Leading intellectuals are mostly baffled by the upcoming scenario of dissolution of Europe in a wave of intercontinental proletarian mass migration. Germany’s influential philosopher Peter Sloterdijk finds pointed words, borrowed from Macchiavelli, speaking of a necessity for “well-temperated cruelty”, i.e. willingness to give priority to orderliness and public interest over the caritative urges that a televized picture of a sweet child might provoke. Italy’s Umberto Eco takes a fatalistic view. He believes that Europe is destined to drown in proletarian mass migration and can only try its best to manage the process as humanely as possible. This fatalism is becoming mainstream as delusions about the usefulness of the migration wave for the European economy are loosing ground. Many commentators now simply embrace the fate of Europe as unavoidable because founded in higher laws of ethics such as “human rights” or “European values”. Merkel and Juncker seem to be swimming on this wave. In the current German media-driven “hippie politics”, as the British politologist Anthony Glees characterizes it, it is difficult to imagine that any politcian could be willing to exercise any “well-tempered cruelty” toward what comes over the television screen. We seem bound to lose our own country in the same way as the USA lost Vietnam. While German mainstream media have been celebrating an “revolt of the decent” (Aufstand der Anständigen) against phantomatic xenophobia, we are facing the daunting task of organizing a “revolt of the reasonable” against a viciously repressive mainstream that will do whatever it can to present us as indecent.

Here you find reports and background informations about our event. On monday evening there will be a press release. Our association Pegida München e.V. is already linking to our page.

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Past and upcoming mondays

Last Monday according to foreign media reports (RuptlyTV) 300 people attended our demo. In view of the political crisis this is not much, but it is more than before the summer pause. A “broad coalition” of government, industry, trade unions, churches, associations and embedded media has been waging a vicious defamation campagin against our movement which included making up news about an inexisting demo call to which nobody came, suggesting that we are already dead, and then ceasing to report. But some foreign media were not embedded in the campaign and are therefore still interested in reporting. Lasts Monday representatives of agencies from Canada, Ireland, Great Britain and Japan came, and the interest seems to be ongoing.

Our guest speaker Tatjana Festerling was a candidate for Pegida at the Dresden mayor election. The embedded media of the “Broad Coalition” have been viciously defaming her and falsely claiming that only 1-2% of Dresden citizens would vote for her, when the real number was 10%. Tatjana is politically vocal and has the courage to tackle difficult questions in clear language. Recently she published 10 demands for fundamental reform of the German and European asylum systems.

The way out of the asylum crisis will also be the subject of Hartmut Pilch’s final speech. Regarding “well-tempered cruelty” Hartmut Pilch remarks:

Auch europäische Gemüter sind normalerweise zu der von Sloterdijk in Anlehnung an Macchiavelli geforderten “wohltemperierten Grausamkeit” mehr als fähig. In Wirklichkeit geht es ja nicht um Grausamkeit sondern um Bereitschaft zu einer verhältnismäßigen, angemessenen Antwort im öffentlichen Interesse auch da, wo diese manchmal etwas härter ausfallen muss. Wenn es um Privatinteressen geht, ist fast jeder Mensch zur zur noetigen Haerte wenn nicht gar zu wirklicher Grausamkeit in der Lage. Aber wenn es um das öffentliche Interesse geht, wollen sie sich lieber in eine selbstverschuldete Unmündigkeit begeben. Im Ergebnis verursachen sie damit selber die wirklichen Grausamkeiten. Straßburger Menschenrechtsrichter gehen über Leichenberge. Nur sieht man diesen Zusammenhang nicht auf den Fotos von “Aylan”, mit denen die Medien bei uns Politik machen.

We will make our messages heard with new slogans. Many citizens will play a part in the process. Recently the most popular slogan was “Victor Orban for President, Merkel go to Hell”. We are always closely followed by aggressive counter-demonstrators acting in the name of the Broad Coalition who tend to resort various kinds of legal and illegal violence and obscenity. This time they announced that they would make our speeches inaudibe by means of powerful speakers. Unlike in other German states (Länder), the Bavarian police is mostly effective in protecting us from the worst violence, but they tend to be ineffective in enforcing upper limits on acoustic violence. The Broad Coalition usually tries to provoke individual demonstrators into incontinent reactions, on which it then feeds. Our basic rule is not to feed the trolls. We ask our demonstrators to promise to ignore the hippy state’s “Broad Coalition”. Also we do not give any oral interviews to media, unless for a “defamation fee”, which is rather high in the case of broad coalition media. Our general rule is to receive questions and give written replies. Currently we are still litigating about the demonstration route, but we are confident that we will prevail. The municipal government is part of the Broad Coalition and regularly exercises its power in obstructive ways. Fortunately the judicial system still seems to be independent, even though not particularly sympathetic to us.