Already several nations are trying to protect themselves from Islam while simultaneously claiming that Islam is peace and having a preposterous number of welfare sucking, sharia demanding, terror planning muslims in our midsts is a wonderful enriching thing for which we all should be grateful and pay a large sum out of our various incomes for the privilege.
But that turns out to be the least of the problems. The methods we are creating to protect ourselves are every bit as totalitarian as the demands the muslims make, and are being granted, on our societies. We may end up with the worst of both worlds. A sharia compliant society with Western style totalitarian laws.
Example 1: Many states are passing anti burka laws. I have written extensively and frequently on why this is a horrible idea. In summary though, you dont preserve freedom by passing laws against women’s clothing. if you are gonna do that, at least start with Miley Cyrus. The way to solve that problem is give people back the freedom to discriminate against people covering thier faces in their own businesses and homes and enforce existing laws against wearing a disguise in public. Hey presto! You have solved the burka problem with zero new laws, and actually by getting rid of some bad ones.
Example 2: Rescinding the right of exit.
Our governments seem determined to deny muslims the right to leave to go fight for whatever they want wherever they want. The right of exit is a defining characteristic of Western democracy. I do not care WHY a person wants to leave we have no damn right to stop them. Reagan did not even stop Americans from leaving the US to go join the Soviet Union, even if they were high level scientists or valuable assets. But for damn sure the Soviets would not let them leave once the defectors realized they had made a horrible mistake and there was a solid chance the US would not let them back in or jail them if they did. Fair enough. But you must not stop them from leaving.
And now this.
I am so shocked and horrified by this new law in Sweden that about half of me doesn’t even believe its true. I really and truly hope it is not. Imagine each and every one of you, not in Sweden, that your government passed a law criminalizing criticism of a main government policy. How could you possibly call yourselves a democracy? If one may not talk about how the government is handling the economy, what makes each and everyone’s lives work, or call a talk show and speak about foreign policy, how your nation is dealing with the world at large, or most important, immigration, how your government is determining the very future of your entire culture as well as the rules, laws and climate for your children etc. then you live in a totalitarian state. So surely this last example cannot be true. Someone who reads this site from Scandinavia or is familiar with this situation please tell me this article is a hoax and the site it is from is hysterical conspiracy theory nonsense.
Eeyore for Vlad.
H/T Shabnam
Hello there…….its me again…….Don Laird….
Excellent commentary Vlad……
While half of you doesn’t believe it, I differ in reaction……all of me believes it, every single word of it.
I suppose you recall with clarity our recent discussion on the rise of vigilantism. To that end…..listen to the echoes of days gone by when an American, President John F. Kennedy mused…..
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
To other readers….listen once again to our discussion and think……think very long and very hard of the days ahead.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kel-fritzi/2014/09/03/islamic-issues-with-vlad-tepes
And here’s another fly in the ointment……a fly the size of an albatross.
From Denmark!!!!……..Quelle Surprise!!!!
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/18/i-was-afraid-of-this-danish-immigrant-party-challenges-populist-right/
Regards, Don Laird
Dogtown Bastard
Alberta, Canada
This was commented on in April 2014:
http://m.thenewamerican.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenewamerican.com%2Fworld-news%2Feurope%2Fitem%2F18116-new-swedish-law-criminalizes-anti-immigration-internet-speech&utm_referrer=#2669
“One of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, Expressen , used criminal hackers to break into Disqus and get the email addresses and identities of commenters online, and to reveal the persons behind the nicknames or anonymous user IDs. The newspaper sent a reporter and a cameraman to one person’s home and asked them about things they had written on different websites. Expressen published the names and photos of some people, which led to at least one person losing his job.”
@Perfectchild……
This is a two-way street………a perfect two-way street.
Let us start to identify those who walk among us who are traitors, the treasonous, the seditious.
Then, let us deal with them in the same manner we would deal with the Muslim and its Islam.
Regards, Don Laird
Dogtown Bastard
Alberta, Canada
Looks like the Swedish law slants more towards criminalizing criticism of politicians, immigrants, etc. but still very bad.
http://www.europeandailynews.org/2014/04/14/sweden-new-law-to-make-it-easier-to-prosecute-those-who-insult-immigrants-politicians/
To a leftist, talking about immigration or gay marriage or anything politically incorrect, is the same as dressing up in an Adolf Hitler costume and shouting, “Sieg Heil!”, through a megaphone. A KGB agent once explained to me that the Soviet perspective was that they were the anti-fascists, and that Germany and Britain and the USA were the fascists. and that the Soviets were the ones who were quite innocently trying to make the world, “safe for democracy”. You could have knocked me down with a feather…
With that in mind, it makes perfect sense for a communist Swede to pass a law banning, “right wing”, discussions about immigration and gay marriage and feminism and public-sector unions, on the assumption that such discussions are intrinsically fascist in nature. It is that conflation that gives them license to be as hateful as they are toward those who oppose them because, hey, who doesn’t hate Nazis? And if you think about it, it is probably illegal, and quite rightly so, to talk about building concentration camps and invading Poland, so why not just pile all the other stuff on there for good measure?
I can’t think of anything from Sweden to boycott.
No Begium waffles, French fries, Dutch chocolate.
Really. What have Swedes contributed to life as we know it?
@Yucki…..
In answer to your pondering…..
“What have Swedes contributed to life as we know it?”…..
A mind numbing array of shitty furniture which, given cutesy names and slick marketing, lines the homes of every fudgepacker, carpetmuncher and self loathing, politically correct, Leftist/Liberal White-Guilt-Junkie from Stockholm to Buenos Aires ……..oh yeah….and a cheap line of jams and chocolate to nosh on whilst you watch Western Civilization go up in flames.
Oh and this; mind numbing hypocrisy……in the form of a capitulation to the demands of Muslims throughout the Middle East……male Muslims that is…….who spied with their vicious little Muslim eyes…..a woman in an advertisement in an IKEA catalog……HORRORS!!!!!…….their vicious little Muslim heads exploded and they protested……….and IKEA immediately Photoshopped all women out of their catalogs………and then with their dental-work flecked with Muslim fecal matter, the entire IKEA senior corporate echelon crawled on hands and knees to beg the forgiveness of the offended Muslims and to give their sandals a good tongue polishing.
Click and be amused…..the story is very real.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9de_1349094211
AND
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article15534222.ab
Its actually hilarious, in a vulgar and injurious way…….in IKEA’s cafeteria, where they serve the Swedish version of a prison breakfast for 1.00$, they have little table decorations in plastic stands……one of them is a photograph of a young woman from a country like Bangledash or Pakistan and the caption about how much “IKEA REALLY REALLY REALLY CARES ABOUT THE WOMEN OF THE THIRD-WORLD.”
Word has it that IKEA offered the miffed Muslims a special gift as consolation for their bruised sensibilities,……Islamic prayer rugs made of pure clitoris and fringed with severed labia, all harvested from those same third-world girls that IKEA cares so very very very very much about………the Muslims were very impressed, nothing like going down to the Mosque and kneeling on a rug made of pure clitoris and labia…….ALLAH BE PRAISED!!!!
Regards, Don Laird
Dogtown Bastard
Alberta, Canada
Fury from child sex abuse victims as Rotherham council boss gets £40,000 payoff
Details of payout revealed following a Freedom of Information request
Children’s services boss Joyce Thacker quit £130,000-a-year post last month
Home Affairs Select Committee report said she ignored ‘numerous credible warnings’ about the scale of abuse, and called for independent investigation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2797925/MPs-urge-Rotherham-cover-probe.html
Emergency inspections at more private Islamic schools in London over fears of new ‘Trojan horse’ plot
Inspectors have visited six more schools amid concerns of Islamic influence
These include private Islamic schools and a Church of England state school
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798835/emergency-inspections-private-islamic-schools-london-fears-new-trojan-horse-plot.html
Vile image of baby girl being ‘beheaded’ found by Kurds on phone taken from dead ISIS fanatics in Kobane
Sickening image shows child pinned to floor with knife held to her throat
Feared she and her family may have been beheaded for being Alevi Muslims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2798667/kurds-vile-image-baby-girl-beheaded-photograph-recovered-phones-dead-isis-fanatics-kobane.html
If the story about Sweden is true, then Sweden is a Third World Country.
I tried looking it up on Google News, but didn’t find anything.
Worse than most 3rd world countries. Incompetency serves as a safeguard in those.
Seems Iran has border problems just like we do:
Iran says radical Pakistanis entering its territory to carry out terror attacks
Pakistan’s Frontier Corps accuse Iranian border guards of opening fire at a patrol van, killing soldier
An Iranian military official said Tehran has proof that militants are entering Iran from Pakistan to carry out attacks.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/47841-141019-iran-says-radical-pakistanis-entering-its-territory-to-carry-out-terror-attacks
Caroline Glick, New York Times:
There should be no Palestinian state
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/10/16/should-nations-recognize-a-palestinian-state/there-should-be-no-palestinian-state-23
Warning: Avoid the comments unless you have an airsickness baggie nearby.
This is pure conjecture, but if I were a Saudi billionaire Wahabist, I may consider it money well-spent to pay a few people a few hundred dollars a week to write letters to places like the New York Times, CNN, Fox News etc.. Actually, if you hired your comment writers out of, say, Pakistan, you could probably get them for about $10.00-a-day. Adolf Hitler, for one, would have most definitely endorsed such a concept.
I think those 4 comments sitting there like bullet holes after Caroline Glick’s article are suspicious…which doesn’t prove anything. But when the non-comment-writers, who represent the vast majority of readers, scan quickly through the article then glance at the comments, they can see that nobody agreed with Caroline Glick, so they quickly file the article away under “six of one, half dozen of the other”, then forget about it altogether. Money well spent…
I never thought of that. But it is the New York Slimes…
Pentagon to create medical support team for U.S. Ebola response
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the creation of a 30-member expeditionary medical support team to provide emergency help in a U.S. domestic Ebola response, a Pentagon spokesman said on Sunday.
The team of five doctors, 20 nurses and five trainers could respond on short notice to help civilian medical professionals, a statement from Rear Admiral John Kirby said. It would not be deployed to West Africa or elsewhere overseas.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/19/us-health-ebola-usa-pentagon-idUSKCN0I80PI20141019
Could be handy thing to have in your back-pocket for whatever, whenever.
But isn’t that Homeland Security’s job anyway? Aren’t they prepared for biological warfare?
And why this announcement of our current inadequacies?
It may be the election but it is probably just Obama trying to stop his critics by ordering something he doesn’t know much about, also this gets around restrictions on the use of the military in the US.
I don’t like it.
I don’t like much of what he does.
This makes me uneasy. I’m not sure why.
Maybe it’s just pre-election claptrap.
UK – Downing Street set to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood
An unpublished report commisisoned by David Cameron into the Muslim Brotherhood will link it to up to 60 charities, groups and even television channels operating in the UK
[…]Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, who is an adviser to the review, is reported to have described it as “at heart a terrorist organisation”.
[…]One expert said that the Brotherhood was now operating from three major bases – London, Istanbul and Doha, the capital of Qatar.
[…]The origin of funding of the Brotherhood-linked groups in the UK will come under scrutiny in the Cabinet Office report. Qatar has been the Brotherhood’s major funder, bankrolling the party in Egypt, where it gained power in democratic elections before a bloody military coup.
Qatar has also bankrolled Hamas, as well as the Brotherhood in Libya, where it has been accused of joining forces with jihadist militias intent on overthrowing the secular, elected government in Tripoli. Qatar has also funded high- profile events in Britain, apparently linked to the Brotherhood.
more on the page :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11171979/Downing-Street-set-to-crack-down-on-the-Muslim-Brotherhood.html
It’s a start, anyway.
It is not just Sweden that is introducing laws banning freedom of speech , the UK is bring in laws against extremists but extremist is defined as anyone disagreeing with the government or any public body . You will be locked up in prison or a mental hospital if you do not agree with the governments actions or their version of events .
No, it is not a law against critisism of immigration. It is a law that makes it easier for individuals to sue someone who he thinks are “defaming” him as a person. But Sweden doesnt need laws against critisism of immigration (that would not look good for swedens self image), there is a “social law” that makes a critic paria. You can still loose your job if the employer thinks that you do not “share values” that are the norm. You still get kicked out of some labour unions with the blessing of the authorities.