German far right in legal battle over "free speech"

[The Northerner]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German far-right party's legal challenge against the German postal service over its refusal to deliver the party's magazine will be decided in the Federal High Court in September.

A leader in the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) said on Friday the challenge on freedom of speech grounds was raised by NPD deputies in the Saxony state assembly, one of two state assemblies in Germany where the far-right party has seats.

Holger Szymanski, a spokesman for the NPD in the Saxony parliament, said the party believes its constitutional rights to free speech are being violated by the postal service's refusal to distribute its newsletter, "Klartext".

"From our perspective, 'Klartext' is quite obviously a magazine," said Szymanski, whose party is seen by police agencies as the most significant neo-Nazi party in Germany since the end of the Third Reich.

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It's always laughable and pitiful to read that a bunch of reich-wing nutcases think that free speech entitles them to spread their bigoted and offensive propaganda in order to incite as much hatred as possible.

I hope they lose big time and have their hate speech stifled for the benefit of society.

[HiPointDem]

1. weird. i was just reading the same article. here's another:

... In addition, the NPD took on a very civic appearance.

"It's the idea of the nice Nazi from next door," said Toralf Staud, author of the book "Modern Nazis" and a writer on right-wing extremism since 1998. These neo-Nazis have become an integral part of civil society across wide areas in eastern Germany. In small towns and villages, right-wing extremists have for the large part taken over civic programs for children and youth, for example.

"They are in parents' associations in schools and kindergartens or in sports clubs and use their position there to relay their ideas to the people," Botsch said.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,2144,2178563,00.html

[struggle4progress]

2. These are the fruitcakes who regard fruitcake Rudolf Hess (the Deputy Führer who in 1941

flew to Scotland in hopes of convincing the Brits to switch sides in WWII) as a martyr