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By Michael Copeland
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Below is a letter to the editor of Petterssons Blogg from a Sweden Democrat named Johnny Hornbrink. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation:
Hate campaign against Sweden is the price for failed integration!
February 20, 2022
Letter to the editor — There is now ongoing an extensive hate campaign against our country and Swedish social services.
The image that is disseminated is that Swedish social services are taking children for an unjust reason, that of secularizing them. Abroad, Sweden is pointed to as a fascist state, and hate campaigns against Sweden and particularly social services also contain threats of violence and terrorist acts.
According to the Agency for Psychological Defense, this is an organized advocacy campaign against Sweden. The Muslim Brotherhood and violence-advocating Islamist organizations as well as an imam sentenced to deportation are the driving forces behind this anti-Sweden campaign.
The Islamist party Nyans also participates in protests against Swedish social services. The party also intends to make LVU [Law for the Protection of the Young] one of its election issues, and they also say they want to restrict free speech and forbid certain blasphemy. Strangely enough, it appears that no media sees it as being absurd that the party can stand for election in Swedish municipalities while its representatives incite against the country with support from religious minorities, extremists, and foreign power(s)!?
The Islamist hatred against Sweden and social workers is not surprising; that certain Muslims are angry when they cannot raise their children according to their own values and culture is logical.
But what is surprising is that Swedish politicians and journalists who propagandize for this multicultural society are now everything from surprised to upset when they see its consequences!?
How did this happen here?
The answer is very simple.
What we now see is the result of decades of irresponsible “cultural enrichment” and immigration without requirements from countries with a completely different viewpoint on children’s and women’s rights, which have led us here.
There is no simple solution to this, but a first measure to greatly increase integration and counter exclusion is to require Swedish language fluency as well as a knowledge of Swedish social values.
It should be obvious to all that Swedish authorities take custody of children because they are judged to be in danger, not because the parents happen to be Muslims. Those who choose to move to Sweden should be obliged to learn our language, our laws and rules, etc. It is embarrassing that this has to be mentioned.
The crackdown on freedom protesters in Ottawa continues, with police successfully clearing the area immediately adjacent to Parliament Hill. More than 170 people have been arrested, among them two of the three principal leaders of the Freedom Convoy. The unarrested leader called on protesters to leave the area, saying that resisting the crackdown would not be worth it.
In other news, politicians over the age of 50 have been banned from entering the Italian parliament unless they display a “green pass”.
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The following news report from Germany provides a slightly different twist on a story of violent cultural enrichment. The accused culture-enricher most certainly shot his victim to death with an illegally-obtained gun, but he was acquitted because his actions were equally clearly taken in self-defense.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Bild:
Dead Man’s Mother Desperate After Verdict
Acquittal after fatal shooting at Westpark
The victim attacked Anas N. with a broken beer bottle
The court sees the act as self-defense
Dortmund — Weeping, the mother of the man who was shot (21) looks at the accused and says: “You are not ashamed. You’re even too cowardly to look me in the eye. But I have to live with you walking free, alive, while my only son has no future.”
An hour later on Monday, the court handed down the verdict: acquittal and €17,100 in compensation for the previously convicted Anas N. (21), who killed Eryk Klein (21) with a shot in the stomach at Dortmund’s Westpark.
“The findings in the main hearing have shown that the accused acted in self-defense,” said judge Thomas Kelm (61).
Review
On June 12, 2021, two groups quarreled — the reason remained unclear until the end. Anas N. hit a friend (21) of the victim, the situation escalated, someone sprayed pepper spray. Then Anas raced home on a rental scooter and got the gun, even bragging about it, according to witnesses, shouting, “I’ll get him!”
Suddenly Eryk Klein smashed a beer bottle on the floor and ran towards Anas with it. He (Anas) called “Ey” and fired from a few meters away. The projectile penetrated the victim’s abdominal wall, hit an artery, the stomach and a lumbar vertebra. Eryk bled to death at the scene of the crime.
Siegmund Benecken (79), who defended the shooter, said: “Everyone can understand the desperate mother. But bitter as that may be for her, it was self-defense, there’s no doubt about it.”
Chief Public Prosecutor Carsten Dombert (58) also asked for acquittal at the end of the trial. Judge Kelm: “A smashed bottle is a deadly weapon. It cannot be refuted that the accused wanted to ward off the attack.”
Co-plaintiff Gesine Ickert (43), on the other hand, had demanded nine years for manslaughter: “The accused should have fired a warning shot. He was more than 20 meters away when Eryk broke the neck off.”
The Austrian government has done an abrupt about-face and eliminated most of its Wuhan Coronavirus restrictions. Most citizens will be allowed to regain most of their rights, and may live their lives in a more or less normal fashion, by March 5.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Kronen Zeitung. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Government unlocks everything — only one rule remains
It’s actually opening! As of March 5, 2022, almost all of the Corona restrictions that are still in place in Austria will be lifted, and the federal government will then lift both the so-called G-rules (with the exception of retirement homes and hospitals) and the dining curfew. Only the FFP2 mask requirement may be retained in certain areas. Krone.at provides an overview of the current decisions.
As already announced, the first easing will be carried out in a transitional phase by March 5th — it will start this week. From February 19, almost all 2G requirements will be switched to 3G (vaccinated or recovered or tested) — this applies to cable cars, bus trips, excursion boats, physical services, sports facilities, trade and public fairs and events.
Unrestricted access for the unvaccinated
After that pretty much everything will fall. From March 5, unvaccinated people will be allowed to enter all areas that were previously restricted — and then without a test. They can even breathe a sigh of relief in night dining — the openings also affect discos and clubs, as confirmed in the course of a press conference on Wednesday.
Only the FFP2 mask requirement remains with us, but that only in public transport, supermarkets etc. and in the health sector.
“No more access regulations and no more green passports”
“No more access regulations and no more green passports within Austria,” explained Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein (Greens). “The outlook shows us that we are carefully and deliberately, but emphatically, bit by bit, restoring the freedom that the virus took from us,” said Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP). “We have to use the time we have now to observe the development of the pandemic.” [You morons had two years with this nothing-burger. How many more do you need? Another 20?]
When asked why — contrary to the recommendation of its own experts — society was opened, despite the continued high number of cases, Mückstein said that the “relevant number” was that in the intensive care units. The situation there is stable, albeit slightly increasing on the normal stations. The minister added: “I cannot promise you that we will not need stricter measures in the coming months; the virus has already taught us that.” [That means in plain speech that the next round of arbitrary measures is a given.]
Tests still free until the end of March
A tricky question, on which the localities in particular put pressure in advance, was whether Corona tests should continue to be free. The last word has not yet been spoken here. In any case, the tests will remain free until the end of March, said Mückstein. Then it will be re-evaluated.
Compulsory vaccination commission “almost formed”
There is still no decision on how to proceed with the compulsory vaccination law. Alone: A commission for the examination is “currently being formed” and should start its work in the coming days.
The following video features excerpts from a report on Italian TV about the situation in Israel vis-à-vis the Wuhan Coronavirus. Israel is the most “vaccinated” country in the world, and it is also one of those with the highest rates of illness — all types of illness, not just Corona. There’s no demonstrated causal connection between the vax and the dramatic surge in various illnesses. It could be a coincidence. But the correlation is there.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
I emailed Vlad the following questions last night. His reply came in late, after my internet went out. I’m sure the situation in Ottawa has evolved further since then.
Did you see any of the arrests or vehicles being towed on Parliament Hill?
Today [Friday] I was at home watching live streams and on phone and Skype with multiple people plugged in to the Hill area. I saw arrests on live feeds.
Did you have to pass through the police cordon?
I went, or rather tried to go to the area tonight. All the main roads are blocked by police going into the area…
And even some of the bridges were barricaded off with concrete barriers.
Nothing like this has ever happened before.
We had to work at finding a way for one of our number to walk to the hill where he is now doing a live stream.
Are the demonstrators and truckers leaving the area in order to avoid being arrested?
Doesn’t seem so. The mood is not quite as jubilant as it was. There is a solid tablespoon more defiance in the general zeitgeist in the area. But people still seem pretty ready to tough it out.
Do you personally know anyone whose bank account has been frozen?
What I know so far is at least two people who have been contacted by MSM, in one case, Global News and the other, CBC, both of which are enemy propaganda, and vanguards of the communist revolution taking place here. Both of them were asked for comment due to the leaked and doxxed information that they had contributed to the truckers’ protest.
Government, ANTIFA, and MSM are one machine on all this. To understand this, just ask yourself why Julian Assange is in prison eternally with no trial for being in possession of leaked documents which are counter-revolutionary in potential, vs. the media, which is rewarded for using stolen or hacked documents against law-abiding citizens for revolutionary purposes.
I know that the publisher of Druthers, a great little print newspaper that is given out free all over Canada, has had his account frozen, and the government is including Trump supporters now as a potential reason for taking your money.
Freeland, Trudeau’s deputy, and therefore the WEF deputy Viceroy, has now said the new banking rules are permanent. This means, as one branch manager told a friend of mine today, that “banks are now just an extension of government.”
What is the mood of the demonstrators who are still there and have not yet been arrested?
The following article concerns a case that I mentioned several days ago in the news feed. A young woman fended off a Syrian culture-enricher who attempted to rape her, stabbing him with a knife that she grabbed out of her handbag. The perpetrator has been arrested, but his victim is also being charged with inflicting bodily harm for defending herself.
I’ve had this translation in hand for a couple of days, but neglected to post it until now. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Kronen Zeitung. The translator remarked: “I wouldn’t be surprised if the sick judiciary were to acquit the perpetrator and punish the victim for using a knife.”
He Got the Wrong Person
Krone made attempted rape public
A rape on Tuesday evening in the Vienna district of Meidling remained an attempt, solely due to the resistance of the actual victim of the attack, a 22-year-old woman. She pulled out a knife and inflicted several cuts and stab wounds on her attacker. The Vienna police made the despicable case public on Friday afternoon, i.e. after a three-day delay, in a broadcast — but only at the request of Kronen Zeitung.
It is the absolute horror a young Viennese woman had to endure on Tuesday evening: Shortly before midnight, when the 22-year-old wanted to enter the entrance area to her apartment building on Schönbrunner Straße in Meidling, she was attacked out of nowhere by an unknown person. The attacker pushed the woman into the courtyard, immediately grabbed intimate parts of her body and pushed his victim to the ground.
The perpetrator had chosen the wrong victim
But then the attempted rape took a dramatic turn: the woman, with presence of mind, managed to pull a knife out of her handbag. She stabbed her tormentor several times with it until he let go of his victim, grabbed her handbag and ran away badly injured. The failed rapist was discovered by the police a short time later with cuts and stab wounds at a nearby subway station and taken to a hospital.
After the first aid, the handcuffs clicked for the 24-year-old. The man is a Syrian asylum seeker who is said to have a lot on his rap sheet. When he was arrested, the suspect had alcohol in his blood and a small amount of marijuana in his pocket. The Syrian initially denied the crime.
Krone was informed by readers
The Vienna police made the despicable case public on Friday afternoon, i.e. with a three-day delay, in a broadcast — but only at the request of “Krone”, which was informed by attentive readers. They accuse the police of cover-up, which the state police department denies.
In addition, the public prosecutor’s office reported the woman (!) for bodily harm. “An absolutely insensitive approach,” says her upset lawyer DDr. Michael Dohr because the victim is still traumatized.
My internet went off abruptly last night at 11pm, and didn’t come back on until this morning. The news feed for last night is thus being posted late, and will only include everything I had on hand when the internet went down. Late arrivals will be included in the next news feed.
Police in Ottawa executed a major crackdown on freedom demonstrators, reportedly making mass arrests. Mounted police charged the demonstrators, and several people were knocked down and trampled by the horses. One of those who was trampled was an elderly woman using a walker, who is rumored to have died from her wounds. [As of the morning, it looks like those rumors have been confirmed.]
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Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
Below is Paul Weston’s latest take on the antics of Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau and the descent of Canada into full totalitarian rule:
Hat tip: Reader from Chicago.
Silvia Sardone is a native of Milan who represents the Lega in the European Parliament. In the following interview she discusses the immigrant violence with which Milan is plagued.
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this interview from Il Giornale:
“The Left pretends not to see the foreign violence”
February 8, 2022
The Left denies that the safety problem in Milan is connected to uncontrolled immigration. Silvia Sardone unmasks the usual feel-good story.
by Francesca Galici
Safety is a problem in Milan, and the total absence of a strategy of reception of immigrants is part of that. This fact is ignored, however by the Left, which prefers to tell other truths rather than admit the failure of the feel-good ideology of reception at all costs.
Minister Lamorgese, at the end of a meeting in the prefecture with the mayor of Milan, pertaining to the violence of New Year’s Eve, said, “Those who have used violence are boys, second-generation Italian citizens, therefore I will not combine the immigration subject with the violence that, unfortunately, occurs on the part of Italian citizens.”
But the interior minister spoke a half-truth, there already being three foreigners in jail for those acts. The latter were arrested in recent hours. Silvia Sardone, counselor in force for the Lega for the municipality of Milan, which before the security emergency reached the maximum level of alert, is trying to shine the spotlight on the issue, but the Left has always been deaf in that ear. We spoke with her immediately after the end of the meeting in the prefecture between the mayor, the minister the police chief, and the prefect.
What is the impact of foreigners on sexual crimes in Milan?
From data in our possession, as reported in the latest national ranking on crimes by Il Sole 24 Ore, which sees Milan as the crime capital of Italy, we know that complaints against foreigners are at 57%, an alarming figure if we consider that legal foreigners represent about 20% of the population of Milan. As for sexual violence, it is in front of everybody’s eyes except the Left, which pretends not to see the larger propensity on the part of foreigners, especially North Africans, for harassing and attacking women of all ages, as the shameful episodes of New Year’s Eve and Cascina Gobba* teach us. In almost half of the cases, the perpetrators are not Italians. At San Vittore [prison] 75% of the prisoners are foreign: Something they [the Left] might want to say about these numbers…”
Yet, it seems that Mayor Sala has just now realized the safety emergency. How many complaints for harassment have there been in the past year?
We are talking about around 15 complaints a year for every 100,000 residents of Milan, important numbers that show a real drama. Behind every act of violence, there is a mother, a wife, a daughter, women who are harassed, attacked, raped, and humiliated by thugs without scruples who often have no right to be in our country. Illegals whom the Left has welcomed into our city then abandoned to their destiny. The municipal administration bears much blame for this.
Why not assign more police to control the territory?
The meeting yesterday in the prefecture with Minister Lamorgese did not produce the hoped-for results, because the 255 policemen who will be assigned to Milan — not all immediately, by the way — are not enough. And I cannot help but note that Mayor Sala now realizes the problem, yet it was he who put the local police in Smart Working rather than assign them in the area of prevention and combating crimes. Sala is the mayor of “the day after” and is absolutely non-existent on safety. That is shown by the fact that as councilor, he chose Granelli, who explained on social media on New Year’s Eve that everything was getting better… It is disrespectful to reduce a felt and perceived fear to emotionality on social media.
How can the perception of safety in Milan be improved?
A full-blown crackdown against the truckers and the protesters has begun in Ottawa. Police have cordoned off the area around Parliament Hill and are methodically tightening the perimeter, arresting people who don’t leave voluntarily and towing away the parked vehicles. The towing companies employed by the police have covered the logos on their trucks, and the drivers are wearing ski masks or other face coverings so they can’t be identified.
Gates of Vienna is not a breaking news blog, so I haven’t tried to keep up with minute-by-minute posting on what’s going on. Since he lives right there in Ottawa, Vlad Tepes is the best place to go for the latest information.
There were several live-stream reports running earlier today in Ottawa, but YouTube has been jamming or disabling them. I’m not sure what’s currently available. There was also a live feed on Twitter.
The two videos below are already out of date 24-48 hours after they were uploaded. They represent the calm before the storm, between when Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act and the beginning of the final crackdown.
The first video (on 3Speak, where it can’t be taken down) provides a street-level view of what the protest on Parliament Hill looked like two days ago. See if you can spot the racists, misogynists, homophobes, Nazis, Confederate sympathizers, and other types of deplorable people holding unacceptable views.
Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:
The second video is a Fox News report featuring an interview the owner of a gelato café in Ottawa who was doxxed after contributing money through GiveSendGo to the truckers. She had to close her business temporarily due to threats of violence:
I don’t know how the situation will shake out in the long term, but my intuition tells me that Baby Doc’s political career will be drawing to a close fairly soon.
His declaration of war against the truckers will have downstream economic and social effects that are hard to predict. The removal of a significant number of rigs from service will further damage an already degraded supply chain. And what will happen if thousands of children are taken away from their dissident parents, as the regime has threatened to do?
Another interesting possible consequence is a run on the banks. The day before yesterday five of the six major banks in Canada went offline for a number of hours, preventing customers from accessing their accounts via ATM or online banking. There is some speculation that the banks were forced to shut down due to huge numbers of withdrawals by citizens attempting to rescue their money before their accounts were frozen, as ordered by the regime. It’s not yet clear how much of a ripple effect this has had on the international banking system.
Life is tough for these culture-enriching asylum seekers in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Only one laptop for three kids — such bestial conditions!
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Swiss daily Blick. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Syrian refugee family is suing the Aargau health department
In no other canton in Switzerland do temporarily admitted persons receive less financial support than in the canton of Aargau. A Syrian refugee family has now lodged a complaint and is demanding more money.
A refugee family of six in the canton of Aargau has to get by on CHF 1,440 per month. Because the money is not enough, the family has now submitted a 29-page complaint to the government council.
As the Aargauer Zeitung reports, they are supported by law students from the University of Bern as part of the “Human Rights Law Clinic”. [Why am I not surprised that Academentia is sticking their ideological retarded noses in?] According to the complaint, the social welfare approaches violate, among other things, the prohibition of discrimination, human dignity and the priority of the child’s well-being.
As the media office of the health department confirms to the newspaper, a corresponding complaint has been received by the government council.
Two bedrooms for six people
The family from Syria was only admitted temporarily. This means: your application for asylum was rejected, but a return to your home country is not reasonable because of the civil war there. [what civil WAR? Their Interior Minister has been begging these people to come back home?] The family lives in a collective accommodation. There is a room for the parents, one for the four children, a living room, a toilet and a small kitchen.
The family does not have to pay for accommodation or health insurance. They have to pay for the rest of the costs themselves, such as food, diapers or tickets for the bus. For support, temporarily admitted people in Aargau receive nine francs a day. Children between the ages of 6 and 16 get eight francs, younger ones only five. There is also a clothing allowance of CHF 20 per month per person — that is less than in any other canton in Switzerland.
Gunshot wound from the war
Almost 2,800 temporarily admitted people are currently living in Aargau, and a little more than 1,000 of them are employed. The parents of the Syrian family both don’t work because they can’t. The father has shoulder problems and two of his left fingers are permanently disabled — he was shot during a demonstration in his home country.
The mother has problems with her intervertebral disc and is mentally ill. It is therefore difficult for both of them to find work and earn something extra, according to the complaint.
Police in Ottawa have begun issuing warnings and fines to Freedom Convoy protesters, and a number of people have been arrested. Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, banks have started freezing the accounts of people who support the truckers, and the government has disabled access to wallets for Bitcoin and other cryptocurencies. Meanwhile, truckers and protesters continue to “hold the line” in downtown Ottawa, and say that the prime minister’s repression will not make them leave.
In other news, Austria has done a 180-degree turn on COVID restrictions, and decided to repeal all of them.
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Thanks to Dean, DV, JW, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.