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No to the occupation army

OPEN LETTER to the Lord Bundesprädidenten Dr. Heinz Fischer
Author:

DDr. Werner Hofer King
Member of Parliament of the Republic of Austria

Dear Mr. President!

As commander of the Austrian Armed Forces, you are responsible for the fate of thousands of soldiers and also those for the security of Austria. Our 26 October 19 55 specified by law requires the neutrality policy makers explicitly for military defense. For this purpose there and since then the Austrian Army, where I have served the same eight months as a Mountaineer. The recruitment of our Armed Forces is based on the principle of universal military service for all male citizens. For 35 years, there is also an alternative service that is now a so-called civil service had become fixtures on our social services. All this is now just returned from a social democratic Defense questioned.

course, there is also in the army - as in many other areas - the need for reform, the questioning of the foundation but does not secure the continuation of this very important safety device. The Austrian people to maintain its neutrality and keep the related institution to hedge them. In a troubled time like this is no place for risky gimmicks in the area of the external and internal security, which is why the call for a professional army is almost grotesque. Better training and equipment of our armed forces by a higher-doped defense budget would be the order of the day, not the Reorganization into a professional force that will develop sooner or later into a praetorian guard of the respective government.

you know as a Social Democrat, what happened in February 1934 when an Austrian army of occupation has a sledgehammer to Social Democrats. There are now almost exactly 77 years ago, but the wounds in many hearts have not healed yet, and what happened is not forgotten to this day. I also refer to the historical example of Romania, where in 1989 the Professional Garde "Securitate" their president has defended to the last bullet. Only the occurrence of the People's Army took a turn for the benefit of the people, because their soldiers were recruited from the people and have not dared the officers to give them the order to fire on their own people. The same took place until in the recent past in Egypt. The army, recruited from among the people, has not fired on the people.

much more practical would be of course a professional force like the French Foreign Legion. A perfect mercenary force that would not be in domestic use are reluctant to fire on citizens and can be used safely abroad, because it must shed for a fallen Legionnaire no French mother a tear. German Defense Minister to Guttenberg has been talked about in the new German occupation army accommodate foreigners to do.

If you want to establish such a multi-cultural associations in the EU? What are the goals and what the background of such political action? As a historian I see these developments with great skepticism, and can only warn against going down this route. The introduction of a professional army in place of the national army would also lead to alienation between government and people of concern. Who knows who sits in our barracks and which commands these professionals will run again? Deeply concerned about it, I would ask you therefore to oppose the Austrian army as commander of such a development!

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When : 10 March 2011
Address: A-1090 Vienna, Austria, Liechtenstein Strasse 100
Doors: 18.00 clock Start: 19.00 clock Duration: 23:00
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