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2004-10-12 15:30 | User Profile
<b>By <a href="index.htm">Jared Taylor</a></b></p>
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<font color="#990000">[See<i> also:
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Swedenââ¬â¢s anti-hate speech laws have
run amok, leading to a very worrying series of
convictionsââ¬âand non-convictions. More categories of
people are entering the ranks of the <b>
<a href="http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=000a298a-sp00000000&sp-q=%22protected+classes%22&sp-p=all">
ââ¬Åprotected classesââ¬Â</a></b>ââ¬âand recent cases have made
it clear that these laws will not be enforced
even-handedly. </p>
No prize for guessing who is
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/roberts/rights.htm">
protected</a> and
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/pb/spiral_of_silence.htm">
who is not.</a></p>
Only one recent atrocity has made
the slightest ripple in the United States: the case of
Ake Green, pastor of a Pentecostal church in the east
coast town of Borghol. He was convicted in July of <b>
"hate speech"</b> against
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/francis/dirkhising_verdict.htm">
homosexuals</a>. His views were strongly and publicly
expressedââ¬â<i>in a sermon</i>. He preached that
homosexuality is
<a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39687">
<b>"abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of
society,"</b></a> and he supported this view with Bible
verses. </p>
Pastor Green was charged with <b>"<a href="http://www.vdare.com/francis/zeitgeist.htm">inciting
hatred,</a>"</b> and went on trial in June. He received
a sentence of one month, though he is still free pending
appeal. </p>
Public prosecutor Kjell Yngvesson
explained the conviction: </p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><b>"One
may have whatever
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/malkin/christian_soldier.htm">
religion</a> one wishes, but </b>[the sermon]<b> is an
attack on all fronts against homosexuals. Collecting
Bible </b>[verses]<b> on this topic as he does makes
this hate speech." [</b><i><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/132/12.0.html">No
Free Speech in Preaching</a></i>, <i>Christianity Today</i>,
August 9, 2004<b>]</b></p>
Swedenââ¬â¢s <b>"hate speech" </b>laws
were
<a href="http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/112002c.asp">
modified in 2002</a> to include, for the first time,
criminal sanctions against anyone who denounces
homosexuals. The law
<a href="http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2002/aug5/15.22.html">
explicitly included sermons</a> as speech subject to
prosecution. Ministers from denominations in Sweden and
abroad wrote in
<a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_hat8.htm">
opposition to the new law,</a> but were ignored. </p>
Now that collecting Bible verses
can officially be hate speech, can we
<a href="http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_09_21.shtml#1096312647">
expect</a> the Bible itself to be banned?</p>
Needless to say, Swedish laws
prohibiting <b>"hate speech" </b>against racial
minorities have been vigorously enforced. There have,
for example, been a number of
<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/2004/09/003269print.html">
gang-rapes of Swedish women by Muslim immigrants.</a>
But Swedes must be careful what they say about them. On
May 25, neo-Nazi
<a href="http://www.nsfront.info/txt/EplVVVFuVVfvyyKuye.shtml">
Bjorn Bjorkqvist </a>was convicted and sentenced to two
months in prison for writing,<b> "I donââ¬â¢t think I am
alone in feeling sick when reading about how Swedish
girls are raped by immigrant hordes." [</b><i>"Jag
tror inte jag är ensam om att mÃÂ¥ dÃÂ¥ligt när jag läser om
hur svenska tjejer har vÃÂ¥ldtagits av invandrarhorder"</i>]</p>
In another
<a href="http://www.amren.com/0312issue/0312issue.htm#cover">
recent case</a>, a man living in the Bunkeflo
neighborhood of Malmo sent an e-mail message to public
officials saying he believed most Arabs were criminals,
and that he opposed subsidies for them to move into his
neighborhood. <b>"Bunkeflo," </b>he wrote, <b>"was one
of the last few refuges in Malmo where you could go out
and not see
<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/003269.php">
Arabs loitering</a> all around you."</b> </p>
This man managed to avoid
prisonââ¬âbut had to pay a fine of 10 percent of his
pre-tax income. Given
<a href="http://www.libertyhaven.com/politicsandcurrentevents/healthcarewelfareorsocialsecurity/swedens.shtml">
Swedenââ¬â¢s high taxation rate</a>, this represented a
figure of close to 20 percent of his actual income.</p>
But the most spectacular case so
farââ¬âand one completely ignored by American mediaââ¬âis that
of Swedish feminist
<a href="http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?lang=Eng&id=2316&bhcp=1">
Joanna Rytel</a>. <font color="#990000">[<i>Send her</i></font><i><font color="#990000">
</font>
<b>
<a href="mailto:joanna.rytel@konstfack.se">
mail</a></b></i><font color="#990000"><b>.</b>]</font></p>
Earlier this year, she wrote an
article called<b> "I Will Never Give Birth to a White
Man," </b>for a major Swedish daily, <i>Aftonbladet</i>.
[<i><a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/debatt/story/0,2789,461311,00.html">Jag
tänker aldrig föda en vit man,</a></i> April 11, 2004]</p>
Rytel explained why she hates white
menââ¬âthey are selfish, exploitative, vain, and
sex-crazedââ¬âand just to make things clear, she added,<b>
"no white men, pleaseââ¬Â¦ I just puke on them, thank you
very much."</b>["<i>Dom
spyr jag bara pÃÂ¥, tack.</i>"] </p>
She wrote that other than the
womenââ¬â¢s restroom, she can find peace only in the
segregated women's prayer room in the
<a href="http://watch.windsofchange.net/themes_92.htm">
mosque</a> in
<a href="http://americanairlines.wcities.com/en/record/162,242378/98/index.html">
central Stockholm:</a> <b>"At least Muslim men donââ¬â¢t
mind that women have their own community in peace and
quiet." </b>She added that she might let a white man
follow her home, but only because <b>"I can have someone
to talk with all night long about my hatred towards
white men."</b></p>
Members of the Swedish National
Socialist Frontââ¬âan admittedly neo-Nazi groupââ¬â<a href="http://www.den-svenske.com/txt/EplkpuZFVybDApcaJk.shtml">called
the article</a> to the attention of the Stockholm
authorities. But they refused to indict Miss Rytel. In a
letter dated April 19, prosecutor Göran Lambertz
<a href="http://www.den-svenske.com/txt/EplFylZyuuAGhEJyJM.shtml">
explained why:</a> </p>
<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><b>"The
purpose behind the law against incitement of ethnic
hatred was to ensure legal protection for minority
groups of different compositions and followers of
different religions. Cases where people express
themselves in a critical or derogatory way about men of
ethnic Swedish background were not intended to be
included in this law. Because of that, the content in
this article cannot be considered incitement of ethnic
hatred." <font color="#990000">[VDARE.COM NOTE:
</font>
</b><i><font color="#990000">Compare U.S.
Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry's </font>
<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3478">
statement</a><font color="#990000"> that <b>"Civil
rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of
white men and do not apply to them."</b></font></i><font color="#990000"><b>]</b></font></p>
So now itââ¬â¢s official: Swedes can go
to jail if they say
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/mcconnell/mcconnell_barton.htm">
rude things</a> about the foreigners whom they have
generously allowed into their country. But foreigners
and anyone else may say whatever they like about Swedes.</p>
In the U.S., we are not in the same
boat as Swedenââ¬âyet. We do not yet have laws that
penalize expression of certain opinions. </p>
But we are unmistakably headed in
that direction. The federal government and several
states have passed <b>
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/francis/hate_not_reported.htm">
"bias crime"</a></b> laws that increase penalties if a
crime was motivated, even in part, by racism, hatred of
homosexuals, bias against the handicapped, etc. </p>
This is a first step towards laws
that ban certain kinds of speech itself, because it
means that certain thoughts and utterancesââ¬ânot actsââ¬âmake
some crimes more serious than others. </p>
Minority groups are pushing for
laws like those in Sweden (and
<a href="http://www.amren.com/0103issue/0103issue.htm#cover">
many other European countries</a>). So far, American
legislators have resisted these pressures, but probably
only because they fear such laws would be struck down on
First Amendment grounds. The general tenor of elite
opinion in this country about <b>"hate speech"</b> laws
is clear from the almost complete silence about events
in Sweden, and about European speech codes in general.
</p>
For example, there was
<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg071602.asp">
tremendous criticism of the French</a> because of their
unwillingness to go along with our invasion of Iraq. But
did anyone taking cheap shots at the French ever point
out that they donââ¬â¢t even have free speech? </p>
Even people who were straining for
any reason at all to hate the French, didnââ¬â¢t consider
their
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/gottfried/hysteria.htm">
draconian laws</a> against the expression of
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/misc/orland_silence.htm">
certain points</a> of view even worth mentioning.</p>
There is every reason to think our
rulers would be happy if they had the legal means to
shut down
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/">
VDARE.com</a>, and other web sites and
publications they find inconvenient. </p>
For now, the
<a href="http://www.vdare.com/francis/free_speech.htm">
Constitution</a> prevents this. But given the
<a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/printmc20030708.shtml">
creativity of the Supreme Court</a>, and the utter
indifference of our elites to <b>"thought crime" </b>
laws overseas, even the Constitution may some day fail
to protect us. </p>
<i>
<font color="#990000">Jared Taylor (</font><a href="mailto:amren@amren.com">email</a><font color="#990000">
him) is editor of </font>
<a href="http://amren.com/">
American Renaissance</a><font color="#990000">. He would like to thank an
anonymous Swedish collaborator for help in researching
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2004-10-12 19:52 | User Profile
All this oppression if white people, along with the insufficient birthrate, is the fruit of paganism. Do any of you pagan WNs have something to say?