Uwe Schulz, December 17, 2020, 5 G Technology

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/202, pp. 24565-24566.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

Christmas mood in parliament. – The construction of the 5 G network in Germany progresses so slowly – and that is also good. My delegation regards a 5 G German Bundestag as an important future technology for town and country. We of the AfD have also always called in this place for security of rights and planning, whether or not it is about permission to deliver 5 G network components of Far Eastern firms close to the state. The Federal government has here the opportunity to create clarity in the present draft of the IT security law. It unfortunately again re-prints for itself one solution – yet that is only on the margin; of that, we may speak next year. Today it is about 5 G, although in another connection.

Dear colleagues, 5 G is a revolution for mobile data transfer. Yet many fellow citizens have reservations. The fear of radiation in regards mobile telephones is certainly great. The discussion began already in the mid-90s concerning earlier generations of mobile phones. Countless citizens initiatives had been promoted to prevent antenna installations. The courts today still have much to do in that regard.

Yet with 5 G the conflicts take on substantially new dimensions. Many experts, doctors and scientific organizations meanwhile demand clarification of the eventual dangers and they ask how the effects of electro-magnetic radiation are to be evaluated. Also, the scientific service of the European Parliament – it is there also – calls for comprehensive researches into the real or supposed danger of 5 G.

The bandwidth reserved for 5 G is especially large and not always serious. The considerations range from scientifically based arguments to lists of alleged occurences. There is talk of birds falling from the sky on account of 5 G radiation, and of dying trees. There were sworn testimonies of 5 G apocalypses; 5 G was designated as a radiation weapon and as an instrument of genocide. On the other side are interest groups which banish any negative 5 G effect directly into the realm of fairytales.

On the whole, the fronts between the two camps have hardened. The discussion concerning 5 G puts into the shadows the reservations which we already heard concerning 3 G and 4 G. Yet the fact is: There is no acknowledged evidence that 5 G harms the well-being of man, animal and nature. The fact however is: There are no independent studies which prove the harmlessness of 5 G

            Falko Mohrs (SPD): Rubbish!

and, before all, there are no studies which have focused on a long-term view.

All of us must be aware: 5 G technology can become the digital nerve center of our economy and infrastructure. Yet it is logical that the enormous potential of innovation will then first expand when 5 G is received and accepted by the citizens. And how is acceptance produced? By creating clarity and removing fear from the people.

            Falko Mohrs (SPD): That is ja your strength!

We therefore require a study, independent of business interests, which will provide us with an as great as possible transparency into the perhaps still present tricks and health hazards.

The study’s results and derivations, ladies and gentlemen, must be understandable for a wide public. Since very many citizens from all areas of society really do want to understand what it is about here. It will only so succeed by taking the wind out of the sails of frivolous, self-named “experts”. And should it be laid out at the end of the day that real medical problems can be associated with the employment of 5 G, then the Federal government similarly has a basis of argumentation for the required decisions and steps.   

Ladies and gentlemen, it is for us here in the German Bundestag to create clarity for our citizens. We must dissolve the reciprocal suspicions that exist between 5 G proponents and 5 G opponents. If we really want to bring forward the digitalization, we need secure data highways which will also be used and accepted. And we must guarantee that the 5 G infrastructure can grow uninterruptedly, in all cases in our country, without providing fodder for opinions, lawyers and courts.

I request that you support our motion [Drucksache 19/25308] and thereby demonstrate that you really do take seriously the needs of the people and at the same time show that the German Bundestag does not stand in the way of construction of the digital infrastructure.

May it be a beautiful Christmas festival for you. Many thanks.

 

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Jürgen Pohl, December 17, 2020, Labor and Unemployment

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/202, pp. 25428-25429.

Nevertheless, I begin.           

            Claudia Müller (Greens): That all goes from the speaking time, please.

Herr President. Honored colleagues, those who wish to listen. Worthy listeners [Zuhörer] at the sets and at home.

            Ulli Nissen (SPD): Again, not Zuhörerinnen!

The candy manufacturer Haribo is closing its one plant in eastern Germany because it allegedly is no longer economic and it does not have a modern production structure. Around 150 workers are thereby surprisingly out of work at year’s end with harsh consequences for the families. The self-described, to be highly praised economic competence of the Saxon government thus evidently could not save the site near Zwickau, which is not to be wondered at with an Economics Minister with an SPD party book.

            Detlef Müller (SPD-Chemnitz): Dear heavens!

Right honorable ladies and gentlemen, what is happening there in Saxony is an expression of the crisis which brings into question the government’s economic incompetence, as for example, in the automobile industry, the energy industry and ultimately the confusing lockdown policy. The decades-long diligence and willingness to produce of central German employees will be decided upon with a stroke of the pen in the west, far from the affected region. Insultingly, most of the workplaces of the eastern German employees put onto the street will be offered in the old Federal states. This migration of qualified employees from east to west, millions of times since the Wende [unification], and the Treuhand debacle are the death blow for the economy in the new Federal states. The opposite would be required of policy; namely, an increase of the attraction of sites in eastern Germany; for example, by setting up a special economic zone, as I demand as representative of central German interests in our delegation.

Colleagues, Haribo is overall. For my constituency in northern Thüringen, the destructive policy in eastern Germany means the loss of 250 industrial workplaces with the closing of the Eaton firm in Nordhausen. Mulhausen, with the closing of the Continental firm, loses 160 workplaces for qualified employees. At the Erko firm in Beuren, an additional 230 employment positions are going away. We have already today in Eichsfeld, one of the most important regions in my constituency, more than 30 percent more unemployment than in the same period last year. I say to you: Haribo is overall.  

Many mothers and fathers in the approaching Christmastime will be unemployed. Thus many children do not stand joyfully before a richly stocked table of gifts. They already faintly feel the many limitations and reduced possibilities of development which a country indebted across the generations is preparing for them there in the future. The entire scenario recalls a country which, as a consequence of the social coldness and political obstinacy of those who govern, freezes from within. The fault of this development lies primarily in a confused policy, counter to economic reason and – which weighs all the more heavily – a government policy without a social conscience or a regard for the whole.

            Ulli Nissen (SPD): Such nonsense!

Apart from that, nothing new.

            Kai Whittaker (CDU/CSU): Exactly!

As always, the crisis hits the worker first and hardest. My question: In this avoidable tragedy, which role do the trades unions actually play as a representation of the employees’ vital importance? As if like sacrificial lambs at the high office of global Corona capitalism, the trades unions shun every struggle in the interests of domestic labor and surrender without a fight to the winding up of entire branches of the economy in the infrastructure-weak east.

In short: With the year 2020 at the latest, the established trades unions, as counsels to the vital interests of employees, under pressure of events passed into history.

This sad end of once significant organizations allows me as a consequence to demand: Make a place for new trades unions, a place for those which really represent the interests of employees, a place for the AVA and ALARM! The AfD, as a new people’s party, as a party of employees and the small businessmen, stands for our eastern and central German employees.

            Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): A völkische trades union, or what?

Ladies and gentlemen, I am grateful for the attention. I wish you

             Ulli Nissen (SPD): From you, I want no wish!

– thank you – and before all your families blessed and merry Christmas holidays. I am expressly grateful to our co-workers who have here so bravely carried on.

Thank you.

 

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Anton Friesen, December 17, 2020, Persecution of Christians

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/202, 25344-25345.

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable members. Dear citizens.

“As they have persecuted me, so shall they also persecute you.” What Jesus prophetically announced has long since become a bitter reality for over 260 million persecuted Christians in over 50 states worldwide. Yet not only in Nigeria and Pakistan are Christians exposed to assaults. Even with us in the middle of Germany, a terrifying anti-Christian hostility is spreading. Though we are far removed from the situation in Pakistan, yet we of the AfD say: Restrain the beginnings.

From 2010 to April 2019 alone, there have been 1,731 cases of attacks on churches, on Christian cemeteries and institutions and damages thereto. In almost 90 percent of the cases, the perpetrator could not be determined. It is difficult to say which is more frightening: These acts of barbaric violence or the spreading intolerance against Christians which prepares the ground for them.

To name only a couple of present cases: The Armenian bishop here in Germany has warned that the Armenian Christians are becoming targets of the Gray Wolves, those of the Turkish-nationalist, Islamist organization. It is a disgrace for Germany that in the middle of Germany something like that is possible.

In Berlin, an investigative procedure was initiated by the state attorney against a believing Christian, Frau Park, on account of alleged homophobia. The basis: She had cited the Bible in the show window of her tavern. This investigative procedure was in fact meanwhile discontinued.

            Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Exactly!

Nevertheless, if as a Christian alone, the citation of Holy Scripture thereby comes within the purview of the criminal prosecutorial authorities, then something is rotten in the state of Germany.

            Kai Gehring (Greens): The Basic Law applies overall in Germany!

That applies also and certainly for Christian converts here among us in Germany. Many asylum applicants who have converted to Christianity, who express criticism of Islam, will be threatened with brutal violence, even in my south Thüringen constituency where the initial reception center in Suhl is located. All too often in Germany, there is shelter for the perpetrator but persecution for the victim.

We need a Federal commission for anti-Christian hostility which in a yearly report will observe and analyze the situation, yet also propose preventative measures against anti-Christian hostility,

            Michel Brand (CDU/CSU-Fulda): Markus Grübel, he does that well!

in cooperation with an independent panel of experts as well as human rights organizations.

 

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all                    manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake

 

With these words of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount, I wish you all a blessed and reflective Christmastime.

Many thanks.

 

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