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Sweden's parliament on Thursday passed a law making it easier for police to force internet service providers to reveal the identities of individual computer users in their continued hunt for suspected file sharers.
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Yeah, sure, Sweden cares about child molesters. Here in Blekinge county, a man was convicted of seven rapes of children 13 and under, with the youngest 9-years-old. He was first sentenced to six years in jail, which was later reduced to 4-1/2 (!) years.
Don't tell me that Swedes give a damn about their women or children. File sharing, sure, but not children. Shame on you Sweden.
It might be time to go home now
They are doing this to defend the Political Correctness in their country.
They want to protect the people that are responsible for 48% of all rapes in this country.
They want to protect the people that are transforming this place in a hell.
They want to protect those 20 guys from the Middle-East that raped a 11 year old girl and will be in jail for 4 years.
If they really cared about this country they would not bring all this islamic trash from abroad.
You know, when you live in a country where a politician when asked about the immigrant giant amount of crime(rape,robbery and murder) says that immigrants are responsible for most of the rapes because of weather...(yes, if you are a somali, summer will make you rape the native population) and the people do NOTHING.
Sweden is the home of the most coward people in the world....
With these new 40.000 somalis that are coming until the end of 2012, Sweden for sure will win the ultimate prize:
From European capital of Rape .......to
Sweden capital of rape in the world.
Bunch of cowards...
Here in Falun we've had several case of attempted child abduction from outside junior schools, the Polis response ? more random breath tests on parents delivering their kids to school. Successes achieved ? none. The only reason we're not finding child corpses is blind luck.
When is Sweden as a society going to chase down REAL CRIMINALS instead of bullying hard working tax paying citizens with filesharing bs and speeding and parking tickets?