Perussuomnalaiset (PS)* MP Ano Turtiainen [1], who was expelled from the parliamentary group Thursday, but could rejoin the group after the end of the year if he had changed his racist ways.
To this offer, Turtiainen gave a redundant no.
“I am not going to request joining [the parliamentary group] again, but they can come to ask me with cap in hand,” he was quoted as saying in Yle.
Turtianen admitted that the racist tweet about George Floyd was a mistake and placed the blame on people who don’t understand “dark humor.”
“Dark humor?” Since when did Turtiainen start a new career as a comedian?
Turtiainen said that he was planning to create a one-man party in parliament and was unsure if he’d take part in the municipal elections of Juva next year.
US-based Elitelts announced Friday that it is ending its business relationship with Ano Turtiainen’s company, Metal Sport & Gear. Source: Facebook.
Considering Turtiainen’s racist and offensive style, few will miss him and hope that he will only serve one term as MP.
Turtianen was elected in 2019 to parliament with 3,264 votes.
In a Yle election compass, Turtiainen’s view on immigration should not come to any surprise.
In one recent 2:36-minute monologue, which was taken down, Peltokangas used the following swear words every 20 seconds:
Shit (paska): 2 times
Fucked (perseestä): 2 times
What the hell, hell (mitä helevetti, helevetti): 2
The devil (perkele): 2
A Peltokangas monologue is like watching Benito Mussolini speaking from a balcony.
There are differences, however. One speaks Finnish and the other Italian; one wears glasses on his forehead while the other one does not wear glasses; one was in politics from the 1920s until he was hung lifeless by the feet in Milan in 1945, while the other one is building a political career today.
Check out the two videos and their loud-mouthed crude populist pomposity below and tell me if Peltokangas and Mussolini aren’t two peas in a pod.
For some strange reason, the video below where Peltokangas rants like Mussolini was taken down.
Since the PS are in government, they have been trying to clean up their acts. This involved whitewashing their racist rants.
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* parliamentary group unanimously expelled Thursday MP Ano Turtiainen [1] until the end of the year for posting a racist tweet about the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
“The suspension is permanent,” PS parliamentary group leader Ville Tavio was quoted as saying in Yle. “We had a discussion that if he wanted, Turtiainen could apply for membership in the [parliamentary] group after the end of the year if he’s corrected his behavior for good.”
Turtainen’s Facebook page is strangely quiet and makes no mention about the suspension. Source: Facebook.
Why wasn’t Turtiainen sacked permanently from the party? Because he wasn’t, it is difficult to assess if the outrage of the PS is genuine or just a publicity stunt.
I suspect the PS parliamentary group to be disingenuous. No matter how racist your ideas are, you will always find a home in the PS even after you’ve been expelled.
Apart from placing George Floyd’s purple-colored face on the pavement before he was killed with the words “Pink Floyd,” it is the comment the former PS MP made that was equally disturbing.
In the racist tweet, which he took down Wednesday, claimed that as blacks get more rights, the more unruly they become and the more difficult it is to put them in their places.
Turtainen did not offer any apologies to George Floyd’s family, #BlackLivesMatter, Finnish people of color and people of African decent, but stated that he took down the tweet because it harmed the party.
[1] ”Ano” is a real name in Finland. The equivalent name for women is Anna. The translation of “ano” in Spanish is the anus.
Migrants search for hope. Their searching offer us hope.
Fourteen-year-old Ilayta’s family history and her drawings offer a glimpse of what hope is. They were searching for five years for a new home in Greece, and four years in Finland finally paid off in July 2019, when they were given a residence permit in Finland.
Uncertainty and deportationalways fiollowed them during those years like a shadow.
A long and grueling nine-year journey for Ilayta and her family that came to a happy ending in July 2019. From left to right: Sabah, Donya, and Ilayta.
Migrant Tales wrote about Ilayta and her family in January 2019.
“Their daughter [then] 13 years old and she speaks at least five languages. Since she is the only one who can speak Finnish, she not only interprets language but the family’s anxiety and fear.”
Despite that difficult phase of their lives, Ilayta draws a picture of a bird below to symbolize their new beginning in Finland.
“I drew a bird because it expresses freedom,” she said. “As asylum seekers, we weren’t free because everyone told us what to do. Now we are free [to get on with our lives].”
“Lintu on vappa ja se lentää niin kin muutkin linnut taivassa.” Translation: “The bird is free and its flies like other birds in the sky.” Drawing by Ilayta S.
“I want to become a language teacher and teach you people,” she said.
Ilayta speaks Turkmen, Finnish,, Greek, English, Finnish, and a little Swedish which she has learned at school.
“Speaking a language is important,” she continued. “Speaking five languages is like being five persons. Problems can be solved more easily because each langague offers a different perspetive.”
“Voi olla hyvää jos noi ulkomaalaiset ei olisi täällä! Älä arvostele toisi niiten ulkonään perusteella, et voi ikinä tiedää ne on kokenut!” Translation: “It may be a good matter if those foreigners weren’t here. Don’ judge others based on their appearance since you can never know what they have gone through!
We wish Ilayta and her family the best and how to write more stories about their lives in Finland.
Poor timing by Ano Turtiainen? Today, people in Helsinki demonstrated in solidarity with George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter, according to Yle News. At the same time, Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Ano Turtianen mocks at the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
Today’s demonstration to show support for George Floyd was a great show of solidarity by the people of Helsinki. What didn’t sit well now or ever a racist horse’s ass tweet by PS MP Turtainen denigrating George Floyd’s memory.
Demonstrators show their support for George Floyd and against police brutality at Helsinki’s Senate Square this afternoon. Source: Twitter
Turtiainen’s “joke?” It was apparently George Floyd’s wide-eyed face full of terror colored purple with the name of the 1960s rock band “Pink Floyd.”
Cruel, racist, and unbecoming of an MP but that’s not all he tweets. Turtainen stated that as black people get more rights, they become more unruly. He suggested that going back to Jim Crow and slavery would be an effective way of keeping blacks in line.
People should organize to do everything possible that MPs like Turtiainen don’t get reelected in 2023.
Meanwhile, PS parliamentary group leader Ville Tavio told Iltalehti that Turtiainen would face disciplinary action for the tweet.
Disciplinary action?! Why not sack him from the party?
Turtiainen’s latest tweet is really from the “ano,” or anus in Spanish. He tweeted a picture of George Floyd’s face on the ground as police officer Derek Chauvin kneels on his neck.
The tweet is not only a slap in the face of George Floyd and to all the suffering black people are experiencing, it is also a swipe at Finland black community.
The “joke?” George Floyd’s wide-eyed face full of terror colored purple with the name of the 1960s rock band “Pink Floyd.”
Cruel, racist, and unbecoming of an MP but that’s not all he tweets. Turtainen stated that as black people get more rights, they become more unruly. He suggested that slavery would be an effective way of keeping blacks in line.
George Floyd and Turtiainen’s racist humor. In the tweet, he states that as blacks get more rights the more difficult they become.
As a matter of policy, Migrant Tales no longer publishes racist pictures by racist politicians.
MP Turtiainen is a meber of Finland’s biggest opposition party.
Thank you Reija Härkönen for the heads-up!
[1] ”Ano” is a real name in Finland. The equivalent name for women is Anna. The translation of “ano” in Spanish is the anus.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky
US President Donald Trump has threatened to employ the army to end nationwide riots that have engulfed his administration and the nation, The Guardianreports.
“Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the national guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets,” Trump said. “Mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming presence until the violence is quelled.
And adds: “If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.”
Trump’s promise to quell the riots with military might is the same law-and-order tactic that dictatorships use to justify their power.
The eroding of civil rights, social and economic inequality, which have been crudely exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the lynching of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, are just chickens coming home to roost in USAmerica.
The social and moral implosion we are witnessing in the US is not Trump’s fault since he is only one of its symptoms. Dr. Cornel West said, “We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.”
In Latin America, as in other parts of the world, the United States was and is directly responsible for waging wars and installing dictatorships that would care less about the rule of law and human rights.
Wasn’t the United States the first country in the world to use nuclear weapons against humans? Let’s not forget the horrendous crimes committed against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
USAmerican exceptionalism is at fault and plays a prominent role. Waging war throughout the world and being directly responsible for the deaths of millions of people means that your hands will become drenched with blood.
The lies perpetrated by USAmerican exceptionalism may help us to become partially color blind and not see dripping red blood from our hands, but the injustices are there socially camouflaged. Like Trump’s battle cry, it is only a distraction; police brutality, social inequality, among many other issues, are still real and unresolved.
In Argentina, where the military restored “law and order” with the help of a dictatorship (1976-83), there was peace because everyone was terrified. There was silence too, but it was an eerie one, resembling that of a cemetery.
After the military coup of 1976, which overthrew a democratically elected government, walls were whitewashed and an eerie cemetery-like silence overtook Buenos Aires’s residential streets. Photo: Enrique Tessieri.
If USAmerica looked at itself in the mirror, it would see itself as a broken system combing its soul with the brush of self-deceit.
