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[From article]
Many Swedes feel that their sense of home is deteriorating because of the rise in crime, vandalism, and homelessness, and the loss of public space: parks, libraries, and other public institutions are increasingly used as places of shelter.
The tragedy is that this state of affairs has been tolerated and in fact encouraged by most politicians and opinion makers across the political spectrum.
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Sharing this worldview, Swedish political elites are reluctant to vacate the shantytowns and discourage begging. Instead, they pledge additional public resources that will serve only to enable the begging behavior and ensure that the problem continues to grow, to the real detriment of the social fabric. Even Sweden’s largest center-right party recently announced that it supported criminalizing “organizers” of begging but keeping the act itself legal. Sweden shows every sign of repeating the destructive story of many American cities a generation ago, as Myron Magnet chronicled in his 1993 book, The Dream and the Nightmare: in which elites churn out the dreams, but society pays the cost.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0528jw.html
JOHAN WENNSTRÖM
Shantytown Sweden
The welfare-state country finds itself engulfed by international beggars.
May 28, 2015
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[From article] Stockholm University exchange students have been told to leave their accommodation immediately after a community of travellers set up an illegal camp nearby, raising concerns for the students’ safety.
[. . .]
“We would like everyone to move out today. We cannot guarantee the security for students over the weekend anymore.”
The move was sparked by a community of what Revolta estimates to be 50 families living in caravans in a nearby car park. The families have got out of hand in recent weeks, according to Revolta, who said that some of his classmates had nearly been run over by the community’s vehicles. Some students, including himself, have even been threatened by the families.
http://www.dailystormer.com/sweden-students-evacuated-from-university-to-make-room-for-roma-shanty-town/
Sweden: Students Evacuated From University to Make Room for Roma Shanty Town
The Local
April 1, 2014
The tragedy is that this state of affairs has been tolerated and in fact encouraged by most politicians and opinion makers across the political spectrum.
[. . .]
Sharing this worldview, Swedish political elites are reluctant to vacate the shantytowns and discourage begging. Instead, they pledge additional public resources that will serve only to enable the begging behavior and ensure that the problem continues to grow, to the real detriment of the social fabric. Even Sweden’s largest center-right party recently announced that it supported criminalizing “organizers” of begging but keeping the act itself legal. Sweden shows every sign of repeating the destructive story of many American cities a generation ago, as Myron Magnet chronicled in his 1993 book, The Dream and the Nightmare: in which elites churn out the dreams, but society pays the cost.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0528jw.html
JOHAN WENNSTRÖM
Shantytown Sweden
The welfare-state country finds itself engulfed by international beggars.
May 28, 2015
* * *
[From article] Stockholm University exchange students have been told to leave their accommodation immediately after a community of travellers set up an illegal camp nearby, raising concerns for the students’ safety.
[. . .]
“We would like everyone to move out today. We cannot guarantee the security for students over the weekend anymore.”
The move was sparked by a community of what Revolta estimates to be 50 families living in caravans in a nearby car park. The families have got out of hand in recent weeks, according to Revolta, who said that some of his classmates had nearly been run over by the community’s vehicles. Some students, including himself, have even been threatened by the families.
http://www.dailystormer.com/sweden-students-evacuated-from-university-to-make-room-for-roma-shanty-town/
Sweden: Students Evacuated From University to Make Room for Roma Shanty Town
The Local
April 1, 2014
