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Björn Ulvaeus is very tough on the law.
As one of the two ABBA songwriters, Björn Ulvaeus is one of the most successful and influential artists and songwriters in pop history. But it has also shown great community involvement over many years. In an article published Monday in the leading Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Björn Ulvaeus takes a crushing position against Sweden’s criminal policy.
– When criminal gangs destroy trust in our most important institutions, it is time to take a closer look at privacy issues. The goal must be, in the first instance, to make the life of the criminal very difficult to live, writes Ulvaeus.
– It infiltrates institutions
It refers to an article in the Aftonbladet newspaper that describes how criminal clans have infiltrated the employment service, municipalities and other public institutions. For example, an insider in the Swedish Public Employment Service must have approved offenders’ applications for grants to employ family members.
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The police information in the case is just one of many examples of a type of crime that threatens society at its foundations, the artist believes.
“All citizens and supportive taxpayers must feel humiliated and saddened to see how the institutions we trust, and which have been built frugally by those who came before us, are now infiltrated and exploited by criminals,” Ulvaeus writes.
– Privacy destroys
In the article, the ABBA composer discusses how Sweden defines the term privacy. It states that the practice of the Swedish Privacy Law prevents society from making life miserable for criminal gangs. Ulvaeus believes that the law protects citizens as much as it should in a liberal democracy.
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But: “Unfortunately, it also creates fantastic business opportunities for organized crime.” The reason, according to Ulvaeus, is that the authorities become “silos” where one does not have the opportunity to control what the other does. It is necessary to reflect on what privacy should be, thinks Ulvaeus, and writes:
– “Your mother is a whore!” some perceive it as a rude taunt and a violation of privacy if one is the target of the taunt. Others (like me) think that the words say much more about the one who pronounces them, and therefore they continue without affecting the one who said the words their great frustration.
– Same threat as Islamists
– It’s hard to understand now, but only a few years ago, security cameras in public spaces were discussed for privacy reasons. As if it were troublesome to be watched, writes Ulvaeus.
Few perceive these cameras as offensive now, notes the artist, who draws lines to an Islamist attack in Brussels a few years ago.
– Criminal leagues pose the same threat to society as Islamists and must also be fought with the help of registries and databases, Ulvaues writes.
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Then draw a line between two extremes: total anarchy where the authorities know nothing about you – a kind of crude capitalism totally without state intervention, and on the other hand: a society with total surveillance where the authorities know absolutely everything about everyone.
Where should Sweden be on the scale ?, asks Ulvaeus, hinting in his answer:
– I think there is a place on the scale where the life of the criminal becomes difficult to live. A pragmatic center on our political spectrum should be able to agree on where this place is. The situation becomes unbearable.
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