NOTE: This is the first “quick post”. These are posts written on the fly and often when I’m mobile. They will have more thoughts and general subjects and will not have any nice pictures like most of my other posts. All posts like this one will have their title marked with Q.P. In them.
During the summer the parliament has been closed and it officially re-opens on the 16th of September.
During this day the politicians visit certain sites in Stockholm according to traditions, and they’ll do the same this year. With one “minor” detail this year.
People will not be cheering for them. Instead they’ll be chanting anti-FRA-law slogans and showing up in thousands at the different sites.
There are two major demonstrations/manifestations that day and they’ll grow together into one around mid-day and speeches will be held by different oppositional politicians and civil liberties groups.
The discussions has been intense from the time the law took the first step into becoming a part of our legislation, and now even the parties (liberals and green liberals) that took part in pushing the law through parliament is taking a step back in the discussion and either request that the law be remade or totally dropped.
My private wish is that the law is dropped and that a truth commission be deployed to the FRA offices to find out exactly what they’ve been monitoring so far when they did not have positive juridical support, which is required for their type of business.
A secondary wish is that the FRA is demoted and maybe even dropped as a whole. If we need military singal-intelligence gathering, this can be done by the military intelligence force (MUST) as they are the one’s doing the in-battle SIGINT’s today. The people no longer trust the FRA with our secrets. Too much has leaked and politicians looking to using or supporting FRA are commiting political suicide.
In Sweden, we have never had the same disrespect and lack of faith in for our elected officials as we have right now. The coalition (Alliansen) that is the ruling force in Sweden right now will not be able to keep that position after the next election which will be held in 2010.
I do not think this is a good thing. In other aspects they are running the country in much better ways than the socialist government that was at power the previous mandate period. Corporate finances and the job market has not looked as good as it has done the last couple of years and we have been somewhat shielded from the economic failures of the United States.
It is a shame that our liberal and conservative parties are going about ruining the traditional Swedish ideas of a free and open society. They are destroying a lot of their credebility for years to come.
You might even take me as an example. Before they started this farse I was a member of the liberal party (Folkpartiet) but when they kept pushing this integrity-hostile law I left. I wonder how many others have done the same.
We’ll see what happens on the 16th… See you on the barricades 
