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Moderates’ legal policy spokesman Johan Forssell and party leader Ulf Kristersson on their way to the press conference.
The plot about the gang murder it now falls more thickly than rain after a few warm weeks in August.
On Thursday, September 17, it was the moderates’ turn to mix interesting proposals with nonsense and the odd stupidity.
The site was the Riksdag press center, outside of which a coffee machine had leaked, flooded the carpet and threatened to cause moisture damage.
A culture writer had certainly found ominous symbolism in this scene and gathered 6,000 hard-to-chew signs that Sweden is a Titanic about to head for the icebergs of criminal clans.
Two minutes and With 40 seconds late, there have been times when the moderates were still on time, so Ulf Kristersson and Johan Forsell, the party’s legal policy spokesman, made their entrance.
The party leader was in a good mood and quickly fired the old standard ammunition consisting of visiting zones, anonymous witnesses, and double punishment for gang criminals. Things the stupid government said no to.
The mischievous might have objected that a party that claims to support the state does not gain credibility by abandoning the important inter-bloc talks on organized crime, but this was not the time or place for that kind of sadness.
After a few minutes so Forsell took over the story and, for security reasons, repeated what his boss had just said.
That the courts will not award anonymous witnesses more than a very marginal meaning as evidence and that therefore the plot is likely to be a blow in the air, of course, was not mentioned, but as I said, this was not the suitable place for sadness.
Other vigorous ideas emerged. As criminalization of belonging to criminal gangs.
It’s not necessarily a stupid idea, but once it’s been hackneyed through the necessary constitutional inquiry and beaten twice in the Riksdag with options in between, it’s probably the grandchildren of today’s young gangsters who can be squeezed out.
“Strongly strengthened opportunities to intercept and monitor gang members” did not sound entirely pleasant.
I do not doubt that the laws in question need to be modernized, but this may very well end as when fighting terrorism, with the sections being used to search for illegal downloads of any old Dylan license plates.
In the end, three pieces of news were presented. Better yet, serious crime is one of our most serious problems that cannot only be stopped with existing tools. New thoughts are needed.
For a conservative legal security fundamentalist like myself, these proposals didn’t seem too scary at first glance either.
The idea is that all relevant authorities should have a clear political requirement to actively participate in the fight against crime.
For example, the Swedish Business Registration Office, CSN and the Swedish Transport Agency will participate in the collaboration. That should be the case today.
Expulsion of more gang members? An investigation that wants to play with the Alien Control Act is already gathering dust.
It proposes that potential terrorists who pose a qualified security threat be sent home. Not like today, there must be a threat to national security. Sure why not.
Say what you want about the moderates, but they are not a group of Swedish democrats who want to break the European Convention and deport people to torture.
Only now should the evidence not be kept secret. There must also be a reasonable possibility of being able to defend yourself in this context. The past contains more than one stigma within the area.
The best proposal was to facilitate the seizure of expensive watches, cars, and everything else that professional criminals agree with. It hurt. After all, money is the driving force behind criminals.
Support for the reform is apparently contained in one of the Council of Europe conventions and should be able to be implemented without leaving too much room for the police.
The criminal historian knows that it was through “Go for the money” that Al Capone broke into the world.
Not much mentioned about the first efforts needed to stop the new criminal recruitment, but that was probably not to be expected either. There are limits to what can be demanded of right-wing politicians in the Green Party today.
The event ended in 26 minutes. Interviews followed. The ordinary old journalists lined up.
For newspapers, radio and television, it is gratifying that the fixation on the pandemic is beginning to wane.
It’s possibly a bit bleak that the public conversation has essentially returned to the same spot it was trampled on before a bat in China posed for it.
But this was not the day for that kind of gloomy contemplation.
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