Udo Voigt: “Freedom of opinion instead of prohibitions against historical symbols!”
EU wants to ban ‘wrong’ political symbols – but only the “extreme right” ones
The EU has discovered an urgent need for action: it wants to extend the ban on “wrong” rightwing political symbols that is already in force in Germany and in some other member states across the whole of Europe.
Of course, the new prohibition by the Eurocrats only targets “extreme right” symbols, but not, for example, the Soviet star of the Communists, which stands for one of the worst crimes against humanity. Historians estimate the number of victims of communism today since 1917 at an incredible 100 million people.
This point was also emphasized by NPD MEP Udo Voigt in the debate in the Strasbourg Parliament, which spoke last Wednesday about the “EU-wide ban on National Socialist and fascist symbols and slogans” as requested by the EU-Commission.
MEP Voigt declared: “If you unilaterally exclude the millions murdered, the violence and the blood trail of communism and NOT touch its symbols, you damage the values of the European Union, which should apply to all in the same way – for all, regardless of their race, religion, belief and political conviction. This ban creates new totalitarian structures! “
According to Voigt, a democratic society must be able to live with different opinions and its symbols without resorting to censorship and prohibition: “A strong democracy that stands for freedom of expression must also accept symbols, songs and flags of the historical past. If a democracy prohibits symbols, then this democracy is weak and does not believe in its own power of persuasion. (…) Freedom of expression does only exist if it exists for all expressions, or it does not exist at all! “
Once again, in the Strasbourg debate, West-German sentimental crybabies made a strong stand for the new ban – while, oddly enough, all the right-wing parliamentary groups did not make use of their right to speak. Even the AfD remained silent.
Strasbourg, 14.12.2017
