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The initiator of “Think outside the box”, Michael Ballweg, has asked people to adhere to the ban on thinking outside the box in Berlin at the turn of the year. In a video message posted on the Internet on Christmas Eve, he asked to “accept the ban on demonstrations in Berlin and on December 30, December 31. and in 1.1. not go to Berlin ”.
On Wednesday, the police announced that they had banned the demonstration of “lateral thinking” against government restrictions in the crown crisis scheduled for December 30 in Berlin. In view of the pandemic, such a demonstration would pose an immediate threat to public safety and order, police said. 22,500 participants were announced for the large-scale demonstration.
It was originally planned for New Year’s Eve under the motto “Welcome 2021 – the year of freedom and peace.” However, with the latest Crown regulation, the Berlin Senate had imposed a blanket ban on meetings on December 31 and January 1. Politicians feared the police would be overloaded if they had to monitor compliance with Corona rules at the end of the year, busy days anyway, and accompany the large demonstration.
Due to the ban on gathering on New Year’s Eve, the organizers of the “lateral thinking” had brought the demonstration forward one day. Ballweg had previously said that he wanted to demand the ban.
Ballweg seeks other organizers for large demonstrations
In his Christmas Eve video message, he announced that he would no longer initially record any major manifestations of “lateral thinking.” With this winter retreat, he said, strength should be gathered for the spring.
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“For this reason, I will not register any more large demonstrations in the future,” Ballweg said. He also recommends this to other “lateral thinking” groups in Germany. At the same time, he called for an organization to be created that would record a large-scale demonstration “in the near future”. He’s also happy with everyone who is active and holding smaller meetings.
Green parliamentary deputy reacts with sarcasm
The deputy leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Konstantin von Notz, responded to Ballweg’s announcement with sarcasm on Friday morning. “Meetings for the purpose of promoting the safety of Covid-19 are apparently too dangerous at the moment,” von Notz wrote on Twitter.
Conspiracy myth expert Tobias Ginsburg warned Friday against underestimating the movement behind the crown rallies. That Ballweg exits the movement is only relevant up to a point, because the network of crown deniers and conspiracy junkies is “much larger than the Ballweg persona, or the ‘lateral thinkers movement,'” said the book’s author. “The trip to the Reich”. Unter Reichsbürgern “the news portal watson.de.
Even if Ballweg disappeared, “a whole host of money- and power-hungry speculators and conspiracy ideologues are waiting at their starting blocks.”
In the great demonstration of “lateral thinking” on August 29 in Berlin, many participants did not adhere to the rule of distance. On November 18, the police broke up a similar demonstration in Berlin with the help of water cannons because hardly anyone wore mouth and nose protection.
By December 1, the Berlin police had initiated 1,064 proceedings for criminal and administrative offenses at rallies and demonstrations by opponents of Corona’s rules. “Right-wing extremists and” Reich citizens “also participated in numerous demonstrations against restrictive measures due to the crown pandemic in Berlin,” the Senate Interior Administration said at the request of Berlin’s Green MP Benedikt Lux. The proportion of extremists is “variable” and cannot always be clearly determined. Right-wing extremists would form a “small but relevant subset” of the movement. (Tsp, dpa)
