ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

Heiner Geißler – a conservative who thinks

Helmut Kohl's former Secretary General is 85 and a member of the anti-globalisation organisation attac. He is of the opinion that economic policy needs to be urgently reformed. This was also recently demanded by the head of the ECB Mario Draghi, so that the governments of the euro countries are called upon to develop and submit ideas.
Geißler is of the opinion that the current economic order was wrong, inhuman and deadly. The individual was nothing more than a cost factor – for health and education there was no money, as the euro European budgets have been emptied or - even worse - hopelessly over-indebted. Politicians have sacrificed the needs of people for the interests of the financial markets. Geißler is calling for an international financial transaction tax for currency traders and speculators, so that they would no longer act simply in order to do business, but in the interests of society as a whole; furthermore, the top CDU politician is calling for efforts to be undertaken in Germany for recognition of the fact that the problems can be solved if Europe does indeed become a political union. Geißler might mean a new constitution; this is also the opinion of People for Democracy, who have drawn up such a constitution. This can be found in our publication "Das deutsche Desaster" ("The German disaster").
It is high time for the introduction of a new constitution with significant co-determination on the part of the people, as all chancellors since 1949 have systematically abolished the co-determination of the people and replaced it with a party dictatorship which today is taking the liberty of serving high finance, above all because it is not able to take any other form of action due to the ailing constitution of the national economy.
These machinations are presented to the people as saving the euro; the current dispute with Greece, which wants to turn its back on the debt alliance, is depicted as a floundering wish to escape. The propaganda scarcely conceals the fact of how much the Germans participated in the Greek debt crisis, and it is also kept secret that the German budget is no better than the Greek one, since 60 per cent of Germans no longer believe in German democracy.
No euro country is now able to survive. All of the tricks and lies of the politicians, lobbyists and financial jugglers have resulted in parity between the euro and the dollar, a drop in all performance levels and finally to the haircut.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) once suggested taking the level of debt in 2007 as a guideline for correcting the indebtedness. The IMF wanted to achieve this through the introduction of a 10 per cent savings tax and a 10 per cent property tax. The measures were supposed to be extended, but the IMF showed after the Lehman crash in 2008 that it was no longer acting in its capacity as the corrector of the world's finances. Only the level of indebtedness has risen since then by almost half.
Geißler, who during his time in office also tackled very controversial topics, showed by joining attac that it is above all the CDU members who can convert from Saul to Paul. The predominantly left-wing political objectives which Geißler strongly denounced during his active period as a champion of the conservatives even went so far as to accuse creative left-wing and liberal artists and politicians of being "supporters of terror" (meaning the attacks of the Red Army Faction), for example Helmut Gollwitzer, Heinrich Albertz, Günter Wallraff, Herbert Marcuse and Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer. However, it was also Heiner Geißler who - alluding to the role of Helmut Kohl - called the CDU a "party with a leader cult" (Die Woche, October 13, 1995). At the time his office as Deputy Chairman of the fraction was questioned. Today, Geißler questions the entire policy and appears to be escaping the party dictatorship due to his mental mobility. We wait anxiously to find out what the purged Geißler still has to say about the old, new debate about capitalism. In the meantime we hope that he has read the book by Thilo Bode "Die Freihandelslüge" ("The Free Trade Lie") or also the book by Sarah Wagenknecht: "Freiheit statt Kapitalismus" ("Freedom instead of Capitalism") – we are pleased to suggest these as intellectual reading material for a "de-conserved" thinker; as well as to all our readers.