“A 70-year-old Swedish woman in Dalarna is being prosecuted for hate speech after claiming on Facebook she saw migrants defecating in the streets and setting fire to cars.”
Was her claim really that implausible? Muslim migrants routinely torch cars in France. Is it so impossible that Muslim migrants would do so in Sweden? Clearly this poor woman has drawn attention to facts that the Swedish government doesn’t want people to know, and so must be punished.
Sweden’s Justice Minister Morgan Johansson’s remarks are frankly insidious and authoritarian. “We have freedom of speech in Sweden. This means people have the right to hold repulsive opinions here. But there are always limits… For example when it comes to hate speech.”
Hate speech in whose judgment? Who decides what is hate speech and what isn’t? The very idea of “hate speech” is destructive to the very concept of the freedom of speech. If Sweden has the freedom of speech, then one person can say what someone else thinks is “hate speech.” If that is not the case, then Sweden does not have the freedom of speech.
“Swedish Pensioner Prosecuted for ‘Hate’ for Accusing Migrants of Torching Cars on Facebook,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, May 14, 2017:
A 70-year-old Swedish woman in Dalarna is being prosecuted for hate speech after claiming on Facebook she saw migrants defecating in the streets and setting fire to cars.
According to the prosecution, the woman “expressed a disparaging view of refugees” on Facebook. She stands accused of having taken to the social media website in early July 2015 to make the “derogatory” post, alleging that migrants “set fire to cars, and urinate and defecate on the streets”.
Prosecutors in Sweden say the woman’s message violates the nation’s law on incitement to racial hatred (Hets mot folkgrupp, or HMF), a crime with carries a maximum penalty of four years.
The accused admitted that she wrote the post but denied committing any criminal act. The evidence against her consists of a screenshot from Facebook, according to local media….
Sweden’s Justice Minister Morgan Johansson cited freedom of speech when he rejected Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord’s suggestion that the country deports Islamic State-supporting migrants, after the Islamist terror attack in Stockholm last month.“We have freedom of speech in Sweden. This means people have the right to hold repulsive opinions here,” said Johansson.
“But there are always limits… For example when it comes to hate speech,” added the minister, who called Nord’s policy suggestion “problematic”, and demanded the police chief “explain himself”.
Vyx says
Islam is not a race. So “racial hatred” does not apply.
hahahahaha.
Who are we kidding?
They’re going to lock up a 70 year old woman who has paid taxes all her life and probably been a model citizen all for the sake of appeasing “islam.”
Apathy rules the World says
They will lock her up because they need her house for asylum seekers.
Westman says
Anything goes Sweden, is well on the way to financial and social failure; devolving into a formless mass of ineffectual protoplasm while a virile ideology, having absolute standards and goals that exclude native Swedes, assimilates the nation.
The response to truthful warnings: Kill the messenger.
Phil Copson says
Anything goes in Sweden; and as anything goes – it has almost gone…..
marina says
The good woman was only reporting a crime. But the Swedish government doesn’t mind that these elites aka Moslems are using their streets as toilet.
Joe says
Yeah, she only reported what she saw. In this article, she expresses no hate. If it is a crime to report what you see, then freedom is a farce.
Santa Voorhees says
“We have freedom of speech in Sweden. This means people have the right to hold repulsive opinions here. But there are always limits… For example when it comes to hate speech.”
Yeah, and those limits are imposed only on the native population.
Because apparently they have no problem with muslims preaching hate against anyone who is different from them.
Stupid leftists, as usual.
Schrödinger says
The lemming is a small rodent usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. Classified as subnivean animals, together with voles and muskrats they make up the subfamily Arvicolinae, which forms part of the superfamily Muroidea … (those especially interested in the taxonomy and genus of this species can continue in reading the Wikipedia article).
Curious creatures, they’ve long been associated with a wildly popular misconception about their migrating en masse before committing mass suicide by hurling themselves off a cliff. However this is a myth. It arose following misinterpretations of their observed migratory behaviour in response to growing population pressures. Luckily, Lemmings have no actual suicide compulsion.
Swedes are (or were, until recently), a taller than average, blonde, blue eyed, intelligent and largely homogenous, indigenous Nordic population of the species Homo sapiens. Their biome overlaps much of that of the Lemming. Bafflingly, but in apparent response to the ongoing large scale immigration and invasion (Hijra) of a different ethnic and religious group called muslims to their territories, these same Swedes (not all but enough of them) evidently do have a suicidal compulsion. A national suicide compulsion. They’re quite literally hurling themselves en masse off a Darwinian cliff.
I wish this too were a myth.
Noel says
According to 1000 Random Things You Always Believed That Are Not True:
MYTH 23. Lemmings follow each other and commit mass suicide. Lemmings don’t follow each other and commit mass suicide. This was wrongly created by a 1958 Disney documentary titled “White Wilderness,” in which the filmmakers ran a pack of lemmings off a cliff in order to make an “entertaining” documentary.
AuthorLee says
Sweden, soon to be the Islamic Republic of Sweden governed by Shariah law.
Will Justice Minister Morgan Johansson convert or loose his head?
AuthorLee says
Sweden has the largest Muslim population of the three nations and, unsurprisingly, the most problems associated therewith. Proud that Sweden has been the most welcoming and generous country in the world, its government stubbornly hides statistics about crime relative to the nationality, ethnicity or religion of the perpetrator. The stark reality of steadily worsening crime and welfare spending is just now dawning on native Swedes, many of whom remain in denial and want unlimited immigration to continue. Though a high proportion of crime occurs within the migrant communities of its major cities, Sweden now has the awful distinction of being the rape capital of the developed world. In perhaps the greatest irony to afflict the cradle of feminism, Swedish women increasingly are afraid to venture out alone at night. Yet nary a peep is heard from Sweden’s (or other) feminist groups, except that it is a “man” problem.
In 2015 alone Sweden received over 160,000 asylum applications and the country was expected to take as many as 190,000 refugees, or two per cent of the population, by the end of 2016. Sweden’s National Criminal Investigation Service acknowledges that there are more than 50 no-go areas where officers cannot cope with the levels of crime being committed. Just under one-third of the occupants of Malmo, the nation’s third-largest city, are migrants. Swedish police are banned from identifying criminals based on race, but retiring Malmo detective Peter Springare confirms that almost all crime is committed by people named variants of “Muhammad.”
Recommended viewing at Youtube.com: “Stockholm Syndrome” by Ami Horowitz (~10 min.)
(Part of a Veterans for the Defense of American Liberties (VDAL) paper on Scandinavia.)
gravenimage says
None of this is a surprise, I’m afraid.
gravenimage says
Sweden: 70-year-old woman prosecuted for “hate” for accusing Muslim migrants of torching cars
“We have freedom of speech in Sweden. This means people have the right to hold repulsive opinions here,” said Johansson.
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How is noting that Muslims are torching cars a “repulsive opinion”? It would seem to be more a statement of fact. Or is the problem that she was not noting their actions *approvingly*? Isn’t it still illegal to deliberately set someone’s car on fire in Sweden?
More:
“But there are always limits… For example when it comes to hate speech,” added the minister, who called Nord’s policy suggestion “problematic”, and demanded the police chief “explain himself”.
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Speaking disapprovingly of crime is now apparently a crime in Sweden. Mad, mad times.
That this lady is *seventy years old* makes this insanity all the worse.
Arthur says
If she said, “Migrants set fire to cars and urinate and defecate in the street…”
This woman could probably produce police reports showing arrests for car arson and public urination/defecation for persons identified as migrants. That would prove her statement was true.
However, if she is still convicted, then it becomes clear to everyone that speaking the truth is illegal.
If people are not free to speak the truth, then clearly they are not free at all.
This is the natural endgame of all governments who take on the duty of “caring” for their people.
mortimer says
Agree. The government is actively taking sides against Swedish people. This is pure suicide. The government would have no problem if the woman denounced neo-Nazis for similar hooliganism.
mortimer says
Telling the truth about what you observed is now a revolutionary act.
This denialism is intolerable.
If it were captured on film, they would find a way to stop people from seeing it.
The enemy is the so-called regressives. They are INSANE and EVIL.
davej says
So just pointing out what the Muslims are undeniably doing is grounds for arrest?
If that is true then all is lost.
LR says
This is one of those stories when you come across it, you think, ‘Oh, please tell me this isn’t true’…
How the heck can someone waste their time bothering a 70yr. old lady who was simply complaining about things she saw?
Swede ‘officials’…What the hell is wrong with you?..YOU are behaving so ridiculously
dumbledoresarmy says
One hopes that the Swedish Democrats will stick up for her. One hopes that Lars Vilks might produce some satirical cartoons on her behalf. That Lars Hedegaard’s Free Press Society will go in to bat for her.
Given a good legal team, her case could become a cause celebre – perhaps even a turning point or tipping point.
AC says
She should have posted a video of the defecating and torching. A live-stream of a gang-rape got less punishment.
Reg says
She needs PROOF. Anybody got any photographs of such incidents?