Georg Pazderski
Berlin
Berlin Abgeordetenhaus, December 12, 2019,
Plenarprotokoll 18/51, pp. 6022-6024
[Georg
Pazderski is chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland in Berlin and leader
of the AfD delegation in the Berlin legislature, the Abgeordnetenhaus. He is a retired army officer with more than 40 years
service in the Bundeswehr.]
I do not know how it is going with you, but for the last 20
minutes I feel as if I were in the People’s Chamber of the DDR –
Harald Wolf
(Linke): You certainly were not there!
– and I am waiting for the Greens and the Linke at some point to
introduce a Five Year Plan!
Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen. Dear citizens.
Berlin finds itself on a high-speed march back into the darkness
of socialism. Occupational bans against opposition police officers, political
disciplining of critical associations, collapsing streets and bridges, freight
motorcycles instead of modern vehicles! Ever more eco-fascist prohibitions
which aim to destroy every joy of life and which shall turn the free citizen
into an apathetic tool of the state. The goal is the DDR 2.0, financed by the
tax money of the hard-working citizens.
Thus, dear colleagues, we consider the state budget. Scarcely one
euro in the motion presented by you will be expended for actual, future
projects. Counter to your oath, you invest instead in the heedless transition
of your eco-socialist ideology. Instead of making Berlin safer with more police
and a better endowment for the officials, you purge the members of the
opposition from the ranks of the force. You have intimidated the rest of the
public servants with the great fascism club for so long that they no longer
dare to contradict. You conjure up emergency climate regulations. You prostrate
yourselves before the lunacy of a 16 year old Swedish girl and her greedy,
backstage managers. You thereby endanger the employment and welfare of the
citizen, without protecting even one bit of the environment.
Money will be primarily squandered on senseless projects: Dismantlement
of streets instead of improving the mobility of all transportation
participants, very expensive E-buses instead of construction of the street and
underground rail networks, a fight against the state of law’s check on leftist
extremism and advancing Islamization, luxurious housing for refugees instead of
cleaning decrepit schools, unconstitutional rent control instead of the new
construction of affordable housing.
Instead of an eagle-eyed defense of the rights of the tax payers, the
cornucopia will be poured out over the leftist, clientele groups, as we have
heard, from the so-called Antifa to the government lapdog, culture creators. You
feed the left-wing enemies of the constitution and make them your willing
helpers. It is no wonder then that the Berlin Senate – as confirmed by the
Infratest Dimap – is the least admired of German state governments.
The homeless of Berlin must sleep in the streets – you put their very
lives at risk – because their government refuses to these poor and needy people
the use of the un-used migrant housing, built with many millions of tax money.
German pensioners seek their food in trash barrels and gather deposit bottles
while your gold-coin guests lack for nothing and are even able to send money
home.
Yet all this is hardly surprising. Even that the governing Bürgermeister
in all earnestness said here in parliament in regards the kamikaze rent control
project that it was inadvisable to yield anticipatory obedience – and that,
although five opinions warned of the unconstitutionality of the Senate policy.
This week’s headline in the BZ is right – I cite with your permission, Herr
Preisident:
Müller-dämmerung:
“Müller cannot fight and cannot lead.”
Berlin’s Bürgermeister shrinks in office since day one.
We all have been able to continually see how you lead around by
the nose. A building Senator who builds nothing and wishes to again be in the
DDR. A Justice Senator who prefers to concern himself with swine-keeping rather
than an escape-proof jail. An Interior Senator who stands in the starting gate
and whom you would prefer to succeed today rather than tomorrow while your
colleagues in the SPD delegation are in the background, already whetting the
knives.
Right honorable Herr Müller, I predict to you: That will be your
last double budget, since the so-called rent control is like a Menetekel on the
wall. You will thereby drive big-time into the wall – legally, socially,
economically, administratively. What that means for the city can already be
surmised. Then will the citizens’ frustration turn into the citizens’ rage. For
that, you and the Senate are responsible. You yourself declare to want to make
Berlin “less attractive.” The city will grow, but not with achievers [Leistungsträger], engineers, skilled
workers, craftsmen or futuristic firms. No, you make of Berlin a city of
benefits recipients [Leistungsbezieher],
before all, of economic migrants, mostly Moslem young men without qualifications
or willingness to integrate, who deprive the Berliners of housing and who are
allowed to bleed our social system.
Instead of reacting to the threats to this city with a zero
tolerance, drug dealers ensnare you, drug dealers who, under the eyes of the
police dis-empowered by the Justice Senator, are allowed to bring their poison
to man and woman in the Berlin parks. 191 drug deaths still appear not to be
sufficient for you. You tolerate the leftist mob torching a series of
disapproved automobiles and then call this pack of criminals “climate activists.”
You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You indeed do not grasp that you thus deprive our city of the last
straw at which you are clutching. Berlin is the only capital city of Europe
which is a financial drain on the country. Normally it is the other way around.
The capital leads the country, it is the model and the economic beacon. Not
Berlin under the Red- Red- Green. From here flee the last great industrial
firms, like Osram or Bosch, from your anti-economic policy.
You even appear to secretly celebrate that and that suits your
communist partners from the four-times renamed SED and the Green eco-communists
because they hate the private economy, they hate businessmen and they hate
freedom.
Wolfgang Albers
(Linke): Done yet?
…As in the DDR, the next generation stands before nothing, since
socialism is not an approach to politics but a crime against humanity, as is
poignantly demonstrated by history.
And the ladies and gentlemen of the opposition parties? You are on
the sidelines, banished, like puppy dogs by the snake. Instead of putting
together with us a new, middle-class [bürgerlich],
conservative opposition, you prefer to cuddle with the Senate, especially with
the Green total failures.
Wolfgang Albers (Linke): Never once did
your delegation work together with them, Herr Pazderski!
How long do you wish to sacrifice your principles on the altar of
seeking favor? How long do wish to actually tolerate this nonsense?
Kurt Wanser
(CDU): Stop but for once now!
Obviously, you hope to be able at some point to enter into a
government as a junior partner. While that actually changes nothing, you can at
least provide posts for a couple of brave, party soldiers. You should be
ashamed to thus play with the citizens of this city.
Our standard is simple. It is middle-class, conservative and
definitely oriented to the middle of society. We have taken quite a lot
of time to illuminate the Senate cornucopia –
Sebastian Walter
(Greens): No one noticed.
– which the Red-Red-Green want to pour out over their own
clientele, to the burden of the tax payer. Over 700 report motions and around
400 alteration motions from the AfD – we thereby demonstrate to the citizens
that we take very earnestly our responsibility as the opposition.
Wolfgang Albers (Linke):
Read aloud a couple for once!
We have, with the submitted draft budget, arrived at a savings sum
of 1.86 billion euros. For that, I am quite heartily grateful to all the
colleagues and co-workers of my delegation.
Stefanie
Remlinger (Green): Where are the alteration motions then?
You still have none!
The AfD has many ambitious, mid- and long-term goals. Our vision:
Berlin shall, from the poverty capital of Europe, become the capital of
prosperity. We therefore wish to decrease the citizens’ tax and duties burden.
We want Berlin to stand on its own feet as soon as possible, instead of yet
again having to go begging in Hessen, Hamburg, Baden-Wurttemberg and Bavaria.
We want a vigorous and effective debt brake. And once all this is attained,
then we can be content to change gears.
Wolfgang Albers (Linke):
For once present a couple of motions!
I am grateful for your attention.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
