Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the far-right conspiracy monger who was voted out of her two committee assignments this week. In the age of misinformation, peddling conspiracy theories and racism are rewarded handsomely.
Voters are gullible and conspiracy lies are quickly consumed with the help of the eyes and ears.
KEY FACT AND BACKGROUND
Greene claimed a lot of weird and dangerous things like violence against fellow representatives, school shootings that killed children that she considered false flags, and even Jewish laser beams from outer space that set forest fires in California.
Here is the question: Who is Finland’s Marjorie Taylo Greene?
That is not a tricky question. In the Finnish context, it would be none other than MEP Laura Huhtasaari, the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* politician with the sinister kindergarten smile.
Greene twitting impeachment proceedings against President Biden (left) and (right) Huhtasaari inviting her followers to a far-right userbase called Gab.
CRITICAL QUOTE
Even if Huhtasaari has not written about Jewish laser beams from outer space, she is an avid supporter of former US President Donald Trump like Greene, hates Muslims like Greene, and even reposted and flirts with QAnon malarkey, like Greene.
During the global pandemic, Helsinki Business Hub, the international trade and investment promotion agency of Finland launched a campaign to attract foreign top professionals to work for 90 days remotely, as freelancer, an entrepreneur, or investor located in Helsinki. A catchy slogan and an all-round package attracted over five thousand applicants during the application period in December 2020. A relatively stable pandemic situation and lack of formal restrictions in Finland boosted the interest among applicants.
Fifteen lucky people fulfilling “tight criteria” will soon arrive in Finland exempting the border rules. Business-oriented Americans were in focus but amounted only to one third. Details of other applicants’ demographics have not been disclosed yet. Remote workers dominated the statistics. Direct applicants for jobs in Helsinki were only recorded for “future work opportunities”.
Those admitted will enjoy an exclusive service package covering any bureaucracy connected to relocating (visa, registration, permissions, housing, work facilities, childcare, or schooling), consulting, and networking – yes, even socializing! Almost all the pitfalls of regular immigration to Finland magically wiped away! In return, Finland expects a promotion of a favorable, but delusional, image of immigration, business, or employment as a foreigner in Finland.
Which Finnish politicians are the country’s biggest charlatans? We all know them by name. Finland’s media has learned to pushback more than before and not give a megaphone to political con artists. It is called media responsibility.
Who are these charlatans?
They are the ones who always pick on the disadvantaged threatening them with a life of social exclusion and rejection. You know, the ethnonationalists, the Finnish white supremacists, Finland’s biggest opposition party, are prime examples.
The Foreign Student was one of the first critical newsletters that spoke out against the discriminatory practices of the Aliens’ Office under Eila Kännö. Too many Finns see the ideal foreigner as a person who shuts up and smiles. This newsletter was published in April 1981.
I don’t know whom you think has spread the most racism in Finland. Is it Jussi Halla-aho? Riikka Purra? Laura Huhtasaari? Veikko Vallin? Ano Turtiainen? All the above? Or are these politicians only the opportunists emerging from deeply rooted and entrenched Finnish racism?
Apart from being political con artists, all of them lie outright because most of their campaign promises are unconstitutional.
Some of them are so racist that they don’t have a clue how racist they are.
If they have a tough time figuring out this fact, then we must help them to see the light and their shameful deception.
Ilmestykö rasismia suomalaisissa mediassa? Nämä Ilta-Sanomien ja Iltalehden lööpit* 1990-luvulta todistavat kuinka iltapäivälehdet levittivät ja vahvistivat rasismia Suomessa.
Olisiko anteeksipyyntö paikalla?
Vaikka hiljaisuus saattaa vastata kysymykseen, uskon, että jonain päivänä iltapäivälehdet pyytävät anteeksi kaikkea sitä mitä ovat kirjoittaneet maahanmuuttajista ja vähemmistöistä.
Ilta-Sanomat puhuu vuonna 2015 “laittomista” pakolaisista mutta kysyn, onko olemassa “laittomia” pakolaisia?
The greatest deterrent in foiling the attempts of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party’s political aims is our fervent opposition to such plans.
SOLUTIONS
What does the latter imply?
It means: voting, getting active in politics, writing, talking, debating, reciting poetry, demonstrating, going on hunger strike, getting constantly informed, busting fake news – living as if today were the last day before Finland is sucked in to bizarro’s spell.
HISTORY
The PS under Jussi Halla-aho has turned into a far-right party that spreads hatred of migrants and polarizes society. In many respects, it is not only a racist party but one fed by resentment.
Asseri Kinnunen is a shameless politician who destroyed the PS’ youth branch by giving too many ethnonationalists and fascists a political home.
PLAYING HARD BALL
In the message below, Kinnunen, who has been pictured in fascist attire from the 1930s, states: “HEY! Do you want to oust [Prime Minister Sanna] Marin’s government? Do you want @Halla_aho as prime minister? Join and help us. We need you! The video will tell you why you should become a candidate [for city council].”
These hopes by the PS as well as other campaign promises that will be broken after election day.
Finland will hold municipal elections on April 18, 2021.
Just like the PS has become bolder with its racism, it has simultaneously shown its true far-right and white supremacist colors.
Let’s give the PS and other likeminded parties hell!
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a radical-right party with fringe elements. The pet topic that helps them cash in on voters is migration and migrantswith the help of two main pieces of fake news.
FACTS AND QUESTION MARKS
It is odd, if not irresponsible, that the media does not ask the PS to specify so their deceptions would be exposed.
Have you noticed how the PS always speak of “migrants” as one group but don’t usually specify which migrant groups?
Who are these “migrants” that the PS constantly labels?
If we study their use of code words, migrant means Muslims and asylum seekers, who are people of color.
FAKE NEWS #1:According to the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), those that belong in the latter groups accounted in 2019 for about 7.8% of all resident permits. If we look at a longer period, the percentage is about 12%.
A table that shows that the majority (40.8%) of residence permits were given on the premise of work. That was followed by family (21.5%), EU citizens (17.9%), and students (11.0%). Source: The Finnish Immigration Service.
FAKE NEWS #2: If the PS had its way, they would instill fear and hand deportations right and left to migrants. They would declare an all-out war on Muslims and make their lives more unbearable with the aim of destroying their identity.
With municipal elections nearing on April 18, it’s interesting to note how the Perussuoalaiset (PS) are sowing division. Like in previous elections, they have always received a boost by some sexual assault crimes caused by asylum seekers and people of color.
Their campaign is full of bravado mixed with impossible campaign promises.
Their pet topic and targets are (surprise-surprise) migrants. Their campaign promises to oppress and disenfranchise migrants. Fortunately, these proposals by the PS are unconstitutional and would never see the light.
People in Finland, irrespective of their background and legal status, are equal before the law and have a right to social welfare.
Apart from misleading and lying to their voters with populist malarkey, PS leader Jussi Halla-aho’s media statements make him look more like a loser like Donald Trump.
He said in Iltalehti that he wanted to put an end to the present government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
“We want decision-makers in Finland to put Finland and Finns first. For this reason, we don’t want the left-green government to continue. The best and only way to end to the government is to vote for the Perusuomalaiset. The government will fall when the Center Party leaves the coalition,” he was quoted as saying.
Below is an excerpt of the type of immigration policy Halla-aho and his followers would like to enforce in their dreams.
10.“The pampering of migrants must end. Municipalities must stop giving services to illegal migrants, end supporting migrants’ language and culture, and should not use “affirmative action” [to employ] at the cost of [white] Finns. As a substitute to poor integration programs, poorly integrated migrants should be repatriated.”
In reading the program of the PS, one wonders why there is so much discord and hatred towards migrants. Their loathing is not geared at white EU citizens but against Muslims, people of color, and other visible minorities.
Halla-aho’s wet political dream is for the Center Party to leave the government after suffering an election defeat in the municipal elections. This would provoke new elections that would turn Halla-aho into the next prime minister.
I can also write fairy tales but not as well as Halla-aho and his cronies.
Toimittaja Lauri Nurmen tekemä Jussi Halla-ahon epävirallinen elämäkerta -teos auttaa syvemmin ymmärtämään perussuomalaisten puheenjohtajan poliittisia päämääriä.
Tuskinpa kovin moni edes tietää, kuinka tiiviit kytkökset Jussi Halla-aholla on äärioikeistolaisena ja jopa fasistisena pidettyyn Suomen Sisuun. Aluksi keskustelu- ja kirjallisuuspiirinä toimineessa Suomen Sisun perustajien Thule-ryhmässä luettiin monia Natsi-Saksan ja äärioikeistolaisten kuuluvia teoksia.
Lukemistoon kuuluu muun muassa ”Ku Klux Klanin entisen suurvisiirin, antisemitistin ja valkoisen ylivallan kannattajan David Duken omaelämäkerrallinen My Awakening” ja ”Hitlerin johtaman kansallissosialistisen puolueen pääideologin Uutta Eurooppaa kohti” teos, kirjoittaa Lauri Nurmi, (Ks. s. 89. Jussi Halla-aho – epävirallinen elämäkerta, Into).
Äärioikeistolaisen lukemiston takia kirjallisuusryhmän Thule-nimi oli tuskin sattumalta sama kuin Saksassa vuonna 1918 perustettu Thule-seura, jonka jäsenistön egoa paisutettiin propagandalla arjalaisen rodun ylivertaisuudesta. Thulelaiset perustivat vuonna 1920 Saksan kansallissosialistisen työväenpuolueen, josta tuli Hitlerin työkalu valtaan.
Lauri Nurmen mukaan Suomen Sisua voikin ”kirjallisiin lähteisiin tukeutuen luonnehtia kansallissosialistiseksi” (s. 101). Suomen Sisun ääriliikemäinen propaganda alkaa herättää huomiota ja se erotetaan Suomalaisuuden Liitosta vuonna 2000 (s. 90–93).
Pian julkisen erottamiskohun jälkeen Jussi Halla-aho alkaa osallistua Suomen Sisun toimintaan. Halla-aho ei ole tällöin enää nuori vaan jo 29-vuotias maisterivaiheen opiskelija, joten kyseessä on tietoisempi yhteiskunnallinen suunnanvalinta kuin teini-ikäisen nuoren kapinoiva etsiminen. Hallo-aho valitaan peräti kahdesti Suomen Sisun hallitukseen (s. 98).
Jussi Halla-aho vuonna 2020. Kuva:Wikipedia.
Natsi- ja rotupropagandaa
Kansallissosialistien nuorisopropagandaa johtanut Helmut Stellrecht yleni SS-Brigadenführeriksi eli kenraalimajuria vastaavaan arvoon. Hänen vuonna 1938 ilmestyneessä Usko ja teot –teoksessaan ylistetään saksalaisen rodun puhdasta perintöä ja juutalaisten juuriminen ”pois Saksasta on ylin laki.”
Suomen Sisu julkaisee tiivistelmän tästä teoksesta vuonna 2002 ja kirjoittaa verkkosivuillaan olevansa ”iloinen voidessaan tarjota tämän historiallisen harvinaisuuden suomalaisille lukijoille” (ks. s. 101).
MP Riikka Purra is an ethnonationalist with a strong white supremacist ideology of the Perussuoalaiset (PS) party. She is also first vice president of the PS.
One of Purra’s biggest message is how Finland is becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. According to her, this is a threat to the power and privileges that white Finns have.
Her latest tweet below is another shameful example of hers and her party’s far-right views.
Purra tweets: “When will be able to speak about social cohesion? That our values and institutions [lack social cohesion].”
Spreading white privilege and supremacy by politicians like Purra and her party’s radicalism and racism will end badly.
A question for Purra: You are way too late with your ethnonationalist goals and warnings. What are you going to do with us, so-called brown Finland, and people of color? Are you going to kick us out of Finland and send us off in boxcars?”
Since your racist and exclusive views of Finland won’t change anything, you say such foul things because you are a rude opportunist fishing for votes and questionable fame.
When I read the news story that Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated that she wants the country to accept zero asylum seekers, I sarcastically thought that one of the EU’s most Islamophobic countries had found a solution to end global inequality and strife.
The Perussuomalaiset (PS), Finland’s close ideological ally of the Danish People’s Party and admirer of Frederiksen’s anti-immigration policies, was overjoyed by the prime minister’s zero-asylum seeker goal.
The PS’ leader, Jussi Halla-aho, and his Islamophobic party has expressed the same plan: end asylum seekers from the Middle East and other developing nations from coming to Finland.
Considering that populists and parties lack imagination and prefer to copy-and-paste toxic ideologies, we only must look at former President Donald Trump’s cruel immigration policy of family separation and denying refugees access to the country. Such policy did not only fail but brought great suffering to its victims.
Fredriksen’s statement and that of other Islamophobic parties and politicians are only meant for populist public consumption. Thus, it is not the policy but a country that policy would turn it into. Sowing hatred, suspicion, and division never end well.
Ignoring the global suffering, we wrought in the first place would let in other toxic ideologies that give rise to countries that base their government’s popularity on hatred. Having our head in our rectum will not improve our eyesight.
The 2019 recipient of the Council Literature Prize, Jonas Eika of Denmark, gave the following speech (see video clip below) about state racism in Denmark and its then-new prime minister Fredriksen.
“I’m speaking to the Danish prime minister who’s also sitting somewhere in the audience, Mette Fredriksen, who’s at the head of the Social Democratic Party which has come to power by taking over the previous government’s racist language and politics,” said Eika. “Metter Fredriksen, who calls herself “the children’s PM,” but pursues an immigration policy that splits families apart, impoverishes them, and subjects a slow, destructive violence in the country’s so-called departure centers [immigration removal centers].”
OK, Eika is a poet and poets usually have noble ideals.
