{"id":1211534,"date":"2022-01-12T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211534"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:04:47","slug":"police-ask-austrian-minister-to-oppose-compulsory-vax-in-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-ask-austrian-minister-to-oppose-compulsory-vax-in-open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Ask Austrian Minister to Oppose Compulsory Vax in Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-ask-austrian-minister-to-oppose-compulsory-vax-in-open-letter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1211534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1310265152-e1641922851683-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An open letter on behalf of hundreds of police officers in Austria has asked the nation\u2019s Interior Minister to oppose compulsory vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s Interior Minister,&nbsp;Gerhard Karner, has been asked in an open letter penned on behalf of a group of officers to oppose compulsory vaccination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the letter was not penned on behalf of an official trade union, the document does claim to be sent on behalf of 600 officers \u201cfrom all over Austria who have come together informally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diepresse.com\/6083951\/offener-brief-polizisten-wollen-demonstranten-nicht-drohend-gegenueberstehen\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;<em>Die Presse<\/em>, the group also claims that they are \u201cneither right-wing nor left-wing extremists\u201d nor \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d, but that they merely have \u201cconcerns about the rule of law, freedom of expression and fundamental rights as well as health\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Karner is also warned in the letter about internal tensions and conflicts within the police, and that he must expect to lose \u201cnumerous motivated, committed and qualified officials\u201d over obligatory vaccination, as well as other \u201cthreatened legal measures\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The letter concludes that the minister should work to ensure no mandatory vaccination requirement comes into force, either for the police or for the general public, as well as to put an end to \u201cdiscrimination of unvaccinated colleagues\u201d so officers can return their focus to the core tasks of police work.<\/p>\n<p>The open letter was signed by the group\u2019s spokesman, police pastor Uwe Eglau,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diepresse.com\/6083951\/offener-brief-polizisten-wollen-demonstranten-nicht-drohend-gegenueberstehen\">according<\/a> to the&nbsp;<em>Die Presse&nbsp;<\/em>report, as well as two other officers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;They are Afraid of Us&#8217; \u2013 Thousands March for a Second Day in Austria <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5wKaYMTxSu\">https:\/\/t.co\/5wKaYMTxSu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1480819268971282432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the letter\u2019s warnings, the Austrian Ministry for the Interior has responded saying that COVID restrictions implemented have been well received by Austria\u2019s police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith around 85 per cent vaccination rate for the 32,000 police officers we can say on the part of the Interior Ministry that the measures to contain the pandemic are being implemented by the executive are very well received and implemented,\u201d read a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krone.at\/2600405\">statement<\/a> seen by&nbsp;<em>Kronen Zeitung<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, compliance with the 3G regulation is an essential measure for both self-protection and the protection of citizens. We would like to thank all police officers who for many months have conscientiously supported the necessary measures, conscientiously implement them and thus do justice to their role model effect,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreichs \u2014 or&nbsp;Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6) \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diepresse.com\/6083951\/offener-brief-polizisten-wollen-demonstranten-nicht-drohend-gegenueberstehen\">welcomed<\/a> the letter, the party\u2019s Security spokesman&nbsp;Hannes Amesbauer seeing the document as proof of \u201cpeaceful resistance against the black-green Corona regime, the disproportionate coercive measures and the divisive battle rhetoric\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ca\" dir=\"ltr\">Authoritarian Austria: 40,000 Protest Restrictions in Vienna as \u2018Corona Apartheid\u2019 Continues <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iyt3JCq2DU\">https:\/\/t.co\/Iyt3JCq2DU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1480246744608694272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Austria had announced last year its intentions to implement a regime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/19\/austria-unvaccinated-could-face-prison-as-country-locks-down-and-announces-vaccine-mandate\/\">mandatory vaccination<\/a> by February.<\/p>\n<p>Under the nation\u2019s original plan, the entire country would have been required to be vaccinated against the Chinese Coronavirus, with those who remained unjabbed facing hefty fines, as well as possible prison sentences.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, due to what appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/09\/authoritarian-austria-40000-protest-restrictions-in-vienna-as-corona-apartheid-continues\/\">miscommunication<\/a> between various government officials, major parts of the plan will only become legally enforceable after April 1st, with other sections to remain legally impossible even after that point.<\/p>\n<p>A number of&nbsp;Sozialdemokratische Partei \u00d6sterreichs (SP\u00d6) have since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/10\/they-are-afraid-of-us-thousands-march-for-a-second-day-in-austria\/\">joined<\/a> calls from the&nbsp;FP\u00d6 for the government to scrap the plan entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Federal Council I will refuse to give my consent to a handicraft vaccination botch,\u201d said&nbsp;SP\u00d6 Federal Council Member&nbsp;David Egger.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of the party\u2019s politicians, Burgenland governor&nbsp;Hans Peter Doskozil, also raised the issue regarding the consequences of the plan\u2019s failure in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if the Constitutional Court said in one year that it was unconstitutional? That would be a disaster,\u201d the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/09\/authoritarian-austria-40000-protest-restrictions-in-vienna-as-corona-apartheid-continues\/\">said<\/a>, adding that the measure was \u201cultimately this form of compulsory vaccination polarizes further and leads to division\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter on behalf of hundreds of police officers in Austria has asked the nation\u2019s Interior Minister to oppose compulsory vaccination. Austria\u2019s Interior Minister,\u00a0Gerhard Karner, has been asked in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}