I have often been asked the question: - What can we do for a better system? - How can we protect ourselves against this
constant stream of lies and manipulations and distortions?
- What can we do? So quite honestly, if there are 300,000 people who can submit a petition because a penalty is not given, then it
must be possible for hundreds of thousands of us to go to Berlin and say quite clearly: I'm not taking part in this anymore!
Hello Berlin! Hello!
Oh my God!
Berlin! Berlin! We are in Berlin today! Berlin! Berlin! We are in Berlin today! Yes, we are! Hello dear friends!
And to all those ten people I haven't hugged today, so welcome here too. What a day, what a
wonderful opportunity to come together here today.
Dear friends, dear comrades-in-arms, almost four years ago, almost to the day, I stood here on this stage and
all I had was a camera in my hand and today I even have a microphone in my hand. How awesome is that?
I was told ten minutes and to keep it short. I'm supposed to talk about freedom, okay?
So, what is it? What is this freedom anyway?
I think we have seen in recent weeks that this freedom extends at most to the limit of the thin-skinnedness of our Minister of the
Interior, who abuses the law on associations to ban independent media portals, mind you media
that had not broken a single law up to that point.
So, let's talk about this freedom of the press here, shall we? And dear friends, I stand here as a representative, as a proxy,
as a representative of a new media landscape, a media landscape that does what the media should
actually be there for in a functioning democracy.
It is about objective reporting, not politically motivated and above all one thing: independent, not dependent on...
We need reporting that is independent of big donors in the background, or of overpowering lobby
groups that simply buy opinions, scientists and studies.
Each of us, as we are here today, has our own reasons why we broke with the media, with our trust in the media, at some point.
Some of us woke up back then on September 11 and realized that something wasn't right. Some of us suddenly woke up in 2014
during the coup on the Maidan. And most of us certainly realized during this unspeakable
corona period that something really stinks here.
Today we have also gathered here to once again send a huge signal that we do not agree with the way critical
voices and other opinions are dealt with here in this country.
The word freedom of the press has become a farce in this country. Long before corona. Freedom of the
press is an empty word that no longer means anything.
And not far from here, about back there, I think, or wherever the Bundestag is, there is the following text on a pane of glass:
Basic Law Article 5: Everyone has the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing
and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources.
Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by radio and film are guaranteed. Censorship does not take place.
There is no censorship! Excuse me?
Just ask journalist Gerhard Wisniewski what happened when he made the first documentary about September 11 in 2003. He
made the mistake of interviewing the mayor of Shanksville.
"Airplane. There was no airplane." And after that, there was no more filmmaker named Gerhard
Wisniewski. He was immediately gone from WDR.
Or how many of you know Frieder Wagner? Frieder Wagner is a filmmaker for public broadcasting. He has
made 68 films. And then one day he had an idea and he made a movie about uranium ammunition:
"Depleted Uranium". And the movie is called "Deadly Dust". And then there was no 69th movie.
Or who remembers Eva Hermann's appearance on Kerner in 2007? You know the one. Oh my
God, she said Autobahn. Do you remember that?
And what was the result? What was the outcry? It was a public tribunal for all those who
should dare to do such things in the future.
Or my own colleague Katrin Huss, who had Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz in the studio after almost 20 years of
presenting at MDR, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. And what did she do? She let him finish.
She simply let him talk. What was the result? Pressure from above. How can you do that? Then you have to interrupt
and so on. Then she quit. Now she's with us, with NuoViso.
The list of these people is much, much longer. And it was only the ones I met myself, the ones I
interviewed myself, who were all banned from public discourse.
Especially in the Corona era, this list has become much, much longer. It would go beyond
the scope of this article to list them all.
And do you know how many programs have been banned in the meantime? How many websites? And
now even magazines in the best Germany ever.
And then of course there are the really nasty tricks, the deletion of bank accounts, PayPal accounts and YouTube accounts.
We at NuoViso can really tell you a thing or two about it.
It's a policy of small pinpricks. Tighten the thumbscrews a little more and then tighten everything in the
fight against, well, you know, the opposite of the right.
What we are experiencing here today is not just an attack on the freedom of the press. It is an attack on all oppositional
thinking. Any criticism of this system or of the government is immediately condemned and
fought with the most blatant means possible.
Using methods that have long since ceased to be worthy of a real democracy. Unfortunately, we have to realize, more and
more, that power structures are being built up here that we in Germany have not really wanted for a long time.
How often have we read this on posters and demonstrations? "Never again is NOW!" Yes, exactly. Never again is now. And
never again banning opinions. Never again restrict discourse.
And above all, never again lock people up as political prisoners, as happened to Michael Ballweg. Never again a ban on
political parties. Never again the ugly totalitarianism here.
Dear friends, dear fellow campaigners, what we really need here is a free press landscape that deserves the
name, that does exactly what the press is supposed to do.
A fourth power in the state, a control body for parties and power-hungry politicians. A real corrective and not a
fraudulent label like those that call themselves such and then only deliver cheap government propaganda.
What we need are journalists who can help us untangle the thicket and the felt of the coronavirus era. We need journalists like
Florian Warweg from NachDenkSeiten. Who asks the really important questions again and again at the press conference and shows
up those sad figures up there on the podium time and time again.
And above all, what we need is the support of all of you, all of you, so that we freelance journalists can do
exactly the work that the mainstream has obviously not been able to do for a long time.
Help the media you trust as much as you can, as far as your possibilities allow, as far as your time permits. And let us
simply give the word freedom of the press back its old meaning. We are all called upon to
do just that, here today, as we stand here.
Yes, and at the end I would just like to say one more thing. Firstly, I would like to say thank you to the man
without whom I would never be here today and without whom probably not so many people would be here.
Frank, most people wouldn't be here without you. Frank Höfer!
And I thought to myself, what can I say here as a last sentence, maybe quote someone. No, I came up with a sentence
myself: I believe there is great unity in our country regarding our right to freedom. Thank you Berlin!
I am now particularly pleased to be able to announce a wonderful artist to you. The man
with the "01" and world peace - Kilez More.
Wow.
Thank you, Berlin.
It's wonderful to see so many people here again. And I would like us to be loud now so that
we can send this out as far as the Bundestag.
Everyone here up to the star. I say "world" and you say "peace". "World."
"Peace."
"World."
"Peace." Other side. I say "world" and you say "peace".
"World." "World." "Peace." "Peace." And now all the women.
"World." "Peace." "World." "Peace."
All those who have traveled from Austria.
"World."
"Peace."
Wow.
And now Berlin.
Let's all shout together.
I say "world" and you say "peace". "World."
"Peace."
"World." "Peace." There you see, when we all stand together, we are much, much louder and nothing can stop us.
Because there's a reason they want to divide us, the lateral thinker and the unvaccinated. And now we have to shoot at
Russians. They have to divide and split us, because if we stick together, they don't stand a chance against us up there.
Now we've brought a song.
[Ah.
Directed by.
Monitor, yes]
A song that many of you have already heard at many demonstrations and that we all want to celebrate together. Because that's
also part of it - the feeling that we take home with us from today, that we go out with energy to change this world again.
[Director,
let's go]
Wonderful to see so many of you.
[Ah. Louder on the monitor, instrumental. Ah.Jo, thank you.
Okay] Beautiful.
Berlin, are you at the start?
Ah.
Let's go.
Song: We could build houses that are self-sufficient and sustainable.We could be grateful with the earth as a
human child. We could stop becoming someone from TV movies. We could stop bending and just be who we are.
We could cooperate instead of controlling. Back to the We. Living in peace with animals. Mass livestock
farming consumes a third of all the grain in the world.
We eat and eat, people are starving elsewhere. We could plant hemp instead of clearing the rainforest. We could create more
valueinstead of using the snowball method to bring more and moreand more into our wallets. Until
you realize that the value of money is an illusion.
We could use more than five senses to get to know others and meet them as if we were them. We
could do this and that, we could do this and that.
I could talk about it for hours, but I'd rather do something. We could so easily make the world a little better.
If you want peace, don't sell weapons. We could all join hands. We set an example.
We could so easily make the world a little better. If you want peace, you don't sell weapons. We could all join hands. We set an
example. We could so easily make the world a little better. If you want peace, don't sell
weapons. We could all join hands. We set an example.
We could change everything. If only we stop believing that nothing can be changed. Everything can be changed, yes, not just
in an election year. Use your voice, even if you didn't ask for it. We could stop pretending that money has
value. And act as if we really were all human beings. Learn to talk to each other without messengers.
Smile connects, the same heart beats inside us. We could change. Thus changing everything around us.
That really changes everything from the ground up. There is no reason to wait any longer.
We could start instead of asking why others didn't. We could drop the T, because we can.
Period. Or why do you think our Creator chose us?
We can start and finally trust in ourselves. Come on, let's start building a new world now.
We could so easily make the world a little better. If you want peace, don't sell weapons.
We could all join hands. We set an example.
We could so easily make the world a little better. If you want peace, don't sell weapons.
We could all join hands. We set an example.
I am disgusted by the double standards, when they tell us that we are now supplying weapons for peace. We don't want another drop
of oil from Russiaand bow to Saudi Arabia with a kissing hand.
With Ukraine, it's all about morality now. But they don't care about the bloodshed elsewhere. We have to stand up
for better times. We are change, we are the sign. We could so easily make the world a little better.
If you want peace, you don't sell weapons. We could all join hands. We are setting an example.
We could so easily make the world a little better. If you want peace, don't sell weapons. We could all join hands. We
set an example. Berlin is setting an example today! Thank you!
Thank you Berlin!
Can you understand me?
Beautiful!
I've prepared a little something that I wrote especially for today. Are you up for Berlin?
Beautiful!
I have another message from Michael Ballweg, who forgot to tell me before. The next big peace demo is on September 1st in
Munich. And from me and from him and from all of us, we would also like to invite you. Keep going to peace demos.
01.09. Munich. We have to make noise everywhere, ladies and gentlemen!
I've prepared something that goes like this:
Not everything always works perfectly, but a round of applause for the organizers anyway! [No music.
No music]
I've prepared something and it goes like this:
In the beginning, only helmets are delivered to the weak, okay. Then only a few weapons are delivered, okay. Then
only a few tanks are delivered, of course only for training purposes, to secure the eastern flank.
And we'll sleepwalk again until bombs explodeand then we'll ask ourselves: "Man, how could this happen?" Well, just
like that, from special assets to compulsory military service.
You become warlike or stand up and fight back.
Good afternoon, this is my message to the Bundestag: I am a free man, but certainly not a subject. It is a first
step that we refuse military service. But it is even more important that we increase peace service.
After three years of rule by the pharmaceutical industry, we are now under the rule of the arms industry.
From pandemic to war is seamless. But our answer remains the same: "We're not going along with this!"
Because the lies are the same, only the crisis is called something else. Now 24-7 is just war propaganda.
That's why I'm calling for peace negotiations. I say to anyone who disagrees: warmongers to the front!
You call me a rag pacifist, but I remain a peace activist. No matter what they call me,
I see it as my duty and you see it as mine.
That's why we're not marching with them. And I say it like Reinhard May: "I won't give up my children!"
Thank you Berlin!