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Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 7/23, pp. 1532-1534.
Right
honorable Herr President. Right honorable colleague members.
In June 2020,
there were once again brutally violent demonstrations against the police
following searches in Leipzig-Connewitz. On the periphery of the searches were
found cutting and stabbing weapons, combat clothing and means of communication.
After three nights of rioting in September 2020, then police president Torsten
Schulze stated to the press that it was evidently a matter of leftist
extremism. Only the good protective equipment of the officers provided that
those engaged were only lightly wounded. Eleven officers were wounded.
I here cite: “The
attack out of the dark upon on-duty police permits me to think only of evidence
of homicidal offenses, the malice and means encountered allowing for the death
of people.” End citation.
In November,
only with a shot from a service weapon could a brave police officer prevent the
killing of a presumed Querdenker by a wild horde of anti-fascists on a public
street. I could still report unnumbered examples of arson attacks on courts and
the Bundeswehr, of malicious attempts to murder on the public street or of
raids on dwellings – for which time alone is lacking.
That here, one
or another could think that he need not be concerned, I ask myself: Yes, then
who is concerned? Here is worth a glance at “Indymedia” – cite: “This society
produces the fascists. The fight is directed at the roots of fascism. It must
be directed against the state and also fight the fascists in uniform.”
For years
already, the Antifa sends the following unmistakable threat in its address to
the police – cite: “Even when you take off your uniform, you still remain the
same human swine and will continue to be a target of our interventions whenever
we wish it.” Police, Bundeswehr, courts, realtors, construction firms, those in
opposition and those representing society are thus exactly the target of Antifa
as those concerned for their basic rights at the civil protests in November. I
summarize: The fight is directed against society as a whole. I hope this is
clear to all.
Yet which
means are now turned against this allegedly fascist society? I again cite “Indymedia”:
“Who has a problem with fascists should proceed against these, no matter which
clothes they wear and by which means, such as demos, blockades, Antifa sports
groups, journalists, or, or, or.” End citation.
In the same
article follows a distinct critique to citizens, the aggressive words of which
calling for physical violence against fascists in and out of uniform go too
far. Now, since we know that these persons are prepared to use any form of
violence, let me also say to you how these terrorists situate themselves. For some
suffices a quasi paramilitary formation in training camps, pursuing combat
sports, outfitting themselves in black, uniform-like clothing and protective
weapons, and physically or with stones attacking demonstrators of different
thinking.
On the other
hand, assaults and targeted attempts at murder of prominent persons must be
professionally planned. I say to you: This will be done – for example, by an
assault on a dwelling, by an assault in a public street or a malicious attack
on a traveler, as lately by an attack in northern Saxony on a local AfD chairman.
The LKA [State criminal office] spokesman Tom Bernhardt once summed it up –
cite: “The scene is clever and extremely clandestine, stealthy in their ways of
proceeding.” End citation. The chairman of the German Police Union Rainer Wendt
said of Anitfa attacks – cite: “These attacks clearly display the handwriting
of extreme leftist circles and recall the goals and execution fatal to the
formation of leftist terrorist structures in the 70s.”
How will the
Antifa attacks actually be attended to in the media? You recall: 66% of those
in the media already in 2010 placed themselves on the left or formerly on the
left. A new inquiry amongst volunteers in the public organizations yielded an
even more drastically one-sided picture. By means of a skillful choice words,
the facts of the matter will be frequently banalized.
Variant 1: “Spiegel”’s excuse [Ausrede] for the attack on the police station at Wiedebachstraße
and Plawitz reads: “Rage over the lax police operation against Querdenker in
Leipzig.” This justified an attack on the police?
Variant 2:
The “Nordwest Zeitung” wrote in
September of “annoyance [Arger] over
the evacuation of occupied houses in Leipzig”. Even this is nonsense. It is not
annoyance which leads to violence. It is the bare lust for violence that leads
to violence.
We could
still experience a third variant, deception [Irrefuhrung]. The viewer will thereby be misled with pictures from
Connewitz and words concerning an escalating demonstration of Querdenker so
that he certainly can no more recognize the true perpetrators. Thus can the
Michel in the evening go to bed well informed by the Tagesschau.
If simply
nothing more helps, and debate nevertheless somehow begins to run, the
diversion of social debates to unappetizing sideshows still helps.
Second Vice-president André Wendt: Colleague Wippel, do
you consent to an interim question at microphone 5?
Briefly, I
give the same a sign.
Kerstin Köditz (Linke): That’s still
not right!
– Frau Köditz,
you can gladly lead the assembly. But you then must be elected. I do not believe
that has happened.
Sideshow 1:
All police are corrupt.
Second
example: Find the Nazi in the police. The search yielded: Two of 1,000 police
officers between 2014 and 2020 had something to do with a supposedly radical
right background. For example, these had written dumb Facebook comments,
concerning which we in fact cannot know the content of these comments so as to
be able to evaluate it.
Second Vice-president André Wendt: I would now have the
request to speak at microphone 5. Please, Frau colleague.
Christiane Schenderlein (CDU): Many thanks, Herr
President. Herr Wippel, one question: You address the assault on Herr Bochmann.
I have still discovered no knowledge of the perpetrator. Doubtless we must pay
attention to such a story. It would interest me how you know that this assault
in fact has come from this situation.
You can somehow
substantiate that argumentation with nearly all assaults on the Alternative für
Deutschland or on opponents of the so-called anti-fascists, since the frequency
of clarification is extremely low. Self-evidently, I do not always know, after
the act was clarified, which motivation the perpetrator in fact had. For the
classification of politically motivated criminality, it is however important –
I still only answer the interim question, because the time continues to run –
to actually know who is the target of this act. What motivation could the
perpetrator have? On which day did this assault occur? Or is the reason in the
widest sense a perpetrator-victim relationship? That is important for the
classification of politically motivated criminality.
If it is
about classifying leftist extremist violence, then that is still something
different, since then we have thereon only a partial number. In place of it, it
is however fully clear: The attacks on the Alternative für Deutschland were
surely – No, clearly! From the AfD itself! Of what are you actually dreaming in
the night? Self-evidently are all of these assaults, by all standards, leftist
motivated. The perpetrators, those we have, were always leftist motivated.
I proceed. With
diversion, what is the government actually making of the situation? This is not
unknown. Does one now exhibit the real problem or does one perhaps ignore this
diversionary maneuver? No, one naturally does not ignore it. The CDU routinely
gives in and lends itself to diversionary sideshows. To that then belongs the
spontaneous, night-time dismissal of a press spokesman after the New Year’s
riots of 2019-2020, the appointment of a special investigator for Bicycle-gate,
the appointment of a security coordinator at SMI – as usual, the man is
handsomely paid – , schooling in the recognition and denunciation of
non-streamlined officials to the right of the leftward-shifted CDU, or – new –
intensified tests of viewpoint for recruitment in the police service. That sounds
quite like what would not have been examined in the past.
In closing
with a few words in the field of leftist extremism. Greens and Linke – we also
note it here – routinely trivialize the violence. They spur it on. They are the
parliamentary arm of the Antifa.
Juliane “Bulls
out of Connewitz” Nagel, full of a radical left problem consciousness; the “We
are representatives of Antifa, are represented straight through the leftist
parties” of Mirko Schulze, who declares his solidarity with sympathizers of the
PKK terror organization; up to the command summit of the SPD, within which is
Saskia Esken who designates herself a part of the Antifa.
Luise Neuhaus-Wartenberg (Linke):
Good woman!
Albrecht Pallas (SPD): Anti-fascism
is a democratic consensus!
Jürgen Kasek
of the Greens was quite to the fore at the unpeaceful “Welcome to Hell”
protests at the G-20 summit. He was to be seen as he screamed in the face of
police in the first rank.
Juliane Nagel (Linke): How then can
that happen?
Ach, you have yourselves certainly. – Ach so, Kasek. Quite briefly: He is the former State chairman of
the Greens, the attorney of which let herself be photographed with a baseball
bat and then underwrote this Tweet with “anti-fascist”.
Of Justice
Minister Katja Meier, who gives dubious advice to firms like Hentscke Bau so as
to hold the terrorists at bay, it is for once to be quite silent.
Rico Gebhardt (Linke): Really?
The CDU meanwhile
submits itself, preferably by voting for voting’s sake; nevertheless, Herr
Wöller, actions count. We know nothing other than announcements and sermons
permitting new escalations. The Soko LinX [special police division] came too
late, is too weakly set up and has a view constricted on Leipzig; and Herr Minister-president
Kretschmer gives away, on an extremely large scale with a media hullabaloo at
taxpayers’ expense, Herrnhuter Stars to the police in Leipzig-Connewitz.
Instead of taking vigorous action…: Carry on, men. To the front! No rescue is
near, but I have brought you a beautiful Herrnhuter Star at 117 euros 50 cents.
Hang it as a sign of my solidarity, at best where the Antifa cannot make it kaputt.
Valentin Lippmann (Greens): What besides everything do
you still want to forbid? And then freedom?
The leftist
networkers indeed receive no visit from the Minister-president, yet they nevertheless
may rejoice over the not entirely gentle gift of an additional billion euros in
the coming years against the right:
Rico Gebhardt (Linke): Exactly!
against the
fascists, against the roots of fascism, against society.
– Herr
Lippmann, you have snoozed; I have seen it. Provide yourself, before all the
government, with a situation overview. Turn off the tap to the leftist
extremists. Disconnect Indymedia. Ban the Antifa!
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
