Trust us, we're politicians!

Somehow, our brown politicians manage to take the cake every time they just do anything.
I was just wondering about the new placards of the freedom party ("More bravery for our viennese blood | too much foreignness isn't good for anyone") when I stumpled upon an election rally by the BZOe, maybe best translated as the 'future league' to have the heroism incorporated they claim themselves with.

Shortly before I read about those BZOe-guys trying to keep Austria Austrian by avoiding anglicisms. So, if you're planning to commence a career in the BZOe you better start learning German the way it can't be found in any language course.
Get a BZOe-Brieffreund or send Mr. Grosz some nice E-Post (I'm sure he's got a Persönlicher Rechner, Oberschenkeloberseite or at least a Netzbuch (and a Gesichtsbuchseite additionally to his Heimseite) even though those and especially the Zwischennetz, connecting us to all those evil foreigners out there, are pure work of the peregrine devil). Compliment his Wahlebene and those likeable Werbesubjekte as well as Stadtlichter, tell him he's got a lovely Gesichtserker or whatever comes to your mind. He's definately gonna be thrilled about new friends since his last one (with whom he still campaigns for himself - "true friends won't ever be forgotten"; especially if they're unbelievably corrupt) served perfectly as the role model he was told to be and got himself killed by speeding drunk.

Actually, I tried to stay a bit in order to see what they state to be standing for. Surprised is way understated for the feelings that overcame me.
Main topic seemed to be that our banks lose incredible amounts of money in speculation and corruption. So far so good, where's the news?
The news were actually that the BZOe promises to have the banks supervised by politics in order to prevent our money from leaving to a private account in Liechtenstein as soon as they have a say.

I found this kind of interesting. Let's recapitulate:
Back 2004 Buwog, a formerly nationalized estate agent, got sold by finance minister KH Grasser, member of the freedom party from which the BZOe got split off. Nearly all of the payments were done in a concealed manner and with the help of a letterbox company based in Cyprus. Receivers of those payments are innumerable, but all of them friends of Grasser - amongst them also Joerg Haider, founder of the BZOe and the drunken driver I wrote about just before, who died 2008 in a car accident. Back then, he advertised himself on placards with the words "He never lied to you!".
Hypo-Alpe-Adria, a corinthian bank, was sold to the Bavarian Land Bank in 2007. This time, the letterbox company was situated in Liechtenstein, but again the sale had been arranged by Grasser and vast amounts went to Haider.
In the meantime investigations came to the result that Mr. Haider had access to twelve different letterbox companies in Liechtenstein storing about 45 million Euros. Nobody knows exactly where this money came from. Sure thing the BZOe is involved quite well.

So, let's return to our former topic: The BZOe supervising Austrian banks and controlling money transfers? Is this really, really, and I mean in point of fact, effectively, actually and really really really considered a good idea?
I'd think of that a second time. The crowd didn't, they were all applauding and enthusiastic about those plans.

RAF, or: How I lost my innocence

Reporters and bloggers really are some annoying rabble. The ones try to impart the truth (which ought to be hushed up), the others communicate their opinions (which need to be forbidden). Some even do both.

Buuuuuut fortunately we can do something about it. The Austrian juridical system not only offers the convenient peculiarity of a priori innocence for executives, politicians and celebs (as discussed in a former post), but also the one most accurately described as 'more money, more rights'.

Thanks to that, wonderful possibilities open up for us all. For example, and this example is completely made up out of thin air, it has of course nothing to do with reality, could the (mediocre) clothes shop 'Kleiderbauer' (herein after referred to as KB) incriminate some unpleasing animal rights activists by stating that they form a criminal organization. Because selling cheap clothes with poor quality for dear money has one grow wealthy, KB has enough money not to need evidence.

Also, it suffices in order to eliminate critical voices. Freedom of expression and press are annulled for the sake of economy. Whoever tries to appeal to reason and equitableness is being hunt down like a stray dog.

I don't want to nod towards someone at this point.









But I do.

http://diewahrheit.at/



Still, there are those wonderful people shouting: 'What's your problem, everything's fine! Freedom's limited a lot more drastically in other nations!'

I pretty much want to see them go to Duisburg and exclaim euphorically: 'What are you grieving for? There could've died a lot more!'

And why the hell isn't there anybody pretending there's no need to prosecute thieves because they could have done things a lot worse instead?

Human rights organizations keep affirming they don't care what happens in Austria because there're always bigger drawbacks somewhere else. That's the first step to not caring at all.

And the nation keeps whining about issues that really matter. Copulating bears, runaway snakes, morbid things like gay marriages for example. Or public poison, such as mosques or burqas, chadors, hijabs and whatsoever. Immigration in general.
We're frustrated and in need of skilled labor but weeeeeeeell, we can't allow foreigners to work in our beloved country, can we? Someone could actually get the impression we're open-minded.








Whatever… So, as conclusion I'd like to use this entry as an appeal for money in case someone actually reads my stuff. If so, it's also likely I'm going to get one of KB's many writs pretty soon.

I hereby declare this as a little fund raiser for us poor Reporters Avec Frontières.