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Sept. 16, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Martin Lichtmesz: "Nationalist Movements in Austria and Germany" (2017)
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Our next speaker, Martin Lichtmetz, is an increasingly prominent member of the German New Right.
He is a member of the Institut für Staatspolitik, and he is a frequent contributor to the German magazine Secession.
This is a word that thrills every Southern heart.
He has also translated some of the important works in our movement, including The Camp of the Saints into German, Jack Donovan's The Way of Men, and also Renaud Camus' Le Grand Remplacement, The Great Replacement, which is about the terrible demographic plague of replacement in Europe today.
I would also point out that in the 23 years since we've been having American Renaissance Conferences, Mr. Lichtmetz is the first German speaker and it's a great pleasure to invite him here to talk about New Beginnings: Nationalist Movements in Austria and Germany.
Thank you.
Also, I want to say it's a great honor for me to be here.
I admire Mr. Taylor very much.
Yeah, it's really exciting.
It's awesome, as Americans say.
Oh, there's already a picture.
We'll go into that later.
I'm going to talk about the Identitarian Movement.
Yeah, as the title says, I'm going to talk about...
I'll tell you a bit about the situation in Germany and Austria and about political...
So-called nationalist movements that put resistance to the mainstream, globalist, multiculturalist policies, which are basically very much like here in the U.S. and much of the rest of the Western world.
The word nationalist we don't use that much.
It harks back to that old-school nationalism, you know, that one before World War I, and that caused probably many terrible things to Europe.
I would rather use the word patriotism.
Or identitarianism.
And also, I'd rather speak of a defensive sort of nationalism.
Not like, you know, France and Germany quarreling about who is owning Elsass.
So it's about different things here.
Yeah, I guess you will all agree with me.
The year 2016 was pretty awesome.
Many liberals hate it.
In New York, I saw these buttons to say,"Oh, fuck 2016." But it was awesome.
It was the year, big year of populism, and was all climaxing in the ultimate nightmare of liberals, Trump's electoral victory.
And I was following this...
And I was following that very closely, and there was parallel.
At the same time, we had the presidential election in Austria, the tiny country I come from, and we had in many ways a similar situation.
In the first round of the presidential elections, the major parties that had dominated Austria for 60, 50, 60 years, they had a massive loss of votes.
And instead, we ended up in a situation where the most right-wing candidate and the most left-wing candidate received about 50% of the votes.
And this was unimaginable before.
Eventually, the right-wing candidate from the Freedom Party lost, but only close, and it was a very exciting thing, and there are changes going on.
A thing happening, maybe also in the US, societies are divided.
Western societies are divided.
There's a split right between our people, and the bogeyman who is responsible for this is called populism, especially right-wing populism.
It's the bogeyman of Western Europe's ruling elites who have become a power cartel, and they're jealous of any opposition, and they're ruthless against any criticism of their course, which is globalist, pro-multiculturism, and pro-open borders.
And so it is in Austria and Germany as well.
So the populists, they tap into the alienation between these elites and the people, or most or many of the common people, and they try to give them a voice of their anger and their dissatisfaction.
And you see it's also a crisis of representation that is going on here.
Large parts of the population feel we are not represented in politics, in parliaments, in the media.
And this crisis of populism.
And the most ardent problem for many is, of course, the failed policy of mass immigration, which is causing social unrest, the spreading of Islam, the rise of crime rates, and eventually a complete depopulation displacement by means of declining demographics and mass immigration from non-European countries.
So there is a fatal dynamic going on there.
And especially ever since the so-called refugee crisis from 2015, I take it that you are all informed about it and I don't need to explain more.
In Western European nations, like Germany, France, Britain, Austria, this division and this polarization has increased.
There's one side that feels humanitarian and says we have to accept them all and we cannot leave them outside.
And the other side says it's completely crazy to do that and it's too many of them.
So people are getting in this, in a way, a sort of pre-Civil War situation.
There are some thinkers who think civil war, in the end, will be inevitable.
And civil war will occur in a different way than we are used from the past.
It will be possibly multiple fronts.
It will be, you know, not like two groups taking arms against each other.
But we can face a certain outbreak of violence or breakdown of societies.
And the curious thing is some of these European Union people, they even cheer for it.
There's, for example, this...
French-German political thinker, Enrique Guerreau, and she has a new book.
She's very much sponsored by the European Union.
She's in all the papers.
And she has this book,"The New Civil War." And she says,"Yeah, right-wing populists are splitting society.
They're creating polarization." But that's a good thing, because finally, you know, if there's a crisis, maybe with civil war, we can wreck down the nation-state and we can erect a sort of...
She calls it the Republic of Europe.
It will be, in fact, a sort of Soviet Union of Europe which she's thinking of.
And so she's actually cheering for this radicalization.
Here are the forebodings of civil war, according to her.
She says, unemployment, individualism, decline of traditional religious dominations, demographic change, fundamentalism, terror, migration, refugees, impoverishment, drastic decline of education, rising of crime rates, polarization between poor and rich,
Now, this is an entirely accurate list, and it's odd why she would blame the right-wing populists for all this mess, because they were not in power.
Actually, their rise in European countries is due to these problems caused by the elites.
Okay, these are more precisely the reasons why populists, so-called populist movements, are gaining voters in the first place.
And it's like a rising tide.
You know, the more the tide rises, the more the right-wing rises.
Probably it's in optical illusions.
I mean, it doesn't mean the right wing actually gets stronger because the whole situation becomes more and more, you know.
So now, we have not much time.
I'm going to steal a lot of your lunchtime, but you can leave.
All right.
Okay, the voice of God said otherwise.
All right, in the following, I want to present you three different and recent patriotic movements of resistance against globalist multicultural policies in Austrian Germany.
PGIDA, AFD, Alternative for Germany, a political party, and the Identitarian movement, to which I'm close, especially the Austrian part.
You see here, maybe some guys know him, it's Martin Sellner.
He's kind of the big head thinker, organizer of the Identitarian movement, and he's a good friend of mine.
So, to understand what is happening, we should probably begin with Thilo Saratzin.
He's a well-known German banker and social democrat, and he created a breakthrough in Germany a few years ago when he published a book called Germany Abolishes Itself.
It became an immediate bestseller and created a huge controversy.
And this book was a sort of catalogue of problems that had been lingering in Germany for several years now, some in fact dating back to decades.
It's like decline of education, the misuse of the welfare state, shrinking demographics, superannuation of the population, and above all, a failed immigration integration policy, especially in regard to Muslim immigrants, who are notoriously not able to assimilate,
or hardly to assimilate.
So his book was written in a rather dry and factual tone, backed by well-founded sources and statistics, very much like Mr. Taylor likes to do.
And it created a huge uproar among the usual suspects, and they were angry, and they could not do much about it, because Saracin was a figure straight from the establishment, and he could not be easily silenced.
Nonetheless, he was viciously attacked, as you guessed it, a racist.
However, his book had a huge impact on society, because it made it socially acceptable to discuss about many things, which were kept on a sort of taboo ban until then.
And now the next logical step was, what are we going to do about it?
And there was no party, no political arm, to put this analysis into reality, to take action against the problems that were there.
And at that point, even at that point, seven years ago, there was already the impression that all political parties, from the conservative CDU down to the Green Party, they were virtually indistinguishable, you know?
They had all unquestioned adherence to the European Union.
They were pro-multiculturalism and diversity.
We have also a word for it in German,"Fielfart," and pro-political correctness.
And all of them were united in condemning Sarrazin, including his own party.
For some reason, he still has stayed there.
So there was a vacuum felt, and it needed to be filled.
There was no alternative.
And this has, in another sense, been Angela Merkel's mantra for years when she says,"There's no alternative to our policies.
You know, it's too complex.
Don't even think about it." But people felt there needed to be an alternative.
And so, in 2013, there was a party founded loosely following Saracen's milestone called Alternative for Germany.
In the beginning, it focused more on European financial politics.
You know, this was the time of the great crisis with Greece and Germany did a huge bailout of the Greece debts.
And at that point it raised many questions whether the German government and the European really cared for European nations and peoples or if they rather cared for the interests of international banks.
And so the first version of AFD were mostly disappointed conservatives, free market liberals and all that.
And conservative voters who had become homeless because there was a sort of shift of the Overton Wind to the left, they enthusiastically embraced the party.
"Oh, and finally, we are back to the old CDU or the old FDP." It was the Libertarian Party.
But very pretty soon, the immigration problem came to the foreground.
And this, of course, heats up much more emotions in people.
Than financial things.
And by now, this immigration question is the big battle line between AFD and this cartel of established parties who are all pro-immigration, pro-borders.
And by now, the AFD is able to rise up up to 25% in some parts of Germany, especially Saxony.
By 2014, the nationalist and conservative wings had taken over.
They are mostly situated in the eastern part of Germany.
It's the same thing happening in Eastern Europe.
You see Eastern European nations, previously communists, are now very nationalist, very patriotic, and they are saying no way to Brussels.
They say,"No, we see what's happening in your countries.
We can't accept these policies." And there's a similar thing happening in Eastern Germany.
So eventually, I think...
Germany will suffer the eternal fate of Germany that it will be split up again at one point, and probably West Germany will be lost.
So, I see there's a lot to say.
I guess I have to move on.
All right, so here's at least a political arm, a party, which is vilified, but nonetheless it is rising.
And there's a bunch of people, good people, bad people.
They are still a bit of a chaotic troop, but...
In fact, it's really the only alternative by now, if you are a patriot.
So, okay, now I'll talk about PEGIDA.
This is interesting.
PEGIDA is an acronym, and it means Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West.
They use the word Abendland.
Some of you might know this from Spengler, Untergang des Abendlandes.
So they were not saying Germans, and they were putting this focus on Islam.
In the beginning at first.
And it started actually as a Facebook group run by a guy called Lutz Bachmann in October 2014.
And they started taking these walks on Monday through Dresden.
And this was a conscience reference to these walks.
It was really not a demonstration.
It was just a walk.
We just take a walk through Dresden.
In 1989...
When the population, the people of East Germany became increasingly dissatisfied with the arrogance of the elites and also the lying ideologically correct press.
So there's a similar situation, a sort of deja vu going on and this Monday walks of Dresden, they were mostly silent, you know, they were not screaming paroles, they were just walking, maybe having a few posters and each week they got more and more and more and more.
It was like a viral snowball effect, you know, and at one point The elites and the press got really nervous about it, you know, so what is happening?
Because it was not political extremists or militants there, it was actually normal people from Dresden who joined this movement, and many of them were already on the streets back in 1989, so they were veterans.
And they also picked up this famous slogan, you might have heard it, it was"Wie sind das Volk, we are the people." Back then, it was aimed at the elites.
The emphasis was to say,"We are the people." I mean, you, the elites, every other institution in GDR was using the word"folk," like"folksame" and so on.
But there was also a crisis of representation.
People said,"You don't represent us anymore.
You just represent an ideology." And so, there was a sort of, you know...
Repeating of history happened here, but as usual, it didn't work out as people thought first.
At one point, Pegida rose up to 25,000 people on the streets.
This was the high peak.
So media and politicians got really nervous.
Media was ruthless.
They portrayed them as vicious, evil, nasty, ugly, I don't know, cannibal Nazis.
So it was a complete hate.
And of course they reacted in a way which is also famous.
You might know the word Lügenpresse, the lying press.
And this also came to pass when very quickly Antifa troops came.
Some of them were very violent.
When you were joining Pegida, for example, in Leipzig, there were other cities who imitated that thing.
You experienced Antifa throwing stones, attacking people.
They didn't care whether it hit women or children.
The next day, you read in the paper, Riots and right-wing extremists, extremist demonstrations, you know, violence, and they don't tell you who actually caused it, you might get a bit red-pilled about the media that something is probably wrong the way they report.
I need to talk also a bit about this thing, how this slogan"We are the people" has shifted the focus.
I think today the focus is rather on folk, you know, the people.
Because there's nothing the political elites today hate more than the concept of folk, of a people.
People in the sense of they're united by common interests, culture, faith, history, and dissent.
So, I'm not going to talk about race for a change, but, you know, this is also obviously a part of it.
Their rhetorics constantly aim to deconstruct that notion.
And they are attacking the folk both as the demos and the ethnos.
So both forms of folk are meant here.
And this is how populism turned into a bad word and how any reference to ethnic cultural identity today in Germany is being denounced as völkisch.
You might have heard the word, and it's all the craze now.
All the media says,"Völkisch, Völkisch, wir sind Völkisch," and it refers to some, well, rather wacky racialist groups of the 1920s and'30s, so they tried to tie the notion of ethnic nationalism or ethnocultural identity to, of course, Nazism.
At the same time, they called everybody opposing them an enemy of democracy, and by that they mean a sort of all-inclusive humanitarian liberalism.
Everybody can become French or German or whatever by receiving a passport.
This is the idea behind it.
And this is why they also prefer the word population.
I quote Merkel here.
She said,"The people is everybody who is living in this country." And she also said,"Politics is for achieving what we call cohesion of society, to reconcile countryside and city, old and young." Especially those who have recently arrived with those who have already been living long in our country,
which means like a thousand years or so.
You realize this is the way Merkel talks.
And you should be aware, the Bushisms, you all know them, they were very funny.
And Merkel is exactly on that level.
Her German is atrocious.
She does the same thing with German grammar as what she's doing to actual Germany.
I mean, for fun, you know, later on I can read them.
We won't have time, but I have lots of Merkelisms, and they're really, really outrageous.
Okay, so let's go on.
Of course, so the appeal of joining Pegida, this is important.
The appeal was that people who would join it, you know, they didn't require any ideological paths, you know.
It was actually a bit confused in the beginning.
And the thing was, people wanted to experience how it feels like if you are finally among people where you don't have to be afraid to say what you actually believe.
You don't have to be afraid of social exclusion.
And at the beginning, Pegida was far from being homogenous, and it's still now, I mean, it's still going on.
I'll get to that soon.
It was shown by assimilated immigrants as well as by far-right hooligans.
Common sense, normal citizens, or let's say people like gays being afraid of Islamic homophobia.
And they were all in this mix.
And funny things occurred when the Antifa came, and they were shouting and screaming, abusing them.
They would just applaud, you know.
So there was always this good mood at Pegida, and the media tried to present them as frustrated, hateful, and so on, you know.
Eventually, the situation became more polarized and aggressive on both sides.
The political elites, they, you know, they just dropped all pretences and they called the demonstrators nasty names.
For example, Puck, which means like the rubble.
It's the same, like deplorables, you know, the same thing is happening.
The rubble that should be locked up or Dunkeldeutsche, which is very funny, the dark Germans, you know, in contrast to all those enlightened Germans who stood at train stations in summer 2015 to welcome 1.5 million of immigrants from the Middle East,
mostly young men, Muslim men with teddy bears.
So these were the enlightened Germans.
So, yeah, of course, So, eventually, the pressure took its toll.
Many of the organizers, they were previously not involved in politics.
They were a bit naive about it, and they didn't realize how hard the pressure was.
You know, if you have the whole press in the country calling you names and making a bad noir out of you, some cracked down, and in the end, you know, there was one female organizer and speaker.
She was invited to...
A TV talk show, and they basically crushed and humiliated her, and in the end she would go to mosques dressed with headscarves and, you know, atoning for her sins, you know.
So they were split-ups into rivaling factions, you know, the usual in-group, right-wing in-group fighting stuff.
You people know that, I guess.
And the zenith of Pegida is long past, I'd say.
They're still a hardcore of about...
1,500 people who joined these Monday demonstrations every week.
But the revolution, the rerun of the revolution, the sequel, so to speak, of 1989 did not happen.
So, now I finally...
How much time do we have?
Is somebody keeping track?
All right, okay.
The third patriotic movement I would like to discuss is the Identitarian movement, which was founded in France and is substantially grown in Germany and Austria.
You might have heard about the recent venture.
Right now, some of them are at the Libyan coast, and they have chartered the ship, financed through donations and Kickstarter, in order to observe and annoy Greenpeace-style human traffickers and NGO ships who have become a sort of migrant taxi service.
That's a phrasing by Nicholas Farrell in The Spectator.
So, you know, they pick up the migrants at sea in distress, and then they just shuttle them over to Italy instead, you know, bring them back to the coast where they came from.
So it has become almost an assembly line business.
And they are there to...
Of course, they can stop these ships.
But they are creating a symbolic protest.
And it has worked very well.
It's all over in the media, in our countries, also worldwide.
And I don't know how it's going to end.
It's quite adventurous.
So this is still going on.
And now this boat thing, this identitarian pirate boat thing, is the culmination of a long series of provocative actions performed.
by the Identitaire movement ever since they were founded in 2012.
So it started in France.
This group, the Bloc Identitaire, has been around for a long time, 20 years, I think.
But in 2012, there was this offspring of Bloc Identitaire.
They had a viral video called"The Collation of War." Some of you might have seen it.
Many found it very inspiring, and they did a symbolic occupation of the roof of a mosque at Poitiers, where Karl Martel defeated Muslim Arabs in 732.
And now there are mosques being built more than a thousand years later.
So the same year, the Austrian group was founded, mostly organized by my friend Martin Sellner.
He has become a well-known figure in patriotic circles and beyond ever since, also notorious for some.
Martin is, in many ways, a multi-faceted genius.
He can talk for hours about Heidegger, recite hundreds of poems, as well as organize demonstrations, design graphics, create vlogs, hold speeches, or climb on the top of buildings.
I may be biased here.
I still think the Austrian group, where he is the center, is the one with the greatest activity and influence.
In Germany for a long time it had been rather, you know, a virtual Facebook kind of thing, but in Berlin and Halle they are starting to do effective work as well.
So now the situation in Austria is different.
We have a larger right-wing populist base than Germany.
While the AfD is still struggling, the Freedom Party, which has been around since 1955, routinely gets a third of the votes and often heads the polls about what is the most popular party.
Unlike AFD, it has been around for a long time and has experienced many metamorphosis.
It has often participated in the government and is therefore less vulnerable.
So we have a sort of back, a bit of a hinterland, a backland here of people who are sympathetic to patriotic ideas.
But the Identitarian Movement sees itself as a mostly meta-political movement.
So, not tied to any special party.
So, they would welcome all parties if they share certain patriotic ideas, a minimum of ideas, actually, like safe borders, like keeping one's identity and culture.
And they try to draw attention to certain political themes through acts of symbolic provocation.
Now, provocation is the last resort when all other channels are shut off.
If you don't have any media outlet, if you don't have any way to speak without getting punished, you know, and in Germany and Austria, they are, you know, working hard right now on hate speech laws and all kinds of stuff that can get you busted when you say something naughty.
So, the provocations are the last resort.
And banned and shunned by mainstream media, dissident opinions and ideas, sometimes need to be pushed to the public, so means of provocation, information guerrilla, or meme warfare, as, you know...
You Americans and all right people like it.
So, one of the core agendas of the identity movement is to enlighten the public about what the French writer Renaud Camus called"The Great Replacement." Okay, I don't think I need to explain it to you.
But one of the foremost aims is to push for honest discussions about third world immigration into Europe without fear of ostracizing.
So, their conviction is If you can reach that point that people are not afraid to speak out anymore, where there is a social net that is keeping them from being ostracized, then there can be a progress.
They want to strengthen the idea, so this is the core idea, that every people has a right to their homeland and to defend its own culture, identity and heritage, all of which are threatened by current multicultural policies.
I'm getting to the fun part now quickly.
We've watched some pictures.
Yeah, I also have to emphasize the identities emphasize overcoming of petty nationalisms of the past and have a pan-European outlook.
In fact, they are the first right-wing international youth movement ever.
And my very presence here in the U.S., of which I'm very happy to be here, It's a sign of that internationalization of patriotic and right-wing ideas.
Like the commies used to have, an international of nationalists, which is awesome, and I hope it's going to continue.
Because most countries in the West now share similar problems and conflicts.
Now, the interdisciplinary movement is made up mostly of young idealists in their 20s.
And its center are, as I said, the symbolic pranks and performances designed to gain media attention.
And it's important there's no violence, there's always or mostly a touch of humor and satire, and also sometimes a surprising audacity, like climbing up a building, you know, using a mountaineer equipment and stuff like this.
And it's also important that we, you know, make a difference.
Against Antifa and left-wing extremists who, for example, recently demolished half of Hamburg in an orgy of car-burning, shop-looting, and violence.
You might have read about it.
So, I will show you a few examples about how these actions look like.
Okay, I hope I'm getting this right now.
Alright. Okay, so these are the Frenchies climbing the mosque in Poitiers.
You see, they're using these flags, which they have actually from a corny comic book and movie.
The Spartans fighting against, you know, the Persian invasions and the Lacedaemonians, and they have the lambda, the Greek letter lambda on their shield.
So, identitarians basically copied it, but, you know, why not?
Here you see them on that mosque in making, in Poitiers, and this was the initial, you know, this created the image of identitarian generation and was to be copied in Austria and Germany.
And in the end, the beginning was rather silly, you know, so they were wearing masks, and they have these hand-painted signs, and they have multiculturalism, base it off, you know, using this ghetto blaster, and then they would, you know, flash mobs into some lefties, you know,
and just annoy them and be a pain in the ass.
But, you know, this was rather silly, and it was not very effective.
So, okay, these are humble beginnings.
You have to start somewhere.
So, but the next thing, this was really already drawing media attention.
There is a big cathedral in Vienna and it was used by some refugee groups.
It was in 2012.
Of course, they were all incited by leftist immigration lobby groups to occupy this church and protest against their, you know, they were supposed to be...
What's the word?
You know, they wanted to get them out of Austria.
And they were in that church and having hunger strikes and stuff.
And now what the identitarians did, here they are, here some of them, they did an occupation of the occupation.
So they went in with blankets and then they sat down and read this book.
It's a famous new riot treatise called"Provocation".
And they were not there for very long, but, you know, they don't have to.
Just a few photos, and media picks it up, takes the bait, and it was already on the front cover of the biggest Austrian Austrian paper.
And here are other things.
This is fun.
So they have this read theater, yeah?
Okay, you get it.
I don't need to explain it anymore.
They have done several of these pranks, like, you know, dressing guys in burqas, and then they march on the streets, and they have the mayor of Vienna, and somebody was impersonating him with a huge belly and a mask, and says, oh, here are my Muslim wives, and look at them.
It's going to be awesome in the future.
So, this is a thing I like a lot.
This was when the refugee crisis was on peak, and, you know, many of those came through Austria.
Hungary, the border of Austria, the Balkan route.
I saw it myself in summer 2016 at the Western train station in Vienna, and I never seen anything like it.
You know, it really felt like a state of war.
It was an invasion of people, and mostly were these young Muslim men.
Media, of course, sold us always, these pictures of children and women.
And because Austrian government was unable to protect the borders, I mean, there were images on television where...
Armies of them basically just march over the border, and there are these stupid border soldiers, and they just, you know, walk past them.
It was completely absurd.
I mean, it was really like Camp of Saints, a mix of the macabre and of comedy.
So Identity Iron said,"We build a fence, a symbolic fence." And so this was an action where they built a border.
Here's the Austrian flag, the identitarian flag.
And I think this was also a very nice thing, which became very popular in Austria on Facebook.
People like common, normal people who have patriotic feelings.
This is fun.
There is an anti-racist organization.
Which is funded by the state, and it's basically the Stasi of today.
So these people in this organization, they get paid for scanning the internet and social media for naughty comments, and then they report them, and then you can get a search at your house, or you can get fined.
And so they went into Stasi uniforms to that organization and gave them a medal for the good work for the socialist cause.
This told them a lot.
This was another great thing.
This was by far the most difficult action.
It's a bit controversial.
There was a theater production of a really...
Lame and boring play of a lame and boring leftist writer, Elfriede Jelinek.
She received a Nobel Prize for nothing, for being on the right side or the left side.
And she wrote a piece on the immigration crisis, and it was performed at the university, and the audience was mostly this left-wing liberal kind of people.
So, identitarians...
They managed to enter the stage for five minutes, and they unrolled this poster, and it's where Heuchler says,"Hippocrites!" For dramatic effect, they spilled some fake blood over this poster, and everybody was freaking out.
They were all triggered like chicken.
It was important that the message was not directed against immigrants.
This is always a principle.
The enemy, the main enemy...
Are the elites that allow this thing to happen?
Not the immigrants, immigrants themselves.
Thanks. I'm really glad about that applause at this moment.
So, of course, afterwards, there was big talk about, yeah, they were eating children, they were on stage.
There were some immigrant children on the stage as props, you know, so look nice and cute.
And they said, yeah, they were eating up the children, and they were beating people, and there was violence, but, you know, eventually the charges were dropped because nothing happened.
And, you know, I also want to point out there was this story when these people, I forgot their names, they were interrupting this Julius Caesar performance with Donald Trump as Caesar.
And I want to say this is not the same thing, you know, because, first of all, We call it an aesthetic intervention.
We just add something to the play, you know, some artistic touch, you know, and then they leave and...
Now go on.
Keep on with your play.
And second, there is a message.
There is something you have in the papers.
It's not just being rude and shouting,"Wow, this is bullshit!" There must be more to it.
And to stage such an action is difficult.
I have been with some awkward, clumsy protest actions like this years ago, before there was an anti-dietary movement.
We did everything wrong you could do.
To do that and working, you have to be really trained.
They're really trained by now in doing this.
Don't worry, Mr. Taylor, I'm about to finish.
This is awesome.
This is a statue of Empress Maria Theresia in Vienna.
They covered it with a burka.
This was very successful because Breitbart picked it up.
And so it was all over the world.
And actually, the Burka was not there for a long time, but it doesn't matter, you know, the image counts.
And this was very, very effective.
You know, it was a warning against Islamization.
Here's another one.
Really nice.
This was also nice.
Some of you might have seen it.
Identitarians climbed up the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and they unfolded this poster which says, Safe borders for a safe future.
Now, a slogan like this is a winner.
If people come and say,"Wow, these are right-wing extremists," they say,"Okay, it's a very, very extremist slogan to say that.
Safe borders for a safe future." I mean, nobody who's sane in his head can agree on that, no?
So, this was really good, and it looked awesome, you know?
And they were actually climbing up using...
It's difficult to do.
You have to be physically courageous to do that.
Here's another one.
Police are already coming.
So, when police is coming, no resistance.
Politely get yourself removed.
You have done.
You get the picture.
You have to get the picture.
And it means protect borders, save lives.
Not only the lives of our people who are suffering from the collateral damage of immigration through terrorism and crime and rape, but also the borders of those that are lured into Europe with false promises.
This is also fun.
There were these buses erected in Dresden, and they were a piece of art from a Syrian artist.
Of course, it was a piece of trash and garbage, so this is the identitarians here, and they are dressed up as construction workers.
The jackets actually say it's the Alain de Benoit company.
You know, you might have thought of Alain de Benoit.
So, it's a nod to this famous French thinker, and they put up this poster that said,"Your policies are junk," like these pieces of art.
It was also popular because everybody hated these buses.
Everybody in Dresden, I mean, what the hell?
Okay, so this is the recent thing.
This was the first protest with a little boat.
You know, Lauren Southam was on it, and there was a report, so they went to protest this NGO ship.
And here you see Madness in the Mad.
It's covered in spectator.
The Migrant Taxi Service from Libya to Italy, that's what it's about, and Defend Europe.
God bless them, they are now at sea, is about to defend it.
Another curious thing, the ship is called Sea Star.
I take this as a sign of fate.
I love to talk about fate.
If you have read The Camp of Saints, the main ship heading the migrant fleet is called Calcutta Star, and now our ship is called Sea Star.
Isn't this an awesome coincidence?
I like it.
Good luck to them.
I hope they will manage it.
Okay, I guess that's enough for now.
I hope you enjoyed my talk.
We have time for maybe one question, one or two.
There was a philosopher in Germany some decades back, Jürgen Habermas, who spoke a great deal about the importance of open communications being central to a democracy.
Whatever became of his ideas, whatever became of him?
Well, he was the one who shut down open discussions.
I mean, this was a total stupid idea.
I mean, he had this idea that everybody should rationally communicate with everybody, but only if you share certain liberal ideas.
If you don't, there will be no communication.
So he's one of the main villains in making this happen, that people can't talk about this anymore.
Thanks. This concern comes out of my family history.
I see so much disrespect in Austria, in the train stations, just trash everywhere, in the streets.
How are the, or are they, the cemeteries being protected in Austria?
The grave sites?
Cemeteries? What kind of cemeteries?
For dead people, for graves.
Are they just being open, fair game?
No, they're just fine.
Don't worry.
Okay. What are the culturalist policies of the far-right Austrian party?
Are they for repatriation?
Are they for shutting down mosques?
Or are they just stopping immigration and then we don't talk about it?
They're actually not a far-right party.
They're actually very center-right.
Of course, they are being called a far-right party because Oberton window has shifted.
Basically, their policies are to limit immigration, especially to Muslims, and put more pressure on assimilation.
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