In June, four armed Swedish police officers seized and confiscated the entire stock of the book Det här är en svensk tiger (“This is a Swedish Tiger“), written by Swedish author and standup comedian, Aron Flam. The book tells the story of how Sweden’s claim of neutrality during World War II covered up a reality of Swedish collaboration with the Nazi war effort and the profits that the Social Democratic government made from the war.

The title of the book is a play on the words of a 1941 wartime poster of a tiger drawn in the blue and yellow colors of the Swedish flag with the title “En svensk tiger” (“A Swedish Tiger”) and made by Swedish illustrator Bertil Almqvist. The word “tiger” in Swedish means tiger, but it also means to keep silent. The original poster was part of a Swedish government campaign to warn Swedes to keep silent, presumably not to rattle Sweden’s wartime relationship with Nazi Germany.

Flam satirized Almqvist’s illustration on the cover of his own book by drawing an armband with a swastika on the tiger, and having one of its front legs lifted in the Nazi salute, while winking at the reader. The owner of the copyright of Almqvist’s tiger, however, Sweden’s Military Readiness Museum, alleged that Flam had violated its copyright and reported him to the police — who confiscated the books. According to Flam, now the prosecutor even wants to seize books from readers who already bought them, to make sure the books are destroyed.

The confiscation of books and the upcoming case against Flam has ignited a debate in Sweden about the value of freedom of speech. As Flam has pointed out, a Swedish writer who happens to be Jewish having his books, critical of Swedish-Nazi collaboration during the war, seized by the Swedish state is a bit ironic. “Just the idea that there is a prosecutor who is seriously pushing to track down and destroy books is Kafkaesque. If they had contented themselves with tearing off the front-page, but no”, Flam said.

As always, how the police and prosecution choose to operate is a matter of priorities; those (curious) priorities were on display in another recent court caseabout free speech, as well. In it, an elderly Swedish woman was sentenced to a fine for “incitement”, after she expressed her anger on Facebook over the violent assault by a 27-year old man on an 86-year old pensioner.

“Yes, he [the perpetrator] will probably be out [of prison…] right away. It would be better to send him out of the country, what kind of monkey people come into the country, deportation is all that applies now, there are no mitigating circumstances… The monkeys should not come here and commit such crimes…”

The woman did not mention any specific group of people in her Facebook post, yet the court found that she had incited hate against immigrants:

“The district court…finds that the communication cannot be understood in any other way than that it is aimed at such a group of people who are protected by the provision — immigrants – i.e. the ethnic groups in Sweden who have in common that they have a different national origin than the majority population. By calling this group ‘monkeys’ and ‘monkey people’, NN [the woman] has expressed herself in a way that must be considered derogatory.”

The case was not unusual for Sweden. The prosecution of pensioners, and others, for speech crimes is commonplace.

The problem is that Sweden is a country deeply mired in a growing violent crime wave that its authorities have not been able to defeat. While Swedish police and prosecutors give a high priority to the confiscation of books with covers of satirized Swedish tigers and pensioners guilty of “Wrongthink”, they evidently do not have the resources to confront violent crimes.

In Uppsala, for instance, a report from 2019 showed that 80% of girls in high school do not feel safe. In 2013, that number was 45%.

Recently, SVT Nyheter ran a story about a 13-year-old girl who had been raped in a public toilet in a mall in Uppsala in November last year. Even though the police knew who the suspect was, it took them seven months to arrest him. “Since the police did not have the resources, he was not detained until now”, Moa Blomqvist, the prosecutor in the case, told Swedish Television. “I am very upset that such serious crimes are piled up waiting with the police…” The police deny Blomqvist’s claim.

In July, a mother of three and her sister, who were walking home with their husbands, suffered head injuries when a man, who identified himself to the women as coming from Gottsunda, a “no-go zone” in Uppsala, decided to start kicking them in the head, apparently for no reason. The man was soon joined by a gang, who proceeded to whip the husbands with belts. The police so far have no suspects in the case. Two weeks later, in the center of Uppsala, a man was stabbedmultiple times.

Uppsala, once a picturesque and peaceful university town, is now the town in Sweden with the most shootings per capita. “The gangs have been allowed to grow” Manne Gerell, a criminologist at Malmö University told SVT Nyheter in December 2019, adding that the police had “woken up” a little too late.

Uppsala has also been hit by several bombings — attacks, typically gang-related, using explosive devices. In 2019, Sweden had 257 cases. The latest Uppsala bombing took place in June: a “minor explosive device” detonated in an apartment building.

Yet, in Sweden, in 2019, not even one in ten bombings led to criminal charges, according to SVT Nyheter. Perhaps it is time for Sweden’s government to spend fewer resources on prosecuting the speech crimes of pensioners and comedians, and more on fighting violent crime.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16308/sweden-confiscating-books

Multiple witnesses now say that the stabber was attacking people targeting the neck. Which is odd as if you are fighting for your life you stab where you can. Usually the body. Targeting the neck always seems a little Koran 47:4.

https://vladtepesblog.com/

By Monica Showalter

Based on the arrest photos of apprehended Antifa rioters, the impression is out there that the group is little more than a bunch of extremist fringe crazies.

Sadly, it’s not so. 

Report after report shows that Antifa is highly organized, in its rioting, its killing, and its press coverage.

It’s shocking, really. This account from SurvivalBlog, by J.D., someone who went to several of Antifa’s riots, describes all the security that Antifa and Revolutionary Communist Party (RevCom, or RCP) coevals put into their operations. Based on his account, Antifa and RCP appear to be the same thing:

The first one I attended was on the University of Michigan campus. The protest was rather large, about 1,500 people. What I found interesting was that the first speaker pointed out that “allies from RevCom/ANTIFA” were present, just to provide “logistical support” including medical and security teams. The local RevCom leader got up and explained how to find the medics (Large red or green crosses) and explained that security was “circulating among the crowd” for safety. That was an ominous statement, as I’ll point out later.

I began moving through the crowd and quickly spotted several security team members, obviously watching the crowd for anyone who wasn’t clapping or cheering along. It’s important to note that these protests require 100% ideological agreement or they will approach you and become confrontational, so I made sure I was chanting along. I noticed almost immediately that despite the man who said he was the RevCom leader, a young man named Ethan, that I would later have many interactions with, was actually in charge. He is a security team leader within the ANTIFA organization.

The biggest observation from the first protest was that despite the claims that they aren’t organized, they are highly organized by a central organization. Ethan and his security/medical team have been at every protest I’ve attended in Michigan, including one at the Capitol an hour away. They use the ubiquitous BaoFeng Handi-talkie radios to communicate.

The creepy security followed him everywhere. He had to change costumes a few times to get away from their “security” surveillance. Photographs were forbidden, rioters were supposed to riot on cue without taking pictures, picture-taking was the province of the party elite. The same rioters, and riot leaders turned up in different cities, same people every time. When one group of protestors didn’t want Antifa to hijack their protest, Antifa’s “security” came anyway, undercover. They followed people. They made threats. And this was just a garden variety of groups in Michigan with its riots directed from someone above.

The big league is Portland, where rioters marked their 100th night of rioting, and chased the city’s leftist mayor, Ted Wheeler, from his condo after organizing to try to burn it down, with all the residents in it. They’ve made Portland a hellhole.

And it turns out they’re not just creepy stalkers and “security,” some are actual killers. The latest news from Portland is that Antifa’s denizens stalked and shadowed young Aaron Danielson, who was murdered in cold blood by “100% Antifa” Michael Reinoehl, who was later rubbed out by the Portland cops as he resisted arrest upon apprehension. This account here shows how Reinoehl laid in wait behind a thin but concealing barrier, gun held in two hands, for his target to walk by, in what appears to be a very strong instance of premeditated murder, or assassination. According to PostMillennial:

Homicide Detective Rico Beniga wrote in the affidavit that Reinoehl “conceals himself, waits and watches” for the men to pass him before he follows them and shoots them. Investigators added that it looks like Reinoehl held his gun with both hands extended when he fired the shots, after which he kept his right hand extended and pointed at Danielson as the victim ran away from him, stumbled and bled to death.

Danielson, 39, was walking in downtown Portland last Saturday when Reinoehl ambushed him, shooting him in the upper right chest. An autopsy found a single bullet lodged in his back.

Which takes the Antifa activity to a whole new level. J.D. notes that they are always prepared for violence in their choice of gear as they prepare to go to the riots.

Besides the atrocities, they also have help. Apparently, someone on the inside in Portland’s government is providing shelter for them on the city’s dime, in the form of a homeless tent camp. They deny it, of course, but it certainly does seem to explain how Antifa, with all its pan-United States cast of characters, can operate for 100 nights of mayhem in Portland alone.

They also have the press. A number of them serve as Antifa’s own press – you can see it on their crudely printed helmets here:

And they tightly control that press. Anyone coming to one of their riots, where they set fires, attack police and passersby, and damage property, will be spotted by Antifa “security” and chased off. All news agencies have nothing but Antifa-generated footage to work with, mostly showing cops going after protestors, rather than the acts of the protestors that prompted the police to avt.

But they also have reporters on the outside on their string — New York Times stringer here, Oregonian reporters there. Reason magazine has a link to a Google sheets list of Antifa-approved reporters here.

They report:

These protester-approved journalists are producing much of the news you see about the protests, with an assist from the national press. Kate Shepherd isn’t on the list, but she was previously a sympathetic reporter for local Portland media, and she is now filing such stories for The Washington Post, with headlines like “Portland police arrest a hate crime survivor and Wall of Moms organizer in crackdown.”

Which paints a terrible picture of just how organized and controlling and lethal this group really is.

Their tactics – mob action, control of the press, opposition to any manifestation of law and order, willingness to kill, a claim to actually being the order – paints a disturbing picture, very redolent of Caracas, Venezuela, where this kind of controlled chaos has been going on for years/

I visited some of the Chavistas engaging in this kind of behavior when I was in Caracas. I went up to visit the Chavista “education” sessions in the Caracas hillside slums. Who was there at their side as they showed me around? That’s right, member of the RCP, same group that is impossible to distinguish Antifa from. Same group that engaged in violent acts during San Francisco’s Rodney King riots of the early 1990s. 

Now they’ve gone big. And if this kind of modus operandi — killings, illegal censorship, violence, as well as Chavista historic background isn’t reason enough to declare war on them and shut them down, what is? 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/antifas_violent_organized_tactics_are_getting_exposed.html

At the start of a trial on the charges of a life-threatening attack on a passenger on a platform in Neu-Anspach ( Hochtaunus district), the defendants did not comment on the allegations. This would possibly happen during the course of the trial, the lawyers of the three men said on Friday during the hearing at the Frankfurt Regional Court.A 24-year-old Syrian and a 23-year-old Afghan are charged with, among other things, attempted manslaughter, and an 18-year-old German with a migration background is accused of dangerous bodily harm. The wife of the presumed victim, who was present at the station during the crime in November 2019, recognized the men.The 24-year-old woman from Neu-Anspach said that the Syrian had held a blank gun to her husband’s face and threatened to shoot him. According to the prosecution, he is also said to have stabbed the man four times in the back with a knife. The 18-year-old is said to have beaten him, tore him to the ground and held him there. The Afghan is said to have used this situation to kick the 25-year-old in the face with full force. “Just like kicking a ball,” the woman said. She had been plagued by nightmares since the crime.The man from Afghanistan is said to have started the fight because he demanded a handshake from the man when he got off the Taunusbahn and the man refused. The victim was brought to a hospital after the attack, seriously injured. The trial will continue into October.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/region-und-hessen/angeklagte-schweigen-nach-attacke-auf-bahnsteig-16938227.html

The bus drivers of the Suhl/Zella-Mehlis Municipal Transport Company (SNG) no longer want to serve on the evening routes to and from Friedberg, where the country’s initial reception center for asylum seekers (EAE) is located, for fear of assault and to protect their physical integrity. This was confirmed on Friday by members of the supervisory board and managing director Eberhard Smolka of our newspaper. The number of incidents with EAE residents has reached a scale that is no longer acceptable and cannot be tolerated by the drivers, he said, backing his staff. “Either the situation will be clarified and remedied, or we will have to stop the line in the evening hours,” he says plainly after consulting the supervisory board.It could not be that drivers were insulted and threatened by groups of drunk and stoned refugees when they asked for tickets. Some could not stand this constant fear and had called in sick. “These are no longer isolated incidents – it happens almost every second evening now,” says Smolka.The spitting at a bus driver in August, the throwing of the fare in pieces of pennies at his feet, or the violent quarrel about putting on a face mask last weekend are only the tip of the iceberg, he says, because many things are no longer reported to the police.”Many drivers have given up and say nothing more. They are happy when their evening rides, where they are often alone in the bus with such chaotic people, come to a smooth end,” says Smolka, describing the situation. This has nothing to do with the origin of the passengers or even racism. “The only thing that matters is safety on the bus.To this day, there has been no response to the cries for help addressed to the state government after the spitting attack and the demand to provide free tickets to the residents of the EAE. “We feel left alone,” Smolka states. The Suhl police force, which is working at the limit, cannot be constantly present in buses. It is possible that the SNG will resort to self-help and have physically strong security men accompany the bus drives in question.

Source:  In Südthüringen / politikstube.com/beleidigt-bedroht-busfahrer-in-suhl-wollen-nicht-mehr-auf-der-linie-zur-asyl-erstaufnahme-dienst-tun/