The road to hell is paved by good intentions

I have previously written a piece on evil.  I believe that the problem with "evil" is that it always cloaks it self in good intentions.
The communists brutal regimes around the world was rationalized by concern for the poor - that is good right? A good man is his brother's keeper, every body knows that. The Nazis was motivated by far reaching concerns for the German people - the German at least  seemed to think that was a pretty good idea at the time.

Now these ideas have hit rock bottom. Communism more or less committed suicide as did Nazism. Its a common mistake to think that totalitarian regimes doesn't mind the public opinion. In fact nothing could be more wrong. Why else did both the Nazis and the Commies spend endless resources on propaganda? Mass-meetings, education and indoctrination of the youth. Nothing is more important for a dictator than the approval of his people, there are just different ways to get it - that's all.

Contemporary politics have found the new Columbi egg of public policy - the magic words are - "It's for the sake of the children."

The Swedish government closes Lundbergs boarding school "for the safety of the children." In Sweden parents that doesn't take their children to the communal day care are suspicious, because the dogma has it that the daycare "is for the good of the children." When Swedish authorities kidnapped Domenic from his parents when they were moving to India, they did it "for the children", i.e. for Domenic, when they put Domenic's father in jail for wanting to spend time with his son it was "for Domenic's sake." The authorities were concerned that his parents taught him wrong values. Now Ms. Begler has the same concerns about Lundsbergs boarding school.

One might think that the children at Lundsberg would now if they are in any danger or abused in any way. When the whole school, all the students, say that they love their school and want to stay in their school, which has one of the best academic records of any school in Sweden by the way, the school Inspectorate only retorts that they do this "for the sake of the children." Never mind that the children lives at the school and has no way to go, at least not on such short notice (24 hours).

Ms. Begler, Director of the School Inspectorate cares for the children and that they are taught the right values.

The freedoms of all are constantly being encroached by reason of "it's for the children." Well here's an novel idea - why don't we let the parents raise their children? How about that?

I think every parent reacts if he or she thinks that their child is attending a school that is unsafe, teaches weird values or otherwise can be deemed to be unsound. It is also my experience that when people pay for something, they tend to be more demanding for quality and adequate results as compared to when people doesn't pay. This is why Hyundai owners always are more content customers than BMW buyers, it has very little to do with the cars and more to do with the expectations of the consumer.

Is there any person out there that honestly believes that the approximately 400 parents of the students at Lundsberg who pays appx $30.000,00 a year for their kids at this school, would accept that this school would act in any way - any way at all,  that would warrant that the government rush in and by force close it down, for the sake of the children?

It's ludicrous.

The ugly face of Swedish socio-fascism

Sweden's troublesome path towards totalitarianism and intellectual conformism becomes apparent in yet another showdown of bizarre government policy. Approximately 200 students at the boarding school "Lundsberg's" in Sweden are at the moment in shock after have been informed at a press conference that the school is forced to close. This due to government directive and the students have 24 hours to clear the premises.

                       Lundberg's boarding school, a provider of high quality education in Sweden for generations, called Sweden's Eton, now forced to close for the terrible crime of non conformity.

Ms. Ann-Marie Begler, the director of the Swedish School Inspectorate, the government agency set to control the quality and safety of schools and that they fulfill their legal obligations, stated as a good Maoist that the school is forced out of business because:
1. The school doesn't uphold the culture and the values it must and
2. The school has not been able to change its culture and values and
3. Students that attend the school also live there (?).

What has brought this conformist fury down on this excellent school is an accident during initiation of two students where they got burned by irons. Now 200 students have been made homeless and have 24 hours to get out.

This is when the outlandish and bizarre consequences of Swedish government agency lingo becomes apparent. At the press conference Director Begler on the question where these students are going to go now, stated that :

"They can call the municipalities they belong to, since they are by law required to provide a place in the communal schools for these students."

Mind you now, this is a boarding school. The students are primarily children to parents of the so called elite in Sweden, they live in Dubai, Hong Kong, New York etc. Others are students that are placed in the school with the help of the authorities. Some students are in witness protection programs, victims of honor crimes, rape and so on but also victims of severe bullying in their home schools.

Yet other students are not even Swedish. There are three schools such as this in Sweden. There is SSHL which is located my home town Sigtuna and which my daughter attended, there is SSHL's sister school in Gränna and there is Lundberg's. It is not unusual that foreign parents place their children in one of these schools, much like what is the situation with the boarding schools in Switzerland and other European countries. Who are these students going to call? Their parents in Peking? Can they even arrange for something within 24 hours? The students organization has stated in a press release that they are in shock. I can relate to them, the boarding school is in the middle of no-where, surrounded by woods, where are they going to go?

This decision is nothing more than a political attack from the Swedish socio-fascist establishment in this instance represented by the department of education and minister Jan Björklund. Mr. Björklund thinks little of diversity. He has stated that he wants to close down these boarding schools altogether, one down two to go. His outspoken aim is conformity. In an interview (its in Swedish) on homeschooling he stated that he "cannot understand why one would make exception when some parents say - "now we want to do this our selves, we don't want to attend the mandatory school" I cannot understand that idea." This policy is also clearly implemented by the administrative supreme court of Sweden denying a Jewish family the right to educate their children in accordance with their faith. Perhaps WWII is already too far away.

              Minister Jan Björklund, the most current face of Swedish socio-fascism and conformist dogma

The motivation for closing the boarding school which is said to be to secure the "safety of the students" is nothing but a lame cover. Seriously, if Ms. Begler were concerned about school children's' safety this is probably the last school in Sweden that would need attention. Some examples, in St: Olof school in Sigtuna a boy stabbed a classmate several times with a knife. The school was not closed, not only that not a single person demanded that it should. In Sävar school in Umeå a 15 year old boy tried to strangle a classmate and beat him in the face - no one demanded the school to close down. In Nave school in Norrköping a 15 year old student was beat with punches in the face, shortly after another student was also assaulted - no one demanded that the school close down. Five students at Westerlundska high school covered a student in electrical tape forced him to shower and then dragged him trough the entire school. They filmed everything to be able to post it on internet - no one demanded the school to close down. Not to mention the epidemic of assaults on female students and rapes in schools in Sweden and were female students are systematically harassed, called names, degraded based on their gender and constantly in fear for assaults and sexual harassment. As far as I know, no school so far has been closed in Sweden due to systematic sexual harassment of female students.

If initiation is such a huge problem in society, then they should also close the universities, sport clubs and lets not forget the armed forces. Close them all, they have initiation rites.

Also, as in most civilized countries Sweden claims to have outlawed collective punishment. Not so when the "offenses" at hand is a different socio-cultural value system than that which is endorsed and condoned by the Swedish ministry of education and minister Björklund.

To get to the bottom with these cultural dissidents - all 200 of them age 13 -18, the government in a brutal exposition of arbitrary power have ordered all of them to clear the premises within 24 hours. The have been directed to report to their designated communal school.