Published: 28 Jun 12 08:18 CET | Print version
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Some 100 people in their early twenties rioted in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta just after midnight on Wednesday night, smashing up police cars and throwing stones at officers.
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Let them riot (they can't stop them anyway). Collect as much film as possible from static security cameras and their own photography teams, review the film and identify the rioters, go pick them up. Now comes the most important bit; get the judges to lock them up for a minimum of several months.
This combination has reduced violence inside British football stadia to almost zero, and there are thousands of rioters from last summer currently in jail, sincerely wishing they had stayed home that night.
Unfortunately, good policing and robust sentencing is not the Swedish way, and the citizens of the usual hotspots need to batten down the hatches for the next few weeks instead.
I am myself an immigrant working in stockholm. We guys are coming from countries where we HAD to become aggressive, because in THAT scenario, it was needed for our survival. A person coming from countries that have had wars in the past, can not be very peaceful. I am not saying they are guilty or bad people. No, but it was needed for their survival in those times. To be sharp, trying to find easier ways, moving towards activities which may help them but create problems for others.. etc.
I know it is very difficult to understand this, for immigrants and non-immigrant alike. But we need different and strict laws with tough punishments. It will take 3 or 4 generations for us to get accustomed to the culture of this land. It is also necessary to maintain law and order, thus, with strict punishments for criminal activities, it may create a lesson for all new comers.
Yes these may sound harsh, but its highly pathetic to let a bunch of morons destroy the image of the rest, and it should not be tolerated.
Many of you may not understand what I mean, perhaps because you havn't lived in lands where if you are nice or gentle, your whole family will suffer...or perhaps it will cost you your life!
The policies need to be strict for new comers. Let these immigrants get accustomed to the belief of sweden "violence breeds violence". Its not a matter of days, or few years in SFI... it takes generations, provided that the new generations are made to follow the right track.
"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth" - worked for the Nazis now it's time for the multicultural left to have a go...
Me, i reserve my anger for swedens mediopolitical class.
You are all racists for not being more tolerant of this display of diversity...
The West ( and Sweden is probably the most foolish member) is like an incredibly naive, well-meaning family who have decided to invite starving vampires into their home. The poor vampires are hungry so the fools give them free access to their jugular veins. Meanwhile, more and more vampires are climbing in through the open windows eager to share the free blood. The youngest child of the family, naughty little Far Right ( who is always causing trouble) says they should shut the windows and kick the vampires out. His horrified parents send him to bed with no supper and say that kicking the poor creatures out would be cruel and inhuman... and anyway... the vampires have now become part of the family.
Where the hell is Buffy when you need her?