Martina Jost, December 16, 2020, State Grants to Youth Groups

Saxon Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 7/19, pp. 1255-1256.

Frau President.

I here very much beg your pardon. I have not done that with the intention which could now be imputed to me. Perhaps I am a bit agitated by this motion, since it is about, right honorable ladies and gentlemen, our motion [Drucksache 7/3803] by which we would like to end the financial promotion of the associations of the Ring politischer Jugend [RPJ], Saxony, by the means of the Free State.

An important hallmark of democracy, besides the separation of powers and constitutionality, is also the acceptance of a political opposition. We are thereby already at the decisive point. The  RPJ, Saxony, apparently cannot have much to do with an opposition party unless its direction goes quite hard to the left. Although in the articles of association it is laid down that association members are political youth organizations which are represented in the Bundestag and the Saxon Landtag, it obstinately denies membership to the Junge Alternative, Saxony. The Junge Liberalen, although they do not fulfill these criteria, are a member.

Ladies and gentlemen, a parliamentary democracy’s ability to function rests on the confrontation of government delegation and opposition delegation. Only so can a parliamentary informed will follow from and represent the people’s will; and our young people should learn that.

If we now look at the internet site of the RPJ, Saxony, – comically, there is to be read there in recent days nothing more at all other than one statement – then we can read that the Ring politischer Jugend has joined together to promote a common political formation of youth, to oppose anti-democratic influences among the youth, and to prevent the idealism of young people from being abused for political extremism.

That very well sounds worth striving for. The AfD in good conscience can also underline that. The AfD’s youth organization, as per a resolution of the board, was not admitted. That is, as indicated by the government’s answer, formally legal and not actionable. A glance at the program, however, plainly shows the direction. There we have the fight against the rightists [Kampf gegen rechts]. Never has anyone yet accurately defined these “rightists”, which actually should be.

            Valentin Lippmann (Greens): The rightist is where the thumb is on the left!

The events also say so. What is in the content of the programs must be looked at: Anti-feminism and the appropriation of feminist arguments of the rightists. That is a promoted program of the Grünen Jugend.

The glance into the events program discloses the intent which lies behind such activities. Representatives of the AfD seek in current campaigns to win over women as a political power for their forces. I must say, that is political work, ladies and gentlemen, to interest people in oneself and one’s ideas. Yet that is not enough. The whole will be financed from the tax jar and by the Saxon government by way of the RPJ detour. I see herein a clear violation of the constitutional precept of state neutrality. Beyond narrow constitutional limits, it is forbidden to the state to directly or indirectly honor or sanction expressions of political opinion and other peaceful political activities.

Among others, this neutrality precept finds expression in a generally acknowledged principle of equal opportunity of the parties. This principle serves the assurance of the formation of a political will. The state may not falsify the there pre-existing competitive situation. I can more correctly formulate it: Behind the RPJ stand all the parties.

I see clearly that you are pleased by and with this program. With the promotion of the RPJ, Saxony, these parties naturally obtain state means for the influencing of political competition. That serves one purpose, to make the AfD as small as possible and thereby get rid of an opposition party.

That, ladies and gentlemen, I call anti-democratic. The financing of the RPJ is only one, small building stone in the area of a widely laid out propaganda which shall facilitate the governing parties power and naturally has the goal of defaming the AfD.

We today take up the example of the RPJ, Saxony, to order a halt to this unconstitutional practice. The state promotion of the RPJ, Saxony, presents a striking violation of the constitutional principle of state neutrality. Ladies and gentlemen, commit yourselves in common with us to the implementation of constitutional guidelines, and vote for our motion.

 

 

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Katrin Ebner-Steiner, December 15, 2020, Pandemic

Bavarian Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/67, pp. 33-35.

Dear citizens, Herr President, right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Herr Söder, we are the voice of the Bavarian citizens who have not been in agreement with your Corona policy.

Among these are many CSU members and voters who presently turn away from your party; since you in this pandemic have definitely lost control; control over a moderate analysis, control over the course of this so-called pandemic, control over reality. On that account, you now require a big diversionary manoeuvre: The second lockdown. It simulates resolution and an ability to act, at the same time it is primarily a testimony of a lack of planning and loss of control and even of helplessness.

You have squandered sums in the millions for senseless mass tests – money which would have been better expended on protection of at-risk groups. My grandmother of more than 90 years and all at-risk patients here in Bavaria wait at home for the pretentiously promised FFP2 masks.

            Thomas Kreuzer (CSU): Then drop one off, Frau Ebner-Steiner!

A greater part of those people simply do not live in old-age or care homes.These people were by you left alone at home with the risk of infection and, in the truest sense of the word, left behind. Not every grandmother and not every grandfather has a caring granddaughter; and we must also be there for them, Herr Kreuzer.

I know many women in the city and country who must survive on a pension of 450 euros. The average pension of women in Germany amounts to exactly 711 euros; with that, an FFP2 mask cannot be purchased every day. Many of these women have raised children; they have built this country; they deserve to be treated with respect.

Herr Söder, you speak of empathy and sympathy, yet your actions speak a different language. To this day, you have undertaken nothing to systematically and actually protect our seniors. You now stumble from one lockdown to the next, always of the same primitive design: Forbid, forbid and yet again forbid …Your entire Corona policy is based on the foundation of a dubious testing policy.

In the medical sense is to be distinguished between infection and colonization. Not every micro-organism detected by means of a PCR test also indicates an infection. I want to give you an example: In the human body there is a whole series of defensive barriers against micro-organisms, and only when these barriers are overcome, as in tonsillitis, is there an infection present. The PCR test alone is not proof of an infection. Exactly that is in the package insert of this test.

Right honorable ladies and gentlemen, it is high time to scrutinize your Corona policy’s basis of decision and the preventative measures resulting therefrom.

Herr Söder, your ministers and members have recently shown in the Landtag restaurant what they think of your Corona preventative measures. Ministers Sibler and Schreyer sat with three other CSU members and thus five were at one table. That was an inexcusable violation of the contact limitations. You preach water and drink wine. That is political hypocrisy.

Dear esteemed Herr colleague Kreuzer, mind your own business, instead of continually thrashing the AfD. Do your household chores. As before, you give a wide berth to the making of a long-term strategy. Instead, you now completely confine us citizens. Reasonable, rational analysis is plainly not the State government’s thing. You lack every understanding of the countless livelihoods which you have annihilated, of the businesses which you drive to ruin. Here also I readily give you an example: My good friend of many years must at the end of the year give up her clothing store which she has run successfully for over 25 years. As a single mother with two children, she really has the test of a lifetime. Yet your preventative measures have irretrievably withdrawn from her the foundation of a lifetime.

It is thus so that not everyone can earn money with a face shield. The citizens’ discontent with the so-called Corona preventative measures is as great as never before, primarily amongst the young people. Meanwhile, almost two-thirds deny support to the government. The receipt you receive in the streets, since from this loss of reality follows the loss of the trust of we citizens. Herr Söder, before all, no one wants to listen to you. Your continual angst propaganda, your endurance talks; ever fewer citizens believe you.

Before all, you are afraid to tell the citizens the bare truth. You must say to them: Hitherto, the measures simply have not worked. The billions were uselessly wasted and many livelihoods were ruined – yet you prefer to further deceive the people. There was from the beginning one thing that ought to have been done; namely, to close the borders and to offer tests; yet for the migrants, the borders stood and stand wide open.

But I also must ask the other opposition parties: Why was our constructive proposal thrown out as a whole?

We had demanded an investigating committee, and primarily put forward the institution of a commission of inquest with proven experts. Bavaria would thereby be able to be made crisis-proof.

We risk much with your Corona and lockdown policy. It is about our economic future, our common life, our free society.

Here in parliament you squeeze the tear ducts and yourselves act cold as ice. After all the exertions of the last weeks and months, you now also destroy even the Christmas business which for some can amount up to 50% of a year’s revenues. For example, in the ski business. Herr Söder, you now also close the ski areas in an autocratic manner, because skiing is simply not beloved by Crown Prince Marcus. Now we roll into a gigantic wave of bankruptcy.

It is similarly bad in the hotel and restaurant business and in numerous other branches. Yet you set the crown on the whole; for from you the potent and patronizingly promised assistance does not at all arrive at the firms, or too late or not in sufficient quantity, as has been ascertained by the president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Gabriel Felbermayr. Small and mid-sized operations were sacrificed to your obtuseness and desire for recognition, and only a few global great concerns profit from your clear cutting policy, while many people in this country no more know how they shall continue financially. That is your sad balance, Herr Söder.

Allow the people to again do their work in a regime of sensible hygiene measures. Permit to retail trade, schools and kindergartens their regular operation again and finally re-open the hotels and restaurants. And before all: Immediately stop all planning which upsets the population and allows hasty vaccination, until the risks and side-effects of vaccination are known and the question of liability for vaccination damages is clarified! The people of Bavaria are not your test rabbits! It is here about people’s lives, and not about, by means of mass testing, diverting from the failures of the previous Corona policy.

May God protect the Bavarian citizens and our land.

 

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Jörg Meuthen, December 16, 2020, EU Council

European Parliament, Brussels, P9 CRE-PROV (2020) 12-16 (3-034-0000).

Frau President, honorable colleagues.

The German Chancellor, following last week’s EU Council summit, proudly said that it was worth it not to sleep. Looking at the results of that shameful night, I can only call out to her: “Frau Merkel, it would be better if you had gone to bed early!”

The states of Europe suffer under the pandemic, yet at least as much so under, in many places, a catastrophic crisis management. Europe’s economy groans. Millions of workplaces are acutely endangered or already lost. Yet for that the heads of government have no other answer than to indiscriminately squander the taxpayers’ money – as always. Does then anyone seriously believe that the unbelievable 1.8 trillion euros of the MFR and building plan – this never hitherto known redistribution orgy – can in any way ameliorate this crisis?  

Nationalization and socialism were never yet a practical solution and this debt socialism will be just as little so. I most deeply regret that the EU, with a foul compromise, has nevertheless succeeded in wringing from Poland and Hungary a yes to this false way. With the so-called state of law mechanism, the EU centralists thus now have the ultimate instrument to bring to course, with harsh penalties, all those who do not share the left-green agenda of Brussels.

Concern yourself, dear Herr Roth, just for once with the state of law in Germany, before you reprimand Hungary and Poland – there would be something to do. And trouble yourself, Frau von der Leyen, perhaps just once for adherence to the European Treaty. I refer here especially to Article 125, AEUV.

And as if all that was not bad enough, the summit forces on Europeans new, completely absurd climate goals until the year 2030. Basically, the de-industrialization of Europe was decided on at the summit. Certainly in Germany, that very soon will become very noticeable. The winners will be the United States and, before all, China. Know that it was for the heads of state and government perhaps one sleepless night; yet millions of Europeans, who more than ever must fear for their future, their livelihood in the face of these disastrous decisions, stand before many a sleepless night.

 

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