We’ll Never Know.
Yes, what Interior Minister Rantanen was thinking in introducing a law to stop “hybrid invaders” from Russia. Our ́́ investigative media` will never ask the right questions. So we can only try to imagine:
Scene: “Hybrid invaders.” Inside the Interior Ministry.
Cue Rantanen.
Rantanen (enters): Our press conference is in half an hour. Any more on the hybrid invaders.
Handler: We interviewed the 1,300 who crossed the border since last August. Half are from places like Afghanistan and Syria and seem to be running for their lives. Then there are over
400 who are just looking for a better life. Till last year, the Russian screened out these asylum seekers and we did not have these moral and legal problems.
Rantanen: Yes. Now they are passing the buck and we have to break international law ourselves. Devious plotter that Putin! Damm him!
Handler: Yes, damn him!
Rantanen: There is this blog out there called Migrant Tales which was offering a reward for anyone who anonymously volunteered to give an interview on being a hybrid invader. They say no-one came forward. No one! We need to find some way to save my law to stop hybrid invaders.
Handler: Well, Madam Minister. You did say the numbers did not matter. The important thing is to foil the Russian plot.
Rantanen: That’s true. The main thing is to foil the plot. I did say big numbers did not matter.
And “zero” is a number too- after all.
Handler: Yes. let’s just tell the press numbers are irrelevant.
Rantanen: Yes. The main thing is my historic and original initiative to keep Russia agitators behind the border.
Handler: Well there were those people in the IKL Party back in the Thirties who kidnapped hundreds of Russian sympathizers and drove them over the Russian border. They even had the courage to kidnap ex-president Svindhuvd and his wife for being communist appeasers. But that kidnapping failed. It led to the banning of the whole IKL Party.
Rantanen: Yes. That went badly. Let’s make sure to steer away from any discussion of that!
False analogy.
Handler: Yes. No false historical comparisons. And numbers of invaders don’t matter. Stopping the plot is what counts. Shall we refer to our reliable intelligence reports on that?
Rantanen: Absolutely reliable. But those intelligence reports are, of course, secret. Well, I think we are ready to meet the press, then. Let’s go.
Handler: Yes, Minister. (They exit)
Narrator: That ends our Black Box reports. What really happened we’ll never know. And our mainstream media will never ask.