TWO ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE CONCERT OF LAIBACH IN VIENNA, KAISER FRANZ JOSEPH REITSCHULE, JUNE 1988

Austrians,

You are Germans. However, you also carry our seeds and we are here to see that you are not banished to dens. The Germans gave you well-being; whereas we, the elite, gave you the Spirit. Remember and beware: Spirit is Law. Therefore it is not you as people, but His Law in front of which a servant genuflects and asks for a blessing for his country.

We have heard rumors that you are afraid. That is the way it should be. Yet, although we have violated your graves, we have no territorial claims. For what is yours is also ours. The Reich, which belonged to you, now belongs to us. Your blood is our blood. And the Spirit drinks it to quench his thirst after having completed the task of an executioner. That is why we are here.

We know you have faith. But your attitude towards it is paved in self-interest. That is why the leniency of the Supreme One appoints us to be your chastisers. And if we say you are Germans, then we, Slovenes, are chosen to be the beaters in your forests. So that is why we are here. And woe to the people who do not recognize the omens on our skin: they will suffocate with their own game and dry in their own blood.

II.

One more thing, Austrians:

If you are Germans, then you know how to obey. You know that the power of Commandment is power of healing. That is why we will harness you into our plow, so that you earn your bed beside one of our daughters. But beware, until you understand love and sexuality as the work of God, you shall not leave your pens!

You philosophize and theoreticize on morals. That's hogwash. You say that we lie. But you belong to us. Who does not lie to make his family glad; who does not lie, when he has listened to a villain, to save his honor and his skin? We know and we tell you: in places where sin gives you gooseflesh and calls for stoning, you will find punishment and forgiveness. You deserve both.

Austrians, you are a nation and you have a country. But we stalked wild boar for you, so that you could feed your race. That is why the reflection of the Devil stays in our eyes from the day we kidnapped his most beloved sow from him.

Austrians! You shall get all that we have promised. The fact that we are going to settle near you should not disturb you. It will only help. But do not forget, we are the offspring of the Spirit, and if the milk is not sweet enough, beware!