Angry Post #10 (Lex Orwell)
The law that allows the the National Defense Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt, FRA) to surveil all email and telephone calls that pass the Swedish border was passed. Only a single person had the spine to stand up and defend our personal integrity. Camilla Lindberg, a true liberal, voted no, and she deserves all the kudos she can get. A few others tried to show their opinion by not voting at all; this did not help freedom of speech and personal integrity much.
But, the most harm was done by the spineless excuse for a man Fredrick Federley, who at first had a lot of big words to say (his blog is in Swedish, the most important quote is “Vote NO. My own belief is the same”, June 9) about the ill effects of the law, broke down and cried in Parliament about his ambivalence and how he must go against his party and vote according to his own beliefs, to eventually vote yes for the law as written with but minor cosmetics attached. Shame on you, Backstabbing Fredrick! We trusted in you…
Sweden has now joined the other Orwellian Big Brother societies that spy on all of their citizens, whether they are suspected of crime or not; China, Burma, Sweden… Everything we do on the net will be copied to the big super-computer (said to be the worlds fifth most powerful) at FRA and will be examined by FRA-employees. They will read our love-emails, know what events we buy tickets for, where we are going to go for vacation, what newspapers we read, business deals, patent applications, our political opinions… everything!
I guess, eventually they will come after me for posting this…
// Fabian
PS. That Sweden lost 2-0 to Russia on the same day that Lex Orwell was passed, is as a sad coincidence…