Friday night the fascist thugs of Antifa found out which hotel the courageous anti-jihad politician René Stadtkewitz was planning to stay in when he came to Stuttgart to announce the founding of the local branch of his new Freedom Party; they reportedly broke the hotel's windows and painted threatening messages on its walls.
But that did not stop Stadtkewitz. He held the inaugural event of the local branch of his Freedom Party today in Stuttgart; I had the honor of speaking there. A desultory crowd of Antifa goons showed up; they had beaten a Pax Europa activist on the train on the way to the event, but that effort seems to have exhausted them. They passed up a golden opportunity to attack the cars that Stadtkewitz and and I were riding in, chanted a few Palestinian and Communist slogans, held the Hamas jihad terror flag aloft, smoked some cigarettes, and left. Apparently the resoluteness and determination that the anti-jihadists displayed over the last few days wore them out and took the wind out of their sails.
And indeed: the people at the Freedom Party event were all the more resolute and determined as a result of the violent intimidation to which they had been subjected. They realize that freedom hangs in the balance today in Germany, and in Europe and the U.S. as well, and they were prepared to take a stand.
I am proud and honored to stand with them, and will do so again at a Freedom Party event in Berlin on September 3, where René Stadtkewitz will be joined by two other European freedom fighters, Geert Wilders and Switzerland's Oskar Freysinger.
I hope that many more will join us. And I am confident that they will.
...they reportedly broke the hotel's windows and painted threatening messages on its walls...
A desultory crowd of Antifa goons showed up; they had beaten a Pax Europa activist on the train on the way to the event...
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I am more and more alarmed by what things are coming to in (formerly) civilized Europe. That these thugs call themselves "Anitifa"—short for "anti-fascist"—is all the more grimly ironic.
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...chanted a few Palestinian and Communist slogans, held the Hamas jihad terror flag aloft...
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The idea that supporting hard-core Communism and *violent Jihad* is somehow "anti-fascist" is madness. These collectivist, violent, and totalitarian ideologies are every bit as anti-freedom as is Fascism itself.
But then, the idea that those who stand against violent Jihad are "Fascists" is equally mad—the reality is precisely the opposite.
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But that did not stop Stadtkewitz. He held the inaugural event of the local branch of his Freedom Party today in Stuttgart; I had the honor of speaking there.
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I was not previously familiar with René Stadtkewitz—he sounds as brave as Robert Spencer.
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And indeed: the people at the Freedom Party event were all the more resolute and determined as a result of the violent intimidation to which they had been subjected.
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Bravo! May it be ever thus!
Amen and Bravo! We are all linked together, metaphorical arm-in-arm, with you Robert, and Geert, and Rene, and Pamela... We have resolve, and we have hope.
Until our media ceases to print muslim-as-victim BS, this Seditious conduct will continue.
How many leftists have freedom of expression in the iran and saud terrorist entities? The Commies are working for their own extermination.
The idea that supporting hard-core Communism and *violent Jihad* is somehow "anti-fascist" is madness. These collectivist, violent, and totalitarian ideologies are every bit as anti-freedom as is Fascism itself.
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They are "anti-fascist" in that the Communist patron of the former Soviet-Arab patron-client relationship fought the parties of Mussolini and Hitler. However, in the grand tradition of hard Left rhetorical overkill and pollution of the languages of all the world, they made all opponents of "scientific socialism" into "fascists". For example, I'm of the mind that the USA should de-regulate education, move towards smaller, less centralized school systems, cut away as much of the federal bureaucracy overseeing education as possible, and devolve more authority to administrators, teachers, and parents in the local elementary, middle, and high school communities. For this, I am regularly called a "fascist" by people who are unaware how such a word of abuse came to be applied to people like me.
From all I can see, Robert Spencer loves American Constitutional liberties, his associations suggest he is probably an advocate of smaller government, and has little use for the parties of Mussolini, Hitler, and Tojo. Yet because he criticizes a current client of the hard Left, he gets smeared with the "fascist" brush. Now, if the current German Freedom Party (are they the same folks Daniel Pipes addressed not too long ago?) are similarly for liberty under law, limits to government interference in the individual's life, etc., it won't matter to the Reds, either.
If you shuffle the good guys and bad guys around, change the names of the accusations, it should be apparent that the difference between Antifa and the Nazis is purely semantic.
My congratulations to RS and the courageous people in the new German Freedom Party. May they carry out a "victory process" against Islamofascism and the forces of darkness.
I hope at least this type of incidents gets them some media coverage. They can't get elected without getting the word out first, and the media isn't gonna do them any favors. Wilders knows how to get their attention. I hope the German version learns from him.
we must thank these fasciast thugs as they help the public to realize how barbaric and unruly they are,and their hooliganism helps more and more people come and join the Freedom Party. we must thank Mr. Robert Spencer for taking active part in these meetings in spite of the life threatening hooliganism against him .
Do you really get called a fascist for supporting decentralization of power, transfering power from the state to individuals? That's too funny. Or maybe it's too sad. Probably both.
The natural affinity between Moslems and "progressives" has been apparent from the beginning.
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The trouble is, the Moslems have a 1,240 year jump on the globo-socialist crowd. Another disadvantage is that they can't hold out the promise of D&S sex kink and Jannat like the Moslems.
When these very strange political bedfellows finally break up, look for the hairy ones to come out ahead on the deal.
Don't these brainless antifa muddleheads work? Didn't think so..
Thanks Robert..YOU DA MAN!
If we are going to take ourselves and our struggle against our opponents seriously we will have to do some more hard slogging through the history of ideas to find out why we (and they) think the things we think and why we use the terms we use as if they mean what we hope they might mean.
Fascist, for example, originates in Imperial Rome, a fasces being a military symbol comprising a battle axe around which are bound reeds, representing state power and the masses bound to it, an unbreakable unity, made popular to many long before the Romans adopted it by Aesop. In late Nineteenth Century Italy the fasces was a symbol and term used by peasants in conflict with latifundistas. Peasants united against the landowners. Mussolini picked up the term and used it for his own fledgling political/populist movement of social unity, a primitive socialist communitarianism with grand pretentions.
Mussolini was a highly regarded Marxist theorist, lauded by, among others, V.I. Lenin until such time that Mussolini became embittered by Austrian control of a tiny part of Italy it would not let go of in WWI. This turned Mussolini into a nationalist, not the "internationalist" he had previously been, though he remained a committed socialist. Further, he adopted the plan of corporatism, thereby eliminating Class War in favour of a unified state, one the incorporates state, economics, religion, education, et c., into one total state, i.e. Totalitarianism, not the pejorative then it is now.
When Lenin died and Stalin took control of the Soviet government he faced opposition from the "left," i.e. International socialists represented by Trotsky against Stalin's "Socialism in one country," and on the right, Mussolini's National socialism. Those to the "right" of Stalin, i.e. the nationalists, included, according to a plenary session in the late 1920s, the pronouncement that all those to the right of Stalin, including German Communists of the Weimar Republic, were "social fascists." Thus, all Communists had to be loyal to Soviet interests first, last, and only or they were "fascists." This Stalinist attack on all politics outside Stalinism has continued in our language because it was a dominant Left theme that today's Left is mostly unaware of and wouldn't care anyway, one must assume. It is why Hitler, Mussolini, Kepha, and Spencer are all deemed to be fascists. It is why conservatives like Thatcher and Reagan are rightwingers. They are to the right of Stalin.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Left has mostly abandoned official Stalinism for the "internationalist" Trotskyism. Thus we see European Communists associating with "internationalist movements like jihad. If you are a nationalist of any sort, other than that nationalism that is tribal and collectivist as in the Ummah, then of course you are a fascist. You are a rightwinger. If you are in favour of property rights and against the privilege of the intelligentsia, as was the case of conservatives on the right side of the National Assembly's hall in the French Revolution, right and left being a seating arrangement, then you are a Conservative.
People dread being called fascists and rightwingers and conservatives, (some) but the truth is that to be called such usually means the accuser in ignorant of the meanings and the history and the very sense of what he speaks. It's a teaching experience in the making if one has some basic knowledge. I often recommend Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism for a quick intro.
Our struggle is for domination of the ideas most people assume. Most people will never have any great grasp of what they think they think. People are social animals, and they don't have time to think and learn and then be contrarians at every occasion. Most people believe what most people believe. Offer them a better idea or a better understanding of it, and they will mostly resist right up until most people agree with the new idea too. As Spencer could attest, it takes a decade to make a dent in public opinion. But one must start somewhere.
We have to learn about our ideas so we can at least present alternatives to others. In time we will prevail. But it means learning a new way of understanding the world, and one that is not so vitiated by the Left.
these people are a tiny minority in Germany. It is basically a travelling circus of left-wing hooligans. They don't worry me one bit. What worries me is that the media are totally silent about Die Freiheit. If you google them you will find more news on pigeon clubs that on the party. I would estimate that they could get 30% of the vote, perhaps more. They are not using the internet properly and there may be early elections on the horizon because Merkel has become the most despised politician after 1945 by selling Germany down the river. Die Freiheit needs to get its act together.
@ROBERT:
HOW can you support the German freedom party (Die Freiheit)???
Because they fight the islamisation? If that was they only thing they are doing, I would be on board too, but that is not all!!!
Did you know that they also fight Christianity???
If you don't believe me, read the Erfurter declaration (Erfurter Erklärung) of "Die Freiheit", in that declaration it says that "Die Freiheit" also want to do away with all the Christian institutions in Germany, such as Christian schools, Christian hospitals, Christian nursing homes and so on!
I personally know some ppl from "Die Freiheit" and i was working with them, little did I know that they want to do away with all religion and for most of the members of "Die Freiheit" Christianity is just the second worse religion right after Islam!
If you want to know what "Die Freiheit" stands for, watch some of Pat Condell's videos (also those about Christianity) and you know what is going on! (I know Pat Condell is not from "Die Freiheit" but of the same spirit)
I urge you to read the "Erfurter Erklärung" as well as the commentary section on the Politically Incorrect (http://www.pi-news.net)Blog, the mouthpiece of "Die Freiheit".
In closing I wish the Freiheit would have left Christianity in peace and i could have voted for them and even become a member, but I as a Christian just cant deny God, which i would if i joint with "Die Freiheit".
Again, the "Die Freiheit" is just a club of militant atheist who try to destroy all religions on the face of the earth and if you would read their party program you would know and pls don't be fooled by statement about them cherishing the Judeo-Christian values, thats just lippservice and does not mean anything.
Know you know what the deal is and if you choose to ignore the truth about them, after the rotten fruit of "Die Freiheit" are out on display, I will be there to remind you with saying: "I told you so".
Pls read their entire party program and you will see for youself! BTW, as a christian you cant put God second in order to fight islamisation, there would be no blessings in this.
"It is basically a travelling circus of left-wing hooligans"
richard you are of course correct, & what is needed,(in exactly the same way as those who are violent/cause damage over erm.."offence"?)..should be always the same response.
A resolute attitude, that shows their argument is null & void - that proves that,
(if honest),they know it themselves,
& proves that WE know they know it too.
thuggish/violent behaviour is doomed to failure, if one has the balls to face it up.
it is to their detriment, that tv/radio/media companies, take the "easy" option, for an easy life, it is & will always be moral cowardice.
Thank goodness there are finally organized people to fight the growing islamonazisism in Germany! The Germans appear to have forgotten the meaning of NEVER AGAIN and need people like the freedom party to remind them.
While we are talking about fascism...I'm in an internal argument about it. I understand that the freedom party, at least in the Netherlands is for banning islamic schools. This likely makes all the sense in the world in the Netherlands, where- I am told by Dutch relatives- educational freedom is already stifled by the state. (i.e. No homeschooling is allowed -unless I'm mistaken) In North America however, we take this liberty to be an important civil right: The right of parents to educate their children as they see fit, without having to justify that right to the state. If we propose that certain categories of the population can't do this then aren't we fascist? If we want to defeat Islamofascism with fascism, then haven't we already ipso facto lost the war for freedom? Would we not better preserve the freedom we are fighting for by respecting the right of all to educate their young, while at the same time upholding the rule of law and prosecuting the actual individual criminal acts that may arise in the name of Jihad? replies welcome!!
This is great news Robert - long live freedom from Islamic/Left Nazism! I hope the event on Sept 3 in Berlin will be highlight in massive campaign all over Germany and should be free - to encourage the young to participate; at the event, anyone can then donate. Also, I hope the protest for Israel and Freedom that was cancelled in Stuttgart be reorganized - I hope at (Freedom) Brandenburg Gate all the way to the left-controlled Mauerpark in Berlin. Why should the Left who supports Islamic Nazism be allowed to control among the most symbolic place, that celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, at Mauerpark?
pcpcp, freedom comes with responsibiity! And civil liberty is always balanced harmoniously with social responsibility since we don't exist on an island but co-exist in a society. In Islam, social control (not responsibility) dominates ob=ver everything. Imagine if home-schooling are allowed - much oppressed and controlled children from the evil Islamic culture especially the girls, will have no chance to ever know or find freedom. So, be responsible and think about such posibble tragedy - unless you only care about yourself!
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The idea that supporting hard-core Communism and *violent Jihad* is somehow "anti-fascist" is madness. These collectivist, violent, and totalitarian ideologies are every bit as anti-freedom as is Fascism itself.
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They are "anti-fascist" in that the Communist patron of the former Soviet-Arab patron-client relationship fought the parties of Mussolini and Hitler. However, in the grand tradition of hard Left rhetorical overkill and pollution of the languages of all the world, they made all opponents of "scientific socialism" into "fascists".
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I *am* familiar with the history here, Kepha—perhaps I should have made that clearer.
I just meant that in reality, there is very little difference between Fascism and hard-core Communism. After all, "Nazi" itself stands for "National Socialism".
When most civilized people think of "anti-fascism" they think of freedom and democracy—not just another brand of totalitarianism—which is how groups like "Antifa" use the term.
And so, pro-freedom crusaders such as Robert Spencer get smeared as "Fascist", while these thugs get to posture as fighting against "Fascism".
An almost complete inversion of how things actually stand.
FreeSpirit, I think you are wrong, but we will have to see I suppose. If you read the Jerusalemer Erklärung you will find that one of the bases for Die Freiheit is the Judeo-Christian frame of reference. They even support the Jewish state. How can they not support Chrisian symbols if they support a state based on Jewish precepts as long as it is tolerant against other, peaceful forms of religion?
Cheers,
Richard
@Richard:
I wish I was wrong about "Die Freiheit" because in that case i could work with them, support them, vote for them and even become a member. Believe me I really wish I was wrong about them, but I am not wrong and here is why:
As I mentioned "Die Freiheit" has the "Erfurter Erklärung" which CLEARLY goes against christianity (Please google it and read it, I am not making this up.
My question to you is, how can you say that i am wrong?
The "Erfurter Erklärung" is a FACT and it clearly goes against christian institutions in germany, if "Die Freiheit" would come to power, all the christian kindergardens, christian hospitals, christian schools etc will be closed, "Die Freiheit" willfully wants to do away with the status the christian church has in germany, sorry Richard, but that is a fact.
Also a fact is that EVERYBODY who supports "Die Freiheit" goes against God and I am sure thats no problem for atheists, after all they habor a lot of hate against God even though they dont think he exists, which is a real strange thing if you ask me.
However, I am not really against "Die Freiheit" I just dont want my christian bretheren to fall for them and dig their own grave by helping and supporting them.
I only want to inform ppl and I am also aware of the dilemma since there is not much left besides "Die Freiheit" when it comes to counter-jihad in germany, but would it be wise to support the haters of christ (Die Freiheit) in order to fight other haters of christ (Muslims)???
As far as the political support of Israel is concerned, yes "Die Freiheit" does support the state of israel, but not as the holy land, but only in a political way! "Die Freiheit" has NO CLUE about the spiritual and religious part of the whole Israel issue, they only see Israel as the only democracy in the middle east and thats why they support them, not because God said so.
I hope u understand what i am trying to say here, I also hope u understand that i am not making this up and i want to remind u about something: How does it feel when u tell ppl about the danger of the islamisation and ppl just dont listen and u can see them running into their own destruction, again, how does it feel?
Well, I feel they same why when I tell ppl about the militant atheists standpoint of "Die freiheit" and ppl mostly ignore me, but all I can do is warn ppl and maybe they take a closer look at the party program of "Die Freiehit" and find out that I am right, after all it is all in black and white writing, ergo the athiest notion of "Die freiheit" is a hard and bitter fact!
@FreeSpirit
"The "Erfurter Erklärung" is a FACT and it clearly goes against christian institutions in germany, if "Die Freiheit" would come to power, all the christian kindergardens, christian hospitals, christian schools etc will be closed..."
That's not the whole truth! The German Freedom Party (DIE FREIHEIT) is not against the Christian Churches or Institutions! But we must watch out - that's true. There are some in that party that are - but other like me are living Christians.
MORE CHRISTIANS HAVE TO JOIN THIS PARTY (DIE FREIHEIT) - and vote the political program into a good direction!
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For all German readers:
http://religionsbehoerde.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/die-freiheit-outet-sich-als-kirchen-ausschaffungspartei/#comment-1770
Die „Erfurter Erklärung“ wurde bisher nicht offiziell veröffentlicht. Das BERLINER WAHLPROGRAMM aber schon. Darin ist nichts von LAIZISMUS, aber einmal von SÄKULARITÄTS-Prinzip die Rede.
"2.6. Keine Privilegien an Schulen
An staatlichen Schulen gilt das Säkularitätsprinzip. Religiöse Kleidungsstücke sind verboten. Befreiungen vom Unterricht aus religiösen Gründen sind unzulässig. Gebetsräume werden nicht
mehr zur Verfügung gestellt. Die Verkehrssprache an staatlichen Schulen ist Deutsch."
(Quelle: http://berlin.diefreiheit.org/wp-content/uploads/DIE-FREIHEIT-Berliner-Programm-2011.pdf)
Ich war beim BERLINER PARTEITAG dabei - und habe dort zwei Ding beobachten können:
1. Ein Antrag [F30] zur Lockerung des "Verbotes der Befreiungen vom Unterricht aus religiösen Gründen" für religiöse Hochfeste wurde mehrheitlich abgelehnt (nur 3 Pro-Stimmen!)
2. Aaron König hat jedoch noch weniger Zustimmung für seine zahlreichen Anträge bekommen - was mich wieder positiv gestimmt hat! :-)
3. Ein Antrag [F16] von Rainer Jacob mit Inhalt "Religionsunterricht, insbesondere bekenntnisorientierter, darf an staatlichen Schulen nicht stattfinden" wurde abgelehnt. René Stadtkewitz sprach sich für die Ablehnung aus, allerdings anscheinend nur aus taktischen Gründen, um nicht ins ProReli-Wespennest zu stechen. Habe ihn so verstanden, dass der "Gleichbehandlungsgrundsatz" nicht ermöglicht, nur den islamischen Religionsunterricht zu verbieten.
Genau dieser Ansatz der Gleichstellung hat mich stutzig gemacht. Kann man Jesus und Mohammed vergleichen? Haben sie gleich gehandelt?
In Italien wurde 2010 bezüglich dem Islam entschieden: "Keine Gleichstellung mit anderen Religionen!"
http://dolomitengeisteu-dolomitengeist.blogspot.com/2010/08/italien-islambekommt-keine.html
AUFRUF:
Mehr Christen sollten sich in der FREIHEIT einbringen. Demnächst werden in allen neuen Landesverbänden (die gerade bundesweit gegründet werden), wo Wahlen anstehen auch Wahlprogramme beraten und verabschiedet. ÜBERLASST DAS FELD NICHT DEN EX-PIRATEN!!!
Hi Johannes and FreeSpirit: so there anti-religious tendencies in Die Freiheit. That is ok by me. The people are simply disgusted with religions in general vecause they believe Islam to be similar to other religions. Ossis have had little contact with Christianity and thus they are misled. I am a conservative Zionist Catholic and am confident that Die Freiheit is on the right track. The mainstream media refuse to report on it. They are afraid. That makes me optimistic. If they play their cards right the might become the biggest party very fast.