Papers, Please: Austria Unleashes its Vaccine Gestapo

• Papers, Please: Austria Unleashes its Vaccine Gestapo
  by BLUEAPPLES, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Orson Welles once famously recounted a story during his youth when he was sent to Europe by his wealthy yet frivolous father to learn how to make the most of his money in order to survive. Welles recounted being in the Austrian Alps with a tutor of his before being taken to a meeting of a then obscure but up-and-coming political movement by him. Fascinated by politics, even at a young age, Welles was excited to attend the meeting of the relatively unknown National Socialist Germany Workers Party. At the dinner hosted by the party, Welles found himself seated next to a quiet, meek man who the famous actor said he would never had remembered based on the impression that was left on him. The only reason that memory became so important to Welles was because of what became of that guest. The man Welles was seated next to was Adolf Hitler. The story is a time capsule of sorts, looking back at an age before the name Hitler would irreversibly link the nation of Austria as the birthplace of the man who build Germany’s Third Reich on a foundation of fascist authoritarianism.
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  To quote another famous figure from the German realm, G.W.F. Hegel once said that “the one thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.” In the wake of radically authoritarian legislation requiring compulsory vaccination against COVID-19, Austria seems to have proven Hegel’s point. Despite the nation’s history, it’s readily descending into an authoritarian landscape where the lies of the party elite are based upon a false sense of collectivism made in the name of the national interest in order to sacrifice individual freedom.
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  As if requiring all Austrians over the age of 14 at the risk of severe fines and penalties including imprisonment wasn’t enough, the city government of Linz upped the ante by unveiling its plans to hire a secret police of sorts to enforce the nation’s penalties on the unvaccinated.
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