Berlin
Abgeordnetenhaus, Plenarprotokoll 18/84, pp. 9910-9912.
Right
honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
When I hear
my preceding speakers – colleague Saleh and colleague Helm – then the
impression can surely be acquired that those who rule live on an entirely
different planet; since Berlin, unfortunately, does not function.
Steffen Zillich (Linke): No idea, where you live!
The German
capital city has decayed into a national joke and, for that, you on the left
side of this house are responsible.
Anne Helm (Linke): Why do you look down on Berlin?
Ich liebe Berlin, ich bin
Herzenberlinerin.
…
Only with us
is there a chance for a functioning city, for more housing and more security.
The citizens of Berlin want precisely that! What the Berliners quite clearly do
not want is a confused and overbearing convolution of decrees, prohibitions,
regulations, threats and confinements under the pretense of the fight against
the pandemic.
As
previously, the government’s preventive measures are neither comprehensible nor
transparent, are founded neither on facts nor knowledge and thereby business
owners suffer exactly as do families with children. The shifting of the
decision of whether 2G or 3G shall apply in restaurants or at events leads not
only to chaos and complication – this model is a forced vaccination through the
backdoor, borne on the backs of restaurateurs and events organizers who in
regards their customers are forced to fall between all stools.
How abstruse
these regulations are is alone therein shown by that the Senate’s decision to
in fact exclude families with children was readied just on Tuesday. That is the
child friendliness the likes of which you desire. Only after the protest over
this abstruse measure had become so great was the Senate’s decision, yesterday
defended with verve, again quietly cashiered. An observer is without
comprehension, and asks: What actually was this Senate thinking?
Frank-Christian Hansel (AfD): Jawohl!
The 2G rule
is an attack on the freedom and autonomy of mature citizens and on the free
formation and development of our children. The people are very much in the
position to reach an individual risk assessment and to autonomously decide
whether they want to allow themselves to be vaccinated or not.
In the same
way, each himself decides whether he smokes tobacco or marijuana to excess or
which risks he incurs, and will for all that be supported by the community in
solidarity. Here, the state is not to meddle. It however does exactly that with
a practical vaccination obligation and the splitting of society into the
supposedly good vaccinated and the supposedly bad non-vaccinated.
Red-red-green, without necessity, are making a two class society and we here in
Berlin are not allowed to permit that. Not only is the handling of Corona
disastrous – that shortly before the election you want to quickly purchase
a housing package in the billions is, it needs be clearly said, a quite
dirtier deal. It is namely nothing other than an attempted buying of votes in
important key quarters a few days before the election.
Frank-Christian Hansel (AfD): Right!
You thereby shift the risks of these deals onto the State’s own housing societies and thereby onto the taxpayers and all Berliners. Especially improper in regards this purchase is that from the old stock naturally not a single new dwelling will be created; with that, however, shall voters be drawn for the SPD in the State.
Is it besides
clear to you why the real estate and rent prices have so increased in the last
years? The wicked speculators are not guilty; guilty is the political decision
to rescue euro states which do not consistently economize, for which the ECB,
contrary to its actual mandate, has reduced the interest rate to the minus
level. The result: Especially well-to-do southern Europeans, pension funds and
further so bring their assets to Germany and purchase primarily real estate as
a hedge strategy against the euro, state, finance and banking crises of their
own countries.
The
consequence is naturally a price explosion in the real estate market with
corresponding increases. Your proposed solutions, to interfere in the market
with Rent-cap, Expropriation & Co., are not only unconstitutional, they set
in motion a catastrophic intervention spiral. You want to solve the problems
created by you with ever more debts, ever more inflation, ever more
bureaucracy, and in the end ever more serfdom, and certainly do not notice what
destructive effects that has for the future – or it is all the same to you. One
does not know which is worse.
Also
destructive is the latest loading policy for additional refugees and the
thereby required re-opening of initial reception facilities. It would be right
and sensible if we help Afghans find protection near to home; it would be right
and sensible if the Senate would take seriously the hints of its own co-workers
who warn of a systematic abuse of asylum. Instead, the Senate obviously ignores
that and thereby substantially contributes to that the acceptance of the German
right of asylum is massively undermined.
Prof. Bernd
Raffelhüschen at the 2018 Chiemsee Conference correctly stated in his essay
“Open Borders or a Generous Social State. Not Both?!” – I cite –
Sebastian Schlüsselberg (Linke): By what business was that paid for?
Either Europe guarantees the generous social state at the price of forming a fortress, or it will become a continent of immigration according to the American model. Not both!
– end citation.
Steffen Zillich (Linke): Also read
out the footnotes!
A democracy
lives by the debate and the substantial discussion of distinctive opinions and
viewpoints. Democracy does not live by the destruction of election placards and
the setting fire to autos, as just happened in the night of Monday to Tuesday
to the father of a family of three small children in Marzhan-Hellersdorf. Why
was his auto torched? Because he is a candidate for the AfD, showed his face
and stood up for his opinion. It is meanwhile on all grounds a matter of
concern that this extreme violence is no longer limited to material damages.
Is this
appropriate in a democracy? Is this a society which we want in the future? Is
this still authentic freedom of opinion when one can no longer openly
acknowledge a party because one is in danger of being socially branded and
cancelled? Why, according to a current Allensbach poll, do more than half of
the Germans no longer openly state their political opinion?
Christian Buchholz (AfD): Hear, hear!
Why are there
lately only fewer than a third of the Germans who feel themselves to be free
here? Should not that make us think? I myself wish that any of those who
verbosely carry the term “democracy” before them like a monstrance also
actually live this democracy.
Frank-Christian Hansel (AfD): Bravo!
Anne Helm (Linke): The AfD never belonged to that! It is a democratic duty to defend democracy from you!
Empty word
husks do not suffice to form a stable society in an ever more rapidly changing
world which guarantees to all people a good and secure life. We of the AfD want
precisely that, for Berlin and for the Berliners – a good and secure life in a
world city which also deserves this name: Berlin, but normal.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
