Despite his solemn affirmations before each of the prevailing judges to uphold the judges' injunction, Mr. Griess constantly goes back on his word, and in this way, he forces us to take renewed legal action against him.

Instead of admitting his wrong, and ceasing his slanderings of the "Norwegians", he complains, in writing and orally, about his high expenses, and about the courts in general. He slanders the President of the High Court in Vienna as being "naive", and he calls the District Court for Criminal Cases in Graz "stupid", etc.

Here is a little sample of his obviously distorted relationship to the truth, to the judiciary, and to the judges:

In one of his numerous public lectures about "sects" (which always end up in evil accusations against the "Norwegians") he presumed, on June 3, 1997 in the Pastor's Hall of the Lower Austrian city of Türnitz to the following statements, which you, also, soon will be able to hear on this web site from the original sound track:

"I have already been involved twice in legal proceedings with these people. In 1988 in a criminal court case, and now in a civil court case. The civil case cost me 150,000 schillings, but I'm not giving up. On March 13 was our last court trial. The sect brought a civil charge against me. Sum in dispute: 1 million Austrian schillings. My woman lawyer said to me at the end: "Mr. Griess, in a civil court case, if you are accused of having said something negative about someone, you will be in for it, whether you can prove it, or not. Then the sect suggested a settlement." (We would like you to take notice of the fact that it was not the "Norwegians", but the judge who suggested a settlement.) "The settlement looks like this, that I have to pay part of the lawyer's expenses for the defendant, and, of course, my own, as well; that adds up to 150,000 Austrian schillings. And civil court cases are very expensive, and especially because the sum in dispute runs so high. And I am not allowed to make use of some of my terminology. The judge did something quite exceptional. The negative settlement occurred because the judge said he did not want to pass a judgment - the two parties ought to come to an amicable settlement. He more or less forced us into a settlement, and that was no one less than the president of the Commercial Court, Mr. Traxler, Privy Councillor, in the Riemergasse, himself." (We would like to bring to your attention the fact that this insolent comment of Mr. Griess, in no way, coincides with the truth. The president of the court never forced the parties to do anything, but rather with great sympathetic understanding, he made an attempt at reconciliation). "And, then, he did something quite exceptional, he broke off the proceedings, and he asked my wife, my daughter, and me to come into his chamber, in the naive opinion that he would be able to reconcile the family..."

In the same lecture, Mr. Griess made this statement about the District Criminal Court in Graz, "...and the court was so stupid..."

So much for Mr. Griess in his original sound track. We are accustomed to having him deny such statements at a later point. Unfortunately for him, some young people from the "Norwegian-movement" recorded these comments which are insulting to the law, since it was a publicly announced lecture in Türnitz.

On his Norwegian homepage, as well, in May, 1999, Mr. Griess complains about the fact that the court proceedings, up until now, have already cost him more than 200,000 Norwegian crowns (that equals about 340,000 Austrian schillings). In the same breath, he proclaims: "But I'm not giving up." (That means that he is going to continue slandering the "Norwegians", cost what it may!)

Because, in the meantime there was a further court proceedings before the Commercial Court in Vienna (GZ37 CG 19/00y) in which Mr. Griess was recently, again sentenced to pay all the court expenses, and a large part of our lawyer's expenses, as well as all of his own expenses. He might have already invested half a million Austrian schillings for his "hobby" of dragging the reputation of the "Norwegians" all around through the mud.

Specifically, Mr. Griess was obliged to covenant, in the course of four court proceedings (three in Austria, one in Germany) to agree to the following, on behalf of the "Norwegians":

immediately cease claiming:

1. that Dr. Kathrin Espegard (born: Köberl) is to have come under the influence of the "Norwegian-movement" through her teacher, Mag. Dieter Huemer, at the age of 16, by his taking advantage of a dependency relationship, and is to have been psychologically harmed
   
2. that Dr. Koller, by means of "flirty-fishing", is to have won the daughter of the defendant, as well as other girls, for the "Norwegians"
   
3. that the "Norwegian-movement" claims to be on a moral level which is far above that of the members of all other Christian denominations, but that in reality, incest, adultery, deceit, and lying are to abound
   
4. that representatives or members of the "Norwegian-movement" are to have given the daughter of the defendant homoeopathic preparations, or other similar substances, several times, in order to bend her will for the purpose of dishonest influencing control - or to spread an accusation of the same content
   
5. that many years ago, a dramatic suicide of the following nature is to have taken place among the "Norwegians", that a young girl is to have plucked out her own eyes with a scissors, and is to have bled to death, in literal obedience to the Bible verse: "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it oút, and throw it away; it is better that you loose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.". Parallel to this, he is placed under obligation to make a point of adding, whenever he describes the suicide of the young girl, that this girl, already a few years before her committing suicide, had no longer been among the "Norwegians", and that the defendant did not know if her suicide really had any connection with her former membership
   
6. that among the "Norwegians" there is to be a reign of terror of such a nature that two girls had to run away from home, obviously because they could no longer stand this terror
   
7. that among the Austrian members of the "Norwegians" there is to be an above-average suicide rate, and
   
8. that the "Norwegians" are to have led, with full intention, the daughter of the defendant to the point of psychological harm, even to the point of suicide, and this being a criminal act