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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You are quite correct.
Fundamentally, these vigilante groups are filling the power vacuum created by the totalitarian leftists at the highest levels who not only orchestrated the islamotrash invasion, but facilitate it in every facet.
What is of high interest to me is the obsessive persecution by the totalitarian leftists, NOT at the highest levels, of ANY who act to oppose their masters' aims. These leftists are far more interested in preventing anyone from solving the problems than working to solve the problems their masters created (and from which they will suffer as greatly as any.)
Utterly self destructive. It's high time shooting started. Lots of shooting.
Weren't a lot of these immigrants sent to Italy, Spain, and other European nations as well? Why is it that only these German, and other nordic countries seem to be having all the problems with them? Why aren't they assaulting women and acting up in these other places?
"Why aren't they assaulting women and acting up in these other places?"
They are. You just aren't hearing about it.
A simple google search will bear me out.
Is shooting up bars and restaurants in Paris enough for you? Mass rape has been going on for some time now. A few years ago there was a case in Paris where a girl or girls were gangraped and prostituted by 70 men. It happens allover.
Europe's progressive ruling class need to be careful with all this Nazi talk. If they insist that anyone who opposes the mass replacement of Europe's indigenous population with Muslims is a Nazi...
...the natives might just say, "you're right, we are Nazis", and gas the sorry lot of them.
lol Tyler(s)
Civil war is coming.
All Heil TechnoViking!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsntHcWiy4
Haha, I've always got a kick out of that guy. One scary dude. In recent weeks critics have branded German, Swedish and Finnish men (and others) as chickenshits just because they didn't show up to defend their ladies from these invading boob grabbers. How were those men supposed to know that this was going to happen? Those attacks came from right out of the blue... perpetrated by unappreciative guests for Christ's sake. In any case, I just frikken dare any one of those immigrants to try raping or even feeling up a woman in front of TechnoViking. You and I both know what would happen. He's a great example of some of the type of men who live in Germany and the Scandianavian countries. Those boys are not pussies... not even freakin' close. I just cringe to think about what would happen to immigrants who went on a rampage in Ireland or Scotland. Holy shit... they'd pay a painful price for that. And quick.
The Irish/Scottish had to endure centuries of war against a world superpower, no small feat. They relish a fight, it's in their blood.
Thats some seriously funny shit. I wouldn't piss him off though by playing David Hasslehof...
Even the jesus doen't mess with the techno viking
Gee...we got the totalitarian oppression of the leftardiot fools in place, we have the rising tide of Islamotrash totalitarianism subsuming Europe, and the only cogent response is NAZI totalitarianism?
This whole situation blows goats.
Yes there are Nazi's everywhere, under your bed, at work, in your neighborhood. Run!
Run you thin minded person that believes everything he/she reads.
Run you intellectually lazy person that believes the manufactured history of WWI and WWII that has been shoved down your throat in "school" where you were indoctrinated.
Run
Right
Off a cliff.
Stand up Europe! Take you countries back from those that want your demise! Stand up and fight! Destroy your enemies! Clean out your governments that look towards your ruin!
For everything decent, please explain how Finn's defending their neighborhood is "racist". We're all tired of the brainless journalism that passes for the 5th estate. Its time to start reprogramming society, withdraw consent from this idiocy.
Question: is rape wrong and a criminal offence
Answer: yes, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Now govt proles, if you won't enforce your own laws why should the public that funds your parasitic asses put up with it. In this case citizen millitias are justified. They are not vigilantes, they sre lawfully protecting human life and using force to enforce that right to life, property and dignity.
Also, don't call me White.
I know many of you have seen me post this, but I'm going to put it out there again.
Beore we talk about "white" lets define "white".
White - a human being with light skin
White - Balt - a specific genetic makeup of a people group currently with a majority comprising populations in Lithuania and some of Poland and Latvia?
Wait so you just want to throw the term out there because we all know what you mean right? Really, I beg to differ.
Seriously where is the nation state of Whiteland? Anybody know of a nation state of peoples called Whiteland where they can trace their descendants?
Now for all of you less traveled I would argue that you will find very few people of Greek ancestry who will say that they are the same type of people as the Irish.
Even more I'd say that many Irish would have a serious problem if you said they were the same as the British.
And I dare you to tell a Russian scientist that he is of the same makeup, no better or worse than a shiftless
Apalachian meth head.
Tell a light skinned New Yorker from any borough that he is the same as the guys from Duck Dynasty and see if he doesn't wipe the floor with you.
And I dare you to tell a new migrant from Ghana or Nigeria that they are the same "blacks" as someone from the #3rd or 5th Ward in Houston, Texas. Just the same that person from Houston, Texas would have their own concept of their identity as seperate from the migrant.
What these terms on your tax form, black, white, hispanic, pacific islander, native american are about in America is a divide and conquer strategy that is as old as history.
I'm sorry people of light skin makeup less than 7% of the world population. It is not a homogenous group, in fact, it comprises a mixture of ethnic, religious and in fact tribal genetic markers that are quite unique.
Each of us, no matter what our intellect, background, race or religion must come to face the fact we have been conned.
Fighting about meaningless (relative to larger issues) notions of skin color rather than the larger issues of civilization.
Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain) once remarked (paraphrasing) "its easier to to be fooled than admit you were fooled"
Jesus loves you.
Odin demands you grow the phuk up.
Enough said.
Where are all those Putin supporters ... er I mean trolls now?
He bombs Syrian villages causing refugees. These refugees flood into Germany Austria etc and act like assholes.
Meanwhile PUTIN WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY SYRIAN REFUGEES FROM HIS BUDDY ASSWAD AND MOSCOW HAS EXACTLY ZERO REFUGEES.
Think about that people.
You know, for once you ask an interesting question kike.
Putin is jewst doing what he has been told to do, by lord rothchild through tel aviv, where he grew up and went to yeshiva.
His rabbi handlers are very quiet in mother rus.
Or he and his special tartar (russian jew) girlfriend get killed by intrigue.
Never trust a short man in power.
HAHAHAHAHA!! "Racist" Vikings! Catch that? They're racist because they want to stop the NWO gang from destoying western civilation and wish to protect their women. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What crap.
Phuck Reuters and the New York Post
Intellectually lazy gobshites.
Tyler quit posting this drivil, most of the commenters (clearly not me :)) here write better articles.
For everything decent, please explain how Finn's defending their neighborhood is "racist". We're all tired of the brainless journalism that passes for the 5th estate. Its time to start reprogramming society, withdraw consent from this idiocy.
Question: is rape wrong and a criminal offence
Answer: yes, and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Now govt proles, if you won't enforce your own laws why should the public that funds your parasitic asses put up with it. In this case citizen millitias are justified. They are not vigilantes, they sre lawfully protecting human life and using force to enforce that right to life, property and dignity.
Fricking A. Nazis are LEFT wing not right. National Socialists. If one equates right wing to those that reject multiculturalism, then fine, but the left wing is the the end that uses the power of government to enforce their adgenda. So in that sense, those that reject multiculturalism are on both the right and left, and those on the right who reject unjust government power over citizens are not the ones, like Nazis, that want to exterminate other races. If I don't think multiculturalism works, there is nothing wrong with using the just powers of government to limit multiculturalism with malicious intent.
How can we get something like this started in America?
Since when is protecting your life, RACIST?
so if these guys are Finnish nationalists, why are the words on their jackets in English?
Glad to see that testosterone has not been quite erased from Europe yet.
The Left may have shot its wad with the concept of racism over this one.