"So now you know our little secret why we give Nobel prizes to
murderers, slavers and terrorists like Arafat.
It is a quid pro quo. They give us slaves."
Posted on 07/01/2007 4:29:45 AM PDT by WesternCulture
British authorities have revealed their involvement in the rescue this year of 15 teenage boys working in Stockholm as "slave labourers".
A Foreign Office spokesman told the Sunday Telegraph that the boys were threatened with beatings if they made any attempt to leave the prison-like conditions in which they were kept. They are desperately underpaid and often resort to stealing from supermarkets to make ends meet.
"Lots of the boys come from a weak social situation. Some were born and raised in children's homes, with no education, no parents. Some were picked up in pubs or on the street," Robert Granath of the Swedish border police told the Sunday Telegraph.
Police in Britain and Sweden are looking into the activities of ten criminal families thought to be behind the scheme in the hope bringing trafficking charges, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
This network of families is reported to have systematically "abducted" 17 to 19-year-old boys from British towns and cities.
The boys are then taken by ferry from Newcastle to Stavanger in Norway before being moved on to the Swedish capital.
Swedish television station TV4 has reported that the men are forced to work fifteen hours a day, and live in derelict caravans without access to food or water. Around 100 British men are said to be working as pavers in the Stockholm area. Police estimate that around half of these are forced to live in squalid conditions.
Swedish police have described the activities as "pure slave trading". Jimmy Åberg of Swedish border police spoke of the building workers as "street children".
Åberg told TV4 that many of the youngsters came from difficult backgrounds, had criminal records or had learning difficulties. Many of them don't even know which country they're in, he said. They are recruited with promises of good jobs; when they arrive in Sweden, their passports are confiscated.
Escape is near impossible for the workers:
"Those whom we have met say that they have been persecuted and subjected to threats and violence," Åberg told TV4.
Swedish Police have been receiving complaints since the beginning of the 1990s about the poor workmanship of English-speaking paving companies.
Reporting on the problem last sumer, Sydsvenska Dagbladet described a recurring pattern: workers arrive at a house and offer to pave the driveway for an agreed fee.
They later claim to need more money to buy additional paving stones or asphalt. As soon as they have received payment they move on to the next job, leaving a half-finished driveway behind.
The Sunday Telegraph reports that their job became more difficult this year when asphalt traders, tired of repeated payment problems, cut off the supply of materials.
"So now you know our little secret why we give Nobel prizes to
murderers, slavers and terrorists like Arafat.
It is a quid pro quo. They give us slaves."
I got an idea. Let's do the friendly thing and deport some of our illegal aliens to the Swedes. That way they wont be deprived. We got twelve million of them, so I'm sure we can spare some.
“Swedish Police have been receiving complaints since the beginning of the 1990s about the poor workmanship of English-speaking paving companies.”
- Sometimes I’m not proud of being Swedish. Furthermore, if the police have investigated this case since the early 1990’s, valuable resources have been used for no good.
There’s lot of things to be said and many questions to be asked concerning this sad story.
How does Britain treat its weakest of citizens?
Why has these kids not received proper education?
If these kids get off the streets and get a chance of doing a good day’s work, that’s great. However, they should, of course, get a decent wage, decent lodging and work no more than other British or Swedish construction workers.
“I got an idea. Let’s do the friendly thing and deport some of our illegal aliens to the Swedes. That way they wont be deprived. We got twelve million of them, so I’m sure we can spare some.”
- If they don’t want to work in your country, they probably aren’t willing to work in my country neither.
The best thing would be if some honest employer could provide these kids with work. Apparently, there are a lot of Swedish house owners who’re prepared to pay for the services.
“..murderers, slavers and terrorists like Arafat”
- You forgot ‘homophile’.
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Be warned, this clip is disgusting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a4hozaPKo4
There is a big difference between investigating and making arrests.
To make an arrest, there must be a suspect who can be found.
In east Tennessee and surrounding states the current version of the Swedeish story involves driveway sealing. After being paid more than originally requested, they move on. There is no slavery involved however.
The Travelers?
The travelers...yes
The Riches.... ever seen that show?
“””Why has these kids not received proper education?”””
Dunno!
have jorge bush fly our illegals to sweden!!!!
“The Swedish word for slave is abeed. Isn’t that correct?”
- Probably not, I’ve never heard this word before. Where is it from?
“Why did these young men not take advantage of the superior education opportunities available in the UK?”
- I know of these opportunities, I went to school for one year in the UK from the age of 9 to 10 (today I’m 37). It’s probably even better today.
Still, I wonder how it is possible in a rich, well ordered society like the UK of today for a child to grow up without ever receiving proper education. We have problems in some parts of Sweden too (especially in Malmö and Stockholm from what I’ve understood), but it’s nowhere near what seems to be the case regarding these British kids.
I don’t wish to mock the UK or anything, I just think the whole thing is a tragedy and I have difficulties understanding how British authorities (as well as Swedish police) work in cases like these.
abeed
From Arabic: black; slave; filth
“So glad you asked:
abeed
From Arabic: black; slave; filth”
Few native Swedes speak arabic, but I often hear it in the streets here in Sweden for some strange reason...
I was thinking you might have come across the Swedish word “åbo” (which also happens to be the Swedish name for a city in Finland, there’s no connection though).
“Åbo” is an old legal term which meant a person had the right to use a piece of land which he did not own. During the 18th and 19th century, Swedish soldiers often received a piece of land, that was owned by the state, although the soldier cultivated it. However, this has little to do with slavery of course.
bump for later read
They are just dooing the jobs that Swedes won’t do.
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