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.
..... By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”
Oh my....
Check. This has got to be satire. I know that political correctness and radical femininism has pussified Sweden´s men but things can’t be this bad. Can they?
Stockholm Police Department should get some Police Officers ,these Rent A Cops are not working out
This has got to be satire.
What a perfect snapshot of the European mind. Acceptance of slavery is next.
I’m sure there are a few Muslims that would write her a ticket for being pretty, and uncovered in a Muslim zone.
MODS: I apologize, I accidentally listed the wrong link. Can you fix it? It should be http://www.friatider.se/parking-tickets-issued-on-wrecks-while-stockholm-burns
Pretty good display of what happens to a society when the men are all feminized. Even the natural self-preservation instincts are gone...
Will America yet again ignore history?
Any comments from the front lines?
Atta boys, keep those parking tickets coming, you are the pride of Sweeden!
I read an article the other day explaining how the police halted their noninterference policy to round up and disperse natural Swedish citizens intent on protecting their property.
Hey, Swedish officials:
How ‘bout, you leave the victims alone that had their CARS BURNED and open up a machine gun on the violent rabid thugs that are throwing rocks and burning cars?!?!?!?!?!
In this country we used to hang horse thieves, seems like someone who willfully steals or destroys a car should receive the same punishment.
”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.”
A famous writer described a system where the government vigorously punishes the law abiding for small infractions, but ignores serious crimes. If anyone can help refresh my memory as to what this was called, I would appreciate it.
I think some thing like “authoritarian anarchy” but a search on that comes up dry.
So they are ignoring violence in order to minimize violence. Should work out well.
Get a look at the blotted-out license plate....To guard the owners’ “privacy”....What a joke!
Isn’t that Ayn Rand? I don’t remember the book, though.
Makes perfect sense to a euroweenie: The cops suppress the “vigilantes” bent on protecting their communities and properties (after all, the “vigilantes” won’t throw rocks at them...), do nothing to stop the rioters (who will throw rocks), and ticket the wreckage.
BTW: I read somewhere, that the damage to the autos are probably not covered by insurance...
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