On Monday night demonstrators from PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) gathered again in central Dresden. This time the provocation by infiltrators was even more overt, and the antifa “counter-demonstrators” were given even more latitude by the authorities to harass and attack the peaceful protesters from PEGIDA.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:00 Because there are too many examples that prove Islamisation,

00:04 such as special swim times for those who wear

00:08 the women-despising burka, separate classes

00:12 for boys and girls etc. I will only mention one point

00:16 and acknowledge that there is a fundamental legal right

00:20 to freedom of religion. But I would point out

00:24 that what is happening now in our country is not

00:28 what the founder of those laws intended.

00:36 I am speaking about the gradual abolition of our Christian

00:40 culture, as in Berlin

00:44 and other cities where the Christmas markets are

00:49 renamed “Winter Markets” so as not to offend religious sensibilities.

00:53 booooooohhh

00:57 In some cities in our country

01:01 Christmas decorations are already banned from public places.

01:05 Even the good old Christmas tree is in serious danger.

01:09 It’s only a matter of

01:13 time before even the Dresden Christmas Stollen

01:17 Christ Child mulled wine, or Christmas gingerbread, will be renamed.

01:21 I have to say that with the abolition of these things,

01:25 even as a non-member of the church,

01:30 I feel MY freedom of religion has been obstructed.

01:38 Who thinks of us

01:42 when they release such “laws”? We are the hosts, and should

01:46 decide how to behave at our table.

01:50 I have done research into this theme

01:54 and have found that the de-genderisation

01:58 of our language and the abolition of Christian traditions

02:02 such as Christmas has been tried once before.

02:06 Surprise: it was the Nazis who tried it.

02:10 They wanted to change “Christmas” into

02:14 Yuletide, Winter Solstice and such crap.

02:19 Thanks to the people, they did not achieve it then,

02:23 and today it’s urgent again to stop the political leaders

02:27 and protect our culture.

02:35 During DDR times, too,

02:39 this was tried again, they said

02:43 “Year’s-End-Winged-Figure”, meaning “angel”.

02:47 Speaking of protection

02:51 with joy but rather wearily, I read the comments of our

02:55 Interior Minister. He wants to introduce

03:00 an expedited deportation of criminal and radical foreigners,

03:04 as well as a ten-year re-entry ban for them.

03:08 “Great”. Furthermore he targets members of terrorist organisations

03:12 and foreigners who for political or religious

03:16 motives participate in violence. This is commendable,

03:20 but I think the wool is being pulled over our eyes

03:24 with this tranquilizer pill so that the people return to watch their TV,

03:29 and, most importantly, do not start to think.

03:41 Concerning criminality: I have something to say which is unpleasant for me.

03:45 I too have a past, and since the “Nazi” cudgel

03:49 against PEGIDA [Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West] did not work, they try to discredit me personally.

03:57 They rummage around in my past,

04:01 but I stand by my past of

04:05 property offences, fare evasion,

04:10 all committed “under the influence”.

04:14 The media, Saxon Times and Dresden News,

04:18 will jump on this with delight and try to

04:22 tie this to PEGIDA. Dear Media, please forget it,

04:26 and if you have to do it, then mention the time frame: we are speaking

04:30 about mistakes I made between five and twenty years ago.

04:34 And for me,

04:38 I paid for them and did my time.

04:42 My personal mistakes have absolutely nothing to do with PEGIDA

04:46 and our aims. I am replaceable,

04:51 and if it serves our cause, I’ll take a back seat,

04:55 away from the unwanted limelight. As for the aims of PEGIDA and the people,

04:59 this will not change anything.

05:11 Dear friends, especially today

05:15 every single one of you… today there are

05:19 troublemakers among us who are being exploited to give a negative image of us

05:23 and PEGIDA. I ask you again, don’t let yourselves be

05:28 provoked. Be wary for yourselves and your neighbours

05:32 of all disturbances from the outside; the police

05:36 are well prepared. I thank them for their work here again

05:40 by demanding from the politicians

05:44 more support for our police and an end to

05:48 the downsizing of our police force.

05:52 We also ask you

05:56 not to take glass bottles and any other projectiles with you,

06:00 and of course, strictly no alcohol,

06:04 because ours is a serious cause.

06:08 Friends we are better than to let ourselves be provoked.

06:13 United we are strong; let us now walk,

06:17 as always, calmly, with dignity and civility

06:21 through our wonderful city. Dresden shows how it’s done.

06:33 We are the people

06:37 We are the people

06:41 We are the people

06:45 We are the people

09:46 ( Translator’s comment: lovely to see Christmas trees in the windows )

10:35 We are the people

10:39 (wir sind das Volk)

17:33 We are the people

17:37 We are the people

17:41 (wir sind das Volk)

17:45 We are the people

17:49 ???

18:10 ???

19:19 ???

19:39 Halt – Stop (?)

19:43 …stop….

19:48 ???

20:08 ???

20:12 Zugabe (?) encore… encore… encore

20:16 encore

20:20 encore

20:32 I’m not doing “gender-mainstreaming”. I always say we Germans,

20:36 whether women or men, we must rise up,

20:40 all together. Great, thanks for Dresden,

20:44 and thanks – there are many here from Munich,

20:49 and we must stand together. Thank you.

21:21 I am back, too, we are the people.

21:25 Thank you, Dresden,

21:29 Thank you.

21:37 Tomorrow the media will celebrate this as a “ostentatious success for the

21:41 counter-demonstrators. I think it’s a ostentatious success for the peacefulness

21:46 of our side.

21:55 We no doubt had the possibility of insisting on our rights, because

21:59 what just happened was a criminal act.

22:03 But I think the more clever one gives in.

22:15 Therefore I can say again that today, for the seventh time,

22:19 we came together peacefully and calmly,

22:23 which set the tone: once again we did not react to the provocations.

22:31 Dresden shows the way.

22:36 Neither our Interior Minister with his

22:40 description of us as “rats and rat-catchers”, nor the media,

22:44 who, after unsuccessfully trying to beat us by calling us “Nazis”

22:48 are now gunning for me personally,

22:52 have been able to silence us.

22:56 We are getting louder

23:00 Yes!

23:04 Slowly people are starting to

23:08 think independently again and

23:12 resist influence, either positive for us

23:16 or the anti-democratic counter-demonstrators; a thought process is beginning,

23:21 and that is a success.

23:25 Yes!

23:29 It is most evident in that in our whole country

23:33 rallies like here in Dresden are planned and executed.

23:37 Therefore today again I greet Kassel,

23:41 Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Ost Friesland, Munich,

23:45 Rostock, Magdeburg, Würzburg, Brunswick and

23:49 Bonn.

23:57 We are the people

24:01 We are the people

24:06 (Wir sind das Volk)

24:10 We are the People

24:14 We are ONE people

24:18 That’s the point. Exactly: ONE people

24:22 I want to take this chance to answer the most important questions again,

24:26 even if you have heard it before: for the media we cannot repeat it often enough.

24:30 What do we want?

24:34 PEGIDA simply asks that the politicians, voted in by the people, to at last listen again,

24:38 listen to US and concern themselves with the real problems

24:42 of our society.

24:50 The second most-asked question: Are you against Islam?

24:54 No, we are not. We are against Islamisation and

24:58 radical Islamism. It’s a big difference.

25:02 Are you against foreigners? Again, a clear

25:06 “No”. PEGIDA is not against foreigners, as proven clearly by the increasing number of people

25:11 with foreign roots among our rallies.

25:19 Are you against asylum?

25:23 This question also I answer with “No”. We are for

25:27 the acceptance of war refugees, of whatever nationality or religion.

25:33 We also demand a general change of thinking in politics: stop

25:37 any supply of weapons, because these weapons are the reason

25:41 for the flood of refugees into our country.

25:49 Apart from the unspeakable refugee politics

25:53 and the warmongering foreign policy of our government,

25:57 we have a few other questions: what about the care for

26:01 our aged? We have pensioners who have worked all their lives and

26:05 can barely afford a piece of cake at Christmas,

26:10 who sit in a cold flat or are without electricity.

26:14 We have mothers

26:18 in our country who cannot afford presents for their children at Christmas

26:22 for lack of money. There are people in our country

26:26 who live on the streets and don’t have enough food.

26:30 For those no homes are created, let alone

26:34 the offer of residences with all modern conveniences, not even discussed.

26:38 Instead of

26:42 attacking these problems, they relentlessly discuss our language,

26:46 for example, can we still say “Moor” as in old fairy tales?

26:51 Should the gender of words like Professor be made gender-neutral?

26:55 Dear politicians, this unspeakable

26:59 de-genderisation of our beautiful language bores us witless.

27:07 under such circumstances

27:11 as I said, works such as Faust or Buddenbrooks

27:15 would never have been created. Goethe, Schiller

27:19 and the Brothers Mann would turn in their graves

27:23 if they saw this idiotic rape of our language.

27:27 I am speaking about

27:31 the gradual destruction of our language and of our culture.

27:35 I want our children to grow up with Christmas cakes,

27:39 with Nurnberger Christ Child mulled wine, and with

27:43 Christmas gingerbread.

27:48 Here WE are the host, and we decide about the rules.

27:52 Exactly!

27:56 I have

28:00 researched this theme, as I have said. These attempts at demolition

28:04 were made during the Third Reich, and again

28:08 during the socialist regime.

28:12 I am happy we left that behind us.

28:28 Speaking of protecting —

28:32 With joy, but rather wearily

28:36 I read what our Minister of the Interior

28:41 wants. He wants a re-entry ban

28:45 for recidivist criminal foreigners,

28:49 deportation of criminal and radical foreigners.

28:53 It all sounds great, but it’s a snow job.

28:57 I think that they simply want to calm down the people,

29:01 so that they will sit down again comfortably in front of the TV and watch RTL2 (pop TV channel).

29:09 A first step in the right direction would

29:13 be to seek the dialogue with us, the citizens, and

29:17 to take the people’s fears seriously.

29:26 one organisational matter. Some flyers have been

29:30 distributed. I don’t know where they came from;

29:34 they have nothing to do with our rally, and we have nothing to do with the distributors.

29:38 It’s from some movement,

29:42 I don’t even want to read it, it has nothing to do with our cause.

29:46 Our flyers —

29:50 …here, this is an A4 double brochure.

29:54 It has nothing to do with us.

29:58 Now I only want to thank you for your participation, for your common sense,

30:02 and for the peacefulness you showed again, and so

30:07 refused to provide the media with any ammunition to defame us.

30:19 Tomorrow you will see a terrible

30:23 smear campaign against me in the media

30:27 everywhere. I stand by my past. I did stupid things; I have paid for it.

30:31 The “Nazi” insult doesn’t not work any longer, therefore it is I

30:35 who, individually, will be anathematised.

30:39 I am above it, it’s the past.

30:47 But tomorrow,

30:52 my person, the person of Bachmann, will be anathematised,

30:56 and I wonder if it would not better for the movement, for you, if I

31:00 were to get out of the limelight. We have very capable brains who

31:04 can take over. This is not a retreat due to fear,

31:08 it’s simply that the media will see PEGIDA

31:12 only in connection with my person, and this is not beneficial.

31:16 It doesn’t matter.

31:25 Stop it with this silliness.

31:29 I thank you for your appearance and,

31:33 as has become our tradition,

31:37 I ask you to point all your little lamps (perhaps this will cause a light-bulb moment for some others)

31:41 with us, point your lights, for peace,

31:45 and for our goals, towards the heavens.

31:49 I am proud of you

31:53 me too

31:57 We are the people

32:01 (wir sind das Volk)

32:05 We are the people

32:10 (wir sind das Volk)

32:14 We are the people

32:18 We are the people

32:22 Thank you friends

32:26 We are ONE people

32:30 We will return

32:34 One more request:

32:38 When you are on your way home, do not walk alone.

32:42 We have intelligence that violent antifa groups are ready

32:46 and waiting for just that moment when we are not together any longer,

32:51 and are weaker. Take care.

32:55 A safe trip home. For next week, the same motto: