Jens
Maier
Antifa
Ban
German
Bundestag, June 19, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/167, pp. 20897-20898
[Jens Maier is an Alternative für Deutschland
Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Saxony. He is a lawyer and here
introduces an AfD motion (Drucksache 20074) to ban the Antifa organization.
Siegbert Droese is also an AfD Bundestag member from Saxony.]
Right
honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.
What that is for the times, where
Talk of trees is near to crime
Because one silence much sin
enfolds!
[Was
sind das für Zeiten, wo
Ein Gespräch über Bäume fast ein Verbrechen ist
Weil es ein Schweigen über so viele Untaten einschliesst!]
Harald Weinberg (Linke): Brecht is
turning over in the grave!
Bertolt
Brecht, yes.
Yes,
much is said here. Yet over actual sins, like the Antifa terror, there is still
much that is silenced here in the Bundestag and in society. And when it cannot
be silenced, when it must be spoken because there is nothing else to do,
because of what again is happening, then these buildings attacked by the Antifa
as an example will be trivialized, downplayed, denied and re-interpreted, all
with the object in view of doing one thing; namely, to do nothing. In regards to
you, Frau Renner, that does not surprise me. You are there. You actually belong
to the Anitfa.
Martina Renner (Linke): Ja!
Yet
in regards to you in the Union, that still amazes me. That is cowardice, cowardice
in the face of the enemy.
Michael Grosse-Böhmer (CDU/CSU):
Just wait for my colleagues’ speeches!
One
can be thankful that President Trump in the USA has taken the initiative and
set a good example. He has declared war on the Antifa. He is determined to act
effectively and restore order, for example in Seattle, where it is threatened.
Ute Vogt (SPD): Follow after
America!
I
would hope for such determination from a German government.
Antifa
– what is that? There yields a diffuse picture of differing, formerly loosely
associated groups, with propensities to violence of various intensity. Besides
harmlessly operating, ideologically contaminated spin doctors or youth plagued
by the woes of the world, there exists in the Antifa family milieu tightly
organized gangs of brawlers who conduct minutely planned attacks and manage to
be abundantly financed indirectly by public money; that is especially
scandalous.
They
do not do that in secret, but quite openly. A glance at the internet suffices.
I refer here for example to the site antifa-berlin.info. Here were gathered the
specific acts employed in ways glorifying violence. Who reported what, who took
care of that? – Yes, Frau Lazar, you laugh yourself half to death – Where is
the police, why did nothing happen? The answer is quite simple: Because in this
society leftist violence has been made acceptable, because the political-media class
has created a climate of acceptance concerning leftist violence and because leftist
violence does not occur in the picture constructed by the media, where only
right-wing extremism can be dangerous.
Mechthild Rawert (SPD): It is
dangerous!
I
will not now speak of all the attacks on AfD offices or the insidious attack on
Frank Magnitz.
Marion Wendt (CDU/CSU): My office
was attacked by rightists!
On
Monday of this week, the Antifa was known to have been underway in Leipzig and
attacked the café of Siegbert Droese’s sister who certainly has nothing to do
in any way with political things. What that is, is family liability [Sippenhaft], and das ist nicht in Ordnung. It is however to be noted that the spirit
which is called up can also touch one’s own people. So, in a curious way, Helge
Lindh, SPD – you here – was the target of harm in April of this year, as was
his office in Wuppertal.
Besides
self-empowerment by acts of violence small or – as at the G-20 summit in
Hamburg – large, the Antifa is steadily concerned with creating lawless areas
for itself – areas like Connewitz in Leipzig, Rote Flora in Hamburg, Rigauer
Strasse in Berlin, areas in which they have control and from which the state of
law is practically blocked off. There, one does what one wants. Especially in
such no-go areas, one evades all obligations and places oneself – like Reichsburger
– outside of society.
For
these people, it is not about political aims. For these people, if is about
riot, amusement in destruction and submergence in a lawless space. It will be
somehow justified with crazy, extreme leftist twaddle. That must stop. Before
all things, the legal order of this country must finally be enforced against
these types. The Antifa must be banned.
Many
thanks.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
