Kay-Uwe Ziegler, December 16, 2021, Retail Trade and Vaccination

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/9, pp. 456-457.

Right honorable Frau President. Dear colleagues.

I find it to be crazily characteristic that you have full ranks for the kindergarten theater of your sitting places, yet the business friendly FDP and CDU/CSU parties, when this point in the daily order is past, leave the hall in a flood.  I would really wish that your voters may see this: How important to you is your sitting place and unimportant to you are the interests of business out there in our country.

Dear colleagues, I myself am for 30 years in the retail textile business. I know what is happening out there. I know how it feels. I was twice sent into the lockdown with two days notice. Thus suddenly everything which has been planned up to then is gone. You are no longer able to work with your co-workers; they need be put on part-time with 60 percent net pay; and that is in the area in which the minimum wage is paid. How that feels for anyone who wants to properly pay his people, I cannot at all describe to you. When, without any fault of your own, you need to close your business, then you feel extremely helpless.

We are presently in December and this actually is the most important month for us in this branch. And no, it is not about making big profits but about being able to compensate for this year’s losses, storing up reserves and the next year, and to be armed for what perhaps is yet to come. All of that we can just forget.

Our co-workers shall be controlled by credentials and vaccination certificates. We do not know whether they are thus authorized, whether they are thus allowed, and what happens if they thereby make mistakes. Who pays the penalties? Our co-workers need customers, those who they know for decades and greet at the door and, if they do not fulfill the third “G” for healthy [gesund], again send out. Our customers are the basis, the foundation of the business and we need show the door to these people. This is unbearable and has nothing to do with what business must do out there.

            Johannes Fechner (SPD): It functions very well!

The press headlines: Apocalyptic Situation for the Merchants, Revenue Losses up to 80 Percent. – But the money is not gone; its just that others have it. The great on-line providers are celebrating their second strongest Christmas sales, the large supermarkets have just rearranged their assortment, and all that the small retail merchant can no longer sell is suddenly there for purchase. And it is no problem at all when 100 people stand there according to the rules for the special offers. Yet the one who does not fulfill the last G cannot stop at the small merchant of 100 square meters. They can go to a tobacco store without fulfilling the 3G rule. They however cannot buy a toy for their neighbor’s daughter; that is not possible. That is awfully sad, that however is reality in our country.

When I let all of this pass in review, this pressure which is certainly exerted upon the non-vaccinated, then I have the impression: It is not really about health. It is about requiring the syringe for the non-vaccinated,

            Julia Klöckner (CDU/CSU): It becomes ever more obscure.

and that on the backs of the retail merchants, the restaurateurs and the other service operations. That is the reality which is found out there and which we cannot accept.

Right honorable Herr Chancellor, a few days ago I could still read that you are the Chancellor of the non-vaccinated. I would gladly take you at your word: Stop the discrimination against the non-vaccinated. Stop it so as to remove these people from the backs of the retail and restaurant trades; since these areas for a year and a half have conducted themselves reasonably, in exemplary fashion and with solidarity. Please comprehensively give back to my colleagues their business freedoms and thereby put an end to the irreparable destruction of a pillar of the German economy.

If this should not suffice for you, then please do it for the millions of competent co-workers who fear for their jobs and their livelihood.

Many thanks.

 

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Alice Weidel, December 15, 2021, Scholz Government

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/8, pp. 357-359.

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable Herr Chancellor. Worthy ladies and gentlemen.

The noisy false start, into which your government cobbled together out of left-green blockheads and capitulated liberals has fallen flat, seeks its own kind.

            Jan Korte (Linke): Totally left, ja!

From the first minute, you and your ministers go on a confrontation course with the reality, with the freedom, with the civil rights, with the citizens and with the European neighbors and partners.

Herr Habeck and his State Secretary have undertaken as a first project the annulment of the defense of species so as to be able to clutter the country even more densely with windmills. The defense of nature and species as a sign of sympathy has obviously lost meaning in regards the Greens.

The unspeakable censorship law, the NetzDG, the FDP still wanted to abolish during the election campaign. Now they present the Justice Minister who even wants to intensify the application of the NetzDG.

Interior Minister Fraeser, scarcely in office, declares rightist extremism to be the greatest danger. – I knew that you would applaud that. – The omnipresent leftist and Islamic extremism occurs to you exactly as little as in the entire red-green-yellow coalition contract, with not one word. Of the recent, with difficulty prevented Islamist terror attack in Hamburg, we still have heard to this day no word from the Interior Minister. 

This same Interior Minister came back from Brussels with the pledge that of 40,000 Afghans who for undiscoverable reasons shall be resettled in the EU, to haul 25,000 of the same to Germany alone – Spain and France undertake just one tenth of this number – and that, even though the number of asylum applications moreover again strongly increases, and Germany by far throughout Europe accepts the most asylum applications. It is thus clear. Germany continues not only along the previous government’s Sonderweg as a migration magnet – in this dead end, your government gives it full gas.

The same moral presumption is stuck behind the instructions which Frau Baerbock believes it necessary to impart to the Poles because the country of Poland takes seriously its European responsibility and effectively defends the EU external border against illegal migration.

Herr Lindner of the FDP capitulation party, who in the distant past spoke gladly and much of solid state finances and promised them, puts forward as a first a supplementary budget of 60 billion euros.

            Stefan Keuter (AfD): 60 billion! Hear! Hear!

As notary of the approaching green-red spending orgies, the Federal Finance Minister thus diverts over-sized credit authorizations of his predecessor and of the Chancellor so as to be able in the future to squander yet more money on a Green planned economy of climate protection and energy transition. What a start in office, with unserious and unconstitutionally considered financial trickeries!

Four years ago, Herr Lindner, it was still enjoined by you: Better to just not govern than to govern badly. Today the motto reads: The main thing is to sit in the government as stirrup-holder for green-left projects and fantasies of omnipotence. Of the erstwhile spirit of the FDP – it needs here for once be clearly said – is there nothing, as though just nothing of the rest remained.

            Alexander Lambsdorff (FDP): What a nonsense! Hear! Hear!

Amidst these dissonant concerts stands as choirmaster a Chancellor who before all does one thing well: Keeps quiet, before all on his own failings, from Cum-Ex, through Wirecard, to the Warburg Bank’s tax and spend affairs in the millions. And your oracular ambiguities of the Merkel kind do not make the matter better. You say, you were also the Chancellor of the non-vaccinated, and thereby precisely sort out the citizens into brave vaccinated and non-vaccinated deviants who you want to compel to good conduct. Exactly that is the choice of words of a Chancellor of division.

The most striking voter fraud have you committed even before taking office, entering on the vaccination obligation, still high and holy denied a few weeks ago. The supplementary law for the Infection Protection Act was flogged through against all good parliamentary usage, with additional heavy restrictions of basic rights for an unforeseeable time. It is easy to see through why you were so quick about it. The virus of course does not concern itself with your preventive measures, your continual evermore which hitherto has not functioned. You want to establish, beyond the constitution, an undeclared state of permanent exception. And you fear that the panic spread by you may too quickly ebb away if the infection events, even without your doings, again recede.

You use a long-term panic and state of exception so that less will be spoken of what your government otherwise still has on the agenda: A migration policy which even more than the previous government opens the door to migration into the social system, which by means of the grandiose expansion of naturalization [Einbürgerung] and family unification makes irreversible facts, a climate protection policy which is placed above all economic and social areas and which by means of state control and state money distribution flows into socialism and a climate-planned economy and the impoverishment of broad classes of the population, into energy insecurity and foreseeable blackouts, a European policy which wants to know nothing of one’s own national interests, which further constructs the debts and transfer union to the disadvantage of the German taxpayer and which wants to reconstruct the EU into a European Federal State.With this wish for the dissolution of one’s own national state into a European central state, you moreover stand forth fully alone in Europe. According to you, all of this stands under the slogan of “Transformation”.

Yet such a usurpation of power is not the duty of a democratic government which serves the citizens. To the real cares and necessities which revolve about the wholly normal citizens of this country, you have no answer. The inflation runs out of control and impoverishes Mittelstand  and middle-class. The ECB is helpless. It needed to counteract with higher interest rates, yet sits imprisoned in the ruins of a state and business financing of zero and negative interest rates, which besides is actually forbidden to central banks. Instead of relieving the citizens, your government drives taxes as well as fuel and energy prices to the extreme. That is irresponsible, right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

The angst is about the workplace. You however huff and puff in the name of climate protection for a general assault on the productive industrial core and the energy supply of this country. You even look with satisfaction upon the downfall of the automobile and supplier industry and squander tax money for a green-left identity policy with which you create jobs for your lobby groups at the cost of the general public.

The domestic security erodes. Before escalating knife violence, crimes of brutality and the growing insecurity in the streets, you close your eyes. You therefore criminalize with the greater gusto protests critical of the government. While law-abiding citizens may set foot in no restaurant without a vaccination pass, the borders remain open for illegal immigrants, even without identification documents. It is an unsustainable, fully illegal politics which this government aggravates and perpetuates.

Herr Chancellor Scholz, your government in the first days has made abundantly clear where the journey with this coalition shall go. It is a wrong-way drive. Correct this course. Concern yourself for the maintenance of the laws, the reconstruction of justice. Unify this country, instead of further dividing it.

I am grateful.

 

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Jürgen Braun, December 9, 2021, Religious Freedom

AfD Kompakt, December 9, 2021. 

The Ampel coalition blatantly devalues common human rights. Thus will some social concerns be re-interpreted as ostensible human rights themes. The attitude of the Ampel on human rights themes is also indicated by the elimination of the Office of the Commissioner for Religious Freedom. Those suffering from this political attitude are authentic refugees, especially persecuted Christians in Islamic and communist countries.

The AfD delegation therefore demands a closing of ranks with all democratic states which defend their borders and want to thwart the aggressive spread of Islam. We may thereby safeguard the tradition of International Human Rights Day.

 

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