Martin Hess, September 9, 2022, Islamism and Free Speech

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/52, pp. 5610-5611.

Right honorable Frau President. Dear colleagues.

An Interior Minister who considers her most important duties and wants to guarantee security and protection for the citizens of our country must convincingly conduct a situation analysis free of ideology and then take all necessary measures for the strengthening of domestic security. Yet you, Frau Interior Minister, steadily and persistently do the opposite. If your actions are examined, it need be quite clearly stated: Never before was the office of Federal Interior Minister occupied by a person so ideologically narrow-minded and almost completely ignorant of reality.

Jamila Schäfer (Greens): The opposite is the case!

For example, Islamism. By no one can it be seriously doubted that political Islam and Islamist terror present a massive security danger for our country which must be sternly and resolutely fought.

            Sebastian Hartmann (SPD): And the AfD!

Yet what does the Interior Minister do? She positively stops the work of the political Islamism experts’ circle at the Interior Ministry. Who previously thought that you were merely incompetent, dilettantish or in other ways over-charged with your office will now be better instructed. You knowingly and willfully reject the effective struggle against Islamism in our country. That is equivalent to a capitulation before the Islamist criminals and you are thus completely intolerable as an Interior Minister.

Just so irresponsible and basically nonsensical is your conduct in the area of migration policy. You continually complain – quite correctly – of the violence against, as named by you, queer persons; yet year by year let tens of thousands of people into our country who on the basis of their mostly Islamist socialization bring and act out exactly this hatred in our country.

Just recently, the trans-man Malte was murdered. The perpetrator was – it meanwhile has become a pattern in our country – a Moslem refugee convicted of violent crimes. Had this violent criminal never been let into the country, or at least had been deported, then Malte would today still be alive. Finally acknowledge this.

And you are warned of the exploding knife crime in our country. Yet what you persistently ignore is that the portion of foreign suspects in Baden-Württemberg is for years over 50 percent. The fact is: Your migration policy worsens day by day the security situation in our country. More effective border protection and deportations are the order of the hour and must now finally be implemented.

Stop continually defaming citizens’ protests. That, by means of the introduction of the field of “Delegitimization of the State Relevant to the Constitution Defense”

            Irene Mihalic (Greens): You are the model for this field!

now nearly every citizen who hard and emphatically criticizes the government can be in danger of being observed by the Constitution Defense, is not acceptable by convinced and upright democrats and must most quickly be corrected.

Julian Pahlke (Greens): You are scared of the Constitution Defense!

For the reasoning that by means of all too sharply formulated criticism of the government trust in the state is lost, is just tendentious. Note one thing: Trust in the state is not lost by criticism of the government, but by your disastrous policy which has catastrophic consequences for the citizens of this country.

If in the autumn and winter, as a result of your wrong decisions, living becomes unaffordable for thousands of citizens, countless firms go bankrupt and unemployment explodes,

            Filiz Polat (Greens): Yet which you want!

            Sebastian Hartmann (SPD): Yet which you want! It’s your buddy                                           Putin who does that!

then it is the vested, basic right of every citizen of our country to go into the street and certainly in an unsparing and direct form show the red card to the government.

Who defames and even prevents these justified protests as “right-wing extremist”, as you constantly do, yet at the same time welcomes on ideological grounds the actions of Fridays for Future or Black Lives Matter, damages our democracy and conducts herself in a way unworthy of an Interior Minister.

Frau Minister, you are not only an ideologically deluded, security policy wrong-way driver and thereby plainly miscast; no, you are essentially more! You are a danger for domestic security and democracy in our country.

Sebastian Hartmann (SPD): Shamelessness! The AfD is the greatest security risk for our country!

The sooner you resign, the better for us all!

            Götz Frömming (AfD): Bravo! That was a good speech!

 

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Alice Weidel, September 7, 2022, Scholz Government

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/50, pp. 5321-5323.

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

Thank God the navel-gazing between Herr Merz and the Chancellor is over. They have thereby clearly shown that they lack the gravity for the situation in which our country finds itself. Germany steers into the worst storm since the foundation of the Federal Republic. Millions of livelihoods are in play. Countless citizens are threatened with impoverishment, the Mittelstand economy with collapse, the state finances with permanent ruin. And on the bridge of the ship of state stands the captain of the Titanic who wants to know nothing of icebergs and calms the people with hollow announcements. We have just heard it.

With such a crew, the journey can only end in disaster: A Chancellor who is involved in a tax and finance scandal and can remember nothing; an Economy Minister who fleeces the citizens to give to lobbyists and energy concerns, yet who has no idea at all of economic and technological relationships, and does not know what insolvencies are – as he himself acknowledged yesterday evening in a talk show; a Finance Minister who systematically disguises debts; an Interior Minister who is blind in the left eye, ignores Islamism, and misuses the Constitution Defense as a defense for those of the establishment; a Justice Minister who arbitrarily restricts basic rights; a Health Minister obsessed with a virus who continually gives gives himself over to confusion and nonsense; a Defense Minister who apparently can only be somehow occupied with military equipment if it used as a vacation vehicle; and finally a Green Foreign Minister who promises to stand at the side of the Ukraine, unconcerned by how hard and ruinous the sanctions policy becomes for her own citizens. “All the same, what my German voters think” – that apparently is the motto of this government.

Your oath of office to avert harm from the German people becomes a perjury. Ideological fantasies and arrogant adherence to false decisions are to you more important. The best evidence of that is your obstinate adherence to the disconnection of the last nuclear power plants. You are ruining this country economically so to serve the irrational dogmas of the Green clientele and lobbyists.

You have every reason to fear a hot autumn and winter; for the citizens have every right, Herr Merz, to go into the street against such a government and against such a policy. Naturally they have the right: Galloping inflation, a dying currency, and exploding energy prices mean more than a bit of a freeze for millions of citizens as has been patronizingly announced to them from above. Even for middle class households, it is about existence. They can no longer pay their accounts, their reserves, pension and assistance claims have been furiously devalued. They are threatened with impoverishment and dependence on public assistance; yet that is at an end, as we already today see in the fleecing of taxpayers to the point of extinction. Many, who today are still able to feed their families, will lose their work. Now already, one after another Mittelstand businesses stop production because they can no longer support the energy bill, such as bakeries and fertilizer plants, porcelain and glass makers, foundries and aluminum plants. Inflation and energy crisis are destroying the business Mittelstand­ and the bürgerlichen middle class.

Your relief package besides has nothing for our Mittelstand and for our middle class. You promise supplements which the working people themselves must pay for. You distribute money which multiple times you have taken away from the citizens, and present that as an act of charity. 60 percent of German households need to commit their entire after-tax income to maintain the living standard; for savings, nothing more remains. A savings bank study shows this: You among the Greens need not shake your heads, you simply need to read the study. That you do not want that, and also have no idea of that, you demonstrate that with your politics. If this is the Green economic miracle which was advertised in the election campaign, then thanks for nothing. And your hypocritical appeals and calls for perseverance to the citizens to restrict themselves, to make sacrifices and cold showers, to use wash cloths for the Ukraine, for the energy transition or for the climate, these you can spare yourselves. The people do not want to hear that.  

So as to withstand this crisis, our country needs to address the origins of inflation and energy crisis. Of that, I have heard nothing from you in this discussion. Inflation and energy prices rise for well over a year and a half. Both developments are the direct result of a bad, decades-long policy. The energy crisis is homemade. It is the direct consequence of the energy transition which, with your disconnection mania and horrendous taxes and duties, has artificially made electricity scarce and expensive and led us into a one-sided dependency on Russian natural gas. That is nevertheless the truth. The Greens shall nevertheless do nothing! It is their aspired goal to drive energy costs to the heights and thereby to restrict the demand. That goal you have thereby, ja, now attained.

            Katharina Dröge (Greens): Can you stop screaming so?

The inflation is in addition the result of the ECB’s limitless creation of money and zero interest rate policy for the financing of highly indebted and inflated state budgets. Two and a half years of a lockdown policy and a brainless sanctions policy as a reaction to the Ukraine war have collapsed the house of cards. The consequences are at hand. Only your government does not want to see them and take hold of the corresponding measures. 

First. Taxes must be reduced; a reduction of energy taxes, the added-value and income taxes, elimination of the CO₂ duty and a real elimination and abolition of the unspeakable EEG.

Second. The ECB must be obliged to fulfill its mandate and to concern itself for a stable currency.

Third. State expenditures need to be concentrated on the essentials: Domestic and external security, a securing of the state of law and public order, an end to ideological policy, to clienteles and to money distribution to all the world.

Fourth. Illegal migration and immigration into the social system is already again above the level of 2015. Yet you open the last of the sluices and send new migration signals by means of an almost conditionless naturalization [Einbürgerung].

Fifth. The energy supply needs to be expanded. We need to stop moralizing energy generation and energy imports. That means in clear text: An end to the resource squandering for windpower and photovoltaic. They are not fit for crisis and are not a secure supply. Windpower contributes only a fraction of the installed capacity, nuclear power nearly 100 percent.

Sixth. Normalization of gas imports from Russia and, if necessary, an opening of Nord Stream 2. – Yes, of course.

Seventh. Prolongation of running time for the still active nuclear power plants, reactivation of the recently idled, and naturally the construction of new nuclear power plants. We require nuclear power for a clean, safe and affordable energy.

It’s nice that the CDU also now at last appears to grasp this. Herr Merz, it is your party, which for 16 years danced to the red-green pipe, which we have first of all to thank for this misery. The energy transition into nothing is the result of your policy and of 16 years of Merkel. The continuation of the energy transition and the abuse of the crisis, such as you still enforce, clearly ends in ruin.

            Irene Mihalic (Greens): How many pages still?

The citizens of this country, the working people and the Mittelstand, the industry, require freedom and air to breathe and not ever new prescriptions and manipulation. And they certainly do not require – and not in this situation; it only needs be imagined – a new infection protection law. In most countries, the Corona virus is already being treated like a seasonal viral flu, without a preventive measures chaos, compulsory masks and mandatory vaccination. The law which you want to put to a vote tomorrow makes the state of exception into a permanent arrangement and the restriction of basic rights into a rule. Shame on you!

It is the pauper’s oath for the FDP that it gives itself over to this; a Herr Kubicki has no use for it.

Yet perhaps – it is my hunch – you now already want to secure a pretext so as to forbid demonstrations against your policy through the backdoor of infection prevention. Frau Faeser certainly omits no opportunity to put demonstrations critical of the government in the corner of rightist radicalism.

            Omid Nouripur (Greens): No, no, no! They are there already!

            Till Steffen (Greens): They are there already!

What a declaration of bankruptcy for this government which treads underfoot the freedom of demonstration and opinion!

End the German wrong way drive in Corona, energy and migration policy! Return to the ground of facts! Correct your false politics instead of reaching ever new wrong decisions!

            Till Steffen (Greens): If you want the wrong way drive to end, stop speaking!

- Yes, that’s good in your eyes, the mockery of the Greens! Note that!

The people will take note of how you here react, how this country drives straightaway into the wall as a result of your policy. And if you are unwilling or incapable of changing your course, then please resign; since that would be the best relief package for our country.

 

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Tino Chrupalla, September 7, 2022, Economic War against Russia

German Bundestag, September 7, 2022, Plenarprotokoll 20/50, pp. 5336-5338.

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

When one listens to the discussion between CDU and SPD, it can be said: One donkey calls the other Long Ears. – That is your discussion and your strife culture.

Germany is presently changing at a furious speed. Formerly the economic poster child in Europe, we are well on the way to becoming from a donor to a recipient country. The frightful circumstance of the Ukraine war tears Europe apart, and Germany finds itself in a new, long-term dependency on the U.S.A. Concerning the real causes, Herr Scholz, you’ve not wasted a single word.

By means of a wide-ranging economic sanctions regime against Russia, we will piece by piece isolate ourselves and limit the possibilities of action. The economic war contrived by Robert Habeck on the basis of these sanctions damages Germany, our citizens, but not Russia.

Instead of wanting to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible, the Federal government continues to deliver heavy weapons. Instead of mediating with all diplomatic means between Russia and the Ukraine – for example, with a peace conference here in Berlin – oil will yet again be poured on the fire by means of the media. Instead of actually de-escalating, the Federal government wants to enforce its ideologies.  

The result: Russia has stopped the delivery of natural gas via Nord Stream 1 until the sanctions have been lifted. It then really needs be asked: Did you actually not consider that? Are the means used by Germany and the results still in proportion here? Ask yourself that!

Chancellor Scholz has said, Russia is no more a reliable partner. Herr Chancellor, partnerships also need to be cultivated. Had all of you here really believed that Russia humbly accepts these sanctions? Also presented is the question of our reliability. Have we renounced the long-term delivery contracts? Which quantities of gas or oil were actually ordered, were to be received? What have we actually paid? Question on question which the government does not answer.

In this situation, sure of victory, the Federal government blithely drives forward the energy transition – as we have heard here today – without regard to losing the citizens in our own country. The goal of the energy transition has failed or was never attainable; since first, one energy carrier should be replaced by another; second, we have continually pointed to fossil energy carriers or nuclear energy – besides, Herr Merz, we might have here in this Bundestag a majority for continuing to operate nuclear energy – ; and third, you in this regard contribute to that the energy requirement further grows. Political goals, measures like digitalization, electro-mobility for reducing the output of CO₂ or now the glorification of the warm air pump, show you continually occupy yourselves with partial problem solving.

I ask you – unfortunately, Herr Habeck is now gone – do you really so poorly know what’s what, or it it all the same to you how our citizens should pay for their flame? Yet you have, ja, impressively demonstrated that yesterday evening. Then it needs be stated: Herr Habeck, you really have as much inkling of economics as a blind man has of color.

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Valued Federal government, you do not find yourselves in a political planning game. What you are pursuing here becomes a bitter reality for all citizens and businesses. You deride all who daily contribute to the creation of value. Your proposals offer nothing. It can of course therein lie that scarcely anyone in your ranks still at all analyses with feasibility. Water simply comes out of the line. Electricity comes out of the socket. That is your policy.

Nevertheless, for a change, get yourselves together with the people who do have an inkling of technology, who use this technology. Those are the tradesmen [Handwerker]. Those who can convert your magical fables from the children’s books into living reality. Should you then find a Handwerker who in the next years still has free time, it would surely be good. Should this one then still use construction materials, because the supply chains which you have distorted are still at hand, it would be better still. Nevertheless, you for decades with your economic and education policy provide that soon there will no longer be a Mittelstand. Crushed under the enormous tax burden, manipulated by means of certification by the European Union, your disastrous energy transition policy in the end provides for the death of many branches. This development unfortunately has already begun.

You see, we have here to do with the sell-out of our interests. The Federal government stands in its own way and that of our country. Do you really believe that the people do not recognize what little games you play at here? Here, it is about the prosperity which our parents and grandparents have wrought, about prosperity and primarily also about the values in which generations of families have been raised. Green ideologues destroy it all at lightning speed. It is devastating that the FDP, the former Mittelstand and Handwerker party, here also applauds. It has failed exactly so.

Dear citizens, you receive from this Federal government no honestly offered alternatives. The policy of this Ampel coalition always first clarifies what may no longer be. A case of necessity will be sanctioned so as to enforce its own will or to please so-called friends. This Ampel government completely loses sight of the overall context, it manages patchwork with the result that we more and more lose our economic prosperity. The rescue packages’ billions, which you here want to sell as a success of your government policy, are hard earned by the people out there. Please do not forget that! All of that no longer agrees with many Germans, and they will now also be able to manifest that in the street. It is their basic right to go into the street so as to demonstrate; that is what every citizen is free to do [das ist das, was jedem Bürger freisteht].

            Stefan Schmidt (Greens): Exactly!

Therefore in conclusion: We continue to need Russian gas so as to realize a reform of the energy sector capable of the base load. In that are Saxony Minister-president Michael Kretschmer and the Alternative für Deutschland agreed. Therefore, Herr Chancellor, make the facts and make an end of this economic war against Russia. We need a foreign policy led by interests for Germany and for the continent of Europe.

Many thanks.

 

 

[trans: tem]