German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/4, pp.
201-202.
Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
This act is an unheard of over-stepping of boundaries.
Hastily bungled, you want to push through important restrictions of basic
rights. And that is a gross disregard of this parliament and the citizens which
it represents. You thereby place yourselves in the ungute tradition of the preceding government.
Your choice of words, Herr Scholz, is revealing. “For my
government, there are no more red lines”, you have said. That is the autocratic
speech of those who scorn the constitution; this I need quite clearly say to
you. The red lines are drawn by the Basic Law to which you wish to have
yourself sworn in tomorrow. It is the citizens’ basic rights which you wish to
shake off like a burdensome millstone around the neck because they are the
citizens’ core rights of protection against encroaching actions of the state.
The repeated intensification of the infection protection
laws is before all one thing: An epochal treachery and election fraud. Prior to
the election, you promised the citizens something quite other – you, Herr Scholz,
and primarily you, ladies and gentlemen of the FDP. At the beginning of
September, you, Herr Scholz, had still said: A vaccination obligation is not
proportionate. – You now present yourselves here and assert the plain opposite.
You do quite a great honor to the FDP as a capitulation [Umfaller] party. For the grab for power, you have betrayed your
voters. To be allowed to co-govern, you are ready to tread underfoot the basic
right of bodily integrity, Article 2 of the Basic Law. And please do not ever again
use the word “Freiheit”. You obviously
do not know what it means.
The vaccination obligation for nursing staff, which you want
to flog through here, is a slap in the face of those people who with
self-sacrifice have done their work, those whom you have hypocritically
applauded and who you now want to callously force out of their occupations if
they do not subject themselves to these compulsory measures. A scandal!
As a result, the emergency situation in nursing is further
intensified. This emergency situation is politically incurred and is already
much longer than when we speak of Corona. The origins are a most badly botched
hospital financing system as well as notoriously bad pay and work conditions. For
years you know this.
The hospitals are not full on account of the non-vaccinated,
but on account of your false policy due to which, in the middle of the crisis,
thousands of intensive-care beds were simply removed, and to the 10,000 nursing
staff already scared off.
And the society is not deeply divided on account of the
non-vaccinated, but on account of your unseemly propaganda, your bureaucratic
chicanery, senseless 2G, 3G-plus-minus rules, with which you discriminate against
and ostracize a third of the population and play off the citizens one against
the other – that is here nevertheless the truth –, and that on the basis of
manipulated numbers in which patients with an unknown vaccination status are
simply figured in with the non-vaccinated so that it appears more dramatic.
The citizens have every reason to scrutinize your chaotic
policy and your contradictory preventive measures. The vaccination, which you
here dogmatically extol as the only way out of the crisis, does not do what you
and the manufacturers promised. And to divert from that, you want to stigmatize
and criminalize citizens like me who decide against this medical encroachment upon
their bodies.
Martina Stamm-Fisch (SPD): Ja!
And on that account, we defend ourselves.
In a free democracy, blind obedience does not count but a
citizen’s self-responsibility. Concern yourselves with your core duty, the
maintenance of capable and crisis-proof healthcare, and leave it to the mature
citizen how he protects himself and others.
I am grateful.
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