Callafangers wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 6:03 pm
Brilliant.
Do you challenge the notion that the US legal system has been disproportionately targeted by Jews?
I presume you will not "go there", given the evidence is overwhelming. Instead, you attempt fallacy and "splitting hairs" to suggest Germar's immediate jurisdiction is somehow fully insulated from these conditions.
As for Germar Rudolf's current legal woes, there are two possibilities, and until more evidence comes in, it's difficult to choose between them. But you might be surprised that I lean in the more conspiratorial direction on this.
The first is that this is indeed entirely local. While you are 100% right that Germar Rudolf was acting like a typical German in not seeing anything wrong with very temporary nudity while changing in public, one would think that he might have learned the lesson from the 2019 case that US society really is that much more disapproving of such things, much more moralistic and also contains a lot of tell-tales especially in provincial areas. So rather than adjust his behaviour he fell victim to the same problem as before, namely unthinkingly changing while out exercising, only this time it was close to a school. Nice catch by the way on the date of the alleged incident falling on the weekend.
Having crossed the radar of the authorities already and earned a conviction for a misdemeanour, then it should not be a surprise if local interests - neighbours who are shocked, SHOCKED at free-body-culture European ways, and police forces and courts in a generally conservative area - might not give the crazy German the benefit of the doubt. So Germar's response was apparently to move, also because he had to with his divorce, and he thus walked away from Red Lion, York County, PA, with or without realising he was facing yet more misdemeanour charges for this.
The second possibility is that someone put their thumb on the scale. The original case from 2019 was entirely real (by Germar Rudolf's own admission - he described his workout routines and habits at inordinate length) but a bit of a stretch from many angles. It seems likely Germar Rudolf did not get the benefit of the doubt due to the area's conservatism - after all, someone had denounced him. But, once he was on everyone's radar thanks to the case, then sure, it's quite possible someone decided to keep an eye out or even that someone was primed to do so now they realised it was THE Germar Rudolf.
I actually lean a little more to the latter right now, because of what I picked up from Germar Rudolf's accounts of his struggles with citizenship and residency. Rudolf's application to become a naturalised US citizen was repeatedly declined, while at some point he also experienced the lapsing of his green card. He has since said everything is fine, but he's now divorced from the US citizen with whom he had children.
The citizenship/residency issues are going to be more vulnerable to inside pressure by their very nature. There's not been a lot of explanation for why Rudolf's application for naturalisation as a US citizen was declined, but doing so seems quite serious. Maybe someone can look up the regulations on this and see how abnormal that might be.
At some point more news will be forthcoming, whether about an extradition to Pennsylvania or any other potential consequences such as deportation to Germany. I would not currently rule out the latter if his residency status is not entirely bulletproof, or if avoiding the 2022 charges has more serious consequences. I don't think it would have made much difference who had been elected in November 2024, but the incoming Trump administration is very anti-immigration and many of its bureaucrats will be happy to let someone like Rudolf be crushed in the system if it means the metrics increase. A deportation is a deportation.
To sum up
- I think the 2019 charges were chickenshit. The previous accounts suggest indignant conservative neighbour rather than the ADL or whoever; the latter would surely have gone with something more spectacular, no?
- the 2022 charges look like chickenshit as well, but either Germar Rudolf was forgetful enough not to learn the lesson of 2019 and avoid any hint of impropriety, or the 2020 conviction left him vulnerable to more denunciations. Whether the denunciations came because he was now the crazy German to conservative locals, or because he is the most prominent Holocaust revisionist in the US, remains to be seen.
- currently leaning past the balance of probabilities towards the view that someone realised there was a window of opportunity to make life miserable for the most prominent Holocaust revisionist in the US. But that's 55-45 or 60-40 for me at most, *for now*.
- if there are further consequences for his residency status or talk of deportation the probabilities will skyrocket in favour of this being 'deliberate'.