November 21, 2009
Published: 9 Apr 09 15:04 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/18776/20090409/
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Four young men appeared in court on Thursday charged with involvement in a series of gang rapes in Södertälje in eastern Sweden.
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Question: Why aren't the names of the criminals considered newsworthy?
In this particular case, I suspect the previous poster is right and that the alleged rapists aren't named in the media simply because they're not called Svensson.
Yet.
In this case the 'alleged' criminals names are printed!
"Arabzadeh Mohammad Abadi, 25, and Moayed Abedi, 24, were indicted on charges of aggravated public endangerment and aggravated threats and intimidation..."
http://www.thelocal.se/18516/20090328/
In one instance, the perpetrators names are protected... yet in the other, they are disclosed.
I SEE NO STANDARDS OF REPORTING BE ADHERED TO.
oh the hypocrisy.
A problem in society can't be tackled unless its acknowledged and discussed openly. I don't share the point of view that everyone has a little Nazi inside them just waiting to spring into life upon the mention of the name Hussein next to a report of a rape of a stranger.
Its tricky to address the whole issue of "stranger rape" without offending certain noisy elements (black, white, male and female), many of whom seek every opportunity to be offended, but that doesn't this shouldn't be tried.
take the four accused. Drop them into boilng water, in a vat prepared in the centre of Södertälje, with a microphone rigged up to record the sound of it. Show it on all Swedish TV channels simultaneously.
Afterwards, throw a big party in the town to celebrate.
Freedom of Information is a fundamental human right.
Rape is not sex. Rape is an act of violence. Just so we're clear.
Rape:
1. the unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
2. any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
*pretty straight forward*
water torture usually involves putting people in water? is it bathing?
In our shameful capital-city Berlin in 2008 public prosecutor Mr. Roman Reusch told us that ca. 80 Percent of his youth-intensive-criminals are not ethnic germans. In Words "eighty percent!!!!!!!".
The result? The local government of Berlin forbid him to continue telling the truth!!!
Yes! They are not fighting against the criminals. They gave a muzzle to the public prosecutor. Thus encouraging the criminals to continue.
Meanwhile we have "no go areas" for the german police in Berlin where even the police is not able to fight for justice.
Surely this is the preliminary stage of the civil-wars in Europe during the 21st century.