FILDEBRANDT： German politician's Alberta freedom tour
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Join Western Standard editor-in-chief Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, as he sits down with Christine Anderson, a member of the Alternative f rund Deutschland (AFD) party, to discuss her time in the European Parliament, and her recent trip to Canada.
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Good day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,
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and today I'm joined by a German member of the European Parliament, Christine Andersen.
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She sits with the AFD Alternative für Deutschland party.
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She's served, I think, a couple of terms now, and she's no newcomer to Canada.
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She is on a tour from parts of the West right now, but she's been here before,
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and we're fortunate to have her in studio with us today. Thank you for joining us.
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Well, first, you're here just before Calgary Stampede starts.
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Well, had I known, I might have, you know, made different travel plans.
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So, I think, like, the very first evening, I will be able to, like, catch some of it.
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The way I describe Stampede to my German friends is redneck Oktoberfest.
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I know, but I will make it a point to be back, and then I'll make sure I will actually be here during the Stampede, yes.
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Yeah. It's a crime to come right before or right after. You gotta be here for it.
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All right. Well, you're touring this time. This time is just in the West.
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But you've toured before. The last time you were here, it ignited a national scandal.
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It brought a lot of attention to your cause and what you're doing here.
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You, I think, caught the attention of most Canadians when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came before the European Parliament.
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And you made him feel a little less than welcome.
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So, it was like, once I heard, you know, Justin Trudeau was going to address us in the House,
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I was like, you know, how can someone like him, and as I said in my speech, you know,
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who admires the basic Chinese dictatorship, who turned totally a dictator on his own people,
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how can he even be allowed to speak in a house of democracy?
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So, yeah, I made it a point to let him know that he was not welcomed by everyone.
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And then you came and toured, did a tour of Canada after that,
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and there was, you know, some controversy in the media.
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You know, anytime someone is a more nationalistic, right-leaning politician from Germany,
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people go, ooh, you know, and it's not very reasonable most of the time.
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But the press got a tizzy on it, the Liberal government at the time got a tizzy on it,
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and it kind of, you know, brought some pressure to bear on Pierre Pogliav,
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the Conservative leader, who condemned his MPs, who posed in a picture for you.
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I think it was like Ian Allison, a few, yeah, a few Conservative MPs.
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Now, funny enough, the apology was issued on their behalf.
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So I think this was written by some political staff or fard catcher somewhere,
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I mean, you know, I actually have to thank Pierre for having done that.
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Whether it was him or one of his staffers, it really doesn't matter,
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And that made sure that, I mean, who the heck was Christine Anderson, right?
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So he made it, actually made me a household name.
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And from that point on, I mean, pretty much everyone in Canada knew who Christine Anderson was.
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I wonder if you're done better here than in Germany.
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And they might have actually looked into, well, if everyone is so outraged about her,
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let's find about, you know, let's find out about what she actually has to say.
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And I'm pretty sure that most people that did look me up or did watch some of my videos
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and messages and everything, they were probably flustered,
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desperately trying to find the part where I was violent, racist, right?
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And just to think that they mentioned me like three or four times in the aftermath
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and your national parliament, I mean, gosh, I made it all the way to the top, I guess.
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frankly, it would be better if Christine Anderson never visited Canada in the first place.
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She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here.
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It's funny because, you know, the views you and AFD share around
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getting control of migration in Germany and Europe.
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Those may have been considered non-mainstream views.
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But now even Keir Starmer, he sounds like an AFD politician all of a sudden
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when he talks about the need to get control of the border.
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So, and we've just notably seen that in Germany.
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I always voted for the Christian Democrats, right?
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And now here, Friedrich Merz, who is now the Chancellor of Germany.
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And not 24 hours later, he was like standing in front of the press
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and saying no one ever said anything about closing any borders.
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So, you know, completely abandoned on his promise right then and there.
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So they do know what would resonate with people.
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And they will say whatever resonates with people.
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But they are never prepared to actually walk their talk.
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And that is just, I mean, it's a betrayal of the voters.
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And the people are beginning to realize that, especially in Germany.
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In the polls, if it was the election today, AFD would probably get the most seats.
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Which was kind of like a psychological threshold.
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And because all the talks about, you know, banning us and all of that,
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it's going to get increasingly more difficult to do so.
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So, it was interesting the last time you were here.
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What's the difference you're getting in your reception this time?
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Are you planning on running for office in Alberta?
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Well, since I'm German, that would be a hard thing to do, actually.
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But no, I've really, you know, grown fond of Canada.
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Like I said, we went to this country bar the other night.
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I mean, what specifically struck me as, I mean, all the men were dancing.
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You know, men in Germany, they wouldn't be caught dead on the dance floor.
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Oh, but these are, like, you know, like, kind of, like, communities that get together to specifically do that.
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But just going out to a bar and see, you know, men dancing, I was like, oh, man, that's great.
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Even though I had no idea how to square dance, I guess I kind of tried and did it anyway.
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Well, you're getting some practice for Stampede.
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Okay, so tomorrow, you're speaking in the very small community of Mirror, but Mirror is known in Alberta mostly because of the Whistle Stop Cafe, which really became a symbol of resistance against the kind of extreme COVID measures of former Premier Jason Kenney.
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The cops would raid his very modest little establishment, and he just refused to give in.
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And so, you know, since the Whistle Stop Cafe, it's kind of known because of that.
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No offense to people in Mirror, but, like, it's not really.
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But there's an event taking place tomorrow around the Alberta independence movement.
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Um, which has really become a mainstream movement here.
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There's very, and almost certainly we're having a referendum in Alberta within the next year to year and a half on independence.
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Um, but I, you know, uh, people who were opposed to COVID lockdowns and mandates and people who support independence, there's a huge overlap.
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They're not the same thing, but there's a big overlap of those groups.
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So, in one sense, I was not surprised to see your name headlining the list.
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But in another, I thought, oh, I mean, it's kind of, it's not your set of issues.
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So, you know, um, uh, but I, coming back to him, uh, the former Premier Jason Kenney, who was ousted by kind of a coalition of sovereignist movement and the anti-lockdown mandate movement.
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He tweeted, sad but regrettable that Alberta separatists have to fly in a far-right German politician to support their destructive cause.
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I agree with what Pierre Paulyev said back then.
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I mean, it's pretty cheap shot, would you say, far-right German politician.
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You're really not very subtly dog whistling that, you know, this is, you know, the worst kind of thing.
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Um, but, I mean, he's still smarting over the, he was the only leader in Canada to be ousted during COVID.
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And by, and ousted by his own party, which probably hurts a bit more than being ousted by another.
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Um, any, any thoughts to, you know, what he has to say?
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And, you know, why is it that you're speaking at an Alberta independence?
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Well, so first of all, there was, you know, a couple of things to unpack here.
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So first of all, the label, you know, far-right, I'm not far-right.
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It's just, I've been right so far, you know, and that really ticks them off.
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And that's why they keep applying all of these labels and, you know, calling me just about any name in the book.
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I know exactly who and what I am, and I know exactly what I'm not.
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So I usually don't, you know, pay any attention to, I mean, like, I didn't even know who this guy was before he put out this tweet.
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Because you've been around here speaking against mandates and whatnot, which he was so fond of.
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So anyway, I hadn't even, you know, seen the tweet I was alerted to, and I was like, yeah, well, whatever.
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So, uh, but the thing is this, um, to, uh, just, uh, insinuate or, you know, accuse me of coming out here to support the separatist movement.
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Uh, the point is this, I didn't even know there was a separatist movement going on in Alberta, but here, yes, of course, I came out to specifically support that cause.
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Well, there's overlaps of, like, they're largely the same people.
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Uh, however, having said that, that is a discussion the Albertans need to have.
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And, uh, it's up to the Albertans to, to make up their mind about that.
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And, uh, you know, I, I cannot fly in from Germany to, you know, say, yeah, you should do it.
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Uh, because I don't know enough about the issue to actually intelligently speak about that.
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I can, could only speak about that in, you know, broad general terms.
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Um, so I might, you know, uh, um, connected or compare it to the Brexit that happened when
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Great Britain left the EU and they did so because they wanted to, um, just retain their, uh, decision
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So that's what we're faced with in the EU, all of the member states, they are relinquishing
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their governing powers to Brussels, to Ursula von der Leyen, you know, of all people, uh,
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it's her and, uh, we all know she doesn't have the best interest, uh, of the people in
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Um, she is self-serving, um, serving, you know, a group of people.
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So for the lack of a better term, I always call them the globalitarian misanthropists.
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So, uh, just from what I understood is, um, Alberta is pretty much economic, uh, economically
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So, and they're pretty much funding all of the nonsense that is, you know, being decided
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So, um, it is any people's right to choose independence, but like I said, it's a discussion
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So the Albertans really need to get into these issues and, and really make, uh, uh, uh, informed
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But don't let anyone shame you if you do want to separate and, uh, don't do that.
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Make, take the decision that is, that is yours by right.
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And, uh, whatever you decide, um, I guess the rest of the world is just going to have
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Um, the, I mean, I don't think there's much in the way of an organized Bavarian independence
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movement, but you know, there has been at different points historically.
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Um, and on, for a long time I've compared, um, you know, some people try to compare Alberta's
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independence movement to Quebec or to Scotland or Catalonia.
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I've actually always compared it more to the Bavarian one, um, in that, you know, Scotland,
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uh, or Quebec see themselves as different from the larger, bigger country, um, as a, as a
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Whereas, you know, you know, the Bavarian, I don't know, independence, probably more particular
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as movement is more of an appropriate term now.
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So, uh, but it always saw itself as, didn't see itself as not German.
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It saw itself as maybe more German, uh, in some ways, you know, and just, or we're a
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And, and, and in many ways, I think that's, you know, the Alberta experience.
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We see ourselves as, well, maybe what Canada used to be.
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And Canada has gone on to be something different that we, we no longer want to be a part of.
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And what they're doing, and when I say they, I mean the globalitarian misanthropists once
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again, and just to clarify, I mean, you know, whether it's Trudeau or Carney now, or it's
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our chancellor, Ursula von der Leyen, um, they're not the ones calling the shots, right?
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They're just the puppeteers of the globalitarian misanthropists.
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And what they, they set out to do is to actually steal our identity, whether it's our cultural
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identity, our national identity, they won't even shy away from stealing our sexual identity.
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That's what they're doing right now with this whole transgender madness.
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So that what, what can, uh, what makes us who we are down to the very core of our individuality,
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So, um, if the people, and usually, you know, the peoples around the world, they are set in
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their traditions and they're proud of their traditions, their history, their language,
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And if you're trying to take that away, you will get backlash from the people because they
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do not want to surrender their identity, uh, to just, you know, some, I don't know, one
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world government or whatever they might have, uh, in, in mind for us, they don't want that.
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And that's why they're receiving that backlash.
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And the only way to counter that, uh, from the perspective of the, uh, globalitarian misanthropists
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is to actually shame these people, label them, you know, right wing, uh, conspiracy theorists.
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I mean, any name in the book, you, you just name it.
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So, uh, because they actually do not have any arguments.
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See, most people call them global elites, but I do not consider them elites.
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So, it's not only a globalist movement, it's actually a global totalitarian movement.
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And then instead of elites, misanthropists, because that's what they are.
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Germans are always, uh, just mashing words up to make new ones.
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So, you've touched on this a bit already, but I want to pack it a bit more.
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Uh, when we spoke last, uh, it was right after, um, the, uh, Bundestag elections in Germany.
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Uh, AFD had just scored a historic, uh, second place, uh, vote.
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But it was the lowest plurality of any first place party in the history of the federal
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I mean, it's, it's, it's a funny thing to North American years that he instantly says, I'm
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going now going to talk to the main leftist party to form a coalition, not, not to the
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Well, they made, and by doing so, he actually cut himself off from options.
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So that was sort of like, he, he might as well have told the left and the green, look,
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you can demand whatever you want from me because you are my only option.
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Well, because of the unofficial rule, the, uh, uh, Brown Meyer, uh, the firewall, uh,
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that says that you're just not allowed to have any dealings with the AFD because it's
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Even though AFD's policies are essentially, you know, AFD.
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It'd be, it'd be, it'd be, you would not see any discernible difference.
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It's actually even a bit more liberal than Helmut Kohl in some ways.
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They have now finally got over the line for it.
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And how do you think Germans broadly have, have received the new, I mean, they use the
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term grand coalition, but that, that, that was only applicable when it was the two biggest
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It's now the first biggest party and the third biggest party.
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Well, I mean, you know, let's just start there.
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It was either the social Democrats or the Christian Democrats.
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These were the two major parties and they, you know, came in anywhere from 40 to 48, 49%.
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Christian Democrats sometimes even hit the 50%, right?
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And now, uh, the Christian Democrats, they're actually celebrating it as a grand victory
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So, but what's been happening is actually, um, ever since we, we got, uh, got founded in
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2013, um, they've been trying to annihilate us, right?
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So first we were, uh, anti-European, you know, we hate Europe and we want to destroy Europe.
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We wanted to, uh, we hate the, our currency, the Euro and we, we do so, but for very good
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And, um, the next thing Angela Merkel ripped open the borders, uh, you know, open white in 2015.
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So we started, uh, you know, to get in more of that issue.
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Um, so with them, we were, you know, Islamophobes, xenophobe, I mean, the whole shebang and nationalists,
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of course, you know, and then of course it's, well, that's a dirty word in Germany, but in
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most of the world, it's actually quite fine to say, yeah, I'm a nationalist.
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So, and then it moved on to, you know, us actually be Nazis, right?
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So a bit, whatever they tried to do, it didn't work.
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But, uh, what happened was, um, people are beginning to realize that everything we have
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been saying since 2013 is now exactly what they're seeing in their everyday life.
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So they've come to realize we weren't fear mongering.
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And they see the repercussions of all of these policies that we, as the only party in Germany,
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So, um, and at this point it's like, yeah, labeling us, stigmatizing us.
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It is not working anymore because people have come to realize they were actually right.
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But like I said, uh, it's just talk because when you really look down to it and, you know,
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there are various reports they have on us, you know, which allegedly prove that we are,
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actually anti-constitutional, it is so embarrassing.
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I mean, any fifth grader would write a better report on that.
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Like, uh, as authoritarian as much of the West has become, we don't ban political parties.
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I mean, we, we, we, we effectively shun them and ban them to the fringes, but they can't
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Um, uh, the German pronunciation of it is far beyond my capacity, but the office for the
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defense of, uh, the constitution in, uh, or the basic law in Germany, uh, which is kind
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of an intelligence agency, put out, uh, this report saying that the AFD was an anti-constitutional
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Uh, well, they put out a statement saying that the report says that, but they didn't
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Then parts of the report got leaked and it was, the whole report got leaked.
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And I think it's essentially the report's been withdrawn, but I think that report was kind
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Among, uh, the establishment parties and harder leftist parties in Germany to try and ban
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the AFD because they've been trying to ban the AFD ever since it first got, right.
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I was in Germany, uh, 2013 for the AFD's first election when it was called, uh, far right
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because it opposed German taxpayers bailing out Greek pensioners.
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I mean, we get called far right for crazy stuff in Canada, but that, yeah, that was news to
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But, uh, it, it does appear that the attempts to ban the AFD have stalled pretty bad since
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You just mentioned something interesting, uh, the bailout of Greece, right?
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So, and of course the Germans, they, we were literally shamed into, we have to help the Greek
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So, and, uh, truth be told all that, these billions and billions of euros that we actually
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sent to Greece had any, any of the, the, that money actually helped the Greek people.
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I would have carried it down myself personally to deliver it.
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But the point of the matter is this, none of that money ever reached the Greek people.
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What they did with that money, the Greek government took it and paid their, uh, debt with German
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The Greeks could no longer, uh, shoulder that and they, so it was actually taxpayers money
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from Germany going to Greece to bail out the state to the German, because the banks insisted
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I mean, just about anything that is common sense nowadays is considered, you know, far right
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So anyway, yeah, but going back to that report, it was so utterly embarrassing.
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So for example, they, um, they would bank on like, you know, guilt by association, but the
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way they established that association was like a member of my party.
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Um, he visited university at the same time that a known neo-Nazi visited that university.
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And even though they were in totally different curriculums, but they're pretty sure they're
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pathways and this is how they built their case.
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Uh, another one, um, he was condemned as Islamophobe and, you know, uh, made dehumanizing statements.
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He simply quoted that and pretty much exposed what Islam is all about.
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And, you know, none of that is actually about conquer to conquer, you know, the Western world.
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So he quoted Erdogan, but it was treated as though it was his own thoughts and, you know,
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he came up with that, you know, quote, whatever.
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And, uh, they will flat, they will fall flat on, on their butt.
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Um, so they just keep the talk about banning us, you know, going, um, in the hopes that,
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you know, a lot of people, it will like shield them or prevent them from voting for us.
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But I don't think they will ever go actually ahead and charge us or apply to the court to ban us.
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Because if that fails, man, then we would actually have a stamp on top of it.
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Uh, I mean, in most polls now, AFD is, uh, just slightly ahead of, uh, the CDU in the polls.
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I mean, it's, it's one thing to, it might be easier to get away with banning some fringe guys.
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Uh, I think, I think in Saxon, there was some guy who coined himself a king or something.
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And they were actually plotting and trying to, uh, to kidnap Lauterbach, who was the minister of health.
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We would, I mean, they flew him, you know, via helicopters to Carlswood to be charged as
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And at that point I said, well, maybe they should be on the lookout if, you know, uh, on Amazon,
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There might be actually general immobilization.
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I don't think it's generally good even then, but I mean, it's easier to get away with, but
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to ban the single most popular party in a country, that's an invitation to civil war.
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I mean, that you're, you're saying you cannot express yourself democratic democratically.
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I mean, it would be, it's inconceivable that you, uh, I mean, it'd be like the liberal party
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of Canada banning the conservatives last year when the conservatives were first place in
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I mean, it would, it would, a state would lose.
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Ironically enough, that's exactly what the Nazis did.
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Well, they banned them when they were less popular than themselves, but yes, they were
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So, I mean, how, you know, more totalitarian can you actually get?
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And on top of that, yeah, we are talking about 25% of the, of the German voters.
00:28:47.820
Um, you just deny them, uh, their, yeah, their right to be represented in parliament.
00:28:57.820
Well, that's how you actually create real extremists is banned.
00:29:01.820
Ban the democratic outlet for them to express themselves.
00:29:04.820
So on the contrary, you know, we are actually, uh, if we're giving these people a voice and
00:29:09.820
they are heard and they are represented, you know, then they actually remain in the democratic
00:29:20.820
So yeah, that is actually, uh, uh, quite a concern, but they're so adamant about, um,
00:29:26.820
because we're becoming more popular, they lose in popularity.
00:29:30.820
And the only way they seem to be able to rectify that is by simply banning us.
00:29:37.820
I want to talk about one area where critics of the AFD, um, uh, I don't know if they have
00:29:44.820
a point, but I mean, where they may have something to grab onto the AFD has, uh, since Merkel threw
00:29:51.820
open the borders of Germany and Europe, been very critical of, uh, the, what it says is
00:30:00.820
Uh, I don't think I'm reaching to say that the AFD is not as less than welcoming, uh, of
00:30:09.820
further Islam of, uh, Islamification of Germany.
00:30:15.820
I mean, it depends on what your definition of that term is, but.
00:30:26.820
So a phobia that is some kind of irrational fear of something.
00:30:40.820
I'm not the ones that are catered or catering to Islam.
00:30:44.820
They're the ones that are afraid of Islam because they know perfectly well what the,
00:30:48.820
uh, the, the Islam is doing is capable of doing if you disagree with them.
00:31:02.820
That also means I have the right to be free of religion, but now I'm in a position.
00:31:10.820
It is taking the public sphere in Germany to an extent there's public prayers.
00:31:16.820
I mean, you're constantly confronted with Islam and I don't want to be confronted with
00:31:22.820
I don't want to be confronted with any religion in the public space.
00:31:29.820
I opposed to Islam in its nature as a dehumanizing misogynistic totalitarian ideology.
00:31:37.820
And I'm well within my right to be a post against such an ideology.
00:31:42.820
So that's where we need to start when we have the conversation about Islamophobia.
00:31:47.820
I do not want my country to turn into a country where we have the very same lift sexual apartheid
00:31:59.820
And we are discussing that, uh, whether or not to have a separate carriages just for women
00:32:12.820
The families don't go anymore because they're being sexually harassed by these men that we
00:32:18.820
import by the millions and millions and millions.
00:32:21.820
So, uh, I do not want, want to live in a Muslim country.
00:32:28.820
No, I don't think it does because it means I believe in, in a liberal, uh, our liberal tolerant
00:32:36.820
and free society where men and women have equal rights.
00:32:45.820
And if they, you know, bash me for it, fine, let them, but that's my stand.
00:32:51.820
So, uh, the term remigration, I think has, is, is an AFD, uh, term.
00:32:59.820
Um, I mean, we've, there's migration, immigration, emigration, remigration.
00:33:08.820
Uh, maybe you want to talk a bit more about that, but it's, uh, you know, the other
00:33:12.820
idea that, um, you know, we've taken all we can and maybe some more and it's time to get
00:33:20.820
So number one, um, the English terms, uh, would be deport, deportation.
00:33:25.820
So, well, the deportation would be a legally mandated, uh, immigration.
00:33:32.820
But the connotation in German, uh, if you were to talk about deportation, deportations, uh,
00:33:42.820
The Nazis deported the Jews off to camps, you know, whatever, ghettos, whatever.
00:33:48.820
So we do not use that term at all for this exact reason.
00:33:54.820
So what we came up with, um, as a party, it's called a concept remigration, but it's
00:34:01.820
Um, for example, um, saying that, uh, well, maybe, uh, the refugees that we did take in,
00:34:09.820
uh, maybe we should, you know, supply them with some skills in some kind of a trade, teach
00:34:15.820
them a trade that they could then apply in their home countries to build their societies.
00:34:23.820
That would be such a logical and sensible thing to do because the number one claim is they
00:34:28.820
are coming because the situation in their homeland is so devastating, so disastrous without
00:34:44.820
I do not blame any one of them to be in search for a better life.
00:34:49.820
I do blame my government, however, because my government is supposed to look out for the
00:35:01.820
So why don't we make sure that number one, we do know who is coming in because most of the
00:35:10.820
That leads to the fact that we cannot send them back to their home country in case asylum
00:35:19.820
So let's go and find ways to make it attractive for them to actually do go back to their country
00:35:39.820
Well, I would actually see it as different even in the English sense of the terms.
00:35:44.820
Deportation is generally this person is not here legally.
00:35:48.820
You know, they broke the rules to get in and we're putting them on a plane or whatever,
00:35:52.820
and we're getting them back to where they came or the border, et cetera.
00:35:58.820
And I think it's how you're describing it is more of a incentivizing them to voluntarily
00:36:03.820
leave, even if they're here legally, because, you know, Merkel.
00:36:06.820
I mean, many of these people are, I guess, in Europe, technically legally, even if, you
00:36:14.820
They, a lot of them were phony claims, but they've been accepted and are therefore legally,
00:36:19.820
they're legally now, even if they came illegally to begin with, because the government just
00:36:25.820
So it's incentivizing them to leave themselves is, and I would say that is different than
00:36:34.820
We're putting you in a holding settlement on a plane back.
00:36:37.820
This is for people who I think they are in Germany legally, but it's probably best for
00:36:43.820
both sides to just incentivize them to leave voluntarily.
00:36:48.820
It also pertains to the ones that are in the country illegally, which actually is most
00:36:54.820
So once their claim has been, their request for asylum has been denied, we still don't
00:36:59.820
have any, any way of getting rid of them because they simply claim, well, find out what
00:37:05.820
And even if we did know what their home country was, the countries they came from, they refuse
00:37:16.820
And what you just mentioned, Angela Merkel, when she ripped open the borders wide, she just,
00:37:21.820
you know, said all the Syrians, they can just, you know, come in.
00:37:27.820
And even if it was quite clear, that person doesn't even speak that language.
00:37:40.820
There was Afghans, North Africans, people coming from everywhere just saying they're Syrian.
00:37:45.820
So from Africa, they were coming claiming to be Syrian.
00:37:49.820
So it's like, I mean, you cannot, you cannot just take in everyone.
00:37:53.820
And we've been seeing that, I mean, for decades now and, you know, just feeding them, clothing
00:38:01.820
You know, it's like we are completely overrun and we are overwhelmed.
00:38:06.820
And all the little communities that have to put up with this and have to actually put
00:38:13.820
And they've been saying so for years and still nothing changes and nothing happens.
00:38:22.820
And it's just, you know, we need to change that.
00:38:29.820
Donald Trump, he said, I'm going to build a wall.
00:38:34.820
And that's the reason they hate Donald Trump so much, because he's proving them all liars.
00:38:39.820
Because we've been told for decades, even if we wanted to close the borders, it couldn't
00:38:49.820
Well, speaking of Trump, this is a good segue, I think.
00:38:52.820
So we just had the G7 meeting, practically right here in Condrey.
00:38:56.820
Donald Trump's helicopter flew right over my house.
00:39:01.820
He's been going on at some time about how most of the NATO allies have been freeloaders
00:39:08.820
on the American security umbrella, Canada and Germany being two of the worst of them.
00:39:15.820
And Canada's recently just agreed to come to 2% of GDP.
00:39:23.820
And then we just had the NATO meeting the other week where the new target is 5%.
00:39:28.820
What are your thoughts on, it's NATO more broadly rearming, but also Germany, it's the largest
00:39:40.820
It would entail a significant upending of the military balance of power both in the world and particularly in Europe for
00:39:54.820
What are your thoughts on Germany becoming military power again?
00:40:00.820
And also, you know, it's been talked about to actually meet its goals.
00:40:05.820
It's probably going to need conscription to do so.
00:40:08.820
What are your thoughts on both Germany rearming and the potential reintroduction of conscription in Germany?
00:40:13.820
So, first of all, let's start by saying that it's going to be interesting to see how British
00:40:20.820
Mats is now trying to re-militarize our army because what we've done in the past years is pretty
00:40:31.820
So we made sure or we pretty much turned our military into a gigantic daycare center because it was more important
00:40:40.820
to have facilities that, you know, could take in the kids of the soldiers than to actually train them to be soldiers.
00:40:55.820
We decommissioned them because they were fully functional.
00:41:08.820
The Canadian military has been putting tampons in the men's room.
00:41:10.820
So we have some crazy stuff, too, but I did not.
00:41:15.820
And that's why an entire line of tanks had been taken out of commission.
00:41:23.820
I would laugh, too, but I don't think it's that funny, actually, because it's actually.
00:41:35.820
And I remember when that meeting took place in the White House, Donald Trump and Zelensky.
00:41:41.820
And while Zelensky didn't do that well in that meeting, how the European leaders, they were all outraged at Donald Trump once again.
00:41:50.820
And, you know, they came together in emergency meeting and they just kind of reform a coalition of the willing.
00:42:00.820
And I was like, well, how about a coalition of the capable?
00:42:11.820
So Ursula von der Leyen, who happened to have been our secretary of defense, and she really dismantled our military.
00:42:26.820
And I mean, if Canada now thinks that Europe is going to have their back.
00:42:35.820
I mean, if they want to, but they are incapable.
00:42:38.820
So going now coming to the point of conscription.
00:42:58.820
If you do not have mandatory military duty that every young man and women, we women weren't actually allowed to do so for a long time.
00:43:09.820
If you no longer have that, or if you don't have that, then you will basically you're left with a population that is defenseless, completely defenseless.
00:43:19.820
But if you have a certain percentage of the population that was actually trained in military ways to defend the country, you will have a base and you will not be.
00:43:32.820
Do you favor the reintroduction of conscription?
00:43:37.820
Because, uh, like I said, we are put in the spot right now.
00:43:42.820
Uh, we import millions and millions and millions of young men in fighting age.
00:43:49.820
And not only do we import them, we strategically place them everywhere in our country.
00:44:00.820
Two of them just went berserk and decided to just shoot around in Munich.
00:44:08.820
That was right before the Munich defense conference.
00:44:19.820
Pretty much held the entire, two of them were capable of shutting down the entire city.
00:44:24.820
Strangers would grant you refuge in their home because you had nowhere to go.
00:44:29.820
So all the police forces were pulled into the city because two of them went nuts.
00:44:38.820
The entire, that the city was essentially completely shut down.
00:44:44.820
And we've also seen what they, what they are capable in Munich, I'm sorry, in Cologne.
00:44:49.820
A thousand of them just gathered in Cologne to sexually harass hundreds and hundreds of women.
00:44:56.820
You're talking about the New Year's Eve rape pets.
00:44:59.820
So they can organize pretty quickly and they come together by the thousands.
00:45:06.820
Let's just say a hundred of them say, okay, we're going to cause for some, cause some chaos here.
00:45:13.820
They spread out 10 different cities and 10 of them to start shooting around.
00:45:19.820
All the police forces will be pulled into these 10 cities trying to rescue the nation of a hundred guys.
00:45:27.820
What's going to be happening with the, with the rest of the land.
00:45:33.820
So in the rest of them, they just, you know, target, I don't know, one community and ransack it.
00:45:38.820
That is not a completely out of the world kind of scenario.
00:45:45.820
So if you have a population that doesn't have the first clue about what it takes to actually defend yourself, you are left completely defenseless.
00:45:55.820
And that's not a situation that I would, any nation to be in least of all Germany.
00:46:00.820
On remigration of, uh, some of these, uh, you know, foreign elements, uh, you know, the AFD has talked about it being a voluntary measure.
00:46:13.820
Would you, uh, but, uh, Ellis Vital has said that, uh, you know, it would apply only to non-citizens.
00:46:21.820
Would you favor that policy being enlarged to include voluntary incentivization for people who have become naturalized German citizens to give up their citizenship and return to their home countries?
00:46:37.820
I'm not talking about, I'm talking about voluntarily, not, not forcefully.
00:46:41.820
Voluntarily ask them to give up their citizenship in exchange for some kind of, uh.
00:46:46.820
I, you do not, you should not be able to ask anyone to surrender their citizenship.
00:46:52.820
Um, so no, we cannot kick anyone out of the country who is a German citizen.
00:46:58.820
I mean, I said, I will voluntarily incentivize.
00:47:01.820
Well, I mean, if, if someone wants to leave, he will leave, right?
00:47:04.820
But no, you should not be able to actually, you should not ask them to do that.
00:47:09.820
However, we might want to reconsider our practice and just throwing our citizenship at everyone or just about anyone.
00:47:17.820
At this point, it's like whoever isn't up on a tree by the count of three, we will slap him with citizenship, right?
00:47:24.820
So, and at a minimum, yes, you should have to make a choice.
00:47:28.820
If you want to become a German citizen, yes, you will have to surrender the citizenship, citizenship of the country you held up until that point.
00:47:37.820
Um, the exception for that would be if you required dual citizenship, both, uh, by birth naturally.
00:47:45.820
Like, for example, my daughter, my eldest daughter, she is a dual, dual, dual citizen.
00:47:50.820
So she, uh, got my, this German citizenship because she is my daughter from descent.
00:47:55.820
And she's got the American citizen ship because she was born on, on American soil.
00:48:00.820
So, but if you make the decision to become a German citizen, yeah, you should have to surrender the other citizenship because you cannot serve two masters to, you know, so whatever.
00:48:12.820
Um, but no, once you're a German citizen, that's it point blank.
00:48:18.820
So if you, you want to keep your German citizen, that's fine.
00:48:22.820
You should, we should not be allowed to ask anyone to surrender it.
00:48:25.820
Um, but like I said, at the same time, please don't, you know, just slap everyone with it.
00:48:30.820
We need to kind of make sure like in United States, you know, there is some kind of, you have to take a test, you know, rudimentary history, knowledge in history.
00:48:41.820
And yeah, you should want to be a part of our liberal total, liberal, uh, um, um, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:48:52.820
You should, you should want to be, but if you want to live in our society and implement, um, the rules and the traditions that you fled from, then maybe Germany is not the right place for you.
00:49:09.820
I was a bit wide, you know, we're kind of roving around here, but, um, you know, the AFD has taken a position that we have to come to a negotiated ceasefire in Ukraine, uh, that the European countries, the Western Alliance should not be, uh, significantly funding the war there.
00:49:29.820
Um, what, what's your take on, uh, Europe's role with the latest iteration of the conflict in the Middle East, Israel, uh, arguably escalating the war with its strikes on Iranian facilities that it claims at least, uh, were on the verge of obtaining nuclear, uh, warheads.
00:49:50.820
They've claimed I have, we haven't seen solid evidence of it yet.
00:49:55.820
And I, I've been skeptical around it because of the 2003 experience with Iraq that we're going to need more than your word for it.
00:50:01.820
We're going to need some pretty solid evidence.
00:50:02.820
Uh, that might be hard to obtain cause this is allegedly underneath a mountain bunker.
00:50:07.820
So I'll be hard to obtain in any case, but, um, your, your, your take on both the Israeli and American strikes on Iran, do you, do you believe they were justified or were they an unnecessary escalation?
00:50:19.820
And what do you think the role of Europe should be in this?
00:50:22.820
Um, the role of Europe should be, uh, uh, to be a mediator in all of this.
00:50:29.820
We, we, we can't be doing anything else since, uh, just describe our military.
00:50:34.820
It doesn't have the capacity to be involved in a lot of two.
00:50:36.820
But this is like the best we can do, you know, it's like, look, we want to talk to you.
00:50:43.820
But do you, do you think, but do you think the strikes were justified or an unnecessary?
00:50:48.820
Uh, I mean, you know, there've been, there's been talks with Iran for so long, um, to, you know, let, uh, the, the, the authorities come in there and, you know, check it out.
00:50:58.820
And, you know, check their facilities and all of this, but it's been going on and on and on and on.
00:51:03.820
And I do believe that the previous, uh, US administration under Biden, uh, under Obama as well, they have been way too lenient, uh, in checking up on that.
00:51:13.820
So, um, yeah, I, I do think it was justified because once, uh, Iran has nuclear powers, I mean, there is no telling what will happen to this world.
00:51:23.820
So yes, I do think it was justified, but I, I hear you, I'm completely with you.
00:51:28.820
Um, when going back to, yeah, in 2003, I think it was right.
00:51:33.820
Uh, there was supposedly, there were weapons of mass destruction and, uh, to my knowledge, they haven't found them to this day.
00:51:42.820
And, uh, I still, you know, see Powell standing in front of, uh, the United Nations and, uh, was it the United Nations or it might've been the,
00:51:52.820
Uh, whatever, uh, swearing that they do have, uh, weapons of mass destruction.
00:51:57.820
Um, I mean, we've seen so much, you might remember the incubator lie.
00:52:02.820
Um, you know, when that alleged nurse from Kuwait, she was claiming that Iraqis, you know, came into the hospital, took the newborns out of their incubators and threw them just on the floor and trampled on them and stuff like that.
00:52:15.820
And she made that statement in front of the UN.
00:52:17.820
Um, and later it turned out, she was the daughter of the, uh, Kuwaiti ambassador.
00:52:23.820
Um, so, I mean, both in both incidents, it just, things were said with people were lied to, to get them behind the idea to wage war.
00:52:34.820
I think, I don't know if that is happening, if that's what's happening now.
00:52:38.820
Um, I would think, I really would think it is one thing.
00:52:43.820
If, um, you know, uh, democratic administration is claiming these things, even though back then it was Bush, it was Republican too.
00:52:52.820
So, um, but I think, uh, or I would like to think that Donald Trump, um, that he actually does have the right Intel.
00:52:59.820
And then I guess people around him, uh, that he absolutely trusts with that Intel, whatever he's being told.
00:53:07.820
I do think it was justified and I do trust Donald Trump to have made the right call here.
00:53:12.820
Well, look, I think George W. Bush believed his intelligence.
00:53:19.820
I think he probably genuinely believed what he was being told.
00:53:27.820
I think some other people around him were lying.
00:53:37.820
Um, you know, I, I'm generally would be pretty sympathetic to the Israeli American strikes
00:53:44.820
If they were on the cusp of obtaining a nuclear weapon, I I'm in agreement that they must never
00:53:51.820
It'll send the whole, it will lead to a much bigger, much worse war.
00:53:57.820
The question is, were they on the cusp of getting the bomb?
00:54:00.820
And, you know, I, I try not to get even a politician I'm sympathetic with.
00:54:08.820
I, I don't give them the benefit of the doubt on military intelligence for war.
00:54:13.820
Uh, they've got to, they got to show me the money.
00:54:18.820
And I I'm concerned right now that there's a lot of people who are sympathetic or supportive
00:54:22.820
of Trump and they're willing to believe him because they like Trump.
00:54:26.820
But then you, you see the same thing with George W. Bush, uh, in other cases, you'd see
00:54:31.820
the same thing with democratic leaders, Obama, and et cetera.
00:54:34.820
Uh, I don't think we could base this on, do we like the politician making the plan?
00:54:41.820
So my question to you is like, is it incumbent upon the Israeli and American governments to
00:54:53.820
So it might, you know, they could not have shown us beforehand.
00:55:08.820
But on the other hand, you know, it's also like this whole, uh, thing that's going on,
00:55:13.820
you know, it's either like in our, in our societies, we're now having, you know, pro-Palestinian,
00:55:21.820
And it was like, what the hell is wrong with these people?
00:55:28.820
They are surrounded by the arc enemies and all of their enemies surrounding them.
00:55:33.820
They would, you know, rather see him die tomorrow today than tomorrow.
00:55:43.820
So, um, I mean, they are in this, you know, incredible difficult situation and they
00:55:47.820
are actually, yeah, their life is at stake every single day.
00:55:53.820
And, uh, what happened October 7th, you know, how can you rally in our societies on the streets
00:56:01.820
actually celebrating what happened on October 7th.
00:56:08.820
And, uh, you will never, uh, get me to, I don't know, uh, condemn that Israel is defending
00:56:21.820
Well, uh, Ms. Anderson, thank you for your time.
00:56:24.820
I, uh, appreciate you coming in and stopping at our, our Calgary studio here and, uh, wish
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you the best of luck as you, uh, continue your tour across Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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