The German “Green Party” haunted by its paedophile past (and present)

A few day ahead of the national elections in Germany, the leftist-ecologist “Green Party”, which has imbitions to replace, as part of a coalition  with the Social Democrats and the extreme-left Party “Die Linke” the centre-right Government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, is again confronted with revelations concerning its role as the political mouthpiece of openly paedophile lobbies.

Of course, it is well known (and never was a secret) that the Greens are the political movement that is more active than any other group in promoting homosexuality as a “normal” and socially acceptable lifestyle. But it somehow had fallen into oblivion that this agenda was from its very beginning deeply entangled with the paedophile lobby. And this entanglement was by no means accidental. The promotion of both homosexuality and paedophilia simply was part of a larger project: a cultural revolution that sought to establish all rules concerning sexuality, hoping that this “sexual revolution” would lead to a complete destruction of the existing culture and thus open the way for the construction of a completely new society. The fundamental approach was to turn sexual fulfilment into the supreme value of modern society, and to claim that legal restrictions to sex are no more socially acceptable. The simple message was: every form of sexual activity should be licit, except where physical violence is involved. By logical necessity, this agenda included the legalization of what was euphemistically called “loving relationships between adults and children”. How could it have been otherwise?

It is no wonder then that paedophile groups were one of the most active constituencies of the Green Party when it was founded in the early nineteen-eighties. The demand to remove all legal barriers for sex between adults and children was several times openly mentioned in the Party’s programmatic statements, for example ahead of the regional elections in North-Rhine-Westphalia in 1985.

Later on, when the Party realized that, despite the apparent success of the 1968 Cultural Revolution the inclusion of legal paedophilia damaged their perspectives to be accepted as a partner in a coalition government, they silently dropped this sinister part of their agenda. That is, they did not mention it any more. But in actual fact, they never distanced themselves from it. The promotion of homosexuality, however, was maintained and continues to be the very cornerstone of what the Greens believe to be a “fundamental rights policy”.

It is strange to see how today, more than 20 years later, the close links between the Green Party, the promotion of homosexuality as a “fundamental right”, and organized paedophile networks, seem to surprise the public. In actual fact, it never was a secret.

Maybe it is a side-effect of the paedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church that public attention is now slowly shifting towards the Greens, who for years had been the loudest critics of the Church’s alleged insincerity in dealing with the issue, and its unwillingness to listen to the victims. For  quite a while, the Greens continued lecturing society on sexual mores, but slowly the public begins to realize that there is an enormous difference between a Church that, despite the sins of some priests and bishops, has always unequivocally condemned paedophilia, and a political party that has until not so long ago actively promoted it.

The issue began reaching public consciousness earlier this year (see here) when Andreas Vosskuhle, the President of Germany’s Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) declined an invitation to deliver a speech at the occasion of the conferral of a distinction of honour to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the Green parliamentary group in the European Parliament, citing from a book in which Cohn-Bendit, had provocatively (and without the slightest sign of regret) bragged about his own paedophile actions. Later on, Cohn-Bendit claimed that these passages were fiction, not reality – but did that really help his cause? There are good reasons to consider that a non-paedophile promoting the broad legalization of paedophilia as a part of a political agenda is actually much worse that an individual paedophile succumbing to his sexual urge. (Note that with this we do not want to justify the latter, but qualify the former.)

Confronted with the revelations regarding Mr. Cohn-Bendit, the Green Party’s strategy was to assert that this was an issue pertaining to a distant part, of which no one had any clear remembrance. Undeniable facts were admitted, but at the same time it was asserted that the paedophile lobby never had had any significant influence of the party, that its representatives had been ousted a long time ago, and that the demand to legalize sex with Children had been eliminated from the Party’s programme almost immediately after it had been included there. The whole thing, the public was told, was in reality a malevolent slander campaign by Christian Democrats.

Unfortunately, the public didn’t buy this. Demands that the Green’s take a closer and more critical look at its paedophile entanglements were made with growing insistence, and the pressure mounted. In the end, the Greens decided to deal with the matter somewhat more offensively, tasking a renowned (but reputedly politically left-leaning) political scientist, Professor Franz Walter of Göttingen University, to draw up a comprehensive report on the matter. However, when the public learned that the report was to be published only in the course of 2014, i.e. long after this week’s general election, the criticism concerning an alleged cover-up recommenced. In the end it was decided that Prof. Walter had permission to publish each of his discoveries as soon as he made it, with only a 12hrs embargo to allow the Green Party to prepare an official reaction.

Unfortunately for the Green Party, Prof. Walter, who has got a reputation to lose, appears to take his task very seriously. Since he has started his work, he continues coming up with trouvailles that evidence a much closer involvement of the Green Party, including its current leaders, with the politics of paedophilia.

In this way, it has emerged that the Party’s current leader, Jürgen Trittin, (who is said to have aspirations to be the Minister of Finance in Germany’s next Government) had prominently supported the legalization of sex with Children in an electoral campaign in Lower Saxony.

Although this happened nearly thirty years ago, the Party’s claim to have severed all links to supporters of legal paedophilia holds longer true. In actual fact, the current leader is one such former supporter of legal sex with children. Mr. Truittin, however, says that he had forgotten about this personal involvement of his, so that he could not himself taken the initiative to inform the public. He admits the undeniable fact – but of course, given it was all so long ago, does not see any necessity for personal consequences.

The latest revelations on paedophile entanglements concern Mr. Volker Beck, a Member of the German Bundestag. The matter is quite delicate, given that in the person of Mr. Beck, who is openly gay, the close connections between the gay rights movement and the politics of paedophilia become clearly evident. As a Member of the Bundestag, Mr.Beck is the Party’s speaker and expert on “fundamental rights” (which for him boil down to one single issue, namely LGBT rights). In that function, he has acquired a certain notoriety even outside Germany, by organizing, and ostentatiously participating in, “Gay Pride” parades in neighbouring countries, often in close co-operation with likeminded representatives of the EU. With particular zeal, Mr. Beck is promoting homosexuality in countries where the open promotion of unnatural sexual behaviours is still illegal, such as in Russia, speculating that his participation in such activities (and possible arrest as a consequence thereof) lead to diplomatic incidents that will help him in creating a negative image of those “homophobic” countries in the European press.

But the day has come where the Russians can feel fully justify in saying that the youth must be protected against Mr. Beck and his ilk. In fact, it had been known all the time that in 1988 Mr. Beck had authored a contribution for a book on paedophilia, wherein he had claimed that it was “urgently necessary to de-criminalize paedo-sexuality” (N.B. this is the classical paedophile narrative: it is not we who want sex with children, but the children who want sex with us…). But Mr. Beck always denied his responsibility for this statement, saying that it had been manipulated by the book’s editor against his will and without his knowledge. These attempts at justification had always lacked credibility (given that there was no trace of any attempts on Mr. Beck’s side to have the book withdrawn from the market, or to make the editor confess that he had falsified the manuscript), but now new evidence has emerged that there was no such manipulation. The statement that sex with children should be legal clearly is Mr. Beck’s own. In other words, he has lied to the public. He was an active promoter of paedophilia. And he still is active in the Green Party – in a quite prominent role.

Further discoveries are likely to follow. But even now it becomes increasingly clear that a problematic approach to sexuality (which in turn is informed by a problematic anthropology) is not some marginal and long bygone element in the history of the Green movement, but a central marker of that movement’s identity. And the close link between the paedophile and the homosexual agenda, which become more and more evident, should be reason enough for the more decent among Europe’s political leaders to have a second thought about so-called “LGBT rights”.  

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