Bavarian
Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/68, pp. 42-44.
Frau
President, right honorable ladies and gentlemen. – Yes, the Herr Vice-president
is also thereby naturally meant. That is clear. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen, and before all, dear Bavarians.
Yes,
we find ourselves in a dramatic situation. Yes, things appear to be getting out
of control. And yes, the people are unsettled and intimidated [verängstigt]. The position is dramatic
because those governing us have generated a climate of angst and discord. Those
governing us have robbed us of freedom.
The
reason is at hand. The policy of Merkel and Söder does not make known the whole
truth to the people. You, Herr Minister-president, go together with Frau Merkel
from one lockdown to another. Because the preventative measures do not work,
you without flinching intensify them ever further. That is flying blind
according to the motto “much helps much”. You do not get the idea that not only
are the preventative measures insufficient but are also completely useless.
Unteachable as you are, the next restriction nevertheless arrives: A limitation
of movement to a radius of 15 kilometers and the anti-family one-person-rule.
Thus, many of the DDR grandees would now be guaranteed to be moved to tears and
perhaps even to be somewhat envious, since in the long run not even the SED
henchmen had dared something of that kind.
I ask
you: What comes next? Comes a mask duty in the sewers? Comes an extra police
task force which controls the adherence to this duty? Herr Söder, you yourself
have even spoken of a third wave. Aha! One hears and is amazed! To this day,
the preventative measures during the first and second waves were not
evaluated.Who is surprised that it now comes to a third wave? The surveillance
state sends its respects.
Nine months
have passed and you have learned nothing. Eight months ago, we already knew:
One thing is clear, it is not a plague. Yet the new power felt good to you. In
the shadows of Corona, you could and can simply undertake disagreeable changes
without the people being able to do something in opposition. Each time you
emerge here in the Landtag so as to allow yourself to legitimate the latest
nonsense, I contemplate the immediate facts: Excessive mortality, rate of
mortality, collateral damages, and so on and so forth. Each time I come anew to
the recognition that those there above are either on their last legs or are
hiding something of significance and importance. Thus I ask you as a scientist
who stands before an insoluble equation: Are you concealing information from
us? What does it have to do with the virus itself? And I certainly ask myself,
what would I actually prefer: To be governed by power-obsessed egomaniacs or to
be deceived and taken for a fool? Both possibilities are not very attractive.
I
call special attention to an additional topic of your failures on parade: The
vaccine. Initially, you praise yourselves to the skies and, in accelerated
procedures, force through the means with your pharma-friends – and then there
is no vaccine on hand for we Germans. Yet at the same time it was developed
here in Germany. He who is in the U.S.A. or Great Britain or Israel will now be
vaccinated first. Please do not misunderstand me: I am as always still opposed
to his kind of hasty beginning of vaccination with all the possible
side-effects. If it is unconditionally wanted – and you do want it – yet it
then in that way is botched, then I ask myself whether you have no plan or no
conscience. Is that simply chaos management or is it election calculation? This hitherto
policy of half-truths, of obfuscation, of trading in secrets, the closed doors,
the breakdowns and the contradictions, must finally have an end. Finally lay
the facts on the table for the citizens of this country. Give back to the
people their dignity.
The
at-risk groups are as unprotected as before. The numbers of deaths occur almost
exclusively amongst the residents of old-age and care homes. In these places,
preventative measures are badly needed. There, the policy must react, but it
does not do that. For months it is known that the average age of those dying is
83 years. Yet you prefer to send home children with sleds because the minimal
distance will be not observed.
Herr Söder,
you have heretofore betrayed yourself. You have in fact said you want permanent
on-line instruction. Aha! There long blows the wind. No, Herr Söder, you here
in Bavaria are no friend of humanity. You have no understanding of the people’s
needs. You perhaps at most have an understanding of your increase of power
which in this Corona crisis has already become considerable. You have an
interest in the Chancellor’s office. Our Bavarian citizens also meanwhile
understand that.
Your policy,
Herr Söder, is a catastrophe and indeed in all concerns. It is blind, it is without
orientation and it is dumb. It is a tragedy for our deserving elders. It is an
offense against our children and it is a crime against the economy, the culture
and our entire country. According to you, there is again first normality when
all have been vaccinated. So says a Söder citation from the day before
yesterday. I ask you, how shall that be? The state media indeed gives
everything to make the vaccine acceptable; the people are nevertheless
sceptical. A third of the people simply do not want to allow themselves to be
vaccinated. Among the care personnel, it is still much more. Those are people
who with this know that they are about.
Do
you thus wish to compel the people? Do you want to simply lock down the people
if they refuse? How do you wish to deal with that? Or do you just not want to
again return to normality?
Herr
Minister-president, we now need no more flowery language; we must act. Herr Söder,
you must act and explain. Tell us: Are you keeping some information from us? I
demand that you do not hide yourself in a plenary session of alibis for us in
Bavaria, but once more here step up to the podium and tell us the truth.
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