German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/72,
pp. 8387-8388.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Fully healthy citizens under threat of draconian penalties
are intimidated. To the applause of the state media, water cannon are employed
against peaceful demonstrations. House searches of demonstration participants
are undertaken, handies seized. There is censorship of the internet and
restrictions of the freedom of opinion. The human rights situation is so
disastrous that the UNO intervenes. – That is not only the present situation in
the People’s Republic of China, that was also up to last year part of the
situation in Germany.
The Federal governments have conducted themselves just as
the Communist Party of China heretofore does.
Alexander Lambsdorff
(FDP): Completely wrong!
Gyde Jensen
(FDP): Complete nonsense!
Jürgen Trittin (Greens): I would have wished it for you, but we unfortunately have not done it!
Yet here to us also applies: A visit from relatives in
another Federal State: Verboten!
Alone on a park bench reading a book: Verboten!
Skating with the family in the fresh air: Verboten! Denunciations: Demanded!
You now rightly complain of censorship in China. Yet what
have you until recently demanded? In the state television a daily cover-up with
irrelevant numbers which had only one purpose: The spreading of fear – as by
Televisor from Orwell’s 1984.
Zoe Mayer (Greens): You spread fear!
At the same time, crtitics of this situation were defamed
and fought,
Gyde Jensen (FDP): To the matter, Herr Braun!
freedom-loving marchers were denigrated as “aluminum hats”
and “right-wing extremists” and banned from restaurants, swimming pools and
fitness studios – under threat of contempt of court and pension cuts.
An SPD Oberbürgermeister in Stuttgart was actually permitted
to employ firearms against marchers. Police violence in Germany: Never so
massive as in the 30 years since the end of the SED regime, so massive that the
UNO reporter for torture intervened; police violence like we rightly complain
of in China also here with us.
Zoe Mayer (Greens): Yet you lack any measure!
And nearly all of you have cooperated. Herr Trittin, you have
demanded the vaccination obligation for all. Now you can speak much of freedom
in China; Herr Lauterbach is, ja,
appropriately not here. What is now turned against the brave Chinese was for
years practiced here.
Jürgen
Trittin (Greens): Nay, nay!
Nils Schmid
(SPD): That is just unbelievable!
The totalitarian zero-Covid petition was signed by leading
mainstream figures – zero-Covid:
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): This is offensive, what you are putting out here! That is simply just offensive! Nauseating, Herr Braun. Nauseating!
Climate-hopper Luisa Neubauer, the state-financed George
Restle; even the from Stasi man climbed up to Berlin state secretary Andrei
Holm was with those of the Partie.
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): Even beneath your dignity, what you are doing here!
Listen, Herr Lambsdorff.
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): I am listening!
You do not want to hear the truth; I know that. It’s clear
to me.
Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): Oh, yes! From you comes not a word of truth!
And Christian Droste in the professional journal The Lancet called for confinement of the
citizens without conditions.
Vice-president Petra Pau: Herr member Braun, I request speaking on the theme of the current hour.
And the Health Minister Lauterbach first!
Gyde Jensen (FDP): Good man!
That is Chinese zero-Covid ideology in pure form.
Now the political-media complex wants to make forgotten all
of this. In regards the brutally suppressed protests of this weekend in China,
the German state media once again lies Kopf
und Kragen. In the Tagesschau it
said – I cite:
There are no large vaccination campaigns in the country of 1.4 billion inhabitants. Instead, the people in China live for almost three years in ever recurring lockdowns, mass testing, restrictions of going-out and travel.
With that, the People’s Republic of China has a vaccination
rate of 89 percent, one of the highest in the world.
Yet no such high vaccination rate lead to the giving way of
the German government in the matter of zero-Covid. No, it was the stubborn
citizens’ protests alone which we have to thank for that.
Leni Breymaier (SPD): Ach Gott! Ach Gott! Ach Gott! What actually remains of your “hot autumn”? Tomorrow is December. Then is the beginning of winter!
The Chinese strategy of intimidation and confinement which
rightly here and today is unanimously condemned was a German reason of state
and it would have remained a reason of state if the true civil society had not
risen up: Across all Germany, peaceful protests spread so as to finally order a
stop to this scandalous policy.
Jürgen Coße (SPD): What nonsense you are telling!
In defense of the present government is to be said that it
only continues what was already begun under the Merkel government. In the
Interior Ministry’s experts’ council was appointed a man who is not only a
declared fan of Mao Tse-tung but also received money from the Chinese Communist
Party: The linguist Otto Kölbl was the author of the propaganda angst papers
with the revealing title of “To Learn from Wuhan” – Wuhan, as is known, where
the new Corona virus originated. I say to you what can be learned from Wuhan:
How a virus can be genetically so manipulated that it becomes highly virulent
and thereby a worldwide mass panic can be unleashed.
Jürgen Coße (SPD): Man, man, man, man, man!
You still wanted to imitate the Chinese social model, yet
the German Sonderweg, thank God, came
to an end. If now the mask obligation falls, then we again finally have our
freedom. And that I wish also for the brave people of China.
Leni Breymaier (SPD): You are so embarrassing! The most embarrassing Baden-Württemberger of the year!
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