February 13, 2012
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Swedish embassy officials have now met with the four Swedish terror suspects currently imprisoned in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Utrikesdepartementet) said on Wednesday.
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Can you imagine how this sounds?
Are politicians and so called human rights preachers really as stupid as they sound?
This chancer has thrown his chances away.
Let him take his chances with the Pakistani's and Americans. We don't need anymore terrorists in Sweden or Europe. Anyone connected with terrorism should be deported from Sweden and Europe.
Those immigrants who oppose the huamn rights of the majority of law abiding citizens who are just trying to live there lives in Europe, without bothering anyone.
Any potential immigrant coming to Europe should be made to swear an oath at the border of Europe.
They should be made to swear to uphold all human rights laws in Europe, covering Democracy, The right for all to Vote, Freedom of Speech, Womens Rights, Childrens Rights, Freedom of Worship, Homosexual rights, Disability rights, Intersex Rights, Right to a fair unbiased trial, Transsexual rights, Right of Children and Adults not to trafficked, The right not to be Exploited and to recognise the Holocaust as fact.
I am sure others can think of human rights issues to add to that oath.
Anyone entering Europe who breaks there oath, should be deported immediately. Europe is not perfect, but it is better than most other places. We don´t need people who will drag us into the dark ages. We need people who are progressive and who will ehlp us build a better future.
We live in an age when the connection between how comfortably and securely and luxuriously we live is increasingly connected to the living conditions of everybody else on the planet.
The type of food we choose to eat and the degree of luxury we choose to claim for ourselves directly affect the living conditions of the people who live at the source of the raw ingredients for our consumption.
Of course it is not possible to fully know the ramifications and results of all our lifestyle choices. But is our ignorance
of those connections and consequences justifiable?
We live in what is being called the Information Age.
To what degree are WE as individuals morally responsible
for our ignorance and any consequences of that ignorance?
From a moral and spiritual perspective are we in any way obligated to understand how the things we believe and say and do affect others?
I think the answer is yes.
Are we responsible for the consequences of our 'ignorance'
if that lack of awareness causes suffering to others?
Again I believe that we are.
Plus Sweden is wasting millions of your tax dollars bailing them out and flying them home. Not once but now the 3rd time and the 3rd country.
No matter how much people consume, they do not have the right to import prejudice to Europe. That is a bottom line. They consume as much as, if not more than people in Europe when they get here.
Consuption is nothing to do with this. So please stop exusing criminal behaviour with unconnected arguements.
Most of there countries have been self determining for six to ten decades, which is more than long enough to build a strong country or turn it into a banana republic on there own. It is time we in the west stop being blamed for the state those countries are in. They have been independant long enough to have found there own way. To many excuses have been accepted here in the west for failed states outside Europe.
In Europe, 300 years ago, European countries including Sweden, were a lot more backward than most in the present third world. European countries have built themselves up, without a begging bowl.
It is time third world countries stopped sitting with a begging bowl and stood on there own two feet.
We are all responsible for our own actions, including immigrants. They are not more equal than anyone else. We do not live in animal farm.
These immigrants have to realise that they are responsible for there own actions. If they break the law, they should not be able to claim any excuses.
They have broken the law and need to learn to accept responsibility for what they have done.
How do you support literacy when the government former Taiban bans the education of women ?
How do you not invade a country that trains people who bomb your planes ?