German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/231, pp. 29775-29776.
Frau President. Valued colleagues. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
We are deliberating today on many motions of this legislative
period, all of which are more or less honestly dedicated to the theme of
citizen participation. The Greens for example in their motion, gendered almost into unintelligibility and unreadability, demand the establishment of so-called
citizens *** councils. These shall participate in the legislative process.
This unfortunately, as shown yesterday in the city council
meeting in Speyer, must be evaluated as a further attempt to transform a
constitutionally chartered democracy into a kind of simulation of democracy. The
testifying expert herself in the offered presentation went explicitly into the
connection with so-called undesired results. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Expert, for
colorfulness, tolerance and variety, that you in advance so drop your trousers. For
you, it is certainly not about citizen participation in a democratic process. For
you, it is unfortunately about leading on the citizens with more participation –
an absurd theater with the sole purpose of reaching the pre-determined result. Who
then specifies the result? The German people know not.
Valued petitioners, why should young people be awarded the
active right to vote when they themselves possess no passive right? No 16-year-old
may drive a car or purchase liquor or be tattooed without the parents’ consent
or decide whether he wants to smoke a cigarette or not. In court, there is the
juvenile penal code. Yet shall he be able to make groundbreaking decisions for
the entire society? That is incoherent [passt
vorn und hinten nicht zusammen], ladies and gentlemen. Civil rights in the
view of the AfD delegation should unconditionally correspond with civil duties.
Ladies and gentlemen, we live in unusual times. In today’s
debate, we yet again experience the further deconstruction of the term “democracy”
by government and petitioners. Celebrated by a press-for-hire, so-called fact
finders, NGO and foundation democracy, centers for political education and also
a civil society in part financed by tax money, for the purpose of promoting
democracy you force public opinion into the desired corridors of opinion.
Bravo!
A self-named speech police outlaws terms, issues
prohibitions of speech and thought. This new, exclusive democracy by every
means appears to be right: Democracy foundations, democracy projects and even
soon democracy laws. You imagine yourselves to be unassailable in your
sovereign interpretations. Who should have something against democracy?
Helin Evrim
Sommer (Linke): The AfD!
Unfortunately, with this concept of democracy, it is in
truth a question of a really intense false labeling; namely, the poorly hidden
attempt to ostracize unfavored parties, organizations, media, ideas, facts and
persons from the political spectrum by means of scandalization and
criminalization. A monstrous, almost tyrannical process, ladies and gentlemen!
Since in practice tax money will be thoroughly committed to the annihilation of
the political opposition at all levels. That is is the sad reality in the
Germany of 2021, ladies and gentlemen. The Alternative für Deutschland is the sole delegation in the German Bundestag
which resists this monstrous process. We proudly engage against the epic error
that democracy, participation, human rights and the rights of freedom are
separable and may be assigned by a government. We are for authentic citizen participation
and popular referendum following the Swiss model – not, however, your rotten
jamboree.
Hearty thanks.
Helge Lindh
(SPD): It was really a philosophical discourse.
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