Retrospective: GAIA get-together at Walserberg

After my introductory talk on the GAIA association, speaker and author Matthias Pauqué shed light on the legal situation in Germany and its place in international law.

Because these topics are so important for our future, all mayors in the district and their municipal councillors were also specifically invited by letter.

Matthias sheds light on the legal situation in Germany and explains what many people do not know.

The topics include:

• Tax law: where does its legal basis come from?
• 16 October 1934
• Enabling Act
• Federal Constitutional Court prohibits application
• State and citizenship: how does the FRG deal with this and with Germans?
• What exactly is the legal situation in Germany with the FRG?
• Art. 133 of the Basic Law
• Allied administration under the Hague Convention on Land Warfare
• When does a democracy actually exist?
• Why is everything increasingly being placed on a private-law footing?
• What constructive solutions and options are there?
• Subsidiarity, Art. 23 and 28 of the Basic Law
• Constitutional principles in Section 92 of the Criminal Code
• An example of a municipality switching to legal and economic independence

In particular, the following topics were examined:

• How do high-ranking lawyers view the situation in Germany?
• Why are so many laws from the period 1933–1945 still being applied?
• What is the legal and historical background to this continued use?
• Why, contrary to practice in other countries, do identity cards and passports not show the holder’s citizenship?
• What exactly is Germany’s situation under international law?
• Is Germany still occupied? Prof. Dr Josef Foschepoth, author of the book “Überwachtes Deutschland” (Germany under surveillance), offers some pointers
• How does the occupation make itself felt legally?
• How does the Federal Republic deal with the issue of citizenship, and what exactly is the legal situation, including under international law?
• Why is the tax burden so high?
• Where do more than 80% of tax revenues go?
• What possibilities are there for creative, peaceful change? Sample calculations for a municipality

The topics of the talk met with very lively interest among the roughly 30 listeners, among whom were (sadly only) two municipal councillors from two different municipalities and a mayoral candidate from another. It was pleasing that around 70% of the audience were entrepreneurs. The many questions from the audience showed both their great interest and their astonishment at the situation, which the speaker was able to document with numerous papers. The talk also sharpened awareness of the quality of the Basic Law, which would serve us Germans well if it were adhered to – a circumstance also criticised by the highest judges.