from Markus Langemann
There are times when a picture is worth a thousand words. You know this metaphor for the added value of pictures compared to text.
This image and the accompanying sound, recorded yesterday evening at 5:30 p.m. on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 in front of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, has the quality to stand the test of time. It has the sad power to describe the year 2021 and possibly symbolize an epochal turning point in our society. Iconological analyses may one day be able to do this. You should know the picture.
I published the moving image on YouTube on 29.12.201 shortly after it was recorded at 17:30. You can also find it in the media library from tomorrow.
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I was there too. It was indeed a spooky and oppressive atmosphere. The authoritarian state is flexing its muscles. Blue lights everywhere, policemen in riot gear, the announcement on a continuous loop. I lean against the fountain, a squad of three policemen politely addresses me: "Please leave this square" - Why? "This is a police measure, please leave the square" Why? Am I just standing here? "I'm asking you politely" - I walk on, meet two friends with whom I walk towards Odeonsplatz. After a few meters, we are approached by a police "communications team": "Good evening, are you all right?" Yes, why? "You know there's a ban on assembly?" Define assembly. "You are three people gathering here" - No, we are friends, we want to go to the Uni Cafe. We keep walking. Everything is closed at Theresienstraße, the friendly policeman sends us back. "There are so many beautiful places in Munich, why don't you go for a walk somewhere else". Why am I not allowed through here? "There were riots here last week". What do I have to do with it? "Complain to the chief of police". - We turn back and buy a mulled wine at the university café. Queuing for 15 minutes is okay, but as soon as we have the mulled wine in our hands, the police ask us to move on. "There is a ban on assembly". We are not a gathering, we are friends drinking mulled wine. "Please keep walking" Why? You can't drink while walking. "I can't listen to the moaning any more, these are just shitty times". Then do something about it. You represent the people who are responsible for these shitty times! "So let's stop talking at this level ..." Why? You were talking about shitty times! - Let's move on.
I've always been a good citizen, I pay a lot of taxes, I didn't care about politics - let them do what they want, I'll do my thing. That's no longer possible. Absurd regulations, ordinances and laws rob you of your freedom. Life is no longer fun. And there's nothing you can do about it - apart from having a few verbal skirmishes with a few henchmen. It's not enough for me, I'm not in the mood for physical confrontations and fines.
I am 57 years old, born and raised in Munich and for the first time I feel that the state is a threat. Why do so many people go along with it? Why do so few see the fatal development towards totalitarianism and fascism? Where will it end?
When will it be time to leave the country?
It is not time to leave the country. It is time to fight for those responsible for all this madness to (have to) leave the stage. After all, one of the biggest agitators and dividers in the country retired from ÖRR tonight in a flood of self-praise and self-righteousness. If he had to pay for the damage he has caused, he could probably file for personal bankruptcy. Instead, he will continue to enjoy a disproportionately high pension financed by our compulsory contributions until further notice.
Dear Mr. Mayer,
I understand your personal experience contribution with concluding questions as an offer to the readers of this format to contribute their own thoughts and ideas, which I would like to accept.
Most people in Germany who are capable of doing business have probably lived in recent decades as, as you describe it, well-behaved citizens, always paid their taxes and largely ignored political events. Meaning, without meaning to be judgmental, but merely stating that the majority of people in this country have never questioned the organized, institutionalized crime of the state and its actors in the form of robbery, extortion, coercion, lies, fraud, bodily harm, imprisonment, murder and manslaughter (see compulsory taxation and levies, compulsory schooling, compulsory means of exchange, compulsory tariffs, compulsory production, compulsory consumption, etc.).
As shocking as these findings may be for most people - if recognized, but even initial discomfort and noticeable obvious uses of coercion and violence against one's own person are already enough to stimulate intense self-reflection and reflection - it is essential to realize that a lot is going wrong here and is in a serious imbalance.
Therein lie the answers to your questions as to why so many people continue to be good citizens (obeying government orders) and so few people seem to see the negative developments.
It depends on the people themselves - each and every one of us.
As long as people carry out aggressive attacks on fellow human beings on their own initiative or on the basis of orders because they consider them legitimate, regardless of their nature, the negative developments will continue and lead to an increase in human tragedies, suffering and misery.
No one can predict where and when, if at all, these inhuman developments will end, and whether it will one day be necessary to leave this country after personally weighing up the risks to life and limb is also uncertain and always a purely subjective weighing up of interests.
On a positive note, at least more and more people seem to be starting to look around their everyday lives with more and more wonder and are increasingly starting to think and ask questions.
It is the first step in the right direction if more and more people recognize reality and no longer push it away, numb it, hide it and/or relativize it, but instead take a closer look, maintain their peacefulness and seek an argumentative exchange with their fellow human beings.
Only together, peacefully and on our own responsibility can we stop negative developments and initiate positive ones.
Every peaceful and voluntary cooperation of people with people contributes to making positive ideas and positive developments visible, the attractiveness of which more and more people will recognize and desire through visibility as opposed to coercion and violence. Whether peaceful walks together, peaceful and voluntary start-ups of educational offers, care offers, cultural offers, barter offers, medical advice and treatment offers, transportation offers, insurance offers - companies and products of all kinds on a voluntary basis, as offers that can be rejected on a contractual basis - we humans hold our future and the future of our children and grandchildren in our own hands.
I wish you and your family, friends, acquaintances and all fellow human beings on this wonderful planet a cheerful and serene start to the New Year.
Best regards
G. Schmidt
A key question for the Bavarian state government is: where can people legally express their displeasure? Are there legal, i.e. authorized demonstrations against excessive corona measures? Or are they all banned, as is usual in Belarus or Hong Kong? Has the state government created opportunities for alternative protest, e.g. on its website? Or does the freedom of demonstration and assembly under the Basic Law no longer have any meaning in the Bavaria of Markus Söder?
In the case of the latter, one can only conclude that Bavaria is no longer a true democracy. Once before, the end of a democracy in Germany came from Bavarian soil. History seems to be repeating itself after all.
Aerosol researchers refuted the ridiculous argument of infection protection in relation to outdoor events some time ago:
"Unfortunately, key findings from our research work are still not being translated into practical action.
(Christof Asbach, President of the Society for Aerosol Research)
Instead, symbolic measures such as the obligation to wear masks outdoors are being introduced, which are not expected to have any significant impact on the incidence of infection. "The danger lurks indoors"
There is a consensus among aerosol researchers that the transmission of Sars-CoV-2 viruses takes place almost exclusively indoors."
(from an open letter from aerosol researchers to the German government - see https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/corona-aerosol-forscher-ansteckungen-brief-merkel-100.html)
It could not be commented on more aptly.
...Geschwister-Scholl-Platz...Maximiliansuniversität...historically occupied somehow differently...
I wonder what this state-ordered, police actionism has to do with the prevention of serious, infectious diseases ???- not rather with harassment of the population - no, not at all...
Avoiding crowds - especially indoors - is a good idea in terms of infection control...but that's not the case here...until Mr. Söder becomes a caricature of himself...
Have a safe New Year, Mr. Langemann! - Christmas and the turn of the year under police protection - I have never felt so safe (disgusted) as a result of atmospheric, state interference...
The pictures speak for themselves, the dystopian announcement speaks for itself. Statements by the police spokesman that they had "successfully captured walkers" also speak for themselves. It's just madness in action.
In order not to become hopeless and speechless, I look for small things that give me courage. I have found two.
Despite the removal of Julian Reichelt, BILD remains at least partially critical. Former family minister Kristina Schröder speaks of a totalitarian ideology in BILD and harshly criticizes the so-called experts and Wieler in particular (Verena drew my attention to this).
Sometimes it's just a matter of language. I have noticed that even primitive inflammatory portals (such as my mail page) now speak of "critics of corona policy". It's no longer consistently "corona deniers, Reich citizens," etc. After all.
At the moment, I often think back to conversations from my youth with witnesses of the Nazi regime. One of my grandfathers was cultured, well-read, loving and you could talk to him about anything. Except about the Nazi era. He turned to stone. He was one of those who raised his arm with conviction. I knew that from my father. An older, direct neighbor was supposedly coarse and taciturn. A painter who didn't spit in the glass. I knew from him that he or his parents hid Jews at home because I had read about it in books. I never saw him cry. Only when I asked him about the Nazi era.
I guess I'll buy some candles. Before there's a ban on candles because candles are used as weapons at candle demos. I'll mentally put one of them in the club.
If the citizens of the GDR had had their Monday demonstrations banned or authorized back then, the Wall would probably still be standing today...
Dear Mr. Langemann, you have captured the dystopian atmosphere of the situation impressively in this video.
Anyone who knows the movie 1984 (free to watch in its entirety on youtube in the version from the 50/60s, which is highly recommended) will be struck by the similarities (especially the announcement!).
Conversely, this is revealing for the regulatory authorities.
Whether it's a leaflet campaign, like back then, or an unannounced demonstration, i.e. a walk, they don't want to or can't recognize the parallels. Then they have once again invoked law and order and know nothing about it if they are ever called to account.
Södaschenko in all his glory, perhaps Munich should offer Minsk, the capital of Belarus, a city partnership? But perhaps they don't want to in Minsk because they can see that the basic rules of the rule of law are not being observed in Munich, and haven't been for a long time, by the way, as a single party has divided up the judiciary and government authorities among itself for decades. Charitable organizations have also been infiltrated, the German Red Cross, for example, is led by Gerda Hasselfeld, CSU, who is at the forefront of the enforcement of corona vaccinations. At the moment, it seems that many have realized how far our democracy has been infiltrated by the CSU in Bavaria, for example. The participation of the parties in the political decision-making process in the Federal Republic of Germany has turned into a takeover of all political decision-making, which is all the more dangerous because, of course unlawfully, democracy within the parties has been increasingly undermined. This means that the broad masses have no way through the institutions. It can only become effective by bypassing the institutions. An extra-parliamentary opposition is the remaining non-violent means of exerting political influence. As we can see, the authorities are becoming increasingly nervous. Some are currently seeing real exponential growth for the first time in the entire crisis, namely in the number of people who are now taking to the streets.
The Scholl siblings. If you don't know them, find out. And be amazed.
In Trier last week, about 100 people lined up with white and red candles and wanted to go for a walk through the city center. We were surrounded by the police in a very confined space, without any distance and had to wait about 1 hour until the police had established our personal details. Reason: violation of the infection protection law because of masks and distance etc. After that we had to leave in small groups in different directions. On the way to the parking garage, I passed a wine bar where I estimated that about 80 people were having fun outside but standing close together! There was a 2 G sign at the entrance!
Ernst Berg
Based on the "virtue of German thoroughness", I am eagerly waiting to see when the structural resource of empty buildings will be returned to its former and historically deterrent use.
To protect the population, as formerly...
The list of 3 administrative offenses ends with "candle demos".
How prudent then the concession not to penalize traditional children's lantern processions on St. Martin's Day in November and to protect the youngest children from the trauma of being "disarmed" by uniformed men.
to preserve. - Nice, isn't it? -
THIS TEXT PROCLAIMED BY THE BAVARIAN POLICE CLEARLY CONTRADICTS OUR CONSTITUTION!
It is there for everyone to read and thus also for the corona extremists of Bavarian politics and the police under their control:
"Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany of May 23, 1949
I. The fundamental rights
Article 1
[March 22, 1956]
Article 1 (1) [1] Human dignity shall be inviolable. [2] To respect and protect it is the duty of all state authority.
(2) The German people therefore profess inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every human community, of peace and of justice in the world.
2(3) The following fundamental rights shall bind legislation, executive power and jurisdiction as directly applicable law."
Or in the interpretation:
"Human dignity is the supreme constitutional principle[1][2] on which all state authority must base its actions."
(s. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artikel_1_des_Grundgesetzes_f%C3%BCr_die_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland)
Is that why the constitutional protector Hans-Georg Maaßen had to go and was replaced by a government-compliant successor, or is that why a CDU party favorite and politician was placed as chairman of the Federal Constitutional Court so that he could break the constitution in our country unhindered?
If this is the case, and the contemporary document published here in the CdkW supports this, it can only mean one thing: There must be new elections without delay, whereby everyone should lose their right to stand for election who, after the experiences of the period from 1933 to 1945, has recently agreed to another Enabling Act that largely disempowers parliament (cf. https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2021/kw15-de-infektionsschutzgesetz-833590)
and the violation of the constitution by politicians and authorities.
Surprisingly little similar on the outside, all the more so on the inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCxTx3mxXbI&t=179s
It is obvious that the mass of demonstrations and protesters is simply too much for the state. So they are banned with draconian penalties. This is unworthy of a democracy, it is simply no longer a democracy. Just like the closed media violence and Nazi bashing. Anyone who looks at the demonstrations on the ground will recognize that the picture painted by the media is completely inaccurate. Germany's democracy, media and society are at an all-time low. Either we approach each other now and clarify what needs to be clarified in an open discussion, or we will experience a social development in Germany for the third time in 100 years that we all do not want to see. The abuse of power by the state that is taking place here will tear society apart. The 158th change to the law in 3 months to give the whole thing a democratic cloak won't help. This is no way to deal with enlightened democratic societies. Historically, this attempt has always ended the same way. It is astonishing that our politicians think they are in the position of being an exception here.
Whether registered or not, this is apparently completely prohibited in Bavaria at the moment, unless you want to organize a rabbit breeder demo.
You can use the word police state very carefully.
The repression mechanism slowly stops and a sense of reality sets in. Leave caution to one side. We are marching straight into a dictatorship based on the Chinese model - GDR 3.0
Step by step back to the thirties