Georg Pazderski, September 2, 2021, Afghanistan

Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus, Plenarprotokoll 18/83, pp. 9776-9778.

Right honorable Herr President. Ladies and gentlemen. Dear citizens.

Who seriously expected that the mission in Afghanistan might have been able to become a political success has for many years long shut his eyes to the facts. That was an ideological blindness which unfortunately is typical of the do-gooder, decadent Zeitgeist in our country and other Western states, an ideological blindness which also in regards other political and social themes clouds the view from one’s own bubble and has led to erroneous conclusions and decisions. I recall only the foreign criminality, gender gaga, or climate madness. The bitter truth is, who pushes aside or demonizes the facts cannot resolve the challenges and govern a people along with their true needs.

Exactly that goes for 20 years when it is about Afghanistan. No one from the circle of the politically responsible had ever taken the trouble to for once define our national interests. Instead, a monstrous moral obligation was discovered – we need impart our values and democracy in a country far from here so as to be able to live securely. After 20 years, the facts speak a different language. In the objective country, with the Taliban a medieval Moslem force again takes power in a medieval society.

An additional measurable result: Presently, more than 270,000 Afghans live with us. The by far preponderant majority of them have immigrated into our social system, although that will readily be swept under the carpet by the old parties, exactly so as besides the high rate of criminality. Between 2015 and 2020 throughout Germany, police recorded over 260,000 Afghans suspected of a criminal act; in terms of the statistics, almost every Afghan refugee. What do the old parties demand in this situation? – It happens that the Greens candidate for Chancellor, whose party friend Joschka Fischer had besides 20 years ago flipped the switch for the Bundeswehr mission in the Hindukush, wants to haul into our country additional Afghans, 50,000 more. With such irresponsible statements, you waken anew, as in 2015, the false expectation that we would have a place for anyone. That, we do not have.

Yet thus will new streams of refugees be set in motion…The wrong ones will again be attracted; namely, the strong, young men, the group besides with the highest rate of criminality, and not those in fact requiring assistance. Who supports that, acts irresponsibly and negligently.

The fact is, we cannot solve Afghanistan’s problems in Germany and certainly not in Berlin. That clearly does not interest the red-red-green Senate. Instead, one boasts of having assisted in the rescue of German Ortskräfte. Press reports of past days state it was just 130 persons. The rest had been unlucky or needed to give up their place in a Bundeswehr aircraft to a deported criminal or rapist. These are newspaper reports which give rise only to head-shaking.

Naturally it is right to rescue from the Islamists Ortskräfte who had worked for us and were loyal. Yet no one knows whether all those concerned were and are loyal to their employers. No one knows whether we in this way have not brought or are still bringing to us persons who certainly do not deserve our help because they were corrupt or violence-prone, have spied for the Taliban, or even are terrorists. Who were all the others who additionally were brought by airlift into our country? No one knows exactly,

            Lars Düsterhöft (SPD): That applies to you, too!

just like in 2015. No one knows whether those flown out actually would have been subjected to political persecution had they remained in Afghanistan. The hasty change of front of many Afghans with the advance of the Taliban gives rise to substantial doubt.

The acceptance of additional Afghans thus needs to be clearly delimited to a distinctly defined group of truly threatened Ortskräfte. We are not allowed to again renounce, as in 2015, a comprehensive control of streams of refugees.

The enormous risks with which that is associated have again just been made clear in the concluding report of the investigating committee on the terror attack of December 19, 2016. I therefore unambiguously demand: Never again may there be a loss of state control like 2015.

In Afghanistan has become clear that do-gooder arrogance in the face of rooted traditions will always come up short. It has become clear that an excessive helper syndrome, paired with the lack of clearly defined national foreign policy interests, has catastrophic consequences. A country in which essential portions of the population still live in a patriarchal world closely shaped by poverty, religion and tribal thinking cannot be inspired by the Western form of democracy – and not by a lot of money, a lot of soldiers, democracy seminars or gender mainstreaming courses. Who has once concerned himself with Afghanistan’s history can only wonder at the unbelievable arrogance and stupidity with which it is still believed to this day in Washington, London or Berlin

            Carsten Schatz (Linke): What did you do there?

that a country in 20 years can be led from the Middle Ages to modernity.

Nearly all Afghans, in so far as one can at all speak of a national Afghan identity, are neither interested nor ready to fight for that – as we have seen. That was clearly indicated by the Taliban’s victory march which hit upon practically no resistance and which in many places was even frenetically welcomed. That is thus long legitimate, as thereby other countries will not be overrun with war, terror and waves of refugees. Concerning the acceptance of Afghans, our country and our city have no backlog – quite the contrary.

The previously mentioned figure of over 270,000 Afghans in Germany is nearly as great as that of the U.S.A., Canada and Australia combined. In Berlin alone since 2015 were far over 11,000 Afghan refugees taken in. This is as many as all of Italy. Honor killings, knifings, assaults on women, social fraud with countless identities make clear, here integration occurs just as well as not.

            Anne Helm (Linke): It is also guilty for your hair loss!

In view of these facts, it is not surprising that, after the housing shortage which besides needs also be seen in connection with the refugee streams of recent years, the security situation is presently for Berliners the most important theme. I therefore strive to appeal to the government: Do not again overtax the Berliners’ readiness to help as you already had done in 2015. It is the interests of the Berliners with which we primarily need to concern ourselves. Anyone who wants to be with us therefore must undergo a security check and examination of identity before he is allowed to travel to our country.  

Large streams of refugees need be collected with our assistance in bordering states. This works to counter the cultural deracination, is essentially more humane because we are able to help many more people, and is essentially more favorable financially. I may here give an example: In place of 10,000 refugees in Germany, we could support some one million people locally and help them. The perspective for the Afghans who leave their country can only be the most rapid return from the neighboring countries to their homeland, as soon as the situation permits this, but not entry into Germany. They will of course be urgently required for the rebuilding of their country.

Therefore, the triad of our answer to the situation in Afghanistan reads: To help specifically the few, authentic, loyal Ortskräften, to support the acceptance and care of Afghan refugees in the neighboring countries and, third, to unconditionally prevent a repetition of what occurred in 2015 so as to protect the Berliners from further excessive demand.

Thank you for your attention.

 

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Katrin Ebner-Steiner, September 1, 2021, Corona Pandemic

Bavarian Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/91, pp. 12426-12428.

Frau President. Esteemed colleagues.

Herr Söder, as to your mud-slinging: I am neither a postman nor a string-puller. In contrast to you, I respect the opinion of free citizens.

On that account, I certainly want to say thank you to the many helpers in healthcare, in the schools and in the families. They are the defenders of our people, not the power elites and the politicians.

Today we deliberate in the Bavarian Landtag on the new Corona decree for which the Bavarian ministers council unanimously decided yesterday and announced in the surroundings of a press conference. Owing to the wide-ranging restrictions for the citizens, an open-ended debate in the Landtag with the participation of the people’s elected representatives would have been essential. Instead we however see, dear citizens, the Minister-president’s 18^th government declaration which is nothing other than an advertisement for Markus Söder with the friendly support of the Bavarian State broadcasting.

For a year and a half, this Minister-president governs with emergency decrees and makes the Bavarian Landtag into Bavaria’s biggest little theatre. As the AfD delegation’s chairman, I have obtained a deep insight into the political decision-making process. As a citizen of this State, I had expected the elected members of the parties to be included in the making of decisions. Instead, the Minister-president rules past the parliament and thereby disregards the parliamentary customs – quite according to his model, the yet Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel. And she continually has made the essential decisions unilaterally and without appropriate participation of the Bundestag. Minister-president Söder has even recently praised this almost dictatorial governing style and copied it for Bavaria. Ladies and gentlemen, since the Corona situation at the latest, parliamentary government finds itself in a very serious crisis. This crisis was unleashed not by the critics of the Corona restrictions but by the State government under Söder. He repeatedly abuses the Bavarian Landtag as a stage for the announcement of the State government’s decisions and degrades to supernumeraries the large portion of the elected members.

Minister-president Söder shows himself to be not only un-teachable in relations with the parliament but also in connection with the challenges owing to the Corona virus. He grandiosely designates the announced new infection defense decree as a new chapter in the Corona policy. Restrictive of the basic rights, the Corona preventive measures were to be an expression of a new  balance of security and self-responsibility. In fact however, right honorable ladies and gentlemen, by means of the introduction of the 3-G rule, designated as the centerpiece, the thumb screws were further tightened for those not vaccinated; in Bavaria, that is still 40% – 40%! At the same time, you increase the direct pressure on the young people to let themselves be vaccinated. Since from October 1, Corona tests will no more be offered without cost. By means of an expensive PCR test, a disco visit becomes an unaffordable luxury. Herr Söder, you rob the joy of life from an entire generation. Yet let us state what the fact is: 3-G is nothing other than a covert forced vaccination, since what is left to the citizen who can fulfill no test? What does the old-age impoverished pensioner do who needs now take care to make ends meet? It is the perfect right of these people to say: Nein, I do not want to let myself be vaccinated.

Here it is unethical, improper, indeed it is completely unacceptable to continue to exercise pressure on these free people. That has nothing to do with the commended self-responsibility; but that is state repression in its most extreme form. You, Herr Söder, play off the vaccinated against the non-vaccinated. You thereby divide our society and you even designate it as a new form of freedom. Here, more scorn and meanness there is not.

In this regard, the Economy Minister and Deputy Minister-president Hubert Aiwanger thereby plays a quite shabby role. He is the man with two faces, the Janus head in the Söder government. At the cabinet table, he votes to the detriment of the vaccinated, at the reserved table he solicits the votes of the non-vaccinated for the Frei Wähler. The voters see through this game of the bloc party system and do not let themselves be sold for dumb. The citizens know that Aiwanger is only there so as to keep the oppositional votes in the bloc party system.

Herr Aiwanger, if you take freedom seriously, then finally do us a favor and quit this government of serfdom [Unfreiheit] and encroachment! End this unworthy show for Bavaria!

The new decree also foresees the introduction of a so-called hospital signal light. You thereby overtake a requisition which we of the AfD had from the beginning demanded as an indicator of the loading of the healthcare system. But what exactly happens to us citizens when the light is yellow or red? No one knows exactly what will then happen and you keep it vague.

Ladies and gentlemen, who should actually peer into all of these regulations? Such monstrous legal decrees are the expression of a policy hostile to freedom which no one understands.

In this connection, you also ever again bring into play the children. As a mama of four children, I can only say to you: It is shown, and it is a scientific consensus, that children are no vectors of infection, and an illness of children and youth runs exceedingly mild. Herr Söder, we of the AfD stand consistently on the side of the families. On that account, I demand of you here in the sovereign house: Hands off our children!

We of the AfD do not want that our children be required or be forced to vaccinate. We also do not want that here children be exposed to unnecessary health risks and that children need wear a mask at school, even though they will be continually tested. That is after all completely insane! We of the AfD want an authentic freedom to decide and we stand for proportionality. We are the guarantor of self-responsibility and thereby the only remaining advocate of an authentic freedom in this country.

We want no Söder’sche freedom, but we demand the end of these nonsensical and unrealistic preventive measures. Herr Söder, I am greatly concerned for Bavaria. Under your government, we Bavarians simply want our freedom back.

 

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Jörg Urban, September 2, 2021, Vaccination at Work

AfD Kompakt, September 2, 2021.

I forewarn of weakening the data protection and rights of employees so as to only ostensibly attain more security against Corona infections at work. That is the wrong way. We meanwhile know that the vaccinated can infect and sicken just so as the non-vaccinated. The vaccinated elder caregiver thus likewise can infect a senior from the endangered at-risk groups.

Apparently, in regards the vaccination status inquiry, for the government it is about something else: The pressure on healthy, non-vaccinated people to likewise allow themselves be vaccinated shall also be increased in the workplace. The government thereby appears not to be interested that the vaccine has only an emergency approval, and many citizens following an individual risk-use analysis entertain great doubt. Certainly for scarcely endangered young people, the analysis rather comes out negative.

 

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