Should the hypocritical “democrats” in Germany—who actively seek the suppression of democracy and freedom of speech—succeed in their latest scheme to ban that nation’s NDP, a new party, most likely Christian Worch’s Die Rechte, will emerge to pick up the baton.
The Die Rechte movement is a deliberate play on the socialist Die Linke (“The Left”) party, which is an established feature of the reunified Germany’s political scene.
Launched in the summer, Die Rechte will be the most likely beneficiary of a new attempt by the ruling democratic parties to ban the NPD). Germany’s upper house of parliament, which represents the leaders of the country’s 16 federal states, has begun legal proceedings to ban the NPD at the constitutional court.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has said it will decide in March whether to back the federal states. Legal experts have said, however, that the states can go ahead and attempt to ban the NPD without federal government approval.
If the ban is implemented by the constitutional court it could be effective ahead of Germany’s September 2013 general election.
So-called “experts on the far right,” quoted by the controlled media, have said they have “little doubt that if the 6,000-member NPD is eventually banned, its membership will immediately see Mr Worch’s Die Rechte as their new home.”
According to reports, a foretaste was provided by a regional NPD party near Frankfurt, which in early November simply switched allegiance to Die Rechte.
Bernd Wagner, a former police officer and one of Germany’s most experienced observers of the far right, told The Independent: “Die Rechte is simply waiting in the wings. If the NPD ban goes ahead, then it is a virtual certainty that the party will step in to replace it.”
“In this case Die Rechte has been set up before any ban has been imposed,” he said. “This makes it even more problematic. The only answer would be another ban,” he said, obviously not appreciating the full depth of the irony of his statements.
On its website, Die Rechte says that its core concern is the “preservation of German identity”.
The NPD has seats in parliament in two east German states and more than 2,020 members on local councils. An attempt to ban the party in 2003 collapsed when it emerged that the “evidence” presented to the Constitutional Court had been manufactured by democratic undercover agents from the Landesämter für Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) and then presented as NDP “activity.”
Michael Woodbridge
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While it may be reassuring to know that there would be another party ready to continue as a radical nationalist organisation should the NPD be banned by the German State, what are we to make of “Die Rechte”? After fifty years of racial nationalist frustration it is very tempting to look for new solutions. However, as we must all realize by now, there is no magic wand that would instantly dispel all the problems incurred by a radical political party. The fact that the Frankfurt NPD was so ready to disband in advance of any official ban does not bode well. It rather suggests that the motley crew of scruffily dressed, middle aged individuals who call themselves, “Die Rechte”, are taking an opportunistic route; the trouble being that the net result is likely to divide and weaken the nationalist movement. By all means have a viable organisation ready to replace the NPD should that Party eventually be banned, rather as the “Vlamms Block” became the “Vlamms Belang” in Belgium; however the first priority for all patriotic Germans must be to fight tooth and nail against the iniquity of an NPD ban.
Steve
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If the NPD are banned, it needs to be understood on what grounds so that Die Rechte can avoid those charges, if they then get banned on some other spurious reasoning, then that is going to look like “Goal post shifting” to prevent any real choice or opposition to the main stream agenda.
The first accusation will be that they are the NPD with different clothes because of the migration of the ex members to the new party.
Germans then need to think about what they do next, as democracy would be then proven dead.