17-08-2012, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-08-2012, 06:07 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Sweden isn't what it used to be but no one has told the Swedes yet. The media there is very anti Assange and anti Wikileaks. And very supportive of the women. I have been having a long drawn out discussion tonight with a Swede and he just refuses to accept Assange is any thing other than a rapist and cannot understand why we allow these women to be abused. Assange has his supporters there even amongst the feminists but it is a minority and for some reason it is mostly non native born Swedes which are able to see the other side to this story that is not being talked about in the Swedish media.
I am NOT Swedish, but I DID live in Stockholm, and was very involved with the political and social milleau in Sweden for many years...so I think I can speak with some authority [with deference, naturally, to the Swedes, themselves]. Sverige [Sweden] I once knew has changed - for the worse, and toward the Far Reich kind of thinking in many ways - [not all], IMHO. The extremely high standard of living for most native Swedes [though not all, by all means] is a part of this, as is the MSM, there, as well as the military/police which once under the umbrella/comraderee of the Reich [during WW2] are 'enchanted' with NATO now [nice to be cozy with who the Oligarchy among the Swedes think will be the 'winners', isnt' it?].
Yes, only the MOST progressive Swedes are aware of the issues afoot here, let alone the political import and machinations. Most Swedes have yet to ask who killed three of their political leaders [after the war, and one =Wallenburg= at the end of WW2], let alone be concerned with the real politike of the Assange affaire. Affluence and other factors have IMO caused them to look away....lest they see bad tnings in the 'mirror' and have to deal with reality...although they are NOT alone in this idle.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass

