Pomp and Circumstance for Haider

Jörg Haider’s funeral brings 30,000 people to Klagenfurth, many of them Nazis. The press ignores this and concentrates instead on defamation of gays and gay lifestyle.

Jörg Haider

Jörg Haider got a state funeral with pomp and circumstance on Saturday. The pomp was due to him as governor of Austria’s Carinthia state. The circumstances leading up to his smashing his car on the roadside were not part of the ceremonies.

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. Amongst the mourners were seen many Vienna cabinet ministers led by President Heinz Fischer, Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan dictator Khadafy, 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 defamations 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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Further reading
Monaco in World War II
From Iron Cross to OBE
Don't Speak Well of the Dead

Haider's Unlamented Death

Jörg Haider, the well known Austrian Nazi spokesman, died in a car crash breaking one law too many. He brought brown politics back into fashion while living it up in a £25 million estate seized from a Jew during the War.

Jörg Haider skinny dipping

Jörg Haider, at the time governor of Corinthia state in Austria, died an unlamented death on the road, breaking one law too many. Driving at a dashing 142 kph (90 mph) instead of 70 kph (45mph) he lost control over his car and smashed into a concrete pillar.

Jörg Haider was the leader of the far right political fraction in Austria and has been known worldwide for his Nazi thinking, condoning Hitler’s death camps as punishment centres and the slave work of prisoners of war as outstanding politics for general work. Being the son of a Nazi Stormtrooper father and a Hitler Youth leader mother seems to have predisposed him in that direction.

It came as a surprise to me that he was driving a Volkswagen phaeton when speeding (and thank you Volkswagen), and no as I had expected an Audi. Maybe you don’t know, but all Nazi greats had driven an Audi during the war, though then it was known as Horch. (Explanation: Horch, German, means listen!; Audi, Latin, means listen!; got it?) Also, Audi was preeminent in using forced labour in its factories during the War. Actually so did Volkswagen, so it’s not too far off.

Jörg Haider had managed to bring back brown politics into the mainstream of the Austrian party landscape, with his rhetorical skills he won many voters over to the far right edge of the political spectrum. Far from rejecting his obvious Nazi dealings, the population seemed to welcome this kind of throw back into an ugly past. Bu then, one forgets that Austria is the only country in Europe who merged with Hitler’s Germany of its own free will. How else could they allow this obvious offspring of the NSDAP into government from 2000 to 2006?

It is almost funny to see how everybody tries to be politically correct when commenting on his death. And this towards a person who was not only completely and utterly politically incorrect, but broke every law he could, lied, cheated, and generally made such an obnoxious pest of himself and his Nazi thinking that all one can think is: Thank god, it’s over. But it is telling how reticent people are to call a Nazi a Nazi.

Jörg Haider joined the right wing Freedom Party in 1976 to become its chairman in 1986. Amid a row about his homosexual interests he was ousted from the post, but remained the brown strategist of the party until he drew up his own Alliance Party in 2005. Both parties together have polled more votes than the main parties in the last general elections.

Privately, he lived in a £25 million ($50 million) estate called Baerental inherited from his great uncle in 1980 who had ‘bought’ it 1940 from a fleeing Italian Jew for a piece of bread and a drink of water.

His funeral will be a major venue for old and young Nazis from all over the continent. It is just to be hoped that somebody is there to shoot photographs and to put them on the internet, as it recently was done at a Nazi meeting held in the Mud of Switzerland. With a bit of luck, more names could be published of the Fifth Column trying to gain power in Europe.

Further reading
Monaco in World War II
From Iron Cross to OBE
Don't Speak Well of the Dead