Nazis vs freedom of speech

G'day,

Today's blog entry is an assembly of things going through my mind regarding the recent appearance of one of Germany's Nazi parties (NPD) on facebook and the reactions this has caused.

A little while ago I have joined the facebook group "No facebook for Nazis - delete NPD site" after I had read that the NPD (National Party of Germany) has started a facebook site in the wake of the election in North Rhine-Westphalia.

It's well known to those who know me well that even though I'm a very tolerant and generally peaceful person these character traits end when it comes to the stupid asshole fucker excuses for human beings who gather under the banner of "national socialism". Kill the whole bunch I say...

Shortly after I joined the anti-nazi-facebook-group Josara asked me how I could be for freedom of speech and against censorship on the one hand but would deny freedom of speech to the Nazis
and call for censorship in their case. Well, that actually is a good question and it reminded me of what Henry Rollins was talking about a few weeks ago when Dorje and me went to see him.

Rollins compared the U.S. model of freedom of speech to other countries. In the U.S. every opinion is protected, if you choose to believe the earth is flat you can publish books about it and if you believe the holocaust was a communist lie you are free to say so. In other countries such as Germany or the Czech Republic you get arrested if you carry books that proclaim the holocaust has never happened. Saying/publishing certain things like the old myth of the "holocaust lie" or wearing a T-shirt with the swastika are criminal offenses in Germany and many other European countries.

Well, if you think about it from a civil liberty point of view the repression of certain opinions by criminalizing them is nothing else than censorship. From this it follows that as I am against censorship in any form, I am for the freedom of speech/expression of the Nazis.

But I ain't!

I can take it even further: if you think about human rights from a humanistic point of view every human being has the right to live. From this it follows that I would grant Nazis the same right to live as I demand for myself.

But I don't!

Does the fact that I would like to give the Nazis what they want, the resurrection of the 3rd Reich i.e. put the whole rotten bunch of those stupid fuckheads into cattle wagons and give'em a nice Zyklon B shower and a last visit to the furnaces put me morally/ethically on the same level as the Nazis?

By denying them the rights I demand for myself I become ethical-morally speaking like the evil I fight?

Well, I don't fucking care. I can't explain in a logical debate why my point of view is right and their point of view is wrong. It just is.

There are no ethical, logical or moral paradoxes with which a sufficiently large ego can't deal!

Conclusion: democracy just doesn't work, same right for everybody is bullshit, what we need is a world empire with me at the top!

Well, lucky for some that we are not there yet...that's all for today, have a good one, stay safe and cya later...

Fungi, mushrooms and whatnots...

G'day,

Yesterday Josara, Buddy, Gilbert and me went to Mount Macedon (I am aware that "me" is wrong grammarwise but it sounds better than "I" and as beauty is truth and truth is beauty and grammar lies in the eye of the beholder and whatnot I choose to use "me" instead of "I").
Bush in autumn...gloomy, wet and cold...

same bush...still cold, wet and gloomy
Clouds all around...
Josara and Gilbert
Buddy and me
it got a little less gloomy while we were walking...
Kangaroo poo...
Fungi...Mushroom...
more mushrooms or fungi or even whatnots...
closeup mushies...
more mushrooms...
several mushies...different ones...
and another one...
white fungi...
brown fungi...
...you mght have guessed: mushrooms
and some more
wonton fungi...might taste good deep fried but possibly poisonous...
another wonton fungus...
yellow mushies...
brownish tree fungi...
and finally the last mushie pic...

Now, it would be interesting which mushrooms/fungi/whatnots would be edible, which are fatal and which are psychedelic. Judging from the fact that they are Australian mushrooms I reckon they are all extremely poisonous so I won't give it a try but if you wanna have a go just take the trail from the top of Mount Macedon and try for yourself.

I guess the mushies might be psychoactive and fatal, be high before you die sort of...
Flowers...
Spiderweb between the trees...
bush...
Same spot we were at the start of the walk but it cleared up a bit in the meantime
Me and Victoria..

Well once again that's all for today...have a good one, stay save and whatnot...

Picture dump...

G'day,

Today I have decided that it's time for another picture dump. So here we go
It's autumn in Melbourne now and some trees are blooming in autumn for whatever weird reason...
Strange tree flowers or fruits or whatever...
another blooming tree...
No digging here...
I'm a rebel...and I was cycling wearing roller blades whilst drinking beer when I took this picture...
In the back yard of this modern office buildings there was this old rest of a house
I like this old vs modern stuff
Flinders Street station...
Elisabeth Street, Adult book exchange...I tried to trade some of my adult books there once but they don't work that way...
The first fish I caught in Australia...tasty...
The colder it gets the cuddlier the cats become...
Gilbert...sone dogs just look extremely sad by default...
Buddy...some dogs are just idiots...
it looks soo cute on the picture but in reality Willem started biting Pixel immediately after I took that pic and it turned into a veritable cat fight...
I love that picture...relaxed menace...cuteness paired with evil...only cats can look like that...

That's it for today...have fun, take care and cya laters