May 15, 2013 - Migrant tales

Go GO PS MP Hirvisaari! Let all of your intolerance and racism hang out!

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Migrant Tales

We have written so much about the outbursts of far right Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP James Hirvisaari that it isn’t funny. One of his latest statements on Facebook, where he considers using the Swedish language in parliament as “ridiculous,” is not an attack on this language minority but serves to expose the intolerance and loathing that the PS has for minorities in Finland.

Every time a PS MP like Hirvisaari opens his mouth, he actually helps the PS lose its appeal among voters and what’s most important its chances of being a partner in a future government.

We hope that Hirvisaari, who was sentenced for ethnic agitation in 2011, continuous to stoop to ever-lower levels so that voters in his home municipality of Asikkala will give him the thumbs down in 2015.

A party that accepts politicians like Hirvisaari and a too long list of others like him doesn’t belong in parliament unless our aim is to send Finland back to the political dark ages when scapegoats and political witch hunts were the rule.

PS MP James Hirvisaari claims that speaking Swedish, Finland’s second official language, in parliament is “arrogant snobbery” and a waste of time. Thank you @DrMKuismaa.

Councilman Mika Hiltunen gets sentenced for ethnic agitation but gets pat on the back by the PS

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Migrant Tales

After Perussuomalaiset (PS) party Kontiolahti town councilman Mika Hiltunen was sentenced Tuesday by a court for ethnic agitation, we saw once again a familiar balancing by the PS: stating to moderates it doesn’t accept racism but at the same time assuring the extreme right that the party accepts racist outbursts by its members.

We have seen this time and again. The PS and Timo Soini, who said in 2009 that any party member who got sentenced for ethnic agitation would be sacked from the party, are political Houdinis. How can you be against racism and support it at the same time? That takes special politcial skills and a public that is by and large pretty ignorant of what racism is.

It’s too early still for the PS to count it’s promising political chicks. Soini and the party leaders know that its double talk and political chicanery on intolerance could backfire badly.

Let’s see how the latest balancing act by the PS works. In order to stand out and award the extremist and racist voters of the party, councilman Hiltunen claims on his Facebook page that asylum seekers and refugees are “social-welfare bums and rapists.”

Ethnic agitation charges are then brought against Hiltrunen and gets sentenced by a court in May He is forced to pay a 2,000-euro fine.

Now here’s how the balancing act happens: Eero Bogdanoff, PS North-Karelian region chairman, publicly defends what Hiltunen said by asking him to not resign as member of the PS’ regional board and continue as if nothing happened. Well, as almost as if nothing happened…

“Hiltunen has mend his ways pretty well,” Bogadanoff is quoted as saying on YLE. “The publicity he got is punishment in itself.”

What would have happen to Hiltunen if he made such racist public comments and lived in a country like Sweden or Britain? There are two options: He’d be either sacked from the party or forced to give an apology for what he said.

He or the PS did neither.

Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott ?????

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Dana

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Land of hurt or Finland Finland, yes, a land of sin

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Record number of immigrants become Finnish citizens in 2012

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Migrant Tales

A record number of immigrants got Finnish citizen in 2012, rising by 4,530 to 9,090 persons, according to Statistics Finland. The lion’s share of these naturalized Finns were Russians (2,480) followed by Somalis (610), Estonians (520) and Afghanis. While citizenship grants many rights to an immigrant, it does not mean that the person will be accepted and treated as an equal member of Finnish society.

Source: Statistics Finland

Citizenship granted to foreign nationals 2011-06. Source: Statistics Finland

Statistics Finland reported that 7,990 (+4,160 versus 2011) of the persons granted citizenship were from outside the EU versus 1,100 (+370) who were from EU countries.

While Finnish women were the first in Europe to get the right to vote in 1906, they had to wait till 1984 to have the same rights as men to grant automatic citizenship to their children.

Finnish citizenship is not determined by place of birth (jus solis) but by the citizenship of their parents (jus sanguinis).

A citizenship test in the late-1980s included an interview with the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo).

Even if my mother is a Finnish citizen, the first question the Supo agent asked me was why I seek Finnish citizenship.

“It’s my right,” I answered.