Talk about "cognitive dissonance."
Posted on 10/26/2016 3:06:33 PM PDT by Hadean
Unlike previous years, there will be no Christmas lights in many Swedish towns this Christmas, reports SVT . Formally the new ban is because of "security reasons".
The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) will stop allowing municipalities to put up their Christmas lights on light poles that the authority manages, and in many small towns, it means that the central streets actually do not get any Christmas lights at all.
The change is a victory for those who want to tone down the reminder of the country's Christian traditions, but according to the Swedish Transport Administration, the decision for the drastic change is "security".
- Poles are not designed for the weight of Christmas lights, and we have to remove anything that should not be there. We guarantee safety first, says Eilin Isaksson, national coordinator at the Swedish Transport Administration, to SVT.
How many poles that have fallen down in previous years because of the Christmas lights is not clear. It is clear, however, that municipalities have difficulty understanding the Swedish Transport Administration's priorities.
- In our municipality we have problems with wildlife and fences, that people are dying because of animals running on the roads. We think this is a more important issue for the Swedish Transport Administration to handle than to turn off our Christmas lights, says mayor in Lititz, Marie Johansson, to SVT.
"Some areas of Sweden are even capitulating to returning ISIS terrorists by offering jihadists free driving licenses and housing benefits to help them “reintegrate into the job market”.
Next, St Lucia dons a hijab
Sweden is circling the drain.
What is happening to such a wonderful people? Unbelievable.
Sweden has become a pole
Moral Absolutes if that ping list is ever revived.
Talk about "cognitive dissonance."
Yes, God forbid they offend the 7th century savages that want to turn them all into Dhimmis.
I’d like to see Swedish men stand up and start ... evicting ... their government overlords.
I have sympathy for the minority of sane swedish folks there.
Christmas lights would offend the muzzie savages.
I was going to make a joke about Polish slaves but I’m too lazy.
When are we going to revolt against this endless plague of petty tyrants?
Yep what we see happening there could easily happen here.
No Christmas decorations on state owned poles? I can already hear the atheist types here claiming “separation of church and state” to justify banning public Christmas displays.
It could happen. As leftism takes over more and more in our culture and among elected officials, this nonsense will happen.
“...What is happening ...”
The same thing that the fascist Leftards are trying to do here: Break up a society of normally tolerant people, force a bunch of savages on them, from an alien culture that has proven over 1400+ years that it absolutely cannot coexist peacefully with anyone else, and then sit back and quietly seize power while the chaos unfolds.
Read this book before. Except they had funny little armbands on and ran yelling “Seig Heil!” all the time.
And oh yeah... a couple million people died, but hey, another one of their patron saints - Uncle Joe - said “A million deaths is a statistic.”
Where did the state get the money to buy the poles?
Some Swedes can be very stubborn and very creative too.
We will see how it all works out.
November 8th would be a Great start!
The Seig Heil gang slaughtered six million in camps.
I’ll bet they haven’t banned the brutal murder of thousands of goats after one the moslems’ filthy holidays.
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