Date: 08 Feb 2000 23:18:00 +0200 From: ASWAD-AT-anarch.free.de (catkawin) Subject: Haider info The following has been published/broadcasted in mainstream German media recently. During his political carreer, Haider has repeatedly been caught saying things in favour or in praise of the Nazi regime. Several papers presented some of these comments: 1986: "Being a soldier is being abused and mistreated by certain circles. Many a gentleman love to clean their shoes at the cost of the honour of those killed in action during the World War, and of the honour of those [soldiers] who survived." 1986: For the farmers - who already got red/black leeches on their necks - this will mean the beginning of a pauperization." 1987: "The priviledged position of guestworkers enforces unemployment and therefore has to be abolished." 1988: "You know as well as I do that the birth of the Austrian nation was a miscarriage, an ideological miscarriage." 1990: "Our soldiers did not commit anything, they were at best victims." 1991: "... during the Third Reich, they had great employment politics, and this is something your government in Vienna does not manage to get done. One simply has to say this for a change." 1991: "It is insufferable when, in today's Austria, political criminals are being sponsored like in the former Eastern block." 1995: On SS-members: "It is very good that there still are decent people in this world who have got some character, who even during most hard times stick to their convictions and are true to their convictions up until this very day." 1999: "It does not matter whether we get our money stolen by a Romanian pickpocket or by a red secretary of state." FPOe pickets for the latest elections in autumn 1999: "Stop abuse of asylum regulations" "Against an overflow of foreigners" The comment on SS members has been on German TV several times during the last weeks, and this was said while Haider delivered a speech at a convention of German National Democratic Party NPD. He received ovations for this remark. In one of the local papers, I also read that FPOe, despite calling themselves a liberal party, has been excluded from the union of liberal parties in the European parliament for their extremist views. Today, political magazine "Frontal" presented the following info on Haider: According to observations by German secret service (Verfassungsschutz), the far right members of FPOe have formed a network with German Nazis, especially with NPD, DVU (German People's Union), and Republicans. Haider himself is interviewed regularly by Nazi media in Germany. In an interview done for Nazi magazine "Nation Europa" in 1996, he also played down the crimes of SS and said "they were soldiers like all the others". On May 18, 1993, he delivered another speech at an NPD convention, in which he claimed: "A national ideology does not mean one is a Nazi." The report showed photos of Haider with German Nazis, so e.g. a Herr Kaes from Republican Party, which are to be found on a website, but did not mention the URL. On May 16, 1997, a leading FPOe ideologist delivered a speech in the Stuttgart federal parliament. He was invited by the Republican faction represented in this fed. parliament. During his speech, he said that FPOe wants to build up networks with all the important national parties throughout Europe, mentioning e.g. Republicans in Germany, Vlaamse Blok (Flemish Blok) in Belgium. In 1994, a circle founded within German Liberal Party FDP, the so-called Cannstatt Circle, invited Haider to one of their conventions. They did not only invite Haider, but representatives of Republicans, German People's Party, and National Democratic Party. Short time after this convention, the Cannstatt Circle broke away from FDP and today is grouped among rightwing organisation by German secret service. Already during that convention in 1994, they discussed the foundation of a rightwing platform. Haider is frequently and regularly interviewed by German Nazi paper (bi- weekly) "Junge Freiheit" (Young Freedom). Young Freedom regularly carries articles on "foreigners", especially about crimes committed by persons holding others than a German passport. They promote the point of view that all foreign residents should be sent home because that's the only place they can live contentedly. In January 2000, Haider was interviewed by this paper again and mouthed ideas about the building of a rightwing party (successful like FPOe) in Germany. ..... Haider's resp FPOe's connections to NPD must be seen quite different from mere contacts with a somewhat obscure party of "leftovers" from 3rd Reich who will soon die out. NPD youth organisation has established close contacts into the extremist scene, accepting former members of parties and organisations which had just been forbidden here and actively seeking to attract these persons. Many protest marches during the last years regularly seeing a huge participation from boneheads and what we call "boot Nazis", i.e. the militant scene, have been organised under the cover of either NPD youth organisation JN or by their Student's Organisation (hard to believe intelligence and this goes together, but over here, this seems to be possible!). Every Nazi party who announced they were going to attempt to organize the "national scene" and unify it under their aegis, up to now has failed dramatically. NPD has quietly and apparently quite successfully attempted to do the same, and their protest marches and actions attract many persons from parties/groups which are meanwhile forbidden. Secret services since long suspected that all the different groups, although seemingly competing with each other and being strict adversaries, formed an underground network in which they in fact cooperated quite well. NPD seems to have offered some sort of "umbrella" for these activities. And this is the scene Haider gladly accepts invitations from and cooperates with. .......... Although media again reported in detail about the new Austrian government today, nothing was mentioned about any agreement between Austrian People's Party (OeVP) and Freedom Party (FPOe) to ban immigration totally. So I suppose Paul Whatsisname is FOF (full of feces) - or else he's been taking part in the coalition negotiations between the two parties, which I am inclined to doubt very much. catkawin ## CrossPoint v3.11 ##
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