Politically Correct Apostate

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The Rainer "Ignoramus" Muenzel comment has made the rounds on the 
Internet aready and raised not a few hackles in the community of 
dissidents protesting the brutal Zundel Verdict.  It is my 
understanding that quite a few people already decided to send that 
sorry specimen of a so-called "German" diplomat, Mr. Muenzel, a fine 
piece of their minds.

Here is the original write-up by Texas Patriot, Curt Maynard, that 
triggered the ill-informed and intellectually embarrassing statement 
out of the Texas German Consulate:

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Politically Correct Apostate

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Germany's Schizophrenic Approach to Freedom of Speech

By Curt Maynard

About ten days ago I wrote a letter to Angela Merkel, the German 
Chancellor, and sent it through the General Consul's office in 
Houston Texas, asking Rainer Muenzel to forward the letter on to the 
German Chancellor.

Today I unexpectedly received a form letter response from the 
Consular General, Herr Rainer Muenzel. I know it was a form letter 
response, because my daughter received an identical letter in the 
mail today too.

Before I reveal what the letter said, I want to reiterate something I 
wrote above and that is that I sent the letter, not to Herr Muenzel, 
but to Angela Merkel and that I specifically asked him [the Office of 
the General Consul] to forward the letter on the Chancellor. I am 
assuming that he did not do this, but instead took it upon himself to 
reply to a letter that was not addressed to him, nor is any of his 
concern.

In any case, his reply might well qualify as the most parochial 
justification for the persecution of Ernst Zundel that I have ever 
seen, and trust me; I have seen my fair share of schizophrenic 
explanations. When reading the below bear in mind that it was written 
by a man deemed to be competent enough to represent a modern European 
democracy on foreign soil, i.e. a diplomat. Bear in mind too that 
Herr Muenzel is allegedly an educated and intelligent man, or at 
least that's what one might expect, based upon his curriculum vitae 
and given his position. Perhaps it was his years in Israel that 
skewed his views on what freedom of speech and individual liberties 
really mean?

Now, in the words of Herr Rainer Muenzel [Rainer Münzel] I present to 
you, the vast Internet community, the official German explanation of 
what freedom of speech means and who may exercise it:

Dear Curt Maynard,

Mr. Zundel denies the mass murder committed by Hitler and his 
henchmen. The denial of this mass murder will prepare the next mass 
murder.

Thus, irresponsible people like Mr. Zundel cannot claim the freedom of speech.

Yours sincerely,

Rainer Muenzel

Holy jumpin jehosaphat! I still can't believe I received the above 
letter from the Office of German Consular General.   I might have 
expected something similar from the office of the NKVD or perhaps the 
Stasi, but I expected a somewhat more sophisticated explanation from 
the modern state of Germany, a nation that prides itself on its 
alleged love of freedom and democracy - what a sick joke. And the use 
of the word "henchmen" was almost too much, to be honest, I was a bit 
surprised he didn't add that he was "shocked" anyone would show any 
concern for Zundel.

My God, if irresponsibility precluded people from being able to 
freely speak out, the entire Merkel and Bush governments would be 
forever silenced! Their irresponsibility knows no bounds. The German 
state just gave Israel another modern Dolphin submarine capable of 
carrying nuclear tipped cruise missiles, knowing full well that the 
Israelis have had the capability since at least 2000. Are we really 
to believe that this was a "responsible" decision? Please. The 
Israelis are at present threatening Iran, a nation of 70 million 
souls with annihilation if they don't disassemble their nonexistent 
nuclear weapons program. Will it be at all "irresponsible" or Merkel 
not to take "responsibility" for the mass murder of millions of 
Iranians, should the Israeli's decide on their Sampson Option?

Would a "responsible" leader of a modern European "democracy" throw 
its own people in prison for questioning aspects of history that make 
no sense, i.e why is it that four million Jews were said to have been 
murdered at Auschwitz in 1989[1], but only 1.5 million in 1991? 
Wouldn't a "responsible" person be in the least bit curious as to 
what happened to the other 2.5 million? Wouldn't an "irresponsible" 
individual shrug, and continue to embrace their own self imposed 
ignorance? I think so, and if you're capable of thinking properly, 
you'll think so too.

I won't even go into the irresponsibility of the Bush administration; 
even a blind, deaf and dumb African pygmy hermit is more than 
familiar with the Bush administrations irresponsible foreign policies 
and his associated loss of credibility worldwide. I guess I could 
mention how irresponsible it was of Bush to invade another country 
and kill hundreds of thousands of its citizens based upon faulty 
intelligence, but as I said, even the pygmy knows that.

Herr Muenzel states above that the denial of one mass murder will 
prepare the next mass murder. That's an interesting statement too, 
considering the fact that the purveyors of the official holocaust 
story, i.e. the Merkel and Bush governments and Israel seem to be the 
ones gearing up to perpetrate mass murder today - not Ernst Zundel, 
who sits in prison brewing coffee with a submersible heater, eagerly 
awaiting mail that never arrives, due to the archaic and Bolshevik 
censorship of his mail.  It seems to me that a responsible person 
might start asking questions about specific historical events, 
especially the ones that governments don't want asked, i.e. the 
holocaust and 9-11. As I've said before, the reason people question 
the holocaust is for exactly the same reason many are now questioning 
9-11, because there are in fact many legitimate questions and no 
forthcoming answers, except in the form of persecution, prosecution 
and prison.

Being that Herr Muenzel in all likelihood did not pass my letter as 
asked on to Chancellor Merkel, I'm going to exercise my freedom of 
speech by blogging this missive, submitting it to numerous websites, 
and reaching out to Merkel via the power and thus far unrestricted 
reach of the Internet. I am absolutely certain she'll eventually read 
it and Herr Muenzel will be asked why he did not forward it to her in 
the first place. In the words of Michael Rivero, "I am blogger, hear 
me roar!"
If you have any thoughts about Muenzel's letter and would like to 
share them with him, please feel free to exercise your freedom of 
speech and call, or send him an email.

Rainer Muenzel
1330 Post Oak Blvd. Suite 1850,
Houston Texas 77056.
713-627-0506 -
rainer.muenzel at diplo.de

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[1] First reported by the New York Times on April 18, 1945

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