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Interview with Troy Southgate from National Anarchy, England
Troy
Southgate: Letter to Travas on National-Anarchism
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www.nationale-anarchie.de & www.volksheil.de cut off !!
Only two days after the trial against peter töpfer because of the falun dafa symbol on the link pages of www.nationale-anarchie.de due to the absurd and ridiculous denunciation of
lawyer christa parker failed pitiful, the national-anarchist site and also www.volksheil.de were taken from the www completely by the provider
Strato AG - by pure chance... Since april 12th 2002 the web-site www.nationale-anarchie.de is no longer available. The provider Strato AG told ten days later that he
canceled the contract without notice. His "grounds": illegal,
extremist, erotical etc. contents (?!), illegal domain name (!?) and other stupidities.
Legal actions against Strato AG will be
taken.
Still available yet is http://www.chez.com/nationalanarchisten
.
All addresses from www.nationale-anarchie.de also don't work anymore.
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Trial against Peter Töpfer in Berlin
Because he put on his web-site www.nationale-anarchie.de a link to the persecuted religious community Falun Gong, using its symbol, Peter Töpfer was punished to 900 Euros. He
refused to pay. He now has to appear in court: April 10th 2002, 9.30, Tribunal Berlin-Tiergarten, Turmstrasse 91, room A862 (3rd floor), Ref.: 280 Cs 1154/01.
One has to ask two simple questions:
1. Can the German state force a person to tell what he is thinking or to justify his opinion?
2. Can Germany claim the property of symbols that are ancient and belong to almost every human culture?
If these question really need to be discussed, a discussion has to take place without forcing a participant and not in a court room.
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Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) is apparent object of political and religious persecution in contemporary Germany
On the 7th of December 2000, a group of about 7 or so police officers obtained entry by force into the apartment of Peter Töpfer.
Judge Schmidt of the Berlin criminal court ordered a search and seizure of the apartment rooms of Mr. Töpfer. He justified his decision by claiming that the state would be
able to gather evidence regarding Mr. Töpfer's website at http://www.nationale-anarchie.de with regards to his responsibility for this website as well as for a link established between it and the website of the religious community Falun Dafa (cf.
http://www.falundafa.org), if it obtained access to the apartment rooms of Mr. Töpfer.
What the judge obviously overlooked was the apparent fact that a search and seizure action was totally unnecessary for the acquisition of the information the court claimed it was looking
for. Due to an illiberal german law, internet providers are forced to deliver all log files and user dates to the police, at its request. The authorities simply needed to ask them to all the information. There
was neither need nor reason to search Töpfer's home.
But although Mr. Töpfer admitted that he was responsible for both link and website, the police started their illegal search. At the end of the search, the police officers confiscated Mr.
Töpfer's personal computer without giving any reason at all – whether convincing or not – for their action.
Given this situation, an average citizen can conclude that the state was interested in finding out something more than what it claimed to be investigating, namely whether Mr. Töpfer was
responsible for the link in his website to Falun Dafa. By proceeding in the manner it did, however, the state has violated a series of fundamental human rights it does not attribute great value to: freedom of
the press, freedom of conscience, the right to property, the right to privacy and the inviolability of one's home as well as the right to maintain one's human dignity. The state also violated sections of
the criminal code and the criminal procedural law.
The police searched all the rooms of his apartment. During the search, Mr. Töpfer was detained in one of the other rooms and was unable to witness the search. Even the
basement storage room was searched in his absence. Accompanying the police was a so-called "official witness" who was sent by the municipality of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin to observe the search and
seizure event.
We have organized a solidarity campaign and are asking for donations for the defense of Mr. Töpfer: Bank account of attorney
Mr. Carsten Schrank: No. 0370223616 at Dresdner Bank Berlin (BLZ 100 800 00), code name "Solidarity Töpfer Falun". Bank account in the USA (Holder: Eugene
Polonsky) Number: 0324804648, Bank of Amerika, Sunset Odgen Branch /Hollywood, ABA# : 122000661, same code name.
Anybody convinced of the injustice of these events can write to the criminal court at the following address: Amtsgericht Tiergarten, D-10548 Berlin, docket no. 353 Gs 5446/00 or he or she
can send a fax to: +49-30-9014-2010.
Please distribute and disseminate this information.
Contact: Komitee Töpfer Falun, c/o VdF, Postfach 350264, D-10211
Berlin, Fax: +49-180-505255454419, Email: solidaritytopferfalun@gmx.net
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