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Are politicians like Jussi Halla-aho and parties like the PS racist?

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Migrant Tales

Jay Smooth offered in early March some good points on how to spot a racist by sticking to the that-sounded-racist conversation as opposed to they-are-racist conversation. The former conversation allows you to focus on what the person said and why what they said is unacceptable. The other one will take your focus away from the issue.

Keeping this in mind, it’s easy to spot racist and unacceptable comments by politicians like Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP Jussi Halla-aho and others.

Taking the question a bit further, what does it say about the media, our politicians and society when they forget these racist rants and treat politicians who made them as if nothing happened?

It sadly reveals that if you are a white Finn you can nearly say anything you want about refugees, visible migrants and Muslims and almost get away with it. Even if Halla-aho got sentenced for ethnic agitation, the national media continues to give politicians like him inflated respectability and importance.

Searching for easy targets and scapegoats is a dangerous and slippery slope that some witnessed in last century in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his henchmen were hostile to cultural diversity like some politicians and political parties in Europe today. The more they executed their plans “to make Germany Jewish and minority free,” the tighter the noose around its neck got until it snapped and become lifeless in 1945 with the fall of Berlin.

With European parliamentary elections (MEP) on May 22-25, there’s a danger that anti-immigration, far-right and nationalistic parties will make big gains.

No matter if these parties are from Finland or Italy, United Kingdom or Bulgaria, they lack credible solutions. Many voters will be shocked and disappointed if they ever get an opportunity to implement their policies.

Their negative and hostile stances on immigration and cultural diversity raise an eerie question as well. Considering that Europe already is culturally diverse, how are these parties going to make Europe white again? Are their actions and attacks against minorities going to get ever-merciless? Did Geert Wilders of the Islamophobic Party for Freedom give us a glimpse in March when he ensured supporters that there would be “fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands?

The recognition we give people who spread racism, prejudice and hatred makes a big difference. Look at former PS MP James Hirvisaari after he was sacked from the party in October for taking a picture and posting on social media a person making a Nazi salute in parliament.

Hirvisaari, who was sentenced as well for ethnic agitation, became a political nobody and joke after he got the boot from the PS.

Contrary to Hirvisaari, Halla-aho has played his political cards differently. For Soini’s favor and protection, Halla-aho has toned down his racist rants without changing his views on “multiculturalism” and “runaway immigration.”

If you want to spot a politician who sounds racists look at what he or she said. What the person said is written in stone and can’t be denied with the usual “I’m not a racist” defense.

Here’s one of many quotes that got Halla-aho in hot water: “Robbing passers-by and living as parasites on tax money is the national, maybe even genetic characteristic of Somalis.”

In another blog post in June 2008, he wrote that the Islamic prophet Mohammed was a pedophile and that Islam was a pedophilic religion because its prophet had intercourse with his nine-year-old wife, Aisha.

Are these statements racist? Any sensible person can tell that they are because they single out, victimize and exaggerate a whole group of people. These statements weren’t made with the intention to foster healthy debate but to insult and insight ethnic and religious hatred.

Here’s another one by Halla-aho, who states that people from Africa live in the Stone Age and therefore should not live in Europe. One of the pet arguments of anti-immigration politicians is to stress how different people are in order to justify their racism of different groups. Here’s one he made in 2007:

An African who’s been brought to Helsinki from the savannah pollutes no less with his conspicuous consumption than an ethnic Finn. He will probably pollute more because moving from the Stone Age directly to the modern world, he lacks consumerism and eco-conscience, which Westerners have.

If you still have doubts whether the PS makes racist and unacceptable statements, visit The Truth about the True Finns blog and Halla-aho’s quotes (in Finnish) on Wikiquote. Read a long list of racist, homophobic, fascist and neo-Nazi quotes by PS politicians here.

Juho Eerola, who is the PS’ third vice-president, is another MP who has toned down his views. Check out what he said on Hommaforum, a hate site, on July 6, 2010:

I myself am attracted to Benito Mussolini’s fascism, and in particular the economic policy [the country] pursued. Entreperneurship was encouraged but it was under strict government control. Vital large corporations could not be owned by foreign investors but were firmly in government hands. Italy achieved during those times full employment and strong economic growth. We could learn a lot from such a model.

Apart from migrants, visible minorities or gays, the rise of the PS especially in 2011 was seen as a new and interesting addition to the Finnish political scene. Even if the PS are a knee-jerk reaction of voters to ever-growing poverty and social inequality in Finland, what is surprising is that some voters picked a party that is provincial, hostile and scapegoats migrants and minorities.

It’s no secret that the UKIP and PS are close ideological allies in Europe. The Guardian of London published an opinion piece that gave ten reasons why you should not vote for the UKIP. The exact same reasons apply to the PS.

Its stances are bonkers
It has nasty friends in Europe
It’s a magnet for unsavory types here
It has rewarded offense (in the case of the PS it has rewarded party members who have been sentenced for ethnic agitation)
It hates the EU but cashes in
Its MEPs are not actually worker bees
It is vulnerable to special interest as any other party
It speaks with fork tongues
Its only plan is Nigel (or in the case of the PS it’s Timo)
It makes a sensible debate on Europe less likely

Another opinion piece on the conservative Telegraph explains how UKIP’s leader Nigel Farage has taken British voters for fools.

The PS are doing the same thing in Finland. Like their ally in the United Kingdom, both parties may have their victory in the upcoming MEP elections, “but then they will begin the long march back into political obscurity,” according to the Telegraph.

Jussi Halla-aho’s broken record: destroy cultural and ethnic diversity

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Migrant Tales

We hear over and over again the same anti-immigration diatribe by politicians like Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP Jussi Halla-aho, who complain constantly about too liberal immigration policy and multiculturalism.

PS MP Jussi Halla-aho would like to restrict free movement of people in Europe and tighten migration policy if elected Euro MP, according to Swedish-language daily HBL. Read full story here.

Even if the Finnish media and politicians consider Halla-aho near-invincible, he is very vulnerable. What would happen if the PS return to the single-digit-percentage league like before the 2011 parliamentary elections?

Would Halla-aho face the same fate as his ideological soul mate MP James Hirvisaar, who has been largely forgotten by the media after he was sacked from the PS in October?

In the same far-right populist style as other politicians in his dubious group, Halla-aho, who was sentenced for ethnic agitation, whines near-constantly about multiculturalism but does not offer any solutions. He does not give any solutions because he’d lose a lot of support if he did.

Much of the prejudices that Finns house today are parroted by Halla-aho. One of these is his hostility of our cultural and ethnic diversity. If he ever got enough power and backing, it would be only a matter of time when he’d expose his dark side on how to maintain Finland white. He’d suggest something that Dutch anti-immigration extremist Geert Wilders said recently.

Wilders outraged many people in Holland in March and much of the political establishment, including his own party, by telling a crowd of supporters that he would find a way for Holland to have fewer Moroccans.

It’s Halla-aho and his kind that should get with the times. Finland was, is and will be ethnically and culturally diverse.

So a PS councilman of Lieksa, Finland, wants a “Somali-free” room…

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Migrant Tales

Roble Bashir

We need a Somali-free meeting room today in the eastern Finnish town of Lieksa, according to a Perussuomalaiset (PS) councilman Esko Saastamoinen. Somali-free town tomorrow or Somali- free country after tomorrow? Why do they hate us so much?

Illustration by Sebastian L. Jackson for Migrant Tales.

Many times I wonder what is wrong with the PS? Why do they make near-constant ludicrous comments to the media about Somalis in Finland? It makes me sad to read what they say but it gives me power and awareness at the same time.

The PS has put a large sign over its head: We hate everything about you Somalis, your skin color and the fact that you live in this Finland.

Why do they hate us so much if we don’t hold any grudges against them? What’s wrong? Are we invaders to this land? Actually not, because some of us were not only born here but grew up in this country as well. Despite this fact, we’re treated like strangers, even as outcasts.

How can immigrants integrate into Finland if politicians create a climate of intolerance and hatred with their racist speeches to the public and sound bites to the media?

It’s a pretty normal day in Finland when you wake up in a morning, read a newspaper or start surfing the internet, when you eventually read about a politician saying something negative and hostile about immigrants. It’s extremely sad that an MP, who represents this country, uses his power for fear-mongering.

One of these MPs is Jussi Halla-aho of the PS, who visited the town of Lieksa over the weekend. If he gets elected to the European Parliament in May, he will do everything possible to make our lives more difficult in Europe.

Even so, I’m certain he won’t succeed.

Migrant Tales kiittää “internet netsi” ja Scripta blogia

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Migrant Tales

Syyskuu 8 päivä 2008 oli historiallinen Migrant Tales blogille. Silloin olin lähellä lopettaa blogini. Kaikki muuttui syyskuun 8 päivänä kun Migrant Talesia vastaan hyökättiin Scripta blogista. Eräs “internet netsi” ilmoitti meistä Scriptan seinälle: “Tuolta voitte lukea kuinka kamalan rasistinen maa suomi on, uskokaa ny!”

Kiitoksia “Internet netsi”* ja Jussi Halla-ahon Scripta blogille, että annoit minulle voimaa jatkaa. Olemme tänään yksi Suomen tärkeimmistä rasisminvastaisista äänistä.

Muutamat kommentit, joka kaappasin Scripta blogista sinä tärkeänä päivänä:

Nimi: Old No. 7 Mitä teen: Kommentoin Viesti: Mikäs mies tuo Enriikke Tessieeri on olevinaan? En oikein tykästynyt miehen teksteihin, tuntui vähän siltä että näppäimistöön kajotessaan Enriquella on alkanut pyryttää pahemman kerran. Eipä sillä, varmasti Suomessa on syrjintää, ryssävihaa, sovinismia ynnämuuta, mutta mitä sitten? Eikö niitä voitaisi jo laskea suomalaiseen kulttuuriin, on niistä niin kauan valitettu. Ja kun ne olisivat virallisesti meidän kulttuuriamme, voisimme vedota silmät vetistäen tiedostaviin tahoihin että meidän kulttuuriamme on suojeltava maahanmuuttajien vastaavalta. Se luultavasti toimisi….Ai ei? Ainiin, unohdin ihan: Ennenkö voimme aloittaa kitisemisen, täytyy joka iikan käydä pyörimässä avotakassa tai hiilikellarissa. Jos ei sellaista ole lähellä, joku voi tulla hakemaan kauan paikallaan maanneen kahden euron kolikon sänkyni alta, ajanee saman asian. Josta tulikin mieleeni että voisinkin siivota talouteni, tämä alkaa näyttää afgaanin majalta. Jatkakaa. 12. syyskuuta 2008 16:53:35

Nimi: Martti Suni Mitä teen: Kommentoin Viesti: Luin tuota blogia ja kommentteja aika pintapuolisesti mutta siitä syntyi vähän sellainen vaikutelma enemmän tai vähemmän ulkomaalaisesta joka luulee ymmärtävänsä syväluotaavan tarkasti suomalaisen yhteiskunnan ominaispiirteitä ja sitten kertoo tyhmille suomalaisille miten asiat ovat. Ihan vakavissaan selittää jostain miten Suomessakin eri alueilta tulevien välillä on ongelmia ja “rasismia” ja sitten vetää jotain karjalan evakkojuttuja esimerkiksi mistä on lukenut jostain historian kirjoista ihan niinkuin sellaisilla olisi jotain tekemistä nykypäivän kanssa. Tuli vähän Finlandforthoughtin Phil(?) mieleen. Ja ratkaisuhan kaikkeen on lisää monikulttuurisuutta ja jos olet erimieltä sinulla on joko jokin syndrooma päällä tai vähintään olet liian vanha, rasisti tai edustat pienenpientä vähemmistöä. 12. syyskuuta 2008 15:50:30

Nimi: Herja Mitä teen: Kommentoin Viesti: Olipa aikamoista paskaa. Olen joskus kommentoinut tuon Enriquen blogia ja täytyy sanoa, että mieheen ei uppoa mikään argumentti ja aina löytyy se mokuttajan ABC:n vakiovastaus selitykseksi monikulttuurisuuden ongelmille. Sitten jos senkin tyrmää niin tulee uusi ad hoc-selitys joka voi olla ristiriitainen edellisen kanssa.
12. syyskuuta 2008 15:42:18

Nimi: Martti Suni Mitä teen: Ilmoitusasia Viesti: http://nemoo.wordpress.com/ Olipa aikamoista paskaa. 12. syyskuuta 2008 15:33:17

Nimi: intternet netsi Kotisivu: http://nemoo.wordpress.com/ Viesti: http://nemoo.wordpress.com/ Tuolta voitte lukea kuinka kamalan rasistinen maa suomi on, uskokaa ny!
12. syyskuuta 2008 14:32:34

*Hän on Onkko Hommaforumissa.

PS MP Halla-aho to attend first Council of Europe meeting Monday

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP Jussi Halla-aho, who was sentenced for ethnic agitation, will represent Finland at a Council of Europe meeting Monday in Strasbourg, according to Tampere-based Aamulehti, which cites STT.

Read full story (in FInnish) here.

The appointment of Halla-aho to the Finnish delegation to the Council of Europe last year prompted a joint statement by the leaders of seven parliamentary parties expressing regret over this move.

One of the aims of the Council of Europe is to promote human rights.

National Coalition Party MP Kimmo Sasi, who is Vice-Chairman of the Finnish delegation to the Council of Europe, said that Halla-aho’s appointment as deputy member didn’t advance Finland’s image as a country that defends human rights.

True, but Sasi forgets that before 1995, when Finland became an EU member, the human rights of migrants were not respected. One clear indication of breaches of human rights were denying Soviet citizens the right to political asylum in Finland.

The fact that Finland’s third largest party in parliament, the PS, doesn’t have any problems with naming an MP like Halla-aho to represent this country speaks volumes about the state of intolerance in this country.

Finland was one of the last countries in Western Europe to join the Council of Europe in 1989. Finland’s special relationship with the former Soviet Union was one reason why Finland took so long to join.

PS MP Jussi Halla-aho doesn’t like cultural diversity, never mind Africans and Muslims

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Migrant Tales

I’m not going to expend a lot of energy on analyzing what Perussuomaliset (PS) MP Jussi Halla-aho wrote in a recent blog entry. All of what he writes about migrants, especially refugees, is demeaning and negative. One sentence in particular, however, caught my attention and which exposes the anti-immigration politician to a tee.

Read full story (in Finnish) here.

Halla-aho, who was sentenced for ethnic agitation, makes a special effort to stress in his blog entry that the measures he’d like to propose to control migration flows to Europe aren’t intended to keep Europe “white” but in the best interests of the countries concerned.

The PS MP’s first deception is exposed when he uses the term migration as opposed to refugee flows. He uses the former as opposed to the latter term because he believes that most Africans, Middle Easterners and Muslims aren’t real refugees but “welfare shoppers.”

If you’ve read Halla-aho and his ilk, their whole argument is based on criticizing immigration policy, which, according to them, allows too many refugees to move to Europe. Now who are those refugees? They are the Africans, Middle Easterners and Muslims that politicians like him loathe.

Rule number one of journalism: Denial is usually what a politician really thinks or feels insecure about.

A good example of the latter would be a politician like Halla-aho who goes out of his way to claim that he has nothing against cultural diversity or a homophobe who denies he’s against gays.

We’ve heard these types of statements so many times before, especially from anti-immigration politicians.

Finland and Europe must not be lured into populism and xenophobia

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Denials by party leaders like Timo Soini that the Perussuomalaiset (PS) isn’t a xenophobic party, and the meek response of Finland’s mainstream parties to such a threat, speak volumes of the present state of this country. Who helped the political careers of xenophobes like Jussi Halla-aho, James Hirvisaari and others? Soini and the PS.

Why do we forget this important fact? Possibly because we dread admitting that intolerance is a bigger problem than we want to believe.

Read full story here.

Believing that Soini is against racism as he often claims, it allowing him and intolerance off the hook.

Certainly racism and intolerance isn’t a problem for a white Finn never mind the head of the PS. It is, however, an issue for many in this country who aren’t white and those who struggle for acceptance in an ever-hostile anti-immigration atmosphere that has political support.

British shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, was quoted recently as saying on The Guardian that non-Jewish people must take a leading stand in defeating antisemitism in Europe. Speaking at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, he said that in the fight against antisemitism, silence was the “coconspirator of evil.”

Correct. If I were Alexander’s speech writer, I’d stress that it’s not only antisemitism that we should challenge, but all types of intolerance irrespective if that person is a Muslim, Roma, gay or belongs to any other minority.

He said that the rise of antisemitism was “deeply troubling” in the face of the far right making significant gains in the 2014 European parliamentary elections.

Will we begin to raise our voices against intolerance when it snatches power?

By then it will be too late.

Columnist Eric Erfors of Sweden’s Expressen: What do Halla-aho and Räsänen say about the state of Finland today?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Finland needs every now and then a wake-up call from the outside world. Columnist Eric Erfors of the Swedish tabloid Expressen, asks how is it possible that a person like Perussuomalaiset (PS) MP Jussi Halla-aho, which he calls a ”pure racist,” was eligible to become a deputy member of Finland’s delegation to the Council of Europe?

Erfors considered Halla-aho’s appointment to the Council of Europe as asking a pyromaniac to extinguish a fire.

Read full story (in Swedish) here.

Erfors states that it would be highly unlikely that Halla-aho would be accepted in the far-right anti-immigration Sweden Democrats. ”No [he wouldn’t be accepted] because it would be in conflict with its new image, which the party is trying to create” he writes.

Another Finnish politician that didn’t receive high marks on his column was Christian Democrat Interior Minister Päivi Räsänen, whose lowly views of gays, immigrants who aren’t Christians and minorities like the Roma are well-known.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone why Räsänen’s approval rating among the PS is so high.

The interesting question that Erfors poses to us in Finland is how did we arrive to such a point where a “pure racist” like Halla-aho was elected to parliament and ultra-conservative Räsänen appointed interior minister? What does it reveal about the present state of this country?

For one, it shows that the views of these two politicians have a home in Finland and go down well with many voters. But we’d have to look at Finland’s history to understand why we vote a “pure racist” to parliament and approve an ultra-conservative in government.

During most of our independence, Finland viewed the outside world with mistrust and did everything possible to discourage immigrants and foreign investment from coming to this country. Imagine the myths and “us”-versus-“them” mentality you have to drive home to reinforce your suspicions of foreigners from one generation to the next.

Halla-aho’s and Räsänen’s “appeal” is today a liability to Finland because it, if anything, is impoverishing this country politically, socially and what’s important, economically.

Instead of finding proactive solutions to our problems as is common in a Nordic welfare democracy, we are regressing in our worst prejudices with the weapon of scapegoating.

Finland needs leadership to challenge these threats that have already impacted our society in a negative manner.

I’m certain that leadership will come when our cultural diversity is strong enough and can stand on its feet.

Reija Härkönen: Jussi Halla-aho’s actions in parliament

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Reija Härkönen

When Jussi Halla-aho was getting prepared for the parliamentary elections, on the last day before the election day on April 16, 2011, he once again urged the anti-immigrant voters to act, thanked his own people (meaning the anti-immigrant circle) for their good work and the True Finns (Perussuomalaiset) of Helsinki and the neighborhood of Kontula for the arrangements. He said:

“I want to remind you once again that our importance in the future depends solely on the number of votes we get. Therefore, it is important that all of my supporters go to the polls, even if they have the assurance that I’ll get elected anyway.

I urge the rest of the country to vote for other True Finns, so that we can get as large group as possible [in parliament].”

Halla-aho also endorsed True Finn candidates whom his followers could vote for in the rest of Finland. Not that the True Finns party needed such a success, but the anti- immigrant so-called nuivat candidates needed it in order to get behind them a large parliamentary group.

In the same context, Halla-aho published for the last time his pre-election speech. It contains some doomsday text, but when read by a clearly articulate, shy-looking young man, the effect is somewhat tragicomic. This probably explains why the site with the text and video was taken down from the Internet. Fortunately everything can be found on the Internet, even Halla-aho’s campaign agenda:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110519104548/http://halla-aho.com/index.php/etusivu/loppurutistus-osa-11-16-4-2011/

Halla-aho headlined his speech “Change is possible,” and wrote:

“We are facing a historic upheaval. On 6.4.2011 will open a window of opportunity. This window will close on the actual election day 17.4. The decisions you make in this timeframe will define Finland’s direction for years to come.

There are two reasons why these are the most important elections of Finland’s post-war period. First, they take a stand on important questions. If there is no radical change in immigration policy now, the social and economic consequences are going to be massive and largely irreversible.

This is not just trivial intimidation. In these elections we shall make up our minds whether we shall take the course of Sweden, France, Britain and Germany. We need not do so.”

The speech also mentioned briefly the EU, reducing aid to developing countries and supporting recreational shooters, but its main emphasis was “immigration-criticism” and his long and self-sacrificing work, the loss of men, and fear-mongering that Finland is doomed to ruin unless “change” happens now:

“In no previous elections have the voters had the same opportunity to express themselves as now. After years of criticism of immigration [policy], our project culminates in these elections, and it is the culmination of the True Finns immigration-critical candidates.

This is a fact, which everybody knows deep down inside. The entire media and all the other political parties are unanimously attacking the True Finns group for the simple reason that a change in immigration policy hinges on whether we win or lose.

Our success in the election is what is being monitored. Our electoral victory is what is feared. If we win this election, the change can not be stopped. If we lose this election, our criticism of immigration [policy]shall be deemed as rejected and the multicultural steamroller will move on.”

On his familiar Hommaforum forum, Halla-aho summed up the last-minute atmosphere by quoting Tolkien:

“A great doom awaits you, either to rise above the height of all your fathers since the days of Elendil, or to fall into darkness with all that is left of your least.”

The election victory, which was christened jytky, became a reality. On Hommaforum, Halla-aho seemed to be a bit interested in a ministerial post, even though it was a little scary at the same time:

“It is clear that the mere visibility and a staggering number of votes forced to give me a reasonably visible and symbolically important task, but my honest opinion is that staying in the background actually offers a member of parliament like me the best possible potential. A prominent role should be given to those with the best technical know-how, and who do raise too many passions in people.”

The True Finns decided to fight it out in the opposition, but the administration committee chairmanship tasted sweet to Halla-aho. He signaled from the plenary session of April 25, 2011 the following:

“These are great days, and the proportions of the anti-immigrant revolution will be fully understood only in a longer perspective. Conversely, the tolerant people [anti-racists] will live in a nightmare, which they would not have been able to imagine a moment ago.”

In his blog on the same day, Halla-aho starts preparing his excited supporters for the precepts of his parliamentary work and that results would not happen immediately:

“The writing to create political influence on the Internet, by its own conditions, often feels like a carnival. It aims to ‘entertain’ the audience and attract attention. In political decision-making, especially at the highest levels of Government and in Parliament, this may not be the most efficient way of doing things. Influencing requires the maintenance of relations, particularly to official servants and other politicians, and decision-making takes place largely behind the scenes, at coffee tables and in corridors. Political decision-making is not entertaining and not transparent, and in this respect we need to adjust to the rules. In politics you need to advance in small steps, not thunderously.”

“You have given us your trust in the election. It will be measured in the next election. Until then, I ask you to trust that we will do our best, even if we are less visible in the public eye, and regardless of what the media are reporting about us. Evaluate the achievements in the course of four years, not in real time.”

Such a less public and behind-the-scenes strategy did not please everyone, and Halla-aho was forced to defend his strategy:

” When I say to play by the rules of the house, I just mean the method, not giving up our principles. Most of you probably knew that.”

“Compromises are inevitable in politics. Let us imagine a situation in which we promised a stop on family reunifications, if we agree, during the election period, not to change the status of [mandatory] Swedish at schools.”

“What should I do? What would be the about-turns, and a betrayal to voters?”

“Which in general is the most important thing: the preservation of the halo and the integrity of the anti-immigrant representatives or the fact that the anti-immigrant agenda will be promoted?”

Family reunification is in Halla-aho’s opinion the worst problem of our immigration policy. Reuniting families means, in his mind, that women and children will arrive, who in turn will give rise to more men, women and children. This would, after all, not be too bad, of course, since Halla-aho himself has a family of four children. This would, however, be in conflict with the aims of the far-right extreme nationalist Suomen Sisu association, which is openly against the “unnatural mixing of peoples” and following “the Swedish, French, German and British course”.

After “sending tanks” to the streets of Greece, and after being for a short time expelled from his parliamentary group and losing the administration committee presidency in the summer of 2012, Halla-aho reassured his supporters on Hommaforum:

“The promise of ‘change of tactics’ means that in my debate I will focus to not give the other party ‘easy pickings.'”

Halla-aho has seemingly been focused to believe that the always-sharp Swedish People’s Party MP Jörn Donner has sold himself cheap and believes the True Finns have calmed down as a party. When MP James Hirvisaari was kicked out of the True Finns and formed his own parliamentary group (Muutos 2011) for showing too visibly what the anti-immigration wing of the party really thought, Halla-aho will continue to influence matters behind the scenes. This is what he’s done:

Legal Initiatives

The Act amending the Penal Code , Chapter 17 (the law of breaching the sanctity of religion) 20/09/2013
The Penal Code Chapter 11, § 10 of the Council (the law on ethnic agitation) 09/20/2013
Law of the Firearms Act on 02.07.2013
Law of the Firearms Act on 02.07.2013
Law of the Firearms Act on 02.07.2013
Law of the Firearms Act 6 § on 07/02/2013
Law of the Firearms Act 6 § on 07/02/2013
Law of changing the Aliens Act § 51 and § 149 on 29.10.2012

Budget Initiatives

Refugees and asylum-seekers: of the proposed appropriation reduction of 28.9.2012
The EU Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows program SOLID subject to the proposed reduction of funds of 28.9.2012
The Ombudsman for Minorities and the National Discrimination Tribunal: the proposed reduction of the operating expenditure of 28.9.2012
“European Finland”: the proposed reduction of state aid allocation of 28.9.2012
The retired Presidents: the proposed reduction of the cost appropriation of 8.9.2012

Written Questions

The obligation to criminalize ethnic agitation 10/25/2013
Deportation of persons receiving a negative asylum or a residence permit 10/11/2013
Teacher’s possibilities of intervening disturbances in school 19/04/2013
International criminalization of faith criticism 29.11.2012
Refugee status and subsidiary protection status, the abolition of 22.8.2012

With the help of firearm laws, the anti-immigrant True Finns are working to change the direction of Finland’s preparedness to an external threat. One way to prepare for such a threat is for Finnish homes to be armed and home owners should carry more robust weapons than just pistols and air rifles.

Easier access to weapons and firearms is an important matter in the eyes of Halla-aho’s supporters. As soon as the parliamentary work had started, Halla-aho passed the firearms trainer course and made sure that the media and Hommaforum knew about this.

Halla-aho’s intention, revealed on Hommaforum, is to become an effective politician: “If the opposition wants to really affect things, one must be able to influence the government’s party representatives, and to be able to do it means being nice and sober”

He may already have had a little bit of success in this. Or maybe it’s just the general male mentality: “It’s harmless for boys to play with guns” which made MP Kari Rajamäki to approve of Halla-aho’s initiatives and state: “These are quite reasonable proposals.”

All in all, Halla-aho has acted exactly the way he promised his voters and the True Finns by suppressing refugees, suppressing minorities, and facilitating access to guns. In addition, he seeks as well to change the law on ethnic agitation so that Muslims and immigrants can be insulted publicly with impunity.

Taxpayers are paying Halla-aho to do this type of work as well as paying the salary of other True Finn MPs. These representatives are also – as sad it is to say – the representatives of our people around the world.

Reija Härkönen: Jussi Halla-ahon toiminta valtiopäivillä

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Migrant Tales

Reija Härkönen

Kun Jussi Halla-aho eduskuntavaaleja edeltävänä päivänä 16.4.2011 vielä kerran kehotti maahanmuuttajavastaisia äänestäjiä lähtemään liikkeelle, hän kiitteli omaa porukkaa ja vapaaehtoisia ja lisäksi perussuomalaisten Helsingin piiriä ja Kontulan perussuomalaisia järjestelyistä. Hän myös muistutti:

”Haluan muistuttaa vielä kerran, että tuleva painoarvoni riippuu yksinomaan äänimäärästäni. Siksi on tähdellisen tärkeää, että kaikki kannattajani käyvät äänestämässä minua, vaikka olisivat kuinka varmoja siitä, että menen muutenkin läpi.

Muualla maassa kehotan äänestämään muita perussuomalaisia, jotta saamme mahdollisimman suuren ryhmän.”

Halla-aho antoi myös suosituksensa ehdokkaista, joita hommalaiset aatteen miehet muualla Suomessa voisivat äänestää. Ei siksi, että perussuomalainen puolue sinänsä menestyisi, vaan jotta tunnustukselliset maahanmuuttajavastaiset, ns. nuivat ehdokkaat saisivat taaksensa mahdollisimman suuren eduskuntaryhmän.

Samassa yhteydessä Halla-aho julkaisi vielä viimeisen kerran vaalinaluspuheensa. Puhe on tuomiopäivän tekstiä, mutta kun sitä lukee korostetun selkeästi artikuloiva, ujon oloinen mies, vaikutus on aatteen ulkopuoliseen kuuntelijaan lähinnä surkuhupaisa. Sekö lienee syy, vaiko muu peittely, kun tuo sivusto teksteineen ja videoineen on piilotettu eetteriin. Onneksi sieltä on sentään kaikki löydettävissä, jotta pääsemme tutkimaan, millaisin teesein Halla-aho lähti vaaleihin:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110519104548/http://halla-aho.com/index.php/etusivu/loppurutistus-osa-11-16-4-2011/

Halla-aho on otsikoinut puheensa ”Muutos on mahdollinen” ja aloittaa puheensa

”Olemme historiallisen mullistuksen edessä. 6.4.2011 aukeaa ikkuna muutokselle.

Ikkuna sulkeutuu varsinaisena vaalipäivänä 17.4. Se, millaisia ratkaisuja sinä teet tämän aikaikkunan sisällä, määrittelee Suomen suunnan vuosiksi eteenpäin.

Nämä ovat Suomen sodan jälkeisen historian tärkeimmät vaalit kahdestakin syystä. Ensinnäkin niissä otetaan kantaa poikkeuksellisen tärkeisiin kysymyksiin. Mikäli maahanmuuttopolitiikassa ei tapahdu jyrkkää muutosta nyt, yhteiskunnalliset ja kansantaloudelliset seuraukset tulevat olemaan massiivisia ja suurelta osin peruuttamattomia.

Tämä ei ole katteetonta pelottelua. Näissä vaaleissa otetaan kantaa siihen, onko Ruotsin, Ranskan, Britannian ja Saksan tie myös meidän tiemme. Sen ei tarvitse olla.”

Puheessa mainitaan lyhyesti myös EU, kehitysapu ja aseharrastajien asia, mutta pääteema on ”maahanmuuttokriittisyys”, pitkä ja uhrautuva työ, miestappiotkin, ja pelottelu sillä, että Suomi on tuhoon tuomittu, ellei ”muutosta” nyt tapahdu:

”Yksissäkään aiemmissa vaaleissa ei äänestäjällä ole ollut samanlaista mahdollisuutta ottaa kantaa, kuin nyt. Vuosia kestänyt maahanmuuttokriittinen projekti kulminoituu näihin vaaleihin ja se kulminoituu perussuomalaisten maahanmuuttokriittisiin ehdokkaisiin.

Tämä on tosiasia, jonka kaikki sisimmässään tietävät. Koko media ja kaikki muut puolueet ovat yksimielisenä laumana perussuomalaisten kimpussa siitä yksinkertaisesta syystä, että muutos maahanmuuttopolitiikassa voittaa tai häviää meidän mukanamme.

Meidän vaalimenestyksemme on se, mitä seurataan. Meidän vaalivoittomme on se, mitä pelätään.

Jos me voitamme nämä vaalit, muutosta ei voi pysäyttää. Jos me häviämme nämä vaalit, maahanmuuttokriittisyys katsotaan torjutuksi ja monikulttuurinen höyryjyrä jatkaa kulkuaan.”

Hommaforumilla Halla-aho kiteytti viime hetken tunnelmansa Tolkien-lainaukseen:

A great doom awaits you, either to rise above the height of all your fathers since the days of Elendil, or to fall into darkness with all that is left of your kin.

”Jytkyhän” sieltä sitten tuli. Hommaforumilla Halla-aho haaveili jo hiukan ministeripaikastakin, vaikkakin se samalla vähän pelotti:

”On selvää, että pelkkä näkyvyyteni ja huikea äänimääräni pakottavat antamaan minulle jonkin kohtuullisen näkyvän ja symbolisestikin merkittävän tehtävän, mutta oma vilpitön mielipiteeni on, että taka-alalla pysyttely tarjoaa minun kaltaiselleni kansanedustajalle tosiasiallisesti parhaat vaikutusmahdollisuudet. Näkyvimpiin tehtäviin kannattaa valita niitä, joilla on paras tekninen osaaminen, ja jotka eivät kiihota ihmisiä tavattomasti.”

Hallitukseen ei sitten kuitenkaan päästy, mutta hallintovaliokunnan puheenjohtajuus maistui makealta. Eduskunnan täysistunnosta Halla-aho viestitti 25.4.2011 Hommaforumille:

”Nämä ovat hienoja päiviä, ja nuivan kumouksen mittasuhteet tullaan ymmärtämään täysin vasta, kun niihin saadaan ajallista perspektiiviä. Kääntäen: suvaitsevaisto elää painajaista, jota se ei olisi osannut hetki sitten kuvitella.”

Blogissaan Halla-aho alkoi samana päivänä valmistaa kiihkoisaa kannattajajoukkoaan eduskuntatyöskentelyn lainalaisuuksiin ja siihen, että kovasti odotetut tulokset eivät ihan heti ole näkyvissä:

”Kansalaisvaikuttamisessa, kuten verkkokirjoittelussa, vallitsevat omat, usein hieman karnevalistiset lainalaisuutensa. Siinä pyritään “viihdyttämään” yleisöä ja herättämään huomiota. Poliittisessa päätöksenteossa, etenkin korkeimmalla tasolla eli hallituksessa ja eduskunnassa, tämä ei välttämättä ole tehokkain tapa. Vaikuttaminen edellyttää suhteiden ylläpitoa etenkin virkakuntaan ja muihin poliitikkoihin, ja päätöksenteko tapahtuu suurelta osin kulisseissa, kahvipöydissä ja kuluaareissa. Poliittinen päätöksenteko ei ole viihteellistä eikä läpinäkyvää, ja tässä suhteessa lusikka on otettava kauniiseen käteen. Politiikassa asioita edistetään hivuttamalla, ei räjäyttämällä.”

”Te olette antaneet meille luottamuksenne vaaleissa. Seuraavan kerran luottamusta mitataan seuraavissa vaaleissa. Siihen asti pyydän teitä luottamaan siihen, että teemme parhaamme, vaikka olisimme aiempaa vähemmän julkisuudessa ja riippumatta siitä, mitä media tekemisistämme raportoisi. Arvioikaa aikaansaannoksiamme neljän vuoden kuluttua, älkää reaaliaikaisesti.”

Tällainen kulisseihin vetäytyminen ei kaikkia miellyttänyt ja Halla-aho joutuikin puolustamaan strategiaansa:

”Kun sanon, että on toimittava “talon tavalla”, en tarkoita periaatteilla huoraamista vaan ainoastaan metodipuolta. Useimmat varmaan tämän ymmärsivätkin.”

”Kompromissit ovat politiikassa väistämättömiä. Kuvitellaanpa tilanne, jossa meille luvataan perheenyhdistämisen lopettaminen, jos me suostumme olemaan vaalikauden ajan kajoamatta pakkoruotsiin.

Mitä pitäisi tehdä? Mikä olisi takinkääntöä ja äänestäjien pettämistä?

Kumpi ylipäänsä on tärkeintä: nuivien edustajien sädekehän ja integriteetin varjeleminen vai se, että nuiva asia etenee päätöksenteossa? ”

Perheenyhdistäminen on Halla-ahon mielestä maahanmuuttopolitiikkamme pahin ongelma. Se kun tarkoittaa sitä, että maahan tulee naisia ja lapsia, jotka taas synnyttävät lisää miehiä ja naisia ja lapsia. Eihän siinä tietysti muuten mitään olisi, onhan Halla-aholla itselläänkin jo neljä lasta, mutta kun nämä ”muut” lapset tarkoittaisivat Suomen Sisunkin kammoksumaa ”kansojen luonnotonta sekoittamista” ja ”Ruotsin, Ranskan, Saksan ja Britannian tietä”.

Läheteltyään tankkeja kaduille Kreikassa ja saatuaan vähäksi aikaa potkut eduskuntaryhmästä ja menetettyään hallintovaliokunnan puheenjohtajuuden kesällä 2012 Halla-aho rauhoitteli tukijoukkojaan Hommaforumilla:

”Lupaus “tyylin muuttumisesta” tarkoittaa, että keskityn olemaan antamatta keskustelun toiselle osapuolelle “helppoja”.”

Halla-aho onkin sitten keskittynyt, jopa siihen malliin, että aina niin terävä Jörn Donnerkin on mennyt halpaan ja pitää perussuomalaista puoluetta rauhoittuneena. Kun Hirvisaarikin potkaistiin Muutos 2011-puolueeseen tuomasta persunuivan joukon tarkoitusperiä liian selkeästi esille ja Halla-aho jatkaa ”muutosta” kulisseissa, on syytä tarkastella, mitä Halla-aho on toistaiseksi puuhaillut Suomen parlamentissa:

Lakialoitteet

Laki rikoslain 17 luvun muuttamisesta (laki uskonrauhan rikkomisesta) 20.9.2013
Laki rikoslain 11 luvun 10 §:n muuttamisesta (laki kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan) 20.9.2013
Laki ampuma-aselain muuttamisesta 7.2.2013
Laki ampuma-aselain muuttamisesta 7.2.2013
Laki ampuma-aselain muuttamisesta 7.2.2013
Laki ampuma-aselain 6 §:n muuttamisesta 7.2.2013
Laki ampuma-aselain 6 §:n muuttamisesta 7.2.2013
Laki ulkomaalaislain 51 ja 149 §:n muuttamisesta 29.10.2012

Talousarvioaloitteet

Pakolaisten ja turvapaikanhakijoiden vastaanottoon ehdotetun määrärahanvähentäminen 28.9.2012
EU:n yhteisvastuuta ja maahanmuuttovirtojen hallintaa koskevan yleisohjelman alaisille SOLID- rahastoille ehdotetun määrärahan vähentäminen 28.9.2012
Vähemmistövaltuutetun ja syrjintälautakunnan toimintamenoihin ehdotetun määrärahan vähentäminen 28.9.2012
Eurooppalainen Suomi ry:n valtionapuun ehdotetun määrärahan vähentäminen 28.9.2012
Eläkkeellä olevien presidenttien menoihin ehdotetun määrärahan vähentäminen 28.9.2012

Kirjalliset kysymykset

Loukkaamisen kriminalisointivelvoite kiihottamisessa kansanryhmää vastaan 25.10.2013
Kielteisen turvapaikka- tai oleskelulupapäätöksen saaneen maasta poistaminen 11.10.2013
Opettajan edellytykset puuttua häiriötilanteisiin koulussa 19.4.2013
Uskontojen arvostelun kansainvälinen kriminalisointi 29.11.2012
Pakolaisaseman ja toissijaisen suojeluaseman lakkauttaminen 22.8.2012

Aselakeja ”nuivat” pyrkivät muuttamaan siksi, että ns. ulkoiselta uhalta varautumisen vuoksi jokainen koti on syytä aseistaa ja kodeissa olisi myös oltava järeämmät aseet, kuin pelkät tarkkuuspistoolit tai ilmakiväärit.

Aseiden ja aseluvan saannin helpottaminen on yksi Halla-ahon kannattajien tärkeimmiksi katsomista asioista. Heti eduskuntatyöskentelyn aloitettuaan Halla-aho suoritti myös ampuma-asekouluttajan kurssin ja piti tarkkaan huolta siitä, että tieto saavutetusta pätevyydestä tavoitti myös median ja Hommaforumin.

Halla-ahon Hommaforumilla esittämä pyrkimys tulla sutkiksi poliitikoksi: ”Jos oppositiosta käsin haluaa oikeasti vaikuttaa johonkin, on pystyttävä vaikuttamaan hallituspuolueiden edustajiin, ja voidakseen tehdä sen on pyrittävä olemaan mukava ja maltillinen” on ehkä jo vähän onnistunutkin.

Vai liekö sitten vain miesten tyypillistä ”täytyyhän pojilla pyssyt olla”-mentaliteettia se, kun aselakiehdotuksia käsiteltäessä Kari Rajamäkikin totesi, että ”nämähän ovat ihan järkeviä ehdotuksia”.

Kaiken kaikkiaan Halla-aho on siis toiminut juuri siinä tehtävässä, mihin hänet on perussuomalaisiin valittu: pakolaisten aseman heikentäjänä, vähemmistöjen aseman heikentäjänä ja aselakien helpottajana. Lisäksi hän pyrkii muuttamaan lakia siten, että pakolaisten ja muslimimaahanmuuttajien parjaaminen helpottuisi, eikä enää tulisi tuomioita kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan.

Tästä työstä me maksamme Jussi Halla-aholle ja monelle muulle perussuomalaiselle kansanedustajan palkkaa. Nämä edustajat ovat myös – niin surullista kuin se onkin – kansamme edustajia maailmalla.

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