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Hoppe-nuts
05.27.06 (4:35 pm)   [edit]
The Vlaams Belang is a Flemish nationalist party in Belgium. They are most well known for their anti-immigrant viewpoint. Of course they are also hosts to other odious policies as well.

Among other positions they take are calling for the full, unconditional amnesty for any convicted, after World War II, of collaboration with the Nazis. Odd that they consider amnesty for Nazi sympathizers so important.

They want increased child benefits to help one parent stay at home with their children. But they want to encourage the breeding of the right kind of people. Might go with the previous policy as well. In a possible similar vein is their call to abolish any and all laws against racism.

They are also against granting gays equal rights in society and want to ban abortion in most cases with exceptions for rape or for medical reasons only. In 2005 they also proposed a law to ban the use of trucks on public roads on Sundays and public holidays. And Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the famous Dutch politician who was warned about Islamic extremism says that this party is “racist, anti-Semitic” and extremist.

The party was also a center of controversy when a young man was involved in killing a black woman along with a white child and a Turkish woman was wounded. The 18 year old who committed the murder was himself not a member of the Party. But his father was a member and his aunt was an MP for the party. His family had long time connections to the extreme Flemish nationalist movement.

A racialist (sic) group is very fond of the Flemish nationalists. And members there have asked how they can send money to the party. They also noted that a key speaker at a conference organized by this group was to be Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the infamous “Austrian” economist who is now a top guru for the Rockwellians and the sadly misnamed Mises Institute.

Of course Hoppe has associated with such racialist types before and the Rockwellian movement is infested with them. He was quite willing to do interviews for Junge Freiheit, a publican that is widely considered to be neo-Nazi in Germany. This publication has also had contributions from another Rockwellian, Paul Gottfried, who supports the group because they reject “the view that every German patriot should be evermore browbeaten by self-appointed victims of the Holocaust.” Odd, it always seemed to me that the victims of the Holocaust didn’t appoint themselves but were appointed by the racialist, nationalists who ran Germany at the time. But I guess we all got it wrong. People choose themselves to rush into the concentration camps and lined up to voluntarily die.

Alan Wolfre notes that Gottfried “is the kind of writer who puts the term “fascism” in quotation marks, as if its existence is the European past is somehow open to question.” At least two articles defending Junge Freiheit were published on by Gottfried on Rockwell’s web site. Another contributor, and once listed as an editor, to Junge Freiheit was Germar Rudolf. He is also the author of The Rudolf Report which purports to prove that the Nazis did not attempt to slaughter Jews, or perhaps, to please Gottfried we should refer to them as “self-appointed victims of the Holocaust.”

The Nazis at Zundelsite call Junge Freiheit “one of the very few patriotic publications still in existence.” Alas most the other “patriotic publications” of this variety no doubt went out of circulation when the Nazis were defeated. And Germar Rudolf, who describes himself as “the founder of the world’s largest revisionist websites” listed all the gifts of reading material he was given by his supporters, in order to avoid duplicates. (He is currently in prison.) Among the gifts prominently listed is Junge Freiheit. Rudolf’s site is meant to prove that the Holocaust is a Jewish lie. It promotes and sells books by various racists, anti-Semites and Nazis.

Perhaps one of the most infamous comments from Hoppe, when he isn’t verbally attacking gays or making racist remarks, is this one:

There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centred lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.

Please note that Hoppe is saying that in a “libertarian social order” democrats and communists “will have to be physically separated and expelled from society”. And to “maintain a libertarian order” we would have to have various people, including homosexuals “physically removed from society.” I wonder if these people would be “self-appointed victims” as well. He is quite explicitly calling these libertarian societies.

For some years Mr. Hoppe has been spending his summers running around Europe trying to bring various extremist nationalist groups and the small libertarian groups into some sort of fusionist movement similar to Vlaams Belang. That Hoppe openly entertains racist notions and vehemently dislikes homosexuals is not really open to question. But what is odd is that any libertarian (so-called) would stoop to associate with this man. But then he is part of the extremist Rockwellians who have spent a lot of time trying to corrupt the libertarian movement into some form of racialist, Christianist movement in alliance with open racists and groups like the League of the South and various neo-Nazi groups.

 
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