Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sweden Descends into Anarchy
Gatestone Institute ^ | 11/13/15 | Ingrid Carlqvist

Posted on 11/13/2015 2:28:15 AM PST by markomalley

Once upon a time, there was a safe welfare state called Sweden, where people rarely locked their doors.

Now, this country is a night-watchman state -- each man is on his own. When the Minister of Justice, Morgan Johansson, encourages breaking the law, it means opening the gates to anarchy. Mr. and Mrs. Swede have every reason to be worried, with the influx of 190,000 unskilled and unemployed migrants expected this year -- equivalent to 2% of Sweden's current population. The number is as if 6.4 million penniless migrants who did not speak English arrived in U.S. in
one year, or 1.3 million in Britain.

And the Swedes are preparing: demand for firearms licenses is increasing; more and more Swedes are joining shooting clubs and starting vigilante groups. After a slight dip in 2014, the number of new gun permits has gone up significantly again this year. According to police statistics, there are 1,901,325 licensed weapons, owned by 567,733 people, in Sweden. Add to this an unknown number of illegal weapons. To get a gun permit in Sweden, you need to be at least 18 years old; law-abiding; well-behaved, and have a hunting license or be a member of an approved shooting club. In 2014, 11,000 people got a hunting license: 10% more than the year before. One out of five was a woman.

"There is also a high demand for alarm systems right now," says a salesman at one of the security companies interviewed, who asked to remain anonymous.

"It is largely due to the turbulence we are seeing around the country at the moment." People have lost confidence in the State, he added. "The police will not come anymore. Truck drivers say that when they see a thief emptying the fuel tank of their trucks, they run out with a baseball bat. It is no use calling the police, but if you hit the thief, you can at least prevent him from stealing more diesel. Many homeowners say the same thing: they sleep with a baseball bat under the bed. But this is risky: the police can then say you have been prepared to use force, and that might backfire on you."

The alarm system salesman also talked about Sweden's many Facebook groups, in which people in different villages openly discuss how they intend to protect themselves: "Sometimes you get totally freaked out when you see what they are writing. But you have to understand that Swedes are really scared when an asylum house opens in their village. They can see what has happened in other places."

One blog, detailing the consequences for the local population when an asylum facility opens, is aptly named Asylkaos ("Asylum Chaos"). There is a list of companies the reader is prompted to boycott; the blog claims these businesses encourage the transformation of Sweden to a multicultural society, and are therefore considered "hostile to Swedes."

At another security company, a salesman said that every time the Immigration Service buys or rents a new housing facility, his firm is swamped with calls. "The next day, " he said, "half the village calls and wants to buy alarm systems."

Ronny Fredriksson, Press Officer of the security company Securitas, said that the demand for home alarm systems first exploded about six years ago, when local police stations were shut down and police moved to the main towns. This, he said, could result in response times of several hours. "More and more people now employ the services of our security guards. Shopping malls and stores in the city come together and hire guards. We are kind of like the 'local beat' cops of old."

Even though Securitas makes big money from the increased need for home security alarms and security guards, they also are worried about the effect on society: "The problem," Fredriksson said, "is that we too need the police. When our guards catch a burglar or a violent person, we call the police but the response times are often very long. Sometimes, the detainees get violent and quite rowdy. On occasion, the police have told us to release the person we have apprehended, if we have his identity, because they do not have a patrol nearby."

Even before the massive influx of migrants in the fall of 2015, the Swedes felt a need to protect themselves. And with good reason. Since the Parliament decided in 1975 that Sweden should be multicultural and not Swedish, crime has exploded. Violent crime has increased by more than 300%, and rapes have increased by an unbelievable 1,472%.

The politicians, however, ignore the people's fear completely. It is never discussed. Instead, the people who express concern about what kind of country Sweden has become are accused of xenophobia and racism. Most likely, that is the reason more and more people are taking matters into their own hands, and protecting themselves and their families to the best of their ability.

All the same, some people do not settle for that. It seems some people are trying to stop the mass immigration to Sweden. Almost every day there are reports of fires being set at would-be, or functioning, asylum houses. So far, miraculously, no one has been hurt.

These fires are set not only by Swedes. On October 13, a 36-year-old woman was convicted of setting ablaze the asylum facility in Skellefteå where she lived. The woman claimed she lit a candle, then fell asleep. Yet forensics showed that combustible fluid had been doused throughout the room, and the court found beyond a reasonable doubt that she herself had ignited the fire.

The number of incidents at Sweden's Immigration Service facilities is now sky high. In 2013, according to Dispatch International, at least one incident happened every day. When Gatestone recently acquired the incident list for January 1, 2014-October 29, 2015, that number had risen to 2,177 incidents of threats, violence and brawls -- on average, three per day.

The Swedish government, however, would apparently rather not talk about that. Foreign Minister Margot Wallström conceded , in an interview with the daily Dagens Nyheter that garnered international attention, that Sweden is, in fact, heading for a systemic breakdown:

"Most people seem to think we cannot maintain a system where perhaps 190,000 people will arrive every year. In the long run, our system will collapse. This welcome is not going to receive popular support. We want to give people who come here a worthy reception."

Symptomatic of Swedish journalists, this statement was tucked away at the end of the article. The headline was about how the political party that is critical of immigration, the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna), is responsible for the asylum housing fires. But foreign media, such as The Daily Mail and Russia Today , picked up Wallström's warning about a systemic collapse and ran it as the urgent news it actually is.

Nevertheless, in official Sweden, the imminent collapse is ignored. Instead, journalists completely focus on the attacks by supposedly "racist" Swedes on refugee centers. To prevent new fires, the Immigration Service, on October 28, decided that from now on, all asylum facilities will have secret addresses. Further, meager police resources will now be stretched even further – to protect asylum seekers, police helicopters will patrol refugee centers. But considering that there are only five helicopters available, and that Sweden is 157,193 kilometers long, this gesture is effectively empty.

At a meeting with the Nordic Council in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 27, Sweden's Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, was questioned by his Nordic colleagues about the situation in Sweden. Löfven had recently said that, "We should have the option of relocating people applying for asylum in Sweden to other EU-countries. Our ability, too, has a limit. We are facing a paradigm shift." That comment led a representative of Finland's the Finns Party (Sannfinländarna) to wonder, with a hint of irony, how this touted immigration, which for years Swedish politicians have claimed is so profitable, has now suddenly become a burden.

Another Finns Party representative, Simon Elo, pointed out, as well, that the situation in Sweden is out of control. "Sweden has great abilities, but not even the Swedes have abilities that great," Elo said.

When he asked how Löfven is dealing with the real concerns and demands, the answer was laconic: "Of course I understand there is concern," Löfven said. "It is not easy. But at the same time – there are 60 million people on the run. This is also about them being our fellow men and I hope that viewpoint will prevail."

The daily tabloid Expressen asked Löfven about the attacks on asylum facilities. He replied, "Our communities should not be characterized by threats and violence, they should be warm and show solidarity." As if such behavior can be forced.

Many Swedes see the mass immigration as a forced marriage: Sweden is forced to marry a man she did not choose, yet she is expected to love and honor him even though he beats her and treats her badly. And on top of that, her parents (the government) tell her to be warm and show solidarity with him.

More and more Swedish commentators now draw the same conclusion: that Sweden is teetering on the brink of collapse. Editorial columnist Ivar Arpi of the daily Svenska Dagbladet, wrote an astonishing article on October 26, about a woman named Alexandra von Schwerin and her husband. The couple live on the Skarhults Estate farm in Skåne in southern Sweden; they have been robbed three times. Most recently, they were robbed of a quad bike, a transporter and a car. When the police arrived, von Schwerin asked them what she should do. The police told her that they could not help her. "All our resources are on loan to the asylum reception center in Trelleborg and Malmö," they said. "We are overloaded right now. So I suggest you get in touch with the vigilante group in Eslöv."

What the police had called a "vigilante group" turned out to be a group of private business owners. In 2013, after being robbed more or less every night, they had decided to come together and start patrolling the area themselves. Currently, they pay a security firm to watch their facilities.

"On principal, I am totally against it," von Schwerin said. "What are the people who cannot afford private security to do? They will be unprotected. I'm sure I will join, but very, very reluctantly. For the first time, I feel scared to live here now. Are the State and I now in agreement that our mutual contract is being renegotiated?"

Social commentator and former Refugee Ombudsman Merit Wager said about police encouraging people to join vigilante groups: "So, the Swedes are supposed to arrange and pay for their own and their families' security and keep their farms from being subjected to theft, even though that has up to now been included in the social contract – for which we pay high taxes, to have police we can count on to protect us and apprehend criminals?! When did the social contract expire? October 2015? Without any notice of termination, since the tax-consuming party is not fulfilling its part of the deal? This should mean that our part of the deal – to pay taxes for public, joint services – has also become invalid? If the social contract is broken, it is broken. Then it is musical chairs (lawlessness, defenselessness, without protection), and that means that each and every one of us should pay less taxes."

Ilan Sadé, lawyer and social commentator, wrote about the refugee chaos at Malmö Central Train Station on the blog Det Goda Samhället on October 27: "The authorities no longer honor the social contract." He described four large signs on display around the station that read "Refugee? Welcome to Malmö!" in four different languages. "It is unclear," Sadé wrote, "who the sender of the message is, or, for that matter, who is in charge of the reception facility – a number of barracks by the old post office in the inner harbor. Everything is utterly confusing. It could be Malmö City or the Immigration Service, but it might as well be 'Refugees Welcome,' or possibly a religious community. I think to myself that a government agency could not reasonably write like this, a correct and pertinent information would say something like: 'Asylum seekers are referred to the barracks for information and further transport.' But I am probably wrong; Malmö City is the chief suspect communicant. ... The signs at and around the Central Station are symptoms of something incredibly serious: Role confusion and the decay of the constitutional state. And thus, that our authorities no longer honor the social contract."

In a post called Anarchy, Social Democratic blogger and government critic Johan Westerholm wrote that the Minister for Justice and Migration, Morgan Johansson, is now urging authorities to "be pragmatic" about laws and regulations (concerning asylum housings for so-called unaccompanied refugee children). Westerholm stated that this is tantamount to the government "opening the gates to anarchy":

"Our country is founded on law, the Parliament legislates and the courts apply these. Morgan Johansson's statement and his otherwise passive approach are testimony to how this, our kind of democracy, may fade into a memory very shortly. He now laid the first brick in the building of a state that rests on other principles. The principles of anarchy."

If anarchy really does break out, it can be good to remember that there are nearly two million licensed firearms in Sweden. Sweden's shooting clubs have seen a surge in interest; many are welcoming a lot of new members lately.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anarchy; europeanunion; guns; nato; sweden
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-53 next last

1 posted on 11/13/2015 2:28:15 AM PST by markomalley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Define “well behaved”... Does that mean conforming to the box the govt has placed you, like gender or race? Does that mean thinking like the collective? If you cars license plate expires are you losing your gun rights?
I watched the influx of immigrants pour into Franfurt Germany.. I spent many days there... It was sad for me to see.


2 posted on 11/13/2015 2:36:24 AM PST by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
""It is largely due to the turbulence we are seeing around the country at the moment." People have lost confidence in the State, he added. "The police will not come anymore. Truck drivers say that when they see a thief emptying the fuel tank of their trucks, they run out with a baseball bat. It is no use calling the police, but if you hit the thief, you can at least prevent him from stealing more diesel. Many homeowners say the same thing: they sleep with a baseball bat under the bed. But this is risky: the police can then say you have been prepared to use force, and that might backfire on you."

welcome to Soro's NWO

3 posted on 11/13/2015 2:50:11 AM PST by jsanders2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

I see a lot of parallels to our own situation in the U.S, right now...


4 posted on 11/13/2015 2:54:37 AM PST by jsanders2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
He's not really describing anarchy, to me. It's not that the population has taken the law into its own hands - its that SOME of the people of Sweden are preparing to protect themselves from the invaders.

Europe is done as we've known it. In three to five years we will see stonings in the street in places that used to be civilized.

5 posted on 11/13/2015 2:55:01 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Guessing the invading hordes are not Vikings?


6 posted on 11/13/2015 2:56:37 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley; Old Sarge; aragorn; null and void; Velveeta; Myrddin; Califreak; Salvation; ...
Image and video hosting by TinyPic

The politicians, however, ignore the people's fear completely. It is never discussed.

Think about that statement. ... How did politicians become politicians?

-

Check out article.

.

7 posted on 11/13/2015 2:59:41 AM PST by LucyT
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

” the police can then say you have been prepared to use force, and that might backfire on you. “

Have they looked at the rate of shovel purchases?


8 posted on 11/13/2015 3:02:20 AM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: raybbr

While I hate to see this happen to cultural cousins on one hand, but they deserve it on the other. Sweden needs a Gustavus Adolphus, some one not afraid to fight for his country. Notice they don’t use the term “Muslim.”


9 posted on 11/13/2015 3:03:46 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
< ""Most people seem to think we cannot maintain a system where perhaps 190,000 people will arrive every year. In the long run, our system will collapse. This welcome is not going to receive popular support. We want to give people who come here a worthy reception."

at some point you'd think their people would wake up and realize the invaders are not like some poor little puppy that's lost and showed up on their doorstep that needs a home, some food, and alittle petting. No these fuc&$ers are Cujo ready to pounce, kill, and eat everything in their home including the owners. Stop being idiots. Take out the trash.

10 posted on 11/13/2015 3:03:52 AM PST by jsanders2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Am I the only one to see that there must be some master plan behind what is going on.

If there was real concern over the condition of these “migrants” would it not have been better (and cheaper) for the various world governments to deal with the problem in their (the migrants) home country? There must be a reason the various national governments are going along with this (especially when their citizens are protesting against it)

To invite millions of people into your nation that have no understanding of western culture, nor any desire to learn it, is insane.

Two cultures can not exist equally at the same time in the same place, one must be dominate.

The culture that is the most violent will in the end become the dominate culture.

Sweden is gone.

What about Europe?
What about America?


11 posted on 11/13/2015 3:09:19 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (Nothing to add at the moment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CIB-173RDABN

” There must be a reason “

The socialist paradigm is that the more services you offer, the more people “ under your wing “, provides justification for increased government spending.

As that money comes in, you pass a portion on through cronyism.

Hence, this is how socialists increase their own wealth.

Unlike capitalists that provide products or services on the free market, socialists use the government to create a captive market.


12 posted on 11/13/2015 3:15:01 AM PST by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
Since the Parliament decided in 1975 that Sweden should be multicultural and not Swedish, crime has exploded. Violent crime has increased by more than 300%, and rapes have increased by an unbelievable 1,472%.

Once again the progressives proved the validity of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

13 posted on 11/13/2015 3:15:07 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

And so another country that is used as a sterling example to compare against USA in crime statistics and especially gun crime statistics smells the coffee and opens their eyes.


14 posted on 11/13/2015 3:16:00 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

These countries are committing SUICIDE.


15 posted on 11/13/2015 3:26:12 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: momincombatboots

You were in Germany recently? How is the invasion affecting everyday life for Germans?


16 posted on 11/13/2015 3:28:12 AM PST by Rusty0604
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: CIB-173RDABN

I have been wondering the same thing.

Prior to this invasion, refugee’s were handled by the UN in refugee camps. What the heck changed and under what international law?


17 posted on 11/13/2015 3:29:50 AM PST by EBH ( I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: CIB-173RDABN

I believe there is a master plan. Nothing else makes sense at this point. It looks all to coordinated.


18 posted on 11/13/2015 3:54:16 AM PST by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

Well, Sweden likes to condemn Israel. We’ll see how she likes muslims instead...


19 posted on 11/13/2015 3:55:55 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: CIB-173RDABN

“Am I the only one to see that there must be some master plan behind what is going on.”

Agreed. This isn’t happening by accident (nor is the approval by the Eurocrats simply the result of their stupidity).


20 posted on 11/13/2015 3:56:53 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-53 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson