“Resistance against the ’corona craze’ – which has been keeping the country hostage for weeks – is absolutely essential. There is even more danger in the infection of the people’s spirit by the continuously growing authoritarian demeanour of the ruling [power]…”

So said Herbert Kickl in a special session of the Austrian parliament. Well, actually that’s not what he really said. Because he said it in German. The loose translation offered here is courtesy of my multilingual friend Wolfgang Wurzbacher at Pfenning’s Organic. 

“It is cynical to coerce the population into accepting this ‘new normality’ and senseless measures,” continues Kickl, “such as a totally useless population-wide masquerade [of face masks], which have since been repeatedly shown to be unsound, based solely on perpetuating the spirit of fear and terror…”

Kickl served as Austria’s minister of the interior from 2017 to 2019. He also served as a  a Member of the National Council from 2006-2017. 

”The half-hearted and inconsequential steps taken by the coalition to re-open the Austrian economy can be seen more as prolonging the slow death of the country… The results of these measures can be seen in the traces of devastation throughout the country, imperilling the existence of thousands of people and families.”

Kickl does offer some hope: “The already dwindling cases — of what can only be classified as a normal seasonal flu — sabotage the government’s over-dramatized saviour measures…” 

Lastly, Kickl defends those who are speaking out: “Any dissenting expert and well-researched viewpoints are disregarded and classified as crazy, life-threatening or as fake news…” Please, don’t let such baseless accusations stop you from speaking out against this global injustice. Who cares if they call you a lunatic conspiracy theorists? Look to the example of real leaders like Herbert Kickl in Austria or Sara Cunial in Italy.