Showing posts with label Karin Wilke. Show all posts
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Karin Wilke, August 22, 2019, Election in Saxony

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]