Karin Wilke
Election in Saxony
AfD Kompakt, August
22, 2019
[Karin Wilke is an Alternative für
Deutschland member of the legislature of the eastern German state of Saxony
where elections will be held September 1. She is the AfD’s spokesman for media
policy in the legislature and here responds to a local newspaper story which
noted that the AfD was the only political party to make a complaint concerning
the vandalism of its election campaign signs.]
It is utterly
repellent how the Morgenpost again
tosses overboard every journalistic care and custom and one-sidedly agitates
against the AfD. With this distorted reporting, the boulevardblatt, which belongs mostly to the SPD, sparks the general
political-media peeve and does democracy a disservice.
In addition, the
AfD is notably the only party whose election campaigners have been physically
assaulted. The brutal fist attack of a leftist radical on the assistant AfD
chairman Dr. Keiler was documented in a video and shared thousands of times in
the social networks. At the beginning of this week, an AfD member was pushed
off a ladder while putting up signs, another was wounded in the eye, presumably
by leftist extremists. It has been known for years that of all the parties it
is the AfD which is most attacked. Thus, during this legislative period in
Saxony, there have been twice as many attacks on AfD offices as those on all
the other parties combined. As indicated by a present inquiry of the AfD Bundestag
delegation, exactly the same picture is presented by attacks on politicians
nationwide. Of 589 attacked, 295 were AfD representatives. On all this, the Morgenpost has nothing to contribute or
it knowingly suppresses it. That I call political omission journalism [politische Lückenpresse].
[Translated by Todd
Martin]
