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‘Whoever Loves Austria Is S***’ – Austria’s New President Hates His Own Country
Breitbart ^ | May 23 ,2016 | Raheem Kassam 23

Posted on 05/23/2016 12:21:48 PM PDT by quesney

They called it an “election gimmick” and a “campaign gag”, but the new president-elect of Austria once presided over his party’s campaign that declared: “Anyone who loves Austria must be shit”.

Alexander Van der Bellen – who appears to have defeated the Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer by around just 30,000 of nearly five million votes – has a track record of opposing the nation state as a concept, and his own as a reality.

In 2007, while he was leader of the Austrian Greens, the party published a picture of a dog with the Austrian flag in its mouth. The poster read: “Take your flag for your gag”, followed by the declaration that anyone who loves the country “must be sh*t”.

The flag “joke” was a play on a campaign urging dog owners to place their dog’s excrement in bags and trash cans. The Austrian greens replaced the bag with a flag of Austria in the image (right).

And while, of course, efforts were made to distance Van der Bellen from this 2007 Green Party initiative, the issue re-emerged on the run up to this weekend’s final round of presidential election voting. Far be it from a “gag” or one-off incident, critics say, this attitude against borders and nations runs deep through the Austrian Green Party which is now in charge of the presidency of the country.

Newspapers drew attention to another more recent incident, whereby a leading Green activist declared: “Austria [is a] lousy piece of shit!” when discussing the country’s recent border controls to deal with Europe’s migrant crisis. “These are facts, not subjective opinion,” Georg H. posted to his Facebook page.

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To: dfwgator

Actually, I would be bet that if the truth were ever known, they didn’t vote for it. They were swindled out of it.


21 posted on 05/23/2016 12:37:04 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: quesney

What happened is that they lost WW II and have been occupied by hostile parties that have been brainwashing the public for the last seventy years so idiots like this can win a presidency. Happened to the “winning” side as well minus Russia.


22 posted on 05/23/2016 12:37:53 PM PDT by Ultima
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To: quesney

Was there cheating in this election? Just a couple days ago the conservative candidate was well ahead.


23 posted on 05/23/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by uncitizen (Europe is gone.)
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To: quesney

If they don’t want to be a nation, I guess it’s their business.


24 posted on 05/23/2016 12:46:19 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: quesney

IF as in our country an election is a squeaker the Left usually is able to “find” enough votes to win. Looks as though that scenario is practiced in Austria as well. Who knows the Democrats in our country may have learned the trick from them.


25 posted on 05/23/2016 12:46:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: quesney

I’d say Austria be better off not as a democracy, but Otto Von Habsburg loved the EU and this madness.


26 posted on 05/23/2016 12:48:47 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: quesney
"... by around just 30,000 of nearly five million votes"

Isn't it amazing how the libtards always win by just enough....

27 posted on 05/23/2016 12:51:11 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: quesney

Moo isn’t proud of her country or it’s “damned flag”, either.


28 posted on 05/23/2016 12:59:34 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

You may have a point there. It appears that while van der Bellen was born in Vienna, his parents were refugee arrivals ( father Dutch family from Russia arriving in Austria via Estonia). I am Insufficirntly Informed of Austrian law to know the child’s citizenship status. I therefore retract my comment about van der Bellen’s citizenship. Thanks


29 posted on 05/23/2016 1:00:06 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Perhaps van der Bellen’s hatred of Austria is reflective of an internal fear concerning is own citizenship status or Lack there of ? I can’t say, someone with more knowledge of him will hopefully inform us. Thanks


30 posted on 05/23/2016 1:03:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: dfwgator

“They voted for it.”

I’m not 100% sure that was the case. Hofer was ahead by almost 4% until they counted the “postal ballots”. Who knows what games they played with those. Hard to believe that mail-in ballots could be so lopsided as to make up that big a deficit.

Austria has gone postal.


31 posted on 05/23/2016 1:08:53 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: quesney

Now is a time of great decision. 
Are we to stay or up and quit? 
There's no avoiding this conclusion, 
our town is turning into ****. 

32 posted on 05/23/2016 1:15:12 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: aquila48

Either the dead voted by mail (Chicago trick) or the premarked ballots were held in the back of some remote post office (much like the Minnesota trick of finding ballots in to trunk of a “strategically abandoned car” in some northwoods town.
It’s not who votes, it’s who counts the votes.


33 posted on 05/23/2016 1:17:17 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: quesney
Any Freepers from Austria or Germany care to explain stuff like this....

I can - I lived in Europe for 10 years - hired to work on the EU privatization schemes of the 1990s. You see in Europe in the so called "West" (NATO or EU) nationalism is seen as evil because they blame WW1 (and some WW2) to nationalism so the Western Europeans are taught anti-nationalism and to hate the idea of nation states or tribes or ethnicity, etc.

34 posted on 05/23/2016 1:17:36 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: quesney

So who is in and who is out in this run-up to the run-off?


35 posted on 05/23/2016 1:19:12 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Ultima

“What happened is that they lost WW II and have been occupied by hostile parties that have been brainwashing the public for the last seventy years so idiots like this can win a presidency.”

Austria has sucked governmentally speaking LONG before that.


36 posted on 05/23/2016 1:32:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: DesertRhino

They even voted for that Nazi, Kurt Waldheim.


37 posted on 05/23/2016 1:43:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: aquila48

“The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Muslims”


38 posted on 05/23/2016 1:44:37 PM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: quesney

Funny guys, those Greens.


39 posted on 05/23/2016 1:57:57 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: DesertRhino

Having governments intent on replacing the native population with Nigerians and Pakistanis goes far beyond the “sucky” governments of the past. Hitler may have a started an idiotic war that killed tens of millions but he didn’t actually try to replace Germans with Arabs and Africans.


40 posted on 05/23/2016 1:58:48 PM PDT by Ultima
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