Martin Hess
Interior Ministry Budget
German Bundestag,
November 28, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/131, pp. 16392-16393
[Martin Hess is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from the southwestern German state of
Baden-Württemberg. He is a police officer. He here responds to a statement by
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer concerning the ministry budget.]
Right honorable Herr President. Honored colleagues.
Herr Interior Minister, listening to your statements on the domestic
security situation, an objective observer can come to only one conclusion:
Either you suffer from a major disturbance in the perception of reality or you
are simply flattering yourself. What you presented here in regards the security
situation has nothing to do with the reality of life in our country. Germany is
becoming ever more insecure and the state of law loses ever more ground to its
enemies. That is the irrevocable truth.
Every normal thinking person in this country recognizes that. Why
otherwise must you expend ever more money for domestic security? Otherwise, why
must you worry about an increase of positions for security officials if Germany
is allegedly more secure than it has been in the last 30 years? The citizen
will not allow himself be treated as stupid and he recognizes the
contradiction. On one, single basis you tell the citizens of our country the
often repeated fairy tales of an oh, so more secure Germany. You would mislead
them with the circumscribed security policy failures of a dilettante.
But I say to you: Ever more citizens see through this farce, and it does
not help that you continually attempt to tell the citizens that their
subjective sense of security does not correspond to the factual situation,
entirely as if our citizens were only imagining that Germany is becoming ever
more insecure.
These days at the Christmas markets across this country, it is indeed
obvious to all who here is actually suffering from a major disturbance of perception.
Our children will not be able to remember a Christmas without terror blockades
and heavily armed police. Precisely that is the central evidence of your
failures and it confirms that the citizens are right.
With this budget, you are attempting to explain away security policy
problems which would not exist save for your unacceptable failures in the area
of domestic security. Had the federal government reached the correct decisions,
then Germany today would be essentially more secure. You had and have the
possibility of implementing a security policy which can lead to a maximum
protection of our citizens, Yet precisely here, one of the central, if not the
most central, duties of our state, you fail pitifully – with fatal consequences
for the life, health, freedom and property of our citizens. This security policy
disaster we cannot and will not accept nor submit to. The greatest possible
security for our citizens must finally be established and in that regard there
can be no compromise.
You here are always proclaiming the defense of our fundamental order and
values, yet you do the exact opposite. You in all earnestness wish to
distribute, so as to promote integration, 7 million euros of tax money to mosques,
and to DITIB mosques, even though security officials state that the DITIB is
hatching large-scale anti-state activities and therefore must actually be
subjected to intelligence service surveillance. You are financing Islamists and
Salafists. That, Herr Minister, is “making the goat the gardener.” We will not
participate in the financing of the enemies of the state.
With open eyes, we go about our republic acknowledging how poorly
prepared is our state of security. The Islamist terror danger has never been so
high, migrant and knife crime increases steadily, the number of serious sexual
offenses, like gang rapes, increases. Women and children are meantime thrown in
front of moving trains. They not longer go out to health clinics, public
swimming pools, schools and job centers. The assaults on police, firemen and
rescue workers become ever more brutal. Clan criminals tyrannize entire neighborhoods,
storm police stations and health clinics. Security officials confirm a massive
influx and warn of new, dangerous clans with combat veteran migrants.
Britta Haßelmann
(Greens): Irresponsible, what you are doing!
That is the machinery of war which you, with your fatal migration policy,
allow unhindered into our country. And that is a scandal.
In the capital, with the consent and tolerance of all state
institutions, drug dealers, completely unhindered, can peddle drugs. That
certainly has nothing to do with the safest Germany of all time. Just the
opposite. Germany is mutating into a security madhouse.
Ulli Nissen (SPD):
Unbelievable!
In light of this devastating situation, there remains for me only an
urgent appeal: It is your duty to defend, as best as possible, the citizens.
May you, God willing, finally begin to do that!
Britta Haßelmann
(Greens): How good it is, that you no longer train any policemen!
[Translated by Todd Martin]
