Steve, your happy news about Scandinavia is out of date.
Socialism can only work under very limited conditions, where people have a family feeling towards each other and a good work ethic so the able-bodied won't coast on welfare (even under these conditions, it's full of unintended consequences). These conditions are very hard to maintain and are failing fast.
Have you read any reports out of the Swedish city of Malmo recently? It's a quarter Muslim and they are cancelling bus service to certain areas because the buses are attacked.
October 28, 2004
Fox News on Malmo, Sweden
Ali Dashti has been kindly supplying us with information about the situation in Sweden for some time. Now the larger -- if not mainstream -- media is catching on. From a FoxNews commentary:
Now in Malmo, Sweden, a city where a quarter of the population is Muslim, there are some parts of the city where buses refuse to go for fear of safety. Fireman, policemen, and ambulance drivers have been attacked in certain sections when trying to do their job. Swedes, though, are not an easy soundbite, perhaps because they are so thoughtful. They try to see things from every side. We went out with a policeman on patrol and spoke to him while he was walking around in the dangerous part of town. At one point I stopped him and said, "How does it feel to you, personally, when you come here trying to do your job, trying to help someone, and people throw rocks at you?" His response was that it was "a little annoying." Annoying. I imagined what kind of a colorful response I could have gotten from a New York policeman.
Posted by Robert at October 28, 2004 5:02 AM
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Here is more about Sweden. All following translations are shortened summaries and extracts:
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“A ghetto is about to be created in Sweden”
Stockholm politician Annika Billström warns against the dangers of creating ghettos in Sweden. Rock throwing and attacks against buses and trains are increasing problems in some suburbs. In Malmø the bus lines in the area of Rosengård have been cancelled. In Stockholm, the authorities went even further and stopped both the bus traffic in the Tensta suburb and the train to Nynäshamn. Head of the bus company in the city of Uppsala, Claes-Göran Alm, is considering doing the same, as the harassment is costing too much money and is putting their employees at risk.
Billström has created a group to talk to the locals and ask them why they cause all this trouble: ”Why do you do this? Why do you throw stones? Or why do you shoot against buses?”
sr.se
“Society cannot let the ghetto down”
Not only buses or trains are hit by vandalism and sabotage in the major cities. Benny Persson is selling window glass in the areas south of Stockholm. According to him, they sometimes have to jump into the car and leave the spot, as they are met with the harassment that some of the bus companies in the suburbs are experiencing: Stone throwing and threats. The same thing is reported from Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. The company Hemglass are now attempting to run double crews in their cars to face the problems, but they still have had to completely abandon an area outside Södertälje. After the recent focus on sabotage and attacks against public traffic in major cities, leading Stockholm politician Annika Billström has warned that ghettos are forming in Sweden, and that society cannot let these ghettos down.
There are other warning signs than just bus lines suspended because of rock throwing. If you get stuck in an elevator outside Stockholm, you risk staying there for a long time. The repair personnel now demand security guards present when they arrive, since several of their employees have been physically attacked. If you call for a taxi from certain regions in Södertälje, you may never see it, as the drivers themselves call back to check if they dare pick up the passenger. The most serious problem, however, is the delay of ambulances and the fire department. According to the Emergency Central, attacks against them have become commonplace in the major cities. Every Saturday, at least five to ten times emergency personnel are asking for police escort to be able to do their job.
sr.se
”Segregation continues, in spite of billions”
The segregation in the worst hit areas of Sweden has not been broken, despite many attempts. This is among other things due to the fact that immigrants who get established in Swedish society leave the suburbs, and are replaced by new immigrants. This according to a new study that has followed about 270 000 persons that have lived in 20 of the worst hit areas of the Stockholm region. Researchers Roger Andersson and Åsa Bråmå have followed all the 270 000 persons during the 1990s. These areas have received billions from different funds designed to prevent segregation. But the percentage of persons with non-Swedish ethnic background has increased from 57 to 73 during this period. 50-60 percent of those who move out of these areas have jobs, while only 10-30 percent of those who move in are employed.
One of the families that have chosen to leave is the Saganda family. They have left Hjulsta, densely populated by immigrants, because there were too few Swedes. “When we got kids, we wanted to move away from there. We wanted our children to grow up in an area where you could also see Swedes. We figured that if you don’t see Swedes, you don’t live in Sweden”.
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