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Recently a friend told me about a precarious problem in his home community. In the small community, a lot revolves around the long-standing football team. If it looks like there will be a change of power in the fall, the winners will probably be the Sweden Democrats.
It has caused concern at the club because one of the party’s prominent figures in the community happens to be a legendary top scorer. But just over two decades ago, he was not offered a new contract, even though the player himself felt ready for another season. Rumor has it that it’s an injustice that the ’90s icon has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Now there are fears in the club’s environment that it is at risk of political reprisals.
This concern provides a telling picture of what has happened since SD became a powerful factor in Swedish politics.
Noted this week The editor-in-chief of Expressen ironically noted that “damn, Tidö didn’t become a dictatorship.” Despite all the Social Democratic warning shots in the last election campaign, we have not become Hungarians. Not even Magdalena Andersson in SVT’s “30 Minutes” could claim anything other than that “Sweden’s democratic institutions are on the pedestal,” just three years after the Tidö government.
That democracy is “on a pedestal” could be a new world record when it comes to setting the bar low when describing one’s own government with satisfaction. But here we are now
“Fara å färde. The 30s,” the editorial page chuckled. That democracy is “on a pedestal” could be a new world record when it comes to setting the bar low when describing one’s own government with satisfaction. But here we are now.
The Express editorial is similar to the Japanese soldier who was left on an atoll in the Pacific, never informed that the war was over. Because it’s obvious they missed something.
With the Sweden Democrats Erik Almqvist left the Reichstag in 2012 after a late-night iron pipe scandal and was given a new role by his party. Building a Sweden-friendly media flora. He moved to Hungary and started working.
A duo from this area has been in the media a lot lately. One of those is Nick Alinia, who recently lost a defamation lawsuit after being called a “Nazi idiot” by a comedian. Alinia was also a guest at Jimmie Åkesson’s wedding and collaborated with SD top Jessica Stegrud. The other is Christian Peterson, who was recently presented with an article in Dagens ETC in which the newspaper exposed his connections to the violent right-wing organization Aktivklubb.
The duo is known for openly harassing dissenters with the apparent aim of silencing them. In addition, according to the review in Dagens ETC, Peterson must have developed a tactic of sending worrying reports to social services. If true, it is a despicable strategy that targets the innocent families and neighbors of anti-racists and inconvenient journalists.
Someone had immediately sent a worrying report to social services. The children were forced to answer questions about their mother’s alcohol consumption
Same week as In the Expressen editorial, newspaper reporter Anna Gullberg writes a powerful piece about how she was exposed to these strategies after writing about Peterson. Someone had immediately sent a worrying report to social services. The children were forced to answer questions about their mother’s alcohol consumption. At Bluesky, journalist Jack Werner tells us he went through the same thing.
There was a slip-up here. Reporter Pelle Zackrisson from the now quite established website Kvartals, who has worked at Bulletin and SD-Linked Riks, among others, answers Dagens ETC that the methods do not make Peterson any less of a journalist than someone at SVT.
At the same time, Kvartal’s editorial team now seems to have a permanent invitation to the media’s public discussion about the future of journalism – which apparently no longer contradicts Nazi violence and whistleblower reports.
As Jimmie Akesson In an interview with DN before this year’s election, he said he was 100 percent sure that the authorities were working against him. The man who claimed in the same interview that his ancestors “ate bark for Sweden” does not want to be interviewed by experts.
Of course, this creates an uneasy culture of silence. Think like us, otherwise shut up…
No, Sweden is not a dictatorship – but isn’t that good, the Expressen editorial page?
I write this text knowing that it can have more unpleasant consequences than angry emails. It has brought us something, even the football team in a small Swedish community.
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