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| Jörg Haider |
30,000
people are said to have lined the streets of Klagenfurt, Carinthia’s capital,
as the coffin was driven to the funeral in Klagenfurt’s cathedral, bedecked in
flowers and covered with the Corinthian flag. Among the mourners were seen
many Vienna cabinet ministers led by President Heinz Fischer, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi,
son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and many old SS veterans, but also many young
Nazis from half of Europe. Surprisingly missing at the funeral were Haider’s right
wing counterparts in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and in Switzerland, former Minister of
Justice Christoph Blocher.
The
amount of people should give authorities pause to think about the enormous
attraction Nazi thinking seems to develop for old and young alike. Especially
in a country like Austria who has never faced up to its devastating role in the
War, this should be closely watched. But seemingly neither governments nor
press are sensing or seeing the danger, spending their time rather in the defamation of others.
Before
the funeral came the news release from police which was less than welcome to
family, friends and party fanatics. Apparently, Jörg Haider had been drunk when
driving home, having spent the evening first at a reception, then in a
nightclub and finally in a well known gay bar. Apparently he spent a late night
hour in the company of an unknown young man in the gay venue. A guest who
offered to drive Jörg Haider home, seeing he was heavily loaded, was rebuffed.
Having
read many press reports on the case of Jörg Haider, I have noticed that the press
instead of concentrating on the unprecedented coming together of apparently
30,000 Nazis in Austria has misused their articles for negative and nugatory
remarks about gays and gay life. That is not only deplorable, it is outright
dangerous. It is the sneakiest way of being politically incorrect.
In fact,
in half the articles I found the gay bar was used in conjunction with
negative remarks or riders, such as ‘sleazy’. I am positive that none of the
writers have been in Klagenfurt at any time of their life. If they have been
there, they certainly were not in that bar enabling them to judge if it was
sleazy. And it’s people like these journalists who make public opinion. Doesn’t
that frighten you?
It
frightens me, because defamatory insinuations like these are the cesspool of
public opinion. Just because a bar or any venue is gay operated and frequented
mainly by gays and lesbians does not make it in any way sleazy.
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