Category: Enrique Tessieri

Katujengien politisoiminen on aiheuttanut uskottavuusongelmia poliisissa

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Entinen ylikomisaario Jari Taposen ja muidenkin eroaminen poliisista paljastaa, miten paljon populistinen politiikka on tunkeutunut poliisiin. Vuonna 2023 ja EU:n suurimman rasisminvastaisen kansalaisjärjestön European Network Against Racism (ENAR) rahoituksella teimme raportin, jossa osoitimme, miten Perussuomalaisten kaltaiset puolueet käyttävät maahanmuuttajarikollisuutta äänestäjien houkuttelemiseen.

Olen haastatellut Taposta muutamaan otteeseen katujengeistä. Se, mitä hän kirjoittaa Helsingin Sanomien kolumnissa, osoittaa, että koko asia on myös poliittinen.

On surullista, miten hitaasti tiedotusvälineet reagoivat PS:n ja Kokoomuksen kaltaisten puolueiden populistinen politikointiin.

Ei tarvitse olla kovinkaan älykäs tajutakseen, että koko katujengi-uutisjuttu on juoni, jolla pyritään entisestään polarisoimaan maata ja leimaamaan kaikki rodullistetut nuoret potentiaalisiksi rikollisiksirikollisiksi poliittisen hyödyn tavoittelemiseksi.

Hävetkää suomalainen media.

Kirjoitimme raportissa: “Lisäksi ‘nuorisojengitapaus’ on paljastanut, miten media, poliisi ja poliitikot yhdessä
levittävät tietynlaista tarinaa marginaaliryhmistä. Tässä on hyötyä:
· Tiedotusvälineet saavat katsojia ja mainostuloja.
· Poliisi voi saada lisää rahoitusta rikollisuuden torjuntaan.
· Poliitikot vetoavat äänestäjiin.

MTV:n kaltaiset tiedotusvälineet harjoittavat paljon häpeilemätöntä tekopyhyyttä. Katsokaa alla olevia kuvia ja sitä, miten ne ovat leimanut kaikki rodullistetut nuoret potentiaalisiksi rikollisiksi.

Onko MTV muuttanut tapojaan? Alla on kuva, jolla he esittelivät perussuomalaisten sisäministeri Mari Rantasen haastattelun.

Tämä mainos laitettiin MTV:lle viime vuonna Ivan Puopolon Rantasen haastattelun merkiksi. Puopolo on MTV:n kasvo, joka useasti haastattelee ja levittää PS:n maahanmuuttovastaista sanomaa.

Taponen osuu kolumnissaan naulan kantaan: “Se on huolestuttava kehityssuunta, sillä poliisin toiminnan ja yhteiskunnan turvallisuuden ylläpitämisen tulee perustua perus- ja ihmisoikeuksien kunnioittamiseen sekä kaikkien väestöryhmien oikeudenmukaiseen ja yhdenvertaiseen kohteluun.”

When racism becomes normal in Finland

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The normalization of racism and government policy that reinforces the social illness are the sad examples that will get worse as long as National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petter Orpo leads the government with the Perussuomalaiset (PS).*

One way of putting some breaks on the adverse climate of polarization and xenophobia is by forcing the government to fall.

Normalization happens when even the opposition can cave into the pushback law that ended Finland’s respect for human rights and the rule of law.

The pushback law says it clearly: asylum seekers are animals who don’t deserve human rights.

Thanks to Petteri Orpo’s toothless anti-racism measures, white power is gaining strength in Finland and emboldens racists. Picture: Enrique Tessieri

The normalization of racism happens through the media as well by portraying migrants and asylum seekers as the guilty suspects when, in fact, they are the victims of our draconian migration policy and our lack of empathy.

The media, which is a big part of Finland’s racism problem, is toothless when it reports on ministers like Mari Rantanen, who is the biggest threat to migrant and minority rights.

If the government could shape your thinking, Rantanen and her cronies want you to believe that migrants and asylum seekers are lowlifes taking advantage of the social welfare system.

The next measure suggested by the likes of Rantanen is to offer social security only to Finns.

Here is the question: Why do foreigners pay taxes in that type of dark world where you are a mere visitor in Finland?

In Finland they still lock up children seeking asylum

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A 26-year-old human trafficking victim has been locked up with her two six-year-old children at the Joutseno immigration removal center, which the victim has described as a jail, according to Yle. The young Nigerian mother was sent to the immigration removal center on 18 February and is awaiting deportation back to Italy on 25 March.

The victim stats that she was forced into prosteution to pay back a 30,000-euro debt to her human traffickers.

“This [Joutseno] is a prison,” she was quoted as saying in Yle, adding that she is not a murderer, drug trafficker and that “seeking asylum is not a crime.”

We agree with the victim: Joutseno, together with Metsälä in Helsinki, are “prisons” or detention centers where asylum seekers await deportation. We call them immigration removal centers.

Migrant Tales has written countless stories about detentions in Joutseno. Below are some pictures. You decide wheter Joutseno is a jail or not.

Listen to the girls description of her family’s life in the Joutseno immigration removal center.

Helsinki’s Metsälä immigration removal center.

Stopping a deportation of an Iraqi family

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I have covered and written many news stories about deportations of asylum seekers. The last one was from a family that called me pleading if I could find them a lawyer because their appeal was rejected.

When the asylum seeker broke the news about the appeal over the phone, a sense of powerlessness overtook me.

How could I help the family if we had tried previously failed to get a good lawyer?

An asylum seeker inside a police van. Source: Migrant Tales

Then, without mentioning it to them, I remember advice posted below in Germany for people being deported.

This advice above may save a person from deportation.

A messy deportation case on a plane. See the video here. Source: Stop Deportations

Uutissuomalainen: The government’s anti-racism training lasts an hour (discussion included!)

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You cannot make this up. National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government plans to offer an hour-long anti-racism training for the government. The training has been postponed to after the municipal and regional elections of April.

“It will be an intensive training of about an hour, including discussion,” Katriina Nousiainen, project manager and senior expert at the prime minister’s office, was quoted as saying in Helsingin Sanomat.

The course was suggested after the numerous racism scandals last summer that led to the resignation of Perussuomalaiset Minister of Economic Affairs Wilhelm Junnila and the resurfacing of Finance Minister Riikka Purra’s racist writings from 2008.

The scandals of the summer of 2023 almost forced Orpo’s government to fall. In the autumn, it published an anti-racism statement that was nothing more than a ploy to save the government’s skin.

The most recent scanal brought by the non-discrimination ombudsman is another case in point of the toothless and empty efforts to tackle racism when PS Interior Minister Mari Rantanen attempted to favor Christians over Muslims in the quota-refugee scheme.

The government and large sectors of Finland have a serious issue with racism. Not doing enough and playing dumb to the social ill is just as bad as being openly racist.

Shame of on Finland!

Evidence shows why the Perussuomalaiset party is “openly Islamophobic”

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I’m always surprised by the aha moment of the mainstream media when it comes to the hostile and polarizing message of the Perussuomalaiset (PS).* After PS Interior Minister Mari Rantanen was caught with her hand in the cookie jar by attempting to favor Christians over Muslims in the quota-refugee scheme, Finland’s biggest daily reported that between 2015-2022 the PS led all other parties by a long shot by addressing in parliament the term Islam.

Of the 199 times Islam was addressed in a parliamentary session, the PS brought it up 66.3% of the total followed by the Christian Democrats, which mentioned it 7.5% of the total.

Another favorite terms of the PS are “Muslim,” “Africa” and “Somalia,” which were brought up by the party 58.9%, 95.3% and 61.7% of the total, respectively.

Is it surprising that the non-discrimination ombudswoman findings on discrimination of Muslims over Christians in the quota refugees slammed the PS as “openly Islamophobic?”

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The Perussuomalaiset are “openly Islamophobic,” according to the non-discrimination ombudsman

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The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party is known for its hostility and attacks against migrants and minorities as well as anyone who dares call them what they are: a party that peddles racism. In a statement Thursday, the non-discrimination ombudsman, said that the actions of PS Minister of Interior Mari Rantanen were discriminatory when the ministry attempted to favor Christians over Muslims in the quota-refugee scheme.

Non-Discrimination Ombudswoman Kristina Stenman defended the work of her orgnization in Helsingin Sanomat for not only calling out the discriminatory actions of the interior ministry but calling the PS “openly Islamophobic.”

Defending her use of Islamophobia to describe the PS, she said that the party’s immigration policy program states that the present refugee quota system based on the work of the UNHCR “can be phased out, with persecuted Christians and other groups with [so-called] positive integration prospects being slected for the quota.”

Moreover, the party’s program also says that “many of the problems of integration in Finland are linked to the Islamic cultural influence.”

As a result of the report, the PS leadership has gone into their customery victim mode by stating that the statement by the non-discrimination ombudsman was “a shocking attack,” according to Helsingin Sanomat.

Stenman said that the ombudsman report is not an attack against the PS.

Interior Minister Mari Rantanen’s and the party’s views of Muslims and other racialized migrants is well documented.

Source: Migrant Tales

In an Interview with the tabloid Iltalehti in 2023, PS chairperson Riikka Purra acknowledged that she aims for zero asylum seekers, like Denmark, from Muslim countries. Speaker of parliament, Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted for ethnic agitation in 2012, has repeated the same aim.

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Europe without immigrants is like death without life

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Sunday’s German election told us an important fact: It pays to attack migrants relentlessly. Even if we do not want to make direct references to the rise of the Nazis in 1933 and the devastating impact it still has on us, we are entering a new phase in Europe that has its past troubled history sprinkled all over it.

We are seeing the same fear-mongering that we saw against the Jews and other minorities in Germany, the UK, France and many other European countries before the outbreak of World War 2. Our brazen cowardice, opportunism and lust for power are drving towards such a disaster.

The great problem in Europe is not only our incapability to see the elephant in the room but to react to it. Most Western leaders will play down the fascist shift of Donald Trump’s administration, which is only a sign of weakness and moral decay.

But most of Europe has a solution to all of its woes: Blame it on the migrants, especially racialized migrants.

What will governments do after sucking up and forming alliances with the far right when they discover that scapegoating migrants offers no solutions but will only contribute to chronic labor shortages?

Will the next step be war to cover their denial and ignorance?

Europe is toothless and lost

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When EU Commissioner for Technological Sovereignty Henna Virkunen (National Coalition Party) and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Perussuomalaiset, PS*) meet to boost confidence in Nato’s ability to protect its subsea cables, but the total opposite. Their political record and their extremist stance on asylum seekers reveals why Europe is toothless and lost in the face of US President Donald Trump.

In the 2024 election compass, Virkkunen still showed little regard for people crossing into the EU. Question 11 of Yle’s election compass asked a yes or no answer: “A person trying to reach Europe can be turned back at the border, even if it would put their life in danger.”

Virkkunen responded in the affirmative, yes, it was ok to push back the person even if his or her life were in danger.

In 2019, Virkkunen voted against improving search and rescue techniques at the Mediterranean

EU Commissioner Commission for Technological Sovereignty Henna Virkunen (National Coalition Party) and Interior Minister Mari Rantanen (Perussuomalaiset) speaking to reporters over a new disruption of the cable C Lion 1 in Swedish waters. Both Virkkunen and Rantanen have little to no respect for refugees crossing the Mediterranean but are more concerned about underwater cables.

Rantanen is another case in her own league.

Some may ask how politicians like Virkkunen and Rantanen show how toothless and lost is Europe.

Their stances on human rights and difference show a cancer that is affecting Enruope: Blame it all on the migrants.

If we continue down this path, Europe is doomed to fail and its cherished values won’t mean a thing.

Trump and the horse’s ass

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European leaders appear shocked about US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine. He did so in a call with Vladimir Putin and by echoing Russia’s priorities: no Nato membership, and Ukraine will lose control of the eastern part of the country and Crimea, and reducing its presence in Europe.

Trump, who admires dictators like Putin, made these conditions without notifying the EU never mind Ukraine.

As Europe awakens from its initial shock, Europe has only itself to blame for not shielding itself against the Trump menace spreading globally in the form of turning Canada into the 51st state, taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal, and its infamous Gaza plan to ethnically cleanse million and turn it into a “Riviera.”

While all of these measures are a sign of nationalist exceptionalism, in truth they are a sign of weakness. Trump will end up destroying the US in the same way as he bankrupted almost all of his companies.

His re-election is a sign of the deep-seated corruption in the US and how it has gotten the upper hand through the likes of billionares like Elon Musk. Anti-trust regulators are toothless and it shows!

Dispair is not the way to beat this cancer.

We must fight on and use any means available to stop the destruction of our democracy and way of life.

Prime Minister Petter Orpo’s and Alexander Stubb’s response to what is happening globally ensures that the Trump administration stands a good chance of succeeding.

How does Finland look after all of its tough talk against Russia?

It looks vulnerable. Trump does not care he wants to be on top with everyone looking like a horse’s ass.