Western Standard - German politician's Alberta freedom tour

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

00:00:28.040 And today I'm joined by a German member of the European Parliament, Christine Andersen.

00:00:36.660 She sits with the AfD Alternative für Deutschland party.

00:00:42.120 She's served, I think, a couple of terms now.

00:00:45.580 And she's no newcomer to Canada.

00:00:48.300 She is on a tour from parts of the West right now.

00:00:53.480 but she's been here before and we're fortunate to have her in studio with us today thank you

00:00:59.080 for joining us well thanks for having me my pleasure uh well first uh you're here just

00:01:03.960 before calgary stampede starts um are you going to be here during it well had i known i might have

00:01:11.480 you know made different driven travel plans so um i will uh fly back on july 4th so i think like

00:01:19.060 the very first evening i will be able to like catch some of it so the way i describe uh stampede

00:01:25.060 to my german friends is redneck oktoberfest yeah look you yeah you gotta be i know but i will make

00:01:29.900 it a point to be back and then i'll make sure i will actually be here during the stampede yeah

00:01:34.840 yeah it's it's a crime to come right before or right after you gotta be here for it um all right

00:01:40.300 well you're uh you're touring or this time this time's just in the west saskatchewan and alberta

00:01:44.920 right now uh but you've uh toured before the last time you're here it ignited a national scandal

00:01:50.820 uh i mean i mean uh all press is good press i brought a lot of attention to to your cause and

00:01:58.240 what you're doing here exactly um you i think caught the attention of most canadians when

00:02:03.340 former prime minister uh justin trudeau came before the european parliament

00:02:08.100 and uh you made him feel a little less than welcome yes and that was exactly my point

00:02:14.520 that I was trying to make.

00:02:16.840 So it was like, once I heard, you know,

00:02:18.260 Justin Trudeau was going to address us in the House,

00:02:22.360 I was like, you know, how can someone like him,

00:02:25.420 and as I said in my speech, you know,

00:02:26.860 who admires the basic Chinese dictatorship,

00:02:29.780 who turned totally a dictator on his own people,

00:02:33.880 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

00:02:40.520 that he was not welcomed by everyone.

00:02:44.520 But then you came and toured, did a tour of Canada after that, and there was, you know, some controversy in the media.

00:02:58.540 You know, anytime someone is a more nationalistic, right-leaning politician from Germany, 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

00:03:15.240 the liberal government at the time got a tizzy on it

00:03:17.380 and it kind of

00:03:18.440 brought some pressure to bear on Pierre Poglia

00:03:21.080 the conservative leader

00:03:22.060 who

00:03:23.600 condemned his MPs who posed in a picture for you

00:03:27.420 I think it was like Ian Allison

00:03:29.220 a few

00:03:32.380 conservative MPs

00:03:34.580 Leslie Lewis

00:03:35.400 now funny enough the apology was issued on

00:03:39.120 their behalf they never actually said anything

00:03:41.320 So I think this was written by some political staff or farcatch at somewhere, put out in their name.

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

00:03:50.520 Whether it was him or one of the staffers, it really doesn't matter because it was put out in his name.

00:03:56.160 And that made sure that, I mean, who the heck was Christine Anderson, right?

00:04:00.720 So he made it actually made me a household name.

00:04:03.600 And from that point on, I mean, pretty much everyone in Canada knew who Christine Anderson was.

00:04:08.580 I wonder if you're done better here than in Germany.

00:04:09.960 And they might have actually looked into, well, if everyone is so outraged about her, let's find about, you know, let's find out about what she actually has to say. And I'm pretty sure that most people that did look me up or did watch some of my videos and messages and everything, they were probably flustered, desperately trying to find the part where she was, where I was violent, racist, right? Because there isn't any.

00:04:37.000 So, no, thanks, Pierre. You actually made it happen. And just to think that they mentioned me like three or four times in the aftermath and your national parliament. I mean, gosh, I made it all the way to the top, I guess. Thanks a lot for that.

00:04:51.640 Well, Pierre Polyev at this time said, frankly, it would be better if Christine Anderson never visited Canada in the first place.

00:04:57.820 She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here. 1.00

00:05:01.060 It's funny because, you know, the views you and AFD share around getting control of migration in Germany and Europe.

00:05:10.920 Those may have been considered non-mainstream views until pretty recently, but now even Keir Starmer.

00:05:16.680 he sounds like an AFD politician

00:05:19.500 all of a sudden when he talks about the need to get

00:05:21.420 control of the border. He'll actually do it or not

00:05:23.840 That's the point

00:05:24.820 His rhetoric sounds

00:05:27.540 positively AFD

00:05:28.760 Exactly, but that's just it, it's rhetoric

00:05:31.240 So, and we've just notably

00:05:33.460 seen that in Germany, we had elections in February

00:05:35.680 of this year

00:05:36.700 and, you know, the Christian Democrats

00:05:39.200 they used to be the former

00:05:41.340 conservative party, and ever since I

00:05:43.440 became eligible to vote, I always

00:05:45.480 voted for the christian democrats by conservative views but they completely abandoned all of that

00:05:50.840 and now here friedrich matz who is now uh the chancellor of germany um guess what he ran on

00:05:56.760 right he was running on closing the border and uh he said and i quote i will close the border on day

00:06:05.480 one well guess what the precincts closed right and not 24 hours later he was like standing in front

00:06:12.040 the press and say no one ever said anything about closing any borders the results were barely in

00:06:16.540 you know completely abandoned uh on his promise right then and there so they're just um it's just

00:06:24.300 talk with them so they do know what would resonate with people and they will say whatever resonates

00:06:31.140 with people but they are not never prepared to actually walk their talk and that is just i mean

00:06:38.460 it's a betrayal of the voters and uh the people are beginning to realize that especially in

00:06:43.440 germany i mean we're rising in the polls we came here solid second place now yeah exactly we hit

00:06:48.240 20 in the polls if there's a lecture today afd would probably get the most seats exactly so we

00:06:54.360 hit a 20 right which was kind of like a psychological threshold and uh because all the

00:07:00.560 talks about you know banning us and all of that it's going to get increasingly more difficult to

00:07:05.220 do so um but here we are and they're still trying to do that so uh it was interesting last time

00:07:13.220 you're here what's the difference you're uh you're getting in any uh in your reception this

00:07:17.780 time this is your second canadian tour no i'm here the fourth time actually fourth yes oh my

00:07:22.240 believer or not yeah okay uh in just two years so uh are you planning on running for office in

00:07:27.800 alberta or uh well since i'm german that that would be a hard thing to do actually but uh no i i've

00:07:34.680 really you know grown fond of of uh canada i love it here especially in alberta um like i said we

00:07:42.640 went to this uh um this uh country bar the other night i got a blast yeah that was really great

00:07:49.620 i mean and what specifically um struck me as i mean all the men were dancing you know men in

00:07:56.520 germany they wouldn't be caught dead on on the dance floor oh but they were like you know like

00:08:03.700 kind of like communities that get together to specifically do that but just going out to a bar

00:08:08.140 and see you know men dancing i was like oh that's great right so yeah even though i had no idea how

00:08:14.080 to square dance i guess i kind of tried and did it anyway i had a blast it was really great well

00:08:20.000 you're getting some practice for stampede um okay so tomorrow you're speaking uh in the very small

00:08:26.980 community of mirror uh but mirror is known in alberta mostly because of the whistle stop cafe

00:08:33.240 which really became a symbol

00:08:35.600 of resistance against

00:08:37.100 the kind of extreme

00:08:39.660 COVID measures of former

00:08:41.440 Premier Jason Kenney

00:08:42.720 he refused to shut down

00:08:45.480 the cops would raid his

00:08:47.020 very modest little

00:08:49.460 establishment and he just refused to give in

00:08:51.680 and so

00:08:53.420 you know since the Whistle Stop Cafe

00:08:55.640 it's kind of known because of that

00:08:57.160 otherwise mirror is barely on them

00:08:58.580 no offence to people in mirror but like it's not really

00:09:01.340 no one would even know it existed

00:09:02.460 It was put on the map during COVID.

00:09:05.420 But there's an event taking place tomorrow around the Alberta independence movement, which has really become a mainstream movement here.

00:09:17.300 There's very, and almost certainly we're having a referendum in Alberta within the next year to year and a half on independence.

00:09:23.940 Right.

00:09:24.240 It's a very real thing.

00:09:25.520 um but i i thought you know uh people who were opposed to covid lockdowns and mandates and people

00:09:35.320 who support independence there's a huge overlap they're not the same thing but there's a big

00:09:38.580 overlap of those groups so in one sense i was not it's not surprised to see your name headlining

00:09:43.040 the list but in another i thought oh i mean it's kind of hey it's not it's not your set of issues

00:09:49.000 So, you know, but I'm coming back to him, the former Premier Jason Kenney, who was ousted by kind of a coalition of sovereignist movement and the anti-lockdown mandate movement.

00:10:02.000 He tweeted, sad but regrettable that Alberta separatists have to fly in a far right German politician to support their destructive cause.

00:10:09.820 I agree with what Pierre Paulyev said back then.

00:10:14.160 A few things come to mind.

00:10:15.560 I mean, it's pretty cheap shot,

00:10:17.560 which is a far right German politician.

00:10:19.140 You're really not very subtly dog whistling that,

00:10:21.920 you know, this is, you know, the worst kind of thing.

00:10:26.360 But I mean, he's still smarting over the,

00:10:29.640 he was the only leader in Canada to be ousted during COVID.

00:10:33.740 And by, and ousted by his own party,

00:10:36.260 which probably hurts a bit more than being ousted by another.

00:10:40.640 Any, any thoughts to, you know, what he has to say?

00:10:44.560 and you know why is it that you're speaking at an alberta independence well so first of all there

00:10:49.860 was you know a couple of things to unpack here so first of all the label you know far right

00:10:54.580 i'm not far right it's just i've been right so far you know and that really ticks them off and

00:11:00.800 that's why they keep applying all of these labels and you know calling me just about any name in the

00:11:05.240 book but hey that's their problem it's not mine uh no one gets to define me i know exactly what

00:11:11.280 i stand for i know exactly who and what i am and i know exactly what i'm not so i usually don't you

00:11:17.680 know pay any attention to i mean like i didn't even know who this guy was before he put out this tweet

00:11:22.900 and oh he's been angry at you for a while oh see well there you go you know because you've been

00:11:27.340 around here speaking against mandates and whatnot which he was so fond of right so anyway i i hadn't

00:11:32.100 even you know seen the tweet i was alerted to and i was like yeah well whatever you know who is this

00:11:36.820 clown and you know whatever he doesn't know anything about me so uh but the thing is this

00:11:41.680 um to uh just uh insinuate or you know accuse me of coming out here to support the separatist 0.95

00:11:48.640 movement uh the point is this i didn't even know there was separatist movement going on in alberta

00:11:53.700 but here yes of course i came out to specifically support that cause and which is absolutely not the

00:12:00.700 case like i said i didn't even well the overlaps of like they're largely the same people exactly

00:12:05.100 However, having said that, that is a discussion the Albertans need to have, and it's up to the Albertans to make up their mind about that.

00:12:15.020 And, you know, I cannot fly in from Germany to, you know, say, yeah, you should do it or no, you shouldn't, because I don't know enough about the issue to actually intelligently speak about that.

00:12:26.600 I could only speak about that in broad general terms, so I might connect it or compare it to the Brexit that happened when Great Britain left the EU, and they did so because they wanted to just retain their decision-making competencies.

00:12:46.760 So that's what we're faced with in the EU. All of the member states, they are relinquishing their governing powers to Brussels, to Ursula von der Leyen, you know, of all people. It's her. And we all know she doesn't have the best interest of the people in mind. She is self-serving, serving, you know, a group of people. I don't really know who they are. So for the lack of a better term, I always call them the globalitarian misanthropists.

00:13:13.220 So she is serving that. So just from what I understood is Alberta is pretty much, economically speaking, self-sufficient. Right. So and they're pretty much funding all of the nonsense that is, you know, being decided in Ottawa.

00:13:32.140 so um it is any people's right to choose independence but like i said it's a discussion

00:13:39.880 for them to have they have to decide so the albertans really need to get into these issues

00:13:44.280 and and really make uh uh informed decision about that but don't let anyone shame you if you do want

00:13:52.440 to separate and uh don't do that make take the decision that is that is yours by right and uh

00:14:00.680 Whatever you decide, I guess the rest of the world is just going to have to accept that.

00:14:05.460 That's how democracy works, by the way.

00:14:07.320 Yeah, it is funny.

00:14:10.520 I mean, I don't think there's much in the way of an organized Bavarian independence movement.

00:14:15.640 But, you know, there has been at different points historically.

00:14:19.020 And for a long time, I've compared, you know, some people try to compare Alberta's independence movement to Quebec or to Scotland or Catalonia.

00:14:25.560 I've actually always compared it more to the Bavarian one, in that, you know, Scotland or Quebec see themselves as different from the larger, bigger country, as a different nation.

00:14:39.340 Whereas, you know, the Bavarian, I don't know, independence, probably more particularist movement is more of an appropriate term now.

00:14:47.160 But it always saw itself as, it didn't see itself as not German, it saw itself as maybe more German, in some ways.

00:14:53.820 you know and just or a different version yeah and and in many ways i think that's you know the

00:14:59.580 alberta experience we don't see ourselves as not canadian we see ourselves as well maybe what

00:15:04.360 canada used to be and canada's gone on to be something different that we we no longer want

00:15:08.900 to be a part of yeah see that's exactly it it all comes down to identity right and what they're

00:15:15.560 doing and when i say they i mean the globalitarian misanthropists once again and just to clarify i

00:15:21.620 I mean, you know, whether it's Trudeau or Carney now or it's our chancellor or Ursula von der Leyen, they're not the ones calling the shots, right?

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

00:15:32.560 They're just the puppeteers of the globalitarian misanthropists.

00:15:36.500 And what they set out to do is to actually steal our identity, whether it's our cultural identity, our national identity.

00:15:45.720 They won't even shy away from stealing our sexual identity.

00:15:48.900 that's what they're doing right now with this whole transgender madness so that what what can 1.00

00:15:54.540 uh what makes us who we are down to the very core of our individuality they're even trying to rob

00:16:03.100 us of this so um if the people and usually you know the peoples around the world they are set

00:16:10.240 in their traditions and they're proud of their traditions their history their language their

00:16:14.980 culture and all of this. And if you're trying to take that away, you will get backlash from

00:16:20.320 the people because they do not want to surrender their identity to just, you know, some, I don't

00:16:27.760 know, one world government or whatever they might have in mind for us. They don't want that. And

00:16:33.720 that's why they're receiving that backlash. And the only way to counter that from the perspective

00:16:39.160 of the globalitarian misanthropists is to actually shame these people, label them, you know, right 0.99

00:16:45.660 wing conspiracy theorists. I mean, any name in the book, you just name it. So because they actually

00:16:52.420 do not have any arguments. Okay, you've used that term three times now. Yes. Say it again.

00:16:58.720 Globalitarian misanthropists. See, most people call them global elites. Okay. But I do not

00:17:03.440 consider them elites they're anything but so okay it's not only a globalist movement it's actually

00:17:12.780 a global totalitarian movement so globalitarian oh global okay global globalitarian and then

00:17:19.820 instead of elites misanthropists because that's what they are okay i hadn't heard that term before

00:17:25.140 so i thought i learned a new term so you pack it here germans are always uh just mashing words up

00:17:30.600 To make new ones.

00:17:31.760 So do you.

00:17:33.280 The English-speaking word does that, too.

00:17:35.500 Yeah, yeah.

00:17:36.840 No, we just, right, steal the word.

00:17:39.140 We steal the words.

00:17:40.760 Well, but that goes both ways.

00:17:42.360 Yes, that's true.

00:17:45.240 Okay, so you've touched on this a bit already,

00:17:46.840 but I want to pack it a bit more.

00:17:47.840 When we spoke last,

00:17:50.160 it was right after

00:17:51.680 the Bundestag elections in Germany.

00:17:56.380 AFD had just scored a historic

00:17:58.400 second place vote.

00:18:01.960 Friedrich Merz's

00:18:02.800 CDU won a plurality

00:18:05.000 but was the lowest plurality

00:18:06.800 of any first place party in the

00:18:08.820 history of the Federal Republic.

00:18:11.360 And he was entering

00:18:12.740 into coalition talks.

00:18:15.760 It's a funny thing

00:18:16.900 to North American ears that

00:18:18.640 he instantly says,

00:18:20.580 I'm now going to talk to the main leftist

00:18:22.720 party to form a coalition.

00:18:24.580 Not to the party.

00:18:25.840 He did it while campaigning.

00:18:28.400 yes he did a wild campaign well they made and by doing so he actually cut himself off from options

00:18:35.360 so that was sort of like he might as well have told the left and the green look you can demand

00:18:40.240 whatever you want from me because you are my only option i have left well because of the unofficial

00:18:45.920 rule the uh uh braunmeyer uh the firewall uh yeah that you're just not allowed to have any

00:18:53.360 dealings with the AFD because it's the far right, even though if these policies are essentially,

00:18:59.520 you know, if the Christian Democrats applicants, it's essentially Helmut Kohl. Yes, you know,

00:19:05.360 I mean, you would not see any discernible difference, actually, even a bit more liberal

00:19:09.840 than Helmut Kohl, in some ways. Yeah, probably that. So it was in coalition talks, they have now

00:19:18.640 finally got over the line for it.

00:19:23.360 How has it panned out? And how do you think Germans broadly have received the new, I mean, they use the term grand coalition, but that was only applicable when it was the two biggest parties. It's now the first biggest party and the third biggest party.

00:19:37.720 Right. Well, I mean, you know, let's just start there. So elections we had in the past, right? It was either the Social Democrats or the Christian Democrats. These were the two major parties. And they, you know, came in anywhere from 40 to 48, 49 percent. Christian Democrats sometimes even hit the 50 percent. Right. So this is what we're talking about.

00:19:58.940 And now the Christian Democrat, they're actually celebrating it as a grand victory when they made 27%, right?

00:20:08.980 This is embarrassing.

00:20:10.340 First place party with 27%.

00:20:11.560 That is crazy.

00:20:12.660 It's embarrassing, right?

00:20:13.660 But what's been happening is actually ever since we got founded in 2013, they've been trying to annihilate us, right?

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

00:20:26.780 So first we were, uh, anti-European, you know, we hate Europe, we want to destroy Europe.

00:20:32.520 We wanted to, uh, we hate the, our currency, the Euro and we do so, but for very good reasons.

00:20:38.360 Right.

00:20:39.040 So it was these kinds of labels and, um, the next thing, Angela Merkel ripped open the

00:20:44.300 borders, uh, you know, open wide in 2015.

00:20:48.400 So we started, uh, you know, to get in more of that issue.

00:20:52.280 Um, so with them, we were, you know, Islamophob Xenophobe.

00:20:55.660 i mean the whole shebang and nationalists of course you know and then of course well that's

00:21:00.620 a dirty word in germany but in most of the world it's actually quite fine to say yeah i'm a national

00:21:04.940 yes absolutely so and then it moved on to you know us actually be nazis right so a bit whatever they

00:21:12.140 tried to do it didn't work it only worked for a certain amount of time right but uh what happened

00:21:18.780 was um people are beginning to realize that everything we have been saying since 2013

00:21:26.780 is now exactly what they're seeing in their everyday life so they've come to realize we

00:21:34.240 weren't fear-mongering we weren't making stuff up it is happening and they see the repercussions

00:21:40.280 of all of these policies that we as the only party in germany criticized and condemned and

00:21:47.000 they're now seeing it so um and at this point it's like yeah labeling us stigmatizing us it is

00:21:54.680 not working anymore because people have come to realize they were actually right and so yeah here

00:22:01.780 we are another talk of banning us right but like i said uh it's just talk because when you really

00:22:08.760 look down to it and you know there are various reports they have on us you know which allegedly

00:22:13.780 to prove that we are actually anti-constitutional.

00:22:18.560 It is so embarrassing.

00:22:20.180 I mean, any fifth grader would write a better report on that.

00:22:25.220 Well, I want to talk about that.

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

00:22:28.860 Like, as authoritarian as much of the West has become,

00:22:34.880 we don't ban political parties.

00:22:37.320 I mean, we effectively shun them and ban them to the fringes,

00:22:41.220 but they can be legally banned.

00:22:43.780 Um, uh, the German pronunciation of it is far beyond my capacity, but the office for

00:22:49.860 the defense of, uh, the constitution in, uh, or the basic law in Germany, uh, which

00:22:55.800 is kind of an intelligence agency put out, uh, this report saying that the AFD was an

00:23:02.500 anti-constitutional authoritarian party.

00:23:05.940 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.

00:23:10.640 And then parts of that report was leaked.

00:23:12.460 yeah then parts of the report got leaked and it was the whole report got leaked okay oh first parts

00:23:17.100 and then the whole thing and it was shockingly embarrassing it's just so i know so then the

00:23:24.380 whole thing fell apart and i think it's essentially the report's been withdrawn but i think that

00:23:28.780 report was kind of foundational to the movement right among uh the establishment parties and

00:23:34.220 harder leftist parties in germany to try and ban the afd because they've been trying to ban the

00:23:38.300 the AFD ever since it first got it right yeah I was in Germany uh 2013 for the AFD's first election

00:23:45.040 when it was called uh far right because it opposed German taxpayers bailing out Greek pensioners I'm

00:23:50.880 like wow I mean we get called far right for crazy stuff in Canada but that yeah that was news to me

00:23:56.660 but yeah uh it does appear that the attempts to ban the AFD have yeah stalled pretty bad since

00:24:03.120 that disastrous report you just mentioned something interesting uh the bailout of Greece

00:24:08.140 right so our currency was in big trouble so and of course the germans that we were literally 1.00

00:24:13.700 shamed into we have to help the greek people they're so poor and you know whatever so and uh

00:24:20.980 truth be told all that these billions and billions of euros that we actually sent to greece

00:24:27.240 had any any of the that money actually helped the greek people i would have carried it down myself 1.00

00:24:37.020 personally to deliver it. But the point of the matter is this, none of that money ever reached

00:24:42.860 the Greek people. What they did with that money, the Greek government took it and paid their debt

00:24:49.900 with German and European banks. So it was just a reshoveling of the debt. The Greeks could no

00:24:56.220 longer shoulder that. So it was actually taxpayers' money from Germany going to Greece to bail out the

00:25:03.480 state to the german because the banks insisted on having their money right so but you were right

00:25:09.000 that's when it actually started and uh going and i was considered a far right position absolutely

00:25:14.600 absolutely i mean just about anything that is common sense nowadays is considered you know

00:25:19.320 far right and anti-constitutional let's go figure so anyway yeah but going back to that report it

00:25:24.840 was so utterly embarrassing so for example they um they would bank on like you know guilt by

00:25:31.240 association but the way they established that association was like a member of my party and

00:25:36.840 exposed what is there the like a prominent member of my party um he visited university at the same

00:25:45.760 time that a known neo-nazi visited that university and even though they were in totally different

00:25:53.500 curriculums but they're pretty sure their pathways and this is how they built their case right yeah

00:26:00.380 Another one, he was condemned as Islamophobe and, you know, made dehumanizing statements.

00:26:09.320 What he did, he quoted what Erdogan said, right?

00:26:14.120 He simply quoted that and pretty much exposed what Islam is all about. 0.61

00:26:18.760 It's not about peace and, you know, none of that is actually about conquer, to conquer, you know, the Western world.

00:26:24.580 So he quoted Erdogan, but it was treated as though it was his own thoughts.

00:26:30.480 And, you know, he came up with that, you know, quote, whatever. 0.95

00:26:33.160 So it's just ridiculous. 1.00

00:26:34.740 And they will fall flat on their butt. 0.99

00:26:38.620 So they just keep the talk about banning us, you know, going in the hopes that, you know, a lot of people, it will like shield them or prevent them from voting for us. 0.93

00:26:48.760 But I don't think we'll ever go actually ahead and charge us or apply to the court to ban us.

00:26:57.480 Because if that fails, man, then we would actually have a stamp on top of it.

00:27:02.940 Yep, not far right.

00:27:04.460 Well, I mean, in most polls now, AFD is slightly ahead of the CDU in the polls.

00:27:11.900 It's now the most popular party to ban.

00:27:14.680 I mean, it's one thing to, it might be easier to get away with banning some fringe guys.

00:27:19.680 I think in Saxon there was some guy who coined himself a king or something.

00:27:24.680 Okay, I mean, yeah.

00:27:27.680 And they were actually plotting and trying to kidnap Lauterbach, who was the Minister of Health.

00:27:34.680 Yeah, I mean, there's some weird stuff there.

00:27:36.680 I mean, they flew him via helicopters to Karlsruhe to be charged as traitors and anti-constitutional.

00:27:43.680 we're talking about old people you know and at that point I said well maybe they should be on 1.00

00:27:49.620 the lookout if you know on Amazon the sales of walkers you know go up there might be actually

00:27:55.080 general immobilization yep so ridiculous but it's one thing to ban a tiny little group I don't think

00:28:00.820 it's generally good even then but I mean it's easier to get away with but to ban the single 1.00

00:28:05.540 most popular party in a country that's an invitation to civil war I mean that you're

00:28:09.220 you're saying you cannot express yourself democratic democratically yes that legitimizes

00:28:14.260 other means i mean it would be it's inconceivable that you uh i mean it'd be like the liberal party

00:28:19.860 of canada banning the conservatives last year when the conservatives were first place in the

00:28:23.540 polls i mean it would yeah it would a state would ironically enough that's exactly what the nazis

00:28:30.980 did they banned the social democrats back then well they banned them when they were less popular

00:28:35.300 than themselves but yes they were banning other parties exactly so i mean how you know more

00:28:40.440 totalitarian can you actually get and on top of that yeah we are talking about 25 percent of the

00:28:46.320 of the german voters now the german population um you just deny them uh their yeah their right to be

00:28:54.120 represented in parliament you can't just do this right well that's how you actually create real

00:28:59.720 extremists is banned exactly ban the democratic outlet for them to express themselves so on the

00:29:05.280 contrary you know we're actually uh if we're giving these people a voice and they are heard

00:29:11.120 and they are represented you know then they actually remain in the democratic discourse

00:29:16.620 right but if you ban it what are they supposed to do right so yeah that is actually a quite a

00:29:23.660 concern but they're so adamant about um because we're becoming more popular they lose in popularity

00:29:30.680 and the only way they seem to be able to rectify that is by simply banning us right so so ridiculous

00:29:37.640 i want to talk about one area where critics of the afd um uh i don't know if they have a point

00:29:45.680 but i mean where they may have something to grab onto the afd has uh since markle threw open the

00:29:52.360 borders of germany and europe been very critical of uh the what it says is the islamization of

00:29:58.920 Europe. It's been associations

00:30:00.800 with Pegida.

00:30:03.000 I don't think I'm reaching to say

00:30:04.920 that the AFD

00:30:06.080 is less than welcoming

00:30:09.020 of further

00:30:10.800 Islamification

00:30:12.640 of Germany.

00:30:14.980 Is that Islamophobic?

00:30:16.980 It depends on what your definition of that

00:30:18.660 term is.

00:30:20.280 Let me actually jump in here.

00:30:23.040 What's the term Islamophobia?

00:30:24.920 It is Islamophobe.

00:30:26.620 A phobia that is some kind of

00:30:28.920 irrational fear of something okay so you kind of need to see a psychiatrist that's what that term

00:30:34.640 actually say okay number one um i am not afraid of islam i'm not the ones that are catered or

00:30:44.300 catering to islam they're the ones that are afraid of islam because they know perfectly well 1.00

00:30:47.900 what the uh the islam is doing is capable of doing if you disagree with them so number one 0.93

00:30:54.500 i'm not afraid of islam i do however uh have the right to be a post i mean we have freedom of

00:31:01.700 religion right that also means i have the right to be free of religion but now i'm in a position 0.75

00:31:07.860 it's literally shoved down my throat it is taking the public sphere in germany to an extent there's

00:31:15.780 public prayers i mean you're constantly confronted with islam and i don't want to be confronted with 1.00

00:31:22.100 Islam, I don't want to be confronted with any religion in the public space. So I'm not afraid 1.00

00:31:28.440 of Islam. I oppose to Islam in its nature as a dehumanizing, misogynistic, totalitarian ideology. 1.00

00:31:37.980 And I'm well within my right to be opposed against such an ideology. So that's where we need to start

00:31:45.180 when we have the conversation about Islamophobia. I do not want my country to turn into a country 0.77

00:31:51.640 where we have the very same lift sexual apartheid

00:31:56.640 that they have in the Muslim countries. 0.52

00:31:59.640 And we are discussing that,

00:32:01.520 whether or not to have separate carriages

00:32:03.820 just for women on trains so they can travel safely. 1.00

00:32:08.540 How ridiculous is that? 0.57

00:32:09.920 You go to a public swimming pool. 0.98

00:32:12.400 Most women don't even go anymore. 1.00

00:32:13.780 The families don't go anymore

00:32:15.020 because they're being sexually harassed by these men

00:32:18.760 that we import by the millions and millions and millions. 0.93

00:32:21.640 right so i do not want want to live in a muslim country does it make does that make me a bad 1.00

00:32:29.240 person no i don't think it does because it means i believe in in a liberal our liberal tolerant

00:32:36.920 and free society where men and women have equal rights that's what i stand by and that's what i

00:32:44.120 what i will defend and if they you know bash me for it fine let them but that's my stand so uh

00:32:52.860 the term remigration i think has is a is an afd uh term yes so so with german origins yes um i

00:33:00.720 mean we've there's migration immigration emigration remigration yeah uh to send them 0.95

00:33:08.000 back uh maybe you want to talk a bit more about that but you know the idea that

00:33:13.500 um you know we've taken all we can and maybe some more and it's time to get them back where

00:33:20.100 they came from so number one um the english term uh would be deportation right so well the

00:33:27.620 deportation would be a legally mandated uh immigration right but the connotation in german

00:33:32.940 uh if you were to talk about deportationen deportations uh the connotation is always

00:33:39.380 brutal force so because that's what the nazis did the nazis deported the jews off to camps you know

00:33:47.140 whatever ghettos whatever so we do not use that term at all for this exact reason so what we came

00:33:56.740 up with um as a party it's called a concept remigration but it's a whole concept um for

00:34:03.220 For example, saying that, well, maybe the refugees that we did take in, maybe we should, you know, supply them with some skills in some kind of a trade, teach them a trade that they could then apply in their home countries to build their societies, right?

00:34:24.380 That would be such a logical and sensible thing to do, because the number one claim is they are coming because the situation in their homeland is so devastating, so disastrous without any perspective.

00:34:37.660 And that's why they're coming to Europe. And yes, they are. They are in search for a better life. I understand that. And I do not blame these people.

00:34:44.480 I do not blame any one of them to be in search for a better life.

00:34:50.100 I do blame my government, however, because my government is supposed to look out for the best interest of the German people.

00:34:57.980 That is their job.

00:34:59.640 They can't just allow anyone in.

00:35:02.040 So why don't we make sure that, number one, we do know who is coming in, because most of the time we don't even know.

00:35:09.180 They destroy their papers.

00:35:10.600 that leads to the fact that we cannot send them back to their home country in case asylum is 0.68

00:35:17.680 denied. So we're just stuck with them. So let's go and find ways to make it attractive for them

00:35:25.320 to actually do go back to their country and rebuild or build a future there. How is that

00:35:32.200 hateful? How can you condemn that? I would say it's actually a kind thing to do. So that is

00:35:38.840 what my party is advocating for well i would actually see it as different uh even in the

00:35:42.760 english sense of the terms deportation deportation is generally uh this person is not here legally

00:35:48.940 you know they they broke the rules to get in and we're putting them on a plane or whatever and

00:35:53.420 we're getting them back to where they came or the border etc uh remigration i understood it

00:35:58.800 and i think it's how you're describing it is more of a uh incentivizing them to voluntarily leave

00:36:04.300 Even if they're here legally, because, you know, Merkel, I mean, many of these people are, I guess, in Europe, technically, legally, even if, you know, many, many were not from Syria.

00:36:15.780 A lot of them were phony claims, but they've been accepted and are therefore legally, they're legally now, even if they came illegally to begin with, because the government just turned a blind eye to it.

00:36:25.680 So it's incentivizing them to leave themselves.

00:36:29.880 And I would say that is different than deportation.

00:36:31.860 deportation. We caught you. We're putting you in a holding settlement on a plane back.

00:36:36.980 You're here illegally. This is for people who I think they are in Germany legally, but it's 1.00

00:36:42.900 probably best for both sides to just incentivize them to leave voluntarily. Is that understanding

00:36:48.500 correctly? It also pertains to the ones that are in the country illegally, which actually is most

00:36:52.980 of them, right? So once their claim has been, their request for asylum has been denied, we still

00:37:00.000 don't have any any way of getting rid of them because they simply claim we'll find out what

00:37:05.520 my country is and even if we did know what their their home country was the countries they came

00:37:10.280 from they refused to take back their own citizens and they probably know why so but that it's just

00:37:16.400 so absurd and what you just mentioned uh and Angela Merkel when she ripped open the borders

00:37:21.140 wide um she just you know said all the Syrians they can just you know come in so everyone claimed

00:37:26.960 be syrian and even if it was quite clear that person doesn't even speak that language right

00:37:33.840 and it was found out not even then then you were xenophobia xenophobia you're accusing them of not

00:37:39.840 being syrian there was afghans north africans people coming from everywhere just saying they're

00:37:44.480 syrian exactly so even from africa they were coming claiming to be syrian right so it's like 0.79

00:37:50.160 i mean you cannot you cannot just take in everyone and we've been seeing that i mean for decades now

00:37:56.960 and um you know just feeding them clothing them sheltering them you know it's like we are

00:38:04.640 completely overrun and we are overwhelmed and all the little communities that have to put up with

00:38:10.280 this and have to actually put them up they're completely overwhelmed and they've been saying

00:38:14.800 so for years and still nothing changes and nothing happens exact for talk during a campaign and it's

00:38:24.040 Just, you know, we need to change that.

00:38:26.980 And I mean, just look at the United States, right?

00:38:29.800 Donald Trump, he said, I'm going to build a wall.

00:38:32.160 I'm going to close the border.

00:38:33.300 And that's exactly what he did. 0.98

00:38:35.420 And that's the reason they hate Donald Trump so much, because he's proving them all liars.

00:38:40.460 Because we've been told for decades, even if we wanted to close the borders, it couldn't be done.

00:38:45.580 It is impossible.

00:38:47.040 And Donald Trump is just, well, you watch me.

00:38:49.900 Well, speaking of Trump, this is a good segue, I think.

00:38:52.500 so we just had the G7 meeting

00:38:55.420 practically right here in Condrey

00:38:57.000 Donald Trump's helicopter flew right over my house

00:38:59.320 the whole thing was shaking

00:39:00.120 he's

00:39:03.320 been going on at some time about how

00:39:05.500 most of the NATO allies

00:39:07.220 have been freeloaders

00:39:09.580 on the American security umbrella

00:39:11.160 Canada and Germany being two of

00:39:13.440 the worst of them

00:39:14.620 and

00:39:17.500 Canada's recently just

00:39:19.420 agreed to come to 2% of GDP

00:39:21.120 Germany has agreed to surpass that

00:39:23.560 and then we just had the NATO meeting

00:39:25.180 the other week where the new target

00:39:27.420 is 5%

00:39:28.900 what are your thoughts

00:39:31.600 on

00:39:32.140 it's NATO more broadly rearming

00:39:35.160 but also Germany

00:39:37.060 it's the largest economy

00:39:38.280 and the largest population in Europe

00:39:40.800 it would entail

00:39:44.380 a significant upending

00:39:46.180 of

00:39:46.640 the military balance

00:39:50.240 of power both in the world and particularly in europe for a rearming germany um what are your

00:39:56.580 thoughts on on on uh germany becoming military power again uh and also you know the it's been

00:40:03.520 talked about to actually meet its goals it's probably going to need conscription uh to do so

00:40:08.560 what are your thoughts on both germany rearming and the potential reintroduction of conscription

00:40:12.400 Andrew? Okay, so first of all, let's start by saying that it's going to be interesting to see

00:40:20.320 how British Mads is now trying to re-militarize our army, because what we've done in the past

00:40:29.040 years is pretty much dismantling everything. So we made sure, or we pretty much turned our

00:40:35.840 military into a gigantic daycare center because it was more important to have facilities that

00:40:44.000 could take in the kids of the soldiers than to actually train them to be soldiers.

00:40:50.640 Another example, we had a whole line of tanks. We took them out of commission. We decommissioned

00:40:57.680 them because they were fully functional. There was nothing wrong with them. But guess what? They

00:41:02.240 they couldn't fit highly pregnant women so that's what we had to take them out and you heard that 1.00

00:41:07.020 right you absolutely military's been putting tampons in the men's room so we have some crazy

00:41:11.640 stuff too but i did not so you could not fit highly pregnant women and that's why an entire 1.00

00:41:17.220 line of tanks had been taken out of commission this is how yeah thank you thank you i i would

00:41:24.360 laugh too but i don't think it's that funny actually because it's actually well never mind

00:41:29.180 the the the the prussian in me aches at the sound of right this is actually what we're talking about

00:41:34.940 right and i remember when um that meeting took place in the white house donald trump and zelinski

00:41:41.900 and uh well zelinski didn't do that well in that meeting um how the european leaders they were all

00:41:48.700 outraged at donald trump once again and you know they came together in emergency meeting and they

00:41:55.420 just kind of, we form a coalition of the willing. And I was laughing my butt off. And I was like,

00:42:01.820 well, how about a coalition of the capable? Wouldn't that make a lot more sense?

00:42:05.420 What army are you proposing to do anything?

00:42:07.260 Exactly. Exactly. I mean, it's so ridiculous, right? So Ursula von der Leyen, who happened to

00:42:15.500 have been our Secretary of Defense, and she really dismantled our military. So we went off the

00:42:22.540 the conscription so you know so um it's just ridiculous and i mean if canada now thinks that

00:42:31.120 europe is going to have their back oh you've got another thing coming i mean if they want to but

00:42:37.880 they are incapable so going now coming to the point of constrictions that the word uh you're

00:42:43.960 okay we used to have that we got rid of it uh about 15 years ago or so yeah yeah right about

00:42:52.400 there so and i considered that a grave mistake at the time and i will explain why uh if you do not

00:43:00.020 have mandatory military uh duty that every young man and women we women weren't actually allowed

00:43:07.840 to do so for a long time um if you no longer have that or if you don't have that then you will

00:43:13.800 basically you're left with a population that is defenseless completely defenseless but if you have

00:43:20.780 a certain percentage

00:43:22.740 of the population that was actually

00:43:24.760 trained in military ways

00:43:26.920 to defend the

00:43:28.680 country, you will have

00:43:30.260 a base and you will not be

00:43:32.660 Do you favor the reintroduction of conscription?

00:43:34.540 Absolutely. I absolutely do.

00:43:37.120 Because, like

00:43:38.820 I said, we are put in the spot right

00:43:40.780 now. We are completely defenseless.

00:43:43.560 We import

00:43:44.480 millions and millions and millions

00:43:46.440 of young men in fighting age.

00:43:48.860 and not only do we import them we strategically place them everywhere in our country let me give

00:43:57.840 you an example we had this happening a few years back two of them just went berserk and decided to

00:44:05.100 just shoot around in munich right it led to the fact that police that was right before the uh

00:44:09.920 munich defense conference right it was like the day before no no no it was just another shooting

00:44:14.660 Yeah, no, a couple of years back.

00:44:16.500 Oh, it's hard to keep them straight now.

00:44:17.620 And it pretty much held the entire, two of them were capable of shutting down the entire city.

00:44:23.100 People were asked to stay at home.

00:44:25.220 Strangers would grant you refuge in their home because you had nowhere to go.

00:44:30.120 So all the police forces were pulled into the city because two of them went nuts, right?

00:44:36.260 The train services stopped everything.

00:44:39.500 The city was essentially completely shut down.

00:44:42.680 Now, the following scenario, and we've also seen what they are capable of in Munich, I'm sorry, in Cologne, a thousand of them just gathered in Cologne to sexually harass hundreds and hundreds of women.

00:44:56.960 You're talking about the New Year's Eve rape kits.

00:45:00.020 So they can organize pretty quickly and they come together by the thousands.

00:45:04.480 Okay, the following scenario.

00:45:06.900 Let's just say a hundred of them.

00:45:09.280 say, okay, we're going to cause some chaos here.

00:45:14.380 They spread out 10 different cities

00:45:16.400 and 10 of them to start shooting around.

00:45:19.460 So what will happen?

00:45:20.580 All the police forces will be pulled into these 10 cities

00:45:24.400 trying to rescue the nation of 100 guys.

00:45:29.240 What's going to be happening with the rest of the land?

00:45:32.360 There isn't going to be any police there.

00:45:34.400 So in the rest of them, they just, you know,

00:45:36.460 target I don't know one community and ransack it that is not a completely out of the world

00:45:42.820 kind of scenario and that's what we're faced with so if you have a population that doesn't

00:45:47.840 have the first clue about what it takes to actually defend yourself you are left completely

00:45:54.680 defenseless and that's not a situation that I would any nation to be in least of all Germany

00:46:00.840 on remigration of uh some of these uh you know foreign elements uh you know the afd has talked

00:46:11.480 about it being a voluntary measure would you uh but but ellis vital has said that uh you know it

00:46:19.980 would apply only to non-citizens would you favor that policy being enlarged to include voluntary

00:46:27.920 incentivization for people who have become naturalized German citizens to give up their

00:46:33.580 citizenship and return to their home countries. No, you cannot ask citizens. I'm talking about 1.00

00:46:39.760 voluntarily, not forcefully. Voluntarily ask them to give up their citizenship in exchange for some 0.99

00:46:44.660 kind of incentive. No, no, no, no. You should not be able to ask anyone to surrender their

00:46:51.400 citizenship point one um so no we cannot kick anyone out of the country who is a german citizen

00:46:58.900 well i didn't say kick i mean i said i will voluntarily incentivize well i mean if someone

00:47:03.500 wants to leave he will leave right but no you should not be able to actually you should not

00:47:08.680 ask them to do that however we might want to reconsider our practice and just throwing our

00:47:15.380 citizenship at everyone or just about anyone at this point it's like whoever isn't up on

00:47:21.260 tree by the count of three we will slap it with citizenship right so and at a minimum yes you 0.81

00:47:27.660 should have to make a choice if you want to become a german citizen yes you will have to surrender

00:47:32.780 the citizenship citizenship of the country you held up until that point um the exception for that 0.64

00:47:39.620 would be if you required dual citizenship both uh by birth naturally like for example my daughter

00:47:47.680 My eldest daughter, she is a dual citizen, so she got this German citizenship because

00:47:54.020 she is my daughter from descent, and she's got the American citizenship because she was

00:47:58.880 born on American soil.

00:48:01.360 So, but if you make the decision to become a German citizen, yeah, you should have to 1.00

00:48:06.680 surrender the other citizenship because you cannot serve two masters to, you know, so 0.95

00:48:11.860 whatever.

00:48:13.160 But no, once you're a German citizen, that's it. 0.68

00:48:17.680 Point blank. So you want to keep your German citizenship? That's fine. We should not be allowed to ask anyone to surrender it. But like I said, at the same time, please don't, you know, just slap everyone with it. We need to kind of make sure, like in the United States, you know, there is some kind of, you have to take a test, you know, rudimentary history, knowledge in history.

00:48:40.860 You should know the language, of course. And yeah, you should want to be a part of our liberal, what's the word I'm looking for?

00:48:52.760 Liberal democracy.

00:48:53.440 Yeah, exactly. You should want to be. But if you want to live in our society and implement the rules and the traditions that you fled from, then maybe Germany is not the right place for you. 0.99

00:49:07.300 I'll wrap up with this

00:49:10.180 this is a bit wide

00:49:11.080 we're kind of roving around here

00:49:13.580 but the AFD

00:49:15.800 has taken a position that

00:49:17.820 we have to come to a negotiated

00:49:20.140 ceasefire in Ukraine

00:49:21.620 that the European

00:49:23.800 countries, the Western alliance

00:49:25.540 should not be

00:49:26.780 significantly funding the war there

00:49:29.800 what's your take

00:49:33.940 on

00:49:34.620 Europe's role with 0.83

00:49:37.300 the latest iteration of the conflict

00:49:39.480 in the Middle East, Israel

00:49:41.100 arguably escalating

00:49:43.500 the war with its strikes on Iranian

00:49:45.600 facilities that it claims

00:49:47.420 at least were on the verge of

00:49:49.460 obtaining nuclear warheads.

00:49:52.840 They've claimed

00:49:53.580 we haven't seen solid evidence of it yet

00:49:55.620 and I've been skeptical around it

00:49:57.400 because of the 2003 experience with Iraq

00:49:59.480 that we're going to need more than your word for it.

00:50:01.600 We're going to need some pretty solid evidence.

00:50:04.320 That might be hard to obtain

00:50:05.500 because this is allegedly underneath a mountain

00:50:07.420 bunker, so that would be hard to obtain in any

00:50:09.440 case, but your

00:50:11.280 take on both the Israeli and American

00:50:13.300 strikes on Iran,

00:50:15.220 do you believe they were justified

00:50:17.300 or were they an unnecessary

00:50:19.380 escalation, and

00:50:20.940 what do you think the role of Europe should be in this?

00:50:25.500 The role of Europe should

00:50:27.340 be to be a

00:50:29.380 mediator in all of this.

00:50:31.040 We can't be doing anything else

00:50:33.140 since just describe

00:50:34.680 This is like the best we can do, you know, it's like, look, we want to talk to you. That's all we really can do.

00:50:43.680 But do you think the strikes were justified or an unnecessary question?

00:50:47.660 I actually think, yeah, I do. I mean, you know, there have been talks with Iran for so long to, you know, let the authorities come in there and, you know, check their facilities and all of this.

00:51:01.640 But it's been going on and on and on and on. And I do believe that the previous US administration under Biden, under Obama as well, they have been way too lenient in checking up on that. So, yeah, I do think it was justified because once Iran has nuclear powers, I mean, there is no telling what will happen to this world. 0.98

00:51:24.220 So, yes, I do think it was justified. But I hear you. I'm completely with you. When going back to, yeah, 2003, I think it was, right? There was supposedly there were weapons of mass destruction. And to my knowledge, they haven't found them to this day.

00:51:42.640 No. And I still, you know, see Powell standing in front of the United Nations and was it the United Nations or it might have been the.

00:51:51.440 Yeah, whatever. Swearing that they do have weapons of mass destruction.

00:51:58.740 I mean, we've seen so much. You might remember the incubator lie, you know, when that alleged nurse from Kuwait,

00:52:06.440 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, trampled on them and stuff like that.

00:52:15.980 And she made that statement in front of the UN.

00:52:18.660 And later it turned out she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador.

00:52:24.180 So, I mean, in both incidences, things were said, people were lied to, to get them behind the idea to wage war, right?

00:52:34.580 So I don't know if that is happening, if that's what's happening now.

00:52:39.640 I would think, I really would think it is one thing if, you know, a democratic administration is claiming these things, even though back then it was Bush, it was Republican too.

00:52:53.660 So, but I think, or I would like to think that Donald Trump, that he actually does have the right intel, and that he has people around him, that he absolutely trusts with that intel, whatever he's being told.

00:53:06.240 So, yeah, make a long story short, I do think it was justified, and I do trust Donald Trump to have made the right call here.

00:53:13.300 Well, look, I think George W. Bush believed his intelligence.

00:53:17.340 I don't think he lied.

00:53:19.960 I think he probably genuinely believed

00:53:22.280 what he was being told. I think there were some other

00:53:24.080 George W. Bush? Yeah, George W. Bush

00:53:26.560 in Iraq. I think some other people around him

00:53:28.520 were lying. His role

00:53:30.680 he took a 9-11

00:53:32.040 now is like, gee. Yeah.

00:53:35.100 Okay. Without getting

00:53:36.240 too far into it.

00:53:39.080 You know, I'm

00:53:40.120 generally would be pretty sympathetic

00:53:42.260 to the Israeli-American strikes

00:53:44.120 on Iran here if they were

00:53:46.280 on the cusp of obtaining a nuclear

00:53:48.160 weapon. I'm in agreement that

00:53:49.960 they must never be allowed to have to have the bomb it'll send the whole yeah it will lead to a

00:53:55.080 much bigger much worse war it's going to be stopped the question is were they on the cost

00:53:59.600 of getting the bomb and you know i i try not to even a politician i'm sympathetic with

00:54:07.840 i i don't give them the benefit of the doubt on military intelligence for war uh they've got to

00:54:15.700 they gotta show me the money they gotta give me the evidence yeah and i'm concerned right now that

00:54:20.660 there's a lot of people who are sympathetic or supportive of trump and they're willing to believe

00:54:26.020 him because they like trump but then you see the same thing with george w bush uh in other cases

00:54:31.380 you'd see the same thing with democratic leaders obama and etc i don't think we could base this on

00:54:37.120 do we like the politician making no that's that's not what i'm doing so my question to you is like

00:54:43.260 is it incumbent upon the israelian america governments to give us hard evidence that

00:54:48.300 would justify they like yes they should because we haven't seen that yet that is true so it might

00:54:54.620 you know they could not have shown us beforehand i get that but yeah it's done now and you say you

00:55:00.140 were successful in doing so so hey yeah probably require like a ground invasion to go in and let's

00:55:06.940 no one wants that right right but on the other hand you know it's also like this whole uh

00:55:12.060 thing that's going on you know it's either like in our in our societies we're now having you know

00:55:18.720 pro-palestinian uh protests right and it was like what the hell is wrong with these people

00:55:25.100 i mean just look at israel uh they are really in a tough spot they are surrounded by their

00:55:30.440 arch enemies and all of their enemies surrounding them they would you know rather see him die

00:55:36.520 tomorrow today than tomorrow right god bless you that's a good time bless you so um i mean

00:55:44.620 they're in this you know incredible difficult situation and they are actually yeah their life

00:55:49.860 is at stake every single day right in uh what happened on october 7th you know how can you

00:55:57.980 rally in our societies on the streets, actually celebrating what

00:56:04.520 happened on October 7. Right? That is beyond me. And you will

00:56:09.840 never get me to I don't know, condemn that Israel is defending 0.97

00:56:17.980 its citizens and themselves.

00:56:21.140 All right. Well, Miss Anderson, thank you for your time. I

00:56:25.460 appreciate you coming in, stopping at our

00:56:28.220 Calgary studio here, and

00:56:30.020 wish you the best of luck as you continue your tour

00:56:32.140 across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

00:56:33.900 Thank you, and thanks for having me. It was

00:56:35.640 always a pleasure.

00:56:38.320 That's Christine Anderson. She is

00:56:40.320 the German member of the

00:56:42.160 European Parliament, sitting with the AFD

00:56:44.460 Alternative für Deutschland

00:56:46.160 coming through here.

00:56:48.980 Where can people find out more

00:56:50.220 about you? Well, just Google me.

00:56:52.260 You'll find me all over the place. Twitter is probably

00:56:54.200 my main channel right on all right remember uh we need you to step up and support the work that

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Western Standard - July 01, 2025

German politician's Alberta freedom tour

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