“Us” and “Them”
Source: swedishsurveyor.com
I’ve decided to translate yet another one of Julia Caesar’s popular Sunday chronicles available in Swedish on the website Snaphanen. This one is named “Us and Them” and concerns a scandal of epic proportions, the Swedish governments “society coach” program. The plan was for the coaches to assist newly arrived immigrants with getting jobs and becoming integrated into society.
The coaches worked for private companies who, in turn, were hired by the state-run job agency but it turned out to be a billion-kronor fiasco with coaches being accused of fraud, bribery, threats, blackmail, people smuggling and recruiting to militant fighting groups such as the Islamic State.
The Local and the Daily Mail both published articles with the headline ”Swedish migrant aids were Isis recruiters” and they have chosen to translate the (pardon my french) bloody untranslateable Swedish word ”etableringslots” with terms such as ”immigrant resettlement assistants”, ”assimilation guides program”, ”immigrant assimilation guides”, ”migrant aides” but those translations didn’t really appeal to me so I’ve instead opted for a more modest term namely ”society coach.”
Without further ado, a guest column:
”Us” and “Them”
It was called ”the biggest change of integration policy in several decades” when it was launched after the 2010 election. The program of society coaches for newly arrived immigrants was going to be the bourgeois Alliance government’s flagship. It would “break the nursing mentality”, said one of the biggest knuckleheads in modern-day Swedish politics, former Minister of Migration Erik Ullenhag (FP)
Previous Minister of Migration, Erik Ullenhag
As usual politicians made the mistake of assuming that immigrants by and large have the same norms and morals as ethnic Swedes. All humans are the same. “Us” and “Them” is strictly forbidden. What the government in reality did was unprecedented, signing an invitation to serious and organised criminals.
Enriched themselves with swanky cars and thick wads of cash
When Mikael Sjöberg, director-general of the Swedish Public Employment Service (AF), under panicked conditions stopped the program it was too late. The flagship had shipwrecked under conditions that will go down in history, sinking to the depths along with 3 billion taxpayer kronor. Millions upon millions have flooded uncontrollably, and criminal “entrepreneurs” have enriched themselves with swanky cars and thick wads of cash. The coach money has financed criminal activity; corruption, fraud, bribes, people smuggling, extortion, and the sale of registered address. Along with terrorist activity such as IS (the Islamic State).
Both government officials at AF and the customers have been subject to death threats from society coaches – threats that in many cases haven’t been reported to the police out of fear of reprisals, according to Fria Tider.
Forced taxpayers to finance terror
“The sickest thing in this context is that the politicians that forced Swedish taxpayers to finance Daesh’s (IS) and Hamas’s terror consider themselves to be superior to the taxpayers. They have questioned how humanitarian the taxpayers that they have forced to finance terror are.”
“They have accused the very same taxpayers of racism, sexism, and structural oppression. They have established plans of action and värdegrunder (value plans) to educate people whose money they have confiscated – and used to finance beheadings, rapes and crucifixions – to better people” writes the blogger Fnordspotting.
"You can take your crypto-totalitarian value plan documents, your Orwellian plans of actions, your Everton Window, your consensus culture, your appeals for open hearts, your holier than thou attitude and last but not least your infantile naivety and shove it up somewhere where the sun never shines. After you forced me to finance crucifixions of children you have also renounced all rights to preach morals to me.”
Each job has cost 2,5 million, on average
Every pointless job that the coaches organized have cost 2,5 million kronor, on average. The jobs are normally subsidized by taxpayers; entry-level jobs, stating jobs, wage subsidies and comfort employment (trygghetsanställning). The subsidized jobs cost taxpayers a hair-raising 20 billion kronor every year. In the past five years more than 73 billion taxpayer kronor have been handed out out to private companies. The government has classified the list of subsidised companies. Therefore nobody can control how the money has been used.
Swedish naivety in a nutshell
According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), which is submitting a report on fraud at the end of March, the subsidies are especially attractive for organized criminals.
”Lawmakers have good intentions with subsidies but didn’t consider that there aren’t only law-abiding companies who apply, but also wrongdoers who have companies that they use as criminal instruments” – says Johanna Skinnari, investigator at Brå.
“Didn’t consider it…” Swedish naivety in a nutshell – like talking about “individuals” when it is blatantly obvious that this sort of crime follows cultural patterns and is largely committed by immigrants.
19,8 million for a single job
Of the 6736 people who were enrolled in the reform last year only 5% had gotten a proper non-subsidised job three months later.
One coach company in Gävle managed to fix one job during a three year time period. For that they billed the government 19,8 million kronor. The company, Tolk & Lots Sverige AB in Växjö received 13,2 million kronor from AF; primarily to arrange jobs for newly arrived migrants. Result: one (1) job, revealed Expressen.
“Everyone demands a computer and asks what brand they get”
The company is owned and run by Matthias Saleh, 67, and local politician Sarchel Mohammed, 47, who sit in the City Council of Växjö for the Centre Party. The company flag flies outside of the office and on the parking lot three polished Volvo SUV – two XC60 and one XC90 – valued at 1,5 million kronor, gleam in the sun. All three are registered with Lots & Tolk AB.
The coach companies have attempted to lure newly arrived migrant customers with computers, Ipads and cell phones for millions of taxpayer kronor. Tolk & Lots have bought computers and Ipads for 1,6 million kronor to lend out to customers.
“Otherwise they go to our competitors,” claims Matthias Saleh. “They are aware of all the rules, and they want half the money we get from AF.”
”First and foremost they want us to help them get their relatives to Sweden, then they want housing, computers and cell phones or Ipads. Everyone wants computers; they even ask what brand they get. It has been so time-consuming that we haven’t had any time over to arrange any jobs.”
”Would have gotten a bigger profit without computer purchases”
Matthias Saleh and Sarchel Mohammed confess that despite their catastrophic failures at arranging jobs for immigrants they have been able to pocket millions. But they add:
”We would have gotten a bigger profit if we hadn’t been forced to buy all these computers.”
Mats Skogkär writes a furious editorial in Sydsvenskan.
”Welcome to Sweden, the banana monarchy. For the past 5 years over 73 billion kronor have been paid out in subsidies to private companies. The question of who got the money is secret. When you consider the striking examples of gross mismanagement with public funds that have been revealed throughout the day the only reasonable outcome is that citizens find out exactly how these billions have been used.”
“Via their unfathomable naivety or perhaps cynicism the floodgates have been wide-open for all kinds of charlatans. Responsible politicians have contributed to the distrust of all kinds of private entrepreneurship.”
67 people registered to the same apartment address
One of the income-generating tasks of coaches has been to flirt with customers at asylum homes and sell apartment addresses to immigrants who wish to get away from the asylum homes and get access to substantially larger grants in the form of “establishment compensation”.
In one case, which was brought to attention by the newspaper Norrköpings Tidningar back in December 2013, a coach had sold the same apartment address to 67 people. Another coach had designated a business premise as a registered address for 14 people.
Addresses where they didn’t live. Those who were registered on the fake addresses were immigrants that had just arrived from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.
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