7 Replies to “Freedom for Michael Ballweg”

  1. The US Federal Reserve's June 15 decision to raise interest rates, the largest in almost 30 years, while financial markets have already collapsed now guarantees a global depression and worse.

    "The scale of the bubble of cheap credit" that the Fed, ECB and Bank of Japan have created by buying bonds and maintaining unprecedented zero or even negative interest rates for the past 14 years is unimaginable. The financial media tumbles daily with nonsensical reports as the global economy prepares for what is known as "stagflation" or recession. Barring a dramatic political turnaround, what lies ahead in the coming months is the worst economic depression in history."

    https://tkp.at/2022/06/26/mit-vollgas-in-den-grossen-finanz-crash/

  2. “Davos itself is not a conspiracy center, but the mouthpiece of the increasingly panicked reactions of the elite to unmanageable systemic contradictions. The people of Davos now hide behind lies like a bunch of nervous children. While they continue to tell us that the coming slump is the result of global adversities that have taken the world by surprise (from Covid-19 to Putin-22), the opposite is true: the crashing economy is at the root of these “mishaps”. What is sold to us as an external threat is in fact the ideological projection of capitalist modernity's internal limitations and progressive decomposition. Systemically, the addiction to emergencies artificially keeps the comatose body of capitalism alive. So the enemy is no longer engineered to legitimize the expansion of Empire. Instead, it serves to mask the bankruptcy of our debt-ridden economy."

    https://tkp.at/2022/07/08/die-zeit-der-immer-gravierenderen-notstaende-eine-analyse-von-prof-fabio-vighi/

  3. Many people - friends, companions, observers - contact Michael Ballweg directly.

    Thanks a lot for this

    I have never been aware of what happens to a person when they are in custody. All of life, relationships, projects, ventures...everything stops abruptly.
    Especially when you're completely innocent, it's unbearable. There is no turning back time.
    Michael gets attention and lawyers, he gets a lot of encouragement and support.

    My thoughts are with the many people who are being innocently arrested; often only because prosecutors and police follow their own conspiracy narrative.

    https://youtu.be/tlJhKFfbWLk

    Youtube (https://youtu.be/tlJhKFfbWLk)
    Political prisoner / Solidarity with Michael Ballweg / We demand his immediate release!

  4. “On September 30, 2022, the Regional Court of Stuttgart rejected the defense’s appeal from September 11, 2022.

    From the point of view of the defenders, the reasoning shows that a legal example is to be made here with a considerable tendency to incriminate against the founder of lateral thinking-711. The main allegation is that Ballweg is said to have misused around €250.000 in donations. There is no accusation that he should have used this money for himself, but that he should not have used this money according to the wishes of the donors.

    Specifically, he is said to have given his IT company a loan of around €80.000. From the point of view of the regional court in Stuttgart, this constitutes a criminal offence. However, the regional court did not take into account the fact that the von Ballweg company acquired and passed on more than €210.000 in technology and software for lateral thinking-711 without the demonstrations, website, a you- Tube alternative, videos and streaming, group networking, continuous use of social media channels, the digital activist with the freedom phones and much more would not have been possible. All of these costs are documented with receipts. In its decision, the Regional Court of Stuttgart merely pointed out that these expenses would now be examined by the public prosecutor's office.

    An urgent suspicion presupposes that a criminal offense has been committed in most cases, according to lawyer Dr. Alexander Christ, spokesman for the defense team. Even charitable associations are allowed to grant donations as loans, it is completely incomprehensible how one would want to construct a criminal liability from such a process. In particular, it should be taken into account that the company of the accused Michael Ballweg bought and made available three times the amount of necessary technology. The loan was only intended to partially cover these expenses. The district court in Stuttgart is now accusing Ballweg of not having invoiced this €210.000 so far.

    Furthermore, the regional court did not take into account the argument of the defense that a large number of helpers is required for the preparation, implementation and follow-up of large-scale demonstrations. All of these helpers, around 30 - 40 people a day, were busy for about three months preparing for the demonstrations on August 01st, 2020, August 29th, 2020 and August 01st, 2021, and were not paid for their work by Michael Ballweg, but they were fed, for example. This alone cost several tens of thousands of euros. The regional court simply ignored the relevant lecture and did not question any of the named witnesses.

    The defense pointed out that there is no obligation to provide documentation for donations. For many expenses, some of which had to be made at very short notice, there is understandably a lack of receipts. For example, power generators had to be procured, fiber optic cables laid through the Tiergarten in Berlin, and a large lifting platform with a camera was procured that took aerial photographs of the demonstration on August 29, 2020. Many of these expenses have been settled in cash on site. It is undisputed that this technology was available, the payment runs can be proven by witnesses. The district court has nevertheless refused to hear relevant witnesses.

    The completely incomprehensible thing about this procedure is that Michael Ballweg is accused by the public prosecutor's office and the district court that he should not have used the money he received entirely for lateral thinking purposes, according to Dr. Christian. In fact, according to the current decision of the district court, it is undisputed that Ballweg has spent more than one million euros on the lateral thinking movement. He is said to have given a further €104.000 as a loan, and allegedly no receipts can be found for €145.000.

    Would the district court take into account that Michael Ballweg bought hardware and software for €211.000 through his company media access exclusively for the movement, that he fed helpers for several tens of thousands of euros or paid their travel expenses, as is usual with volunteer helpers, or that expenses have been proven, only receipts are missing, then it would be obvious that the founder of lateral thinking put several hundred thousand euros from his own fortune into the movement.

    According to the regional court, the public prosecutor's office should now ask the donors for which purposes they gave money to Ballweg. Michael Ballweg will, according to lawyer Dr. Christ, now held in custody so that the public prosecutor's office can collect possible exculpatory evidence. Because every so-called gift of thanks must be deducted from the collected amount of around 1,3 million euros. Only for the remaining amount would it then have to be checked whether Ballweg would have used it for a specific purpose. However, since earmarked expenditure of more than 1,5 million euros, i.e. two hundred thousand euros more than was donated, can be proven as appropriate expenditure by Ballweg, this measure appears to be purely arbitrary in order to be able to keep the founder of a movement critical of the measures in prison. It is from Dr. Christ completely disproportionate and a purely arbitrary measure of an encroaching judiciary to continue to deprive Michael Ballweg of his freedom. From the point of view of the defense team, there is still not the slightest factual evidence for this measure, let alone reliable evidence. The defense vehemently contradicts the view of the judges, according to which there is even a rudimentary suspicion of a crime.

    The defense is now examining whether further complaints should be filed with the Higher Regional Court and whether the UN Human Rights Council should be informed about the imprisonment of a political opponent in order to start investigations against the Federal Republic of Germany.

    For Michael Ballweg's defense team

    Attorney Dr. Alexander Christ

    A solidarity account has been set up to support Michael Ballweg (Volksbank Lausitz, owner of the tax consultancy firm Stroisch, reference: Michael Ballweg 2022, IBAN DE63 1806 2678 0003 8020 51). The arrests and seizure of all his accounts, including business accounts, now threaten his personal and economic existence. Please support Michael for legal expenses, defense attorneys and also to support his living expenses and share this post widely.

    At the same time, they are asked to remember him and his illegal imprisonment at demonstrations and all forms of protest, and to demand his immediate release. "

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