Tundra Tabloids Exclusive: Swedish Migration Board Bans Support for Israel and U.S.
H/T Tundra Tabloids, the chilliest blog in Finland..
EXCLUSIVE! Swedish Migration Board Bans Freedom of Expression
The Tundra Tabloids’ good friend and colleague in Sweden, Ilya Meyer, alerts that The Swedish Migration Board has demoted - and in practice fired - Asylum Assessment Manager Lennart Eriksson, 51, for voicing support for democracies such as Israel and the USA on his personal website. I have full permission to reprint the entire press release. UNBELIEVABLE. *L* KGS
UPDATE: 05.02.08 / 16:50 I.Meyer informs the Tundra Tabloids that he “met with Lennart Eriksson and talked with his lawyer too. Both have OK-ed this, they think it is a great move.”
So does the Tundra Tabloids. This cannot be allowed to go unnoticed. Shame on the Swedish government and its staunch, politically correct Stalinsim…..Banned in Sweden….How long before it’s criminal in your neighborhood to support the USA - or its allies?
The Migration Board has not alleged that Eriksson’s personal beliefs have in any way affected the quality of his work, nor is it alleged that he has behaved in any way inappropriately while at work, acknowledging that he manages his website entirely in his own private time. It is for his political beliefs that he is being persecuted. Eriksson is a Conservative.
Lennart Eriksson, 51, has worked at the Swedish Migration Board in Göteborg in western Sweden in a variety of positions for almost 20 years. He is a Conservative in his personal political affiliations and has for many years managed his own Internet website where he has expressed his personal opinions on a variety of subjects. On this website Lennart Eriksson has voiced support for Israel and the USA as pillars of democracy. His employers have known about the website for many years.
Conservative politics “not mainstream”
Over the past five years, up to September 2007, Lennart Eriksson served as manager of an asylum assessment unit. On his return from a year-long leave of absence during which he completed his doctoral thesis, he was immediately called to a meeting with the newly appointed operational manager. The manager informed Eriksson that he had seen his website and that Lennart Eriksson’s Conservative views were both “unusual” and controversial. The manager was particularly opposed to Lennart Eriksson’s support for Israel and the USA and his online description of WW2 US general George Patton as one of the heroes of the Second World War. Lennart Eriksson was then summarily informed that he had been demoted.
In response, Lennart Eriksson sued the Swedish Migration Board in county court. Eriksson’s view is that he has in practice been fired from his job as asylum assessment unit manager, camouflaged in the form of a transfer. Lennart Eriksson feels that whatever the final legal outcome regarding the terminology - demotion or transfer - there is no cause for this move. The Migration Board confirms that Lennart Eriksson has been transferred as a result of the opinions he expressed on his private website. Opinions that are not against anything, but rather for certain beliefs - Conservative politics and democratic countries, specifically Israel and the USA. …………[…….]
