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Calls for action as Swedish TV rejects anti-immigration ad

Published: 02 September, 2010, 17:48
Edited: 12 September, 2010, 02:25


A dispute over freedom of speech is raging in Sweden after an anti-immigration campaign advert for a political party was rejected by broadcasters there.

 
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Samuil September 02, 2010, 21:32 quote
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This is a joke, the ad shows 2 unrelated issues, immigrants & pensioner. There isn't a choice between the two, that is purely fiction and that is the real reason the ad wasn't aired. SD airtime is still valid and they are allowed to show another vid if it isn't RETARDED. The Swe TV station is COMMERCIAL and they have also allowed debates about immigration as do ALL OTHER MAJOR NEWS SOURCES incl state TV! SD ("Swedish Democrats") Party is fore-casted not to get a single seat in the parliament, knowing the people aren't interested in a party of ignorant rednecks that would be out of their league in decision making, SD decided to purposefully pull this stunt to grab what attention they could. Lastly, Denmark, what a joke from that country, which forbids its own citizens to vote in Danish elections if they move to another country, even if it's within the EU. Simply because their redneck rightwing party, DF, doesn't expect people who travel & have a brain, to vote for them. Which other western country could come up with this anti-democratic garbage? To think that THEY should voice criticism about Sweden, is laughable!

Shilka.maskirovka September 03, 2010, 16:41 quote
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Nr3 to answer Samuil and the rest of the world Yes Sweden DO NEED UN election OBSERVERS but it is to LATE as this smear campaign made by a completely based media started already in January. People in the West generally feared the U.S.S.R or the Soviet Union media embargo during the cold war. SWEDEN is under such an embargo, it is a thought police that runs everything; it is corruption from the top down. WE NEED UN OBSERVERS to secure free and unbiased elections YES. We need some kind of control system to review our OWN medias Unbiased nature that claims to be free and not swaying in any direction. I KNOW they would fail immediately if there where such a control system. They would fail in every aspect of it, if RT would check its unbiased claim they would find it ludicrous and one sided. Any international News Agency would find the same answer. A non functional debatable banana republic with a two party system and a completely corrupt media outlet. What we got is a dreamworld built up by a completely biased two party system. Yes there are other parties but they are not the parties that rules Sweden after Election Day. The ones that does it is the two parties that would refuse cooperation with a party that get into parlament. People votes they do vote as they do cause they live in this reality they show. This is not a show. This is the reality they show on this TV add and Denmark should have golden medal for pointing this out. The citizens over here is clearly to brainwashed to see what is fundamentally wrong in this society. TYVM

Count Cash September 03, 2010, 22:27 quote
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Sweden is a socially engineered state, even their internet country code is SE. In Sweden the whole population is indocrinated from birth via controlled teaching and media into the model 'social' citizen; lined up so that the achievers don't complain when they are robbed to look after the idle ones. Sweden is often said to have commie tendencies, and it does exactly. How they get away with it, because they don't threaten anyone, and indeed provide a good NATO tool (outside but within). Therefore it is no surprise that they are applying censorship to immigration issues. Sweden is filling gradually with immigrants, you would have to be blind not to notice it. Some parties have, and realise Sweden itself has a huge problem being manufactured for itself. The elite is Sweden however, just don't care, they sit above the socially engineered state as royalty, gazing down on the socially engineered masses. For them any extra numbers are good numbers to rule as subjects. So Sweden is terrified and stifles free speech, when it relates to internal issues that question their socially engineered values.They are always top at preaching to others, when either doing nothing, or doing something bad themselves!

Carl September 11, 2010, 22:24 quote
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Samuil: Politics are about how to spend money. SD suggests to cut down on expense A to be able to increase funding for expense B, it's as simple as that. All other parties do the same. It's a fact that SD consistently scores above 4% (the Parliament representation threshold) in public opinion surveys and that they should be treated as any other major political actor on the Swedish arena. But they are not, they are being bullied in ways that would be unthinkable in other Western countries (although I bet that historically, NSDAP and KPSS would approve of this). Sweden needs independent election observers and the Swedes themselves need to actually hear what the rest of the world thinks about them. I spend a lot of time abroad and people think that we are extremists, honestly.

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