Community | February 14, 2011 | 21 comments

Secret Swedish Spy Law, US connection exposed by WikiLeaks cables

treewolf39
As Sweden battles for the extradition of Julian Assange, Wikileaks cables on the country's close cooperation with the U.S. are provoking a public backlash. The text revealed Washington's push to influence Swedish wiretapping laws so communication passing through the Scandinavian country can be intercepted.
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  • DarthKirbyLives
    • +1
      DarthKirbyLives  
    • I'm in agreement with what I am seeing said, other than the 'NWO' references......mates, there is nothing 'New World' about what they are doing; the 'Old World' has been doing it forever. The sadness is in the fact that no matter how they portray things to be otherwise....shit doesn't really change.

    • 1 year ago
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  
    • The NWO at work! The elite want a one world government,controlled by them,with no freedom,because freedom interferes with their quest for more profit without any oversight!

    • 1 year ago
  • irie_ojo
  • arbil333
  • arbil333
  • arbil333
    • +1
      arbil333  
    • if the goverments dont want information to be known.they shouldnt be doing it.if we committ crimes we go to jail. goverments shouldnt be committing crimes either

    • 1 year ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:

      Are you trying to say they don't already know? I send so many petitions to my representatives I am not sure a RANDOM E-MAIL is not going to make much of a difference. The white house has been ignoring my senators requests for accountability. I did send them one , no two begging them to not renew the Patriot act.

    • 1 year ago
  • alexandrek
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +1
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  
    • treewolf39:

      It apparently takes a flood! lol... However, big treewolf, consider this:

      If a "backward", less privileged people like the Egyptians, without a precedence for individual liberty and protections, can coerce changes in a begrudging government like Mubarak's, isn't it sinful to accept that we, the people of the United States, with a legacy of individual rights and liberties, can't do the same?!? We need a progressive activist organization within every U.S. community, with the ability to act in sync on cue; Middle Eastern style. If corporate America is imprisoning us with the effects of their control of government, why can't we do what half naked Indians did to Great Britain? If we were to stage work stoppage protests throughout this country, simultaneously and on cue, we could bring corporate America to it's knees! And, this may be our single biggest and best weapon against the war they are waging. Consider, boycotting every socially irresponsible corporation, and staging a national work stoppage culminating with a meet and greet on the capital lawn. I only hope that the streets surrounding the Capital are not so overcrowded, that our legislators can't get in or out! That would be upsetting, wouldn't it? P.S. Progressives United is not a new political agenda, merely a new name. We need to thread the multitude of small individual progressive orgs. into a cooperative. Who else has time to work on this?

    • 1 year ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • 0
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  
    • alexandrek:

      Well, read the comment response above, and you'll read my challenge to bring it on. It only takes one energetic person to run with this idea, should i not be here, to make it a success. But WELL DONE on your incessant writing campaign. We can at least say: We asked them nicely, and they simply didn't respond. right?

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
    • 0
      treewolf39  
    • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:

      I really agree and am all for that idea. At this time though, the pain of the nation is not nearly high enough to sustain even one day. SAD; really sad that the majority will watch their freedoms crumble and keep receiving less. I do hope we reach the tipping point soon and I will continue to champion justice for all so to leave a better world. I have no illusions about my vote changing anything, it is more about not accepting shit like it is flowers. I chose a different path, not consumerism.

    • 1 year ago
  • bottguardo
  • figgdimension
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  
    • figures the country that swears and screams "Freedom" is the same country pushing for spying, to other countries. What BS!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • alexandrek
  • KSirys
  • MotherForTruth
    • +2
      MotherForTruth  
    • Very interesting statement at the end of the video at about 5:33, "rule of law has been deteriorating in Sweden" and "the prosecutor had a grudge against men and is radical feminist".

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • MotherForTruth
  • treewolf39
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