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OSTMARK IN RUINS, DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS
"Rioters are far-right, self-styled populists." said Chancellor Kohler.
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By Alexander Besselman
WIEN (Ostmark) - Teenagers throwing stones, cars and buildings alight, and officers of the Staatspolizei firing tear gas are the only images being broadcast to Europe, as rioting in Ostmark enters its fifth day with more demonstrations planned. But the unrest started long before the senseless shooting of 13-year-old Gerhart Krause last week.
The Social Democratic Party of Ostmark led by Chancellor Kohler made lofty promises of reform to win re-election after the default of the national economy in January 2014, but voters have only seen scandal after scandal with hundreds of billions of taxpayer OstMarks being wasted, an increase in violent crime, and a system of law and order that makes it impossible to get justice. It is a maladministration that allows convicted parliamentarians, terrorists, rapists and murderers to go unpunished for years and decade. It is a government that does not protect, serve or even respect its people. This is a government out for itself, and the people respond accordingly by dodging taxes, refusing to pay social insurance, polluting the environment, flouting the law, paying bribes, coveting public sector jobs, and doing what they please without punishment.
The Kohler government is quick to label anyone daring to take to the streets in angry protest as "far-right, self-styled populists", although these youths that subscribed to the National-Syndicalist People's Party and led by populist figurehead Horst Grasser, a man into his 60's who works at Ostmarkische Motoren Werke, are more likely the sons and daughters of the poor, the unemployed, and the frustrated citizens of Ostmark. And when things get out of hand or an innocent dies, the government is quick to pass on blame to subordinates – in this case, two police officers who serve it. A minister tenders resignation, but no one implements real measures or takes ultimate responsibility for the discontent and hopelessness of the Ostmarkians that sparked these and other violent riots in the first place. In short, Chancellor Kohler is incapable of controlling rioters with the same corrupt policies and lax enforcement that created them.
Interior Minister Michael Kramer appealed for calm and said police will go on the defensive – a near admission that restoring law and order, a basic civil right, could not be guaranteed to protect innocent people who fear for their safety, property and livelihood. He also said: "The loss of life is something that is not excusable in a democracy." Yet any country that tolerates acts of continued violence is one that does not protect or value freedom. Foreign analysts called the rioting, "the worst Ostmark has seen since the abolition of the monarchy in 1959".
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