Gottfried Curio, January 14, 2021, Democracy

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/204, pp. 25686-25687.

Right honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen.

All illegalities concerning the proceedings at the Capitol ought to be strictly punished. Political argument is to be conducted exclusively with peaceful, democratic means. Yet what a show! In the U.S.A. a demonstration escalates, and in Germany one hastens to state that here a similar mob agitates. Good, we in Germany plainly had no comparable occurrence, for instance in front of the Reichstag. While at the Capitol a heap raged for hours, here within a few of minutes the troop proceeded to its selfies on the steps – no break-ins, no injuries, three police officers having sufficed. Yet a shamelessly false comparison is drawn so as to incite with horror pictures the German populace against critics of the government policy.  

            Timon Gremmels (SPD): You are nevertheless the instigator!

That is hate, that is incitement against a democratic opposition minority.

Why were critics of the government vilified? Henceforth, when they are placed almost beyond the pale of opinion and it is desired to ostracize them, it is to thereby show that with the critics, perhaps of excessive lockdown preventative measures,

            Timon Gremmels (SPD): The AfD as victim!

there is not need to argue, since they in any case are thought criminals. The government wants nothing more than that the opposition radicalizes. Where that fails to appear, it is simply to be fantasized, like the Bavarian Word Rambo with his Corona RAF; since the opposition is no more to be met with the power of better arguments – where the ice would be thin – but one can style oneself as a force for order against law-breakers. Who is thus a driver of social division, who a provocateur of hysteria? It is the government itself which continually presents its requirements as being without alternative and ostracizes those who think otherwise.

Should Trump be a bad loser, what would it then be for Germany, where a Chancellor declares an election result unpardonable and announces it ought to be rescinded? Who here has a distorted relation with democracy, ladies and gentlemen?

            Agnieszka Brugger (Greens): You!

And in regards defense of the constitution, how is it to be considered when, according to the former chief of an authority subordinate to the government, there is political pressure to unconditionally observe a specific party, when a press conference is held which was subsequently categorized as unlawful? Must the Constitution Defense itself perhaps be observed?

Yes, democracy in Germany is in danger. Following an AfD complaint, many state constitutional courts must stop the unconstitutional parity law, against the wishes of its supporters Giffey, Barley, Lambrecht, Widmann-Munz. The Federal Constitutional Court recognized, quite in the sense of the AfD, that the illegal financing of states by means of the ECB’s loan purchases was unconstitutional. Democracy, which lives on freedom of speech, is also in danger when even the use of a single word shall be sanctioned – Volk, Nation – and when anyone is not of the government line, the same endangers unity, even though difference of opinion and the dispute over means are still the way of democracy.

Increasingly will divergent opinions be punished with social proscription, media vilification and loss of job. Who does not play along with the government’s reconstruction plans for this country will be attacked, blocked, cancelled. Even the apolitical area will be brought into line, from the writer to the cabaretist. According to a survey, a majority of Germans prefer to hold back their own opinion instead of saying openly what one thinks. Since what disturbs will be clarified as a non-opinion, declared to be hate, removed from the protection of basic rights.           

            Timon Gremmels (SPD): The AfD styles itself as victim! Mein Gott!

An official truth is laid down by which doubt is named incitement and conspiracy so that even opinions will be forbidden.

The actual assault on democracy is the instrumentalization of the excesses at the Capitol so as to establish a widespread censorship. The cancellation orgies on the internet daily drum up a march to digital totalitarianism. It is desired to bring all critics to silence – a book-burning on a gigantic scale, ladies and gentlemen.

Timon Gremmels (SPD): That is no historical comparison! Book-burning? Take that back! Unbelievable!

The state of law is thereby endangered by those who command striking violations of the basic rights without actually weighing the suitability. Those endanger democracy who think the populace can be deceived, on which can even be palmed off a liability and financial union by the opportune means of a health crisis

            Ulli Nissen (SPD): The comparison with 1933 is false!

or the robbery of a three-figure sum of billions by means of a supposed reconstruction fund.

Variety of opinion is still a prerequisite of democracy. Yet politics and media will not justify the order to overhaul every expert voice, to deconstruct all opinions. Instead there is a one-page, uniquely valid requirement – ARD and ZDF as vaccine centers for the Ministry of Truth.

If anyone in Germany endangers democracy, then it is a government which issues its actions as being without alternative, which withdraws itself from debate and which from the outset wishes to discredit all opposing voices. Therefore, the Alternative für Deutschland is most certainly a defense of democracy in Germany.

I thank you.

 

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Bernd Gögel, Freight Transportation, January 14, 2021

AfD Kompakt, January 14, 2021 

The new Corona entry decree for freight transport is unsuitable and not at all thought through. Who enters Germany from an area at risk must report his arrival each time to come, and within 48 hours – for every infection situation in a neighboring country even to the moment of entry – prove that he is not infected with Corona. For a now already overburdened healthcare system with day-long waiting times, it is however utterly unclear how the required test and proof duties shall in a brief period be fulfilled. To inland navigation accrue difficult trips in foreign waters which will be interrupted simply for the transfer of goods. If however the transport personnel will now be denied entry due to a lack of Corona test results, and foreign ship’s crew can no more enter Germany, not only does the raw material supply of industry threaten to stop, but the consumer goods of daily needs may become in short supply.

Should the transport personnel clear these hurdles, then there is the total meltdown of supply. Not only will inland navigation, port industry and many other parts of the transportation economy be endangered and their basis be withdrawn, but serious damage will also be inflicted on Germany as an economic site. I therefore support the inland navigation and ports branches in their demand to the Federal government to create comprehensive and unrestricted emergency regulations for the transportation sector so that the ever again publicized free movement of commodities and goods traffic in Europe remains preserved. Otherwise, it is only a question of days when the hoarding [Hamsterkäufe] begins.

 

[trans: tem]

 

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.

 

 

[trans: tem]