Ringo Mühlmann, February 2, 2022, Walking in Thüringia

Thüringen Landtag,  Plenarprotokoll 7/71, pp. 35-37.

Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable members and spectators.

I feel myself aggrieved in the last days and weeks in regards the police as well as in regards the walkers [Spaziergänger]. This ought not to happen. To the freedom-loving Spaziergänger: Remain in any case, at any price, peaceful. Any aggression, regardless of from whom it proceeds, devalues the form of protest selected by you.

Instead, an appeal to all participants: Let us in common struggle for the unrestricted reconstruction of all basic rights. And this I say quite well aware of the entire scope here.

            Bilay (Linke): They are not gone, the basic rights!

Who has still not grasped that the people who on any Monday and on any other day go into the street in Thüringia and Germany have internalized how democracy works, he does not want to understand democracy.

I have complete understanding for the concerns of the Spaziergänger and I do not want to know what would happen in this country if the leftist troops of the Antifa were as discontent as are the retailers in Apolda or the innkeepers in Hildburghausen.

Rothe-Beinlich (Greens): If it were the Antifa, the police would have long since cleared them out.

And for that very reason were also again tens of thousands – note well: In bad weather – in the streets to exercise in democratic ways their constitutionally chartered basic right to freedom of assembly,

            Blechschmidt (Linke): You need to adhere to that and not always merely speak.

and that, even though you – if you want to speak, do it, apply for it, then afterwards come up here –

            Blechschmidt (Linke): For once say something correct!

and that, even though you of the State government continue to restrict basic rights and indeed substantially restrict. Because that, due to numerous contradictory decrees nationwide as well as in the context of other countries in the EU, is plainly no longer able to be substantiated, conclusively and scientifically, I call that undemocratic.

I say just the keyword “recovery status” [Genesenenstatus].

As I in 1998 – I come now to the point, Herr Maier – as I in 1998 began the training for the mid-executive police service, for me was no scenario imaginable in which a State government on the basis of decrees partially or completely prohibits basic rights – and for years still maintains this.

As I in 2006 – and yes, Herr Adams, I call upon this example – as I in 2006 began studies for the upper executive police service, for me was no scenario imaginable that a judge in Weimar who dispensed impartial justice [unabhängig Recht gesprochen] becomes the target of a house search because that impartial justice obviously was politically undesired.

            Blechschmidt (Linke): Nein, because it was falsely done! Lies! 

Even in 2019, when I was elected to the Thüringen Landtag, could I not imagine that a State government, for its fundamentally undemocratic management, is not even beyond requesting its enforcement by the police and public offices, and perhaps even expects of it an escalation of the political protests. Ja, Herr Maier, you call it civil society. Yet the message is received by the violence prone Anitfa whom you have long since paid off for your civil society.

A State government which stokes a division into vaccinated and non-vaccinated, by which its members openly demand a general vaccination obligation and thereby after two years still wants, utterly without shame, to infringe upon the most intimate of basic rights, namely that of bodily inviolability. I have the impression that to you nothing is sacred.

And you of the State government naturally receive support from the delegations here in house, from the Linke,

            Blechschmidt (Linke): Ja, bitte!

to whom democratic customs in remembrance of 40 years of the DDR were never worth very much,

            Blechschmidt (Linke): You permit yourself a judgment over something of which                    you have no idea!

from the Greens, who have betrayed their earlier values from a union with Bündnis 90,

            Vice-president Berger: Ladies and gentlemen, I now again request from                                 you a bit of quiet here in the hall. Pardon me, Herr member. Ladies and                                 gentlemen, now a bit of quiet in the hall.

and from the CDU, the first in the Bund to have laid the foundation stone for the unbelievable dealings of the State government and the division of society, from the SPD and FDP which now on the federal level in daily discussion want to grind down the Basic Law just right for a general vaccination obligation as is hitherto unprecedented in the history of the Federal Republic. Shame on you. 

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Sylvia Limmer, February 11, 2022, Automotive Engine Emissions

AfD Kompakt, February 11, 2022.

For years, the EU legislation leads us on with the emissions-free automobiles of e-mobility. Yet this is an ideological conjurer’s trick, since only one thing is different – the location of the CO₂ emissions, which besides will increase. For as a result of this politically forced electrification of the passenger vehicle fleet, an increased coal-generated electricity will need to come on line and thus the portion of so-called renewable energies in the electricity mix will decline.

Classic automobiles with combustion engines, as well as all the innovations thereto coupled like synthetic and alternative fuels, shall be buried by this green-left Utopia and will be replaced by e-autos. Sand is thereby thrown in the eyes of the citizens and competitiveness, prosperity and workplaces endangered. Instead of this, we demand of the Commission – as is prescribed in the current EU decree from the year 2019 – a comprehensive measurement of all automobile emissions so as to establish the same conditions [Bedingungen] for all. Until then, penalty payments by auto manufacturers should be set aside and innovations promoted. In that regard, an examination of current goals is required, to the year 2028 at the latest, so as to then take into account the expected innovations of the particular drive technologies.

Only so can be prevented permanent damage to the core of Germany’s industrial base. For if the proposals of the Commission were followed, existing plants and workplaces cannot then be simply replaced. As previously, the great problems of e-mobility in regards affordability, lack of demand for reasons of quality, the faulty storage infrastructure, the insecure energy supply and, from the ecological-ethical viewpoint, the questionable mining of raw materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel, would thereby lead to that in the end we would have fewer automobiles in the street. This would have drastic consequences for our prosperity and our way of living.

 

[trans: tem]