| 00:00 | | I expect to be judged innocent on all counts. |
| 00:03 | | If I’m not, then I will appeal for sure.—We are at the trial of Åsa Westerberg, |
| 00:07 | | who is accused of ‘incitement to racial hatred’. |
| 00:10 | | It is claimed that Åsa wrote a series of posts criticizing Islam |
| 00:14 | | on a social media platform called Mewee. |
| 00:17 | | She is also accused of defaming the state-financed Internet Hate Inspector Tomas Åberg. |
| 00:24 | | Because of these accusations, the police brutally arrested her by breaking into her house, |
| 00:30 | | and abused her during the arrest. |
| 00:33 | | The police transported her to jail for interrogation, where she was kept in solitary confinement |
| 00:36 | | for several days, to force her to submit to a DNA test |
| 00:39 | | while threatening her with prolonged solitary confinement in prison. |
| 00:42 | | No technical evidence at all was presented at the trial, |
| 00:46 | | such as IP addresses or any such materials proving that it was Åsa who owned the profile accounts. |
| 00:50 | | The trial was in Södertörn’s county court in Stockholm on Dec 12, 2019. |
| 00:54 | | The verdict will be handed down on Dec 23. |
| 00:58 | | I’m here with Åsa Westerberg who has just came out of the trial. |
| 01:03 | | How do you feel? —It’s somewhat nice that it’s over, |
| 01:08 | | but I can’t stop feeling horribly irritated about having to be here at all. |
| 01:14 | | I’m now ‘biased’ after being accused of this thought crime, |
| 01:21 | | but I still think there are other subjects that are more important |
| 01:24 | | than investigating how people express their feelings on the internet. |
| 01:27 | | For example, solve bombing cases or rape cases. |
| 01:31 | | What I haven’t understood so far is the incrimination of “hate” crime. |
| 01:36 | | Hate is a feeling — do they mean that feelings are crime? |
| 01:42 | | It seems so! The only way I can understand it |
| 01:45 | | is that feelings and thoughts are forbidden in today’s Sweden. |
| 01:48 | | I had ironically the novel 1984, I pointed it out… |
| 01:54 | | I actually did read it, so it isn’t just an irony. |
| 01:57 | | I referred to it in order to remind them about the society |
| 02:01 | | that George Orwell described back in the 1940s, |
| 02:05 | | which depicts ‘crimes’ similar to those I am accused of today. |
| 02:09 | | It’s difficult to restrain feelings; you can’t cease hating what is wrong. |
| 02:15 | | You can’t allow yourself to have no feelings about animal abusers or rapists. |
| 02:22 | | It is absurd that hate would be a crime. |
| 02:26 | | It is stated in the law that this is a crime? |
| 02:30 | | Because it seems that these sorts of accusations |
| 02:34 | | and criminal suspicions appeared suddenly in the last few years. |
| 02:38 | | My lawyer and I looked for it, but we couldn’t find any text backing it up. |
| 02:44 | | The ‘incitement to racial hatred’ seems to be taking control over Sweden’s constitution. |
| 02:51 | | We had the fundamental law of freedom of expression, the strongest law in our constitution. |
| 02:58 | | But the ‘incitement to racial hatred’ law is incredibly ‘spongy’, |
| 03:02 | | because according to it, a racial group could be anything, even an ideology. |
| 03:07 | | So if I criticize the consequences of an ideology, |
| 03:14 | | or the people who promote applying it, such as Shariah law, it is criminalized in Sweden. |
| 03:19 | | I couldn’t find an explicit legal paragraph criminalizing it. |
| 03:22 | | But there are already others besides me who have been charged |
| 03:25 | | and sentenced for criticizing an ideology. |
| 03:28 | | There have been many accounts opened [on social media platforms] claiming to be you. |
| 03:32 | | It’s very easy nowadays for anyone to claim to be whatever person. |
| 03:37 | | Shouldn’t the judicial system prove that the person indeed owned the account and wrote the post? |
| 03:45 | | It should be that way! They should, beyond reasonable doubt, prove that I’m guilty, but in this case |
| 03:52 | | it seems that it’s my duty to prove, beyond all reasonable doubt, that I’m innocent. |
| 03:56 | | This reverses the burden of proof, which I personally |
| 03:59 | | think is wrong, and furthermore doesn’t preserve legal certainty. |
| 04:02 | | This kind of procedure could be implemented in more important cases or prioritized cases. |
| 04:10 | | But it seems that a thought “crime” — I don’t want to call it a crime — |
| 04:15 | | is the most prioritized crime in Sweden’s judicial systems today. |
| 04:19 | | But we do have freedom of opinions and thoughts in Sweden! |
| 04:23 | | I thought so! We have it on paper at least. |
| 04:26 | | I have read the ‘incitement to racial hatred’ law, |
| 04:31 | | It’s very undemocratic and a very vague and spongy formulation. |
| 04:34 | | It’s the number one real dictatorship law we have in Sweden, and it should be abolished immediately. |
| 04:42 | | Because everything it claims to protect against is already forbidden by law. |
| 04:46 | | It’s illegal to murder anybody regardless of their skin color or for any other reason. |
| 04:51 | | It’s illegal to punch anyone in the face. It’s illegal to call for murder |
| 04:55 | | or to encourage others to do so. All of these are already illegal. |
| 04:58 | | Therefore, it’s completely unnecessary. |
| 05:01 | | In addition, it is definitely unilateral! I have seen a massive amount of incitement |
| 05:05 | | and hatred from non-Swedes against ethnic Swedes in particular and whites in general. |
| 05:12 | | I have personally reported a couple of them, I mean the very gross and really serious ones. |
| 05:16 | | Those include “killing all Swedes”, “implementing Shariah law”, |
| 05:19 | | “Swedish whores will suck their c***s” and calls to kill us. |
| 05:25 | | It’s not only me, but many others who noticed such serious incitements |
| 05:30 | | and gross racist attacks against Swedes and reported them. |
| 05:36 | | But not even a single case has been prosecuted or even investigated. |
| 05:39 | | For example, recently the Nigerian in Skåne, Sweden, |
| 05:43 | | who created a Facebook group — or it was Instagram? — and named it: |
| 05:48 | | “All whites should be killed,” but that is legal and it can remain. |
| 05:51 | | That was his right to express his option to encourage the obliteration of all whites |
| 05:57 | | and encourage his black brothers and sisters to kill all whites. |
| 06:02 | | That is not considered to be criminal. But if I say, |
| 06:05 | | “I dislike this person,” not because of his skin color |
| 06:08 | | but because of what he says, that is criminal. |
| 06:11 | | Don’t such stands recognize differences among people? |
| 06:15 | | Because everyone should be of equal value before the law. |
| 06:18 | | It doesn’t seem to be like that nowadays. |
| 06:21 | | “All are equal” is just for some. |
| 06:24 | | Or we can say, “All are equal except for ethnic Swedes.” |
| 06:29 | | This is how I interpret it! Or at least, that’s how it is applied in reality. |
| 06:36 | | What is coming next? The verdict is on Dec 23. |
| 06:42 | | The verdict will be handed down on Dec 23 at 11:00am. |
| 06:45 | | I expect to be judged innocent on all counts. |
| 06:48 | | If I’m not, then I will appeal for sure. |
| 06:51 | | Because if I am judged guilty then we can |
| 06:55 | | officially document that democracy has died and been abolished in Sweden with viable evidence. |
| 07:01 | | Not even on paper anymore. |
| 07:05 | | Because if you pleaded guilty to expressing forbidden feelings |
| 07:08 | | and thoughts, regardless of who writes them, |
| 07:11 | | if criticism is forbidden, if it’s forbidden to criticize evil and nasty attacks, |
| 07:18 | | if it’s then forbidden to criticize burning children alive in cages |
| 07:22 | | and forbidden to criticize the marriage of 9-year-old children and raping them; |
| 07:26 | | if that is criminalized and draws a prison sentence, then all is lost! |
| 07:32 | | The society which is described in 1984 novel won’t be sufficient. |
| 07:35 | | Finally, I want to encourage everybody to continue to express their opinions |
| 07:39 | | and stand for what we know is right. |
| 07:42 | | Stand for our country and people, |
| 07:45 | | and stand for the real “everybody is equal” and everyone’s right to be valued equally. |
