As reported here previously, the Swedish chapter of PEGIDA staged a rally in Malmö on June 27. One of the speakers was a Dane named Peter Seier Christensen. Below is his excellent, straightforward, commonsensical speech.
Many thanks to Liberty DK for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:03 | Now it is. | |
| 00:07 | Dear democratic co-demonstrators: | |
| 00:10 | Thank you for the invitation to participate in this demonstration. | |
| 00:13 | I feel it is my duty, particularly in Sweden, | |
| 00:18 | to show my support to the few brave men and women | |
| 00:22 | who dare speak out against political correctness. | |
| 00:26 | It takes courage to do this in Sweden. Just look around you. | |
| 00:30 | Thousands of rabid red fascists | |
| 00:34 | who want to prevent us from voicing our opinion. | |
| 00:38 | Who try to frighten people from expressing their legitimate opinions. | |
| 00:42 | Why are there so many police present today? Is it because WE are violent? | |
| 00:46 | No, we would never harm any our political opponents. | |
| 00:50 | It is the undemocratic counter-demonstrators | |
| 00:54 | who are the reason that the police are present here today. | |
| 00:57 | It is the modern fascism in Europe. | |
| 01:00 | We also see it in Denmark. | |
| 01:03 | I want to take this opportunity to talk about how I and many others in Denmark | |
| 01:07 | witness with shock and horror what has been happening in Sweden in recent years. | |
| 01:11 | How irresponsible politicians in cooperation with | |
| 01:15 | irresponsible media undermine the future of the country. | |
| 01:19 | You have of course the full right to undermine and change the safe country we used to know. | |
| 01:23 | It was, after all, only 87% of your population | |
| 01:28 | who didn’t vote for the Sweden Democrats last election. | |
| 01:33 | You do NOT however, have the right to abolish democracy. | |
| 01:38 | The scandalous December agreement where you abolished the positive parliamentarism | |
| 01:43 | with the intention of excluding a large part of the Swedish people from democratic influence | |
| 01:49 | is a stain on Sweden. It is the first step away from democracy. | |
| 01:54 | What happens next? | |
| 01:58 | With this agreement in place you have taken a step that is unheard of in a modern democracy. | |
| 02:02 | In a recent poll the Sweden Democrats | |
| 02:07 | garnered 22 percent of the votes. That is 22 percent of the population | |
| 02:11 | that you have excluded from having any influence. | |
| 02:19 | Those 22 percent can do nothing but stand outside and watch | |
| 02:23 | how the politicians who have taken power are in the process of changing the Sweden we knew | |
| 02:28 | with lightning speed, without thinking about the consequences for the citizens of the country. | |
| 02:33 | And from Denmark we watch with wonder and fear how Sweden in just a very few years | |
| 02:37 | has changed into a lawless nation in the North. | |
| 02:41 | A picture of what happens if we stand by and do nothing. | |
| 02:45 | In this past week alone I have read about shootings and bombs going off, | |
| 02:49 | car bombs and hand grenades being thrown, in Sweden. | |
| 02:53 | Sweden has the next highest incidence of rapes, surpassed only by Lesotho in South Africa. | |
| 02:58 | The incidence of rape is ten times higher in Sweden than it is in Denmark. | |
| 03:03 | Ten times! | |
| 03:08 | Malmö’s courthouse was the target of two bombings last year alone. | |
| 03:12 | Recently Swedish police has said that there are 55 no-go zones, areas they no longer have any control over. | |
| 03:17 | That is 300,000 people who live in Sweden, but who are not subject to Swedish law | |
| 03:23 | or protection of the state. They live in lawless areas. | |
| 03:29 | The foreman for ambulance drivers in Sweden has demanded military protection | |
| 03:34 | in order to drive safely in these sensitive areas. | |
| 03:38 | They have been shot at and stabbed. Is that really the Sweden you want to leave to your children? | |
| 03:42 | ||
| 03:46 | In Sweden they imprison artists. | |
| 03:50 | Dan Park sat for five months in prison. | |
| 03:54 | The owner of his gallery received a two-year suspended prison sentence for showing Dan Park’s pictures. | |
| 04:00 | An older woman told me that that Mamado Jallow called her a Nazi | |
| 04:05 | because she went to the gallery to see the pictures. | |
| 04:10 | That older woman had experienced Nazism first-hand as a child. She became so angry. | |
| 04:15 | Is that how you wish to fight for freedom of expression for your citizens? | |
| 04:19 | By frightening them into silence? | |
| 04:23 | And is Sweden a country we other Nordic countries want to have as a neighbour? | |
| 04:28 | Do we really have that kind of courage? We have a passport union in the North. | |
| 04:32 | Citizens can freely move between countries. | |
| 04:36 | Sweden behaves too irresponsibly for us to maintain that agreement in the long term. | |
| 04:40 | We will have to, at some point, close the borders to Sweden. | |
| 04:48 | Believe me, this WILL happen! | |
| 04:53 | We are already beginning to feel the problem in Denmark. | |
| 04:57 | The number of criminal charges against Swedes who commit crimes in Denmark | |
| 05:01 | and who do not live in Denmark has risen 80 percent since 2010. | |
| 05:05 | 80 percent! | |
| 05:09 | Swedish nationals are ranked at number four in being charged for crimes in Denmark. | |
| 05:13 | We now have a specific problem with Swedes committing crimes in Denmark. | |
| 05:17 | The police and the politicians are surprised. | |
| 05:21 | I am not. Because your politicians have not taken upon themselves the mantle of responsibility. | |
| 05:25 | Fredrik Reinfeldt is of the opinion that | |
| 05:29 | Sweden should take in EVEN MORE asylum seekers. He said: | |
| 05:33 | ”What does the word ‘enough’ mean? Is Sweden filled up? | |
| 05:37 | Is the North filled up? | |
| 05:41 | I often fly over the Swedish landscape. I would recommend others to do that as well. | |
| 05:45 | There are endless fields and forests. There is more space than you can imagine. | |
| 05:50 | Those who claim that the country is filled up must show where it is filled up.” | |
| 05:54 | What does he imagine? That asylum seekers should be let out in the forests? | |
| 05:58 | Should they not have places to live, food and to be integrated? | |
| 06:02 | Does he not know that it costs money, and where does that money come from? | |
| 06:06 | Those responsible for immigration are already counting on using 157 billion Swedish kroner | |
| 06:13 | in the next five years alone in connection with new refugees arriving into Sweden. | |
| 06:20 | Reinfeldt has furthermore said that “Sweden is not owned by the Swedes.” | |
| 06:27 | Who then owns the country? The whole world? | |
| 06:31 | That must be the first time in the history of the world that a leader has said that the citizens of a country | |
| 06:35 | don’t have the right to their own country. It is shocking to see | |
| 06:39 | a head of state being so irresponsible. | |
| 06:43 | Sweden received 81,000 asylum seekers in 2014. | |
| 06:47 | That is more than three times as many as in Denmark in relation to the population. | |
| 06:51 | I am active in municipal politics, so I can see how we are being overwhelmed by the burden in Denmark. | |
| 06:57 | The municipalities are desperate. | |
| 07:01 | We do not have housing for the asylum seekers and are forced to create absurd solutions. | |
| 07:05 | I dare not think how it must be to work as a municipal politician in Sweden. | |
| 07:13 | I am standing here on behalf of PEGIDA. | |
| 07:17 | I am not always in agreement with PEGIDA | |
| 07:21 | Their political aims are not hard enough in my opinion. | |
| 07:26 | ||
| 07:30 | But let me finish by mentioning a few of their political points: PEGIDA is FOR the receiving of war refugees. | |
| 07:32 | People who are vulnerable regarding political and religious persecution. | |
| 07:36 | PEGIDA is against misogynistic and violent political ideologies. | |
| 07:40 | PEGIDA is against radicalisation, | |
| 07:44 | religious and political. Some of the political radicals are here today. | |
| 07:50 | PEGIDA is against hate speech, religious as well as political. | |
| 07:56 | Does that sound like racism? Does that sound like fascism? It is not. | |
| 08:02 | It is realism. Because we wish to live in a safe and secure society, a safe Sweden | |
| 08:08 | and a safe Denmark, where everybody can walk safely and enjoy their statutory rights and to be able to express themselves. | |
| 08:14 | The way I am expressing my opinion here today. Because it is my right. | |
| 08:18 | Thank you. |
For links to previous articles about PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) and related movements, see the PEGIDA Archives.