Parallel society, your name is German Government

Good news on German home schooling refugees

By Donald Hank

By now you may have read the news on WND (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59536) about the home schooling family, the Landahls, who, at the behest of the mayor of their city of Altensteig, were forced by a German court to leave their homeland or face losing their children to the child “protection” services.

The German home schooling organization Netwerk Bildungsfreiheit has now informed Laigle’s Forum that this family has successfully moved to another country, whose identity they have asked us not to disclose.

So these kids are safe and with their parents. Please keep the Landahl family and all the persecuted German Christians in your prayers.

Jörg Großelümern, Chairman of Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit, is asking concerned Americans to bombard Mayor Grossman with letters, faxes and emails.

Address (to write the ü on your computer, just hold down the Alt key while typing 0252 on your number pad. To get the ß, hold down Alt and type 0223):


Herr Bürgermeister
Jürgen Großman
Rathausplatz 1
72213 Altensteig
Germany
Email: juergen.grossman@altensteig.de
Phone: 0 75 53 / 94 61-117
 Go ahead and write, email or fax, in English if necessary.
Or you can copy the text suggested by Jörg, as follows:

Ich bin besorgt über die Unterdrückung elementarer Freiheits- und Menschenrechte, sowie die völlig maßlose Vorgehensweise gegen verantwortungsvolle und engagierte Eltern wie die Landahls.
 
(Translation: I am concerned about the suppression of elementary liberty rights and human rights and the quite excessive proceedings against responsible and involved parents like the Landahls)

Or you could borrow my letter as follows:

Ich bin zutiefst erschüttert von der Nachricht, daß die Familie Landahl deshalb zum Verlassen ihrer Heimat gezwungen wird, weil diese christlichen Eltern ihre Kinder selber erziehen wollten. Außer in Deutschland ist die Heimschule nirgends in der zivilisierten Welt verboten. Hierzulande, z.B. (USA), gilt als „Parallelgesellschaft“ vielmehr eine Gesellschaft, die die Menschenrechte verletzen. Ist es möglich, daß die führenden Klassen in Deutschland wirklich eine solche Gesellschaft in Europa gestalten wollen, die die elementaren Menschenrechte und auch das europäische Grundgesetzt auf so wilkürliche Weise verletzt, indem man den Eltern das anderswo unantastbare Recht verweigert, ihre eigenen Kinder so zu erziehen wie es ihnen recht scheint?

Vor fast 300 Jahren wurden die Wiedertäufer aus Deutschland verbannt, weil sie als Andersdenkende galten. Für die intoleranten Mitglieder der damaligen führenden Klasse galten sie auch insofern als Parallelgesellschaft. Sie kamen u.a. nach Amerika und leben noch heute hierzulande, friedlich und ungestört. Es fällt niemandem ein, sie als Parallelgesellschaft zu bezeichnen, und wir versuchen auch nicht, sie womöglich so umzuerziehen bzw. umzugestalten, daß sie uns völlig gleich sind. Für uns sind das Menschen, die als solche ihre Würde haben und das Recht so zu glauben und denken wie sie wollen. Wie langweilig wäre eine homogene Gesellschaft, in der sich alle Menschen ähneln! Man denke nur an die Hitlerzeit oder an Mussolinis Italien. Im übrigen haben viele von meinen Landsleuten Vorfahren, die zur Entweichung der Christenverfolgung in Europa nach Amerika eingewandert sind. Manche davon erziehen ihre Kinder ungestört zu Hause.

Es ist kaum zu fassen, daß in der ehemaligen Heimat dieser friedlichen Leute dieselbe Art von Unmenschlichkeit, die vor 300 Jahren unsere Ahnen des Landes verweisen ließ, noch in der heutigen Zeit durchaus lebendig ist. Sowas geht allen Amerikanern zuwider.

Trotz all der Medien-Propaganda und aller hochtrabenden Gerichtsentscheidungen, die das Volk überzeugen will, daß einige Christen etwa eine gefährliche Parallelgesellschaft einführen wollen, wissen die Landahls daß es eigentlich eine andere, beträchlich gefährlichere Parallelgesellschaft in Deutschland herrscht.

Ihr Name ist Regierung!

Hochachtungsvoll,

[Youre name]

(Translation: I am deeply shaken by the news that the Landahl family is being forced to leave their homeland simply because these Christian parents want to educate their children. With the sole exception of Germany, home schooling is not banned anywhere else in the civilized world. In my country (USA), when we think of a “parallel society,” we think of one that violates human rights. Is it possible that the ruling classes of Germany really want to found a society in Europe that violates the most basic human rights in such an arbitrary manner as to deny parents the right to bring up their children as they see fit?

About 300 years ago, the Anabaptists were exiled from Germany because they were seen as dissenters. They too were thought of as a parallel society. They came to America and live here today, peaceful and undisturbed. It would never occur to us to call them a parallel society or try to force them to be like us. For us they are human beings and as such have the right to think and believe as they see fit. It would be so boring to live in a homogeneous society in which everyone were alike!  Jus think if you will of the Hitler era or Mussolini’s Italy.  Besides, many of us have ancestors who came here to escape religious persecution. Many of them home school their children.

It is hard to imagine that in their former homeland, the same kind of inhumanity that banished our ancestors 300 years ago is still alive and well in Germany today, and that in a Germany that calls itself “progressive.”  This is repulsive to every American.

Despite all the German media propaganda and high-sounding court decisions aimed at convincing people that a few Christians are poised to introduce a dangerous parallel society there, the Landaus know that a true, considerably more dangerous, parallel society prevails in Germany today.

Its name is Government!

Sincerely,

[Your name])

Let’s keep the heat on.  And let’s keep praying.


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4 Responses to “Parallel society, your name is German Government”

  1. Jonathan Skeet Says:

    It was my great privelige to drive to a sea-port in the country where I live late on Saturday night, and pick up Kathrin and the children to the aforementioned safe place, just round the corner from our house. This means, however, that I have been an accomplice in a mother kidnapping her own children, as she was no longer the legal custodian. Would I do it again? You bet. Will I have to do it again? Maybe.

    The Mum and kids are getting on reasonably well, under the circumstances, and Dad (Klaus) will hopefully be joining them tonight or tomorrow morning. They need our prayers in getting set up here in ——-

  2. Hi Donald,
    I think there is another parallel society in Germany: The German School-System itself. It is so far away from reality and from the socio-cultural basics of a modern society.
    The school authorities and the governement fears that this parallel society will show up if homeschoolers exist and are successfull in Germany.

    Klemens

  3. I called the mayor of Altensteig and spoke to him in German. Very eloquent guy. I told him I was calling from the USA and asked him what he had against homeschooling. He told me that it is the government’s job to make sure that children are cared for and educated.
    I told him that was praiseworthy, but what did that have to do with public schools? That everyone knows that homeschooling gives better educational results on average.
    Then he said “We have the Schulpflicht here, the mandatory institutional education law”. I told him that was true, but that we have had terrible laws here in the USA, too, terrible slave laws like the Fugitive Slave Act, for example and these laws not just either. That he had the opportunity to show leadership and oppose unjust laws.
    Then he said “You are in the USA, you do not need to concern yourself about what we do here”. I told him I am very concerned, that millions of us are.
    Carol

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