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Rule of law declining across EU, report warns (www.theguardian.com)

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Civil liberties network says in states where far-right parties influence power, rule-of-law deterioration risks becoming systemic

Archived version: https://archive.ph/MEKJp

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[–] mumblerfish 23 points 3 months ago (7 children)

In Sweden, some of the policies about to be implemented, being evaluated, and lauded:

search zones; temporary zones where the police don't need suspicion before a search of someone. This while a report came out recently which shows that when it comes to drug possession, the police does this to immigrants anyway, basically.
improper behavour should get you deported. You would not have to commit a crime to get deported. Just "improper behaviour" should be enough. In comments, politicians commenting the implementation of this law has said that being a victim of a crime should be qualifying for this law, like assaulted.
no politics at universities. In an extreme anti free speech effort a swedish university banned "any conversation that can be interpreted as political by anyone hearing the conversation". The minister for higher education, a member of the liberal party, praised the measures taken by the university. The policy was removed after a few days (it has been suspected that the policy was put in place to prevent a protest organized by a peace organization against an israeli weapons manufacturer that was invited to the uni.). The universities are still being threatened to with an investigation to root out "wokeism".
whole families of children commiting gang related crimes should be evicted from their homes.
public servants should be required by law to rat out children from families who may not have all their papers in order. Doctors, nurses, teachers, librarians, and similar, it has been proposed, should be required to tell the police if they suspect a family, so that they can be deported.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

wtf that is super messed up and very wrong. I'm just thinking that people in my country would literally riot if the government tried to implement changes like this. But then again the governments always introduce these types of laws in very sneaky ways in order for people not to take notice.

[–] mumblerfish 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'd hope. The only one of these that sparked some protest was the one about public servants. Many unions protested that one, I think it was something like enough unions to represent 30% of the population or something. But what seems to be happening is that they'll single out one group, like teachers, and excuse all others from the law, they are too weak to put up enough pressure by themselves. Then they go on to the next.

The rest no one really cares about. In a quite segregated society, search zones will not target many ethnic swedes. So they don't care.

Then the largest opposition party is trying to trump the rightwing parties in how authoritarian and xenophobic they can be, so they mostly say nothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The good old divide and conquer. It's frustrating that it always works so well everywhere.

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