February 14, 2012
Published: 11 Sep 09 13:12 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22018/20090911/
A nine-year-old girl was robbed at knifepoint by a group of young boys in a sandbox in Partille outside of Gothenburg in western Sweden. The booty: the girl’s collection of Pokemon cards.
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Throw the keys away!
The US has manged to export the wild west to sweden and several countries in the world. The primary culprit are movies and unfiltered news about school killing and the like reaching children.
sure blame america for this, because swedish values surely are not this?
Well your criminal justice system is lacking any sense to be nice about it. I think it is your long dormant viking blood showing itself again.
Then again because of the way women in sweden have emasculate dthe men you either have super sensitive girly men or super aggressive macho men. Your doing, not America's
Something about under 15 years old and the police can do nothing but give it to social services to handle.
I WISH I HAD FAITH in the Swedish authorities ability to handle this properly, BUT I REALLY doubt they have ANY clue how to save these children!
I hope these "children" are REMOVED from their current environment and put in an environment that is more conducive to learning manners and discipline.
I cannot believe these kids were not removed immediately UNTIL a proper investigation is done!
Did the police - or anyone else, recover the stolen items?????????
Now this is America's fault too? It is SWEDEN'S job to censor movies, tv shows, and news programs, not the US's job to quit making them. China does this, as well as other nations. If you dont think the freedom of speech and press are important support a political party that agrees with you. Why are Swedes going to see such films or other forms of media? No one is putting a gun to their head (we can be sure of this since they are effectively disarmed).
Sorry this is YOUR fault. You are at fault by the way you vote. You have an immigration system that encourages criminals from 3rd world countries to pose as "refugees", your legal system gives murderers 4 year sentences, and you have a social welfare system that finances people to go overseas and train at jihadist training camps. We all have problems but continually blaming a country half way around the world is not going to solve yours.
Parents take no responsibility for their children anymore, they are simply a burden. It has become apparent that the stereotype is that of parents having kids, then getting bored with them. Parents have their children, then send them to daycare as soon as possible, the responsibility is then on that of the daycare personal. The kids then go to school, the responsibility then shifts to the teachers. The Parents don't want any responsibility, they have their lives back and can go out and "party" again.
With no strong role-model they find others on television etc, can you see the domino effect? Then we have the issue of freedoms without any responsibility. Children are encouraged to basically do what they want, without any consequences. Psychologists are at odds as to whether 10yr olds even understand the concept of life and death. When I was that age I remember thinking "Death" was like going for a long walk somewhere for a while.
The consequences for this kind of behaviour will be at best "a stern talking to" and some political groups will even say that that will infringe on a child's rights. Others will say that "they didn't know better, it's not their fault." Where does the responsibility lie then? Is there no one to blame? Sooner or later there will be a case where a 10yr old kills someone, who do we blame then? 50cent?
Western civilisations lack of responsibility, political correctness for the sake of political correctness, and failed experiment in multiculturalism will destroy it.
thats gotta be the stupidest reason to knifepoint someone.
the nineties are having a revival
throw these hoodlums in juvenile hall or something
On the other hand, now that the act has been done, I wonder if the the repercussions be such that these kids will áctually learn that there ARE consequences to actions like this.
I suspect that all they will learn from this is how toothless the legal system is and that there are, effectively, no repercussions for pretty much anything that a kid under 15 does!