Robby Schlund, December 17, 2020, Covid Vaccination

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/202, pp. 25369-25370.

Right honorable Frau President. Worthy colleagues. Dear TV viewers.

I want first perhaps to just direct a couple of words to the colleagues and, after the experiences of the last weeks, simply ask for a hearing and not just the screaming and shouting and interjected nonsense

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): The righteous say that!

or, perhaps to relieve emotions, the demolition of arrangements, like yesterday.

I want first to say to you: I am basically no vaccine opponent. I am however opposed to the mise-en-scène of the vaccine, which you already for weeks push forward and which certainly would be almost grotesque if it were not so sad.

Also to be criticized is that this draft law foresees primarily older patients or high-risk patients shall initially be vaccinated. We hold that, honestly said, to be completely false and not to the purpose, since in this group is to be calculated the strongest side-effects of the highly experimental mRNA vaccine.

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): No way!

  Steffi Lemke (Greens): With what you are telling here, you already                                         again have lied!  I don’t believe it! Already spreading lies in the third                                     sentence!

System and pandemic relevant groups, for example medical staff, police, rescue forces, the Bundeswehr and care-givers, should naturally and absolutely voluntarily be vaccinated first, as just so our Federal government, which should set a healthy and good example. We will observe you in the coming weeks.

According to our AfD screening management, which we already in February and multiple times had presented here in plenary session, we demand as always the protection of at-risk groups with preventative measures like isolation, social distancing and FFP2 masks. Instead of unnecessarily vaccinating at-risk groups, who indeed have the most to contend with from the side-effects,  

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): How do you then know that?

let us give preference to the system relevant groups already named by us.  

In addition, Germany’s vaccination readiness is massively deteriorating. Yet why is that?

Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): Because of the nonsense that you here are spreading!

That is the decisive question here.  

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): On account of your propaganda!

Because the people have lost trust in the Federal government and its heave-ho preventative measures.

            Steffi Lemke (Greens): Because you spread blatant lies!

Instead of a screening management, you here proclaim a so-called cluster management, which is not only insanely expensive – 5 billion euros per week! – but also dismantles our entire Mittelstand and ultimately has brought nothing other than a giant chaos.

Unfortunately, only 37 percent of the people still have trust in the policy and this draft law contributes nothing to winning back that trust. Exactly as little contributes a … mRNA vaccine, if not alternative is offered. What, for example, is with the Vektor vaccine or the Tot vaccine? A very good, long-term practical experience is here at hand and worldwide some is already permitted, for example in China,

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): And in Russia?

or the two Russian vaccines

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): In Russia, exactly!

Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona.

Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Yes, exactly! Sputnik V as a solution to the vaccination strategy! Where do you live, actually? Start vaccinating and with yourself! A lot of fun with Sputnik!

How is the scientific cooperation doing here? Unfortunately, nothing to report. Anyhow, the whole will not dispel the smell that here it is only and alone about lobbying, and to that the FDP draft law makes no exception.

           Steffi Lemke (Greens): Then you can go to Russia and allow yourself to be                              vaccinated.

           Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Nothing to lay hold of!

 

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Lars Patrick Berg, December 17, 2020, Egypt

European Parliament, Brussels, P9 CRE-PROV(2020)12-17(4-075-0000).

Frau President.

To come to the concrete themes with which we concern ourselves today. The leadership of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been set free. It appears that they have been dealt with at every point in time in accordance with Egyptian law. I therefore ask myself the more general question of wherein this parliament lies the antipathy against Egypt. Will a much more stringent standard be applied to Egypt than to other countries, or is a fundamental rejection of the Egyptian state put forward here? Egypt stands opposed to the extremism which threatens us all – an extremism which also endangers the Coptic community in Egypt.

While Turkey continues to attend to instability in the Near East and beyond, Egypt is to be counted as one of the few steadfast states which is in fact opposed to Turkish expansionism. Egypt plays a decisive role in Libya and there are Egyptian forces fighting the Syrian militias smuggled in from Turkey. The Islamist extremism, which sows death and destruction worldwide, has inflicted deep wounds, quite especially in Egypt. The Moslem Brotherhood nearly forced Egypt to its knees. The Egyptian state opposes itself to all of these menaces, while at the same time it drives forward progress in the areas of economy and education for its citizens, and it forms alliances with like-minded countries so as to attain somewhat more stability in the entire region.

Yet we here conduct endless discussions so as to be able to criticize Egypt. A judicial procedure is not enough for us. We encourage the opposition to the Egyptian government, a government which acts in our interest, in the interest of our security. And this uninterrupted criticism weighs upon our relations in Cairo and is quite clearly not in our interest. We on that account must think realistically and pragmatically. Egypt is exposed to serious threats to its security due to extremism – from within as from without.

It therefore matters to us all to constructively criticize Egypt – and according to different opinions – to accompany, instead of constantly rejecting.

 

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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.

 

 

[trans: tem]