers
". . . specifically defended Germany's efforts to stop neo-Nazi electronic magazines on the World Wide Web, usually located abroad but accessable by Germans over the Internet, from distributing diatribes that deny the Nazis killed Jews in concentration camp gas chambers, the so-called ``Auschwitz Lie . . .
'We must continue to forbid the Auschwitz lie, regardless of whether it is spread in black and white or in bit and byte,' Ruettgers told the sparsely-attended debate."
Commenting further on this proposed law, the article points out that
". . . (Germany) mainly seeks to define which activities require regulation and which can be operated without any formal license or regulatory oversight.
"To do this it distinguishes between traditional media forms that use the Internet, and should therefore fall under media regulations, and new services, such as electronic mail, that the government says should not be classified as media.
"It is important that this law has come,'' said Ruettgers. ``We are the first country in the world that has launched an effort to clearly define the legal framework (for multimedia services).''
Might they be talking about things such as ZGrams?
This Reuter article concludes by pointing out that Internet providers as
well are now targeted for interception of news that is considered undesirable:
"While censorship of Internet providers is commonplace in countries such as China and Singapore, Germany appears to be the first Western democracy to indict an official of an online service for Internet content considered illegal. . .
'There is hardly an online service or Internet service provider in Germany today that has not been the subject of a criminal investigation,' said Michael Schneider, an attorney who specializes in computer law."
On the heels of this one comes another article, written by the same reporter,
William Boston, also for Reuter, informing us that activities on the part
of the Bonn government now targeting the Internet providers
". . . (marks) the culmination of police activities over the past year that included raids on the offices of online services as investigators sought to determine who should be held responsible for crimes committed online. . . . German police have teams of cybersleuths looking for evidence of Internet crime, especially child sex rings and extremist literature, such as neo-Nazi writings."
In another Reuter article entitled "German police troll for illicit
Internet material" (April 17), another reporter, Neal Boudette, is
even more explicit:
"Alarmed over the availability of pornography and extremist writings on the Internet, German investigators have set up teams of cybersleuths to surf the Net in search of illicit material.
"The Munich state prosecutor's office . . . has five officials who spend the day trolling for obscene pictures, Nazi diatribes and other material banned in Germany.
'We document what we find, copy it and print it out and turn it over to the investigators,' said Karl-Heinz Moewes, chief criminal officer for the Internet operation."
Nice democratic country, right? And all this time, most of us thought that
what we saw was real!
Just think about what's popping up all over our merry globe. Here are just
a few telling quotes:
· In Poland, to quote one of the entrenched (?) Party leaders:
"Poland will not be served by the entry into parliament of opponents of NATO, Russophiles, or people sick with anti-Semitic obsession,'' according to Gazeta Wyborcza Daily.
· In the USA, the Reverend Louis Farrakhan:
"My problem with the Jewish community is, is that most of the people feel -- or the Jewish people feel -- that if you criticise any act of Jews, that is anti- Semitic . . . If I criticise Arabs, if I criticise the government of the United States, if I criticise white people or my own black people, I'm not considered anti-black, anti-Arab. . . "
· According to a public poll in France,
". . . France's opposition Socialists could narrowly win next year's parliamentary elections if they manage to forge a pact with Communists and Greens."
· In Argentina, a commission of native and foreign "experts"
has been formed to
". . . look into the infiltration of Nazis into Argentina and so-called Nazi gold,'' Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella is quoted as saying.
· Prime Minister Major of Britain is said to have accused
". . . the opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat parties of being ready to sell out Britain to Brussels. 'If you don't want a federal Europe, vote Conservative,' he told reporters.
A place described as "harbour wall", for instance, is garlanded
with banners such as "Rule Britannia not Brussels'' and ``Save Our
Fish 'n Ships.''
One British citizen, described as "a big, bearded fisherman in a Referendum
party T-shirt", said all three main parties had let him and his industry
down:
". . . Every time I see a British minister coming back from Brussels saying what a good deal I've got, I'm reminded of Neville Chamberlain coming back from Munich,'' he said, referring to the British prime minister who appeased Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler."
Those Brits who fought Hitler's Army - how they must wonder now about their
fate! It's irony spread thick!
· And, finally, even the Vatican! The Simon Wiesenthal Center has
asked for the withdrawal of a postage stamp based on a print depicting Jesus
confronting Jews wearing the pointed hats of a mediaeval ghetto.
According to the SWC's European bureau located in Paris, Christ's headgear
was
". . . discriminatory and the direct precursor to the Nazi yellow star. . . . encouraging antisemitic prejudice and violating the standards of the Universal Postal Union."
Just think. Think about the balance of power for a moment. Our opposition
has the money and the media. We Aryans have the numbers and the truth.
We are trying to spread it with light. Can you imprison light? You can screen
it out, but you can't make it go away because it is an absolute.
We count on absolutes. They say that nature can't be fooled.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day out of the Zundel-Haus, on the eve of Adolf Hitler's birthday:
"There have been violent ARA type demonstrations since 12 o'clock about 500 meters away. They will camp out in a nearby park, but it's miserable weather. We will keep all night vigil."
(Ernst Zündel, in a fax sent at 15.52 EST)