In a one-sided and blatantly standard letter (see attached for documentation) received just a few days ago, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg rejected, finally, without any justification or any trial, Dr. Peter Nittmann’s suit filed against the Federal Republic of Germany because of the enforced church tax imposed on unemployed non-church members based on the Hitler Concordat. The letter merely states that there is »no sign« that the European Human Rights Convention has been violated – the claim is therefore supposed to be obviously unfounded. The Court refuses expressly any explanation for this monstrous assertion. It merely states that it wishes no further correspondence in this matter and will destroy the file in one year. This standard letter, signed by some employee or other, is – after three years of complete inactivity of the Court in the case – the only reaction that Dr. Nittmann has received to his 60-page, carefully founded complaint with thousands of enclosed signatures of solidarity from all over the world. So the complaint has simply been rejected in a secret proceeding, it was and will never be even heard in Strasbourg and the file – a document that is, in view of the importance of the matter and the international resonance to it, historic – is to be destroyed without a trace! How contemptible this behaviour is: one cannot take on a claim and then three years later state that it will never be heard or a decision taken upon it – they could have said that straight away – in order to simply remove oneself from the responsibility. This mockery of legal state procedure is a taste of what the EU has to offer us in future.

These four paragraphs of arsewipe written by some secretary or other do, however, contain one piece of revealing information: the rejection of the complaint was decided without any proceeding or justification by three judges who had to vote unanimously on it and who were, besides Judge Berro-Lefèvre from Monaco and the Bulgarian judge Kalaydjieva, the German judge Renate Jaeger. The German government, represented by Frau Jaeger, whom they had selected themselves in 2004, was therefore able to decide as a judge in their own interest in Strasbourg. Frau Jaeger had previously been a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court for Social Security and Related Matters – i.e. the two very courts that had been covering up and pushing through the unconstitutional enforced church tax on non-church members in Germany for decades by outrageous judgements. Since her appointment, Judge Jaeger has been repeatedly demanding in the press – as has the German government itself in recent years, as Dr. Nittmann’s file was lying in a drawer in Strasbourg – that the European Court in Strasbourg should tread carefully with Germany, »respect« the decisions made by the German Federal Constitutional Court and »concentrate on other countries«. This Animal Farm-like mission has now been accomplished by Judge Jaeger in the proceeding that has been the most unpleasant and delicate one for the German government in Strasbourg for a long time: the German government will never even have to utter one syllable to justify itself for this multi-billion-euro church tax theft committed against the poorest of non-church members, let alone acknowledge it and compensate the victims for it. True, it has secretly abolished the unconstitutional law on account of the massive international protests against it, but it can keep the billions of euros it has stolen for the church and the victims will remain cheated and robbed down to the last cent!

This violent measure, with which the European Court has swept aside about 6000 signatures of protest from all over the world and the thoroughly founded complaint – in which the extension of the Hitler Concordat to the unconstitutional enforced church tax on unemployed non-church members by the SPD government (Renate Jaeger is also a member of this party) since 1975 is described precisely – with one stroke of a pen, shows one thing more than anything else: no-one should have any illusions about the complete submissiveness to the Church and boundless contempt in a state under the rule of law that are part and parcel of an »independent European justice system«, which on the eve of the planned passing of a European Enabling Act – the Lisbon EU-Treaty with its notorious pro-clerical Article 52 (now Article 17 of the planned »Treaty on the Functioning of the EU«) – intends to force the continuation and extension of church privileges onto Europe that Hitler and Mussolini gave the Pope.

But the sudden and particularly ugly violent measure from Strasbourg after years of sitting it out also shows that the calculation of the European Court that public attention would fade during its three years of delaying tactics has not worked – recently, too, hundreds of protest signatures have been sent to it regarding the case of Dr. Nittmann. As ever, the perpetrators avoid and fear the public - it is exclusively due to the international publicity that the unconstitutional enforced church tax on non-church members in Germany does no longer fill the purse of the Church. Therefore, in order to end these continuing protests, the European Court has now dismissed the case abruptly and silently. It wants to destroy the memory of this dirty spot on European and German history – we, in turn, will do everything to make sure it stays in the memory of mankind.