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...