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Ykkösaamu interview highlighted Halla-aho’s contempt for Human Rights

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Yle’s Ykkösamu talk show exposed to a tee what the parliament’s new foreign affairs committee chairperson thinks of Human Rights. The first question by the host forced Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion, to reinforce his contempt of Human Rights.

The interview was done after Halla-aho began his mandate as chairperson of parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

“The Perussuomalaisets’ view [on human rights] is that the right to move to Finland and remain here is not a human right but a privilege,” he told the host, adding that Finns’ human rights, like the right to security and wellbeing, should be taken into account.

We have only to visit his past statements and the aim of the PS to end all asylum seekers from coming to Finland, especially from Africa and Muslim-majority countries.

In plain English, Halla-aho loathes asylum seekers.

Let’s give Halla-aho a few pointers on Human Rights and cut through the chase.

Yes, there is another point that Halla-aho made about the human rights of Finns. He states this with a poker face even if his past writings have encouraged foreigners to rape politicians like Eva Biaudet and Tarja Filatov.

Convicted PS MP of ethnic agitation voted to chair parliament’s foreign affairs committee

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Migrant Tales

THE STORY WAS UPDATED

The new chairperson of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Jussi Halla-aho, did not get such a warm reception. In a highly unprecedented move by the committee members, 11 voted in a secret ballot in favor of Halla-aho while six abstained.

Halla-aho took over the committee’s chair Mika Niikko, its former chairperson, resigned in disgrace after suggesting that some Western leader should assure Russia that Ukraine will not seek Nato membership.

Even if the PS wouldn’t care less, too many in Finland have not forgotten who Halla-aho is and that he was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion. The former PS chairperson’s writings in the 2000s are full of racist Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, or for suggesting that three women politicians be raped by foreigners.

Halla-aho has not apologized or regretted his past writings.

Below are some of his recent tweets:

Halla-aho tweets (left) that we’d have “no reason to masturbate” if there were no news about migration and asylum seekers. On the right, he states: “Trump is the best thing that happened in a long time to the United States and the Western world.” Source: Twitter

Considering that people like Halla-aho could build a political future by spreading racism, those very things he said have come back to haunt and bite him.

He might get a lot of votes, but he would never become prime minister, never mind president.

Thanks to Halla-aho, the PS has become even more racist and openly flirted with neo-Nazi and far-right groups.

Should we be surprised that six MPs abstained on Halla-aho’s appointment to chair the foreign affairs committee?

Not at all.

His racist writings and opinions will follow him till the end of his days.

Jussi Halla-aho, who wanted the Greek army to crush protestors ten years ago, is expected to replace Mika Niikko

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Migrant Tales

According to Helsingin Sanomat, former Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson Jussi Halla-ago is expected to replace Mika Nikko, the chairperson of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, according to Helsingin Sanomat. Niikko resigned Tuesday evening after he suggested in a tweet that the West should assure Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine will not join Nato.

While Niikko is a loose canon, Halla-aho isn’t any better. He wrote in 2011, on Facebook that Greece should have a military junta to crush protests. He was temporarily banned from the party’s parliamentary group for the comment.

No media in Finland has mentioned how inappropriate Halla-aho would be as chairperson of the foreign affairs committee for suggesting, among other matters, a military coup in Greece.

In 2011, he was temporarily banned from the party’s parliamentary group after he wrote on Facebook that the military junta could best solve the crisis in Greece by crushing protestors.

PS chair of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee resigns after “careless” Ukraine tweet

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP and head of the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Mika Nikko, resigned today after he tweeted that come Western leader should assure Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine must not join Nato.

The tweet, which was in conflict with Finland’s foreign policy, was deleted. Even so, it had created quite a stir and it was in the evening when Niikko announced that he’d resign as chair of the foreign affairs committee.

Surprised?

Not at all. Nikko, who has made a name for himself from his homophobic and Islamophobic stances, was never cut for the job. There is speculation that former PS leader Jussi Halla-aho named him as a joke to the foreign affairs committee chair.

Apart from his close relations with China that pay his visits, Nikko recently created headlines when he contracted Corona and used parasiticides as medication.

However, today’s inappropriate Nato tweet was the stick that broke the camel’s back and reinforces that he is a loose canon.

**The Chinese government has paid a number of trips to the country raising a number of conflict of interest questions. Sources: Iltalehti and Suomen Kuvalehti**

The PS will decide on Thursday who will replace Nikko. Some possible candidates are PS chairperson Riikka Purra, MP Sakari Puisto, and Halla-aho.

Far-right terrorism in Finland has many direct and indirect supporters

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

The main agents of ideological violence are not isolated “lone wolves” but are usually interconnected with communities, non-violent agents and legal entities, at times even including connections to law enforcement personnel.

Mihai Varga

Five white Finns were detained Tuesday and remanded by a Satakunta District Court Friday, at the request of the police, on suspicion of terrorist offenses, according to a statement by the Southwestern Finland Police.

The police said that this far-right suspected terror offense is the first in Finland.

**The face of Finnish far-right terrorism. Source: Southwestern Finland Police.**

“We have found in their possession terrorist material which, when examined in conjunction with other criminal investigation material, reinforces the impression that they have become radicalized and gives reason to suspect them of terrorist offenses,” said Detective Superintendent Toni Sjöblom, head of the investigation.

While the detention of this group is good news and no longer poses a threat, the interesting question is to see the reaction.

If the suspects were Muslims, Finland would have a serious knee-jerk reaction from Islamophobic parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, National Coalition Party (Kokoomus), and others to draft tighter terrorist laws and more surveillance powers to the police.

Whoever is elected as the chair of the PS will perpetuate Finland’s lie

Posted on August 14, 2021 by Migrant Tales

The annual of the xenophobic Perussuomalaiset (PS)* in Seinäjoki will elect Saturday the party’s next chairperson after Jussi Halla-aho announced in June that he would not seek a new term.

While it is a foregone conclusion that the PS’ first vice president Riikka Purra will be the party’s new chairperson, it is also clear that the party’s main selling point will be xenophobia.

Purra is one of the most vociferous Islamophobes of the PS. She is also an ethnonationalist who believes that brown and black people will take over white Finns. Conclusive evidence of this is a tweet below, where a person with a master’s degree from a Finnish university doing her Ph.D. claims that she can intuitively spot who a Finn is.

Her racist and ethnocentric comment, which supposedly does not include brown or black Finns, is as big of a mystery as the PS. How is it possible that a country with one of the best education systems in the world has created fertile ground for the growth of Finland’s biggest opposition party that is openly racist?

Each country hides a big lie, which enables those in power to perpetuate their power.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., who wrote an insightful bibliography of one of the US’ greatest social thinkers, James Baldwin, considered the “lie” to be a “broad and powerful architecture of false assumptions” by which the value gap is maintained.

**Nobody in the Perussuomalaiset [party] wants a multiethnic or culturally [diverse] Finland, which is consistently mentioned in our program and in everything that we do.” Source: Twitter**

In the same light as Baldwin exposed and spoke candidly about the “lie,” Finland also houses and defends its lie.

The lie permits most of the media to treat the PS with kid gloves and help them gain more power through uncritical opinion pieces and editorials.

One of the biggest enablers of the PS is the Finnish media, which gave it a platform to transform itself from a small party to one of the biggest in Finland.

The lie has also blinded us from our bigotry and exceptionalist sandbox. It has also emboldened racists to attack and create a hostile environment for migrants and minorities.

How many migrants and minorities believe that they are equal before the law even if this is one of our inalienable rights?

Whoever is elected to lead the PS today will continue its stranglehold on Finland’s lie.

The PS is a lie.

The Finnish Perussuomalaiset who declared their love to Donald Trump and other autocrats

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Migrant Tales

In English, we have an expression, a horse’s ass. A horse’s ass is a person who is stupid and looks like a horse’s ass after their statement. Sometimes, a comment that makes you look like a horse’s ass may appear to be months later.

The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is Finland’s party that adores former President Donald Trump. Not only that, but they like the autocratic politics of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán and Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki.

PS parliamentary group leader Ville Tavio went as far as to declare his love for the undemocratic regimes of Poland and Hungary.

Tweets Halla-aho in November: “Trump is the best thing that happened in a long time to the United States and to the west. Tweets MP Niikko: “Trump’s campaign is similar to what the PS does. Trump has spiritual superiority. And then Russian premier Vladimir Putin: “Trump is a very qualified leader. His vitality enables him to do away with viruses.” Source: Mannerheim-projekti.

Startling revelations – that make the PS leadership look like a horse’s ass – were uncovered in a few books that wrote about the chaotic last days of Trump’s administration.

Riikka Purra is a poor copy of Jussi Halla-aho

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Jussi Halla-aho’s heir-apparent appears to be the party’s first vice-president, Riikka Purra. While Halla-aho has swung the party to the far-right and encouraging xenophobia, Purra has parroted the PS leader’s racist soundbites but with questionable results.

Like Halla-aho, Purra loathes Muslims and people of color. So much so, in fact, that she warned about ethnic replacement hogwash and how Finland’s population was becoming more diverse. In her book, brown, Afro Finns and other visible minorities are a threat to white Finland.

You don’t need to have a lot of knowledge on politics to understand that most of the catchphrases used by the PS have their origin from other xenophobic groups in Europe. One of these used in the last municipal elections was “take Finland back.”

**Is it a coincidence that the PS copies xenophobic catchphrases from other EU countries and parties? Source: CityA.M.**

Writes the Finnish Security Police (Supo) in its last-year report: “One of the most noteworthy ideological motives of far-right terrorists is known as the Great Replacement conspiracy theory based on the idea of a fundamental threat posed by immigration and multiculturalism to the white population of Western countries. Views reflecting the idea of a Great Replacement have been highlighted in several far-right terrorist attacks.”

The media must fact-check what xenophobic politicians spread and claim

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Migrant Tales

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED

It is a good sign that some Finnish media like Yle are fact-checking what politicians say. However, it is a bit too late because the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* have built their popularity on making false claims about migrants.

I’m pretty certain that if we were to do a fact-check on all the claims about migrants since 2010, most of them would be false, grossly exaggerated, and outright lies.

In just a matter of a week, PS chairperson Jussi Halla-aho, who was convicted in 2012 for ethnic agitation and breaching the sanctity of religion, got called out for making false statements about migrants.

One of these false statements made by Halla-aho recently was that low-wage workers come to Finland, work for a few months, and then quit their jobs and live off social welfare. This is totally false.

Halla-aho made another false statement when he stated that one-third of income, housing benefit recipients are immigrants.

It’s one of the oldest tricks in the books used against journalists by xenophobic politicians is the following: A politician makes an outrageous claim to a journalist, who doesn’t even bother to question its veracity. Eventually, the journalist may do some investigating and find out that he or she was fed malarkey. By then it’s too late because the story is already out there.

For the PS, migrants and foreigners are a non-stop obsession. Some, like Halla-aho, have built their political career on victimizing, bashing, and spreading racist lies and exaggerations about migrants.

Is Jussi Halla-aho’s deep voice fake?

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Migrant Tales

Elizabeth Holmes built a 9-billion-dollar company called Theranos from scratch that promised to test blood with a single drop. One of the many deceptions she used to trick investors was her deep voice. As a woman, it gave her more authority.

Those who have watched Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairperson Jussi Halla-aho for a few years will note that his voice has changed. He usually switches to a deep voice when he is answering questions from reporters and on talk shows.

Considering that Holmes is a woman and Halla-aho’s deficiency is that he lacks charisma, does he fake his voice to make up for his dull image?

Below is Halla-aho speaking in 2013 and the video below that is from last month.

Note the difference.

Just like Holmes, Halla-aho is marketing urban legends about migrants and minorities. He does so hellbent on polarizing and stigmatizing even more migrants and minorities in this country.

Even if about half a million people voted for the PS in the parliamentary elections of 2019, Holmes succeed as well at fooling investors of hundreds of millions of dollars on fake promises and deception.