Thüringen Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 7/71, pp. 35-37.
Right
honorable Herr President. Right honorable members and spectators.
I feel myself
aggrieved in the last days and weeks in regards the police as well as in
regards the walkers [Spaziergänger]. This
ought not to happen. To the freedom-loving Spaziergänger:
Remain in any case, at any price, peaceful. Any aggression, regardless of from
whom it proceeds, devalues the form of protest selected by you.
Instead, an
appeal to all participants: Let us in common struggle for the unrestricted
reconstruction of all basic rights. And this I say quite well aware of the
entire scope here.
Bilay (Linke): They are not gone, the basic rights!
Who has still
not grasped that the people who on any Monday and on any other day go into the
street in Thüringia and Germany have internalized how democracy works, he does
not want to understand democracy.
I have
complete understanding for the concerns of the Spaziergänger and I do not want to know what would happen in this
country if the leftist troops of the Antifa were as discontent as are the
retailers in Apolda or the innkeepers in Hildburghausen.
Rothe-Beinlich (Greens): If it were the Antifa, the police would have long since cleared them out.
And for that
very reason were also again tens of thousands – note well: In bad weather – in the
streets to exercise in democratic ways their constitutionally chartered basic
right to freedom of assembly,
Blechschmidt (Linke): You need to adhere to that and not always merely speak.
and that,
even though you – if you want to speak, do it, apply for it, then afterwards
come up here –
Blechschmidt (Linke): For once say something correct!
and that, even
though you of the State government continue to restrict basic rights and indeed
substantially restrict. Because that, due to numerous contradictory decrees
nationwide as well as in the context of other countries in the EU, is plainly
no longer able to be substantiated, conclusively and scientifically, I call
that undemocratic.
I say just the keyword “recovery status” [Genesenenstatus].
As I in 1998 –
I come now to the point, Herr Maier – as I in 1998 began the training for the
mid-executive police service, for me was no scenario imaginable in which a State
government on the basis of decrees partially or completely prohibits basic
rights – and for years still maintains this.
As I in 2006 –
and yes, Herr Adams, I call upon this example – as I in 2006 began studies for
the upper executive police service, for me was no scenario imaginable that a
judge in Weimar who dispensed impartial justice [unabhängig Recht gesprochen] becomes the target of a house search because
that impartial justice obviously was politically undesired.
Blechschmidt (Linke): Nein, because it was falsely done! Lies!
Even in 2019, when I was elected to the Thüringen Landtag,
could I not imagine that a State government, for its fundamentally undemocratic
management, is not even beyond requesting its enforcement by the police and public
offices, and perhaps even expects of it an escalation of the political protests. Ja, Herr Maier, you call it civil
society. Yet the message is received by the violence prone Anitfa whom you have long
since paid off for your civil society.
A State government which stokes a division into vaccinated
and non-vaccinated, by which its members openly demand a general vaccination obligation and
thereby after two years still wants, utterly without shame, to infringe upon the most
intimate of basic rights, namely that of bodily inviolability. I have the impression that to you
nothing is sacred.
And you of the State government naturally receive support
from the delegations here in house, from the Linke,
Blechschmidt
(Linke): Ja, bitte!
to whom democratic customs in remembrance of 40 years of the
DDR were never worth very much,
Blechschmidt
(Linke): You permit yourself a judgment over something of which you have no idea!
from the Greens, who have betrayed their earlier values from
a union with Bündnis 90,
Vice-president
Berger: Ladies and gentlemen, I now again request from you a bit of quiet here in the hall. Pardon me, Herr member. Ladies and gentlemen, now a bit of quiet
in the hall.
and from the CDU, the first in the Bund to have laid the foundation stone for the unbelievable dealings of the State government and the division of society, from the SPD and FDP which now on the federal level in daily discussion want to grind down the Basic Law just right for a general vaccination obligation as is hitherto unprecedented in the history of the Federal Republic. Shame on you.
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