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Old 05-27-2013, 10:22   #1
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Stockholm Chief of Police - ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible...”

How some European bureaucrats respond to night-after-night of street violence.

This story does not fit in the terror thread nor the war with Islam thread - but it does tend to illustrate a real state of denial (and level of helplessness) by big government European bureaucrats.

Is this bureaucracy gone wild?

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”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

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Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns
Publicerat den 24 maj 2013 kl 11:19

STOCKHOLM (FRIA TIDER). Owners of cars destroyed in the riots fined for parking illegally while police adopt non-intervention policy.

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Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.

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http://www.friatider.se/parking-tick...tockholm-burns
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Old 05-27-2013, 10:49   #2
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Hmmm... I see Mats Löfving as a future US Attorney General or maybe Secretary of homeland Security.
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Old 05-27-2013, 10:55   #3
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Hmmm... I see Mats Löfving as a future US Attorney General or maybe Secretary of homeland Security.
Lol. And, Sweden has some of the highest tax rates in Europe. The comments posted beneath the article are as lively as might be expected.
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Old 05-27-2013, 14:48   #4
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Swedish Muslim Spring,, just around the corner..

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Old 05-27-2013, 15:40   #5
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Is it time to start cleaning house yet?

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Old 05-27-2013, 16:03   #6
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Parallel article from a couple days ago

Barnyard occupants don't like it when the trough gets to where they can see the bottom.

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...488#post508488
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