Alice Weidel
Investigation of the AfD
January 28, 2019
[Alice Weidel is a chairman of the Alternative
für Deutschland delegation in the German Bundestag. The German Federal Office
for the Defense of the Constitution had earlier this month publicly classified
the AfD as an “investigative case”. Article I:1 of the German Basic Law reads:
“Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect
and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.”]
Constitution Defense “Opinion” is Flimsy and
Un-serious
The now published “Opinion” is as flimsy as the
press conference statement of Herr Haldenwang. Despite over four hundred
assiduous pages, the constitution defenders evidently lack substance and
supportable facts for their assertions. That even for this they must plagiarize
from the extreme left Antifa so as to stiffen their flat brew is a pain hardly
to be over-estimated.
This un-serious paper of the constitution defense
“opinionators” makes direct use not only of opaque extreme left sources, it is
besides also inflated with one-sided left-wing views which have little to do
with the letter or the spirit of the Grundgesetz [German basic law]. This is
not the defense of the constitution but the deconstruction of the constitution.
This is evident even in the questionable
interpretation of Art. I of the Grundgesetz. According to Herr Haldenwang and
his constitution defenders, one comes under suspicion of disrespect for human
dignity and thereby hostility to the constitution when one has doubts about
multi-culturalism or distinguishes between German citizens and those of the
rest of the world.
It is telling that the Federal Office for the
Defense of the Constitution, even after publication by third parties, still
does not dare, by its own publication, to stand by this paper. The questionable
maneuver of releasing the “Opinion” to the media, while withholding it from the
accused, supports the suspicion that the Federal Office for the Defense of the
Constitution allows itself to be used for partisan purposes.
