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Finland’s radical-right populists have already broken their campaign promises

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Migrant Tales

TOPLINE

The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a radical-right party with fringe elements. The pet topic that helps them cash in on voters is migration and migrants with 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.

The wet political dream of the Perussuomalaiset party*

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Migrant Tales

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.

Mikael Kallavuo: Mihin kohtiin demokratia–fasismi -akselilla Jussi Halla-ahon näkökulmat sijoittuvat?

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Migrant Tales

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).

PS MP Riikka Purra is an opportunist full of white supremacist ideology

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Migrant Tales

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.

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen on zero asylum seekers and other wishes like our head up our…

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Migrant Tales

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.

27-year-old Iraqi: “An asylum seeker is an animal and becomes a human being in Finland until he gets a residence permit”

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Migrant Tales

TOPLINE

In November, an Iraqi asylum seeker called Ziad* from Jämsänkoski heard the court sentence a man who had threatened him the previous year with a knife and called him a vitun pakolainen (f**king asylum seeker) and vitun ulkomaalainen (f**king foreigner).

KEY FACT

The verdict? A one-month jail sentence and a 700-euro fine paid to the victim.

KEY BACKGROUND

One of the most significant matters about the case is that it was not considered a hate crime. Ziad does not have an answer to why the police and court did not see that way.

“Surely I am not happy with the sentence,” said the Iraqi asylum seeker. “If I did the same what the man did to me, I’d be in Baghdad now.”

**The knife used to assault the asylum seeker in jämsänkoski.**

Ziad said that after the court case he no longer trusts the Finnish justice system, never mind the police. He admits, however, that matters would be different if he were a resident.

Why are the PS so silent about the US President Joe Biden’s administration?

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Migrant Tales

TOPLINE

The silence emerging from the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* politicians are highly revealing. Their populist autocratic mentor, former President Donald Trump, is history and no longer in power.

KEY FACTS

While only PS MEP Laura Huhtasaari and PS MP Veikko Vallin were some of the very few politicians of the party to comment on the transfer of power, Jussi Halla-aho, Riikka Purra, Ville Tavio, Mauri Peltokangas, Juha Mäenpää, Vilhelm Junnila, and Wille Rydman of the National Coalition Party, as well as Sari Essyah of the Christian Democrats, were silent on Facebook.

Finland’s populist Islamophobic party, the PS, has suffered three blows that threaten to keep its growth in check: Anders Breivik’s terrorist attack in Norway on 22/7, the storming of the Capitol building by Trump supporters, and President Joe Biden’s inauguration as the US’ 46th president.

Two lone responses on Facebook from the PS about President jo Biden’s inauguration. On the left, PS MEP Laura Huhtasaari, an ardent Trump follower, tells us that after all the chaos of his administration no new wars were declared. On the right, is PS MP Veikko Vallin fear-mongering about Guatemalans fleeing that Central American country’s poverty and violence.

More PS-Trump buffoonery.

Biden inauguration: Words of unity and inclusion that reverberate in Finland

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Migrant Tales

After four years of chaos and division, an illness that even inflicted the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* and politicians in other parties that sow division heard long-overdue healing words.

Without losing sight of the wars, CIA-inspired coups, and the human destruction brought on by the United States, it took a despot-inspired president like Donald Trump to give US’ exceptionalism a forceful blow.

President Joe Biden taking the oath of office and poet Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet. Source: *Washington Post*

The division and hatred sowed in the United States have long roots in the country’s history and are also present in Finland as our population becomes more diverse culturally and ethnically.

One party, the PS, has built its politics on sowing ethnic hatred, rage, violence, and bigotry on brown Finns and other people of color. Politicians in the National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats, and others have flirted with such toxic ideas.

President Joe Biden is correct in stating that we must not stand idle or be silent. “Uniting to fight the foes we face: anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness. With unity, we can do great things, important things,” he said in his inaugural speech.

Are the same foes that Biden cites the same ones sowing discord in Finland?

I believe so.

A politician who spreads racism lives in constant conflict. How can he or she accept that some people have all the rights and others only on paper?

Twenty-two-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet ever, offered us today in Finland and the EU some sobering thoughts in her poem, The Hill We, Climb:”

“And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man. And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.”

Exposing white Finnish privilege #77: The PS are Finnish white supremacists

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Migrant Tales

TOPLINE

One of the interesting facts about white nationalism is that it is copied from somewhere else. Thus, white supremacist conspiracy views in Finland are nothing more than copy-and-paste jobs from somewhere else.

Some may play down the PS as a “light” version of white supremacy. We disagree. The PS under the leadership of Jussi Halla-aho is aiming to become a white supremacist political party in the same league as Donald Trump’s administration and Viktor Orbán of Hungary.

KEY BACKGROUND

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a racial justice group, states the following about white supremacy in the United States: “White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.”

And then we move closer to home here in Finland, the SPLC offers more light on this social ill:

“Adherents of white nationalist groups believe that white identity should be the organizing principle of the countries that make up Western civilization. White nationalists advocate for policies to reverse changing demographics and the loss of an absolute, white majority. Ending non-white immigration, both legal and illegal, is an urgent priority — frequently elevated over other racist projects, such as ending multiculturalism and miscegenation — for white nationalists seeking to preserve white, racial hegemony.”

All the latter sounds like the rhetoric spewed by the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party when it victimizes and labels asylum seekers, Muslims, and visible minorities.

How so?

As the tweet below, Riikka Purra and other PS MPs are near-constantly reminding us how white Finns will become a minority in Finland.

A recent tweet by MP Riikka Purra: “In the year 2035, Helsinki’s biggest language groups are from the Middle East and Northern Africa. Were [white] Finns asked in the cities’ demographic planning to really want this to happen? Or don’t they know what to answer and what it means?

According to the SPLC, white supremacists aim to end non-white immigration, multiculturalism, and miscegenation to preserve white, ethnic hegemony.

Halla-aho, Purra, Tavio, Niikko and all of you PS politicians: Trump’s stench will linger

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

TOPLINE

It is quite extraordinary that the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* continues to play down and deflect criticism for their admiration and support for outgoing US President Donald Trump whose most recent crimes included actively inciting a mob to violently assault the legislative branch of government to overturn the election he lost by seven million votes.

PS leader Jussi Halla-aho, like Trump, suffers from obsessions that are perilous not only to them but to the whole nation.

If Trump is driven by his vanity, Halla-aho’s political message is based on racism and hard-right economic policies in the worst conservative tradition.

Like Trump, Halla-aho’s obsession with so-called “harmful migration,” which is a disguise to spread racist offshoots like Islamophobia, he too as well as his party faces a day of reckoning.

Apart from “digging” Trump and claiming that he is the best thing to happen to the United States and the Western world, Halla-aho shows support for the outgoing US president’s immigration policy.

But that isn’t all.

What about Trump’s Muslim ban? What about his open support for white-supremacists and their violence? And who could forget the tear-gassing of peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square for a photo shoot holding a Bible upside down?

CRITICAL QUOTE

Halla-aho and in the case of Trump was quoted as saying in Ilta-Snomat that too much attention has been given to him for his unorthodox style. Even so, he said the outgoing US president raised critical issues concerning global trade, Chinese dominance, and blocking migration.