| 00:00 | | Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Bavaria now has, as the first federal state in Germany, |
| 00:05 | | a representative against “hate speech”. |
| 00:09 | | He takes actions against “hatred and agitation” on the Internet, |
| 00:12 | | and we learn from the newspapers that he can also initiate raids. |
| 00:16 | | Of course the first thing you ask yourself is: Why such powers for an agent |
| 00:21 | | who is NOT part of the hierarchy in a ministry? |
| 00:25 | | This is very worrying for me. |
| 00:28 | | But this is not all about the subject of the “Federal Commissioner” |
| 00:31 | | or representatives of the federal government. |
| 00:34 | | Max Otte made this clear today in a tweet and asked; |
| 00:38 | | “Is that INSANE! Control and denunciation now completely official?” |
| 00:42 | | “And that in Bavaria first?” My additional question: |
| 00:46 | | “What does that say about the state government in Bavaria?” |
| 00:50 | | So, the subject “Federal Government Commissioner”. |
| 00:53 | | There are quite a few: Representative for emigrant issues and national minorities, |
| 00:58 | | for information technology, against anti-Semitism, |
| 01:02 | | for Afghanistan and Pakistan, for German-Polish cooperation, |
| 01:06 | | for energy-efficient construction, care-giving, drug issues and transport of goods, etc. etc. |
| 01:11 | | We also recently learned from a tweet from the federal government |
| 01:15 | | that there is now also a “start-up commissioner”. |
| 01:19 | | Of course, he recently helped young companies |
| 01:23 | | who have come under pressure from the “Corona crisis”. |
| 01:26 | | What about these “representatives” of the federal government, |
| 01:30 | | and then of course also of the state government. That is not an exclusive “Berliner” appearance. |
| 01:35 | | It’s very difficult — I saw that this morning during my research — |
| 01:39 | | to find the numbers. I found at least one example for 2008. |
| 01:44 | | I owe that to a request that the FDP submitted two years ago. |
| 01:50 | | There were 32 such “representatives” of the federal government. |
| 01:54 | | There are now at least 38. |
| 01:57 | | That means, in the past decade alone, there has been a 20% increase |
| 02:01 | | in the number of “representatives” of the federal government. |
| 02:04 | | What are their official duties? They are appointed by the federal ministries |
| 02:09 | | or the Chancellor, |
| 02:12 | | and they support, it says here, in an independent and advisory form, |
| 02:17 | | and are NOT included in the hierarchy of administration. |
| 02:21 | | I think this is a very important note: “NOT included in the hierarchy of administration.” |
| 02:25 | | And in the German of the entrepreneur one would say, “They are out of balance sheet”. |
| 02:29 | | Yes, this is off-balance sheet growth that is taking place. |
| 02:34 | | And they should, above all, as part of their work, bundle topics, large topics |
| 02:39 | | that extend over the work of several ministries. |
| 02:43 | | But with the number of state secretaries we have here, one wonders: |
| 02:46 | | “Couldn’t THEY do this?” Then on some of the subjects I wrote down, |
| 02:52 | | one asks oneself of course; “Why do they even exist?” |
| 02:55 | | “Well, can’t you do that internally?” For example, |
| 02:58 | | there are posts that coordinate cooperation with Poland, |
| 03:01 | | France, the USA and Russia if you start looking, |
| 03:04 | | but there are NO “representatives” of the federal government for the coordination |
| 03:08 | | of work with Italy, the Netherlands, China or even Austria. |
| 03:13 | | Maybe it would be necessary now, after Ms. Merkel and Mr. Kurz have argued about accepting migrants |
| 03:19 | | from the Greek islands, just by the way. |
| 03:23 | | The government officially says: |
| 03:26 | | “Well, very few of them have their own budgets” |
| 03:29 | | But some, or even many of them, for example, have their own staff. |
| 03:33 | | So a whole chain is being built up here. This of course has effects or consequences, |
| 03:39 | | which I consider to be at least questionable. |
| 03:42 | | When you look for example at — I’ve made that clear to you here in a screen shot — |
| 03:47 | | that of the official list, the link that leads to this list, |
| 03:51 | | you’ll find yourself under the video. |
| 03:54 | | Then you will see that more and more MPs are being “entrusted” with these tasks |
| 03:59 | | to be “commissioners” for the federal government. |
| 04:02 | | And that means, in plain language, that the legislature, i.e. parliamentary capacity, |
| 04:08 | | has moved into the executive branch of Government. |
| 04:12 | | They are now tapping into the legislature, the MPs’ capacities, |
| 04:17 | | and pulling them in. With this, of course, the government is extending its control further. |
| 04:23 | | Which the government has been doing in many areas for many years |
| 04:26 | | by providing financial support to the media, |
| 04:29 | | through advertising, for example, and help, for example by supporting NGOs |
| 04:34 | | that are doing the work the government deems important, or by inflating |
| 04:37 | | the Bundestag further and further |
| 04:40 | | with the same number of constituencies in which we voters, we citizens, |
| 04:44 | | when we are entitled to vote, determine the MPs with the first vote, |
| 04:49 | | but their number remains pretty much the same. Then when the size of Parliament grows, |
| 04:54 | | the influence of the parties grows, whose officials submit the state lists. |
| 04:59 | | Over these state lists an ever-increasing percentage of [party] members comes into the Bundestag, |
| 05:05 | | and now these “AGENTS” of the federal government. |
| 05:09 | | If you now say: “Well, 38-40 federal commissioners, |
| 05:13 | | that’s not so many.” If you just keep in mind |
| 05:16 | | that less than a handful, and that’s already an exaggeration, |
| 05:20 | | of virologists have such an influence on politics |
| 05:24 | | and on the manipulation of the media, |
| 05:29 | | then you can imagine what capacity is being built here. |
