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Sweden Wants to Prosecute Bloggers
Brussels Journal ^ | 4/16/2008 | Fjordman

Posted on 04/18/2008 5:29:53 AM PDT by AIM-54

Yrsa Stenius, the Swedish press Ombudsmann, wants to press charges against certain bloggers. She is worried about developments on the Internet, where anybody can just write anything they want. She says this has gone too far. She fears this trend could even spread to the mainstream media, unless something is done and a legal precedent is established to rein in unruly bloggers.

At the same time, the extreme left-wing thugs of Antifascistisk Action (AFA), who frequently physically assault critics of mass immigration, for instance members of the small party the Sweden Democrats, recently destroyed the car of a 90-year-old woman and wrote "nasse" (Nazi) on top of it. As it turned out, they picked the wrong car. Why doesn't Ms. Stenius and the rest of the establishment worry more about the violent activities of AFA, instead of "impolite" bloggers who do nothing more than write words on their websites?

(Excerpt) Read more at brusselsjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; eu; europe; sweden
Ah, the fruits of socialism, tolerance, and diversity...more assaults on freedom of speech.

There is also some discussion of this at Gates of Vienna with a couple good comments about what the people are up against there.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/proposed-suppression-of-swedens.html#c2580374522898352942

1 posted on 04/18/2008 5:29:53 AM PDT by AIM-54
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To: AIM-54

Not Sweden, but leftist fascist gestapo thought police.


2 posted on 04/18/2008 5:46:32 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Could be, but more than likely Sweden is simply paying the price for having been soft on Nazism.

If you don't purge these people from public life it turns into the gift that keeps on giving and it's just one thing after another.

3 posted on 04/18/2008 5:54:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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The poor Leftists are just undone by all that unruly, impolite, subversive, inciteful (pun intended) Truth circulating out there and interfering with their treasured delusions.

Nothing is more subversive than Truth. Nothing is more threatening to delusion.

In fact, people will kill to protect their delusional paradigms--as the world of the 21st century well knows!

If the Leftists were not such a contemptable lot, you could almost feel sorry for them, trapped as they are in their delusions, constantly threatened by Truth, with nowhere to hide, guarding their illusions with all their strength against the pinprick of Truth constantly surrounding them. What a pathetic bunch of loosers!

To be terrified of Freedom of Speech speaks volumes!

4 posted on 04/18/2008 6:01:21 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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“She is worried about developments on the Internet, where anybody can just write anything they want.”

Typical elitist socialist liberal thinking. Makes me think of “the Directorate” - the “Superdelegates” who will the Rat Presidential nominee. These people are really all a bunch of Bolsheviks.


5 posted on 04/18/2008 6:02:49 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

“Not Sweden, but leftist fascist gestapo thought police.”

I believe the Press Ombudsman is an official government position.


6 posted on 04/18/2008 6:03:21 AM PDT by AIM-54
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To: AIM-54
Yrsa Stenius, the Swedish press Ombudsmann, wants to press charges against certain bloggers



Come And Get Me Copper!

7 posted on 04/18/2008 6:11:02 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: AIM-54

Thank God for our First Amendment rights. However, I fear that those rights are being chipped away by political correctness, diversity and the fairness doctrine.


8 posted on 04/18/2008 6:17:32 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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Why the 1st Amendment is so important...

And why the 2nd Amendment is so important...

9 posted on 04/18/2008 6:27:53 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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At the same time, the extreme left-wing thugs of Antifascistisk Action (AFA), who frequently physically assault critics of mass immigration, for instance members of the small party the Sweden Democrats, recently destroyed the car of a 90-year-old woman

that sounds a little bit fascist to me. I think the vikings need to take their land back

10 posted on 04/18/2008 6:39:45 AM PDT by Liberty2007 (Wayne Allyn Root Rootforamerica.com LP candidate)
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To: AIM-54

What is this thing called freedom that you speak of?


11 posted on 04/18/2008 7:03:17 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: AIM-54

The heart of fascism sprouts in Brussels.


12 posted on 04/18/2008 7:20:17 AM PDT by frossca
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To: 1234; A knight without armor; AIM-54; Allan; american colleen; AndyPH; anguish; AzSteven; ...

Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
13 posted on 04/18/2008 9:19:29 AM PDT by rmlew (There is no god but G_d and Moses is his Prophet.)
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replying to OP not AIM-54

god im swedish and this sickens me, how do a person like this think, how can she be worried that people wite whatever they want?

what a complete bafoon.


14 posted on 05/01/2008 9:09:30 AM PDT by SuecoSuave
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