Sweden is Finished as a Civilization
An excerpt:
“Self-defense is all that remains in a lawless country”
All Swedish blogs and newspapers report on the verdict in the Rödeby trial, where a vulnerable family was harassed for years by a youth gang without getting any help whatsoever. A father suffering from a nervous disorder and a handicapped boy. Even Danish newspapers mentioned the case. The best description of this tragedy is given in the above headline at the blog Erixon.com. There’s nothing wrong with the verdict. It is a community — founded on the rule of law — degenerated to such extent that this could happen at all. That’s the really scary fact.
And here’s a translation of the relevant post by Dick Erixon:
The general disgust for the [Swedish] judicial system wasn’t harmed further this afternoon when the Court of First Instance ruled on the case in which a father defended his family against the Rödeby youths who harassed and threatened the family with death, without the police so much as blinking an eye.
The father was acquitted in full, according to the Echo Radio in its 2 PM. broadcast. The whole Rödeby affair is a tragedy, of course. But the responsible party isn’t the father or his family. The responsibility lies exclusively with the youth gang, their parents, and the police who surrendered and sided with the perpetrators. Self-defense is the one and only option left in a lawless country.
This verdict gives the hard-pressed family some compensation. It is a relief to acknowledge the outcome. The law isn’t completely brain-dead yet.
Below is a report on the Rödeby incident from The Local:
Rödeby murder suspect acquitted
The Blekinge District Court has acquitted a 50-year-old man of charges of murder and attempted murder of two teenage boys in Rödeby in southern Sweden.
The court ruled that when the man fired the shots, his mental state was such that he lacked the ability to consciously consider his behaviour or understand the consequences.
Therefore, the court found that he did not commit the act with intent, which resulted in the charges being dismissed.
[…]
The shooting took place the night of October 6th last autumn. Six armed teenagers entered the 50-year-old man’s yard in the middle of the night, after having made phone calls threatening the man’s 19-year-old son.
So let’s summarize the case:
1. A man shot and killed one of a gang of armed intruders who had previously threatened his disabled son.
2. The man was acquitted only because his actions were deemed by the court to be those of a lunatic.
This is what passes for “justice” in today’s Sweden.
I’ll grant that there were lunatics in the Blekinge District Court, but the man in the dock wasn’t one of them.
Wow, that is interesting, TheoK. Thanks for posting it.
Thank goodness the dad was acquitted of murder anyway.
I'm not sure what would have happened to him here in the US if he shot an armed trespasser in his yard, and it might depend on the state where it happened. I'm almost positive he would have been acquitted if he had shot them inside his home, though. I highly doubt that the police would have sat on their hands done nothing while the family was being harassed here, so I hope he would never have been driven to that extreme here, however.
