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February 14, 2012
Vellinge residents back refugee children: poll
Published: 17 Nov 09 07:37 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23302/20091117/
Six of ten residents in Vellinge in southern Sweden are positive toward housing refugee children in the area, despite claims by local politicians that locals oppose the move.
- Moderate hierarchy warns Vellinge party cadre (15 Nov 09)
- Government mulls new law to force care for asylum kids (13 Nov 09)
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But an opinion survey shows that only 18 percent of local residents want to stop the children from coming, the Sydsvenskan newspaper reports.
The survey also showed that 63 percent of Vellinge residents think the refugee children should be allowed to use the hostel as transitional housing.
“The figures are clear. Municipal leaders have said they have the support of the majority, but that’s a lie,” Vellinge resident Caroline Theander told the newspaper.
Healthcare company Attendo Care has been hired by nearby Malmö municipality to manage the housing of refugee children who arrive in the city without any parents or legal guardians.
When it became known that the company planned to house the children in the hostel in neighbouring Vellinge, which has long been against housing refugees, a wave of vocal protests ensued.
The survey was carried out by the GFK Sverige polling firm at the request of Sydsvenskan and the results are based on responses to interviews with 500 people over the age of 18.
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I think it's great that so many people support the idea of housing refugees in their area. A humane and compassionate outlook go a long way to making society a better place.
People who oppose this are racists and should be ashamed of themselves. Nationalism is not the same as Patriotism; nationalism is an evil that saw rise to the ethinic cleansing in Jugoslavia, gave support to the Ayatolla in Iran, and Hilter in Germany. George W Bush even used this to get support at home for his war in Iraq by claiming everyone was anti-american and getting gullible americans to say people who opposed neo-conservatives were anti-american.
Yes, this is a real issue. Do you think it would be the same results for the poll if instead of children it read 'young men'?
@ bigboy
I wonder who is really the racist here. Did you ask yourself why it is only male 'children' that are sent over?
And Re. ethinic cleansing , the only ethinic cleansing happening in Europe these days is against the Europeans themselves, by the social faschists
Whats your SD membership number?
By Swedish law, anyone under the age of 18 is a child. Nobody, except possibly you, imagines that parents would send kids aged 6 across the world to an unknown reception. Most forms of transport will actually refuse younger children to travel alone. This isn't "brainwashing", it's facts that people living in a society sort of know without consciously learning them, possibly absorbing them through something akin to osmosis.
People living under rocks might not.
I have found that making any reasoned comment to the posts of you and others of your ilk, only returns a whole pile of abusive and the usual " your a left-wing PC......"
You have an agenda that nothing is ever going to change, therefore my future response to such posts will be the scorn that you deserve.
Whats your SD membership number?
1) I do not have an SD membership number. Nor have I ever voted for them, although I'm carefully considering such a move.
2) I do indeed have an agenda! And the agenda is to save Sweden from the social democrats, and other marxist-liberal leftist gunk, and their misguided socialization policies. Crush them in 2010!
Here is the Cambridge Dictionary definaition of Ethnic Cleansing:
"the organized attempt by one racial or political group to completely remove from a country or area anyone who belongs to another particular racial group, using violence and often murder to achieve this"
To claim this is happening to Swedish residents is nothing more than a right-wing, bigoted rant.
@beynch
Your consideration at joining the SD proves the rest of us are correct that you are a right-wing biggot, and that is nothing to be proud of.
UN definition that Ethnic Cleansing can also be done by intimidation. That is exactely what the left is doing in some areas of Sweden- replacing the native Swedes with immigrants.
@Pelotard
If there was a media article about an 18 yo in another context, will the word 'barn' be in use? It is a left lie to endorce sympathy from naive Swedes.
Who is the real racist? Do you know why these people do not sent their daugthers over here? They do not want to stain their 'purity' with Western infidels
@Rick Methven
I do not have a membership but definitely going to get one. And I am proud of it. The left has empoloyed faschist techniques to shut up the will of the pople for so long. No more!
it's so kind of sweden to take in these refugee kids,so big ups to sweden. he's the problem if sweden doesn't have a place to house them why keep letting them in?
sweden is trying to recieve kudo's from the international community for these acts of humanity,so big ups to sweden. communities have a right to say if they want things in their community,so does that really make them racist people. how much is sweden willing to pay for having it's own multicultural society?