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Viel weiter kann sich eine katholische Priestergemeinschaft wohl nicht von einem ihrer Mitglieder distanzieren. Ein Exzentriker sei Bischof Richard Williamson; einer, der ein "nachhaltiges Problem mit der Realitätserkennung" habe und in "schöner Regelmäßigkeit alle zwei Jahre an den Weltuntergang glaubt". So sprach am Montag in Regensburg Maximilian Krah, der Rechtsvertreter der deutschen Pius-Sektion, über Williamson, einen der eigenen Gemeinschaft. Und fasste schließlich zusammen: "Bunter Vogel, das trifft's, glaub ich." Was vom Landgericht Regensburg als Zeugenvernehmung gedacht war, war zugleich eine öffentliche Distanzierung des Ordens von ihrem gefallenen Mitbruder, über dessen Treiben wieder einmal ein Gericht zu befinden hatte. Wieder ging es um die Frage: Ist es für einen britischen Staatsbürger strafbar, wenn er in einem Interview mit einem schwedischen Fernsehsender auf deutschem Boden den h0Ɩ0cαųst leugnet?

ELEISON  COMMENTS  CCVI  (June 25, 2011) :  CHOOSING  LAWYERS

These "Comments" do not usually tell of things personal, but on the eve of their writer's Appeal being heard in Germany (July 4), an UNTRUTH is circulating which needs to be set straight, amongst other things to allay unwarranted anxieties. The untruth is that I wish my defence against the German State's accusation of "racial incitement" to be based on the truth or falsehood of what actually happened in the most controversial episode of recent German history.

In fact from the moment I knew that I might be accused in Germany of "racial incitement" for remarks made in English to Swedish journalists in November of 2008, I also knew that if I repeated the remarks in front of a German law-court, I risked being immediately thrown into jail. Such is the present state of German law. However, I would rather not be decorated with chains, if I can help it.

So from the beginning I heeded the advice to defend myself on the basis that my remarks were self-evidently in no way intended for a German audience, and thus the German law did not apply to my situation. This much is clear from the last minute of the famous video-clip available on YouTube, which is the last several minutes of the one-hour interview with the Swedes. Moreover, immediately after those remarks, but off camera, I went up to the Swedes and earnestly asked them to be "discrete" in the use they would make of the last part of the interview. This much they would have to admit if they were to testify, but they cannot be forced to come to Germany, so they decline to do so.

As for my changing lawyers four times, the Society's Superior General originally entrusted my defence to the Society's lawyer, Maximilian Krah, who chose to engage Matthias Lossmann, a member of the, alas, anti-Catholic Green Party. He was conscientious but perhaps not too enthusiastic about the case. Through friends, I discovered a lawyer enthusiastic and highly successful in defending such delicate cases, Wolfram Nahrath, but Lossmann was unwilling to work with him. Seeking only the best legal counsel available to me in my quandary, I switched from Lossmann to Nahrath.

However, when the Superior General was informed by aides of Nahrath's political position, he ordered me to find someone else again, believing in good faith no doubt that any public association between the SSPX and "an extreme rightist" would be detrimental. He approved of the elderly and honourable Dr. Norbert Wingerter, a conservative Novus Ordo Catholic, but it appears that it could be Wingerter who is unwittingly the source of the untruth now in circulation. I do not know why, but he seems to be under the mistaken impression that I wanted to go, in front of the court, into the truth or untruth of that episode in German history. Fortunately the Superior General had already approved of yet another lawyer, who now understands correctly how I wish to be defended.

Dear readers, if you think that the interests of God are in any way at stake (not everybody thinks so), do say a prayer between now and July 4 for my latest lawyer who has been for several months working hard on the case, but who is liable to come under fierce pressure from anti-Catholic interests and their powerful servants.                                                      

Kyrie eleison.

A bishop convicted of denying the h0Ɩ0cαųst has skipped the start of his own appeal in a German court. Richard Williamson was convicted of ѕєdιтισn and fined for denying the h0Ɩ0cαųst.  

British bishop Richard Williamson was not present at the opening of his appeal on Monday in Germany.

Williamson, a member of the ultra-conservative Saint Pius X Society, was fined 10,000 euros ($14,000) last year by a Regensburg court for statements he made to a Swedish TV station denying the h0Ɩ0cαųst.

His lawyer Edgar Weiler said that the interview, which was widely circulated over the Internet, was never intended to be seen by the German public.

Weiler said the appeals process did not concern the substance of the comments, but "exclusively the jurisdiction of the German judiciary and the issue of public utterance."

In the interview with Swedish TV at the beginning of last year, Williamson suggested that the number of Jews murdered by the nαzιs was actually 200,000-300,000 - far lower than the six million historians say were killed. Williamson also suggested that "not one" of them was killed in a gas chamber.

Protest from Merkel
 
h0Ɩ0cαųst denial is a criminal offense in Germany and Austria. Williamson had asked the Swedish station to ensure that the footage was never shown in Germany.

Williamson's views have caused problems for the Catholic Church. The January 2008 reversal of Williamson's excommunication by Pope Benedict XVI drew criticism from many, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who demanded that the pope "clarify unambiguously that there can be no denying" that the nαzιs killed six million Jews.

Author: Sarah Harman (KNA, dpa)  
Editor: Nancy Isenson

Another opportunity to belittle the bishop, courtesy of Menzingen's substantial legal fund. With a brotherhood like that, who needs enemies?