The question in the title may sound weird, but for those who have followed the recent mainstream-media brouhaha about my appearance at New Hampshire’s state legislature, together with three other gentlemen from CODOH, lobbying for diversity in Holocaust education, may understand why.
First, NPR screamed bloody murder about it, then Jewish-Israeli media chimed in, after which many more voices in cyberspace started speaking out. I take here as a representative example the post published on May 3 on JihadWatch.org. The language is hysterical, the target below the belt, and the informational content is rather poor. I have submitted a long reply to the site’s comment section at the end, but I won’t bet on it getting posted, or if it does, that it stays there for long. Hence, I will post it here, slightly adjusted to make clear what my statements are the response to.
In the focus of the media and internet bloggers are not so much my activities as a Holocaust skeptic, but my encounters with U.S. law enforcement over the past years. I have written an entire book about this, which you can download here or purchase here. The below response is in reaction to ad hominem attacks on me made in the above-mentioned internet text centering on my 2020 court case in York, PA. Hence, my text is best read after reading that Jihad hit piece.
Anyone interested in facts of my 2020 trial in Pennsylvania, rather than mere polemics, including a long string of evidence, among them the trial transcripts from the preliminary and the main hearing, can read a book I published about this in 2020 (2nd ed. of 2023): https://germarrudolf.com/2023/01/up-close-and-personal/. I have always been very public and open about this case. I have nothing to hide. Here a few remarks:
At the location in question where I worked out that morning in the summer of 2019, there is no school nearby. It is a public park with a playground at one end (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9575391,-76.4830373,201m/data=!3m1) .
You can watch me working out on a playground on my YouTube channel (summer 2020): https://youtu.be/hgbugxnwRo0 (8:00, 37:40; 1:00:18). Monkey bars are perfect for pullups and shrugs when doing calisthenics in a park. It would be nice to have Muscle-Beach-style workout areas everywhere, so grownups can exercise outdoors too, not just kids. But I guess with Americans trending to be mostly overweight and obese, and averse to nature, there is no interest in a healthy lifestyle in this country. It’s easier to stick health-fanatics like me in prison rather than look into the mirror for a change.
I did not hold a baby bottle in my hand that morning. (Not even the prosecution claimed this.) Americans are obsessed with perverted sexual fantasies. They hear baby oil in some constructed sexual context, and their imagination goes wild. Don’t you guys realize that it is YOU who project your fantasies on me? I still use baby oil as a lotion, but my kids have sent me some normal lotion for Christmas (partly as a joke), which I now use, too.
I did not present or expose myself naked to anyone. The only person who claims otherwise is a police officer, as no one else was present. That police officer changed his story line drastically from preliminary hearing (that story was physically impossible for numerous reasons) to main hearing. I suspect he was groomed by the prosecution to change the story to something more plausible. Yet it is still impossible in many respects. This police officer therefore committed perjury. Don’t take my word for it; read the transcripts. Therefore, there was no evidence of any infraction having been committed. The testimony of a perjurious person is NOT evidence.
During the trial, my defense lawyer, against all previous arrangements and agreements, suddenly and without notice refused to introduce any evidence I had prepared; refused to ask me any of the ten questions I had told him to ask while I was in the witness stand; refused to ask any questions on re-examination; and refused to consider introducing the transcript of the preliminary hearing to prove the police officer’s perjury, which is a felony. In fact, when I asked him later to assist me defending myself against getting bullied by the police, which was ongoing after the trial, he simply stated that he “never does anything against the police”. He did not tell me that before the trial, when it was crystal clear from the start that the police officer is the criminal in this case, not I.
When I was looking for other legal counsel to file a criminal complaint against the police officer for perjury, three defense lawyers strongly advised against it. The argument went something like this: “If they framed you here, which only you can know, once you go after them, they will frame you again fast and hard, especially when the prosecutor’s office you would have to file the complaint with is the same that seems to have manipulated the police officer’s testimony. With a second conviction, you’ll get deported in no time.” They advised me to leave the county and best even the state. Which I later did.
I come from a country where it is illegal for police officers to lie and mislead during interrogations and investigations. Here is what Google AI said when I asked whether in the U.S. police officers can legally lie and mislead: “Yes, U.S. police officers can legally lie and use deception during interrogations and investigations, including claiming to have non-existent physical evidence or fake witness testimony. Courts generally permit these tactics to obtain confessions, provided they do not cross into coercion.” [See also this article by the Innocent Project.] Of course, when testifying in court, police officers, like anyone else, must tell the truth. But once they have built their case on lies and deceptions, good luck with that! U.S. police officers have the license to lie. They get trained in this practice. So, what stops some of them from doing it when pursuing not justice, but injustice?
Any jury will always be inclined to believe a police officer more than a defendant. But due to their legally enforced and protected conviction that their lies are “good lies,” police officers are not more trustworthy than average people. In fact, it is inevitable that they are on average less trustworthy, because power corrupts – not everyone, but more often than it corrupts the powerless.
I applied for U.S. citizenship in 2015. The application should have been adjudicated within a year or two. But the DHS was stonewalling, as they did when I applied for a green card in 2004 and then again in 2009. They waited until 2021, until my appeal had been denied, to then deny my application due to my recent conviction. This looks like a setup to me to deny me to become a U.S. citizen, and the first step in an attempt to deport me again.
The decision in my appeal, where facts could not be discussed but only issues of law, was a farce. To uphold my case, the judges seriously argued that indecent exposure is committed even in total darkness and when no one is around, as were the circumstances that morning. (Police officers with searchlights do not count as members of the non-consenting public that are the “victims” of indecent exposure.) In other words: if you ever peed during a long hike in some bush with no one watching, you still committed indecent exposure according to the PA appeals court. If that were the standard, we’d all be guilty. However, ever since that decision, all PA courts have ignored this ludicrously untenable case law. Go figure.
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