Criticism
The ZFI was previously observed by the intelligence service of the Bavarian government. However, the ZFI no longer features in the yearly reports of the intelligence service, that depict extremist and anti-constitutional activities. In February 2007, the service stated, though, that "Publications belonging to the far right refer to the Head of the ZFI and his articles in order to propagate thoughts which are not compatible with the free democratic order."
The SPD and others have made allegations that Alfred Lehmann (CSU), Lord Mayor of Ingolstadt, has participated several times in ZFI conferences, while Horst Seehofer (CSU), the minister for food, agriculture and consumer protection, had sent a laudatory greeting to the organization.
Some of the more active critics of the institution include the left-wing journalist Anton Maegerle, who published his portrait of the ZFI in 1996.
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“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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