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Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin and the Sweden Democrats' Jimmie Åkesson traded barbs on the floor of the Riksdag on Wednesday in the first party leader debate since Sweden's September 19th general election.
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Or is that sosso have been following mass murderer Stalins lead. Typical hypocritical lefties eh!!
Will Mona have to pay tax on the 9000kr worth of tickets she received??
A shattering of the lies, myths, and hypocrisies is long overdue.
You can dish it out Adolf, but you can't take it.
OOH little Jimmie is being bullied. I wonder how it feels to be so despised.
For 40yrs the sosso continued with Hiltlers work!!! Besides that Mona's trying to divert attention from her shady activities.
It seems as if Jimmie handled it quite well.
Your logic is a bit odd.
So if Soc Dems are mutilators, your logic says that the SD are not racist? How is that logical?
By the way, I have no love for Soc Dems.
@Caleb;
Stay tuned.
I wonder if they will ever be able to present their opinions within a simple logical framework, that might be able to actually convince people.
I am not a supporter of SD but I think they are making quite a logical statement. Sweden today is already in a mess when it comes to jobs, demographic changes, etc. It is not a one day work to change all the wrongs and make right. And the socialist nature of Sweden is making the problems worse.
So a logical reason would be put a halt on importing people from outside, make a stable environment and concentrate on solving the current issues. That way you have a fixed variable which provides more probability of solving an issue.
The social dems are idiots if not anything else. Their strategy is to make a secondary class of citizens comprising of immigrants. If you follow their logic, you will see high class natives who can afford everything and a second class immigrant society always in need. And it is not just the immigrants that this policy will affect. It will also affect native swedes who will have to compete with the immigrants effectively bringing down the overall salary levels and standards of living.
Such a policy might work in an economy state but will not work in a socialist state. Lower cost of living is simply not supported in Sweden because of its socialist nature. For ex. all persons today can afford to eat an 80 SEK lunch and a janitor can afford similar luxuries that a bus/taxi driver, a barber, a computer engineer, etc. can afford.
If the proposal from social dems gets accepted, one will have a society with multiple divisions and disparities which will only lead to increase in class/economy parity based racism. This kind of society will ultimately lead to more crime and set a seed where the rich become richer and the poorer will remain poorer.
And no, I am not a native swede. i.e. I am an immigrant who was asked to come to Sweden by a high tech company because of my skills. And my country is facing similar problems like Sweden is because of stupid policies of politically correct parties like social dems.
They have proved to be stupid with no logic. First they complain some immigrants are not working and are on social welfare, then they say immigrants, or BLACK hair culture even if American or Spanish or etc Should not be given employment...
I need to develop a racist mind with a sh*t brain to understand their ideas..Dumb idiots, if they had good points in their ideas it was 2% of their goal...Okay stop illegal immigration.
but dont attack human race with your white suprimacy.
Sweden should make a new law against racism powered by Democracy and throw them out useless people.
Two things I think are worth mentioning about your response.
I think you missed my point, there are no logical points in the argument that was presented here. Of course it is easy to make some points after the debate is over, that just proves you didn't have the answers anyway. And to assume that all of Sweden's problems would be solved by stopping immigration is ridiculous at best. That is the only answer that SD provides to any matter (except for taking Swedish troops out of Afghanistan)
And secondly, of course a non Swede would think like you do, since you really don't understand the Swedish psyche. This has been what Sweden has been doing for the past 30 years, and except a (very small 5%) minority, everyone thought that it is the correct thing to do. Of course this does not mean that it is perfect and doesn't need fixing (in my opinion it needs a huge overhall), but just because SD voices are raised and are the loudest does not mean it really is an issue. Playing on fear is probably the oldest trick in the book to get into power.
But it is quite interesting that that as a party that prides itself as "being Swedish", and defending "Swedishness" it rarely attracts Swedes and mostly attracts non-Swedes like yourself or many others in this forum. I wonder could it be because Swede's actually like their (socialist) system and it just doesn't make sense for you as a foreigner?
After all sweden democrat members were raised by social democrats and fed the Sweden is superior line, for decades.
The sweden democrats is only a case of what the social democrats sowed in society, coming home to roost.
That was an uppercut that Jim delivered.
Ama looking forward to the forthcoming duel / shoot-out over Afghanistan, that should be taking place between Lars Ohly and Washington's/ The White House's most faithful lackey in the Swedish Rikksdag/ Parliament ( since the time of Papa Bush ) namely, our foreign minister the Hon. Carl Bildt.
Ohly the human being has made himself most precise and clear when he said - in yesterdays Metro :
”Vi känner att det finns en stark och växande opinion som bygger på att man tycker att det här är fel insatser. Kriget måste avbrytas så fort som möjligt.”
"We feel there is a strong and growing body of opinion based on that you think this is the wrong action. The war must be stopped as soon as possible, sometime. "
The Sverige Demokrater are not the Ku Klux Klan, no matter what Mona Sahlin says. IN fact it seems that she needs them – to try to counter-distinguish herself.
It's unfortunate that instead of sticking to the SD's ideas on IMMIGRATION which is a main issue on their agenda, Mona Sahlin wants to tar and feather Jimmi Åkesson's party as having ”racist roots”.
Åkesson's reference to the scourge of what was once ”race biology” and typical of the age in continental Europe ( sans Great Britain) all under the auspices of Social Democracy - is not funny either – and the lesson here is that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones - for Swedish history being what it is - cannot be changed or falsified and in this case Mona Sahlin cannot absolve the Great Social Democrats of having had a racist pedigree. - to the chagrin of all Social Democrats. - to all of whom Åkesson should then be entitled to say , ” Shame on all of you!” even though accusing the Social Democrats of having a racist pedigree just because of the Race Biology Institute having flourished during their tenure of Office - is as absurd as accusing William Hague ( the author of William Wilberforce) of having been a slave trader, just because some ancestors - some former pirates and slave traders like Sir John Hawkins and been knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I – for precisely those activities.
Meanwhile, seems that Deputy Prime MInister Jan Björklund has some backing for what he's saying - just look at what's being said back in Merry England:
http://news.google.com/news/more?q=BBC+-+i...d=0CCMQqgIoADAA
-- Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus", 1833
I agree with your points and I don't deny it. SD is racist and their tones should change for people to do any logical communication with them. And one can't blame everything on immigration. But other parties needs to address problems by looking at the root causes and not just shelving them off under the carpet.
BTW, I didn't see any comments on the other points I raised on social dems policy of hiring immigrants at a lower wage, most of my post was on that one.
Maybe immigrants to Sweden are more aware of how adverse and uncontrolled demographic changes leads to uncontrollable situations in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society. And maybe Swedes are too politically correct for their own good.
But the point is: Racism should not be allowed/tolerated, be it in the sense SD is doing or the social disparity/apathy that social dems are proposing. And the way to go about is to reduce the disparity in the society in all levels, be it color, caste, creed, money, etc. Thats what socialism stands for.
I definitely agree that the Swedish immigration systems needs reform and maybe even an entire overhall, it is just not sustainable. I just wanted to point out what I meant more clearly. That is why I did not disagree with the other points, as they were valid comments.
Since conflict is an essential element of drama, in the theatre, in the Swedish Parliament it's been getting more interesting from an entirely theatrical point of view ever since the Sweden Democrats were elected to take part in the general debates. Now young Jimmie Åkesson is exchanging barbs, not blows with Mama Mona Sahlin. Whatever next!
That was an uppercut that Jim delivered.
Ama looking forward to the forthcoming duel / shoot-out over Afghanistan, that should be taking place between Lars Ohly and Washington's/ The White House's most faithful lackey in the Swedish Rikksdag/ Parliament ( since the time of Papa Bush ) namely, our foreign minister the Hon. Carl Bildt.
Ohly the human being has made himself most precise and clear when he said - in yesterdays Metro :
”Vi känner att det finns en stark och växande opinion som bygger på att man tycker att det här är fel insatser. Kriget måste avbrytas så fort som möjligt.”
"We feel there is a strong and growing body of opinion based on that we think this is the wrong kind of action/ efforts/ contributions. THE WAR MUST BE STOPPED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE " ( the emphasis is clear. )
The Sverige Demokrater are not the Ku Klux Klan, no matter what Mona Sahlin or anyone else says. In fact it seems that she needs them – to try to counter-distinguish herself.
It's unfortunate that instead of sticking to the SD's ideas on IMMIGRATION which is a main issue on their agenda, Mona Sahlin wants to tar and feather Jimmie Åkesson's party as having ”racist roots”.
Åkesson's reference to the scourge of what was once ”race biology” and typical of the age in continental Europe ( but not Great Britain) all under the auspices of Social Democracy - is not funny either – and the lesson here is that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones - for Swedish history being what it is - cannot be changed or falsified and in this case Mona Sahlin cannot absolve the Great Social Democrats of having had a racist pedigree or racist roots - to the chagrin of all Social Democrats. - to all of whom Åkesson should then be entitled to say , ” Shame on all of you!” even though accusing the Social Democrats of having a racist pedigree/roots just because of the Race Biology Institute having flourished during their tenure of Office - is as absurd as accusing William Hague ( the author of William Wilberforce) of having been a slave trader, just because some British ancestors - some former pirates and slave traders like Sir John Hawkins and been knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I – for precisely those activities.
Anyway Hague is a Tory....a party that started long after Elizabeth I
Meanwhile, seems that Deputy Prime Minister Jan Björklund has some backing for what he's saying - just look at what's being said back in Merry England:
http://www.google.se/search?q=BBC:+Immigra...mp;ved=0CA8Q_AU
About the race biology period , it was everybody's Sweden that was more or less responsible for tolerating/ encouraging that spirit of scientific enquiry and not any particular party of that period... I went to the exhibition about this at the Ethnographic/ Peoples'Museum last year ...please corrcet me if I'm wrong...
You are most likely correct. Politicians would much rather 'whistle past the graveyard' than deal with the problems they've created.
It's much easier divert attention by vilifying, attacking, and assassinating the character of someone else than it is to be held accountable and defend your own actions.
YES!
If it quacks like a duck.......
You are wrong. It was Hitler who copied Sweden when it came to eugenics and ethnic cleansing. Not the other way round!!!
The fact is that in 1921 The Swedish Riksdag voted for the world's first racial biological institute called Statens Rasbiologiska Institut in Uppsala. Their justification was that it was "a nation's right and duty to protect itself against reproduction of people and individuals who were destined from the start for prison and mental asylum". So the inspiration for racial biology did not come from Nazi Germany, because it did not exist there in 1921.
You can read more about the Swedish history in Historien om Sverige by Herman Lindqvist.
Sweden has a very legitimate immigration problem that the Sosso and the other left of centre parties have failed to address and the result is having Jimmie in the party. At any rate at least there will be some interesting barbs being thrown in the Riksdag.
Oh...and Jimmie was spot on about Eugenics research: ask any scientist educated in this country and they'll hang their head in shame and attempt the change the subject.
The "entry-level work" on government support is a possibility for companies to basically kick an old employee out and then hire another migrant or perhaps a student/part time worker just to get the support money. Of course I´m only suspecting, but it isn´t that hard to imagine it happening.
I´ve heard people are "smoked" out or maybe urged to drop their career after a few years as they become too expensive for the employer.
Hearsay, but it´s in the air, funnily, the bigger the company and more connections to state-level.
One can dream up an image of immigrants used as merchendice. How´s that?
against a total ban on immigrants.Please read this,a lawyer
while defending some mosques during the trial of Geert Wilders
" didn't rise for the Judge because of his religion "
In a court of law,the Judge acts for the Soveriegn and should
anyone feels that he/she shouldn't rise for the Judge because
of his/her religion then he/she shouldn't have attend Court,
be it as an observer or lawyer' next time just call the Judge
and tell him/her that you cant attend court as it's time for
prayer.
Nowdays you must have an EU- schooling for this. The young guys at this "basic course for logistics" say it takes 3 years to get through this. You´ll have an "intermediate driving permit" so you can go drive a truck in a transport company, while going to school at the same time.
Actually, you learn how to drive a truck or lorry in about 2 weeks. Three years would teach you to repair the whole damn lorry, but they teach them how to unload, drive a forklift (permit for that too) tie the load and get ADR-permit, HYGIENE-permit, and so on.
3 years. That´s right. THREE YEARS just to learn how to drive a vehicle that you can take stuff from place A to place B with.
And all of us older drivers have to go to a course too, to be formally proficient for something we´ve been doing for 20 years.
This probably has only a little to do with immigrants if anything, never mind the SD, but just to continue on my rant on:
"Every time you see something, ask where all the money goes."
Or did the Swedes take the lead from the dirty murdering ethnic cleansing commies in Russia?
Almost everyone has at some time had these kind of thoughts & they are racist.
By the way, the Nazi Germans plans were not drawn up by Hitler.
And I imagine you would be on the front lines committing those commendable atrocities you so advertise.
There is a difference between an inappropriate thought or poorly chosen word and using your political position in society in creating a policy that definitivly seperates a person based on the color of his skin or the country in which he was born.
What seperates me from a Racist is that I acknowledge that racism is wrong and while I may mistep on occassion, I do so with regret and Im apologetical about. This guy is proud to be a Nazi.
So your saying Hitler should get a pass? He played his part, he didn't have to come concieve his plans on his own, more importantly he was in a position to prevent them plans from being a reality.
We don't need to dig down in to your roots to see how it looks like! For those who have forgotten the SD member who claimed:
'Blacks are programmed to rape woman and children' or their member who said
'Those immigrants who protest should be get a shot between their eyes their body shoudl be out in pockets and then posted back to their country.'
I know who said: "those immigrants who..."
But who said "Blacks are programmed to rape...?"
Some blacks ARE programmed to rape, particularily in South Africa, Some people in the Balkans ARE programmed to steal their women even in broad daylight, and some people are programmed to steal. Surely they weren´t born like that but their strange cultures taught them these habits.
And sure enough, selectiveness is used and should be used with immigrants. Could it be that as you get more and more of them, up until a point you can´t handle it anymore, you get a large amount of people with failed programming?
this comment annoys me the most. Swedes are in absolute denial that they are a fundamentally predjudiced society. sahlin and her communist party created the sweden democrats through their misguided belief that sweden is the worlds superior society.
i am glad the sweden democrats got in because it will create a discussion about rascism istead of it just being swept under the carpet and ignored. I hate racism but i think i hate socialism more.
I actually didn't quote copletely. He actually said. Black Africans are GENETICALLY programmed to rape chidlren and women! You can find it in different Swedish website and also thelocal too. When he say genetically it is cleaar he is racist. These evidences show the level of hatred against people of ethnic minorities created by SD and its members.
Whereas the SD is not guilty of that - or has not been taken to court for that by any of the self -righteous non-racist noisemakers - in Merry England, this is the kind of fallout to be expected from electioneering malpractice.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/...h_Declared_Void
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=sv&r...ham&spell=1