From Eric Dondero:The Swedish Democrats have been gaining in recent polls. They could play a vital role if the election is tight, as is expected, between the Center Right and Center Left.
From the AP (Stockholm):
Jimmie Akesson is running for Parliament, preaching sharp cuts in immigration and calling Islam the greatest threat to Swedish society.Rightist, but Pro-Israel, and Pro-Tolerance
polls are predicting gains for Akesson's far-right Sweden Democrats that could give them a king-maker role in national elections this year if neither mainstream bloc wins an outright majority.
Opinion polls show the Sweden Democrats could get 4 to 6 percent of votes in the September election, enough to win 15-20 seats in the 349-member Riksdag and potentially throw Swedish politics into disarray.
Akesson (photo below) and his Party are routinely described as "Far Right." Ironically though, they are both Pro-Israel in foreign policy and on social matters for maintaining Sweden's tradition of free speech rights and sexual tolerance.
For example, the Democrats are the biggest defenders of Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who has been continually harassed, beaten and even had his house set on fire, over depictions of Muhammed.
Akesson also points to attacks against artist Lars Vilks, who drew the prophet Muhammad with a dog's body. Last month furious protesters chanting "God is Great" in Arabic disrupted Vilks' guest lecture at Uppsala University and vandals tossed firebombs at his home.Sweden has also been known to be a sexually permissive society. However, with the onslaught of Muslim immigrants, moral repression is beginning to be seen. Continuing:
What worries many Swedes is the clustering of immigrants in neighborhoods with nicknames such as "Little Baghdad." Few native Swedes ever set foot in these districts, viewing them as dangerous slums infested with criminal gangs and Islamic fundamentalists.Akkeson is staunchly anti-racist and has expelled members who show the slightest hint of bigotry:
In the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, aka "Little Mogadishu," a 20-year-old Somali woman in a black head scarf says: "Not even a non-Muslim dares to walk around with a short skirt in Rinkeby." She doesn't give her name for fear of neighbors' reaction.
Swedishness is not in your skin color or in any part of the body. It's in your values and how you behave," Akesson said.
In fact two leaders of the Democrats are the brothers Kent and Ted Ekeroth, (Ted is far right in the photo). The Ekeroths are Jewish. They are expected to hold seats in Parliament if the Democrats crack the 3% support threshold needed to be considered a major party. Mildly libertarian on economics
While generally free enterprise on economic stances, the Democrats are more pragmatic than libertarian. They support tax cuts, but also maintaining Sweden's extensive welfare state.
From The Local, Sweden's English News, June 1:
Sweden's small far-right Sweden Democrat (SD) party presented a shadow budget on Monday pledging lower taxes and higher benefits, to be financed by cutting international aid and refugee quotas.
The party said their first shadow budget would "re-establish Swedish welfare and at the same time lower taxes."
The budget "mainly involves reallocating the funds of the expensive immigration policy and ineffective development aid to necessary welfare and safety commitments, and raising direct assistance to real refugees in the world," it said.
The party proposed cutting the number of refugees allowed into Sweden, along with immigration by relatives of foreigners, by 90 percent.
It also called for slashing Sweden's direct development aid...
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"Jimmie Akesson is running for Parliament, preaching sharp cuts in immigration and calling Islam the greatest threat to Swedish society."
Who would have thought a Swede politician would have the cajones to tell it the way it is, rather than succumb to political correctness? But wait! What in hell is going on? Italians have their own TEA party, Germans want to cut back on the welfare state, Cameron warns of cuts in Britain and Sweden has school choice. http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/1096.html
In the 2006 election they got 2.9% of the vote and zero seats in Parliament. Don't make these guys sound like they have any real influence.
But Sweden is already ruled by a center-right government of four paries called the "Alliance for Sweden". If the Swedish Democrats do gain any seats they could join and influence the Alliance.
I think that's the point. They will move the Center Right to the tolerant anti-Islamo-Fascist Far Right.
In other words Sweden might just become a tad bit more libertarian.
We can only hope.
Thanks for posting this. We've been following Sweden's plight for several years now.
The problem for European countries is that damnable coalition arrangement of their legislatures. It makes change very, very difficult.
SD has fought against the odds (and the government) to establish a toehold and they've done remarkably well considering teh obstacles -- e.g., the post office refusing to handle their mail so they have to deliver information door-to-door. Or how about the attempt several years ago to disbar from all unions anyone who joined SD?
What is a hopeful sign is that this party is primarily (though not totally) ethnic Swedish male. It's the men who bring about change, even though in Sweden the women are largely in charge of many aspects of government.
Swedes holding Israeli flags make me sick.
Remember it was the Jews who murdered the Swedish peace mediator Folke Bernadotte.
When people come to your Country to improve their lives and make a contribution to the future of your Country they are called IMMIGRANTS. When people come into your Country and refudse to assimilate and demand to mainatin and promote teir own vaules and identity on you they are called INVADERS.Jimmie Akesson is correct end invasion now and evict invaders It is your sovereign right
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