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ARMINIUS: THE LIBERATOR
Why you should be involved
Somebody sent me the postcard below. It came just at the right time to help me make a point - to speak to your emotions.
What do you see? A gentle youngster of European ancestry, expressing herself by following her instincts. There are millions such youngsters in this world.
Somewhere in your life, you know a child like that. Does she not have a right for her place in the sun? Will she know the warmth that comes from a people to whom she belongs? Will she care about her ancestry, regardless of where she might live?
Don't let your neighbors set your standards. Be yourself!
The Soaring Eagles website, www.soaringeaglesgallery.com will be of interest *primarily* for people who descended from an ancestry of what we call the Western World. If other races from different parts of the world find something of value in what we are saying, they will be our honored guests and we will treat them with respect and courtesy. We mean no harm to them, but we are going to look out for our own.
Ernst Zündel, my husband, once shared with me his dream. We talked about it often. We would create a safe environment where our folk could meet and find back to their roots. Today he is in prison in Europe for speaking Truth to Power. In a letter to me, he described what needs to be done:
“We must warn against the temptation to work over familiar ground, to split hairs and argue points already argued to exhaustion. That's why I preach with an almost religious fervor to step back, to take stock, make inventory of what is useful and worth preserving, and what is a hindrance - and dump, turf out, what is no longer of help to us. (...)
“Europe is evolving, and if present trends continue, the time for some overt changes, rather than changes by nuances, will arrive. Things may quickly take on a life of their own. Remember when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 as if by magic and large parts of Germany reunited? I am convinced the Gentiles of this world will reunite, circle the wagons, and protect what is theirs - a culture and a way of life built and refined over eons.
“Our ancestors are calling their descendants to the front!
“Self-liberation will not be painless, but I do not believe our beloved Old Continent will play second fiddle forever … Arminius learned his skills and his trade in the military academics and training camps of the Roman legions. His victory in the Teutoburg Forest will be celebrated in 2009 by German patriots everywhere. To me, that is a date full of symbolism and also a reminder to self-sacrifice and a renewed commitment to freedom.
“The Spartan ideals will once again have to suffuse all our actions and our thinking. No self-deception will succeed. Only when we change our habits, not only what we eat and drink but what food we take in for the soul with our minds, will we regain our freedom. Words alone, spoken or written, will not achieve it. Personal sacrifice, suffering, sweat, blood and lots of tears, along with fiscal and sexual self-control, reining in our emotions, being steady at the helm of our lives - that's how we will bring forth the heroes necessary for the enormously difficult but historically necessary task.
“There will be no instant solutions, no magic bullet, no shortcuts to victory - not in such an epic struggle to save the remnants of a great and ancient race.”
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We are now entering Phase II. You are invited to become a Spartan of the Spirit
Most people fear being called names. We need to tackle the demonization and vilification tactics of our enemies as the vicious political weapons they are. It is utterly unworthy of good people to cower before psychological artillery fire that is meant to intimidate and coerce - but that loses its power if we dig in our heels and tell our detractors: ”Enough is enough! We will not run and hide if you call us ugly names!”
There are only a handful of us who are taking up the challenge - far too few. And there are wonderful friends who support what we do - but they are far too few. We who are of European ancestry desperately need to broaden our support base, and in order to do that, we have to look attractive. Credible. Solid. Important. Determined. Perhaps even quietly glamorous.
Even in small, modest ways, we need to move into the court of public opinion by strengthening our image, primarily with media of our own. We will have to start small, but there is no reason why we cannot dream big and aim for the stars in the heavens.
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In one of my most popular previous mailings in the mid-‘90s, I talked about the German "Trümmerfrauen" - the post-war German women who would crawl from the ruins of their cities with dented buckets in their hands and silently start cleaning up - a bucket at a time! - to the jeers and abuse of their so-called "liberators".
In a way, that is where we are now. We have been decimated horribly. Most of us don't even know how much has been destroyed. It's rubble blocking our path and dust in our eyes. And now we must rebuild.
I want you to look at the Olympic athletes. Are all “created equal”?
Of course not.
Equality is a political ideal, not a scientific fact. There are brown athletes, black athletes, white athletes, tall athletes, small athletes, graceful athletes, brawny athletes, male athletes, female athletes - does it cause anybody mental anguish that not all are of the same looks, capacities, and identical physical mold?
Of course not.
Does it diminish an Olympic contestant as he or she is struggling for the top but somebody else might be "better"?
Of course not.
Would the Olympic games even exist to show the world just what it means to be a champion striving for the highest honor for one’s own country and one’s own people if there were no standards of strength, beauty, honor, self-discipline, and pride in one's own gifts?
Of course not.
That is precisely what we intend to do. Not to diminish someone else's unique gifts, but to take pride in our own and hone them to perfection.
The time has come to focus on what's best in us - and support exactly what is best in us without constantly having to look over our shoulder. We must defend ourselves against unfair demonization. We must do so fearlessly and systematically by media that we control, that reflect correctly who we are, what we believe in, and what we say and do. And since the current Poodle Media is not on our side and offers us nothing but buckets of slime, we must create our own.
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A coffee table book - "Arminius: The Liberator"
Many times I asked myself: “What is it that we really need? What is the quickest short-cut?”
A counterpart media offensive to challenge Steven Spielberg and his ilk.
Less than two years ago a local producer and I set out to map out the foundation for a feature movie about a folkish hero who lived 2,000 years ago and drove the Romans out of what is now called Germany. To start, I bought the English rights for a magnificent coffee table book that describes a truly epic struggle of liberation of an oppressed Germanic tribe, the Cheruskans. I arranged for a translation. This book is now in print. It is selling not only in the Americas, but also in Canada, Europe, and south of the border. For me, it is the launching pad for greater things to come.
I could not have done this alone. I have had sponsors assisting me in this first crucial step. Most of our sponsors for this project have been appreciative of the scope of what we have in mind – but as so often happens, two or three naysayers will spring into action and start their pessimistic litany:
“You are out of your mind! How are you going to raise the millions needed to put your movie on the screen? And even if you manage to produce a quality film, how are you going to promote it? You can’t do it! You can’t compete against Hollywood, Ingrid! It is impossible!”
To them I say: A bucket at a time!
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In 1945, when Germany was nothing but rubble, when practically all males were either dead, in horrible captivity, or missing - who would have claimed with a straight face that there was any chance at all that a bucket brigade of ragged, hungry, grieving women with nothing but their fierce belief and courage to tackle the destruction - one bucket of rubble at a time! - would make a difference for Germany?
These women had gumption. They knew what they were doing - they knew that a beginning had to be made. They ignored being jeered at, spat at, kicked at, vilified and demonized - they made a human chain and passed buckets of rubble from hand to callused hand, ignoring the demonization. They had made up their minds - and in the end they succeeded.
Remember the “economic miracle” that Germany became? It started with bucket brigades.
Our very own bucket brigades
For now, my emphasis will be publicity about my coffee table book, Arminius: The Liberator. I am going to find and to form our own bucket brigades by way of a mantra I will say to myself three times a day: “There are hundreds of millions of European-descendants in the world. If I can only manage to get each of them to donate an itsy bitsy $1, I will have the money to do what needs to be done.”
The pessimists in our ranks are pesky. How will I reach hundreds of millions of people?
To them I say: “I know it will be difficult. But a beginning just has to be made. Perhaps I can get one million European-descendants descendants to give me $20 apiece?”
You get my point. There are some 60 million descendants of Germanic background in the United States alone. Add to them the Brits, the Austrians, the Swiss, the Danes, the Spaniards, the Greeks etc. - all of them of European background - how long might it take to reach them in the marvelous age of the Internet where people are one mouseclick away?
A beginning has already been made. We will cut corners; we’ll send the middlemen packing, we’ll use publicity wisely, we’ll prove that we are not the kind of crooks who defraud billions in fancy country clubs - we're different!
We are a decent, honorable, hard-working, determined folk intent on reclaiming what is ours by right: Our good name, our honor as a people, and our honorable past.
One dented bucket at a time.
All we need is a bucket brigade.
