German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/212,
pp. 26783-26784.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, we want to ban indymedia, the association and its
website and its logo. Alone the question presents itself: Why has this not yet
happened? Since as you had quite correctly said, Herr Bernstiel, the
predecessor association was called linksunten.indymedia, and it is banned and
it also could be banned, other than as you have directly insinuated.
It had been banned because it called for violence and
published self-incriminating writings on extreme left, serious acts of violence
– exactly the same as indymedia does now – the identical. Indymedia mobilizes
violence-ready leftist extremists against the free, democratic basic order, and
the Constitution Defense confirms: The leftist extremists approvingly make
allowances for attacks on police officers up to deadly injuries.
Indymedia is not about humanity, justice or the environment.
Marian Wendt (CDU/CSU): Which you then have in common with them!
They want to batter, trample and plunder. They want to
humiliate, intimidate and threaten, set fire, burn down and destroy. They want
terror, and they want to kill. And they say that themselves. I cite with the
permission of the President indymedia itself: “Call us terrorist and
criminal…” And in another place is written: “There are enough possibilities to
arm oneself. Thus on the internet there are sufficient instructions for the
making of explosives…We can thereby kill their personnel.” Where, Herr
Bernstiel, is this now relativized? It is not exactly known what can be done? No,
they want to kill and they write of it.
For a second, we imagine one which came from rightist
extremists. In the next second, the site would be banned. Gott sei dank, it would be banned. In Germany, there is left and
right extremist terrorism; yet between the two there is a central distinction:
There is, Gott sei dank, a massive
pressure of prosecution against rightist terrorism which has now forced this
underground. And rightist terrorism proceeds from individual perpetrators and
small groups. There is, on the other hand, as good as no pressure of
prosecution against the leftist terrorists. That does not occur. They do not
act secretively, do not conceal, are not underground and it is not only a
handful of individual perpetrators.
Irene Mihalic (Greens): 200 rightist murders!
The leftist terrorists can quite openly and unabashedly
publicly advertise, mobilize and organize and call for violence on the
indymedia platform. I may yet again cite: “There are enough possibilities to
arm oneself” and “…instructions for the making of explosives.” “We can thereby
kill their personnel.” “Call us terrorist…” Why are they still on-line?
For most here, leftist violence is always a moral, in some
way a good violence; in any case a better violence. Leftists are disturbed by
rightist opinions, not by leftist violence. When an AfD politician criticizes
the refugee policy, then that is a crime in the view of the left. When in
connection with that, a leftist burns his car or bludgeons him into the
hospital, like my colleague Stephan Schwartz recently in Baden-Württemberg, then
that in the view of the left is somehow consequential, is held to be good
violence. The sympathizers of this leftist violence sit everywhere, in the
editorial rooms, in the universities, in the environmental associations, in the
trades unions, in the NGOs and, ja,
here in the German Bundestag and in the government. The entire left side and a
large part of the middle belong to that. Therefore, Federal Interior Minister
Seehofer does what he can do best, namely nothing.
I predict of this debate: You will at most pronounce a
brief, obligatory lip service on the leftist violence on indymedia, perhaps half
a sentence. Then you, especially you of the Linke, will employ the entire
remainder of your speaking time to incite against the AfD. You will rant with
hatred and incitement, yet you will not fairly condemn the violence against the
AfD or the leftist violence because indymedia and its perpetrators of violence
are your willing executioners, your long arm, primarily now in the election
campaign, so to silence a political opponent and to force from the field the
most intense of competitors.
Just now, indymedia is organizing and mobilizing directly
against our party day in Berlin in three weeks under the headline “Stomp the
AfD Party Day Into a Pulp!” The opposition shall be flattened. This simply
suits you here to your concept. On that account, you do not chain up your
indymedia bloodhounds. Or don’t you?
I might now be gladly refuted by you. Come forward here.
Vote for our motion [Drucksache 19/20682,
24123] and pull the plug on indymedia.
Many thanks.
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