…in a chat with the newspaper Expressens readers . The point was that he where going to answer questions and motivate why he voted YES to this disgraceful law.
The chatsessions was open for one hour and all questions where moderated (this is the way these sessions are done with everyone).
What was gained from this session? Well, first of all I now realise the extreme lack of knowledge of the law that he has helped pass, and also that his views on liberalism are far from sound.
Let me entertain you with some of his answers and my views on those (translated to the best of my abilities):
On the question “If you had to choose just one argument for the FRA-law, what would that be?”
To protect swedish citizens from assasination attacks and threats.
OMFG, it’s like Robbie Williams “Let me entertain you”, can’t help but smile a bit at his incompetence. No threats of a that type could be detected by doing mass surveillance of swedish citizens internet traffic. If anyone out there is planning such an attack they would encrypt their communications or just not do it over the internet. And if hey did do it encrypted over the internet, the would use code as others before them has done.
On the question: “What is he biggest misconception among people about he new FRA-law?”
That FRA is going to listen in on or read ordinary citizens e-mails.
That is what the law does Gunnar, it enables FRA to legally use computer systems that intercept and potentially submit any e-mail/traffic for manual inspection. This however is not as big of a problem as the fact that a system exists for this purpose as there should not exist systems designed to interfer with the integrity of swedish citizens! It is breaking our constitution! And this guy is calling himself a liberal…
Moving on.. On the question: “Don’t you think that it is a major breach of integrity that the government can intercept and read our e-mails?”
Yeah, if it was that way, but it’s not going to be like that. There are strong control stations that shall prevent misuse.
OK, still missing the obvious fact that just intercepting the signal from my network card destined to another is illegal in Sweden, Europe and violating UN’s declaration of human rights. How many bureaucratic control stations you set up DOES NOT MATTER. The system exists and will be misused. We have a history of spy-agencies failing to follow the law in Sweden, and this one has breached it several times already, what says they are not running their own agenda? Nothing…
Next one (this is a good one): “How is it possible to call yourself a liberal and at the same time push through a legislation that enables wiretapping of people’s communication without any suspicion of a crime being comitted? That is an impossible equation!”
I do not think so. People has the right to demand from the government that it should prevent attacks and threats against individuals, then it must also be able to carry out surveillance of those that are going to do that.
I’m like a giant questionmark after this one… The people is not demanding this law! No one wants it except the government which forcefully pushed you to vote it through! And what about answering the question? During the last election you were crying “Integrity! Integrity!” all over the place, and now you are actually causing a severe impact on it for the people. Get a grip!
Next question and, this time, unintelligent answer: “Do you have understanding for the critiscism against that you FRA-lovers so far has not been able to present one single realistic threat against Sweden?”
We do not love FRA, do we. This authority/agency only exist because there are threats against our country and our citizens.
Sometimes when viewing chat sessions like this one you feel like screaming. WTF. There are no threats, you have not been able to present one viable current threat to our nation!!! You keep waving the “Terrorism” flag but nothing realistic. No one wants to bomb our pale asses…
And a final little failed rhetorical failure to the question: “In what way do you think that you would be able to detect an “external threat” with the help of this law? It seems rather unrealistic to think that terrorists would write e-mails which would be intercepted by FRA?”
I’m not an expert on the methods. But sure, you could find some strangeness. Do you think we should stop chasing criminals dealing narcotics because they are not always caught?
Gotta love “make the other party the bad guy” argument. Lovely. He must have picked that up from our arrogant Minister of Defense. No but seriously, if he is not an expert and do not understand and needs to make a decision in a question of this importance, shouldn’t he educate himself?? Seriously, it is Sweden’s future we are talking about. We are not living in USA where everyone’s just doing as they’re told.
Ah well.. He’s going to be out of parliament at the next election anyways as he has turned more than half of his party against himself.
But it is seriously disturbing to see and interact with the people that supposedly runs Sweden when they show this much incompetence and arrogance. They are saying the people has not understood the question, but when we ask them to tell us they have nothing except the good ol’ US-imported Terror threats.
God damnit…
) is their extremely diffuse and hard to understand language 
