when you
demonstrate for democracy and transparence
on the street
weekly – but never weakly, just non-violently,
over critical
issues, unpopular, poo-pooed by the press,
under police
escort you walk, jeered, interrupted,
physically
threatened by a violent mob 3 or 4 times your number.
when you
outline and articulate your arguments with clear statements
and are met
with the mob's barking loathing name-calling,
low-brow
screams free of clue or content,
from "Marxist"-wannabes, and the new Communist Party,
from "Antifa,"
from street Turks and Arabs, from Greens and The Left Party,
pathologically
self-hating Germans – all whipped-up and driven,
calling
you
whipped-up and driven, only they
are paid for this, you are not
–
and you stand
your ground, week for week,
against every provocation to react.
against every provocation to react.
You must be
doing something right,
when
among your
own speakers
challenging Islam's claims here,
as with
Munich's demo, are ex-Muslims, Blacks, Turks, French, Dutch,
Syrians,
Egyptians, Israelis, Iraqi Christians, ex-CDU politicians,
a (real)
Leftist from the renowned Voltaire Club – and some folks who
actually
work directly
with refugees and report on the frequency
with which
Christian war-refugees are regularly cornered and mobbed
by their Muslim
counterparts in the asylum houses –
all this being
drowned out by the Antifa-led mob
as it howls,
frothing and self-satisfied, "Nazis, Nazis, Nazis,"
and
here among you,
flags of the Federal Republic and of Israel,
me with a
yarmulke.
You must be
doing something right,
when the entire
governing political spectrum weighs in against you,
libeling you as
Public Enemy Uno, no discussion, only incrimination,
likening you to
ISIS, as you merely demonstrate to save your nation
from the
indignation of Islamisation.
You must be
doing something right,
when all the
Parties in the Bundestag, from far left to conservative,
pay that mob
set against you upwards to 25 Euro a head per hour
to badger you
into intimidation or into striking back, and these are warm-ups;
it may get
worse, I think it will, it's already exceedingly nasty – to be
martyrdom-sent
to an early grave or an ICU is not my style,
but neither is violence;
but neither is violence;
my plan is to
breathe and be there at that Berlin Main Train Station
every Monday,
every Monday,
and take my
licks if it comes to that, and defend what I'm there for
to the teeth.
to the teeth.
You must be
doing something right,
if you know
that by this very exertion, simply turning out and being there,
there where you
and yours are targeted for the pillory, maligned
in print and
talk show, planned against, preached against, set against,
by all agencies
which this non-pluralistic regime has at its command:
trade unions,
both Churches, Jewish and Muslim Councils,
all civil services, colleges,
all civil services, colleges,
media, schools – all
grades, bar none – childrens' programs
programming children
programming children
in the doctrine
of the lie of multi(mono)culti and all things politically correct.
Pegida, in
whichever city, in whichever country across Europe
and outside of
Europe, spreading as citizens of a grassroots movement;
Pegida, here in
Berlin, here where I first came with a vision of healing –
Pegida: you
must be doing something right.
a. / b. Bärgida (Berlin-Pegida) Walk
c. The Antifa representing itself
23 Feb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMK1m8W65s
TRANSLATION of my first Talk on the Walk, or Walk-Talk (above link) - the first of what turned out to be many more afterward:
"Dear Berliners, as an American of Jewish heritage, I came to Berlin 26
years ago, because I had a great interest in seeing and experiencing
post-War Germany. I didn't know back then how long I would stay, no one
could have imagined Pegida or the need for it.
"My goal was to actually get to know the post-War Germans. I had thought,
just after the Fall of the Wall, that the NPD, the neo-Nazis, right,
the Brown plague altogether, posed the greatest threat to the future of
the Federal Republic of Germany.
"What I was able to recognize early on however, and it often turns my
stomach to this day, was the pathological self-hatred of the Germans, in
which no healthy patriotism ever could hope to find its place.
I recognized that this self-hatred, stirred up as it was through
politics, school and the media, is in truth the actual threat, for this
guilt complex will never let the post-War generations, and therewith
innocent Germans, heal themselves of this trauma, and therefore never
become free
"For it cannot, must never be expected of any People, that it hates
itself! We Americans are matter of factly an immigrated People with a
239 year history. You Europeans however, already have millenia of a
colorfully woven carpet, with many national cultures and cultural
branches, identities, etc. And I can in this as an American only be on
your side, because the intentions of my government are a crime against
you and altogether against the European Peoples.
"Now to my second point: Berliners, Pegida co-Walkers: over there are the
real runners-with-the-herd! As we all know, they're all stirred up and
paid to intimidate us and to provoke us, so that we lose our nerve, in
order to finally legally justify prohibiting our Walks. But we as
Bärgida remain ever further non-violent!! We remain strong, and speak
out freely what honestly moves us and brings us together!
"Stay true to yourselves, even under this great pressure and libelous
maligning! Stay the course, stay the course!
For only a culture which is conscious of itself and appreciates itself
can find peace, make peace, represent and spread peace. Only such a
culture can build a respectful future with other countries and nations."
(What unfortunately only later occurred to me, and I'd so love to have
ended this with:
“And I am proud to say, with each one of you here on the street, loud
and clearly:)
Ich – bin – ein – Bärgider!“
