Christian Wirth, January 13, 2021, Stored Data Information

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/203, pp. 25547-25548.

Frau President. Esteemed colleagues.

Right honorable government delegations, we do not trust you. We do not trust you because you yet again have written and, with your majorities, forced through a draft law for which your ears were boxed by the courts – yet again.  That your own people are too incompetent to submit a draft law is not to be wondered at. Yet that for all the expensive consultants the well-invested business donations do not suffice so as to merely read superficial corrections is really amazing. Not once have you let yourselves be impressed by the Bundestag’s scientific service.

We do not trust you; since it is not a single incident. The Federal government’s wild and roundhouse blow in Corona matters and its implementation in the states have been so often dismissed and criticized by jurists and courts at all levels that it can scarcely still be accounted for. Even in a time when you can securely be a parliamentary majority, you have renounced the possibility of the most fundamental parliamentary participation in the Corona preventative measures. Herr Maas now even has the impudence to offer to other governments a “Marshall Plan for Democracy”. That is really a vicarious embarrassment.

We do not trust you because you from Day One have used every weapon at your disposal, at every level, so as to damage the only opposition party in the Bundestag. No statement from you was too embarrassing, no paragraph too obscure; and where officials true to their conscience stood in your way, they were hunted from office by autocratic methods.  

We do not trust you because, despite all the corrections started here, you further correct only the absolute minimum required so as to fulfill the principles of the Federal Constitutional Court. You continually ignore the unanimous criticism of all affected citizens, associations and businesses outside your own parties.

We do not trust you because, instead of a concrete, court-ordered and -required insight into the data of criminals and terrorists, you want passwords as pass codes for a privileged number of platforms, because you continue to ignore that there is only one technical possibility to in any way enable your required password disclosure, namely storage by the provider of passwords in unencoded clear text. A gift for hackers and foreign services.

We do not trust you because, by means of NGOs fed on tax money, you have upheld that gift from the gods, “Hate and Incitement”, so as to toss legitimate criticism of government into a common pot with a repugnant contempt for humanity. With the law on hate crimes, you have given criminal law, and with it sovereign right, into the hands of American concerns and thereby created a new right of occupation. True to Erich Mielke’s “Comrades, we must know all!”, your first reaction to criticism of government is first for once to find out who has the audacity of his own opinion. The disclosure of IP addresses and port numbers is Step One to repression.

We do not trust you because, especially in this legislative period, you have demonstrated that you want another Germany, with full control of political opinion and without disturbing parliaments and constitutional courts. Yet we therefore also do not trust because no government should have such full powers, even if led by the AfD. That you want these full powers is alone reason enough that you ought not to have them. We will not thereby help you to legitimate your attack on the free internet with the here put forward fig leaf.

Many thanks.

 

 

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Ingo Hahn, January 8, 2021, Corona Preventative Measures

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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Alexander Gauland, January 12, 2021, Corona and Elections

AfD Kompakt, January 12, 2021

If, as expected, those in government do not disavow their false premises in dealing with Corona, then we will experience a continuation of the lockdown until Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag. The effects are now catastrophic and will become still worse.

It is no wonder that the responsible politicians would gladly exclude this entire set of topics from the election campaign. Yet with exactly this infamous demand, they cannot and will not succeed.

The Corona crisis, and the state’s preventative measures causing it, are by far today’s most important topic. In dealing with it, those in government have failed at all levels. As the largest and only authentic opposition, we have the democratic duty to point that out and to indicate alternatives. We intend to continue to fulfill this duty, even when it does not suit the government politicians.

 

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Katrin Ebner-Steiner, January 6, 2021, Bavaria and Vaccination

AfD Kompakt, January 6, 2021

Söder once again removes himself from the firing line of criticism and presents Melanie Huml as a sacrificial pawn.

Just as he had done in the summer in regards the testing failures when he then left Health Minister Huml to step alone in front of the cameras, he now leaves Huml to fall completely so as to push from himself the failures related to the grandly announced vaccinations.

The lack of orientation and planning of the State government which, like Merkel, knows no other way than to pursue the disproportionate and ineffective lockdown, shall be concealed with chess maneuvers of personnel.

The principal problem is not the helpless ministers in the focal Ministries like Health and Education, but an autocratic and power-obsessed Minister-president who, without a reasonable strategy and utterly detached from reality, leaves his Minister to march to the fight accompanied by failures and defeats.

Bavaria’s former leading role in Germany now under Söder suffers from faulty structures, obsolete technology and software, as well as unsynchronized procedures. This is truly an unworthy role for Bavaria.

The assumption of responsibility appears otherwise; since these present cosmetic interventions will alter nothing in the defective basic performance.

 

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