You could also say Merkel is doing away with Germany. Its hard to say which is more accurate.
By Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna
There’s Lebensraum for Everyone in Modern Multicultural Germany
The following video is in Merkelspeak, so I’ll provide a précis of what the chancellor said:
If you can make it across the border into Germany and find a place to crash, then you’re living in Germany, and that makes you a German — forever. No one can take that from you. You’re as German now as Bismarck or Goethe.
Congratulations! You’ve just joined Das Volk!
Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 0:00 | …dear friends and all of this in deepest conviction | |
| 0:03 | that’s at least how I wish it, that the country | |
| 0:06 | in which we live today, is a land that… | |
| 0:09 | has many virtues that have to be defended. | |
| 0:13 | Openness, diversity of opinion, | |
| 0:16 | freedom of religion, | |
| 0:19 | freedom of the press… all these are things | |
| 0:22 | which for us nowadays | |
| 0:25 | are taken for granted, but 27 years ago | |
| 0:28 | they were not. | |
| 0:31 | I know that it’s not right to talk about the past | |
| 0:34 | over and over again but nonetheless the time of | |
| 0:37 | the German Union [Deutsche Einheit, reunification in 1990] the moment when the Iron Curtain fell, | |
| 0:40 | the time when Europe grew together, a wonderful time, | |
| 0:43 | and therefore there is absolutely no justification | |
| 0:46 | for small groups in our society arrogating the right | |
| 0:49 | to define who ‘The People’ is. | |
| 0:52 | ‘The People’ is everybody who lives in this country, | |
| 0:55 | my ladies and gentlemen and dear friends, | |
| 0:58 | nobody can take that from us, | |
| 1:01 | and many make… (applause) |