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Here is an update on the demonstrations in Sweden yesterday.

Saturday and an unpopular colonialist war going on in the world - that's demonstration time!

And so it was - the masses were trudging along the streets in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö (the three largest towns in Sweden) and also in Västerås, Piteå and Örebro according to various news reports.

But, but, but, masses??

Not if one compares it to the demonstrations of yesteryear - the anti-US demonstrations of the 70s and 80s, the anti-Israel demonstrations of every ME war after 1967.

In Malmö (the Jihadistan of Northern Europe) the demonstrators (assorted hard-left groups, the Greens, South-American(!) left wing groups, and of course Pally groups) managed to amass 1000 people. The figure is disputed and probably inflated - in the early TV reports it said 2 - 300 people, and it looked it too, but in the morning newspapers the figure has been raised to a thousand.

Never the less, no more than 1000 people in a town with the largest congregation of Muslims, and supported by left-wingers from the nearby university town of Lund; tsk, tsk , tsk.

Give them their due though, they might have been tired - a pre-demonstration was held on Thursday, but that had caused some legal wrangling.

In the Thursday demonstration there had been (Israeli) flags with the Swastika on. That's a definite no, no in Sweden - you know Xenophobia laws and all that. The police would have to arrest anyone who carried such symbols.

OK, just before the demonstration started someone at the prosecutors office, still unclear whom, send a fax to the police giving a go-ahead for Nazi symbols in this instance. Apparently the district prosecutor was not informed, and there may still be some legal fallout over this. Who knows even the neo-Nazis could use as a subterfuge to demonstrate against something (Israel, the US, Iran????) to be allowed to sport their beloved symbols.

Oh, the tangled web we weave once we start to be PC.

Well, in any event, to make sure no one could be arrested the flags and banners with Swastikas on were placed in the hands of underage children.

Come to think about it, that symbolizes Hezbollahs tactic of hiding among the civilians pretty well.

The demonstration in central Malmö was calm. No violence. A few counter demonstrators ("No to terrorism") were jeered by the demonstrators and cheered by some bystanders, and that was pretty much it.

In Gothenburg (Sweden's 2d largest city) the demonstrations managed to gather a few hundred persons. And that says it all.

In central Stockholm between 1000 - 2000 people demonstrated outside the Israeli embassy. Again an assortment of far-left groups, south-Americans, Greens and various pally support groups. It was reasonably calm initially, but then the demonstration moved towards a park in central Stockholm where the synagogue is situated. There, a fight broke out between the police and 2 - 300 demonstrators. The newspapers are very coy about what actually started the riot - but apparently some of the demonstrators wanted to attack the temple.

(Think "mosque", "attack", "HEADLINES!"")

After a few hours calm was restored and a few people arrested.

The media and the politicians are keeping away from this all. The reasons for the behaviour of the MSM we don't really have to discuss - same as everywhere. The politicians, however, that's more interesting:

We are having a general election in Sweden in September. The ruling Social Democrats are relying on support from the Left party (post-Communists) and the Greens. These parties always draw the majority of the "immigrant" vote. They would not like to upset their voters - especially since those parties are balancing on the cut-off point; less than 4% of the total vote and you do not gain any seats in the Parliament.

The conservatives, liberals, christian-democrats, and center party are all trying to be "nice". They are aware (must be!!) that their voters are upset about our immigration policies, but since they are politicians they are all for a multi-culti society.

Bystanders both in Stockholm and in Malmö appeared to be upset with the demonstrations. This does not bode well for our politicians. And it can become worse. There have been bomb-threats against both the synagogue in Malmö and in Stockholm. If something awful happens, then all bets are off regarding the election.

My guess is that in any case we will see a far-right party doing well in certain parts of Sweden, particularly in Malmö and the surrounding areas.