Welcome to the new issue of evil:austria!

This month evil:austria is a little shorter mainly due to the political summer holiday. We are sure though, that the government will soon inundate us with it's dirty tricks.
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evil:austria is our monthly newsletter which supplies info about the actual situation in Austria and the consequences of the new government. We have decided to produce this newsletter because we have realized that the knowledge about the real situation in Austria, especially abroad, is very limited. The government has achieved its target, that with the discussion about the "sanctions" from the European Union the daily madness in this country has vanished from the agenda of the international public. We want to avoid this resulting in a "normalization" of the right/right-extreme Austrian government. We also do this for egoistic reasons, because international monitoring prevents things from getting even worse, at least for the moment. Therefore, it is very important to spread this newsletter as far as possible, so that as many people as possible are informed about the situation in Austria. Thus: distribute it, distribute it, distribute it! Feel free to use this material for other publications, but please, send us a mail if you do so.

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[1] The FPOe focus on using right extemists
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[2] "With Haider for Freedom"
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[3] Deviations to the left within the FPOe
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[4] "The right to life in Austria is not given"
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[5] The demos and the repression
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[6] A few statistics
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[7] Big Brother needs to know everything
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[8] FPOe muzzles government officials
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[9] Proposals of a Minister of Justice
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[10] Poll of the month
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[11] Nazi concert in Vorarlberg
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[12] "He's got a long one" ...
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[1] The FPOe focus on using right extemists
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The distancing of the FPOe from the european exterme right is purely tactical lipservice. Joerg Haider's cultural adviser in Carinthia and "Zur Zeit" chief editor Andreas Moelzer works hard on this, and also so other right extremists in Europe are able to successfully link with the FPOe. He plans a strategy congress of the European right in October in Vienna. People from the French Mouvement National Republicain or the leader of the Belgian Vlaams Blok, Phillip Dewinter, are supposed to appear there. These contacts have been going on for some time already; at the summer festival from "Zur Zeit" (an extreme right wing weekly newspaper) Vlaams Blok found comrades. Two jounalist colleagues of Moelzer stayed for a month at the congress of "Synergies Europeenes", a well known extreme right wing think-tank. The FPOe works behind the scenes obviously strengthening the European right. So keep our eyes open.

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[2] "With Haider for Freedom"
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This is the name of a new political movement in Udine, whose ideal is the "political, social and economic programme" of Joerg Haider. It was founded by the brothers Luigi and Ernesto Pezzetta, claiming they held close contact with Haider and also to be supported by him.
Ernesto Pezzeta is the current chief of the (post-?) fascist MSI in the region of Friaul.

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[3] Deviations to the left within the FPOe
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At last the FPOe have discovered their humorous side, they use real-life satire: Hilmar Kabas, the boss of the Viennese FPOe, answerable for such election posters as "Stop Foreign Infiltration" or the agitating "Powerless against 1000 Nigerians" is best familiar with Nazi diction and above every accusation of being not right-wing enough. Still he has had to fight hard: Stix, the ex-FP district councillor member of parliament for Vienna, claims that "since... the death of Rainer Pawkowicz [the previous local FPOe boss] the FPOe in Vienna occupies a left wing position with more state intervention than the KPOe [Communist Party of Austria] boss would ever risk." Stix claimed that demands by FPOe vice chairperson Hubert Gorbach to have Kabas replaced were "too timid". Since the decline of FPOe - which Stix described as "already initiated" - was linked to Kabas, a replacement would not be enough to "lead FPOe out of their Bolshevist dead-end, decorated with embarassing rightwing folklore".

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[4] "The right to life in Austria is not given"
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We must have already reported on the case of Imre B (who was shot by the police as an alleged drug dealer). The UVS (independant administration senate; the complaints department of the Austrian police) will not hear complaints from Imre B's son. The children sued saying that the fatal shots were fired against the law and demanded appropriate legal action. The UVS rejected the complaints: only "persons directly injured" can defend themselves against the police. But, the "directly injured" is dead, shot by the police.
This is also of relevance in the case of Marcus Omofuma: in this case, too, the surviving relatives complained saying he had a right to live. These complaints were also rejected and both cases are now to be looked at by the Constitutional Court.
If police officers have read the UVS judgement, then, good night. For them the name is same, they will just shoot, it saves red tape.

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[5] The demos and the repression
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The police must accept a bitter defeat in their repression work: in the proceedings against 2 people, who were arrested at the beginning of March at the Opera ball demonstration and then detained for five weeks in a remand centre, themselves have, after massive internal pressure, had the competent state solicitor (and unsuccessful OeVP candidate at the last national council election) Risa Shumeister-Schmatral declared as prejudiced. Schumeister-Schmatral has been known for many years for her paranoia of the "left (in particular Anarchist) threat". Suddenly the legal proceedings have been reduced to "resistance against law enforcement forces" instead of the more serious previous charges of "Breach of peace" and "attempted grievous bodily harm".

Also charges against 10 other people were dropped. These people, in June, were part of the weekly anti-government demonstrations and with around 200 other people, stormed the Hotel Marriot. Inside was an international economic conference in which the finance minister had participated.

The police have recently been more severe on the demonstrations: a visit to the city centre will be hindered due to massive police diversions and blocking of roads and footpaths. The police also attempt to redirect or divide the demonstration. Whether it is not tactically possible or if the police are just too slow, it doesn't always work. Also the number of plain clothes police present has obviously massively increased, and as the police action increases, so does the number of injured demonstrators.

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[6] A few statistics
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The home secretary has made a parliamentary inquiry into the anti-government demonstrations available:

up and till the 19th June 2000:
14 official demonstrations.
116 unofficial demonstrations.
7 of these have "made it necessary to turn towards compulsory measures" due to "riots".

as a result of this:
80 injured (72 of these police officers)
797 reports of damage (505 police uniforms and equipment, 41 police vehicles)
= total damage 530.00 schillings
The overtime for the police has so far cost 33,1 million schillings

As a total, quite a successful protest "budget".

Just that the number of persons injured unfortunately is, well, what can we say: counted in an extremely onesided way by the police who "forgot" to include injured protesters (and we're talking of real injuries, not about "sprained me finger on me truncheon while doing a bit of bashing up").

In closing, a tip for Mr home secretary: If you had stayed at home, you would have saved all this money ;-)

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[7] Big Brother needs to know everything
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The Home Office, led by OeVP member Ernst Strasser, is developing horrifying ideas regarding reforms of the records kept in registration offices [one must report to the authorities every time one moves house and may be fined if one fails to do so]. They plan to make people register also which friends they've got and which clubs/organisations they are a member of. This is will effect even tighter controls which will be scandalous enough as it is. But when we imagine that an FPOe Home Secretary might have this information easily available, we're really petrified.

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[8] FPOe muzzles government officials
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The government official for the admission of more states to the EU (especially from Eastern Europe), OeVP politician Erhard Busek, seems to have annoyed the FPOe and their clientele from Sudetenland. The FPOe demands that the admission of the Czech Republic and Slovenia to the EU should be on the condition that they withdraw the Benes and AVNOJ decrees. These decrees dealt with the removal of Germans after World War II. The Germans living in both countries were actively taking part in the Nazi terror in the occupied territories and were not wanted around any longer after the war.
Busek has refused this idea. As a consequence, FPOe demanded Busek be dismissed without the recompensation of his travels. This demand was reinforced after Busek detected a "therapeutical problem" in Haider. So the FPOe told Busek off, which means they are not above putting pressure on government officials.
Busek will stay in office. Haider, however, has got an idea re who would be the right person for this job: "The most qualified person for the admission of Eastern European countries to EU - that's me." Now, what's the bloke up to? Start shooting back at 5.45 a.m.? (as Hitler once said!)

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[9] Proposals of a Minister of Justice
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After foreign media started publishing the names of child molesters in early August, the minister of justice, Boehmdorfer, said in a radio interview that he would not rule out a similar action in Austria. He said it was "a fact that the desires of society lean this way". Boehmdorfer, who at first had no qualms about bending the law in favour of "public opinion", later the same day backed off saying that such an idea was not in accordance with constitutional rights. A minister of justice who remembers these rights only after having been a target of public criticism - oh well. FPOe General Secretary Zierler since then advocates having child molesters observed by mayors or social workers.

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[10] Poll of the month
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1000 Austrians have been questioned re. good and bad points of the FPOe and the results were, as always, interesting:
One of the strong points of FPOe, the people questioned said, were the FPOe's "consistent politics regarding foreigners" which not only 75% of the FPOe supporters hold in high esteem but also 40% of the FPOe's opponents.

Much room is left for more racist agitation by the FPOe. If only they were able to stop their infighting which 43% of the persons questioned did not like...

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[11] Nazi concert in Vorarlberg
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Approximately 200 Nazi boneheads from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and England met for a concert in Vorarlberg at the end of August.
The concert was organised by the local section of "Blood & Honour". The police was caught unawares, so the concert took place. However, just two weeks prior to the concert, police claimed they had a tight control over hardcore Nazi activists....

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[12] "He's got a long one" ...
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.. or: questions the Austrian police have been dying to have answered...

The front door bell of an apartment inhabited by a woman rings. Police officers ask to be admitted to the apartment to look for "illegal foreigners". For searches like this, the police do not need a search warrant. Result: no "illegal" persons.
The woman does not know why the search has taken place: she is Austrian, has an Austrian name. She starts inquiries and learns: there was an anonymous tip off, to the effect that she is hiding a huge foreign family...
Which is not the end of the story. A police officer asked the lady whether her friend was black. He is indeed. Furthermore whether she was happy with her friend. She is indeed. And then: "Is it true blacks have got a real long one?" The officer claims a different version of the incident: the woman is said to have complained that she and her friend were victims of constant verbal atrocities. To which the officer is understood to have replied "understandingly": "Yes, sure, he's black and he's got a real long one."

A high ranking police officer was sent to the lady to apologize and tell her the officer only meant to cheer her up with a "joking comment", and the "joker" has been sent to apologize too.

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