European Gun Sales Soar On Refugee Fears As "Racist Vikings" Prowl Finland's Streets
Last weekend, some 1,700 Germans turned out for a PEGIDA rally in Cologne to protest the wave of sexual assaults that unfolded in the city on New Year’s Eve in the town center.
PEGIDA nearly faded into obscurity early last year when then-leader Lutz Bachmann posted a picture of himself dressed as Hitler on Facebook with the caption “He’s Back”, but thanks to the 1.1 million Mid-East asylum seekers that poured across Germany’s borders in 2015, the anti-immigrant group has seen something of a resurgence over the past six or so months.
While the group claims to be looking out for the interests of the German people, some draw disturbing parallels between PEGIDA and a dangerous far-right ideology linked to extreme nationalism.
Unsurprisingly, movements like PEGIDA aren’t confined to Germany. In Finland the streets are now patrolled by the The “Soldiers of Odin,” a kind of vigilante justice brigade with political overtones and the trappings of a biker gang. The men don black bomber jackets adorned with the Finnish flag and a symbol of a Viking and say they are interested in helping police keep native Finns safe. Here's one of the group's members:
Oh, no wait. That's Odin himself. Our apologies. Here are some group members:
“A group of young men founded Soldiers of Odin, named after a Norse god, late last year in the northern town of Kemi,” Reuters reports, adding that “since then the group has expanded to other towns, with members stating they want to serve as eyes and ears for the police who they say are struggling to fulfill their duties.”
Like PEGIDA, the group blames "Islamist intruders" for rising crime and members often carry signs at demonstrations with slogans like "Migrants not welcome".
As Spiegel notes, the group does have ties to nationalism and the white supremacy movement. “They want to support the police in protecting the population, not only against refugees, even [from] the Finns if they are threatening," founder Mika Ranta told the daily, in an interview. “Like other founding members he referred to, however, Mika is open as a National Socialist,” Spiegel says. “His comrades surround [themselves] with the symbolism of the White Supremacy movement [and] offshoot of the group in Joensuu in the east of the country called on Facebook a 'for a patriotic white Finland fighting organization'".
Last week, we reported that in addition to the attacks in Cologne, there were also some indications that women were accosted in Finland. “Finnish police reported Thursday an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year's Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women,” AFP said. “Three sexual assaults allegedly took place at Helsinki's central railway station on New Year's Eve, where around 1,000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers had converged.”
That doesn't surprise Mika Ranta. "The biggest issue was when we learned from Facebook that new asylum seekers were peering through the gates of primary schools, looking at young girls," he told Finnish daily Aamulehti.
The official response to the group has thus far been mixed. "Volunteering is encouraged [and] it is very good that people are interested in the domain of safety issues and want to contribute to environment safety and comfort," National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen said last week in a translated statement. "The most important task, if it is a hobby, is to act by the findings and contribute to a certain area as a preventive sooth."
Yes, police are ok with the Soliders of Odin as long as they are acting as a "preventive soothe," which presumably means they are not allowed to actually intervene on behalf of citizens, but only to report crimes.
Dan Koivulaakso, local politician and expert on rights movements in Finland isn't sold. "The leaders of the 'Soldiers of Odin' are proven to have criminal backgrounds, in cases of racist violence and other violent or drug offenses."
Finnish Interior Minister Petteri Orpo is equally skeptical. "There are extremist features to carrying out street patrols. It does not increase security,” he told national broadcaster YLE last week. "Volunteers have no right to use force," he added.
But The Soliders of Odin don't seem to agree that citizens can't use force when necessary. Here's Spiegel again:
This is exactly what is also called Odin's warriors. They say: We're just on the roads. And if somewhere there is an emergency, we are legally obliged to intervene - like any other citizen. Just look for the patrols for specific circumstances where their intervention by its own account may be required - such as in front of schools where refugees reportedly "observe" children. With their presence, the group wants to protect the children in the village.
And while the group claims it is not armed on its "patrols," Europeans are rushing to stock up on guns and, as we noted earlier this week, pepper spray to protect themselves against would-be assailants. "The number of gun permits issued has recently quadrupled in Germany and Austria after the attacks in Cologne and Salzburg, according to the weapons industry," The New York Post says.
“Women customers include waitresses that need to get home in the evening, and women that walk dogs regularly in the evenings. We are also seeing some coming in to buy them for their daughters,” Gerhard Fuchs, a gunsmith in Innsbruck, Austria, told Central European News.
Here's more from The Post:
One in three criminals in Austria are foreigners, according to 2014 figures by the Interior Ministry. In Vienna, it was almost every other criminal.
In August, fewer than 10 people obtained a license to keep a handgun at home for self-defense, while the number soared into the hundreds in October.
Franz Dorfner, who owns a gun store in Vienna, said he has been unable to keep up with demand.
“I have completely sold out of pepper spray and have to wait at least a month before they can provide me with any more,” he told Central European News.
In Salzburg, where several sex attacks were reported, store owner Constanze Dorn said she too had run out of pepper spray.
“I have never experienced anything like it,” she said. “I have ordered several hundred more. I don’t know how long they will last.”
The demand for private bodyguard services also has skyrocketed.
In Vienna, the White Wings Association is offering free professional protection after the city’s top cop warned women not to go out alone at night.
As a reminder, here's what happens when every German Googles "pepper spray":
Clearly, the situation in Europe is becoming more precarious by the day. Right-wing groups with links to Nazism are now openly "patrolling" the streets while everyone from waitresses to dog owners are now toting pistols when they venture outside.
That's probably not the environment the bloc's founders envisioned when they endeavored to create a passport-free, harmonious union.
Needless to say, this is a tinder box waiting for (another) spark, as the stage is now set for an all-out culture clash with far-reaching political and societal ramifications.
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Make sure to let ZH allow you do do a post on what you find and include pictures. We all here would like to know what you find.
in 10 years time it will be to late.by then these scums will be in parliament,police force etc.the fight has to happen now.
My Sympathies, Herr Targaryen (did I get that right?):
They should be sending those Refugees back to SYR to start rebuilding, since Mr. Assad and his Multi-National Coalition of Supporters are starting to secure places from ISIL.
I'd say DEU would fare well if they "revise" their Refugee Policy to have a "milestone/goal" of reversing the migration within a Year. This might be accomplished by mandating all working age Refugees to be "involved, trained, and sent back promptly back to SYR" in Augment Militia (under GOVT_SYR's Factions), Medical Detatchments, and Construction Detail Teams.
Let them know that this isn't going to be a Sem-Permanent Immigration/Homesteading Deal.
Just came across this.
There are Local SYRian/Kurdish WOMEN picking up Rifles to take on ISIL/Daesh
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160114/1033151159/syria-women-battle...
That's it for me. Just give the Refugees Food, Water, Shelter, Clothes, a Medical/Dental Checkup - Rx where needed, then for the Working Age People - WORKING UNIFORMS, Arms/Med/Construction-Civi-Engineering Trng and an Airlift Hop back to SYR.
Figure there's nothing wrong with looking after the Young, Elderly, and the Sick - this is, afterall, a HUMANITARIAN Engagement, isn't it? ^_^
We need to make sure the Social Engineers are well restrained from their schemes to remake the World into their NWO/ZIOCON/LEFTY_PARADISE Delusional Images... I've seen too many of them scurrying about in SoCal alone... ROTFL!!
Arab males are cowards. They left the women and children behind to fight ISIS. Instead these cowards who can't get a date to save their life are attacking and abusing the women and children in Germany. Fucking cowards. They belong in front of a firing squad and their own women are better for it as well.
"jewish males are cowards. They leave their women and children behind to fight all the gentiles the world over. These khazarian cowards who can't get a date to save their life are attacking and abusing the women and children all over the planet. Fucking cowards. They belong in front of a firing squad and their own women are better for it as well."
--Fixed to more accurately reflect reality
and once they set foot there, they will bring all their relatives plus they will breed like the vermin they are...
That is fucking insane. Check out the truck drive dashcam footage of the 'Guantlet' driving to Calais ... astounding illustration of how bad it is and that roadside camp is only 18,000 (one drive said).
Oded-Yinon is coming together nicely. Every "refugee" sent to Europe is one less ME gangbanger on Israel's doorstep. Come-on. Do they need to leave printed invitations? It's neo-bolshie-zio-con risk transfer. Its a two-fer. They get to destroy (whats left of) Europe Christendom and off-load 6.6 mm male Muslims between the ages of 15 and 35. (OK. I made up that number. But it has a ring-to-it. Non?)
IDK. Maybe those Samson nukes strategically placed in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and elsewhere across Europe (and the US) may explain some rather dubious decisions on the part of politicians worldwide. Tick-tock.
Haus-Targaryen is SPOT ON:
the EU has created the exact thing it hoped to stomp out.
There is no suppressing this fire. Congratulations on your creation Frau Merkel.
We are constantly told that we must be tolerant, but how long did they expect their behavior to be tolerated.....
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/the-lion-is-it-time-to-fi...
Well, they're sensitive peeples (WARNING, SECOND STORY SHOWS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO):
https://www.mrconservative.com/2013/03/6673-ten-horrifying-stories-of-mu...
http://shoebat.com/2015/06/19/horrific-video-of-a-woman-shown-dancing-fo...
Pushing too far to the left inevitably leads to a hard swing back to the right.
If these people take over, they will complete the collapse oftheir nation via bad economic policy (National Socialists generally attribute anything said by Hitler as absolute truth, and Hitler thought economics don't matter, when they are the ONLY thing that matters).
Then it will either swing back left, or some people will grow some brains and get off the see-saw and become libertarian.
Hitler thought economics don't matter?
you crazy
Hitler was anti-international banker/Jew. He was anti-usury. He was pro-nationalist currency and conservative monetary expansion. These are all things that ZHer's nonomally support.
Hitler thought economics don't matter?
Germony economic miracle against all odds was main reason they were targeted for destruction.
Same as before WW1
Read Churchill bloviate that Germon economy must be broken.
Germony took control own money, then super progress while US struggled depression
I visited the "Soldiers of Odin" website and got into a conversation with a ?? leaderand their goal is no different that that of the "Guardian Angels" of the early 1980's in NYC. They are not a biker gang and they aren't per se anti-immigrant. They are law and order and the protection of Finish people especially girls and women. Kid of like protecting your mother and sister. So the politicians and the police who failed in Germany and Sweden want to mask their efforts and lable them trouble. Bull shit. Politicians and police just do your job.
It's mostly the lying media, these are the same fuckers that we deal with that Trump points out are lying all the time. The media is corrupt as fuck.
So we come to Zerohedge, the theatrical production of a kosher "fight club" for angry white goys... and what do we find?
The media is corrupt as fuck. Indeed.
They're so corrupt that many mainstream lemmings probably don't even realize they've been subverted and corrupted anymore.
It would also probably help if psychos like soros, et al, didn't precipitate humanitarian crisis for the advancement of geopolitical agendas and personal gain. Just going by the attitudes I've seen on a lot of posts on ZH regarding the refugee mess, people are playing right into their agenda of hate and division and don't even seem to realize it.
But I digress...
Bang flop here comes the slaughter
Yeh, it's all the Joos' fault. Imbecile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
They admit that they are behind it.
Wow, you're more retarded than I imagined. Who is this DIane SPectre? How the fuck is this one lone woman representative of Jews anywhere? How is what she does connected to actual Judaism? You prove absolutely nothing with that vid. You're a Jew hater and I'm gonna call you out every time.
Leessee Is Soros jewish?
THis website is full of antisemites. It's not good.
Look, I don't mind an anti-tribe jab every now and then but by some cats on here, like NidStyles, it's pathological, and, yeh, that's where it gets effed up. Hopefully people have enough intelligence to discern right from wrong.
Shaggy woke Scooby up yesterday evening. He 'said' that I was running in my sleep and howling.
Yea I was dreaming that I posted a comment on ZH and the down votes started overflowing and coming right off of the browser and they started chasing Scoopy and they took my Scooby Snacks and I almost couldn't outrun them.
Instead of 'calling out' just slap him with some 'reds'.
I dind't say to slap Scooby with 'reds', I said slap the bad guy with 'reds'.
Scooby's a good boy. Good Scooby!
Ya know. I don't mind some anti-WASP jokes. Nor do I mind that my ancestors contributions to the creation of this nation are belittled and undermined. Nor do I much care that my religion has been hijacked and manipulated by the equivilent of Wahhabist imbiciles who think the State of Israel has any coorelation to those who inhabited the place 3000 years ago. Nor does it bother me one whit that there are virtually NO WASPs left in gov't nor Wall Street nor media nor Ivy League nor as university professors. And that my children are taught to denigrate their own ancestry and DNA. Cause. You know. WASPS are baaad. And that the only WASPs one sees are mercs on the frontlines in some hellhole the USSA created in the ME--OR--in some Rolling Stone article covering the horror of southern-white-frat-boy-gang rapes. I sware on my KJV bible that I won't drink another martini nor foxtrot EVER again so long as those frat-boys keep raping those women.
So yeah. Anti-seminism is a bitch. Particularly all those Semites in Gaza being killed by the thousands.
Tell ya what. Next time the Tribe blows it up my WASP ass that Hitler gassed 6.6mm jews -- tell them we need to hear about the 33.3mm Christians killed by Bolsheviks in the Holodomor.
Then. We're cool.
Wake up, white people!!
- Daniel Carver
White man think again!
Great read by the way.
While the group claims to be looking out for the interests of the German people, ["]some["] draw disturbing parallels between PEGIDA and a dangerous far-right ideology linked to extreme nationalism.
The group is looking out for the interests of people of European descent. Who else is going to do that, Eskimos... or Jews?
Note the psychological crap:
"While Zero Hedge claims to be an alternative media outlet, some draw parallels in its claims of white supremacy to the fact that it's a media outlet modelled on a Jewish movie about angry white men."
Buy gold, goy. Wizard of Oz. Go Galt whilte goy, like a Jewess instructs you to.
But don't take back the country or power in your government and the institutions that your European/white ancestors created for you/posterity.
Historian Jew dude: "I thought we instructed them never again, over and over again?"
Movie Jew dude: "I'm making another move like the Wolf of Wallstreet telling them they did it. Then, another Nazi Holocaust movie..."
Old "economist" Jew dude: "It must be the economic cycle or somethin'. So let's bailout Jewish bankers, just to be sure there isn't a crisis for us... I mean you. Or prepare for our, I mean your... next crisis, buy gold!"
Media, publishing and PR Jew dude: "Here, let me help try to tell the goyim about your complex economic and psychological theories. More complexity and complexes, it's all very complicated. Sort of like our, I mean your money!"
Old psychiatric Jew dude: "It must be because the goyim randomly go craaaazy. So let's try to psychoanalyze them like they're neurotic!"
Zionist Jew dude: "We need you, I mean us to fight for our own state, this way we can all Jew each other over... and sterilize these Ethiopian Jews and stuff. This way, never again! Why does everyone in the entire world usually grow to hate us? Who knows! They're the goy, that's why!"
Political Jew dude: "Don't worry, I'm buying these goy golem politicians... they'll help protect us from all criticism. And stuff. Or somethin'."
Conspiracy theory Jew dude: "It's the illuminati and the lizard people hiding in the middle of a flat earth. How do they get in the middle of the flat earth? With the space ships that Hitler gave them, of course! Hitler didn't arrest the Rothschilds, he was one of us! Probably gay too, that's another insult. Why are we using ourselves as insults, anyway?"
Geopolitical Jew dude, the most moderate and serious MSM Jew of them all:
"This all goes back to colonialism and British imperialism. That's all it is, these European white people messing up the MidEast again. We weren't even banking on them, eveer. Now attack Syria, it's in our... I mean your interests or somethin'. And then you can have all the refugees, it's a moral imperative. This is my serious, mainstream media voice."
http://www.ramzpaul.com
I thought you were going to mention angry African-American Minnesota Vikings fans protesting the white kicker who missed an easy field goal in the playoffs last weekend.
Teddy Bilgewater blows Adrian's Peter.
Just hope "Pig Ben" Rapistberger is healthy enough to play!
Yep. Throwing bottles and crap at a person who could have been suffering from a career ending injury. That is like seeing a car accident with injuries and throwing things at them for holding up traffic...oh wait, that could easily happen.
The concerns of Americans are so on track with real life and looking out for the good of their neighbors... It seems that using one of those boards at tourist areas where people put a tack in it to show where people are from might serve well in choosing a jumping off country. I keep having to tell myself that i chose to stay and try to do my part in making things better.
boo hoo Pig Ben's "career" might be over after making 50 million from throwing a leather ball around...lol
now he can concentrate on molesting more college girls
The only way to end his career is to castrate him.
That was a clear situation of laces out.. Did you see the laces? Finkel is Einhorn
...Einhorn is Finkel! LACES OUT!
kick ass
I'll bet you the black market for firearms and ammo in Europe is en fuego.
Surely someone here is or knows someone who is looking to supply that market. Competing with the Russian(and other) weapons dealers can be first of all, unwise, followed by being challenging. Just take a look at Monaco and note their deep pockets and list of connections... does your circle contain the CIA?
I've noticed several new arms dealers popping up in .onion land lately.
Of course most of them are probably scammers but it is does seem to be a sign of the times.
Come to think of it, maybe they asked Obama to come sell guns in Europe too. He is, by far, the best salesperson for firearms I've seen in my lifetime.
Soldiers of Allah, meet soldiers of Odin. This won't end quietly.
Prediction of the Year:
SOLDIERS OF ODIN tee shirts, sweats, etc., gonna be a massive seller this year. Getchurs while they're still allowed.
Racist! (pointing finger, asking for burning at the stake in the name of social justice)
Hey Knukles I was just thinking those sweats look cool , I want one !