The government tried with all its might to criminalize the critical activist against the Corona regime, Martin Rutter. The courts do not play along – this is the second time that Rutter has been acquitted. But Rutter’s goal – freedom for the people of Austria – seems to be a long way off. He joins calls for a warning strike on December 1st.
Martin Rutter wants to prevent compulsory vaccination together with all resistant Austrians:
So it takes civil disobedience. Stand up, stand up for what you really stand for. For our freedom. Against any coercion that some corrupt politician dictates to us. For the freedom of our children who have no chance to speak their minds. For a free Austria, as it was for many decades and is no longer.
Martin Rutter
In his video address, the activist wants to mobilize on three dates.
- Austria-wide warning strike on December 1st
- Mega demo in Vienna on December 4th
- Austria-wide strike on December 12th
Other leaders of the Austrian peace and freedom movement are in favor of a warning strike: 87% for a warning strike: call for peaceful resistance on December 1st
and also at the FPÖ one seems to be sympathetic to the project. FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl published a strong statement on Facebook about an hour ago:
More and more often one reads these days calls for a “warning strike” on December 1st. There is no individual right to strike in Austria, but of course everyone can take vacation or time off. And in view of the enormous psychological terror that this government is currently wielding, I have great understanding if many people currently no longer feel really fit for work.
Herbert Kickl
Martin Rutter Target of political and legal persecution
That was when the mainstream gritted its teeth. On November 26th, Martin Rutter was at the Vienna Regional Court acquitted of the allegation of resistance to the authority of the state. He didn’t even need his numerous witnesses and video recordings of the incident he was accused of – because the court did not consider the witness, a police officer, to be credible. Martin Rutter never gave an officer a nudge or otherwise used force against police officers. The public prosecutor asked for a time to think about it, the acquittal is not yet final.
As early as October 2021, Rutter acquitted at the regional court in Klagenfurt. There he had been accused of incitement to hatred because a rainbow flag was torn up in his direct vicinity – later he would also have hounded against homosexuals on Facebook. A very absurd accusation that also raised great doubts about the legal understanding of the prosecutor’s office. In fact, the torn flag – as reported by all those involved in the campaign – was a logo of child molesters. The judge stated that he could not make any findings to the detriment of Rutter. All statements made were clearly directed against pedophile offenders. This judgment is also not final due to an appeal by the public prosecutor.
In Austria it has unfortunately become common practice that politically motivated processes, with which one wants to silence those who think differently, are repeated until a judge can be found who decides in accordance with the indictment. This has already earned many fellow citizens a conviction for hatred, which, according to objective criteria of freedom of expression, should never be possible.
