German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/236, pp.
30538-30539.
Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable Frau
Chancellor. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
This government declaration also has passed by like all the
others: Without a spark of insight into the mistaken decisions which line your
path as Chancellor, mistaken decisions which have deeply divided this country
and have inflicted heavy damages on it for years and decades beyond.
You want to pursue this path to the bitter end; that we may
infer from your statements for the impending EU summit. In all seriousness, you
urge the renewal of the EU’s migration agreement with Turkey. That is nothing
other than the new edition of a historic failure.The EU thereby renews its
liability to extortion. You pay, and for that offer the German taxpayer as a
cash box. You make yourself dependent on the whims of the Turkish president who
can at will continue to turn on and off the migration sluices [Schleusen].
The key to checking illegal migration lies not in Ankara; it
lies in Berlin. Here, with the highest social aid allocations, people will be enticed
to the dangerous passage. Here, traffickers [Schleuser] will trade as rescuers-at-sea, even sponsored by the
churches. And here, the signals will be sent that as good as no one who does it
for us need ever again go. Turn off these signals and defend the German borders
against illegal migrants!
Certainly, Frau von der Leyen travels with checkbook through
the European capitals and distributes billions from the so-called Corona
reconstruction fund. And in Berlin she dropped off a check for 24 billion –
money which will be squandered for dirigiste climate protection measures with
questionable uses. The ostensible reconstruction fund is the camouflage for the
introduction of the European debts union. The EU Commission itself can now take
up loans and distribute the money at discretion. The national states stand for
the re-payment, before all Germany and its taxpayers. From you and this
parliament will be uninterruptedly wrested the control over our own state
finances, the budget right.
And for this assault on the basic principles of the
democratic order, for this assault on the parliamentary budget right and the
state of law, you bear responsibility. That is an additionally melancholy
milestone in the long series of mistaken decisions of your 16 years as
Chancellor.You inconsiderately abuse the Corona crisis so as to disguise this
transfer of sovereignty to the EU, to expand state influence in economy and
society and to force the transition to a managed, climate-protection, planned
economy – at the cost of the energy industry, at the cost of the investment
goods industry, at the cost of the automobile branch, and thus there where most
of the workplaces are.
Your Corona policy is your grossest failure of late, and on
that account you cling so bitterly to it and unfortunately deny every advance
in knowledge. Our European neighbors for long seek the way back to normality,
and the German Corona policy hardens further, clamped to the incidence value,
and stirs up panic for the autumn with the conjuration of distant, threatening
scenarios of the so-called Delta variant.
Thereby one thing needs be retained: Your regime of lockdown
and state of emergency has for health and security brought no measurable advantages
vis-à-vis alternative options of treatment. Yet it has inflicted gigantic
collateral damages on the economy and the society, seriously damaged the Mittelstand and the middle class, ruined
livelihoods, left children and seniors to suffer, and for an entire generation
of students destroyed their educational opportunities.
With panic-making and apodictic black-white thinking, your
policy has deeply divided this country, the gap between poor and rich enlarges, and the citizens’ basic rights and rights of freedom in never hitherto
known dimensions have been placed at disposal. The reasons for this policy are
falling like dominoes. General restrictions of basic rights and long-term
lockdowns are not only unconstitutional, they also yield nothing. And the list
of examples of countries which without such drastic intervention have come
better through the crisis steadily becomes longer: From Sweden, Switzerland, to
a series of states in the U.S.A.
Distance instruction at schools closed for months is
ineffective. It throws back students like an endless summer vacation.
The general argument conjured up by you of a bed emergency
in the clinics also evidently was not present.
Claudia Roth (Greens): What?
The healthcare system was at no point in time threatened.
Götz Frömming (AfD): That is so!
Stimulated by falsely incentivized subventions, the reported
numbers of beds were by many times manipulated. That is in the report of the
Federal Audit Authority; read it.
PCR rests are not appropriate as a means for the mass
detection of occurences of infection. One of two tested positive was in fact
not infected.That also is the fact. Settlement fraud in regards rapid tests and
dubious mask deals show primarily one thing: Where state dirigism runs free,
false economy, waste and corruption are never far.
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): You yourself well know that with your party donations affair! You are there in first place! Party donations swamp!
And the billions which were squandered here would have been
by far better invested in a reform of clinic financing. That also needs be
said.
This false way may not be allowed to be repeated in the
autumn when the virus activity will again be seasonally strengthened. Germany
must turn back to a policy of reason and a good eye [Augenmass], of citizens’ self-responsibility instead of state
interference. And before all we need one thing: We need a new government.
I am heartily grateful.
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