German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/196, pp. 24787-24789.
Herr
President. Ladies and gentlemen.
If one wishes
to see the best Germany of all time, then a momentary glance at the German
inner cities suffices. Vanishing attraction, increasing decay and often also a
latent sense of insecurity, that is meanwhile what our inner cities are coming
to. This situation is not new. As a result of the competition of giant retail
centers in the greenbelt areas and the increasing on-line business, they in
past years lose both customers and purchasing power.
Edkhard Pols (CDU/CSU): Yet your colleague Hemmelgarn is building. He promotes that!
In precisely this situation, internet concerns, with the friendly support of the cartel parties, achieve ever more importance, while the neighborhood stores go to the dogs. And the friendly saleslady at the bookstore may soon be pushing pallets to and fro at Amazon.
The Federal government thus promotes unfair competition at the cost of the small businessman and the Mittelstander. In that regard, it does not help to conjure up the so-called transformative power of the cities. In the present time, the inner cities have three foundations: An urban, a national and an international. The urban foundation I have just described; our motion “Inner City as Home Space” [Drucksache 19/24658] is concerned with it. It includes measures to enhance their attraction. Retailing must again become a tangible event. In areas of a Federal promotion program, it concerns a balanced mix of commercial and private usage, including dwellings, unhindered accessibility and adequate free parking possibilities, a greater variety of business offerings, and the coordination of city planning between neighboring cities and communities.
Violent
perpetrators, trivialized as part of the Event and Party Scene, are meanwhile
in many places the new masters of the inner cities. They oppress residents,
visitors and business managers. Our motion therefore values security and
cleanliness in the inner cities.
The national
foundation is surrendering to the Corona hype. As of yesterday, the wearing of
a mask is obligatory in publicly frequented places, and there must be 10 or 20
square meters per customer in the respective stores. At the same time, citizens
move about, for example, in the closest spaces on buses and trains. It is
exactly these crying contradictions which make clear the nonsense of the Corona
preventative measures. And I say to you: An end to that!
With a mask
and distance duty, the inner cities are neither a space in which to linger nor
for living and well-being, and are certainly no home space.
Yet it is not
the virus which destroys our inner cities. It is the utterly disproportionate
measures of the Corona cabinet. A glance at Sweden shows how it goes: No
pressure, no denunciation, no police state; instead, a relaxed atmosphere,
mutual trust, prospering inner cities.
Eckhard Pols (CDU/CSU): That is just
rubbish!
As can be seen, it can be just so simple. Why then the excessive measures in Germany? On that, the Chancellor expressed herself in February of this year in Davos. Cite:
This transformation basically means in the next 30 years leaving the entire way of business and life to which we have been accustomed in the industrial era…
He who holds
this politics to be brainless, errs. It has been planned and will be, against
all opposition, enforced, in the meantime with water cannons and violence-ready
police, and by the illegal arrest of citizens of no ill repute, among whom was
even a member of our delegation.
Just why does
the Federal government stoke uncertainty and panic?
Christoph Hoffmann (FDP): Why must you always provoke?
Listen calmly.
Christoph Hoffmann (FDP): You have still provoked!
Even the Chancellor, her cabinet and the State Minister-presidents must recognize what their actions produce: Fundamental intrusions into the basic rights and freedom of the citizens, destruction of our economic and mental fundamentals of life, hatred and agitation against those who think otherwise and ultimately a complete surveillance of the people. Does the RKI [Robert Koch Institute] become something like a Stasi central?
That’s nice, you’ve noticed. Christoph Hoffmann (FDP): The last gasp!
Eckhard Pols (CDU/CSU): We are here discussing commercial rent and inner cities. So, Herr Magnitz: Lack of topic number six!
The
international foundation is the big new start. If it is to succeed, then quite
obviously must be abolished trusted values like family, nation, cash and
private property. The Great Reset is a real, existing theory. Herr Schwab’s
book of the same name from the World Economic Forum is already on the market.
It is about more than the inner cities; it is about our entire country.
Vice-president Petra Pau: Please come to a conclusion.
I come to a
conclusion. The AfD is the voice of reason in the heart of democracy. I implore
the people out there: Do not be afraid [Lassen
Sie sich keine Angst machen]. Defend yourselves and go into the streets!
Kai Wegner (Greens): Inconceivable!
Eckhard Pols (CDU/CSU): Aua, aua, aua! That is a real pain!
Franziska Brantner (Greens): To designate the RKI as a Stasi central, what is that for forgetting history!
Jürgens Martens (FDP): I would rather explain that as owing to a massive dose of psycho-pharmaceuticals!
Franziska Brantner (Greens): The question is, what did he take?
Jürgens Martens (FDP): Something Russian?
Franziska Brantner (Greens): Nay, he needs to take nothing! Without it, that is already so harmful!
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