Covidistan Annals II

More on the protests in Vienna--and their implications: yes, there's violence, committed by Antifa and the Black Block. Police knows it; the régime knows it; neither will do anything (yet)

I’m trying to keep you posted on developments in Covidistan, formerly known as ‘Austria’. Over the past couple of posts, I brought to you a number of items that all suggest that the Covidistan régime is very vulnerable, if not limping on despite little popular support. It goes without saying that the Committee of Public Safety is an empty shell built on a house of cards (lies) that is becoming ever shakier as the days pass.

While further updates on the first half of this week must wait for another day, here’s something else that my spouse brought to my attention a few hours ago.

Russell Brand dedicated a few minutes to the protests on 20 Nov. (see my comments here) and to the envisioned Covid-19 vaccine mandate; do take a couple of minutes to look at the commentary, especially how ‘RB’ is literally tiptoeing around the issue to avoid being censored by Google.

Still, there is something else I wish to bring to your attention right now.

In my piece (dated 23 Nov. 2021), I gave my opinion on the contradictory numbers of protestors. ‘According to the police, there were 40,000 participants, the [organisers from the Freedom Party] spoke of 100,000 protesters’, as reported by the Austrian Press Agency. This is what I said back then:

‘Now, it’s obvious that authorities conventionally, if not habitually, downplay (lie about) the number of protesters, and it’s reasonable to assume this to be the case here, too. It’s equally obvious that the organisers would also lie about the true number of participants.

So, what to make of these contradictory statements? I think the safest bet is to assume the true number of protesters to be somewhere between both numbers, thus let’s just agree on the arithmetic middle-point, i.e., around 70,000 participants.’

While I stand by my estimate, here’s what I spotted in the comments on Russell Brand’s segment on Covidistan:

Yes, you read this the right way. Someone who claimed to have attended the protests said that there were in excess of 100,000 protestors, and ‘easily’ so.

Keep in mind that despite no formal organisational backing, last Saturday’s (4 Dec. 2021) protests were larger than the protests two weeks earlier, as I reported yesterday. While police admitted to a mere 42,000 people, and I remain of the opinion that there were at least twice this number, probably many more, if the above comment on Eviltube is correct.

Two more crucial bits of information

But, wait, there’s two more things worth mentioning.

Re-read that screenshot. Eviltube commenter ‘gosu gosu’ also mentioned that he or she hasn’t

‘seen a single right wing extremist at the protest…which is a distraction to deligitimize the concern sensible people have throughout this country and all over the world.’ (my emphasis)

This is crucial—for it’s as true as it could be, so please bear with me for another minute or two.

On 4 Dec. 2021, according to police, another protest took place, organised by left-wing radicals (Black Block, Antifa, and the like). Theirs was a very small protest, numbering perhaps some 1,500 people, according to Covidistan media.

While I think that this number is exaggerated by police, there’s something else, which is intimately connected to the alleged ‘violence’ and ‘anti-democratic behaviour’ Nehammer denounced on Sunday.

According to my in-law—who’s among the police in Vienna—the ‘violence’ and ‘anti-democratic behaviour’ didn’t come from the anti-Covidistan protests, but rather from the extremely violence-prone radical leftists.

Covidistan’s Catch 22

I know about this because my in-law tells family members privately. This isn’t the first or only time this came up in private conversations. And my in-law isn’t the only police officer who is wary of these radical left-wing protestors—care to guess why most police is rather against Antifa, the Black Bloc, and the like?

Anecdotes and personal sentiments aside, here’s why this matters bigly:

The Covidistan Greens are the primary systemic political backing these radical left-wing protestors have, and they are now in government.

The conservative People’s Party (Nehammer, who was Interior Minsiter before acceding to the Chancellorship on Monday) doesn’t very much like Antifa, the Black Bloc, and their ilk.

Both parties know of these issues, but the Greens have the upper hand here: if their ‘partners’ denounce the violence of Antifa, the Black Block, and their ilk, Nehammer will have a political problem of the first order, yet…

…the Greens don’t need any chaos should citizens demand of the police to rein in these provocateurs.

You see: the Committee isn’t merely facing popular dissent, they’re also faced with the internal problem of one part of their own (the Greens) either don’t wanting or being incapable of preventing Antifa, the Black Block, and the like from wreaking havoc.

Trust in the régime is faltering. Many police don’t like, on a personal level, Antifa and the Black Block, which they are—currently—no allowed to touch, for party-political reasons.

As I said before, I don’t pity the régime, but things don’t break up. They break down.

The clock’s ticking, and soon the music will stop, if it hasn’t already.

And then the dancing will come to an end as well.