As of: March 24, 2024, 4:54 p.m
By: Andreas Steppan
Comments
Press
Split
As a sign of the preservation of the basic democratic order, around 300 people gathered on the town hall square in Lenggries on Saturday and then walked the “Scheibn”.
© Hias Krinner
After the large demonstrations against the right in Bad Tölz and Holzkirchen, among others, many people in Lenggries have now set an example.
According to the organizers, around 300 people took part in the “Walk for Democracy and Against Racism” on Saturday.
Lenggries – As reported, the three teachers Julia Kast, Lena Kinshofer and Anna Landscheid were invited to the rally.
“We are observing the political and social situation with concern,” said Julia Kast to the participants gathered at Rathausplatz.
“Extreme points of view, populist, racist and inflammatory statements are becoming visible, and people are no longer ashamed of them.” That’s why we now want to clearly signal: “It is not okay to exclude people, to discriminate against them or to oppose them with hatred and agitation .” The basic democratic order allows everyone to have their own opinion, their way of life and their religion.
“We should be grateful for that, and our top priority must be to preserve this basic order,” emphasized Julia Kist.
Parties and groups that oppose this principle must be stopped.
“Because they endanger our peaceful and safe coexistence.” Here the teacher clearly named the AfD, which is agitating against the basic democratic order.
Kist called on all citizens to confront every form of extremism, anti-Semitism and misanthropy in every situation - at the regulars' table, at a family party or in a sports club.
Schwarzenberger: “The great whining determines the basic mood”
The Lenggries architect Paul Schwarzenberger also came to the microphone.
“The great whining determines today's basic mood; there is dissatisfaction in all social classes.
If you ask why, the answer is only slogans and slogans,” he said.
Stubbornness is transfigured into strength, reflection is seen as weakness, and “egoism is the new religion”.
It just so happens that the world is moving closer together.
There will no longer be an “Island of the Blessed” in the foreseeable future.
This can be countered by working together or against each other.
“How the competition ends is probably known, but most people have already forgotten it,” said Schwarzenberger.
One should not allow AfD and lateral thinkers to lead society astray.
(Our Bad Tölz newsletter regularly informs you about all important stories from your region. Sign up here.)
Kinshofer quotes from the decision of the German Bishops' Conference
From the town hall square, the participants set off through the center of the town, the Lenggrieser “Scheibn”, - many with signs they designed themselves.
At the church, initiator Lena Kinshofer read out excerpts from a resolution of the German Bishops' Conference.
The latter had recently declared that the AfD was “unelectable for Christians”.
The text says: “Let us all resist when human dignity and human rights are in danger!”