Another update about the German-speaking WeRe community - the more I explore the crazier it gets. There seems to be a bit of a power struggle and if I were a cynical person I would say a lot of rats are smelling that there is money to make, with the German WeRe community growing rapidly, so far untouched by the lack of success and mounting legal cases. Let's take a look at some of the bigger players.
For example there is 65 year old Swiss
Werner Peters, a Freeman veteran who offers legal advice without having any degree, despite a lawful injunction, and has a long criminal record including fraud, slander, embezzlement and forgery. He is considered a WeRe specialist and in direct contact with Peter, mainly giving web seminars about how to best send money to Peter … I mean join WeRe. On Tuesday he tried to establish a second source for the Were LTT “clearing codes” by sending out an e-mail claiming that LLT's can now only be verified over a new address,
verify-werebank@web.de. After much confusion among the crowd and an intervention by other WeRe gurus he retracted the information (including from his website
http://www.wemepes.ch) and claimed a misunderstanding.
Possibly the loudest crier for WeRe in Austria is Freeman veteran
Johannes “Joe” Kreissl, who gives lectures every week (and admits to make at least 2.500 Euro every month from “donations” there). What I find a little surprising is, he himself didn’t seem to have had any success with WeRe cheques, because a week ago, on February 24th, insolvency proceedings were opened against him (State Court Wels, 20 S 25/16a). I thought it should not have been a problem to pay off about 17.000 Euro in taxes and around 340.000 Euro in other liabilities (which he seems to have collected in less than 3 years, because his last insolvency was on August 19th, 2013, State Court Steyr 14 Se 9/13s, where he was declared bankrupt for lack of assets). But don’t worry too much about him, he has declared assets this time, amongst them 225 million Euro the Austrian government supposedly owes him due to some OPPT bills (
http://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterrei ... 71,2165431).
There is also
Joya Marschnig, whose awakening as a Freewoman seemed to coincide with beginning financial problems. She handles the popular WeRe OkiTalk/Mumble online meeting place with weekly public lectures and talks and is a big fan of homeschooling. She managed Grünhexenland (Green Witch Country -
http://www.gruenhexenland.net), a place for “free learning without a school”, but in June 2013 she stopped paying back a loan. She had been shocked to learn that the money lend to her hasn’t come directly from somebody else's account but has somehow been “created” by the bank and of course that meant it was worthless and the contract was null and void (in such cases I always want to ask those people if they have spend the money they lend and if it seemed to have worth then). It doesn’t look like that the bank and later the courts followed her argument, because her place was put up at a foreclosure auction in June 2015.
Of course there is university professor
Franz Hörmann, who is kind of the ideologist in the German WeRe and Freeman/OPPT movement, his lectures usually go for the “bigger picture” and he is brought out to give the crazy dribble (and many other schemes) some legitimacy. Despite being a tenured professor of economics in Vienna (with a 70k Euro yearly salary) he also managed - ironie of all ironies - to amass a debt of 205.000 Euro and slide into insolvency in summer 2015 (
http://derstandard.at/2000015760270/Das ... ist-pleite).
An even more regularly-prominent WeRe protagonist is
Gernaut Gauper, who went through a semi-professional but not too successful political career, switching parties several time, and is now asking for money on the same crowdfunding site like Nabila Aliani. Only, he is asking for 360.000 Euro for “construction machines” to mass produce a “Tesla” free energy generator (600 Watt in - 3.000 Watt out -
http://wesharecommunityprojects.com/wes ... ame=Gernot). He stopped paying back a loan in December 2013 with the same arguments that worked so well for Joya Marschnig and ended in front of the State Court Graz. In the summer of 2015 he complained very publicly about his social security checks being seized down to the subsistence minimum and formed a union for “loan victims”. I am not sure why he takes money from the non existing Austrian government in the first place.
And if you start to see a pattern off financial disaster you are a very cynical person.
I could go on with people pushing to get a piece of the WeRe trough like
Wolfgang Cejda, who already has his own little scheme where he has people (over 2000) pay to join his RPP “association” (for only 5 Euro per month) which supposedly knows how to bring big paybacks from pension plans, sometimes, in the near future, very soon, he is sure (
http://rppplattform.com/).
Or another icon of the OPPT sect,
Andreas Schober. He likes to change his name regularly, his aliases include
Andreas Goldmann,
Harvey Friedmann and the colorful
Andreas Monte-Christo. He has spent over 4 years in prison for several fraud schemes and is part of another alternative banking scheme (OSBEEE - Open Source Banking Economy), together with the already mentioned Franz Hörmann, where shares cost you only 15 Euro. He is quiet now because he went back to prison in the winter, after breaking parole he has to serve the remaining 22 months of his sentence.
Of course there are also more selfless helpers like the small-time actress
Solveig Berg, who does most of the translations for the WeRe circle - her own website (
http://www.solveigberg.net/) seems esoteric and harmless, until you look deeper and behind “Disenchanting the Magic” you find the whole Freeman/OPPT nonsense regurgitated ... or
Nabila Aliani, who moderates the German WeRe skype channels and is therefore the source of much of the German WeRe news to regular “customers”. I think her selfless character is best shown in the crowdfunding initiative she created, asking people to finance her a whole year holiday on a Spanish beach ... did I say holiday, I meant her vision of improving her physical and mental fitness through swimming in the sea, jogging, cycling, a healthy diet and learning the language (
http://wesharecommunityprojects.com/wes ... ame=health).
To quote the movie Guardians of the Galaxy … “What a bunch of a-holes!”
The entire WeRe Bank system of security and checks was flawed. It shows that the entire WeRe Bank clearing process was made up rubbish. 