(Translator’s Note: The Eifel is a national park in Germany.)
Generations of later born German schoolchildren were delighted in their German instruction with the short story “Start of the Season” by Elisabeth Langgässer. The story deals with the subject of “Shunning” in the Third Reich. The last sentence, which is a very tactfully placed hammer at the very of the story, reads, “In this vacation area, Jews are undesirable.” The pupils, and perhaps you, must then show by interpretation that “it was understood” that shunning no longer has any place in Germany. In Monschau (Their slogan: “Enchanting Eifel Treasure”), this is even better understood now. There, the CDU (Christian Democratic Union party) Mayor Margareta Ritter demonstrated her best understanding of democracy in cavalier form. (Translator’s note: The mayor’s name ‘Ritter’ means ‘knight’ or ‘cavalier,’ and the adjective ‘cavalier’ has the same root: ‘ritterlich,’ hence a nice play on words.)
She stated with regard to the private visit by Wilders in the city Saturday:
“When somebody like Wilders bogs down the Dutch integration debate with poisonous right-wing populism, and with his demand for its prohibition compares the Quran with Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” he is not welcome in Monschau!” (…) “In spite of all the hospitality and tolerance that we citizens of Monschau characterize, we are sad to find such guests surprisingly in our city.”
Now, we understand: In Monschau “total” hospitality and “tolerance,” is the rule, but not for those who raise their voice against intolerance and ideologies hostile to democracy, and know that they have a very respectable portion, if not the majority, of the democratic spectrum supporting them.
One is ashamed of such a mayor who would even bring up such a thing in a media appearance in the Netherlands. And we have to ask ourselves for the umpteenth time, if this antagonistic kissing up to the left-wing/Green opinion monopoly isn’t ritual practice with the media, whose methods sometimes bring those of the Reich’s press staff to mind. When one pads the pockets with funds “against the Right” as a reward for declarations like the one mentioned above, this can also be interpreted as a suicidal mixture of political corruption and prostitution.
» margareta.ritter@stadt.monschau.de
(Text: Andreas F. / Translation: Anders Denken)
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