Italy is a strange country, it is true. But Europe is not alone: \u200b\u200beven the French and Germans, eternal first class of the Old Continent, they have their whims which manifest in various forms and at different levels.
In the Western world exists the so-called "state of law. "Anyone, that is, can more or less freely express their thoughts.
discourse can be widely and say anything about everyone and everything: America, Russia, China, the Church, Obama, Berlusconi, the Merkel, Putin, the war in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, the cristiamesimo, Islam, the Pope and cardinals attached, homosexual, pedophile priests, the reality show, Luxuria, Carfagna, etc..
Only two are extremely dangerous topics to be addressed: Israel and the Jews .
If any of you, for example, were to have the 'audacity (el' imprudence ) to advance doubts about the legitimacy of the State of Israel or on the actual size to justify the classification of genocide the persecution of Jews by European right-wing totalitarianism of the '30s and '40s, it's good to know that What may suffer.
In the Western world exists the so-called "state of law. "Anyone, that is, can more or less freely express their thoughts.
discourse can be widely and say anything about everyone and everything: America, Russia, China, the Church, Obama, Berlusconi, the Merkel, Putin, the war in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, the cristiamesimo, Islam, the Pope and cardinals attached, homosexual, pedophile priests, the reality show, Luxuria, Carfagna, etc..
Only two are extremely dangerous topics to be addressed: Israel and the Jews .
If any of you, for example, were to have the 'audacity (el' imprudence ) to advance doubts about the legitimacy of the State of Israel or on the actual size to justify the classification of genocide the persecution of Jews by European right-wing totalitarianism of the '30s and '40s, it's good to know that What may suffer.
Sylvia Stolz, a lawyer in jail for Holocaust denial
Sylvia Stolz is now in jail for almost a year in prison in Heidelberg, Germany, under the charge of "denial" of crimes Nazis. But unlike David Irving - the famous British historian who in 2005 en route for Austria for the same offense he was sentenced to three years and was released "soon" a year later through the abnegation of his thesis - and other characters who have been willing to come to terms with the dangerous discourse of the 'Holocaust', the Stolz does not boast some scholarly title, and is not even an amateur more or less ideological history of World War II.
Sylvia Stolz is in fact a lawyer, and in this capacity he met two other convicted for crimes of opinion in Germany, the German Germar Rudolf and Siegfried Verbeke Flemish, before deciding to defend in front of a third German court "Holocaust denier", Ernest Zundel: an incredible story, that of Zuendel, which begins today in Canada where the writer lived and 67enne had won a case in which he was charged with falsification of history; continued shortly after a mysterious fire in their home, where his flight to done in the USA and finally - here is the latest chapter - the forced extradition to Germany, where he was sentenced to five years in jail for those same arguments already "acquitted" by the court of Toronto.
The Stolz defended Zuendel and thought that thinks that any good lawyer, who must somehow also enter into the offense, showing not the historical "truth" (should not be the task of this Court, whatever), but the legitimacy of a debate on whatever issue historiography. So also said the German Constitution. But at this point is that Article 130 of the German Penal Code - which in conjunction with the 226 punishes by imprisonment from 1 to 5 years anyone who "deny" crimes as defined by the now abusatissimo Nuremberg Tribunal - has swept too Three and a half years in prison and suspended for 5 years from the legal profession. A death civil, reasoned expressions of taste inquisitorial: the condemned, the court ruled Rolf Glenz, would use the process to support herself Zuendel theses denying the Holocaust, so much so that "has an instinctive reflex to make statements of the extreme right" .
However you want to put the case of a gravity Stolz is unprecedented for the principles of a Europe that nonsense any day of freedom and democracy be exported worldwide. It is doubtful an excess of zeal or moderation convinced some of the young legal opinion on Obama - which she described as a puppet - or on the futility of the "parliamentary representation", but who has visited the prison as Gerard Menuhin, son of famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin - a jew "against" to paraphrase the title of a film by Francesco Rosi - ha riferito di pasti assai poco gradevoli, di letture obbligate di Hegel, e insomma di condizioni di detenzione che sfiorano un possibile sadismo carcerario, una malattia che forse colpisce con più piacere i colpevoli di “negazionismo” che l’assassino della cella accanto.
Ma, fatta la tara alle dure e comunque ben comprensibili denunce dell’avvocato Stolz, la vergogna per l’Europa delle libertà civili e dei principi garantisti resta: a un primo livello c’è la codificazione del reato di “negazionismo” contenuta nell’art. 130 (che vuol dire “negare”? Quali i confini fra la banalizzazione del crimine storico, e la sua contestualizzazione? Who decides the historical truth, the judge?) And the even more chaotic for a genocide article. 226, more or less literally copied from the Genocide Convention of 1948: the fact is that in a group as wide as indicated by the phrase for which there would be "genocide" when there is "an attempt to destroy in whole or in part "an ethnic group, religion etc. may fall any, but just any conflict today, even and especially in view of the huge technological development of armaments in recent decades. Everything, then moves to the floor mass media: the mainstream press and who controls it, even before the Courts, to decide each time what is and what is not "genocide." There is genocide in Darfur, Sudan's Islamic, there is no genocide in Rwanda, eastern Congo occupied by pro-American. There is genocide in Milosevic's Yugoslavia, not in occupied and bombed by the Americans and British. It 'obvious that Hitler's genocide, genocide is "the second minute," Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On a more specific case Stolz has the features unheard of a trial and conviction of a lawyer in the exercise of its functions. In the conference on "The views gagged" July 7, sponsored by Comitato 21 e 33 presso l’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma, due avvocati, Francesca Romana Fragale e Elisabetta Rampelli dell’Organismo Unitario dell’Avvocatura hanno evocato e stigmatizzato una strana tendenza presente in alcuni casi giudiziari italiani, ad attribuire al legale lo stesso tipo di reato contestato al proprio assistito. Fragale in particolare sottolineava, con tanto di citazione da un testo di diversi secoli fa, che i processi dei tempi dell’Inquisizione funzionavano proprio così e finivano perciò per impedire una vera difesa dell’incolpato di turno.
Ecco dunque il terzo livello della questione, il preoccupante scenario che sembra diffondersi sempre più in tutta l’Europa remembered as a couple of weeks ago Mellini, a secular Europe in front of the Catholic Church who asked to include in its Constitution the theme of "Christian roots of its civilization, and that certainly has a high rate of democracy than many other cultures the planet. But who, when faced with a whatever-related topic to the tragedy of World War II, brings back the features of a disturbing dogmatism and intolerance. There is indeed chilling to hear a member of PD support, with reference to the strand denier despite criticism that "there is a problem in Italy, which is art. 21 of the Constitution which protects freedom of expression."
should be carefully consider the gravity of the situation: a way - is a pattern seemingly impossible, yet confirmed by a number of episodes of repression in recent years - that European democracy is somehow "patchy" why not spread across the board, but segmentarizzata and theaters of war that exists only on certain themes. That is, a democracy that is accompanied by a sort of "totalitarianism sector, fueled by very dangerous forms of mysticism concerning the recent and less recent history of the continent that is not well received by the ground just because he speaks little, but nevertheless that is, since - as in the case Stolz - leads to the end in blatant violation of the most mundane and basic principles of the rule of law.
Article taken from the site www.giustiziagiusta.info
