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Finland’s shameful “let them die” MEPs: Mika Aaltonen, Pekka Toveri, Henna Virkkunen, Sebastian Tynkkynen and Katri Kulmuni

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In the 2019 European Parliament election, Henna Virkkunen of the National Coalition Party agreed that the EU was not obligated to save people from drowning in the Mediterranean. She was in good company with the likes of Perussuomalaiset MEPs Laura Huhtasaari and Teuvo Hakkarainen.

Virkkunen reasoned that we should stop traffickers, even if it means allowing people to drown and die at sea.

After five years of being in the EU parliament, she still believes that people should die after being pushed back at the border.

Question 11 of Yle’s election compass: “A person trying to reach Europe can be turned back at the border, even if it would put their life in danger.”

Source: AP

The good news is that only five of Finland’s 15 MEPs would care less id people died trying to cross the border. These are three from the National Coalition Party (NCP), one Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, and one from the Center Party, which has a wishy-washy track record on immigration.

The Center Party MEP and then finance minister, Katri Kulmuni, posted in 2019 an Internet poll asking if repatriating “[Finnish] children only” or “children and [Finnish] mothers” from the al-Hol camp in Syria.

Tynkkynen, who was convicted three times for ethnic agitation, likes to give the image of a “tolerant” politician since he is gay and married to an African. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The last two, Mika Aaltola and Pekka Toveri, are fuelled by bravado and opportunism.

Aaltola is a media creation and Toveri is a general who likes to talk tough.

Anti-racism cooking with Yahya Rouissi

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How to make a zero-tolerance winter recipe for boiled rocks in a pot, spreading fear and throwing the elderly, disabled, and low-income people into the woods.

  • Get fresh carefully planted governmental hate seeds and a handful of conspiracy-based theories.
  • Add to them as many social media posts and photos encouraging discrimination based on racial, ethnic, and religious background.
  • RWell grounded in your portfolio, a deep-rooted pinch of racial superiority to attract as many voters as possible.
  • Once it is ready, it doesn’t take long to cook, do not worry if you get far-right terrorism and racist crimes – it’s only collateral damage.
  • The recipe and prize for ‘Her Blue Eyes’ is a stench strong enough to cover up unfulfilled yellow promises of the Perussuomalaiset.*
  • Enough to cover up the unfulfilled yellow promises of Blonde Edward Scissorhands’ parody and the incompetence  (didn’t do, can’t be blamed) of Mr. Blue, Blue Blue (code name 00 Zero tolerance).
  • If this recipe is done properly, it can affect your appetite to ask for more. For example, you can blame the victims, not directly of course, but by using them all in the same pot to promote ethnic profiling, body searches, and more (the thing with the badger symbolism-doctrine or way of being).
  • A naïve person’s question: Would Timo Vornanen be stopped, searched, or even suspected?
  • Would the 15-year-old suspect of the second Oulu stabbing at te Valkea shopping center be suspected?
  • Would Juhani Sebastian Lämsä , who was involved in the activities of the banned Nordic Resistance Movement, stab a 12-year-old child with a foreign background in almost the same place.

The “meal” is ready.

The elephant in the racist room is the Perusuomalaiset and the government

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If the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a far-right party, is it correct to say that the National Coalition Party a radical-right party?

After the second stabbing in a week in Oulu, politicians are sending their condolesneces. The question we should be looking at is the level of disingenuity. Parties like the PS and politicians like Interioir Minister Mari Rantanen and Finance minister Riikka Purra are to blame.

President Alexander Stubb, who has been quite after the first stabbing, is now quoted by Yle as saying the second stabbing is “perhaps” a wakeup call for Finland.

It IS a long overdue wake up call! Wake up Stubb!

Rantanen, who based her campaign on racist and far-right conspiracy theories, was quoted as saying in an Helsingin Sanomat interview that there is no connection between the stabbings in Oulu and the government’s migration policy and debate of the issue.

One of Rantanen’s racist soundbite “hits:” “We must not be so blue-eyed that soon we will not be blue-eyed.” In Finnish, sinisilmäinen, or blue-eyed, means being naive. Source: Facebook

“I don’t see any connection between the stabbings in Oulu and immigration policy and talking about it,” she said, adding that her infamous statement about blue eyes was not racist.

“I don’t think I have spread racist thinking in Finland.,” continued Rantanen. “And what does that have to do with this stabbing in Oulu?”

And then there was Purra, who blamed the first stabbing on youth gangs comprising of brown and black members. She was later forced to eat her words.

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Länsi-Savo: Kansainvälistyminen edellyttää osaamista moninaisuudesta

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Kansainvälistyminen on mahdollisuus. Näin kuvasi myös Mikkelin kaupunginjohtaja Janne Kinnunen Länsi-Savon haastattelussa 9.6. Etelä-Savon ja Mikkelin väestökehityksen näkökulmasta se on jopa välttämättömyys.

Väestön väistämättä ikääntyessä ja vähetessä kohtaamme merkittäviä haasteita erityisesti työvoiman saatavuudessa. Tarvitsemme uusia asukkaita, sekä edellytyksiä yrityksille ottaa vastaan työvoimaa myös Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelta.

Suomalainen yhteiskunta on aina ollut monimuotoinen, ja ihmiset edustavat erilaisia kulttuurisia, uskonnollisia ja kansallisia taustoja. Väestötietojen perusteella kuitenkin Mikkeli ja Etelä-Savo jäävät moninaisuudessa jälkeen muista Suomen kaupungeista ja maakunnista.

Tilastokeskuksen mukaan, vuonna 2023 Mikkelissä muuta kieltä kuin suomea ja ruotsia puhuvien osuus väestöstä oli 5,4 prosenttia. Vertailun vuoksi Helsingissä vastaava luku oli 19,5, Tampereella 10,4, Lappeenrannassa 9,9 ja Jyväskylässä 6,8 prosenttia. Vaikka Mikkelin vieraskielinen väestö on kasvanut 20 vuodessa, ja on nyt 2 810 asukasta, on kasvu ollut vaatimatonta.

On hyvä tunnistaa, että moninaisuus on hyvän työyhteisön ja elinympäristön ominaisuus. Työelämän monimuotoisuuden, tasa-arvon ja yhdenvertaisuuden edistämisellä on suuri merkitys Suomeen muuttaneiden työllistymiselle ja onnistuneelle kotoutumiselle.

Yhdenvertaisessa yhteiskunnassa eri väestöryhmät ovat edustettuina ja osallisina eri organisaatioissa ja työtehtävissä. Moninaisuusosaamistaan voi lisätä koulutuksen avulla ja sitä ansiokkaasti tarjoavat monet tahot, kuten THL, opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö, European Network Against Racism ja CEJI. Koulutus auttaa tunnistamaan syrjinnän muotoja ja antaa keinoja niiden purkamiseen.

Poliittinen tahtotila yhdenvertaisuuteen ja syrjimättömyyteen Suomessa on olemassa, esimerkiksi perustuslain ja yhdenvertaisuuslain muodossa, mutta laki yksistään ei riitä, ellei se toteudu arjessa ja kunnissa eri puolella Suomea. Siksi moninaisuuden ja sosiaalisesti kestävän kehityksen vahvistaminen on aloitettava nyt.

Kaupunki voi toimia esimerkkinä moninaisuusosaamisen edistämisessä kouluttamalla oman henkilöstönsä ja päättäjät vahvistamaan monimuotoisuutta edistäviä rakenteita, jotta Mikkeli on entistä parempi paikka kansainvälisten osaajien työllistyä ja juurtua.

Jatta Juhola ja Enrique Tessieri

Juhola on kaupunginvaltuutettu ja kaupunginhallituksen jäsen (sd.), Tessieri on varavaltuutettu (sd.).

Lue alkuperäinen kirjoitus tässä.

Mari Rantanen has no credibility and should resign – her racist posts reveal who she is

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In the face of the far right in government, the only thing that Prime Minister Petteri Orpo can parrot is that we have a good government program.

The recent MEP election revealed how little credibility Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government has. The Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, suffered a stinging blow. The National Coalition Party (NCP) was spared by the good showing of three candidates, Mika Aaltola, Pekka Toveri, and Henna Virkkunen.

The election changed a lot of matters. For one, did it weaken the support of the pushback law getting the needed two-thirds majority? Has the PS’ stint in Orpo’s government shortened? Did the poor showing of the PS embolden some MPs not to give their vote of confidence Tuesday to PS Minister of Economic Affairs Wille Rydman?

Two stories with legal experts, university professors and other social influencers speaking out against the pushback law drafted by the government in Helsingin Sanomat and Yle.

The  Draft Act on Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration, or pushback law is now at the constitutional committee. I am certain that its chairperson, Heikki Vestman of the NCP, would not think twice at throwing Finland’s Human Rights, international agreements and constitution under the bus. He does so because he falsely believes he’ll never become a refugee.

Moreover, and taking a look at other EU borders, it’s clear that in Finland will see violence, suffering, and death.

If we look at the brainchild and cheerleader of the pushback law, Interior Minister Mari Rantanen and the PS with the support of the NCP, we only have to look at her social media history to conclude that she is the last person we should be listening to.

Looking at Rantanen’s and the PS’ racist history can be found in social media. It is there, trying to desperately hide from the public’s view.

Below, are some of Minister Rantanen’s most racist and infamous quotes:

Just before the MEP election on 9 June, the PS reached up the fear-mongering of asylum seekers in its campaign brochure by picturing them as hoards.

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There is a connection between far-right conspiracy theories and violence

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After Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Finance Minister Riikka Purra was forced to eat her words after falsely claiming that the stabbing of a 12-year-old in Oulu was the work of youth gangs, few if any analysis is being made about the government’s hard-right immigration policy and its spread of conspiracy theories like the great replacement.

In racist code, “youth gangs” means non-white youths.

A twelve-year old boy, “who is a Finnish citizen but with a foreign background, was stabbed in Oulu Thursday. Source: Yle.

Fiancne Minister Purra and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen disguise far-right conspiracy theories like the great replacement as “statistics.” The most recent example was a talk a little over a week by Purra and Rantanen.

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Riikka Purra and the PS are desperate for “news”

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Migrant Tales has published many stories exposing how parties like the Perussuomlaiset (PS)* use migrant crime to attract support and votes. Finance Minister and PS Chairperson Riikka Purra jumped the gun Thursday by blaming a terrible stabbing in Oulu on “youth gangs.”

“Youth gangs” is code for black and brown youths.

Masters at making storms in tea cups, especially when it involves migrants and asylum seekers, Purra wishes in the first tweet a speedy recovery to the victim. In the second tweet, where she is forced to eat her words, Purra does not even wish a recovery apparently because the victim is a so-called “person with a migrant background.”

On Thursday, Purra tweeted (formerly Twitter):

“In broad daylight, in the middle of a shopping center, a young man is stabbed. I hope the victim survives. With street crime, gangs, etc., we are unfortunately following the same trend as in other [European] countries. The government is working, but it’s horrible, what have we arrived to in this country!”

On Friday, Purra was forced to eat her words.

Note that in the first tweet she blames “youth gangs” at the top but mentioned the suspect’s far-right ties at the end of the second tweet.

“Extremism, drugs, robberies, gangs – the problems are growing. We must take the deterioration in security seriously, increase penalties, and stop shying away from all kinds of violence. The victim in Oulu is 12 years old, the perpetrator has a background in the far-right movement, according to the police.”

These two tweets demonstrate how desperate the PS is after its stinging election defeat on Sunday.

The Perussuomalaiset’s political Stalingrad

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I still remember clearly the 2011 general election when the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party saw the number of MPs surge to 39 from 5 previously. Some thought that the PS would implode as the Rural Party did in 1972.

It took over 13 years for the PS to suffer its worst election loss in the European parliamentary election, when it saw its support dive from 13.8% in 2019 with three MEPs to 7.6% to one MEP.

The shock of the MEP election result was written all over Riikka Purra’s and PS secretary Harri Vuorenpää’s faces. Source: Iltalehti.

Before the election and if opinion polls are to be believed, PS chairperson and Finance Minister Riikka Purra thought that the party would end up in third place with three MEPs.

The secret to the PS’ success would be its favorite scapegoat: migration. Purra and her party poured it on before the election by villifying migrants and supporting a Rwanda model to send asylum seekers to Africa.

Four days before the election, Interioir Minister Mari Rantanen and Riikka Purra hosted a talk about how migration means trouble for society. It was an opportunity to step up on the xenophobia gas pedal and spread the conspiracy theories like the great replacement.

Interioir Minister Mari Rantanen, copies Nigel Farage and depicts migrants as “swarms.” Source: Perusuomalainen

Two critical questions emerge after the MEP election:
– Was it a knock-out blow that will send the PS flying back to the minor single-digit political leagues?
– With growing dissent against Purra and her party’s austerity policies, will it force the party to split like in 2017?

If the political price that the PS will pay for its defeat on Sunday was a massive political blow, it’s clear that 2011-2014 was a lost decade when Finland flirted with racism and fascism.

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Anachoma: A documentary on pushbacks will be shown in Mikkeli, Finland on 27 June

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I wonder what is going to happen to the shameful pushback law? There are more humane ways to deal with asylum seekers. You don’t have to trash human rights and the rule of law to make your hostile point.

Mitenköhän käy häpeällisen rajalain kanssa? On inhimillisempiäkin tapoja käsitellä turvapaikanhakijoita. Ei tarvitse heittää roskiin ihmisoikeuksia ja oikeusvaltiota saadakseen aikaan vihamielistä pointtia.

COME AND JOIN US ON 27.6 at ROUHILANKATU 37, MIKKELI 17-21 FOR AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.

Tule mukaan 27.6. klo ROUHILANKATU 37, MIKKELI 17-21 mielenkiintoiseen keskusteluun.

European MEP elections: The Finnish far right has an immigration dependency problem

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Just like a junkie craving for a shot, the campaign by the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* showed revealed their immigration dependency problem. Like a gas pedal, the PS has stepped on the immigration topic to attract voters.

Immigration is a highly politicized topic in Finland as well and directly related to the success of the PS over the last decade. During all the last four parliamentary elections, the PS has successfully used an immigration crime topic to attract voters.

The European parliamentary election was a fiasco for the PS. Source: Yle

As a non-white Finn, the campaign by the likes of PS Chairperson and Minister of Finance Riiikka Purra, Interioir Minister Mari Rantanen, and Simo “Rwanda Model Now” Grönroos, was enough to make your stomach turn.

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