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00:00:00.000 Good day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,

00:00:28.060 and today I'm joined by a German member of the European Parliament, Christine Andersen.

00:00:36.680 She sits with the AFD Alternative für Deutschland party.

00:00:42.140 She's served, I think, a couple of terms now, and she's no newcomer to Canada.

00:00:48.320 She is on a tour from parts of the West right now, but she's been here before,

00:00:55.180 and we're fortunate to have her in studio with us today. Thank you for joining us.

00:00:59.920 Well, thanks for having me. My pleasure.

00:01:02.500 Well, first, you're here just before Calgary Stampede starts.

00:01:06.040 Yes.

00:01:07.020 Are you going to be here during it?

00:01:09.360 Well, had I known, I might have, you know, made different travel plans.

00:01:13.760 Yes. So, I will fly back on July 4th.

00:01:18.300 So, I think, like, the very first evening, I will be able to, like, catch some of it.

00:01:22.420 The way I describe Stampede to my German friends is redneck Oktoberfest. 0.83

00:01:27.340 Yeah.

00:01:27.660 Like, you gotta be here.

00:01:28.920 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.

00:01:34.860 Yeah. It's a crime to come right before or right after. You gotta be here for it.

00:01:39.820 All right. Well, you're touring this time. This time is just in the West.

00:01:43.140 This is Saskatchewan and Alberta right now.

00:01:46.520 But you've toured before. The last time you were here, it ignited a national scandal.

00:01:51.340 I mean, all press is good press.

00:01:55.300 It brought a lot of attention to your cause and what you're doing here.

00:01:59.100 Exactly.

00:01:59.380 You, I think, caught the attention of most Canadians when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came before the European Parliament.

00:02:09.000 And you made him feel a little less than welcome.

00:02:12.740 Yes. And that was exactly my point.

00:02:14.880 That was what I was trying to make.

00:02:16.860 So, it was like, once I heard, you know, Justin Trudeau was going to address us in the House,

00:02:22.380 I was like, you know, how can someone like him, and as I said in my speech, you know,

00:02:26.800 who admires the basic Chinese dictatorship, who turned totally a dictator on his own people,

00:02:33.900 how can he even be allowed to speak in a house of democracy?

00:02:38.700 So, yeah, I made it a point to let him know that he was not welcomed by everyone.

00:02:43.660 And then you came and toured, did a tour of Canada after that,

00:02:50.000 and there was, you know, some controversy in the media.

00:02:58.620 You know, anytime someone is a more nationalistic, right-leaning politician from Germany,

00:03:06.300 people go, ooh, you know, and it's not very reasonable most of the time.

00:03:12.160 But the press got a tizzy on it, the Liberal government at the time got a tizzy on it,

00:03:17.540 and it kind of, you know, brought some pressure to bear on Pierre Pogliav,

00:03:21.220 the Conservative leader, who condemned his MPs, who posed in a picture for you.

00:03:27.600 I think it was like Ian Allison, a few, yeah, a few Conservative MPs.

00:03:34.700 Leslie Lewis.

00:03:35.540 Leslie Lewis, yeah.

00:03:36.360 Now, funny enough, the apology was issued on their behalf.

00:03:40.120 They never actually said anything.

00:03:41.540 So I think this was written by some political staff or fard catcher somewhere, 1.00

00:03:44.720 put out in their name.

00:03:46.420 I mean, you know, I actually have to thank Pierre for having done that.

00:03:50.540 Whether it was him or one of his staffers, it really doesn't matter,

00:03:54.040 because it was put out in his name.

00:03:56.180 And that made sure that, I mean, who the heck was Christine Anderson, right?

00:04:00.420 So he made it, actually made me a household name.

00:04:03.960 And from that point on, I mean, pretty much everyone in Canada knew who Christine Anderson was.

00:04:08.600 I wonder if you're done better here than in Germany.

00:04:10.180 And they might have actually looked into, well, if everyone is so outraged about her,

00:04:14.060 let's find about, you know, let's find out about what she actually has to say.

00:04:18.460 And I'm pretty sure that most people that did look me up or did watch some of my videos

00:04:24.780 and messages and everything, they were probably flustered,

00:04:29.120 desperately trying to find the part where I was violent, racist, right?

00:04:35.120 Because there isn't any.

00:04:37.380 So, no, thanks, Pierre.

00:04:38.880 You actually made it happen.

00:04:40.580 And just to think that they mentioned me like three or four times in the aftermath

00:04:44.340 and your national parliament, I mean, gosh, I made it all the way to the top, I guess.

00:04:50.420 Thanks a lot for that.

00:04:51.880 Well, Pierre Polyev at this time said,

00:04:53.140 frankly, it would be better if Christine Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. 0.98

00:04:57.840 She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here. 1.00

00:05:01.080 It's funny because, you know, the views you and AFD share around

00:05:06.900 getting control of migration in Germany and Europe.

00:05:11.040 Those may have been considered non-mainstream views.

00:05:14.340 Until pretty recently.

00:05:15.640 But now even Keir Starmer, he sounds like an AFD politician all of a sudden

00:05:19.980 when he talks about the need to get control of the border.

00:05:22.400 He'll actually do it or not.

00:05:24.040 That's the point.

00:05:25.140 But his rhetoric sounds positively AFD.

00:05:28.920 Yes, exactly.

00:05:29.740 But that's just it.

00:05:30.700 It's rhetoric.

00:05:31.920 So, and we've just notably seen that in Germany.

00:05:34.380 We had elections in February of this year.

00:05:37.360 And, you know, the Christian Democrats,

00:05:39.760 they used to be the former Conservative Party.

00:05:42.240 And ever since I became eligible to vote,

00:05:45.000 I always voted for the Christian Democrats, right? 1.00

00:05:47.200 Conservative views.

00:05:48.200 But they completely abandoned all of that.

00:05:51.020 And now here, Friedrich Merz, who is now the Chancellor of Germany.

00:05:55.260 Guess what he ran on, right?

00:05:57.300 He was running on closing the border.

00:05:59.560 And he said, and I quote,

00:06:02.660 I will close the border on day one.

00:06:06.720 Well, guess what?

00:06:07.380 The precinct's closed, right?

00:06:08.840 And not 24 hours later, he was like standing in front of the press

00:06:12.640 and saying no one ever said anything about closing any borders.

00:06:15.520 The results were barely in when he said it.

00:06:17.520 Exactly.

00:06:17.560 So, you know, completely abandoned on his promise right then and there.

00:06:22.460 So they're just, it's just talk with them.

00:06:25.300 So they do know what would resonate with people.

00:06:28.720 And they will say whatever resonates with people.

00:06:31.860 But they are never prepared to actually walk their talk.

00:06:37.000 And that is just, I mean, it's a betrayal of the voters.

00:06:40.560 And the people are beginning to realize that, especially in Germany.

00:06:43.860 I mean, we're rising in the polls.

00:06:45.240 We came here.

00:06:46.220 Solid second place now.

00:06:47.380 Exactly.

00:06:48.080 We hit 20%.

00:06:49.960 In the polls, if it was the election today, AFD would probably get the most seats.

00:06:53.300 Exactly.

00:06:54.000 So we hit 20%, right?

00:06:56.020 Which was kind of like a psychological threshold.

00:06:59.080 And because all the talks about, you know, banning us and all of that,

00:07:03.060 it's going to get increasingly more difficult to do so.

00:07:06.420 But here we are.

00:07:07.780 And they're still trying to do that.

00:07:10.360 So, it was interesting the last time you were here.

00:07:13.620 What's the difference you're getting in your reception this time?

00:07:18.080 This is your second Canadian tour.

00:07:19.560 No, I'm here the fourth time, actually.

00:07:20.980 Fourth?

00:07:21.360 Yes.

00:07:21.880 Oh, my goodness.

00:07:22.300 Believe it or not, yeah.

00:07:23.500 Okay.

00:07:24.580 In just two years.

00:07:26.260 Are you planning on running for office in Alberta?

00:07:29.440 Well, since I'm German, that would be a hard thing to do, actually.

00:07:33.580 But no, I've really, you know, grown fond of Canada.

00:07:38.520 I love it here, especially in Alberta.

00:07:41.080 Like I said, we went to this country bar the other night.

00:07:46.540 I just had a blast.

00:07:47.440 Your entrance.

00:07:48.100 Yeah.

00:07:48.680 That was really great.

00:07:50.140 I mean, what specifically struck me as, I mean, all the men were dancing.

00:07:55.760 You know, men in Germany, they wouldn't be caught dead on the dance floor.

00:07:59.380 Oh, the issue platelet.

00:08:00.280 Oh, but these are, like, you know, like, kind of, like, communities that get together to specifically do that.

00:08:06.800 Yeah.

00:08:06.940 But just going out to a bar and see, you know, men dancing, I was like, oh, man, that's great.

00:08:11.560 Right?

00:08:11.880 So, yeah.

00:08:12.940 Even though I had no idea how to square dance, I guess I kind of tried and did it anyway.

00:08:17.560 I had a blast.

00:08:18.480 It was really great.

00:08:19.820 Well, you're getting some practice for Stampede.

00:08:21.320 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.

00:08:42.720 He refused to shut down.

00:08:45.600 The cops would raid his very modest little establishment, and he just refused to give in.

00:08:53.040 And so, you know, since the Whistle Stop Cafe, it's kind of known because of that.

00:08:57.220 Otherwise, Mirror is barely on them.

00:08:59.040 No offense to people in Mirror, but, like, it's not really.

00:09:01.440 No one would even know it existed.

00:09:02.700 It was put on the map during COVID.

00:09:05.680 But there's an event taking place tomorrow around the Alberta independence movement.

00:09:12.720 Um, which has really become a mainstream movement here.

00:09:17.220 There's very, and almost certainly we're having a referendum in Alberta within the next year to year and a half on independence.

00:09:23.960 Right.

00:09:24.140 It's a very real thing.

00:09:26.100 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.

00:09:37.160 They're not the same thing, but there's a big overlap of those groups.

00:09:39.740 So, in one sense, I was not surprised to see your name headlining the list.

00:09:43.520 But in another, I thought, oh, I mean, it's kind of, it's not your set of issues.

00:09:49.280 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.

00:10:01.580 He tweeted, sad but regrettable that Alberta separatists have to fly in a far-right German politician to support their destructive cause.

00:10:09.840 I agree with what Pierre Paulyev said back then.

00:10:13.740 Uh, a few things come to mind.

00:10:15.660 I mean, it's pretty cheap shot, would you say, far-right German politician.

00:10:19.120 You're really not very subtly dog whistling that, you know, this is, you know, the worst kind of thing.

00:10:24.920 Um, but, I mean, he's still smarting over the, he was the only leader in Canada to be ousted during COVID.

00:10:33.040 Right.

00:10:33.960 And by, and ousted by his own party, which probably hurts a bit more than being ousted by another.

00:10:39.440 Um, any, any thoughts to, you know, what he has to say?

00:10:44.720 And, you know, why is it that you're speaking at an Alberta independence?

00:10:47.780 Well, so first of all, there was, you know, a couple of things to unpack here.

00:10:51.840 So first of all, the label, you know, far-right, I'm not far-right.

00:10:56.340 It's just, I've been right so far, you know, and that really ticks them off.

00:11:00.520 And that's why they keep applying all of these labels and, you know, calling me just about any name in the book.

00:11:05.700 But, hey, that's their problem.

00:11:07.100 It's not mine.

00:11:08.240 Uh, no one gets to define me.

00:11:09.600 I know exactly what I stand for.

00:11:12.240 I know exactly who and what I am, and I know exactly what I'm not.

00:11:15.860 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.

00:11:23.420 Oh, he's been angry at you for a while.

00:11:25.300 Oh, see, well, there you go, you know.

00:11:26.860 Because you've been around here speaking against mandates and whatnot, which he was so fond of.

00:11:30.300 Right.

00:11:30.620 So anyway, I hadn't even, you know, seen the tweet I was alerted to, and I was like, yeah, well, whatever. 0.97

00:11:35.720 You know, who is this clown? 0.96

00:11:37.200 And, you know, whatever. 0.98

00:11:38.380 He doesn't know anything about me.

00:11:39.720 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.

00:11:49.320 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.

00:11:58.360 And, um, which is absolutely not the case.

00:12:01.060 Like I said, I didn't even know.

00:12:02.080 Well, there's overlaps of, like, they're largely the same people.

00:12:04.700 Exactly.

00:12:05.700 Uh, however, having said that, that is a discussion the Albertans need to have.

00:12:10.640 And, uh, it's up to the Albertans to, to make up their mind about that.

00:12:14.760 And, uh, you know, I, I cannot fly in from Germany to, you know, say, yeah, you should do it.

00:12:19.480 Or no, you shouldn't.

00:12:20.460 Uh, because I don't know enough about the issue to actually intelligently speak about that.

00:12:26.620 I can, could only speak about that in, you know, broad general terms.

00:12:31.060 Um, so I might, you know, uh, um, connected or compare it to the Brexit that happened when

00:12:37.320 Great Britain left the EU and they did so because they wanted to, um, just retain their, uh, decision

00:12:44.800 making, uh, uh, competencies.

00:12:47.040 So that's what we're faced with in the EU, all of the member states, they are relinquishing

00:12:52.040 their governing powers to Brussels, to Ursula von der Leyen, you know, of all people, uh,

00:12:58.060 it's her and, uh, we all know she doesn't have the best interest, uh, of the people in 0.93

00:13:02.300 mind.

00:13:03.000 Um, she is self-serving, um, serving, you know, a group of people.

00:13:07.900 I don't really know who they are.

00:13:09.140 So for the lack of a better term, I always call them the globalitarian misanthropists. 0.96

00:13:13.700 So she is serving that.

00:13:15.520 So, uh, just from what I understood is, um, Alberta is pretty much economic, uh, economically

00:13:22.240 speaking self-sufficient, right?

00:13:25.200 So, and they're pretty much funding all of the nonsense that is, you know, being decided

00:13:29.860 in, in, uh, in Ottawa.

00:13:32.200 So, um, it is any people's right to choose independence, but like I said, it's a discussion

00:13:39.900 for them to have, they have to decide.

00:13:41.840 So the Albertans really need to get into these issues and, and really make, uh, uh, uh, informed

00:13:47.980 decision about that.

00:13:49.560 But don't let anyone shame you if you do want to separate and, uh, don't do that.

00:13:55.460 Make, take the decision that is, that is yours by right.

00:13:59.380 And, uh, whatever you decide, um, I guess the rest of the world is just going to have

00:14:04.380 to accept that.

00:14:05.440 That's how democracy works by the way.

00:14:07.480 Yeah, it is funny.

00:14:09.720 Um, the, I mean, I don't think there's much in the way of an organized Bavarian independence

00:14:15.080 movement, but you know, there has been at different points historically.

00:14:18.280 Um, and on, for a long time I've compared, um, you know, some people try to compare Alberta's

00:14:22.500 independence movement to Quebec or to Scotland or Catalonia.

00:14:25.580 I've actually always compared it more to the Bavarian one, um, in that, you know, Scotland,

00:14:31.020 uh, or Quebec see themselves as different from the larger, bigger country, um, as a, as a

00:14:38.120 different nation.

00:14:39.260 Whereas, you know, you know, the Bavarian, I don't know, independence, probably more particular

00:14:44.420 as movement is more of an appropriate term now.

00:14:46.700 So, uh, but it always saw itself as, didn't see itself as not German.

00:14:50.340 It saw itself as maybe more German, uh, in some ways, you know, and just, or we're a

00:14:55.440 different version.

00:14:56.540 Yeah.

00:14:56.900 And, and, and in many ways, I think that's, you know, the Alberta experience.

00:15:00.400 We don't see ourselves as not Canadian.

00:15:02.380 We see ourselves as, well, maybe what Canada used to be.

00:15:05.360 And Canada has gone on to be something different that we, we no longer want to be a part of.

00:15:09.740 Yeah, that's exactly it.

00:15:11.560 It all comes down to identity, right?

00:15:14.640 And what they're doing, and when I say they, I mean the globalitarian misanthropists once 0.99

00:15:19.500 again, and just to clarify, I mean, you know, whether it's Trudeau or Carney now, or it's

00:15:26.180 our chancellor, Ursula von der Leyen, um, they're not the ones calling the shots, right?

00:15:30.780 They're not the ones making the decisions.

00:15:32.240 They're just the puppeteers of the globalitarian misanthropists.

00:15:36.520 And what they, they set out to do is to actually steal our identity, whether it's our cultural

00:15:43.880 identity, our national identity, they won't even shy away from stealing our sexual identity. 0.98

00:15:49.240 That's what they're doing right now with this whole transgender madness. 1.00

00:15:52.940 So that what, what can, uh, what makes us who we are down to the very core of our individuality,

00:16:01.780 they're even trying to rob us of this.

00:16:03.760 So, um, if the people, and usually, you know, the peoples around the world, they are set in

00:16:10.360 their traditions and they're proud of their traditions, their history, their language,

00:16:14.880 their culture, and all of this.

00:16:16.960 And if you're trying to take that away, you will get backlash from the people because they

00:16:21.620 do not want to surrender their identity, uh, to just, you know, some, I don't know, one

00:16:28.200 world government or whatever they might have, uh, in, in mind for us, they don't want that.

00:16:33.600 And that's why they're receiving that backlash.

00:16:35.700 And the only way to counter that, uh, from the perspective of the, uh, globalitarian misanthropists

00:16:42.240 is to actually shame these people, label them, you know, right wing, uh, conspiracy theorists.

00:16:47.880 I mean, any name in the book, you, you just name it.

00:16:50.460 So, uh, because they actually do not have any arguments.

00:16:54.120 Okay.

00:16:54.360 You, you've used that term three times now.

00:16:56.520 Uh, say it again.

00:16:58.260 Globalitarian misanthropists.

00:17:00.600 See, most people call them global elites, but I do not consider them elites.

00:17:04.880 They're anything but.

00:17:05.740 So, it's not only a globalist movement, it's actually a global totalitarian movement.

00:17:15.480 So, globalitarian.

00:17:16.960 Oh, global.

00:17:17.680 Okay.

00:17:18.040 Globalitarian.

00:17:18.400 Globalitarian.

00:17:19.600 And then instead of elites, misanthropists, because that's what they are.

00:17:23.240 Okay.

00:17:23.940 I hadn't heard that term before.

00:17:25.400 So, I thought I had to unpack it here.

00:17:28.500 Germans are always, uh, just mashing words up to make new ones.

00:17:31.780 So do you.

00:17:33.160 The English speaking word does that too.

00:17:34.880 So, yeah, yeah.

00:17:36.840 No, we just, uh, right.

00:17:37.780 Steal the word.

00:17:39.180 We, we steal the words.

00:17:40.820 Well, but that, that goes both ways.

00:17:42.380 Yes, that's true.

00:17:43.840 Um, okay.

00:17:45.660 So, you've touched on this a bit already, but I want to pack it a bit more.

00:17:47.860 Uh, when we spoke last, uh, it was right after, um, the, uh, Bundestag elections in Germany.

00:17:55.580 Uh, AFD had just scored a historic, uh, second place, uh, vote.

00:18:01.480 Uh, Friedrich Merz's CDU won a plurality.

00:18:04.880 But it was the lowest plurality of any first place party in the history of the federal

00:18:09.700 republic.

00:18:10.940 Um, and he was entering into coalition talks.

00:18:15.060 I mean, it's, it's, it's a funny thing to North American years that he instantly says, I'm

00:18:20.840 going now going to talk to the main leftist party to form a coalition, not, not to the

00:18:25.320 party.

00:18:25.860 Actually worse.

00:18:26.480 He did it while campaigning.

00:18:28.360 Yes.

00:18:28.740 He did a wild campaign.

00:18:29.960 Well, they made, and by doing so, he actually cut himself off from options.

00:18:35.320 So that was sort of like, he, he might as well have told the left and the green, look,

00:18:39.600 you can demand whatever you want from me because you are my only option.

00:18:44.060 I have left.

00:18:44.440 Well, because of the unofficial rule, the, uh, uh, Brown Meyer, uh, the firewall, uh,

00:18:49.880 that says that you're just not allowed to have any dealings with the AFD because it's

00:18:55.340 the far right.

00:18:56.640 Even though AFD's policies are essentially, you know, AFD.

00:19:01.320 Christian Democrats are advocating.

00:19:02.420 It'd be, it'd be, it'd be, you would not see any discernible difference.

00:19:08.520 It's actually even a bit more liberal than Helmut Kohl in some ways.

00:19:11.680 Yeah.

00:19:12.200 Um, probably that.

00:19:13.820 Uh, so, uh, it was in, uh, in coalition talks.

00:19:17.440 They have now finally got over the line for it.

00:19:20.800 Um, how, how, how has it panned out?

00:19:25.180 And how do you think Germans broadly have, have received the new, I mean, they use the

00:19:29.880 term grand coalition, but that, that, that was only applicable when it was the two biggest

00:19:34.340 parties.

00:19:34.740 It's now the first biggest party and the third biggest party.

00:19:37.800 Right.

00:19:38.400 Well, I mean, you know, let's just start there.

00:19:40.920 So, uh, elections we had in the past, right?

00:19:44.100 It was either the social Democrats or the Christian Democrats. 0.66

00:19:47.060 These were the two major parties and they, you know, came in anywhere from 40 to 48, 49%.

00:19:54.100 Christian Democrats sometimes even hit the 50%, right? 0.54

00:19:57.380 So this is what we're talking about.

00:19:58.960 And now, uh, the Christian Democrats, they're actually celebrating it as a grand victory

00:20:04.520 when they've made 27, uh, 27%, right?

00:20:08.980 This is embarrassing.

00:20:10.060 First place party with 27%.

00:20:11.540 That is crazy.

00:20:12.380 It's embarrassing, right?

00:20:13.500 So, but what's been happening is actually, um, ever since we, we got, uh, got founded in

00:20:19.980 2013, um, they've been trying to annihilate us, right? 0.56

00:20:24.840 Applying all kinds of labels to us.

00:20:26.800 So first we were, uh, anti-European, you know, we hate Europe and we want to destroy Europe.

00:20:32.240 We wanted to, uh, we hate the, our currency, the Euro and we, we do so, but for very good

00:20:37.860 reasons, right?

00:20:39.060 So it was these kinds of labels.

00:20:41.600 And, um, the next thing Angela Merkel ripped open the borders, uh, you know, open white in 2015. 0.98

00:20:48.380 So we started, uh, you know, to get in more of that issue.

00:20:52.300 Um, so with them, we were, you know, Islamophobes, xenophobe, I mean, the whole shebang and nationalists,

00:20:58.340 of course, you know, and then of course it's, well, that's a dirty word in Germany, but in

00:21:02.000 most of the world, it's actually quite fine to say, yeah, I'm a nationalist.

00:21:05.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:21:06.280 So, and then it moved on to, you know, us actually be Nazis, right?

00:21:10.480 So a bit, whatever they tried to do, it didn't work.

00:21:14.260 It only worked for a certain amount of time.

00:21:16.660 Right.

00:21:16.920 But, uh, what happened was, um, people are beginning to realize that everything we have

00:21:24.260 been saying since 2013 is now exactly what they're seeing in their everyday life.

00:21:32.100 So they've come to realize we weren't fear mongering.

00:21:35.560 We weren't making stuff up.

00:21:37.640 It is happening.

00:21:38.820 And they see the repercussions of all of these policies that we, as the only party in Germany,

00:21:44.780 criticized and condemned.

00:21:46.340 And they're now seeing it.

00:21:48.600 So, um, and at this point it's like, yeah, labeling us, stigmatizing us.

00:21:54.260 It is not working anymore because people have come to realize they were actually right.

00:22:00.320 And so, yeah, here we are.

00:22:02.560 And now there's talk of banning us.

00:22:04.660 Right.

00:22:05.260 But like I said, uh, it's just talk because when you really look down to it and, you know,

00:22:09.960 there are various reports they have on us, you know, which allegedly prove that we are,

00:22:16.340 actually anti-constitutional, it is so embarrassing.

00:22:20.220 I mean, any fifth grader would write a better report on that.

00:22:25.260 Well, I want to talk about that.

00:22:26.600 Uh, I mean, it's a funny thing to ban a party.

00:22:28.880 Like, uh, as authoritarian as much of the West has become, we don't ban political parties.

00:22:37.180 I mean, we, we, we, we effectively shun them and ban them to the fringes, but they can't

00:22:42.020 be legally banned.

00:22:43.140 Um, uh, the German pronunciation of it is far beyond my capacity, but the office for the

00:22:50.020 defense of, uh, the constitution in, uh, or the basic law in Germany, uh, which is kind

00:22:56.380 of an intelligence agency, put out, uh, this report saying that the AFD was an anti-constitutional

00:23:03.560 authoritarian party.

00:23:05.260 Uh, well, they put out a statement saying that the report says that, but they didn't

00:23:09.520 actually put out the report.

00:23:10.580 And then parts of that report was leaked.

00:23:12.500 Yeah.

00:23:12.740 Then parts of the report got leaked and it was, the whole report got leaked.

00:23:15.980 Okay.

00:23:16.420 Oh, first parts.

00:23:17.260 And then the whole thing.

00:23:17.860 And it was shockingly embarrassing.

00:23:19.640 It's just, so then the whole thing fell apart.

00:23:25.360 And I think it's essentially the report's been withdrawn, but I think that report was kind

00:23:29.520 of foundational to the movement.

00:23:31.500 Right.

00:23:32.040 Among, uh, the establishment parties and harder leftist parties in Germany to try and ban

00:23:36.760 the AFD because they've been trying to ban the AFD ever since it first got, right.

00:23:41.340 Yeah.

00:23:41.680 I was in Germany, uh, 2013 for the AFD's first election when it was called, uh, far right

00:23:47.000 because it opposed German taxpayers bailing out Greek pensioners.

00:23:50.800 I'm like, wow.

00:23:52.200 I mean, we get called far right for crazy stuff in Canada, but that, yeah, that was news to

00:23:56.480 me.

00:23:56.680 But, uh, it, it does appear that the attempts to ban the AFD have stalled pretty bad since

00:24:03.120 that disastrous report.

00:24:04.440 You know what?

00:24:04.940 You just mentioned something interesting, uh, the bailout of Greece, right?

00:24:08.500 So, uh, our currency was in big trouble.

00:24:10.500 So, and of course the Germans, they, we were literally shamed into, we have to help the Greek

00:24:15.920 people.

00:24:16.300 Mm-hmm .

00:24:16.700 They're so poor and, you know, whatever.

00:24:18.680 So, and, uh, truth be told all that, these billions and billions of euros that we actually

00:24:26.040 sent to Greece had any, any of the, the, that money actually helped the Greek people.

00:24:34.560 I would have carried it down myself personally to deliver it.

00:24:39.200 But the point of the matter is this, none of that money ever reached the Greek people.

00:24:44.440 What they did with that money, the Greek government took it and paid their, uh, debt with German

00:24:51.060 and European banks.

00:24:52.060 Mm-hmm .

00:24:53.060 So it was just the reshoveling of the debt.

00:24:55.440 The Greeks could no longer, uh, shoulder that and they, so it was actually taxpayers money 1.00

00:25:00.440 from Germany going to Greece to bail out the state to the German, because the banks insisted

00:25:06.240 on having their money.

00:25:07.240 Right.

00:25:09.240 So, but you were right.

00:25:10.240 That's when it actually started.

00:25:11.240 And, uh, going.

00:25:12.240 And I was considered a far right position.

00:25:13.240 Yeah.

00:25:14.240 Yeah.

00:25:15.240 Absolutely.

00:25:16.240 Absolutely.

00:25:17.240 I mean, just about anything that is common sense nowadays is considered, you know, far right

00:25:19.920 and anti-constitutional go figure.

00:25:22.920 So anyway, yeah, but going back to that report, it was so utterly embarrassing.

00:25:26.900 So for example, they, um, they would bank on like, you know, guilt by association, but the

00:25:32.960 way they established that association was like a member of my party.

00:25:36.820 Um, he visited university at the same time that a known neo-Nazi visited that university.

00:25:50.820 And even though they were in totally different curriculums, but they're pretty sure they're

00:25:56.820 pathways and this is how they built their case.

00:25:59.820 Right.

00:26:00.820 Uh, another one, um, he was condemned as Islamophobe and, you know, uh, made dehumanizing statements.

00:26:08.820 What he did, he quoted what Erdogan said.

00:26:12.820 Right.

00:26:13.820 He simply quoted that and pretty much exposed what Islam is all about. 0.61

00:26:17.820 It's not about peace.

00:26:18.820 And, you know, none of that is actually about conquer to conquer, you know, the Western world.

00:26:23.820 So he quoted Erdogan, but it was treated as though it was his own thoughts and, you know,

00:26:30.820 he came up with that, you know, quote, whatever. 0.96

00:26:32.820 So it's just ridiculous. 1.00

00:26:33.820 And, uh, they will flat, they will fall flat on, on their butt. 0.99

00:26:37.820 Um, so they just keep the talk about banning us, you know, going, um, in the hopes that, 0.96

00:26:43.820 you know, a lot of people, it will like shield them or prevent them from voting for us.

00:26:48.820 But I don't think they will ever go actually ahead and charge us or apply to the court to ban us.

00:26:56.820 Because if that fails, man, then we would actually have a stamp on top of it.

00:27:02.820 Yup.

00:27:03.820 Not far.

00:27:04.820 Right.

00:27:05.820 Uh, I mean, in most polls now, AFD is, uh, just slightly ahead of, uh, the CDU in the polls.

00:27:11.820 It's now the most popular party.

00:27:12.820 Yes.

00:27:13.820 To ban.

00:27:14.820 I mean, it's, it's one thing to, it might be easier to get away with banning some fringe guys.

00:27:19.820 Uh, I think, I think in Saxon, there was some guy who coined himself a king or something.

00:27:24.820 Yeah.

00:27:25.820 Okay.

00:27:26.820 I mean, yeah.

00:27:27.820 And they were actually plotting and trying to, uh, to kidnap Lauterbach, who was the minister of health.

00:27:34.820 Yeah.

00:27:35.820 I mean, there's some weird stuff there.

00:27:36.820 We would, I mean, they flew him, you know, via helicopters to Carlswood to be charged as

00:27:41.820 traitors and anti constitutionally. 0.67

00:27:43.820 We're talking about old people, you know? 1.00

00:27:46.820 Okay.

00:27:47.820 And at that point I said, well, maybe they should be on the lookout if, you know, uh, on Amazon,

00:27:51.820 the sales of walkers, you know, go up.

00:27:53.820 There might be actually general immobilization.

00:27:55.820 Yup. 0.94

00:27:56.820 It's so ridiculous. 0.98

00:27:57.820 But it's one thing to ban a tiny little group. 0.92

00:27:59.820 I don't think it's generally good even then, but I mean, it's easier to get away with, but

00:28:03.820 to ban the single most popular party in a country, that's an invitation to civil war.

00:28:07.820 I mean, that you're, you're saying you cannot express yourself democratic democratically.

00:28:11.820 Yes.

00:28:12.820 That legitimizes other means.

00:28:14.820 I mean, it would be, it's inconceivable that you, uh, I mean, it'd be like the liberal party

00:28:18.820 of Canada banning the conservatives last year when the conservatives were first place in

00:28:22.820 the polls.

00:28:23.820 I mean, it would, it would, a state would lose.

00:28:26.820 Ironically enough, that's exactly what the Nazis did. 0.92

00:28:31.820 They banned the social Democrats back then.

00:28:33.820 Well, they banned them when they were less popular than themselves, but yes, they were

00:28:36.820 banning other parties.

00:28:37.820 Exactly.

00:28:38.820 So, I mean, how, you know, more totalitarian can you actually get?

00:28:42.820 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.

00:28:56.820 You can't just do this, right?

00:28:57.820 Well, that's how you actually create real extremists is banned.

00:29:00.820 Exactly.

00:29:01.820 Ban the democratic outlet for them to express themselves.

00:29:03.820 Exactly.

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

00:29:15.820 discourse.

00:29:16.820 Right.

00:29:17.820 Ban it.

00:29:18.820 What are they supposed to do?

00:29:19.820 Right.

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.

00:29:35.820 Right. 0.97

00:29:36.820 So, so ridiculous. 0.55

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 0.67

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

00:29:57.820 the Islamization of Europe. 0.63

00:29:59.820 Uh, it's been associations with Pegida.

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. 0.56

00:30:12.820 Uh, is that Islamophobic?

00:30:15.820 I mean, it depends on what your definition of that term is, but.

00:30:19.820 Well, let me actually jump in here.

00:30:21.820 Okay.

00:30:22.820 Uh, okay.

00:30:23.820 What's the term Islamophobia?

00:30:24.820 Afraid of Islam. 0.99

00:30:25.820 It is Islamophobe.

00:30:26.820 So a phobia that is some kind of irrational fear of something.

00:30:30.820 Okay.

00:30:31.820 So you kind of need to see a psychiatrist.

00:30:33.820 That's what that term actually say.

00:30:35.820 Okay.

00:30:36.820 Number one, um, I am not afraid of Islam.

00:30:40.820 I'm not the ones that are catered or catering to Islam. 0.97

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. 0.86

00:30:53.820 So number one, I'm not afraid of Islam.

00:30:55.820 I do.

00:30:56.820 However, uh, have the right to be a post.

00:30:59.820 I mean, we have freedom of religion, right?

00:31:02.820 That also means I have the right to be free of religion, but now I'm in a position.

00:31:07.820 It's literally shoved down my throat.

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 1.00

00:31:21.820 Islam.

00:31:22.820 I don't want to be confronted with any religion in the public space. 1.00

00:31:26.820 So I'm not afraid of Islam. 0.81

00:31:29.820 I opposed to Islam in its nature as a dehumanizing misogynistic totalitarian ideology. 1.00

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

00:31:56.820 that they have in the Muslim countries.

00:31:59.820 And we are discussing that, uh, whether or not to have a separate carriages just for women

00:32:04.820 on trains so they can say, uh, travel safely. 0.89

00:32:07.820 How ridiculous is that?

00:32:09.820 You go to a public swimming pool. 0.98

00:32:11.820 Most women don't even go anymore. 1.00

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.

00:32:20.820 Right?

00:32:21.820 So, uh, I do not want, want to live in a Muslim country. 1.00

00:32:26.820 Does it make, does that make me a bad person?

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.

00:32:40.820 That's what I say.

00:32:42.820 That's what I stand by.

00:32:43.820 And that's what I, what I will defend.

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.

00:32:56.820 Yes.

00:32:57.820 So, so with German origins.

00:32:58.820 Yes.

00:32:59.820 Um, I mean, we've, there's migration, immigration, emigration, remigration.

00:33:03.820 Remigration. 0.99

00:33:04.820 Yeah.

00:33:05.820 Uh, to send them back.

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

00:33:18.820 them back where they came from.

00:33:19.820 Okay.

00:33:20.820 So number one, um, the English terms, uh, would be deport, deportation.

00:33:24.820 Right.

00:33:25.820 So, well, the deportation would be a legally mandated, uh, immigration.

00:33:30.820 Yeah.

00:33:31.820 Right.

00:33:32.820 But the connotation in German, uh, if you were to talk about deportation, deportations, uh,

00:33:37.820 the connotation is always brutal force.

00:33:40.820 So, because that's what the Nazis did. 0.89

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

00:34:00.820 a whole concept.

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.

00:34:22.820 Right.

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

00:34:35.820 any perspective.

00:34:36.820 And that's why they're coming to Europe.

00:34:38.820 And yes, they are.

00:34:39.820 They are in search for a better life.

00:34:41.820 I understand that.

00:34:42.820 And I do not blame these people.

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

00:34:54.820 best interest of the German people.

00:34:57.820 That is their job.

00:34:59.820 They can't just allow anyone in.

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

00:35:07.820 the time we don't even know.

00:35:08.820 They destroy their papers.

00:35:10.820 That leads to the fact that we cannot send them back to their home country in case asylum 1.00

00:35:16.820 is denied.

00:35:17.820 So we're just stuck with them.

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 1.00

00:35:28.820 and rebuild or build a future there.

00:35:30.820 How is that hateful?

00:35:32.820 How is that?

00:35:33.820 How can you condemn that?

00:35:34.820 Right.

00:35:35.820 I would say it's actually a kind thing to do.

00:35:37.820 So that is what my party is advocating for.

00:35:39.820 Well, I would actually see it as different even in the English sense of the terms.

00:35:43.820 Deportation.

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.

00:35:56.820 Remigration. 0.99

00:35:57.820 I understood it.

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

00:36:11.820 know, most many, many were not from Syria.

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

00:36:23.820 turned a blind eye to it.

00:36:24.820 Right.

00:36:25.820 So it's incentivizing them to leave themselves is, and I would say that is different than

00:36:30.820 deportation.

00:36:31.820 Deportation, you know, we caught you.

00:36:33.820 Right.

00:36:34.820 We're putting you in a holding settlement on a plane back.

00:36:36.820 You're here illegally. 0.98

00:36:37.820 This is for people who I think they are in Germany legally, but it's probably best for 1.00

00:36:43.820 both sides to just incentivize them to leave voluntarily.

00:36:46.820 Is that understanding it correctly?

00:36:48.820 It also pertains to the ones that are in the country illegally, which actually is most 1.00

00:36:52.820 of them.

00:36:53.820 Right.

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

00:37:04.820 my country is.

00:37:05.820 And even if we did know what their home country was, the countries they came from, they refuse 1.00

00:37:10.820 to take back their own citizens. 0.51

00:37:12.820 And they probably know why.

00:37:14.820 So that it's just so absurd.

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.

00:37:25.820 So everyone claimed to be Syrian.

00:37:27.820 And even if it was quite clear, that person doesn't even speak that language.

00:37:32.820 Right.

00:37:33.820 And it was found out.

00:37:34.820 Not even then.

00:37:35.820 Then you were oxenophobe, oxenophobe.

00:37:37.820 You're accusing them of not being Syrian.

00:37:40.820 There was Afghans, North Africans, people coming from everywhere just saying they're Syrian.

00:37:44.820 Exactly.

00:37:45.820 So from Africa, they were coming claiming to be Syrian. 0.96

00:37:48.820 Right.

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

00:38:00.820 them, sheltering them.

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

00:38:11.820 them up, they're completely overwhelmed.

00:38:13.820 And they've been saying so for years and still nothing changes and nothing happens.

00:38:19.820 It's exact for talk during a campaign.

00:38:22.820 And it's just, you know, we need to change that.

00:38:26.820 And I mean, just look at the United States.

00:38:28.820 Right.

00:38:29.820 Donald Trump, he said, I'm going to build a wall.

00:38:31.820 I'm going to close the border.

00:38:32.820 And that's exactly what he did. 0.98

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

00:38:44.820 be done.

00:38:45.820 It is impossible.

00:38:46.820 And Donald Trump is just, well, you watch me.

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.

00:38:58.820 The whole thing was shaking.

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.

00:39:21.820 Germany has agreed to surpass that.

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

00:39:37.820 economy and the largest population in Europe.

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

00:39:52.820 a rearming Germany. 0.85

00:39:53.820 Germany.

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?

00:40:12.820 Okay.

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

00:40:29.820 much dismantling everything.

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.

00:40:49.820 Another example, we had a whole line of tanks.

00:40:53.820 We took them out of commission.

00:40:55.820 We decommissioned them because they were fully functional.

00:40:59.820 There was nothing wrong with them.

00:41:01.820 But guess what?

00:41:02.820 They couldn't fit highly pregnant women. 1.00

00:41:03.820 So that's what we had to take them out.

00:41:05.820 And you heard that right.

00:41:06.820 You absolutely heard that right.

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.

00:41:12.820 So you could not fit highly pregnant women. 1.00

00:41:15.820 And that's why an entire line of tanks had been taken out of commission.

00:41:19.820 This is how.

00:41:20.820 Yeah.

00:41:21.820 Thank you.

00:41:22.820 Thank you.

00:41:23.820 I would laugh, too, but I don't think it's that funny, actually, because it's actually.

00:41:27.820 Well, nevermind.

00:41:28.820 The Prussian in me aches at the sound of.

00:41:31.820 Yeah.

00:41:32.820 This is actually what we're talking about.

00:41:34.820 Right.

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.

00:41:58.820 And I was laughing my butt off.

00:42:00.820 And I was like, well, how about a coalition of the capable?

00:42:03.820 Wouldn't that make.

00:42:04.820 What army are you proposing to do anything?

00:42:06.820 Exactly.

00:42:07.820 Exactly. 0.97

00:42:08.820 That's I mean, it's so ridiculous. 0.97

00:42:10.820 Right.

00:42:11.820 So Ursula von der Leyen, who happened to have been our secretary of defense, and she really dismantled our military. 1.00

00:42:20.820 So we went off the conscription. 0.51

00:42:22.820 So, you know, so it's just ridiculous. 0.97

00:42:25.820 It's just ridiculous. 0.92

00:42:26.820 And I mean, if Canada now thinks that Europe is going to have their back. 0.93

00:42:32.820 Oh, you've got another thing coming.

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.

00:42:41.820 Is that the word you're using?

00:42:43.820 Okay.

00:42:44.820 We used to have that.

00:42:45.820 We got rid of it.

00:42:46.820 About 15 years ago or so.

00:42:50.820 Yeah.

00:42:51.820 Yeah.

00:42:52.820 Right about there.

00:42:53.820 I considered that a grave mistake at the time.

00:42:56.820 And I will explain why.

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?

00:43:34.820 Absolutely.

00:43:35.820 Absolutely.

00:43:36.820 I absolutely do.

00:43:37.820 Because, uh, like I said, we are put in the spot right now.

00:43:40.820 We are completely defenseless.

00:43:42.820 Uh, we import millions and millions and millions of young men in fighting age.

00:43:48.820 Mm-hmm.

00:43:49.820 And not only do we import them, we strategically place them everywhere in our country.

00:43:55.820 Let me give you an example.

00:43:58.820 We had this happening a few years back.

00:44:00.820 Two of them just went berserk and decided to just shoot around in Munich.

00:44:05.820 Right?

00:44:06.820 Right?

00:44:07.820 It led to the fact the police.

00:44:08.820 That was right before the Munich defense conference.

00:44:10.820 Right?

00:44:11.820 It was like the day before.

00:44:12.820 No, no, no.

00:44:13.820 Was this another shooting?

00:44:14.820 Yeah.

00:44:15.820 No.

00:44:16.820 Couple of years back.

00:44:17.820 Okay.

00:44:18.820 It's hard to keep them straight now.

00:44:19.820 Pretty much held the entire, two of them were capable of shutting down the entire city.

00:44:22.820 People were asked to stay at home.

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.

00:44:34.820 Right?

00:44:35.820 The train services stopped everything.

00:44:38.820 The entire, that the city was essentially completely shut down.

00:44:42.820 Now, the following scenario.

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. 1.00

00:44:56.820 You're talking about the New Year's Eve rape pets. 0.99

00:44:58.820 Right.

00:44:59.820 So they can organize pretty quickly and they come together by the thousands.

00:45:03.820 Okay.

00:45:04.820 Follow the following scenario.

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.

00:45:18.820 So what will happen?

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.

00:45:31.820 There isn't going to be any police there.

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.

00:45:43.820 And that's what we're faced with.

00:45:44.820 We're faced with.

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?

00:46:35.820 No, you cannot ask citizens.

00:46:37.820 I'm not talking about, I'm talking about voluntarily, not, not forcefully.

00:46:40.820 Well, I mean.

00:46:41.820 Voluntarily ask them to give up their citizenship in exchange for some kind of, uh. 0.69

00:46:44.820 No, no, no, no, no.

00:46:46.820 I, you do not, you should not be able to ask anyone to surrender their citizenship.

00:46:51.820 Point one.

00:46:52.820 Um, so no, we cannot kick anyone out of the country who is a German citizen.

00:46:57.820 Well, I didn't say kick out.

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? 0.69

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. 0.73

00:47:37.820 Um, the exception for that would be if you required dual citizenship, both, uh, by birth naturally. 0.55

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. 0.83

00:48:18.820 So if you, you want to keep your German citizen, that's fine. 0.69

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.

00:48:39.820 You should know the language of course.

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?

00:48:51.820 Yeah, exactly.

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. 0.92

00:49:06.820 Um, I'll wrap up with this.

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. 0.96

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.

00:50:41.820 That's all we really can do.

00:50:42.820 Yeah.

00:50:43.820 But do you, do you think, but do you think the strikes were justified or an unnecessary?

00:50:46.820 I actually think I, yeah, I, I do.

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. 0.97

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.

00:51:41.820 No.

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,

00:51:50.820 Yeah, whatever.

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.

00:52:22.820 Yeah.

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.

00:52:33.820 Right.

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.

00:53:05.820 So, um, yeah, make a long story short.

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.

00:53:16.820 I don't think he lied.

00:53:19.820 I think he probably genuinely believed what he was being told.

00:53:22.820 I think there were some other, George W. Bush.

00:53:24.820 Yeah.

00:53:25.820 Yeah.

00:53:26.820 George W. Bush in Iraq.

00:53:27.820 I think some other people around him were lying.

00:53:29.820 His role.

00:53:30.820 He took a nine 11.

00:53:31.820 Now it's like, gee, yeah.

00:53:34.820 Okay.

00:53:35.820 Without getting too far into it.

00:53:37.820 Um, you know, I, I'm generally would be pretty sympathetic to the Israeli American strikes 0.99

00:53:43.820 on Iran here.

00:53:44.820 If they were on the cusp of obtaining a nuclear weapon, I I'm in agreement that they must never

00:53:49.820 be allowed to have to have the bomb.

00:53:51.820 It'll send the whole, it will lead to a much bigger, much worse war. 0.66

00:53:55.820 It's going to be stopped.

00:53:56.820 It's going to be stopped.

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.

00:54:16.820 They got to give me the evidence.

00:54:17.820 Yeah.

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?

00:54:39.820 No, that's, that's not what I'm doing.

00:54:41.820 So my question to you is like, is it incumbent upon the Israeli and American governments to

00:54:45.820 give us hard evidence that would justify?

00:54:48.820 They like, yes, they should.

00:54:50.820 Cause we haven't, we haven't seen that yet.

00:54:52.820 That is true.

00:54:53.820 So it might, you know, they could not have shown us beforehand.

00:54:56.820 I get that, but yeah, it's done now.

00:54:58.820 And you say you were successful in doing so.

00:55:01.820 Yeah.

00:55:02.820 So yeah.

00:55:03.820 Yeah.

00:55:04.820 Yeah.

00:55:05.820 Yeah.

00:55:06.820 Right.

00:55:07.820 Right.

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,

00:55:19.820 uh, protests.

00:55:20.820 Right.

00:55:21.820 And it was like, what the hell is wrong with these people? 0.96

00:55:24.820 I mean, just look at Israel. 0.66

00:55:25.820 Uh, they are really in a tough spot.

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.

00:55:37.820 Right.

00:55:38.820 God bless you.

00:55:39.820 Gesundheit.

00:55:40.820 Bless you.

00:55:41.820 Gesundheit.

00:55:42.820 Gesundheit.

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.

00:55:52.820 Right.

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.

00:56:06.820 Right.

00:56:07.820 That is beyond me.

00:56:08.820 And, uh, you will never, uh, get me to, I don't know, uh, condemn that Israel is defending 0.94

00:56:17.820 its citizens and themselves.

00:56:19.820 Mm-hmm.

00:56:20.820 All right.

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

00:56:29.820 you the best of luck as you, uh, continue your tour across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:56:33.820 Thank you.

00:56:34.820 And thanks for having me.

00:56:35.820 It was, as always a pleasure.

00:56:36.820 All right.

00:56:37.820 Well, uh, that's, uh, Christine Anderson. 0.98

00:56:39.820 She is the German member of the European parliament, sitting with the AFD, Alternative

00:56:44.820 for Deutschland, uh, coming through here.

00:56:47.820 You can, uh, where can the people find out more about you?

00:56:50.820 Well, just Google me.

00:56:51.820 You'll find me all over the place.

00:56:52.820 Twitter is probably my main channel.

00:56:54.820 Right on.

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