About decency

Whether it's a talk show or a news anchor, many current statements leave me speechless. A few thoughts on how to deal with other people.

A person is dead. A son, husband, and father. He is no longer alive because someone shot him in the head. He leaves behind a grieving family and shocked friends. His children will never understand why they have to grow up without a father.

A cold-blooded murder. It's not without reason that our laws provide for the most severe punishments for such acts. Such acts touch the very foundations of our civilization. From the Ten Commandments to the penal code, few things are as clearly defined as this: "Thou shalt not kill!"

Or so you would think. And this is where the madness begins. No newspaper, no TV station simply reports: "A person has been murdered. That is horrific!" Period. No news program, no talk show, no editorial can do without framing. A classification. A judgment. A relativization. And utterly inhumane appearances. The most recent highlight was the Left Party's poster girl on Ms. Miosga's TV show. There is talk of "ultra-right." The term "populist," "nationalist," and much more. Left-wing politicians rant in the (in this case antisocial) media and on TV that one shouldn't feel sorry for "someone like that" – or proudly declare: "When fascists die, democrats don't mourn!" The last few days have been anything but a glorious occasion for presenters and correspondents, especially on public broadcasters.

I'm stunned. And I remember a quote from left-wing icon Sahra Wagenknecht, formulated in her book with the very clear title "The Self-Righteous": "Anyone who deviates from the canon of their precepts is therefore not a dissident for left-liberals, but at the very least a bad person, probably even a misanthropist or even a Nazi." When reality catches up with a book...

So the world can be that simple: You think and say things that I reject. That makes it legitimate for me if someone takes your life.

If anyone still had doubts about where Germany would end up under the leadership of the SED successor party, here's the answer: Dissenters are enemies of the system. Enemies of the system are outlawed. Stalin, Pol Pot, and the like send their regards. Gulag and Bautzen shine through. "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters." That phrase is by Rosa Luxemburg. Socialists like to lay wreaths on her grave—but with their thoughts and actions, they spit on it.

It doesn't matter at all what someone thinks or what they say. Whether we admire or despise them, their opinions, their views, or their stance. If we legitimize killing them for their opinions, then democracy is doomed. Anyone who doesn't see that is, in my opinion, a case for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. And morally at a loss.

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