German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll
19/198, pp. 24919-24922.
Right
honorable Herr President, Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
This perhaps
is in fact the last budget put forward by a Federal government led by you, Frau
Chancellor. That would be desired for the country and it citizens. The only
question is: How much harm do you still want to inflict during your remaining
time in office?
The
catastrophic balance of this Corona year, your unplanned and grotesque handling
of the challenge presented by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, permits anticipation of
nothing good. That has recently been named a mendacious lockdown policy by your
fellow party member, the constitutional scholar and retired defense minister
Professor Rupert Scholz, one of those reasonable and qualified leading persons
who no longer have a prospect in the party dominated by you. And after
three-quarters of a year, you still poke about in a fog and cling to the
uselessly gaveled lockdown which more inflicts collateral damages than it
yields what is useful in the fight against the Corona virus.
Anton Hofreiter (Greens): We today have 590 dead! Shame on you for your speech! That is disrespect for the dead!
Your Bavarian
adlatus, Markus Söder, grabs still deeper into the bag
of tricks of authoritarian rule and tosses around going-out prohibitions.
Instead of doing what is necessary and focus on protecting the especially
endangered groups of the population, you confine the citizens, annihilate
livelihoods, drive to ruin entire sectors and attempt to regulate, to the very
living room table, the private life of the citizens.
Ulli Nissen (SPD): What about the dead? What do you say to the dead?
It cannot so continue.
Ulli Nissen (SPD): What do you say to the relatives of the dead?
The state
also cannot indemnify, at the cost of the taxpayer, undertakings without limit
upon which were imposed de facto occupational bans. You even say so yourselves.
Then also draw the consequences and end the counter-productive lockdown policy.
All else is – in the words of Rupert Scholz – mendacious.
Manufacturers,
condemned to inactivity and threatened with ruin are just now permitted to
learn that the grandly promised November assistance is probably to first arrive
sometime in January because a software tool is lacking. So much for the digitalization
of which you are always talking without yourselves doing anything. You are
quick with the billions in aid only for the great concerns which you in return
successively bring under state control.
Every couple
of weeks, in wheelings and dealings with the Minister-presidents unforeseen by
the constitution, you presume to impose new, contradictory and excessive
preventative measures. Over and above that, you have in the questionable,
euphemistic form of a population protection law allowed yourselves to issue a
blank check so as to get around the parliament. You besides have brought that –
other than the payment of the November assistance – through all stages and
proceedings in just one day.
Citizens who
protest against your preventative measures policy will be defamed as
extremists, threatened with the Constitution Defense and driven apart with
water cannons and police violence. It is you, Frau Chancellor, who divides this
country and this society.
A planned
economy and democracy, an impoverished Mittelstand
of deceitfully led self-employed and manufacturers, intimidated citizens – that is
the result of your policy. On the horizon loom mass unemployment and a hitherto
unknown wave of bankruptcy; and with that comes an abnormally high mountain of
debt. For the supposed gifts which you wish to distribute in the coming
election year will future generations for long have to pay. This balance might
already suffice to let your chancellorship enter into history as catastrophic;
yet this is only the peak.
The most
severe infringements of the basic rights in the existence of German post-war
democracy, for which you have to answer, seamlessly align themselves in three
fundamental violations of the law which will forever remain bound to your years
in government: First, the transformation of the currency union into a liability
and debts union. Second: The annihilation of industry and prosperity by means
of the energy transformation, the auto transformation, the withdrawal from coal
and nuclear. Third: The uncontrolled immigration under the abuse of the right
of asylum.
After 15 Merkel
years, Germany is a country which does not want to defend its borders against
illegal immigration yet which imposes going-out bans on its citizens and
details legions of police for the control of the mask obligation on the trains.
Thus, if you
please, in the 15 years of your chancellorship have you mis-played what your
predecessors in office had left behind in reform capital. You have not
corrected but worsened the failures of the preceding governments. The Germany that
you leave behind is deeply divided, shaken to its foundation and far adrift to
the left.
Saskia Esken (SPD): You divide Germany.
Jan Korte (Linke): Yes, exactly! That is noted! That is the socialist republic!
A fairly secure country with a functioning economy and a stable energy supply has become a country of mistrust in which the streets are not longer safe and in which imported criminality and Islamist terror
Claudia Roth (Greens-Augsburg): Exactly!
Götz Frömming (AfD): Hit hounds howl!
have become
everyday threats. It has become a country of contradictions.
The
Bundeswehr under your government has indeed become gender-sensitive yet it is
scarcely serviceable. For that reason, the police appear ever more often like
soldiers. If however in Berlin or Essen a clan war breaks out, officials are
thunderstruck into on-lookers, until a Moslem justice of the peace from the
migrant parallel judiciary has smoothed out the dispute.
Claudia Roth (Greens-Augsburg): Now it goes slowly.
Our
neighboring countries seize the initiative in the war against Islamist terror.
In Germany, it will be pacified with phrases and preferably a billion is to be expended
for the fight against the right. Women no longer dare to be in the street at
night,
Marco Buschmann (FDP): Apropos phrases!
yet the
government meticulously regulates who may visit whom at Christmas and who not.
The industrial
foundation crumbles. Hundreds of thousands of workplaces have already fallen
away or have been displaced to foreign countries. A policy hostile to industry
is the cause. The Corona crisis has accelerated and intensified this development.
This
government idly submits to EU limit values that do in the German automobile
industry. The result of a years-long automobile hatred policy: The premium
manufacturers BMW and Daimler transfer the construction of combustion engines
to where? To foreign countries. High technologies, founded and perfected in Germany,
emigrate. Suppliers and well paid jobs will follow. Electro-mobility, which by
means of horrendous subventions will still not be competitive within a
reasonable period of time, is no replacement and never will be.
In Germany,
the most modern coal power plants and safest nuclear reactors close in the name
of the climate protection hysteria. Coal and nuclear electric power will
therefore be imported from foreign countries when calm once again reigns in the
windmill forests which disfigure our countryside and massacre the birds of
prey. The most absurd idea so far comes from red-green Hamburg: To import
brushwood from Namibia so as to burn it in Germany. That is Olaf Scholz’s home turf. What else have we to anticipate?
Citizens and
businesses pay for this econo-political cacophony with the highest energy
prices and tax and duties burden of all industrial countries. Although the
Germans in terms of private assets and pension level are far behind most
European countries, they may soon pay for the transfer of additional billions
to the southern crisis states. Behind the curtain of the Corona crisis you have
also further broken the ban on the mutualization of state debts. Eurobonds are
now called Corona reconstruction funds.
The British
are presently deciding whether to leave the EU with or without a Brexit treaty.
The decisive event for the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU was the loss of
control during the migration crisis, unsolved to this day, with which you have
driven a deep wedge between the Europeans. The British have not forgotten that.
While the
government undermines the foundations of our prosperity, in China the economy
already again is humming, Chinese state funds go on a shopping tour through the
plundered German Mittlestand, Peking
creates the world’s largest free trade zone. In Germany meanwhile we prefer to
occupy ourselves with women's quotas on corporate boards. – I hear here: “Correct!”
– Radical leftist ideologies like gender-mainstreaming or the communist war cry
of “anti-fascism” are back in the mainstream, while conformism and forced
viewpoint, socialistic heresy and planned economic madness are experiencing an
absurd resurrection. And that belongs on the balance of your time in
government. In fact, Frau Merkel, you are the best chancellor the Greens and
the Linke have ever had. The enthusiasm from there which hastens to greet you
is the best evidence.
Jan Korte (Linke): The communist Merkel regime, exactly!
It grieves me, what has become of this country,
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): You still live in Switzerland.and we have entered office to correct this disequilibrium. What we want to attain is that right, law and constitution generally and unconditionally matter, and will not be twisted or ignored at will,
Marco Buschmann (FDP): Is this a
speech like Herr Meuthen had in mind?
that the
citizens’ freedom and
self-responsibility stand at the mid-point of politics, and not a tutelage in
ever additional areas of life. Our aim is that state and administration
concentrate on their core duties; that means guaranteeing the legal and ordnungspolitische arenas and the
maintenance of domestic and foreign security and not a continual and excessive
interference in the private lives and economic decisions of the citizens.
Frau Merkel,
come out of your spiritual Wandlitz! Glance beyond the confines of your Kanzleramt, which you in the most
difficult of times wish to engross by 600 million euros, and see for yourself
what it really looks like in this country!
Jan Korte (Linke): There is nothing under it!
Quit your filter bubble of political yes-men and media flatterers who sweet talk their failures and allow you to still celebrate your own errors. “The truth can be expected of men” [„Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar“], as Ingeborg Bachmann once pointedly said.
Jan Korte (Linke): Abnormal!
Yet to the truth also belongs: This country can no more long endure you and your politics!
I am
grateful.
Götz Frömming (AfD): Ingeborg
Bachmann would vote AfD!
Anton Hofreiter (Greens): Clean that podium well. The AfD does not have der Hygiene.
Do not so bestir yourselves.
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