Gottfried Curio
Migration
German Bundestag, December 20, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/138, pp. 17315-17316
[Gottfried Curio is an Alternative für
Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin. He is a physicist and musician and is
the AfD’s spokesman for immigration and integration policy in the Bundestag.
Heiko Maas (SPD) is the German Foreign Minister]
Right honorable Herr
President. Ladies and gentlemen.
For Germany, the Global
Refugees Pact will chisel into stone the essentially flawed decisions of the
year 2015. It wishes a fair, international distribution of refugees by means of
increased, new settlements. It wishes a path of legal reception and it wishes a
possibility of legal employment for “people who are underway.” The aim is to
declare every internal refugee of inner Africa to be Europe’s problem.
Resettlement means the
reception of persons from a state in which they already enjoy secure protection
– a program of resettlement to Germany and Europe. Initially, the UNHCR [United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees] was thinking of just one and a half
million persons. Nevertheless, when refugees are resettled in Germany, they
remit money back home. What use is best made of that money there? Right; to
migrate to Germany.
The result of the
non-functional distribution principle, as tried for years in Europe, is that
instead of distribution there is repeat reception, before all in Germany. That
corresponds with Heiko Maas’s agreement to the progressive expansion of the
reception programs in the coming years. In that regard, it should not be
forgotten that Germany, among the Western, industrialized countries, already
now, and by a wide margin, leads in the ranking of reception of refugees – at a
cost of billions.
Helin Evrim Sommer (Linke): Did you read the study?
Those concerned shall thus
not seek shelter in some close-by, neighboring country or indeed remain as
internal refugees –
Helin Evrim Sommer (Linke): Fake News Department!
– but they shall be detached
from their cultural society and distributed over the globe. A return at the end
of the conflict will therefore be considerably more difficult. It is, however,
not masses of men that shall be shifted around the world but, in the best case,
aid money.
Such a resettlement is a
profoundly inhumane, population-policy, plumbing job. It means the cultural and
and linguistic alienation of those concerned. For the reception society, it
means social disadvantages, dangers to domestic security and domestic peace,
loss of identity, a psychological and material excess demand. It is an insanity
of willful, unnecessary burdens for Germany – this rich Germany, where there is
no housing, no teachers, no day-care, but debts and EU liabilities, decrepit
bridges, streets, schools, and where our elders feed themselves at the Tafel.
Karamba Diaby (SPD): In what country are you living?
(Members
of the CDU/CSU and FDP turn their backs on the speaker.
Members of the AfD take
photos. Cries of “Herr President, photos are
being made!” Unrest.)
Presently, over 50 percent of
young men in Arab territories wish to emigrate – 53 million men. Many millions
of people in the Syrian camps await their resettlement in Europe. With the
addition of an expected doubling of the African population to 2.4 billion people
by 2050, the most prominent origin of refugees is likely soon to be
over-populated – and clearly with the right to be distributed around the world.
These persons shall have
extensive rights in the host countries: Integration into the labor and training
sectors, participation in education, health care, stipends, student visas. A
citation:
In
common, we can aim for the result by which the life…of the recipient
communities will be fundamentally altered.
Truly.
That is already established
by the over-burdening of the schools, police, courts, of the housing market and
social system, and that is due only to the refugees who are already here.
And: The refugees and
recipient society shall be mutually accommodating. Mark well: We ourselves shall
accommodate. Integration is a two-way street which requires effort from all
parties – and the readiness of the recipient community to conform to the
requirements of a diverse population.
René Röspel (SPD): What has gone so wrong in your life
that you make such
speeches?
Helin Evrim Sommer (Linke): What have you been smoking?
A truly perverse
understanding of integration which actually means a leveling and
non-recognition of one’s own culture. This pact manifests a deep disregard of
democracy – not surprising, considering “no nations, no borders.” Autonomous states
stand in the way, as do societies true to their traditions which resist this
pact’s inherent subordination of one’s own culture.
(Members
of the CDU/CSU and FDP turn their backs on the speaker.
Member Beatrix von
Storch, AfD, takes photos on the floor…Unrest.)
Ladies and gentlemen, I must
say to you: We really have had enough of this endlessly swaggering, insatiable,
raucous, Big Spender complex of a German feeling [Gemüter] which, on its imaginary little
hill of moral superiority, wishes to manage a world government [Weltenlenkung] of permanent
rescue using other people’s money, instead of concerning itself with the real
problems of one’s own country. We will concern ourselves with the problems of
our German citizens, tax payers, automobile drivers, renters, students and day
care providers, mothers and pensioners. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the
right mindset. We will concern ourselves, and indeed do so as the government,
and soon. Germany deserves it.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
