Right-Wing Cologne "Freedom March" a Bust

Recently I wrote about the American Youth for Western Civilization and its growing ties to anti-Muslim groups in Germany.  One leader of the group, Taylor Rose, traveled to Cologne to speak at a march and rally with the "Pro-Bewegung" along with some other well-known European racists such as Susanne Winter from the fascist FPÖ in Austria.  The march was supposed to ba a "huge demonstration" of "thousands" of freedom-loving patriots from across Europe.

According to this report in Frankfurter Rundschau, it was anything but:

Doch mit der Realität hatten diese Ankündigungen gar nichts zu tun. Gerade mal 300 Menschen beteiligten sich an dem Protestmarsch. Der Demonstrationsweg endete wegen einer zweistündigen Verspätung bereits am Kölner Heumarkt. Ein großer Teil der Rechten hatte nämlich Schwierigkeiten, überhaupt zum Versammlungsort zu kommen. Linksorientierte Gegendemonstranten hatten für mehrere Stunden die Gleise im Nachbarort Leverkusen blockiert.

(The announcement hat little to do with the reality of the situation. Just about 300 people took part in the protest march. The demonstration wound up at the Haymarket in Cologne due to a 2-hour delay.  A large contingent of right-wingers had difficulty making to the assembly area. Left-wing counter demonstrators blocked the rail track in neighboring Leverkusen.)

One of the counter-demonstrators was Elfi Scho-Antwerpes, Cologne's mayor, who told reporters: 

„Wir wollen keinen Rassismus bei uns in Köln haben, sondern Freiheit, Demokratie und Respekt. Denn unsere Stadt ist bunt – aber nicht braun“,

(We don't want racism in Cologne - rather freedom, democracy and respect.  For we are a city of many colors - not brown.)

Of course, that doesn't stop young Taylor Rose of the YWC from declaring the event a huge success.  Back on the campus of Liberty University, where the students kneel before images of Jesus and Ronald Reagan and are taught in Biology 101 that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs, Rose wrote the following:

The day was marked well as a success for the European and American political right-wing. For the face of European politics is changing, to now, where in the European mainstream, the forward thinking ideas of European conservatism are in the main stream discussion. This is not too far separated from America, where the media and political pundits must consider the Tea Party in their political analysis.

Thousands of Europeans, are no longer satisfied with the at best, centrist approach of the main stream parties. The failure of socialism in almost every form is evident across Europe. For the first time now, there are Germans en mass that are no longer afraid to declare their German patriotism publically.

Sorry Taylor, you and your sorry band of racists are simply delusional. Everyone who actually witnessed the event said it was a pathetic failure.

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