Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:53:19 -0500
Subject: M-G: IOC-Say NO to Sweden!


Today the 6th of March 1997 Sweden will be presenting its applicationfor the
olympic  games to be held in Stockholm to the IOC (International Olympic
Committee). Therefore I publish this open letter which i sent to the IOC
requesting that they DENY Sweden's application to have the summer games.

Warm Regards
Bob Malecki

Recently the United Nations gave and award to Sweden because of its
work on equality. Obviously the United Nations representatives have
had the wool pulled over their eyes or are blind to the fact that
Sweden has become a racist society.
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That in Sweden, discrimination and segregation in the workplace, in
the living areas, in the schools, has become a serious problem and
in some areas of the country, general praxis. That in other words
means that 20% of the population (non Swedes and families of the
first and second generation of non Swedes) are treated unfairly,
undemocratically and unequaly.
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Furthermore the situation has become so serious that last night on
national TV, on the program Striptease, we had a situation where
Swedes in a little town in the south quite openly defended a racist
youth gang who murdered a black youth in brutal cold blood. Where a
leader of this bloodthirsty mob was allowed on the program to defend
their program of extermination. In fact, a Jewish woman was forced
to leave the program because she refused to be in the same room with
this racist. This Jewish woman stated that she felt that she was
reliving the thirties of Germany once again.
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So naturally one has to question the sanity of those in the United
Nations who have given this award to Sweden. The equality for the
non-Swedes in      Sweden is beginning to look like the equality
black people had in Alabama or    Little Rock, Arkansas in the United
States during the late fifties and early    sixties... Believe me, I
was there.
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When I say racism, I mean the general rise in vicious attacks on
non-Swedes. People murdered in cold blood on public streets or thrown
in to lakes      after being severely beaten, in order to die. I mean
the burning of crosses on the front lawns of people's homes. In fact
even firebombing of homes and stores owned by non-Swedes. These acts
of ever increasing terror are perpetrated on people who's only crime
is not being a Swede or having black skin.
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The courts, the prosecutors and even the minister of justice appear
to be paralysed and do nothing to stop these racist attacks. In fact
there is a death sheet with 300 names on it, people the racist
terrorists say should die. One prosecutor actually recommends people
not to do anything when confronted with his or her name on it.
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Recently the courts sentenced a non-Swede for protecting his home
>from a vicious attack by racists. For months these people were being
persecuted by    the racists and even their house was repeatedly
attacked and windows and  doors smashed. When the man in the family
defended himself, he was tried and convicted for injuring one of the
racists!
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People are literally being burned out of their homes by racist gangs.
Firebombs in the middle of the night and crosses burning on the lawn.
Does this sound like "equality" to the United Nations? To me it sounds
like "Dixie" during the years of the Klu Klux Klan..
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The above is the open racist attacks on non-Swedes. However racism     
which is hidden under the surface is generally widespread throughout
the country. "Nigger" and "Blackskull" has become the general
reference among the general population, in talking about people who's
skin is of another colour. In fact you don't even have to be black,
a Turk, a Iranian, a Latin American with brown skin are treated as
second and third class citizens. In fact if you talk with an accent
in Sweden today, it is enough to get your head bashed in or your
house attacked!
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Everyday practically there are reports of new incidents of open
racist  terror or hidden racist practice. How can the United Nations
turn a blind eye to those events. In fact by giving Sweden a prize
for equality, is basically like giving George Wallace a prize during
the sixties for raising the status of equal rights for white middle
-class women in Alabama!
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Today in Sweden we are talking about 15% of the population that do
not have a job. Over 500,000 people are directly unemployed or are
in some sort of job education program. However that figure does not
give a true picture of reality. In fact in many of the larger cities
80% (!) of the non-Swede population do not have jobs. In fact
non-Swedes, procentually, are the overwhelming majority of unemployed,
those on welfare, or in job training.
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Today it has become common place that if you are not a Swede, then
you don't get a job...People who have worked in the areas which
before relied on non-Swedes, such as cleaning toilets, changing
bedpans or taking care of the mentally undeveloped, have become
nearly total Swedish workplaces. Today a non-Swede has a chance of
getting a job as a snowball in hell. The only area where this has
not become norm, is the picking of strawberries, during the
strawberry season. That area has been reserved for east Europeans
and non-Swedes. Because it is a lot like picking cotton in the
south during slavery or picking grapes in California, which is
usually reserved for the Mexicans who illegally come to the United
States to pick.
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This is discrimination on a broad level. Although you will never
hear a Swedish employer say that "you do not get the job because
your skin is black"   or " because you have an accent" the fact is
that non-Swedes do not get jobs.
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However if your skin is black and you want to go out to a club and
have a beer or go dancing, you will be turned back at the door with
"only members allowed". This means whites only...This white only
policy has become fairly widespread in many areas of nightlife Sweden.
So if your skin is black or brown you stay home or organise parties
with your own kind.
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Discrimination appears in all walks of life and levels of government.
The percentage of non-Swede participation in leading positions in
government is basically zero%. The same goes for government on the
local level. Now really, how could anyone believe that the Swedes
deserve a prize for equality from the United Nations. I mean for
twenty percent of the population, we are a statistic: either
unemployed, on welfare, or deported from Sweden.
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Segregation in the living areas and schools in the large cities and
even        large towns has become a serious problem, if not general
praxis. There are areas        in Stockholm, Malm=F6 or Ume=E5, where
most if not all Swedes have moved out. There are classes in school
where there is not one Swede. In fact these areas are considered the
Swedish ghettos with high unemployment, high welfare, high crime
rates, and 98% non-Swede.
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In fact this segregation is generally recognised both by the
population in general and Swedish politicians. However nothing is
being done that can      change the situation to the better. Instead,
policies by the government, of cutting unemployment and welfare
benefits are in general making economic and living conditions worse
for people. This tends to increase the rate of segregation. What we
are seeing here are the future Watts and Harlem's of Sweden! In fact
the only thing lacking is the cry of "Burn Baby Burn" which perhaps
will come in the next 5 or 10 years.
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Internationally Sweden has been known as a "Social Welfare State"
of the more progressive type. In 1972 when I first came to Sweden
this claim was      perhaps true. However this is the 90ties and
reality is in fact, of a fastly growing racist, discriminating
and segregated society here.

Robert Malecki
Tundalsgatan 10B
915 31 Robertsfors
Sweden



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