Austria - Walkner, a life ruined by OPPT
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:15 pm
After my postings in the UK WeRe bank thread I was kindly encouraged to share a bit more about the freeman/sovereign/oppt movement in Austria and Germany. I want to start with the biggest case we had in Austria so far, the sad story of Michaela Walkner and her descent into oppt madness, leading to a standoff between 200 freeman and 60 policemen on her property in 2014.
(the info to this write-up was mostly collected from newspaper and magazine articles; posts, pictures, videos and documents posted by the involved freeman, including by Ms. Walkner herself; informations by Dietmar Mühlböck, Christian Kreil and other bloggers as well as forums like the German Sonnenstaatland - which collects, Quatloos-like, infos about German and Austrian freeman; Austria is not very transparent about court documents and does not allow access to first instance court decisions, but Ms. Walkner thankfully published some of them herself)
Ute Michaela Walkner, born on December 12th, 1964 in Salzburg, had worked as a masseuse in Vienna when, in 2005, she moved to the small hamlet Hollenbach in Lower Austria, bought a little house at Hollenbach 37 (yes, there is basically only one street there) and started her own little business, eventually taking over a small massage salon (“Energietempel” - Energy Temple) in the nearby district capital Waidhofen. She had two children from an earlier marriage - it is mentioned that the father was still paying alimony - an older daughter that had left home by the time of these events, and a teenage son named Markus.
Around 2011 her troubles began.
She started to fall for OPPT and other pseudo-legal nonsense, believing Austria and all other nations to be foreclosed and non existent, that common law is the rule, believed in the strawman, UCC (her favorite) and all that jazz. While neighbours said she was still an excellent masseuse, she also became more and more unreliable and ungrateful, putting off more and more of her customers. In the summer of 2012 her business finally failed and she had to defend herself against charges of fraudulent bankruptcy (but she was not sentenced, as far as I can tell).
What was left were debts in the range of 10.000 Euro, nothing insurmountable. She still had her house and the surrounding one acre property, estimated later at a value of 47.000 Euro. She could have arranged a payment plan (for the 7.000 Euro owed to the local bank and 3.000 Euro owed to social security, not the cruelest of creditors) or even solved the situation with a mortgage. Instead she decided to aggressively promote her oppt believes, ignored all communications from creditors and courts and barricaded herself behind the usual oppt documents, UCC bills and common law threats.
Court orders were covered with oppt phrases (in German and English) and red ink fingerprints before sent back. Here execution orders for the two debts as an example.
Execution order for 7.000 and 3.126 Euro
Liens were handed out like candy to everybody even remotely connected to her case.
Liens Part 1
Liens Part 2
Liens Part 3
And everybody up to Austrian President Fischer fell into dishonor.
Certificate of Dishonor
Here she proudly posts the headers of the e-mails she send out with every new “lien”, a list of around 800, in words eight-hundred, “debtors”, ranging from the aforementioned President, to ministers and department officials, state, district and community officials, police and justice officials, banks, doctors, European Union officials and even ambassadors.
800 E-Mail addresses
All based of course on her Terms and Conditions, duly posted, which clarify the price for interacting with her - in ounces of Silver, for some reason. For example 500 ounces per day for being arrested. Pages 4 to 9 are in english (as she really likes to register her documents in good UCC fashion a lot of her writing is in english or bilingual).
Terms and Condition (PDF)
It is not too surprising that her troubles with the Austrian courts became more dire, especially as she also had issues with child protective services over her son. His school had reported problems in 2011, and after he was under psychiatric observation for a few weeks, he transferred to the state juvenile home in Allensteig. She still had full access to him and got convinced that they were drugging him with Benzodiazepine - she started to test his urine every week and send out threats and charges to everybody involved. He eventually moved home again in 2014, but she states that these events finally and fully convinced her that she is right in her oppt views.
Now the situation started to escalate quickly. Foreclosure of her house became a real threat and her ongoing refusal to cooperate even a little lead to a psychiatric evaluation and eventually the court assigned a custodian, Margit Metz, to handle certain financial matters. Meanwhile she had started to network within the slowly growing freeman community in Austria and her case became a kind of rallying cry.
She declared her home a sovereign nation, and together with Markus Steiner founded the “International Common Law Court of Justice Vienna” (ICCJV.org), announced its (one-sided) cooperation with the International Criminal Court in The Hague and charged her custodian Ms. Metz with crimes against humanity. (Although the Walkner case is still the only case mentioned on their website, Walkner has by now broken with Steiner and founded a “Common Law Academy” instead - Steiner meanwhile uses the attention the “court” got in this case to make a little money on the side, opening new cases costs the paltry sum of 250 Euro.)
Finally, a date for a hearing was set, sheriffs nominated and a call went out to all freeman to come and show their support - and on July 28th, 2014 events rushed along.
While in the morning the court set up in Walkner’s home, a throng of supporters surrounded the house and created quite the stir in the sleepy village. As the accused, Ms. Metz, had of course not reacted to the court's summoning, sheriffs were sent out to the Waidhofen police station. There they presented their “credentials” and documents by the “court”, demanding that the policemen help them arrest Ms. Metz. In typical freeman manner they secretly filmed themselves while doing that, probably hoping for a nice gotcha moment, but the officers stayed calm and professional, complementing the common law sheriffs out after a short consultation, ignoring their request (the account with the video seems to be removed by now).
In the early afternoon the police finally reacted and about 60 policemen arrived at Hollenbach, where by now around 200 freeman (mostly Austrians, but a few Germans, too) had overtaken the tiny village (finding no support from the neighbours). Thankfully almost everybody stayed calm, the most aggressive moves coming from US freeman import Terrance “Souvereign” O'Connor, who was temporarily arrested, like 40 others, for refusal to provide identification (he was armed and had an outstanding warrant in the US, but not an international one, and nobody was interested in extradition - he has by now actually applied for asylum in Austria, a country that, he claims, does not exist). Two others actively resisted, with two policemen lightly injured in a scuffle.
Every Austrian media reported about the incident, but - inexperienced with OPPT and the freeman movement - they mostly called the group a sect. (The first link includes a video that shows the scenes of the sheriffs at the police station and an interview with Austrian freeman guru Joe Kreissl, who deserves his own write up)
Austrian’s biggest newspaper (no, I am not listing all newspaper articles) - Krone
Austrian television (yes, the newspaper has a video and the television station has none) - ORF
Local news - Chaos at the Walkner property
The misunderstanding about OPPT being a sect lead to a rather bizarre situation later on, namely that in the 2014 report on sects - a yearly official report by the government agency for sect-issues to the Austrian parliament - OPPT was a core subject, 26 pages (chapter 9, pages 69 to 95) in the 183 page report (Sect Report 2014 - PDF). The report gives a complete but not very detailed picture of the oppt issue overall and the Walkner case specifically - and while it mentions connections to esoteric circles, which are pretty strong in freemen circles here, to its credit it doesn't use the term sect within the oopt chapter even once.
Except for having her 15 minutes of fame none of this actually helped Michaela Walker, of course. She was held in the psychiatric ward of the state clinic in Waidhofen for a few weeks before being released again. Support from the freeman community dissipated quickly. The “international common law court“ expanded its charges to everybody involved, including state, court and police officials, and later demanded rooms provided for it in every state court building in the country, but stayed away from any actual actions.
2015 didn’t start any better, as the foreclosure finally led to her house being auctioned in January - but, the first auction didn’t result in a sale, because the highest offer was below the estimated value (events might have hurt the property value). This resulted in a second auction, this time starting at only half the value, and in December the house was finally sold for only 33.500 Euro. Ms. Walkner continued to simply deny the events and ignored every court contact (here a part of the court papers that shows the estimated value of her home - “Schätzwert” - at 47.000 Euro).
Foreclosure document
After time was allowed for a higher offer to come forward, the sale became official and April 20th 2016 (in 2 weeks) was set by the court as the date where debtors can register their demands. The exact sum that will have to be paid off is not known at this point, but the facsimile of the execution documents mention at least another 2 * 500 Euro in court costs and 7% interest for the around 10.000 Euro debt that is known. Her eviction is probably the next issue on the table.
Court schedule
In addition to all that her driving license was retracted in November 2015 (District order) after she drove around with a manipulated license for almost a year. And yet she still shows no signs of having learned from her experience, continuing to being 100% invested into her OPPT illusions - going down with the sinking ship - as her facebook account sadly proves (Walkner's Facebook).
(the info to this write-up was mostly collected from newspaper and magazine articles; posts, pictures, videos and documents posted by the involved freeman, including by Ms. Walkner herself; informations by Dietmar Mühlböck, Christian Kreil and other bloggers as well as forums like the German Sonnenstaatland - which collects, Quatloos-like, infos about German and Austrian freeman; Austria is not very transparent about court documents and does not allow access to first instance court decisions, but Ms. Walkner thankfully published some of them herself)
Ute Michaela Walkner, born on December 12th, 1964 in Salzburg, had worked as a masseuse in Vienna when, in 2005, she moved to the small hamlet Hollenbach in Lower Austria, bought a little house at Hollenbach 37 (yes, there is basically only one street there) and started her own little business, eventually taking over a small massage salon (“Energietempel” - Energy Temple) in the nearby district capital Waidhofen. She had two children from an earlier marriage - it is mentioned that the father was still paying alimony - an older daughter that had left home by the time of these events, and a teenage son named Markus.
Around 2011 her troubles began.
She started to fall for OPPT and other pseudo-legal nonsense, believing Austria and all other nations to be foreclosed and non existent, that common law is the rule, believed in the strawman, UCC (her favorite) and all that jazz. While neighbours said she was still an excellent masseuse, she also became more and more unreliable and ungrateful, putting off more and more of her customers. In the summer of 2012 her business finally failed and she had to defend herself against charges of fraudulent bankruptcy (but she was not sentenced, as far as I can tell).
What was left were debts in the range of 10.000 Euro, nothing insurmountable. She still had her house and the surrounding one acre property, estimated later at a value of 47.000 Euro. She could have arranged a payment plan (for the 7.000 Euro owed to the local bank and 3.000 Euro owed to social security, not the cruelest of creditors) or even solved the situation with a mortgage. Instead she decided to aggressively promote her oppt believes, ignored all communications from creditors and courts and barricaded herself behind the usual oppt documents, UCC bills and common law threats.
Court orders were covered with oppt phrases (in German and English) and red ink fingerprints before sent back. Here execution orders for the two debts as an example.
Execution order for 7.000 and 3.126 Euro
Liens were handed out like candy to everybody even remotely connected to her case.
Liens Part 1
Liens Part 2
Liens Part 3
And everybody up to Austrian President Fischer fell into dishonor.
Certificate of Dishonor
Here she proudly posts the headers of the e-mails she send out with every new “lien”, a list of around 800, in words eight-hundred, “debtors”, ranging from the aforementioned President, to ministers and department officials, state, district and community officials, police and justice officials, banks, doctors, European Union officials and even ambassadors.
800 E-Mail addresses
All based of course on her Terms and Conditions, duly posted, which clarify the price for interacting with her - in ounces of Silver, for some reason. For example 500 ounces per day for being arrested. Pages 4 to 9 are in english (as she really likes to register her documents in good UCC fashion a lot of her writing is in english or bilingual).
Terms and Condition (PDF)
It is not too surprising that her troubles with the Austrian courts became more dire, especially as she also had issues with child protective services over her son. His school had reported problems in 2011, and after he was under psychiatric observation for a few weeks, he transferred to the state juvenile home in Allensteig. She still had full access to him and got convinced that they were drugging him with Benzodiazepine - she started to test his urine every week and send out threats and charges to everybody involved. He eventually moved home again in 2014, but she states that these events finally and fully convinced her that she is right in her oppt views.
Now the situation started to escalate quickly. Foreclosure of her house became a real threat and her ongoing refusal to cooperate even a little lead to a psychiatric evaluation and eventually the court assigned a custodian, Margit Metz, to handle certain financial matters. Meanwhile she had started to network within the slowly growing freeman community in Austria and her case became a kind of rallying cry.
She declared her home a sovereign nation, and together with Markus Steiner founded the “International Common Law Court of Justice Vienna” (ICCJV.org), announced its (one-sided) cooperation with the International Criminal Court in The Hague and charged her custodian Ms. Metz with crimes against humanity. (Although the Walkner case is still the only case mentioned on their website, Walkner has by now broken with Steiner and founded a “Common Law Academy” instead - Steiner meanwhile uses the attention the “court” got in this case to make a little money on the side, opening new cases costs the paltry sum of 250 Euro.)
Finally, a date for a hearing was set, sheriffs nominated and a call went out to all freeman to come and show their support - and on July 28th, 2014 events rushed along.
While in the morning the court set up in Walkner’s home, a throng of supporters surrounded the house and created quite the stir in the sleepy village. As the accused, Ms. Metz, had of course not reacted to the court's summoning, sheriffs were sent out to the Waidhofen police station. There they presented their “credentials” and documents by the “court”, demanding that the policemen help them arrest Ms. Metz. In typical freeman manner they secretly filmed themselves while doing that, probably hoping for a nice gotcha moment, but the officers stayed calm and professional, complementing the common law sheriffs out after a short consultation, ignoring their request (the account with the video seems to be removed by now).
In the early afternoon the police finally reacted and about 60 policemen arrived at Hollenbach, where by now around 200 freeman (mostly Austrians, but a few Germans, too) had overtaken the tiny village (finding no support from the neighbours). Thankfully almost everybody stayed calm, the most aggressive moves coming from US freeman import Terrance “Souvereign” O'Connor, who was temporarily arrested, like 40 others, for refusal to provide identification (he was armed and had an outstanding warrant in the US, but not an international one, and nobody was interested in extradition - he has by now actually applied for asylum in Austria, a country that, he claims, does not exist). Two others actively resisted, with two policemen lightly injured in a scuffle.
Every Austrian media reported about the incident, but - inexperienced with OPPT and the freeman movement - they mostly called the group a sect. (The first link includes a video that shows the scenes of the sheriffs at the police station and an interview with Austrian freeman guru Joe Kreissl, who deserves his own write up)
Austrian’s biggest newspaper (no, I am not listing all newspaper articles) - Krone
Austrian television (yes, the newspaper has a video and the television station has none) - ORF
Local news - Chaos at the Walkner property
The misunderstanding about OPPT being a sect lead to a rather bizarre situation later on, namely that in the 2014 report on sects - a yearly official report by the government agency for sect-issues to the Austrian parliament - OPPT was a core subject, 26 pages (chapter 9, pages 69 to 95) in the 183 page report (Sect Report 2014 - PDF). The report gives a complete but not very detailed picture of the oppt issue overall and the Walkner case specifically - and while it mentions connections to esoteric circles, which are pretty strong in freemen circles here, to its credit it doesn't use the term sect within the oopt chapter even once.
Except for having her 15 minutes of fame none of this actually helped Michaela Walker, of course. She was held in the psychiatric ward of the state clinic in Waidhofen for a few weeks before being released again. Support from the freeman community dissipated quickly. The “international common law court“ expanded its charges to everybody involved, including state, court and police officials, and later demanded rooms provided for it in every state court building in the country, but stayed away from any actual actions.
2015 didn’t start any better, as the foreclosure finally led to her house being auctioned in January - but, the first auction didn’t result in a sale, because the highest offer was below the estimated value (events might have hurt the property value). This resulted in a second auction, this time starting at only half the value, and in December the house was finally sold for only 33.500 Euro. Ms. Walkner continued to simply deny the events and ignored every court contact (here a part of the court papers that shows the estimated value of her home - “Schätzwert” - at 47.000 Euro).
Foreclosure document
After time was allowed for a higher offer to come forward, the sale became official and April 20th 2016 (in 2 weeks) was set by the court as the date where debtors can register their demands. The exact sum that will have to be paid off is not known at this point, but the facsimile of the execution documents mention at least another 2 * 500 Euro in court costs and 7% interest for the around 10.000 Euro debt that is known. Her eviction is probably the next issue on the table.
Court schedule
In addition to all that her driving license was retracted in November 2015 (District order) after she drove around with a manipulated license for almost a year. And yet she still shows no signs of having learned from her experience, continuing to being 100% invested into her OPPT illusions - going down with the sinking ship - as her facebook account sadly proves (Walkner's Facebook).