Pegida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEY4k8BYjsw

Sorry, it's a short one. It doesn't start until 28 minutes in, after the walk, so it's only the 2nd half, with a young Austrian speaker. But a good crowd.

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I'm going to attach an article here by Frank Jordans of The Associated Press that I think is informative and pretty fair.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-nationalist-party-takes-aim-islam-39303286

Lutz Bachmann speaking at a PEGIDA demonstration.

WHAT ELSE COULD ONE EXPECT?

A district court in the eastern German city of Dresden ruled on Tuesday, May 3, that Lutz Bachmann must pay a penalty of 9,600 euros ($11,044), after being found guilty of the idiotic charge of inciting hatred, a German legal specialty originating from the American occupation of Germany that began in 1945.

Prosecutors asked for a seven-month prison sentence (!) for using the words cattle, scum and trash on Facebook to describe foreign terrorists coming into the country from Africa and West Asia. Imagine, 7 months in prison for something as tame as that!

Bachmann's attorney had asked for an aquittal. The verdict is not yet legally binding pending a 3rd court session on May 10.

By Carolyn Yeager

THE BIRTH OF GERMANY'S GREATEST LEADER took place on April 20, 1889, as you should know. Every year it is celebrated by those of us who love the German Nation as Adolf Hitler represented it. Once again this year we say “Thank you, our Führer, for the example of strength and sacrifice you bequeathed to us. Our gratitude to you is boundless; your light and brilliance shine ever more brightly in the social and political darkness that we are experiencing in 2016. Our hope is that your memory will continue to undergo a renaissance of love and admiration from all the world. We love you!"

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Now, I know that Lutz Bachmann and his PEGIDA movement publicly rejects Adolf Hitler and National-Socialism, but even so the work he does is more in line with the values of National-Socialism than any of the political parties of standing in Germany today, with the exception of the new Alternative für Deutschland. 

Another massive and very enthusiastic crowd in Dresden on December 14, 2015.

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGzvb4Z-M0&app=desktop

Tatjana Festerling gives another powerful speech in defense of the German heart and soul.

From The Epoch Times, Dec. 14, 2015:

The motto of the demonstration is currently aimed against the  deployment of the Bundeswehr to Syria.

Pegida holds the refugee crisis to be a political conspiracy to destabilize Germany and the EU nations, based on publicly known US military doctrines. Lately, Pegida criticized the Syria-deployment of the Bundeswehr.

Pegida had said from the outset in their demands that war refugees must be given temporary protection. They are opposed to the admission of economic refugees and have a zero-tolerance policy towards asylum seekers and criminal extremists whose immediate expulsion it asks.

The scene in the Theaterplatz on the evening of December 7, 2015.

Live stream of today's PEGIDA rally:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXnCBsoRM1c

It is good weather in Dresden - windless and ten degrees plus. Christmas music plays. The visit of Belgians is not only from the two guest speakers, Filip Dewinter and Anke van Dermeersch of the Party “Vlaams Belang”. There is also seen a "We are the people" banner in Flemish.

6:45 Lutz Bachmann opened the rally:

"First of all, warm greetings to our patriotic brothers and sisters in France," he congratulates Marine Le Pen and the National Front for their "historic victory". That was a very clear signal, and the German press is foaming with rage. Therefore, the Front National will now be reviled - and with it their voters. This "30 percent of our neighbors occupied by right-wing" would now be labeled "right-wing". The ARD  had managed eleven times to accommodate the word right-wing in a three-minute report. "But there's the brown mob of the week!" said Bachmann.