German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/230, p.
29537.
Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.
“The Bundeswehr has an attitude problem [Haltungsproblem].” The former Defense
Minister inadmissibly attested to that in the year 2017, and that resounds in
this draft law. One’s own government increasingly distrusts its own public
servants and its citizens. I had believed that we learned from the era of 20th
Century German surveillance states, that we had overcome this and would not so repeat
ourselves. Yet the present Corona policy sadly shows us how quickly government
and organs of the state are ready to restrict freedom and data protection in
favor of an ostensible security. We of the AfD do not accept this and,
fortunately, are ever more people in this country with us.
Thomas
Hitschler (SPD): But the surveys say otherwise!
The Military Counterintelligence Service just recently categorized
1,200 reservists as right-radical, without having made those affected aware of
that. Where then shall it lead if today to go on reading an article in the “Junge Freiheit”, or to visit a rowdy
student union, suffices to be categorized as “right-radical”? At least member
Sensburg, CDU, who is not only a reserve staff officer and a law professor but
also president of the reservists association, has sounded the alarm on this. I
cite: “Not a single one of these cases would stand up to a legal examination.”
Yet it is not just about this. It already suffices in our country to be
designated and disavowed as “right-radical” when someone even only does not
support hypotheses of leftist opinion. That is typical of a political
denunciation state as we know it from totalitarian systems. That however may
never be allowed to again become a standard in Germany. I am anxious as to
whether Professor Sensburg will achieve something or whether he was already
from within the party ordered back, since the once conservative CDU long since
prepares to conclude a new union with the leftists, only in the future painted
green.
The Bundeswehr and even the KSK [special forces commando] on the whole do not have an attitude
but even so a leadership problem. It is not wholly about belittling or
dismissing lapses of individual soldiers. But this increasing distrust by the
state vis-à-vis its citizens, especially those in uniform, is a quite bad development
in our country. If my criticism of that in committee is made fun of by the SPD…I
can only say: I gladly accept that; since it shows that the AfD is the only remaining
party which is believably and seriously committed to the freedom of our
citizens. This may also be seen in that the public hearing which I demanded was
rejected with statements like: “Despite all justified criticism, we will vote
for this law” from all other parties, even the conformists [Scheinfreiheitlichen] of the FDP. I hope
the citizens know the value of that. Thus is made no believable politics of
freedom.
Tobias Pflüger
(Linke): Such nonsense!
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
