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Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns
Fria Tider ^ | May 24, 2013

Posted on 05/28/2013 8:10:08 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick

Since last Sunday, May 19, rioters have taken to the streets of Stockholm’s suburbs every night, torching cars, schools, stores, office buildings and residential complexes. Yesterday, a police station in Rågsved, a suburb four kilometers south of Stockholm, was attacked and set on fire.

But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”

Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: crime; europeanunion; islam; jihad; riot; stockholm; sweden; swedenmuslims; swedenriots; waronterror
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To: Minutemen
* Atta boys, keep those parking tickets coming, you are the pride of Sweeden! *

I'm waiting for the Swedish govt to issue a “Thank you” to the rioters because they raised the equivalent of $462.17 in parking ticket fees so far!

The money should be directed to the government's
Islamic Tolerance Fund”

21 posted on 05/28/2013 8:22:27 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
The Sweeds usher in Eurabia with a wimper of being afraid of thrown rocks.

"It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing."

22 posted on 05/28/2013 8:22:27 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Confirmation (as if we needed it) that large portions of the West are now officially INSANE!

America’s proof has a name: OBAMA.


23 posted on 05/28/2013 8:22:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: marktwain
A famous writer described a system where the government vigorously punishes the law abiding for small infractions, but ignores serious crimes

maybe it was 'The Simpsons'....:o)

24 posted on 05/28/2013 8:23:50 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MichaelCorleone
Pretty good display of what happens to a society when the men are all feminized

Sweden has come a long way since the days when Gustavus Adolphus and Lennart Torstensson terrorized Europe.

25 posted on 05/28/2013 8:24:59 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Oh, how I yearn for the says when the Swedish were not to be f***ed with.

Now, they are meek little sheep spreading their ass cheeks and smiling about the pounding they are about to get.

26 posted on 05/28/2013 8:26:01 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Is it a satire? It is so hard to tell satire from reality these days...


27 posted on 05/28/2013 8:29:40 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Shades of the Nazis charging the Jews for the cleanup after Krystallnacht.


28 posted on 05/28/2013 8:30:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

“Isn’t that Ayn Rand? I don’t remember the book, though.”

No, not Rand. It was a fairly scholarly article written in the last decade.

I want a new, enhanced, electronic memory! The old biological one is giving me fits!


29 posted on 05/28/2013 8:38:10 AM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Unbelievable. When the police don't protect property and apprehend criminals, it encourages criminal activity. Part of policing an area is to deter crime as well as to insure that people feel that justice occurs more than mob rule.

When government fails to provide law and order, it invites citizens to form vigilante groups to provide law and order.

Look at the UK where you are seeing anti-Muslim groups starting to stage protests and neighborhood patrols and burn selected Mosques. Government can either provide security or people will band together in the worst (or best) form of tribalism and take the law into their own hands. Government gets to choose where it will perform its functions or default to the people.

30 posted on 05/28/2013 8:45:32 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Hulka

“Fria Tider is an independent conservative Internet-based newspaper in Sweden. “


31 posted on 05/28/2013 8:48:13 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

This is satire, right? Please tell me it’s satire, that no society would be that stupid. Please?


32 posted on 05/28/2013 8:50:51 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Wait until she’s raped and left to burn. They have met the enemy and it’s THEM!


33 posted on 05/28/2013 9:02:26 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Punish the innocent, reward the guilty.

It's the Progressive way.

34 posted on 05/28/2013 9:03:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (It is the deviants who are the bullies.)
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To: marktwain
In the movie Quigley Down Under, when the lieutenant was asked why he was bringing the dead deserters back to the fort, he replied “to be tried for desertion” Quigley stated “but they are dead”. The Lt. replied “then the trial will not be lengthy”.
35 posted on 05/28/2013 9:04:40 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: PATRIOT1876

They used to say,We don’t hang horse thieves because they stole horses,we hang them so that horses don’t get stolen.


36 posted on 05/28/2013 9:06:54 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.

If men ran the world, they'd go there specifically to see who's throwing the rocks so they could shoot them.

37 posted on 05/28/2013 9:15:44 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: cunning_fish

Juan Linz?

Juan J. Linz. 2000. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes: With a Major New Introduction


38 posted on 05/28/2013 9:22:25 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: marktwain

38 was meant for you. Don’t know how it got misdirected.


39 posted on 05/28/2013 9:34:32 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

Rome in the twenty-first century live and in living color.


40 posted on 05/28/2013 9:48:43 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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