- I will forgo the pleasure of drinking German lager and
eating sauerkraut for the foreseeable future and I ask freedom lovers to
consider joining me.
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- I am joining an international boycott of German goods
because of that country's drift away from fundamental freedoms.
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- We in North America do not hear much much about Germany,
as our media focuses on exotic hotspots, but I have noticed a discernible
trend suggesting people should pay attention to the loss of freedoms in
so-called advanced Western democracies, like Germany.
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- The most ominous example is the Busekros family. An online
petition is calling for a boycott of German products due to their treatment.
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- The horrendous crime of this family, and others across
Germany, is they chose to homeschool their children, a right taken for
granted here. Homeschooling is illegal there, and authorities seem out
for blood.
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- It took 15 German officers to take 15-year-old Melissa
Busekros from her home, as the German government began cracking down on
these nasty enemies of the state. By court order, school officials ordered
the breakup of a family with five children, after the state asserted its
belief that Christian homeschooling is a "parallel culture" that
Germany can do without.
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- One child was even placed in a psychiatric ward and her
parents denied the location.
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- Homeschooling parents in Germany have been imprisoned
for teaching their children in a Christian lifestyle. The Home School Legal
Defense Association estimates there are 40 other ongoing cases in Germany
against homeschoolers.
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- Homeschoolers do not get much attention because they
are a minority, but it is this minority that needs the most protection
from a majority willing to deny their rights.
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- The essence of a free state is the existence of pluralistic
civil society where different choices are permitted. The German authorities
apparently do not respect the convictions of religious communities which
believe family ought to be the first teacher, not the omnipotent state.
My parents considered homeschooling me out of concerns over the expunging
of Christianity from public schools. I'm glad we did not live in Germany.
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- What is frightening is that the law forbidding homeschooling
was adopted
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- on the grounds that the state needed to take control
over every aspect of life.
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- One German homeschool advocate said, "We are not
far away from an intolerant dictatorship. Parental rights are more and
more abolished. If you do not educate the way the state wants, the so-called
Judenamt (youth welfare office) is quick to check out if they can take
away the custody of your children."
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- If this was the only troubling sign from Germany, I would
stop, but it is not. This attack on homeschooling comes on the heels of
the conviction of Holocaust revisionist Ernst Zundel, who was sentenced
to five years in prison for "denying the Holocaust," which is
considered seditious in Germany.
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- Call me a fool, but ideas and thoughts should be challenged
in the forum of open debate, not through criminal sanction. The Holocaust
is one of the most documented events in history, so there is a reason Zundel
is marginalized. Freedom is nothing if it does not protect the most vulnerable
and reviled.
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- As for me, I will be throwing out my Kinder Surprise
eggs and asking the German Embassy to help stop the harassment of German
families.
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- Ted Twietmeyer
3-4-7
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- Here we go again - first it was Ernst Zundel and those
like him...the new 'enemies' of the state. Now, it's the homeschoolers
who are the enemies.
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- As someone whose grandparents came over from Germany
early in the last century, I'm thoroughly ashamed of
- the Nazi-like attitude sweeping Germany and the world
in general. But I'm not surprised.
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- The "state" of Europe, which considers Nazi-ism
as a hate crime, has now adopted the same pathetic philosophy. Like governments
world-wide, it's the classic "it's OK for me to do it, but not you."
Perhaps the crux of this matter is that Nazi-ism reminds the German government of
what it has turned into, not what it was before. No wonder they don't want
to see any citizens doing it. But this is perhaps the ultimate in political
hypocrisy. Someone once said, "the more things change, the more they
stay the same." How true that is.
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- German scientists have probably had a monumental
influence on building the scientific foundations in both theory
and advancement for the world of science, more than any other country.
But when it comes to human rights, they are still living in the 1930's.
We have all heard the phrases "The Third Reich" or "Thousand
year Reich" countless times. Yet no one ever asks what became of the
first and second Reich's - and why no one learned from their failures!
Can the world's civilized people really be this stupid and breathe
on their own? Apparently it is so. Could a new "Fourth Reich"
rise up as the Third one did? If not, can one prove WHY not?
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- Hitler appears to be a vague if not forgotten memory
for the German people. It reminds one of the life of Christ, and the terrifying
supernatural events that took place everywhere the moment he was crucified.
But in no time at all, those supernatural events became a fuzzy and forgotten
memory. War soon returned as a way of life. In fact, it wasn't long after
before the Dark Ages began.
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- Today we've entered the Dark Ages of human rights and
freedoms. It's a slow, insidious process. But in the end the result will
be death, disease and tyranny, all built with just one brick at a time
- if we just sit by and do nothing.
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- Ted Twietmeyer
- www.data4science.net
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