Sweden bombs

[Gob]

One night last week, explosions took place in three different locations in and around Stockholm. There were no injuries this time, just the usual shattered windows, scattered debris and shocked people woken by the blast.

The police bomb squad was already on its way to the first explosion in the district of Vaxholm when it had to turn around and prioritise the detonation at a residential building in the more densely populated city centre. Residents whose doors had been deformed by the shock wave had to be rescued. The third target (seemingly unrelated) was a facility belonging to a Syriac Orthodox church, which had already been bombed twice in the past year.

‘Normalisation’ is a term that we have come to associate with domestic violence: the victim begins to think of abuse as a part of everyday life. Explosions have become so normalised in Sweden that SVT, Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening. Instead, the main domestic story was the purported censorship of ‘big female bodies’ on Instagram. Apparently, we mustn’t be referred to as ‘women’ any more, but ‘female bodies’, lest anyone’s gender be assumed. The explosions were left to the local news.

To understand how Sweden arrived at this degree of normalisation, consider the statistics: between January and June this year, more than 100 explosions were reported in the country, up from about 70 in the same period last year. A total of more than 160 suspected attacks with explosives were reported last year. There are no comparable figures available for earlier years because it’s such a recent phenomenon. Until recently no one would have thought of adding a column on bombings to the national Swedish crime statistics.

Wilhelm Agrell, professor of intelligence analysis at Lund University, has warned that the situation has become so dire that the integrity of the Swedish state is in jeopardy. ‘The state’s monopoly on violence, the actual token of a sovereign government, has been hollowed out bit by bit and no longer exists,’ he wrote a few weeks ago. ‘The armed criminal violence is having effects that are increasingly similar to those of terrorism.’

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[Crackpot]

Continues where?

[ex-khobar Andy]

It's a piece in The Spectator which is the mag that BloJo used to edit. He left them to join the Shadow Cabinet (unlike some of his prior journalistic ventures he was not fired for making shit up) so it can be considered a relative success in his journalistic career. Nevertheless he was fired from the Shadow Cabinet for lying about his affair with a fellow journalist on the Spectator.

The Spectator's pov on this article is that the use of explosives in Swedish crime is tied to the gang activity which has increased since immigration from non-EU countries became extensive. Hence immigration is evil, hence Brexit is justified, and Boris Johnson is the reincarnation of Winston Churchill. You know the sort of thing.

[Darren]

It's a piece in The Spectator which is the mag that BloJo used to edit. He left them to join the Shadow Cabinet (unlike some of his prior journalistic ventures he was not fired for making shit up) so it can be considered a relative success in his journalistic career. Nevertheless he was fired from the Shadow Cabinet for lying about his affair with a fellow journalist on the Spectator.

The Spectator's pov on this article is that the use of explosives in Swedish crime is tied to the gang activity which has increased since immigration from non-EU countries became extensive. Hence immigration is evil, hence Brexit is justified, and Boris Johnson is the reincarnation of Winston Churchill. You know the sort of thing.

An article from Bloomberg that mentions the big increase in criminal activity. Read for comprehension or resume your position.

"Deadly Shooting of Woman Carrying Child Shakes Sweden Awake"

"The murder, which followed a long spate of bombings and shootings by
Swedish underworld gangs -- and most recently the killing of a mother
carrying her child in the southern city of Malmo -- caused an
unprecedented outcry. It also put law and order at the center of the
political debate.

The Social Democrat-led minority government is now facing intensifying
pressure to devote more resources to law enforcement in next year’s
budget, just as the economy is showing signs of a slowdown. Parties in
parliament held a crisis meeting on Thursday on crafting a bipartisan
solution to beat back the violence.

The capital Stockholm was on Friday again rocked by gun violence when a
man described as a prominent lawyer was shot in a building on Norr
Malarstrand, an upscale street on Stockholm’s waterfront. The man was
allegedly shot in the chest and the head and has been taken to hospital,
according to Expressen newspaper."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... eden-awake

[Bicycle Bill]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that it wasn't all that long ago that Trump was saying we should be seeking to encourage immigrants from the Scandinavian countries b⃥e⃥c⃥a⃥u⃥s⃥e⃥ ⃥t⃥h⃥e⃥y⃥ ⃥w⃥e⃥r⃥e⃥ ⃥w⃥h⃥i⃥t⃥e⃥ because their society wasn't as crime-riddled as that of the immigrant Mexicans and other South Americans and they would therefore be better for America......

Sounds like they've got more problems and bomb-throwers than Ireland during the times of The Troubles.

-"BB"-