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Will Berlin Become a Restricted Zone on August 3, 2024?The annoying thing about freedom of speech is the house search afterward, says Michael Ballweg in an interview, who has again called for a demonstration similar to the one in 2020. 
Many government critics from the Burgenland district will also travel to Berlin to meet like-minded people in the federal capital. I am curious what tricks politics will come up with to prevent or disrupt this demo. On July 27, 2024, at the demonstration in Gera, supply stands offering bratwurst, ice cream, and drinks were shut down and surrounded by police. Perhaps such food is already classified as right-wing extremist or a threat to state welfare. The Reichstag, or rather the steps of the Reichstag, will probably not be stormed. Construction work is underway there. A trench is to be dug to protect the government from the people. But maybe the police will try, as they did on highways during the pandemic years, to stop buses and so on and send them back. Those affected can appeal this and might be legally confirmed years later that the police's administrative act was unlawful. This is often called the rule of law. But against arbitrariness on August 3, 2024, this would no longer help. But maybe everything will be great after all. Those still undecided about whether to travel to Berlin will find many reasons to join and demonstrate for peace and freedom at https://querdenken-711.de/03-08-2024-wer-und-warum-nach-berlin/. Freedom Is Made of CourageInterview with Michael BallwegAI-processed YouTube transcript. The spoken word in the video applies. Dear viewers, a very good day and a warm welcome to a new video interview, today not from my studio but sitting out in nature. I don’t think I need to introduce today’s guest anymore. I warmly welcome Michael Ballweg today. Glad to be here, thanks for having me. Hello Michael. Michael, we haven’t seen each other for a while, I think the last time was at the Hambach Festival, but not this year, the year before. How are you? Actually, I’m doing very well. I’m doing what I planned in 2020, but in a different way. I wanted to travel the world in 2020, and now I’m just traveling wherever life takes me. My entire assets and companies are still seized. But there are many people who welcome me, so today I’m here in Fulda where we’re talking, and for a while in the south, and then from the 16th we’ll be in Berlin preparing for the demo. And the demo is on August 3? Yes, the demo is on August 3 in Berlin. Let’s briefly come back to your trial, or rather, there wasn’t one. You were locked up in pretrial detention. How long were you there? Over a year, right? 9 months. 9 months, okay. 9 months for nothing. What became of it? Did they find anything to charge you with? What happened was that the regional court initially rejected the charge of attempted fraud. The attempted tax evasion they accuse me of, because I didn’t file my tax return on time from prison, was supposed to be tried. But the regional court already said it was questionable, and the higher regional court said it must be tried. So both cases: attempted fraud and attempted tax evasion. And 60 trial days are actually scheduled. 60 days, that’s crazy. That will probably last over a year. Let’s see where it goes. I almost expected they would have already ruined you financially. Yes, everything is actually seized, but just because it’s seized doesn’t mean they won’t have to give it back eventually. A part was released, but the tax office immediately seized it again. So they want to make me incapacitated, and that’s why I’m definitely holding this demonstration on August 3 in Berlin, also to show: Freedom is made of courage, and we must be brave in these times. I even think it’s our duty to be brave, everyone in the way they can, and then together we’ll achieve something great and continue what we started in 2020 and ultimately succeed. Before we talk about the demo, I know some people who had house searches. The annoying thing about freedom of speech nowadays is the house search afterward. Exactly, you’re allowed to say everything if you accept a house search afterward. Did it affect you? Do you have long-term effects from your time in prison? I know many who still flinch when the doorbell rings unexpectedly and carry a slight trauma. You experienced even worse in prison. What did it do to you? The only thing that really hit me was this feeling of uprooting. Before I got out of prison, I still had a house; when I got out, I had nothing and couldn’t say goodbye. That bothered me a bit. Otherwise, I have to say prison strengthened and fortified me mentally. My perception is very different now because when you spend a lot of time inside—23 hours locked up—you inevitably go inward and get to know yourself extremely well and feel much more nuances. Why was the house gone? I was in the process of selling it because my wife and I had separated back then, the kids were grown, and I said the house was way too big for me. I had already signed the notary contract; the handover was supposed to be on July 15. The arrest was June 29. So almost everything left in the house—since I couldn’t communicate with my lawyer team for the first two weeks from prison—stayed there and passed to the buyer. So I’m free and freed from everything and can start anew. That actually sounds kind of nice, right? I have a house myself and that can be a burden sometimes. Yes, right now being mobile is more an advantage than a disadvantage. I’m not someone who enjoys bookkeeping, and a house always comes with receipts, taxes, and all these constraints, so at the moment it’s not a loss. I wanted to do it anyway. Okay, let’s get to the demo. My first question: Why do you still put yourself through this? You were arrested, not least because of the demos you organized. I think they were the biggest demos ever held in the Federal Republic. I was at the Berlin demos myself, and it was really ridiculous that they talked about 18,000 participants or so, as far as I remember. The footage shown was taken around 11:30 AM—I was at the stage then—and it looked exactly like that. Exactly, yes. And it was already a farce what happened there. Yes, yes. Why do you still do it? I wouldn’t say I “put myself through” it; I do this out of my own free will. The decision for this demo arose at the Karlsruhe demo on December 10, organized by ZAR, I believe. The energy for a fresh start was there again. Normally, I decide things quickly from the gut, but this time I took about a month and a half to listen to myself: do I really want to do this? Because it’s an extreme amount of work. So you could call it putting yourself through something. You’re busy around the clock, especially since my situation is different now with no resources, no headquarters, no office to prepare it. But that mood inspired me strongly, and the movement has decentralized now, so I think it’s important to give a central impulse again. I’ve always worked energetically. Many probably remember the “minute of the heart” on Straße des 17. Juni. Such a big gathering is very important to me, and since no one else is doing it, I decided to do it. What do you think about the demos back then? What did they achieve? Did they achieve anything at all? Many say demos don’t bring anything anyway. The question is always what you expect. If the expectation is that politicians resign—that’s something we’ve learned today. Politicians used to resign for small things. I just remember the Federal President, I think it was about a false accounting of his housekeeper. The question is always, what are the expectations? My expectation at the start, when I began, and when I thought we live in a democracy, was that demos have an impact. We even demanded new elections in the first manifesto, I believe. It wasn’t an illusion but was serious in the sense that we could make it happen. But demos have very important functions. One is simply to see you’re not alone. The second is a networking platform, and the third is an information platform. And it’s exactly about these three things. I’ve met people who were alone until 2021 and knew nothing about the demos and were so happy when they finally found a Telegram group. So there are still many who joined later and don’t know about these change offers. Therefore, a big part of the demonstration on August 3 will be to offer change, because we can’t expect to live in a system where we only complain about the system. It’s about changing ourselves, changing our environment, and then the big picture changes. What experiences have you had with the people involved in the movement? People tend to put them into boxes. What experiences have you had with those engaged in the movement? They are the most wonderful people there are—right across society. There are so many cheerful people, people looking forward, wanting change, really full of energy for a fresh start. That’s why we’re so dangerous, because people are afraid of these ideas. People also speak of the morphogenetic field that forms when people are connected through these ideas even over large distances. You don’t have to see it esoterically. If you deal with the power of thoughts, it’s very plausible that there’s something to it. And that’s why we’re attacked so much, because when you talk to these people, you realize there’s something there that can’t easily be dismissed. We were together at a congress in Kitzbühel, and you already described the Vision 2030. This topic will surely play a role at the demo. Can you say something about it? Yes, Vision 2030 developed already in 2020, I believe. Markus Haintz and I made the poster together. The idea is not to force a vision on people but to give them the chance to imagine a future and develop something from it. It’s always a democratic process—no one says we have to live a certain way in 2030—but it’s about having a direction to move towards because if you have a direction, you can move forward, orient yourself, and have a common vision. I think that’s the key: to have a shared vision to work towards. What do you think will happen on August 3? I expect thousands of people. I expect an event that’s peaceful, energetic, and has many positive messages. I expect a demonstration where people say: I want to be free, I want peace, I want self-determination. I think it will be a huge success. Thank you very much for the interview, Michael. All the best for you, and see you on August 3. Thanks a lot, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. --- [Note: The interview text is based on an AI-generated transcript of the original video interview.] Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm und die KI | 01.08.2024 |
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