Those Valiant Bomber Crews

Former Spook has a post up about a memorial to the Bomber Command crews of World War II. It is appropriately titled “At Last”.

We may have this in the news feed somewhere — I can never keep up — but it needs to be repeated. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops:

After decades of controversy, debate and false starts, a memorial to the Bomber Command crews of World War II will finally be dedicated in London. Queen Elizabeth will lead the official party, and Britons should be thankful she has enjoyed such a long reign. Given the political correctness that affects certain members of the Royal Family (paging Prince Charles) one wonders if the next monarch would show up for such a lightning-rod event.

Hard to believe, but sixty-seven years after the last Lancaster returned from the final bombing mission of World War II, there is outrage over the notion of honoring the crews who took the war to the German homeland…

He talks about the addled and dangerous (my description) revisionists who have done their work so well

among the major elements of the British armed forces that fought in World War II, Bomber Command is the only one that was never honored with a campaign medal; its most famous leader (Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris) was denied post-war honors and the memorial comes decades after others were dedicated.

Damned tossers are in charge and they’re killing history. Kinda like Islam does…the same thing is happening in this country and Obama has made it worse, even vetoing Congressional approval of the Purple Heart for those soldiers slaughtered at Fort Hood. He “plays” to his own Leftist base, and base it is. But his weasel word is not the final one by far. There are too many people determined to see justice done.

Go over to see the picture of that Bomber Memorial. Brits have probably already seen it in The Telegraph

I’m with Former Spook on this one:

I’m glad the Queen is still here to do this. Though I am also optimistic about her grandsons, too. Wanker Dad? Not so much. Anyone whose idea of a paean to love is a fervent wish to be Camilla’s tampon should be ruled unfit to rule his own croquet green, never mind the whole country.

I hope Londoners with long memories pay attention to this dedication. It really is one of those “wish I could be there” moments.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/25/2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/25/2012A 26-year-old Chinese soccer fan died of exhaustion after staying awake for eleven days straight to watch the European soccer finals on television. Some sources say that tobacco and alcohol, in addition to sleep deprivation, were causative factors in his death.

In other news, middle school students visiting the 9-11 World Trade Center site in New York City desecrated the memorial by throwing soda bottles and baseballs into the reflecting pools. There was evidence that they also brought .33-calibre ammunition to the site.

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Sweden Explodes

Ummah Sweden


The article below about Modern Multicultural Sweden (and Denmark) was written for yesterday’s print edition of the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet by Bent Falbert, the retired editor-in-chief of the paper. Steen sent us a pdf of the piece, so I don’t have a URL for the original. But our Danish correspondent Kepiblanc has kindly translated it:

Sweden explodes

Sweden is becoming a great nation. Her population recently passed 9.5 million. During the past seven years it grew by 500,000 persons, among them almost 400,000 immigrants, mainly Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis.

The explosion goes on. A new Swedish ruling implies that immigration and family reunions are facilitated substantially. Hitherto the authorities could reject foreigners without papers, but the new verdict forbids that, because people in chaotic countries might find it hard to obtain sufficient authentication.

Young pathfinders

Asylum-seekers tend to send unattended children ahead to Sweden. Insofar they are under 18 they have a legal right to public housing and a new life in Sweden. The authorities try to sort out cheaters who are probably 18-20 years old, and accordingly should be rejected right away, but exact determination of their age is tricky without papers. The Swedes have to accept their claims. Confidence is better than control.

Supporting these young people at institutions costs up to 5,000 SKr. per day. The municipalities get their costs refunded by the state, but cannot refuse to accept the ‘children’.

In the next phase the bigger children’s families in e.g. Somalia follow in order to obtain family reunion in Sweden. Such family reunions are expected to increase by 15,000 persons annually, which brings the total to something like 50,000-60,000 per year.

Everything surges

Swedish taxpayers’ expenses to all their new compatriots from warmer countries are surging. Just food, housing, administration etc. until they are granted asylum will amount to eight billion DKr. in 2012.

The generous Swedish subsidy rates and sabbaticals for families are also in themselves expensive, and they were not intended for asylum-seekers without jobs but with many children.

“Daily care for one asylum-seeker costs Swedes up to 5,000 SKr. per day”

The total influx of asylum-seekers is expected to be 90,000 persons annually. The prognoses are constantly adjusted, especially since rumors in for example Somalia and Afghanistan now say that becoming a Swede is easy. One need not even work, which half of them do not anyway.

Criticism forbidden

Incredible as it is, the enormous immigration from distant countries all over the globe has not has not resulted in any Swedish debate worth mentioning. Among politicians, it is considered racist and inappropriate to air concerns, let alone to criticize Sweden’s rapid transformation into the world’s proportionally greatest immigrant country. Well, there is plenty of room in the huge forests…

Likewise, Swedish media are dominated by pious, cowed editors, who carefully remove any criticism of immigration and its consequences from their dailies, websites and broadcasts.

Danish numbers

It’s not like that in Denmark, where discussions of a fair asylum policy is permitted in public. Then, how are things in Denmark?

“Every month 100 rejected asylum-seekers are given a new reception center”

According to the Danish Bureau of Statistics the population has grown by 163,000 from 2004 to 2012. We are now 5,561,000 Danes. Of these, 445,000 are immigrants (2012) and 140,000 their descendants.

As far as asylum-seekers are concerned we are not even close to Sweden. The Asylum Board expects 5,000 asylum-seekers during 2012, 800 of those from Somalia, which is the fastest-growing nationality.

But Denmark has great difficulties getting rid of rejected asylum-seekers. Their numbers grow by 100 each month, and they must be housed while waiting to be ferried home — or for improved conditions in their homelands…

New neighbors

Accordingly, new asylum centers have to be erected on a constant basis. Recently the citizens of Juelsminde discovered that the entire Hotel Juelsminde Beach close to Kattegat had been rented to 134 asylum-seekers from Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries. The locals can expect to see a lot of new neighbors who demand all kinds of facilities, such as leisure activities, schooling and work. Other centers are established in Ringsted, Hilleroed, and on the islands Langeland and Lolland. Every month a new one. As of writing some 5,000 asylum-seekers inhabit such centers.

The increased pressure from Somalia is felt in Denmark as well, especially after a verdict in the European Court of Human Rights. The verdict stated that England could not expel two Somalis, even if they were criminals, because life in Somalia is considered dangerous. It has been so for 17 years, and today 17,000 Somalis who are extremely hard to integrate live in Denmark.

According to this new verdict some 200 formerly rejected Somalis have already been granted asylum. The same thing goes for Iranians and Syrians who cannot be sent back to their violent dictatorships.

Rejected Afghans can be sent home, but most object and the process can last forever.

Why do I write all this? — Well, I imagine that although I can’t solve Denmark’s problems it is important to realize the numbers — and what we are doing.

One can only preserve freedom of speech by using it on sensitive matters.

Besides, it’s a special schadenfreude to mention the crazy situation in which the stupid, lunatic Swedes have created for themselves. Good Sunday!

An Alternative Media Reality in Syria?

In the Humpty-Dumpty world of 21st-century global geopolitics, words mean just what the media and official government press secretaries choose them to mean — neither more nor less. And not just words, but events as well: if the following article from Kopp Online is accurate, both Syrian rebels and cynical Western political leaders have successfully mastered the deceptive media-manipulation techniques pioneered by “Pallywood”.

Note: the journalist quoted in this article was interviewed before the downing of the Turkish jet in Syrian coastal waters — an event that adds another layer of intrigue to what is described below.

Many thanks to Hermes for the translation:

Eyewitness account: Media lies about Syria unveiled in an interview

by Natalia Mihailova

The independent journalist Anhar Kochnewa has been living and working for more than ten years in Syria. According to her descriptions, the situation in Syria is by no means that which the mainstream media depicts in their reports. Kochnewa was born in Russia, and speaks Arabic fluently. Her friends and neighbors are completely normal Syrians. She travels the same streets and districts of Damascus and also goes shopping there like any other of the locals in the Syrian capital. We talked with her not long ago, and also asked her about the reasons for the unrests which have been raging for so long in Syria.

The so-called Demonstrations

Were there any deep reasons for the crisis in Syria?

Anhar Kochnewa: One year ago there were no signs of crisis. Even in March 2011 there was nothing extraordinary. The events began as criminal activity. I always get very angry when journalists claim that during the past months there have been mass protests and demonstrations in Syria. This is simply not true. I’ve been residing continuously in Syria for the past seven months, and I’ve experienced just three so-called “demonstrations”. And I say “so-called” because they were staged by very few people, and they were clearly there to stage a demonstration for the journalists. These protests were then filmed for 5-10 minutes, and after that those people dispersed at once. In some cities criminals took control for a while and forced people to join the demonstrations.

I’ve been living in Syria since the end of the nineties. To tell the truth, at that time I did not like the country. I’ve been living for a long while in this country, and I must say, that something has changed. The living conditions and the people have changed. many have opened their own businesses and made a relatively good living for themselves.

From this point of view, people would perhaps have supported the protests ten years ago, but now not. Nowadays people want stability. There’s unnecessary chaos and revolts. People were used to living in a peaceful country. Syria was one of the safest countries in the region. If one left a wallet with money somewhere and returned there two days after, he would have found it exactly in the same place. Nowadays this is no longer the case. People are worried. They have lost something they were proud of.

Who hides behind the bomb attacks, the shootings and the destruction of buildings?

Some weeks ago I was in Homs, the alleged “stronghold of the rebels”, in the already famous Baba Amr district. The majority of inhabitants have left their houses and flats. My friends lived 800 metres away from Baba Amr. They told me that it was not the army but criminals who shoot at their houses. The Syrian army does not kill people. It only reacts when the situation escalates.

In the last weeks it was mostly Syrian soldiers who fell victim (to the clashes). The so-called rebels fight in the streets, show videos and burn tires. If one sees “black smoke” on a video made with a cellphone, this smoke is not the product of artillery activity, but of burning tires.

One month ago I was in Zabadani, in southwestern Syria. Criminal gangs had the whole city in fear. The MSM frequently reports about the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria. It is indeed a humanitarian catastrophe, when a whole city is in the hands of criminals.

My colleagues and I were caught by criminals. They showed us a rusty Panzer and explained that it was what had shot at the town. But both destroyed houses were in the middle of the town. I just don’t understand how the Panzer managed to shoot, from the air or from the next corner. After that, they gathered some people and organized for us a small demonstration as an extra show. I observed the faces of that people and I saw fear and hate on their faces. They feared the criminals and hated them.

You always talk about “criminals”. What is it about, insurgents or the opposition?

There are many mercenaries among the criminals. They come from Czech Republic, Romania, France, Libya and Afghanistan. A grotesque story about afghan soldiers is being told amongst the people. A couple of Afghans were caught, and they were asked why they came here. They answered that “We were told that we would be transported to Israel in order to shoot to Israeli buses in the night. We fight for the liberation of Palestine.” This sounds funny, but it’s true. They were clearly surprised, when they were told that they were in Syria. “We are in Syria? We thought we were in Israel!”

Syrian criminals organize themselves in armed gangs. These criminals should be behind bars. These kinds of people are found in every country. When they gain power over a town, the first thing they do is to burn the reports and archives of the law-enforcement offices.

But as already said, one finds such people in every society… they enjoy having power in their hands. They don’t want to work, but to have lots of money. One can impose terror on a town with relatively few men. Two snipers are enough to bring daily life to a standstill in the streets.

On May 7 there were parliamentary elections. Did the opposition take part?

Yes, it was a very lively election campaign. They put the election posters of the different candidates on the house walls of every big streets in Damascus. According to official statistics, a total of 7,200 candidates were competing for 250 seats. Why are you so sure that the elections were undemocratic? Who claims this? The leaders of the Syrian opposition? They have been living in Europe for years. What do they know now about the real Syria? What do they know about our needs and aspirations? Let Syrians decide for themselves about their future.

The most important Syrian opposition parties have taken part in the parliamentary elections. But at this point I want to give a piece of information which will clarify the situation. Three days ago the son of the national party chairman was killed. The party received threats to make it withdraw from the election process. But the party resisted these threats, and as a consequence, the son of the chairman was killed. Who was responsible for that? The government, or those who want to stop positive changes in Syria? Criminals need no reforms. They seek destabilization and chaos in the country.

Which parties are confronted in the conflict in Syria?

Syria stands in the way of the changes in the political equilibrium to which the USA aspires — this is the tragedy of it. If one reads the book Where To Invade Next, by Stephen Elliot, one begins gain a much better understanding of the Arab spring.

Thanks to the global media, we all live in the alternative media reality. The entire world is watching a movie about something which does not in fact exist; it’s a fictional story made to appear as real events. This is a manipulation of public opinion.

What is the attitude towards the Annan plan in Syria?

Some are of the opinion that this is an attempt to give criminals time to regroup. Everybody we have met here in Homs told us that in a week the Syrian army would have solved the problems with the criminals. There is the second version, that the USA wants to get out of this situation without losing face.

Through the verdict of the UN, the USA should recognize the fact that the government of Syria was right and stop further escalations of the situation. I personally prefer this version. I think it’s right because one cannot close one’s eyes in the face of the truth. People can be tricked once and even twice, but it is simply impossible to trick them for a long period of time. I am sure that 300 UN observers will see the truth. Forcing them to lie would be difficult.

Finally, do you support the Government of Syria?

Me? I don’t know anybody from the government. I support the people of Syria, and no one else.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/24/2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/24/2012The news feed is light tonight, for some reason.

The most significant event of the day is, of course, the certification of the election of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi (or Mursi, depending on who is spelling it) as president of Egypt. President Obama sent his congratulations and promises of assistance to the new president, and Mr. Morsi has vowed to uphold Egypt’s international obligations, which most people assume to mean the 1979 peace treaty with Israel.

In other news, Turkey summoned its NATO allies for talks to discuss the downing of a Turkish military jet by Syria over Syrian coastal waters.

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Democracy and Free Speech Behind an Iron Cordon in Stavanger

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer reported last night on the SIAN demonstration in Stavanger, in which the protesters were vastly outnumbered by the “anti-racist” counter-demonstrators, and were contained within an iron police cordon as if they were dangerous terrorists.

The Observer has compiled a more lengthy report based on material from multiple sources, and includes this introduction:

SIAN, the Norwegian branch of Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE), was established on February 16, 2008.

SIAN is rumoured to have about 10,000 Norwegian members (Facebook subscribers). Their strongest local Norwegian branch is in Stavanger. SIAN runs a weekly two-hour show on one of the local radio channels in the city.

Arne Tumyr is the leader of SIAN. He is also a former/current member (possibly leader) of the Norwegian humanist association (atheist organisation). He has previously stated that:

“The Allah-infected brain needs to be scrubbed clean with ammonium.”

That’s pretty hardcore stuff, especially for Norway!

Below is a translated post written by Arne Tumyr about the demonstration in Stavanger yesterday. The original Norwegian version is posted on SIAN’s homepage. It sheds some much-needed light on why so few people attended the demo.

It is a standard tactic of the Left in Norway to announce well in advance its intention to ‘disrupt’ — oops, I mean to ‘arrange counter-demonstrations’ — whenever conservatives in Norway plan to stage demonstrations against immigration, Multiculturalism and Islam.

The Left does this because it serves two purposes:

1.   It sends out a warning to ordinary people that they should stay well clear because the left considers the demonstrations and its organizers to be unpalatable and racist.
2.   It’s a thinly-veiled threat to people that they may be physically attacked, and that they run the risk of being ‘outed’ as evil racists in the media if they show up, which can lead to very unpleasant consequences.

I can’t think of a single ‘announced’ demonstration against immigration and Islam in the last 30 years that hasn’t been ‘disrupted’ by the left, and people in Norway are acutely aware of this fact.

Also worth mentioning about the demonstration in Stavanger is that it was confined to an area of the city which isn’t normally visited by its residents (on the wharf next to a busy ring road and an oil museum). Most political stands are held in the city square, where the counter-demonstration was held, and where shoppers and residents who visit the city centre on the weekend tend to walk past.

In addition to the Tumyr post, I have translated a couple of paragraphs from the article in Aftenbladet, and one comment from the comments section.

From SIAN’s website:

“There is no doubt that ‘New SOS-Racism’ would have attacked Sian and NDL members if the opportunity had arisen”.

NDL and Sian trapped inside police iron cordon

Participants searched

By Arne Tumyr

While 1,000 individuals from politically correct Norway were able to congregate freely in the city square in Stavanger on Saturday, 40 anti-Islamists from the NDL and Sian were literally trapped inside a police iron cordon — which hardly anyone was allowed to pass through. In other words, it was an act of social and operational discrimination by the police. While the 1000 politically correct representatives enjoyed democracy and freedom of expression in all its glory, the anti-Islamists had to accept that this privilege wasn’t granted to them.

The media and the so-called anti-racists took great joy in the fact that so few attended the anti-Islamic demonstration, but they willfully fail to mention that most normal people don’t have the energy to defy an iron-tight police cordon with police checkpoints where body searches are mandatory — just to attend what is basically a political stand. Warning lights should begin to flash, because in this context freedom of speech is lying on a hard wooden bunk — while politically correct Norway has granted Islam and “The Prophet” a bed with silk sheets.

The absurdity of the situation is perhaps best described by “Torstein”:

“I was in Stavanger today. The police were everywhere. A myriad of people waving yellow flags were marching around and causing a commotion. I personally believe that they were a few cents short of a dollar.

“I was one of those who wanted to join the so-called racists that were the source of the terrible pandemonium created by those outside of the police cordon.

“I attempted several times to get through the police barriers and get into the so-called disaster area. Eventually I was escorted by a member of the ‘maintainers of law and order’ to a little ‘confined’ area, where I was searched and had to show my ID. The only thing the ‘authorities’ found that they didn’t appreciate was a box of snuff, but eventually I was allowed to enter, thank God. Inside the police cordon or the ‘catastrophe area’ I was searched once again, and for the second time I had to produce my ID. I also had to ‘report’ to the police before I was allowed back out after the demo. I have never before experienced such ‘concern’ by the authorities for my ‘well-being’. I felt well cared for and looked after inside the war zone.”

It is strange that the local police administrators don’t realize the absurdity of the situation when they allow a group of extremist thugs to recklessly disregard and disrupt peace and order. From the organizers’ point of view, it was unproblematic that a counter-demonstration was held at the city square a kilometer away, but the potential violent element that goes under the new name of “New SOS Racism” should have been told that they had to express their views another day. And if they had decided to show up anyway, screaming and making a commotion, they should have been arrested and locked up during the remainder of the event.

If this had been the case, the police cordon and the police checkpoints could have been removed, and the NDL and SIAN could have been experienced democracy and free speech — maybe the police will see to it that this is the case next time?

Stop the Islamisation of Norway (Sian)

Arne Tumyr
Leader

From Aftenbladet:

Quote 1:

“If you want to prevent the establishment of a Nazi community in Stavanger, it’s meaningless to inflate balloons in the city square and sing songs,” the leader of New SOS Racism in Stavanger Nina Narvestad says.

Narvestad believes that it is more important to confront the NDL and Sian than inflating balloons.

“People should be happy that there are people out there who are willing to confront representatives of Nazi organizations that are attempting to set up shop here in Stavanger. If they are allowed to establish themselves here there are going to be violent attacks on Muslims,” she says.

Quote 2:

“Why do the police protect people like this? No one can deny us the right to resist hate propaganda.

“There are 100 policemen here protecting Nazis who is telling the people of Stavanger that it’s OK to hate Muslims,” Narvestad says.

The article also says that:

Anti-racist organizations from Trondheim, Haugesund, Oslo and Bergen also attended the counter demonstration.

A comment from Aftenbladet reader Axel Christopher L. Aarre:

I was standing behind the police barriers today. When “New SOS Racism” showed up they started shouting “Jewish swine” and “Nazis” at the NDL. Which raises the question. 1. Who are the racists here? 2. Somebody hasn’t read their history books …

Some additional info on SOS-Rasisme:

The organisation has now changed its name to ‘New SOS-Rasisme’ due to the bad press it has been getting in the MSM and because of the organization’s systematic fraudulently appropriation of public grants. The new organization is, however, still controlled by the same people who controlled the old SOS-Rasisme. It is also worth remembering that SOS-Rasisme infiltrated the NDL and practically built up the organization from scratch just so they could have an arch-enemy to demonize:

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/23/2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/23/2012Peter Sutherland, the UN’s special representative for migration, told the House of Lords that the European Union must undermine the national homogeneity of its member states if it is to further the goals of Multiculturalism. He said that demographic decline in Europe requires the importation of more migrants into the EU.

In other news, the Saudi government is reportedly planning to pay the salaries of Syrian rebel soldiers in an attempt to undermine the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

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A Political Voice Box… For the Facts

BF meeting, July 21 2012


On Thursday July 21 local members of the British Freedom Party gathered in Somerset to greet their chairman, Paul Weston, and two new members of the Executive Committee, Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll.

Here’s a report on the event from the British Freedom website:

On Thursday night British Freedom held its first regional meeting in Somerset, chaired by the Local Party Organiser Hamilton Chant. The meeting was extremely positive and well attended by 80+ British Freedom and EDL members, most of whom were from the South West region.

Speakers included the joint Vice Chairmen Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carroll, as well as Party Chairman Paul Weston.

Stephen and Kevin both spoke about the advantages British Freedom can bring to the EDL, whilst Paul outlined the violent thousand-year Jihad Islam has waged against Europe.

Videos of the speakers can be viewed below — please share them far and wide and help us to spread the good word of Freedom.

I’ll do just as BF suggests. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading these videos and improving the audio.

First, here’s Kevin Carroll opening the event:

Next, Tommy Robinson:

Finally, Paul Weston:

Twenty-Five to One

That was the ratio of counter-demonstrators to demonstrators today at an anti-Islamization demonstration in Norway.

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer didn’t have time to translate the full news report on what happened, but he sent this summary:

The Norwegian Defence League (NDL) and Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN) held a demonstration in Stavanger (west coast of Norway) on Saturday.

Approximately a hundred police officers in riot gear had to protect the meeting out of fear that ‘anti-racists’ would ‘disrupt’ the demo.

NDL and SIAN were cordoned off in a designated area and no one was allowed in once it kicked off, which kept the anti-NDL crowd at bay, but it also stopped ordinary people from entering the area and listening to the message of the demonstrators.

There were approximately forty people from NDL and SIAN present, and approximately a thousand counter-demonstrators. At lot of people who are sympathetic to the NDL and SIAN probably stayed away, fearing violent confrontations. The Left in Norway is renowned for physically attacking conservatives at demos.

See the article in Aftenbladet for the full story.

The Continuation of War by Other Means

Under the auspices of the Center for Security Policy, Kevin Freeman presents this in-depth briefing on the deliberate economic warfare being waged against the United States and the rest of the West.

Mr. Freeman is the author of Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again.

His presentation draws together the disparate elements that are attempting to sabotage the economic systems of Europe and the USA via electronic means. Islamic radicals, Marxist globalists, Iran, China, and Russia are all targeting our economies. And, based on Kevin Freeman’s research, they have already scored several major victories in their war to bring down the West.

Many thanks to CSP for making this material available:

Running Afoul of Norton

We just received this email from a reader in Norway:

I add a screen shot of what happens when I try to access your web page. It claims your web page has been known to be fraudulent and does not want me accessing it.

I am a regular reader and have had this program running on my computer for 6 months, this is the first time it has tried to stop me from viewing your webpage.

Can you tell me if you have been hacked, or the page has suffered from a virus? Or is this another attempt at trying to stop people from hearing the other side?

Its really making me a bit paranoid now, but I am wanting to know what this is all about.

I will be hesitant to access your webpage again for the reason that I really don’t wish to have viruses on my computer. Could you tell me if there actually has been a breech of security?

So I asked friends in the USA, Canada, and Denmark to try loading Gates of Vienna. They had no problems.

Then, as soon as I sent off a reply to the Norwegian reader, I received another email, presumably from the United States:

Got this warning when I tried to log onto your site a few minutes ago. I regularly check your site and never got something like this, though I’ve had Norton on my computer for years.

Below are screen shots from the computers in Norway and the USA, respectively:

Norton blocking GoV


I have no idea what is causing this. I asked several people to test it, and some of them use Norton — I even have Norton on one of my machines — and nobody had any problem loading our blog.

I just checked our site meter, and traffic seems to be running normally for a Saturday evening. We are currently entertaining visitors from the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, and other more exotic locales. Business as usual.

If anyone has any ideas about what may have caused these bizarre anomalies, please leave a message in the comments.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/22/2012

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/22/2012The trial of Anders Behring Breivik came to an end today in Oslo. The Butcher of Utøya was given a substantial block of time for final pronouncements on topics of his choice. Some of the spectators in the courtroom, including representatives of the survivors’ families, walked out early in protest.

In other news, Islamic terrorists shot their way into a resort in Afghanistan, and at least 26 people were killed, including 15 civilians, several police officers, and the seven killers themselves. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the women at the resort were behaving shamelessly by dancing and so on, in violation of Islamic law.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Afghanistan, at a conference about women’s issues the Afghan justice minister said that women who ran away to shelters for abused women were “prostitutes”. EU foreign minister Baroness Catherine Ashton said she was “deeply troubled” by her fellow minister’s comments.

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Sweden’s National Day (Of Self-Loathing)

It’s a pleasure to introduce our new Swedish correspondent PMP to Gates of Vienna readers. In his first essay for us, PMP takes a look at the culture of self-hatred that has arisen in Sweden in recent decades, as reflected in the masochistic celebration of the country’s National Day.

Swedish National Day: 'Det gamla och det nya sverige', by August Malmström, 1897


Sweden’s National Day (of self-loathing)
by PMP

By studying how Swedish politicians and media ideologically attack Sweden on its own National Day, this essay will reveal how Sweden has ceased to exist as a proud and tolerant nation. It will show how an anti-nationalist, Marxist line of thought is being propagated all the way from top officials, including the Royal Family, to the vast majority of Sweden’s various media outlets and research institutions.

In his essay, ‘The Case of Sweden’, Fjordman spoke of the country as a nasty and ‘frightening example of Political Correctness and self-loathing and can as such serve as a warning to others’. He also noted that Sweden is self-destructing at an unprecedented pace, for example referring to how Swedes will become an ethnic minority in their own lands within a few decades. Whilst this is very likely, the deconstruction is not only happening in terms of physical immigration and demographic changes. It is also about the deconstruction of traditional Swedish values and perceptions.

We are talking about a monster, with tentacles consisting of journalists, politicians, officials and researchers.
An unfortunately superb time to witness this beast appear out of the dark is when it annually seeks to attack Sweden’s National Day, which takes place around the 6th of June. Every year during this day we are reminded of how far the establishment and media have pushed their ‘anti-indigenous’ agenda. This day is, apparently, a great time to criticise exactly what the day is intended to celebrate — being Swedish and being proud of Sweden.

In the case of Sweden, there are many past examples of a type of dislike and critique of being Swedish. The former leader of the Social Democrats, Mona Sahlin, expressed this at a conference, stating that she could ‘not think of anything resembling Swedish culture.’ And that this further ‘makes Swedes jealous of immigrants who have a culture, identity and a history which unite them.’ This, ‘whilst Swedes only have midsummer celebration and such ridiculous things.’

The current prime minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party (‘Conservatives’ in Sweden), stated in 2006 that ‘the only feature of Swedish culture is barbarism, whilst everything else is thanks to immigration’.

The list of such statements is lengthy, especially when studying the writings of the country’s journalists. If one looks at how the establishment is tightly inter-linked politically with the media, the large amounts of this criticism does make sense. The celebrated anonymous author Julia Caesar has written about the bias of the Swedish media. She means that, whilst around 40% of the Swedish population sympathizes with the red-green (left) parties of the country, those holding such views make up at least 70% of Sweden’s journalists. According to a study by professor Kent Asp of Gothenburg University, 56% of Swedish journalists sympathise with the extreme left party ‘Vänsterpartiet’, and 41% with the Environmental Party. According to Asp, however, the State-funded television and radio, SVT and SR, win by far — over 83% of their journalists sympathise with these two leftist parties.

Let’s break this Nation down

Thus, to witness politicians, journalists and researchers arguing a line of cultural deconstruction on the country’s National Day should not come as a surprise. And so they did. On National Day the media did not make us wait for this criticism. On the early morning news, Channel 4 launched a ‘discussion’, on the topic ‘What is Swedishness? Is there such a thing?’. There were three participants in the discussion — None of whom viewed themselves as ‘ Swedish’. The TV show’s host asked whether if they felt the day meant anything special to them, resulting in their bursting into laughter. One of them, Qaizar Mahmood, said that he ‘wished it might mean something, but it really didn’t.’ Mahmood then went on to describe Swedishness as an onion, made out of different layers. One of these layers, was ‘the passivity (read cowardice) of the Swedes, which was shown during WWII,’ when Sweden did not take a stand against the Germans. He continued, asserting that ‘There are new layers constantly added to this onion, but if you peel these off, there is no core of Swedishness or of being a Swede.’ In other words, there is nothing to celebrate as there is nothing or no one who is Swedish in the end.

This line of thinking finds expression in every source of journalism during this day. The journalist Jan Anders Olsson called for using the National Day as a ground for fighting ‘hate-crimes’. ‘The terms ‘Swede’ and ‘Swedishness’ in principle now refer to everyone,’ he argued. Therefore, ‘the National Day serves the function to remind us that all who hold a Swedish citizenship are de facto Swedes’. Christian Fernandez and Anders Hellström, researchers at Malmö University, called for making the National Day the ‘Day of Citizenship’. They meant we need to construct and celebrate an ‘Us’ which rejects the current, narrow understanding of ‘Swedishness’. In a chronicle in one of Sweden’s major evening papers, Aftonbladet, Elisabeth Höglund criticised the use of Sweden’s national anthem. Höglund meant the song expressed imperialism and brutal colonialism, as the song illustrates 17th century Sweden. She therefore meant that the anthem should be ‘re-written’, so that it would more correctly reflect ‘contemporary Sweden’.

Possibly the most influential Swedish news site and paper, Dagens Nyheter, has been a strong advocate of such arguments since the 1960s. A day before the National Day, the Liberal Swedish politician Jasenko Selimovic in this paper called for a ‘new Swedishness’. He compared Sweden to USA, meaning that they are very similar societies as they are made up of many different nationalities. However, he meant Sweden has failed to develop a similar sense of being Swedish, when compared to those who refer themselves to ‘American’.

If you were to ask the Swedish people whether they would like their country to be turned into a European version of the USA, I can assure you they would not approve. However, I have long since given up the thought that journalists and policy-makers such as Selimovic might actually care about what Swedes want.

This madness did not stop with journalists and academics; it also came from a more official level. I suppose The Royal Family of Sweden simply does not have much choice but to follow the political line of the establishment. For them to appear in the media celebrating being Swedish is no longer acceptable. At the National Day, parts of the Royal Family instead visited multicultural Malmö in the South of Sweden, where around 40% of the habitants are ‘non-Swedish’. In a highly covered presentation at the city’s Opera, Swedish Crown Prince Daniel welcomed the 300 so-called ‘New Swedes’ who were invited as guests. He introduced his speech stating that ‘being Swedish does not refer to skin or hair colour, nor accents’. To be Swedish, ‘is to share a place on the earth and to share a commonality and responsibility’. In the city which has recently seen an unprecedented murder-wave in Scandinavia, the Prince of course also emphasised how ‘Sweden has been enriched socially and culturally through immigration’.

Witch-hunt of nationalism — On the National Day

Other than the under-represented nationalist organisations, which are labelled as racists and fascists by media, there were virtually no journalists who opposed the propaganda during Sweden’s National Day. However, an exception which surprised many was the infamous historian Herman Lindqvist. Lindqvist is regarded by many as perhaps the most important scholar of Swedish history. As a protest to the above-illustrated attacks on the National Day, Lindqvist wrote an article titled ‘Stop puking on the National Day’. In the article, he criticised the fact that politicians and journalists cannot let Swedes even have one day a year to be proud of who they are, and where they come from. Lindqvist was then interviewed by a nationalist site about the article. On being asked whether there are ‘ethnic Swedes’, Lindqvist answered ‘of course there are’. After this, all hell break loose in the small country, and the red-green journalists could smell blood from miles away. The privately funded anti-racist institution Expo accused Lindqvist of collaborating with and supporting Nazis. The major newspaper Aftonbladet wrote an article where they now referred to Herman Lindqvist as a ‘poster-boy of organised fascism’.

In summary, the Swedish establishment, together with its branches in the media and academia, propagates a view of the country which ferociously attacks the notions of ethnic Swedes and of Swedishness. The day the population is supposed to celebrate this otherwise fantastic country, has been hijacked to serve as a political tool.

What we are talking about here is thus not a small amount of criticism from a few individuals. It is an organised body of critique, running top-down through the various levels of society. You are not to celebrate what used to be Sweden or what is Swedish. You are encouraged to question yourself, your country and your people. On the one hand, Swedes are to deny their own existence and question any notion of culture. On the other hand, they are to respect and admire people from other cultures who, in contrast to their Swedish ancestors, have enriched the country. This privilege obviously does not extend to the Swedes themselves. If you do not agree with this, you apparently deserve to be hunted down and harassed. To avoid being labelled a fascist and racist you had best make sure you loathe your own background and people as much as possible.

I have however not given up on the Swedish people itself. I know that a high percentage of ordinary Swedes celebrate the day and share the richness of what the country has brought them. The disturbing thing is to see how the politicians, who are supposed to represent these individuals, have their own agenda which has not been wished for by the population as a whole.

At the end of the day, I wonder: Did the Swedes really want to elect politicians who try to deconstruct their country?

Did they want an establishment which denies their existence, and encourages them to despise themselves on their only day of celebration?

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