{"id":1552,"date":"2011-09-21T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/hung-out-to-dry-german-neo-nazi-group-banned\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:10:46","slug":"hung-out-to-dry-german-neo-nazi-group-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/21\/hung-out-to-dry-german-neo-nazi-group-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"HuNG OUT TO DRY: GERMAN NEO-NAZI GROUP BANNED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HNG\"They are called the Help Organization for National Political Prisoners and their Families, or the HNG, and they have been called Germany’s largest neo-Nazi group. Now you can call them outlaws. You can do all the cop-out posturing about freedom of speech all you want, but Germans know it is a hell of a lot more than that. Last year, German authorities raided HNG offices because they suspected them of encouraging neo-Nazis to commit crimes. Well, it looks like they found their evidence of such. So if you enjoy reading Stormfront for the whining, you are going to really have a good time checking out that site for the next few days. We believe the Germans have a word for that – schadenfreude!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Germany has banned its largest neo-Nazi association, the HNG, which supports prisoners with far-right views and their families, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, the government’s latest step to curb the influence of radical groups.<\/p>\n

The Help Organization for National Political Prisoners and their Families (HNG) is, say German authorities, a threat to society and works against the constitution.<\/p>\n

With the slogan “A front inside and outside,” the HNG seeks to reinforce prisoners’ right-wing views and motivate them to continue their struggle against the system, said the ministry.<\/p>\n

“It is no longer acceptable that imprisoned right-wing extremists are being strengthened by the HNG in their aggressive stance against the free, democratic order,” Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“By rejecting the democratic constitutional state and glorifying National Socialism, the HNG tried to keep right wing radical criminals in their own milieu,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n

The group, founded in 1979, has some 600 members. The ban follows raids in which police seized material from leading HNG members across Germany.<\/p>\n

Although far-right groups attract most support in the eastern states, where unemployment is high and prospects few, the raids took place in western states including Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has said that far-right groups have in the last few years sought to use the financial crisis and euro zone debt crisis to prove that the capitalist system has failed.<\/p>\n

The ban comes two weeks after the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), which espouses the end of parliamentary democracy, regained seats in the state assembly of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is also represented in Saxony.<\/p>\n

Right wing groups in Germany, including the NPD, are more radical than populist, anti-immigration parties in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Sweden which have enjoyed greater success at the ballot box.<\/p>\n

Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution describes the NPD as racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist and says its statements prove its inspiration comes from the Nazis. The party says the German constitution is a “diktat” imposed by victorious Western powers after World War Two.<\/p>\n

Germany has banned several right-wing groups in the last few years but critics say the government needs to do more to weed out extreme views which permeate society.<\/p>\n

“It is a sensible, if overdue, step to ban a criminal Organization like the HNG,” said Anetta Kahane, head of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation which supports projects to boost civil society.<\/p>\n

“But we need to do more to educate people so that they can resist right-wing ideas. For example, judges and the police need to be educated to deal with extremists,” she told Reuters.<\/p>\n

“The problem of neo-Nazis has not gone away.”<\/p>\n

The police and judicial systems in several eastern German states have been condemned for failing to recognize and tackle the problem of neo-Nazi crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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