Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/25/we-shall-not-be-moved.html
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Good for her.
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Good thing she wasn’t on American Airlines. Or really, American soil for that matter.
Good for her, very brave.
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It’s almost as if those Swedes won’t shoot anyone!
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Fucking legend.
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English Guy:
“What about all these children? You, YOU are frightening.”
Ahh… the classic “Won’t somebody please think of the children!!!”
It’s never about the children, you coward.
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The Swedish government is performatively demonstrating its toughness by deporting asylum-seekers in the runup to an election.
This does not demonstrate toughness. It demonstrates craven submission to the far right.
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I am English, and I would like to apologise for that twat on behalf of all of us here on Crisis Island.
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Elin Ersson is a 21 year old Swedish social work student
Kick Ass Mofo Level: Achieved
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Elin Ersson is a 21 year old Swedish social work student who boarded a plane at Gothenburg airport yesterday and refused to sit down until an Afghan asylum-seeker who was to be deported that day was offloaded and allowed to
remain in Swedenwait for the next available flight.
Editing mine.
“You do it once or twice, and if it doesn’t work we rent a private plane to send them back to Afghanistan, or wherever,” the spokesperson said.
Just looking at this realistically, folks.
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Doesn’t mean you should not protest or make it easy for them.
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I don’t disagree in the slightest.
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Elin,
I wish I had the bravery and strength to do what you did.
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No apology needed, if we start playing that game, well, I’m a USAian… I think I’d loose.
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Seriously. Here’s how it goes down in a less developed country: She disrupts flight. Four (4) Homeland Security brutes come in and drag her off plane. She is charged with a federal felony that is so open-ended, there is no maximum penalty (since its the same one they use for hijacking). Even if she beats that, she still goes on the No Fly list.
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What? I thought the police is supposed to pull you out and beat you - or is that just Asian doctors?
God/Goddess/Gaia/Galaxy bless her. I’d like to think I would have also stood up in solidarity if I were on that plane.
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I’d like to think the same, but under threat of 20 years in a USA prison (and therefore a felony on my record), I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t.
Any news on why he was being deported? The girl in the video just assumes that since he’s going to Afghanistan, they’re sending him back to “hell”.
The refugee system needs to be able to send some people back if it is to have any credibility. Interfering with the ability to ever make a negative call on a refugee claimant undermines the entire system.
That being said, the woman’s courage, either civil or just straight out, is admirable!
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