November 21, 2009
Published: 28 Aug 09 08:03 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21736/20090828/
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Fire fighters in Gothenburg were attacked with stones on Thursday night as they rushed to tackle the latest in a series of fires with suspected connections to youth gangs that have raged across the city in the last week.
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aside extra money for the police to crack down on AFA,
arrest and convict these idiots. It is an organization
that promotes and aids the destruction of Sweden and democracy. It is not far fetched to say that they are terrorists. It may be needed to put in the Swedish anti terrorist force on them very soon.
BUT, i do agree,this kind of thing has been going on for years in the UK,and it needs to be stamped on HARD,for your own good.Dont let the idiots ruin this country,and dont let your own policys let the idiots get away lightly,sometimes you are too good to people who dont deserve it.These scumbags need sorting,or be it on your own head.
You could alright, go after these animals, arrest and deport all of them swiftly, however the Yurpeen Court of Yooman Rites will, of course, promptly show to Sweden how much sovereignty it has lost.
When you attack federal buildings(police stations), police officers, burn down building after building and do this systematically, for political reasons and organized. Then it is no different than terrorism.
more and more, we have zones inside this countries, where national law is replaced with inhuman religieus and tradditional laws like sharia.
and instead of bringing news about this muslim parallel worlds inside europe and the failed integration of muslims in any european country things which do and will affect the lives of you and me directly, some stuppid lefitist "journalists" come with antisemitic myths about jews and israel.
Now it's easy to see why all of these countries where they came from have dictators, why the police there torture and why the laws seem to be from the 15th century....because it is the only way to keep these people from doing idiotic things like setting fires and throwing rocks at firemen. Geert Wilders for PM of Sweden!!
The outsiders will always protest one way or another.
This crap *has to* stop.
Considering the fires set by these "youths" could kill people maybe Sweden should allow the property owners (or firefighters) to shoot them. You risk my life or the lives of my family and friends, you catch a bullet. A low cost solution to a high cost problem.
It's only worked in places like Canada or USA because it was a natural progression of immigration and nation building over a 200 year period. .
Sweden suddenly declaring itself "multi-cultural" twenty years ago and accepting anybody and everybody in large numbers hasn't been successful.
Then we can enforce stricter sentencing and keep them in jail longer. Europe is in a transitional period as every country becomes less homogeneous. As the U.S. has been forever and a day, I find it fascinating to watch over here.
Besides there are 1.1 billion of the 6 billion in this world having limited to no access to a potable water supply and over 5 million deaths a year already due to fresh water. Parts of Africa and all of the Middle East sitting on the equator are pretty much done for in about 20 years. Not too many will emigrate to the west, so everyone just relax.
Excluding South America who's sitting pretty, and if I actually believed in God, there is a reason the US/Canada and parts of Europe control 1/3 of the world's water and consume about 23%...as well as have the means to defend it. China....well they consume about 60% of worlds water and only have about 1/3 also...guess who's getting paid back soon (hint USA).
I am in this country becasue of my child and marriage to a Swede, therfore i am an immigrant to this country and enjoy its law abiding ways and mutual respect for people, state and property. If the authorities don't act now in a few years it will be accpeted and known as the "norm" to commit and get away with such violent acts, also believe it or not they will continue to push their crimes as far as possible. Unlawful, disrespectful youths and adults alike that know they can get away with decaying the social fabric of this sovereign nation will continue to do so, particulalry immigrants who are not reformed to live in a decent country, especially seeing that they have no regards for the country itself....
No doubt that these acts are forms of terrorism;
Arson & Malicious destruction of property is a crime !
Putting fear into decent citizens by throwing stones at the trams are terror acts, people with heart conditions can have an attack from that, what if the glass breaks and blinds a child or somebody?
Attacking emergency state workers is a form of terrorism against the state!
Preventing people from moving around freely becasue of the fear of violence is pshycological terrorism...
And my final thought is, it is not fear for hard earned valuable tax dollars to be wasted on things that can be prevented, there are too many things that need to be done with that money....
They will disperese like fog before the sun.
The problems with them will disperse likewise.
It has worked in the USA? Never any racially bsed riots there, eh?
In Canada? How about Quebec independance riots/bombings? Native Warriors?
Good luck to Sweden & I hope they do better than we have.
You are hopping for miracles and those don't happen too often in Sweden. The Muslims will bread them out in just a matter of time. While the Muslims are home begetting babies, the Swedes are out getting dumb drunk or getting it off with some farm animal in Bollnäs. One day they will awake from their hangover to realize they are surrounded. Go to any town in Sweden from Värmdö to Bromölla and you will c what I am talking about. They are here!
@Lepre, if your granddad was one of those cowards who volunteered to fight alongside the Nazis; well I have to say too bad he came back alive. The cowardice displayed then by Sweden is the same today but the consequences will be even greater. In the 40s you allowed your brother's; the Norwegians and the Danes to fight alone with the excuse of neutrality and the fear of invasion. Today the invasion is different; they come by plane, you give them a roof, schools and you build them places of worship where they are planning your doomsday. You couldn't find your balls then and you will not find them today.
Sweden doesn't have the largest population of muslims by country but it has the 3 out of the 5 highest city populations in Europe. Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm all hover at cirka 25 percent. These incidents will only increase as those demographic numbers also increase.
You know how I know? Because Islam is so peaceful, so peaceful and good to people, that it is just impossible that the muslims did it.
Good luck to Sweden with their immigration laws...
the social democrats is who brought this immigration, low sentence judges and low employment due to the closing or chasing away the factories ..
Hi Greg in Canada,
the type of immigration you are refering to took place in Canada and the US at the end of the 19th century through until after the second world war and then into the 1960's. That immigration for the most part was principaly from the UK and Northern Europe; then Southern Europe and Central Europe and eventually Eastern Europe.
On the west coast of Canada there was a huge influx of Chinese into Vancouver that eventually resulted in riots there. ( I have looked all this info. up by the way in my history books).
The middle eastern mass immigration to the west really got under way big time just about 30 years ago. And this "experiment" by our benevolently naive and politcally correct pollyannic leaders is clear turning out to be a big fat FLOP!!!!
Islam and it's values and beliefs clash hideously with those of the west. To deny this is simply and irretrievably wrong-headed. Mass arab migration to Sweden and all the other western countries including mine is a poorly thought out undertaking that definately threatens social cohession and peace.
Respect and sympathi is something you get if you are yourself respectfull.....
Salaam
Shalom
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