Today’s A-studio with Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Mauri Peltokangas, head of the administration committee, and MP Tytti Tupparainen of the Social Democratic Party was disappointing when they spoke of the law on “refoulement,” also popularly known as the “pushback law.”
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Even if Tupparainen said that human rights were a cornerstone of Finland’s rule of law, Peltokangas was willing to throw Finland’s human rights commitments under the bus because “national security overrode everything.”
Using the excuse of “national security” to trash human rights, internaiontal rights and the rule of law, is a flimsy argument. The media, and journalists like host Marja Sannikka, who treat this question as a given fact, is dangerous and irresponsible. Many dictatorships in have used the “national security” argument to undermine civil rights.
Apart from the Finnish-Russian border crisis, Finland is in deep demographic difficulties. An article in Helsingin Sanomat said that low birth rates would force Finland’s population to plummet in 90 years to just over a million from 5.6 million now.
The government, which comprises of the National Coalition Party and the radical-right PS has done everything possible to make Finland an unfriendly country for migrants and thus precipitate and exacerbate our demographic woes.
Even the president of Finland, Aleksander Stubb in the tradition of former President Sauli Niinistö, who didn’t like Muslims and Russians, has singled out the Russian community by suggesting that their dual citizenship rights are on the chopping block.
Shameful and xenophobic.
PS MP Mauri Peltokangas, who is a member of the far-right Suomen Sixu association and chairs the administrative committee, and SDP MP Tytti Tupparainen. Soruce: Yle
