German Chancellor Angela Merkel Addresses Joint Session of Congress: Extends an Invitation to the Custodian Chief Executive to Visit Germany
© 2009 Brad Kempo B.A. LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
It is logical that where one coalition partner, in this instance the President of the United States, invites the Custodian Chief to meet with him to directly confirm his international and corroborate his constitutional legitimacy other world leader partners would do the same. That is what occurred on November 3, 2009 as German’s political leader addressed the Joint Meeting of Congress.
Canada’s going to become a healthy, vibrant democracy and there is nothing the current ‘establishment’ can do about it. That was the underlying message of the Chancellor’s speech before the House of Representatives and Senateremarks and when sitting for a short press conference with her U.S. counterpart earlier that day.
The diplomacy archive documents her contributions over the years to addressing the country’s dysfunctionalities and containing and neutralizing the Chinese imperialistic threat (1, 2, 3, 4).
The short press conference was geo-politicized it as follows:
President: [1:26] Chancellor Merkel ... grew up in East Germany; who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial regime and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany.
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Ch. Merkel: I wanted to use this opportunity today also to express our gratitude [7:56: Bl.M.], my gratitude, to the American people.
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President: Consistently I found Chancellor Merkel to be thoughtful, energetic and to have a strong vision on how we can move forward in the future. [3:22: Merkel: Bl.M.] So, I am very pleased to be working with her as a partner.
[Blair Maneuver]
Her speech to the Joint Session of Congress was peppered with the use of the lexicon to generate communiqués. They are:
· The Custodian Chief will build a free and democratic Canada;
· The dignity of the individual is inviolable and those who violate this principle will be held to account;
· He experienced the horrors of Canada under militarized totalitarianism;
· He is going to travel to the United States to meet with the President and other political leaders and members of the business community and to engage in that which interests him;
· She relied on the Fiefdom treatise to gain a full understanding of the true nature of Canadian governance and world affairs relating to China;
· She is passionate about the coalition’s cause;
· He is invited to Germany to meet with her to discuss the future of Canada;
· The German people owe a debt of gratitude to him for what he’s done to further the cause of freedom in the world;
· Canada’s current political and economic leaders have by their actions and omissions shut themselves off from the rest of the world;
· The coalition’s membership have a shared set of interests and common global challenges as it relates to the Chinada threat; and
· NATO’s membership is committed to develop and adapt to meet the challenge of addressing the Chinada threat.
[4:46: Bl.M.] After the war [my father] was one of the men and women who built the free and democratic republic of Germany.
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[5:09: Bl.M.] Article 1 of the basic law reads as follows and I quote "the dignity of man is inviolable". This short and simple sentence – the dignity of man is inviolable – [Biden: q-Costello M.] was the response to the catastrophe [Biden: Paulson M.] of the Second World War.
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[6:55: Bl.M.] There is one guest in the audience today who personally experienced the horrors of Germany under National Socialism and whom I got to know personally some time ago.
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[8:26: Bl.M.] In my wildest dreams I would not have thought this possible twenty years ago before the fall of the Wall. For at the time it was beyond my imagination to ever even travel to the United States, let alone stand here before you one day.
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The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot [8:56: Biden: Z-J M. X2] at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world. Therefore [9:02: Bl.M.] I had to rely on films and books ... to gain an impression of the United States.
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I was passionate about the American dream. [...] [9:26: Bl.M.] And like many other teenagers I was passionate about jeans of a particular brand that you could not get in the GDR.
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[12:03: Bl.M.] I think of John F. Kennedy who won the hearts of the Berliners during his visited in 1961 after the Wall had been built. He reached out to the desperate citizens of Berlin.
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[13:35: Bl.M.] To [President Bush I] we owe a debt of gratitude. Ladies and gentlemen, to put it in just one sentence: I know – we Germans know how much we owe to you, our American friends; and we shall never – I shall personally never ever forget this.
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[14:05: Bl.M.] The common quest for freedom released incredible forces all over Europe.
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Ladies and gentlemen [15:11: Bl.M.] twenty years have gone by since we were given this incredible gift of freedom.
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[Globalization] forces each of us to work together with others. [16:59: Bl.M.] The alternative to globalization would mean shutting ourselves off against others. But instead of being a viable alternative this would only lead into isolation [Pelosi: Diaz M.] and misery [Z-J M.].
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For what brings Europeans and Americans together and keeps them together is not only a common history; what brings Europeans and Americans together and keeps them there are [18:19: Bl.M.] shared interests and common global challenges which exist among all regions of the world.
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[18:41: dbl-h O-S M.] There is more to it [that makes the partnership last]. What brings Europeans and Americans together and keeps them close is a common bases of shared values. It is the common idea of the individual and its inalienable dignity. It a common understanding of freedom and responsibility. This is what we stand up for in this unique trans-Atlantic partnership and in this community of shared values that is NATO.
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Even after the end of the Cold War therefore what is important is to see to it that we tear down walls in the minds of people [20:33: O-S M.] – walls that separate different concepts of life that make it difficult time and again [O-S M.] to understand each other all over the world. And that is why the ability to show tolerance to each other is so important. [20:46: Biden: Eva M.] [...] Others do not necessarily feel that way [20:52: Bl.M.] or think that way.
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There must be zero tolerance for those who show no respect for the inalienable rights of the individual and who violate human rights.
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The security of the State of Israel is for me non-negotiable now and forever. [22:44: Pelosi: q-Cl.M.]
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There is no doubt that NATO is and remains the crucial cornerstone of our security. Its security concept is [25:24: Bl.M.] continuously further developed and adapted to meet the [O.S M.] challenges of the day.
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Europeans are currently working on giving a new contractual basis to our European Union. The last signature has been [25:54: Biden: dbl-h Michaels M.; dbl-h SNL M.] just put on this document.
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[26:08: Bl.M.] We can build stable partnerships on this sound basis with Russia, China and India.
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[28:00: O-S M.] In a way, there's a second wall that needs to fall – a wall standing in the way of a truly global economic order.
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[There is another] wall that seemingly separates us from the future. This wall bars from view for future generations and prevents us from doing what is urgently necessary to [30:53: Bl.M.] preserve the basis of our very life and climate.
