Jürgen Braun, March 4, 2021, Myanmar

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/215, pp. 27092-27093. 

Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Dear colleagues.           

Steffi Lemke (Greens): That’s “Frau Präsidentin”! Deal with it!

– Generic masculine. All of it is in order.

            Steffi Lemke (Greens): Nein! It’s “Frau Präsidentin”!

It is all the German language. Dear colleagues, when you become so agitated, then I notice: I somehow seem to have touched a nerve with you, that you have a problem with the German language.

Steffi Lemke (Greens): You have a giant problem with women! You have no understanding with women, that is your thing!

This must for once be stated clearly. The German language offers many possibilities, and I choose the correct one.

In Myanmar, the military has by means of a putsch returned to power. Demonstrations were mercilessly beaten down, today alone 38 deaths have been reported, many severely and most severely wounded – an oppressive situation, for the people of Myanmar, the former Burma.

The great majority of the people support Aung San Suu Kyi. I could experience how it goes in Myanmar, as I was there as a private person for several weeks. Merchants and tradesmen in Rangoon, restaurant leaseholders and fishermen on the Inle Lake, teachers and workers in New Bagan – I spoke with people of quite different social classes. An impressive majority support Suu Kyi. Most of them have pictures of her in their homes, at work. She is the legitimate head of government. Quite clearly, that was the feeling – of the people in the country, not in a party central office, not in a German foundation, not in an NGO, but of the normal people in Burma or Myanmar.

Aung San Suu Kyi has a strong standing amongst the people. She is the daughter of the freedom hero Aung San and she has acquired her own reputation as a hero of freedom – years long house arrest, at the time, under a leftist military dictatorship.

            Margarete Bause (Greens): A “leftist military dictatorship”?

Her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, conferred expressly for her commitment to human rights, she could not personally receive – house arrest, travel ban.

What as idol she was then, even for the old parties, and how she has been forsaken in recent years by the old parties. The democratically legitimated election winner in Burma was in foreign countries overloaded with expectations which no one, absolutely no one, can fulfill. Typical of the Greens and the left-greens: To expect from all others superhuman accomplishments, yet themselves to accomplish nothing.

To govern in the multi-ethnic state of Burma, in forced cooperation with the Communist military, that is highly complex. To govern in Burma is not as simple as in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin-Mitte or München-Schwabing; for a brief moment, to save the world over Latte Macchiato and Prosecco. Yet in the leftist hyper-morality, it is all the same.

The old parties and the Federal government mistake the realities of the world. In common with other leftist governments, they wanted to compel Aung San Suu Kyi and her government to naturalize, in a moment, more that one million Bengalis, people who do not belong to the Staatsvolk, people whose families often do not come from Burma, who shall be artificially made into citizens of the state. The diplomatic barrage pertaining thereto was ardently stirred up by an Islamist block of states in the United Nations, and in which the Federal government has been complicit. This weakened the legitimate Burmese government. And now there is a leftist military dictatorship, a Communist dictatorship under a tight bond to the Communist leadership in Peking. The old parties gathered here in the Bundestag must let themselves ask how much responsibility they bear for this bloodshed.

A possible solution for Myanmar could lie in the ASEAN states’ policy; exceptionally, I am here of an opinion with Herr Maas. The Southeast Asian states are seeking to pacify the conflict in Myanmar; for they have an interest in that Myanmar remain a strong partner – against Chinese influence and also against the Communist military. The solution therein is not the green-leftist claims which are unrealistic and incapable of being fulfilled.

The AfD is the only delegation that consistently and nevertheless not uncritically stands by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi. Even Aung San Suu Kyi cannot work a miracle, but a majority of her Staatsvolk acknowledge her policy. The leftist governments of Europe have abandoned this woman, the United Nations have abandoned her, the Federal government has abandoned her.

Would that it be otherwise, that the military not be trusted to lay hands on the fragile plant of democracy in Burma. Yet the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was left alone. She is and remains the hope of all democrats. We, the AfD delegation, stand at the side of the peaceful democrats in Myanmar.

 

 

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Mariana Harder-Kühnel, March 5, 2021, Women's Freedoms

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/216, pp. 27218-27219.

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

As in each year, World Women’s Day offers an occasion to draw up a balance. What has changed for women and girls in Germany, what for the good and what for the bad? The Corona crisis, like so many previous crises, wars, and natural catastrophes, has shown that women are irreplaceable contributors [Leistungsträger]. If the left side is listened to, Corona has led to a reversion to old role models, which is an unbearable devaluation of the performance of women and mothers in Germany.

Exactly the opposite is the case. Women are the heroes of Corona. Not only in the system relevant occupations, for example, hospitals, care facilities, kindergartens and food service, do they have their woman. They have also managed to bear the double burden of caring for their children and the occupational activity. They and not the government have kept this country in the running, and indeed together with excellent men and fathers. This is a master performance by the women, men and families in Germany and most certainly is no reversion to old role models.

            Katja Mast (SPD): You have not understood it!

As a catastrophic relapse into old times must much more be designated the loss of women’s freedoms in Germany, freedoms which were previously fought for through hundreds of years: The freedom to be at anytime able to stop in any chosen part of town without male accompaniment, to be able to go jogging alone, to be able to dress as one wants and not like veiled little girls; the freedom to be able to choose a husband, not to be compelled to marry or to share him with x number of wives; the freedom from being delivered over to the domestic violence of a tyrannical patriarch; the freedom to decide whether and which occupation one wants to enter into; whether one earns one’s own living or whether one is allowed out of the house only to go shopping accompanied by men as an unpaid, full-time, veiled servant.

That these freedoms of women in the 21^st Century are endangered lies in your policy of unlimited migration from archaic cultural circles. By means of your politically correct, cultural sensible silences you make yourselves complicit – complicit in that these freedoms and rights of German women, hard fought for through the centuries, are endangered. Coming generations will most certainly not exult over your policy. Yet instead of concerning yourselves with the real problems of women in Germany, you even in 2020 prefer to conduct phantom debates: Debates on the gender-correct despoliation of the German language, on unisex bathrooms, and ever again the tiresome topic of women’s quotas. You there make victims of women where they absolutely are not, and you are ominously silent where they increasingly become victims. And in a way I can even understand that, because otherwise you would lose your livelihood’s justification, because your leftist Utopia would collapse upon itself like a house of cards – the Utopia in which the fight for women’s rights is compatible with the fight for mass immigration. Feminist multiculturalism, that is like a vegetarian slaughterhouse: Far from every reality of life.

Instead, you should recall the true meaning of World Women’s Day, the good and true fight of authentic women’s rights advocates and the result of those struggles: Freedom, protection from violence, equal justice. In 21^st Century Germany, you unfortunately have enough to do with that; for all of that is at risk as a consequence of the mass immigration demanded by you. Therefore, finally open your eyes to the real problems of women in Germany, and conduct yourselves accordingly.

Many thanks.

            Kerstin Kassner (Linke): Was that just satire, or seriously meant?

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

Jan Nolte, March 3, 2021, Bundeswehr in the Mediterranean

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/214, pp. 26964-26965.

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Every year we speak here on Operation Sea Guardian, the proponents of this mission expound on the general importance of the fight against terror and arms smuggling and emphasize how important are secure seaways. These general positions normally cannot be contradicted,

           Daniela De Ridder (SPD): Then don’t you do it!

yet do not have much to do with Operation Sea Guardian.

For we speak, ja, every year again anew on the balances of these missions. And it also now appears that we still have seen no terrorists in the Mediterranean,

            Daniela De Ridder (SPD): Ever heard of deterrence?

that in the Operation Sea Guardian area still no arms smuggler has been apprehended, and that the Federal government besides does not have any knowledge of other threats to security in the Operation Sea Guardian area.

For 20 years now we are there in place, if we figure in the predecessor Operation Active Endeavour. Despite that, the Federal government apparently wants to continue to remain there; it appears, as you also do not want to enter into the slightest risk, it will, for all that, still in some way happen. When one hears this and is aware that here in our capital city, in Berlin, clan bosses decide whether there is to be war or peace, and not the police, then one can only wish that one, fine day the Federal government fights criminality here in Germany with the same élan as we now already do outside of Germany.

The explanation for why there are no arms smugglers and no terrorists there, I have plainly also heard from my preceding speaker – she sat here again –, is plainly deterrence; of which all are afraid and on that account none came. That we also have never seen the enemy on whose account we are actually there, may be a sign of how good the mandate is. Yet that cannot be a basis for a member of the Bundestag to vote in favor here. That is certainly completely arbitrary. That would mean that in the future we no more only decide on a mandate because of an enemy who is there, but also because of an enemy who is not there, yet could still perhaps sometime emerge purely hypothetically.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Such nonsense!

If this theory is to be believed, one please needs to consider: Sea Guardian pertains to ships which, besides those in the Mediterranean, are in transit. We could thus today end Operation Sea Guardian, save ourselves 3 million euros per year, and there are exactly these same ships in the Mediterranean as before, and the bad boys still tremble at the knees on account of our ships – all works wunderbar.

If the text of the motion is read, then one also has the impression that the Federal government itself does not exactly know how they should establish the value of the operation. Of that, there is an example as follows: The contribution to the building-up of capacity in the Mediterranean littoral states. And what does it consist of? We have held general information reports in Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. – Ja, that might be quite nice, but I believe for the building-up of capacity in the Mediterranean littoral states, better concepts nevertheless occur to us; for that, we do not need Operation Sea Guardian.

Also, joint exercises are to be emphasized as a result of Sea Guardian. It can only therein be called to mind: Multinational exercises are entirely top-notch; yet for that, no mandate is needed.

As a result: We do not need Operation Sea Guardian. We can save ourselves 3 million euros per year. With that, we can buy our soldiers good equipment. We as the Alternative für Deutschland do not here today vote in favor.

I now still have 28 seconds: Frau De Ridder, I can in one sentence go into what you have said here – I have it only approximately in memory: In regards the defense of soldiers, you somehow stand on the side of the soldiers. – A hypocrisy before the Lord, really!

           Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Now you are done!

No longer block the arming of drones, then can the soldiers be protected. It so appears as if in an operational country some tragedy needs to occur so that the SPD sees the political momentum and finally summons up the courage for a decision. Defend our soldiers and don’t duck out!

            Daniela De Ridder (SPD): Your populism is cheap! Cheap!

 

[trans: tem]