Finnish police to beef up its ‘Big Brother’ profile on social media…….

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Finnish police to beef up its ‘Big Brother’ profile on social media…….

This is the kind of nightmare envisioned in the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’.

Here’s the Police Board Chief Inspector Måns Enqvist laughing off the worries by those of us who correctly deem this intrusion by law enforcement to be an over the top, hard fisted invasion of the state in areas where it most certainly doesn’t belong:

Some have called the web police the “thought police.”

”That’s probably from the milder end,” says Enqvist, with a laugh.

“Some people have suggested that the police are trying to curb freedom of speech. That’s not what this is about. Just like in traffic, we carefully consider when to move in depending on a variety of factors including the law,” says Enqvist.

State broadcaster YLE held a ‘Hate Speech’ evening on public paid tv, which was nothing more than a clapping seal event, in which participants applauded state intrusion on the public square in one form or another. I had to turn off the set.

Police recruitment drive for 25 new online officers

Finnish law enforcement is taking a stronger stance against online crimes with the recruitment of 25 new web police officers. Set to start up in March, the new web police unit aims to curb online crime and hate speech.

Image: Heidi Hannukainen / Yle

Finland’s 11 police departments will get a boost to their online supervision this year, with each region to take on at least one web police officer by March. A special unit of ten web police officers will be established in Helsinki, which is also where the crime investigation unit will be based.

“Providing a way to prevent online crimes and hate speech shows that these issues are taken very seriously,” says Police Board Chief Inspector Måns Enqvist.

The main goal is prevention. That can mean that a web officer gets involved with a restless conversation on Facebook or Twitter. The idea is that the online police presence will have the same effect as seeing a police officer in a coffee shop in real life – it calms people down, in this case from going off the rails in virtual reality.

Additional funding

“This is regular police work (comprised of) advising, suggesting and giving orders. When a certain limit has been exceeded, then the issue will be investigated,” says Enqvist.

The new police will be paid and trained with additional funding from parliament approved in a supplementary budget. The police and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service SUPO supplementary will receive some 10 million euros in additional funding, of which 1.26 million euros is earmarked for the online police.

Police: It’s not a question of restricting freedom of speech

There is a lot of talk about hate crimes and hate speech, but charges and subsequent convictions for hate-speech are relatively rare. For example, during the past five years charges of ethnic agitation in Finland have only been prosecuted 14 times.

Internet surveillance and charges raised against comments made on social media have angered some Finnish residents. For example, Finns Party members Teuvo Hakkarainen and Sebastian Tynkkyen, who have both been convicted of ethnic agitation, have criticized their convictions citing restrictions on freedom of speech.

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There’s No Common Cultural Legacy For The Alt-Right

Still, is there something to it? Is there a common heritage that will cover El Greco and Hume and Dostoyevsky? Is there one that can include the Jacobites and the Jacobins? There is, but it is not racial, and white supremacists reject it because it rejects them. The unifying heritage of Europe is religious and philosophical. It is Jerusalem and Athens, in one famous formulation. Christian religion and Greek philosophy, filtered through Roman law and culture, are the foundation of European culture. The tensions, agreements, developments and settlements between these have shaped the Western world, and these roots of Western civilization are not congenial to white supremacy.

Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

Greek philosophy is likewise ill-suited to serve as a basis for white identity. It is either too universal (addressing the human condition in general) or too local—none of us live as citizens of an ancient Greek polis. Later philosophical developments in Europe, such as the philosophies of the Enlightenment, likewise tend to be too universal for white supremacists seeking a tribal identity. As for the scientific revolution that developed within Western culture (albeit with much borrowed from outside Europe), math doesn’t care what color someone is.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

We are living in an era which extols reason, science and human rights. These are said to be essential for progress, a civilised society and the betterment of humanity. Religion is said to be their antithesis, the source instead of superstitious mumbo-jumbo, oppression and backward-thinking.

Some of this hostility is being driven by the perceived threat from Islamic terrorism and the Islamisation of Western culture. However, this animus against religion has far deeper roots and can be traced back to what is considered the birthplace of Western reason, the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

“Ecrasez l’infame,” said Voltaire (crush infamy) — the infamy to which he referred being not just the Church but Christianity, which he wanted to replace with the religion of reason, virtue and liberty, “drawn from the bosom of nature”.

Perfecting society

But this Enlightenment did not remove religion so much as pervert it. It took millenarian fantasies, the idea that the perfection of the world was at hand, and it secularised them. Instead of God producing heaven on earth, it would be mankind which would bring that about. Reason would create the perfect society and “progress” was the process by which utopia would be attained.

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“I think that we should correct the vocabulary that we use, and call a spade a spade. It is all about Jihad, the Islamic effort to spread Islam globally”:

Terrorist attack – should be called Military Jihad.

Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

Building mosques, Islamic education institutions – Cultural Jihad.

Halal food – Dietary Jihad.

Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

Activity of MSA – Academic Jihad.

Activity of CAIR – Political Jihad / Public Jihad.

Collecting money for Islamic “charities” – Financial Jihad.

Political correctness – Submission to Jihad.

J Street, Peace Now, JVP and their likes – Jewish Useful Idiots who Serve Jihad.

Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.

Some have called the web police the “thought police.”

”That’s probably from the milder end,” says Enqvist, with a laugh.

“Some people have suggested that the police are trying to curb freedom of speech. That’s not what this is about. Just like in traffic, we carefully consider when to move in depending on a variety of factors including the law,” says Enqvist.

Police recruitment drive for 25 new online officers

Additional funding

Police: It’s not a question of restricting freedom of speech

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