Worrying stuff! It gets worse.The German Government has quietly admitted that over the last twelve months it prosecuted over 18,000 Germans for offences of "right-wing extremism," of which only a few hundred involved actual violence: i.e. they prosecuted over seventeen thousand thought-crimes -- people unwitting displaying the old swastika emblem, or even worse, National Socialist ideas, and perhaps even "denying the H."
As the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently pointed out in a courageous editorial, most of these new criminal records have been sprung on ordinary citizens blissfully unaware of the criminality of their actions and thoughts, because the tame German media are too cowardly to report any of these cases -- even the major trials like those involving the revisionists Ernst Zündel and Germar Rudolf.
Americans aren't as vulnerable as Europeans to this sort of repression, despite the claims of excessive Zionist power in the US. Just goes to illustrate the benefits to The People of a clearly written constitution! Irving continues.These absurd laws themselves are protected by fresh layers of other, even more absurd, laws making it impossible even for court-appointed attorneys to provide an adequate and conscientious defence to those accused under the thought-crime laws. Any German or Austrian lawyer who does, can be -- and frequently is -- himself ordered arrested by the judge, for having associated himself with these criminal thoughts and deeds. Zündel's court-appointed defence attorney Sylvia Stolz (right) made herself unpopular with the prosecutor for "hampering the prosecution," and is now to be prosecuted for so hampering. Go figure, as the Americans say.
The true face of democracy in The New Europe! This is like accounts of Church trials for heresy under The Inquisition!More than once my chosen Austrian lawyer, Dr Herbert Schaller, left, arrived in the Vienna prison with fresh horror tales from Zündel's Mannheim courtroom -- the judge Meinertzhagen had warned him that if he asked certain questions of the court, or made certain defence motions, he too would be arrested.
One wonders what the people running the BDR could be so afraid of. Why are they so terrified of free and open discussion of National Socialism? Wasn't National Socialism thoroughly defeated and discredited some six decades ago?I remember that in January 1993, when I was tried in Munich under Germany's laws for the suppression of free speech, one of my three lawyers turned up apologetically on the morning of the hearing apologizing that he could not continue to act for me, as the Munich Bar Association had threatened him with dismissal -- i.e. the end of his career -- if he did. He showed me their actual letter. I was fined thirty thousand deutschmarks, around twenty thousand dollars, for uttering a single sentence which the Polish authorities now belatedly admit was true.
Overcrowding in jails is not confined to Ostmark...sorry...Austria. It's a Europe-wide problem. I wonder how long it will be before our rulers in the new USSR-style EU announce that they are embarking upon a camp-building programme in order to save taxpayers' money as new bricks-and-mortar jails to house Europe's swelling prison population would be too expensive... Remember, everything the EU proposes is for the common good!I NOTICED when I was in Viennese prison that the jailhouse, built to hold eight hundred malfeasors, currently held 1,400 inmates, a quarter of them Blacks. It was a tight fit but it was possible, provided we did not all breathe at the same time.
Irving perhaps misses the point where the Austrian President is concerned. The people running Europe, by which I mean those really running the show, don't want statesmen. They want obedient drones although they will accept flamboyant personalities as long as they are prepared to implement the moneybags' agenda. Look at Angela Merkel, whom I call Frau Laundromat: little dumpy grey thing, who grew up in Communist East Germany. She will obey orders! Look at Nicholas Sarkozy, fondly known here as Sarcoma: flamboyant but obedient to the elders, like all good Jewish kids. I have not met anyone who admits to intending to vote for Sarcoma but the media reckons he will be the next President of France. Go figure...This morning I have received a letter from Frau K., an elderly Viennese lady in her nineties. Exercising what is the constitutional right of every citizen in most other countries, on September 27 of last year she had written a personal letter to the President of Austria, one Herbert Fischer -- a small, straw-haired gentleman of even smaller character and endowed with all the intellect and bearing of Lady Chatterley's gardener -- to protest against my arrest, trial, and imprisonment. "What D. I. said was right," she wrote in one passage of this incriminating letter.
Coming soon? Dr Irving has to be kidding! It's already here! We sat on our hands and let it happen. While all the nationalists and extreme rightwingers were lurching drunkenly around, bullying ethnic minorities and clinging onto their tragically outmoded racist attitudes like drowning men, the real enemy has been busily building a post-Soviet version of the USSR, using the European Union as its framework, willingly assisted by the Bolsheviks and assorted Reds, Greens and other malcontents we dimly recall from domestic politics in various European countries in the 1970s and 1980s, who flocked to Brussels and Strasbourg after the collapse of their spiritual Alma Mater at the end of the 1980s.She received no presidential reply? Right. -- She heard no more? Wrong.
On March 8 the Austrian criminal authorities sent her a letter fining her the sum of 200 euros under penalty of jail for having written these seditious words to their august president. No trial, no hearing, no defence -- no lawyer would have dared to defend her anyway.
This is the new Europe, coming soon to a jailhouse near us. I for one shall do my damndest to prevent it.
I suppose some of you think I'm being a bit extreme? The acceptance of truth comes in three stages:
Ridicule
Violent Opposition
Acceptance
If we are to save Europe, we need to change our way of thinking quite radically. We need to drop the racism from the programme. The divides are not along racial lines. Europeans come in all colours. The divides are cultural and, to some extent, religious. That said, religion needn't be a divisive force in a proud, healthy society. Look at Kurdistan or, at any rate, that part of Iraq increasingly known as Kurdistan. Look at the United States. It's not perfect but religious sectarianism wasn't a major problem there the last time I looked. Why? Because the inhabitants of the US are by default Americans first and foremost. It's a shame that we Europeans forgot to import that part of US culture along with Coca-Cola and Mickey Mouse.
PK
- but I was merely remarking that I cannot recall meeting anyone prepared publicly to admit to intending to vote for him. I know many who say they will vote for Le Pen and almost as many who are for Bayrou. A few women I know will vote for Royal because she's female, which is a really lame motive, IMO! A DST numbers cruncher suggested that 38% of voters are thinking of Le Pen whilst the pollsters who were alone in predicting Le Pen's result in the first round last time opine that it will end up as a contest between Sarkozy and Le Pen. 