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Introduction The police does not decide what they should do; the public does through its authorities and how they treat the police and the police officer (not exactly the same thing). In some miniblogs I hope to show that this is not really accurate. Miniblog 1: How the police through its prejudices shares its monopoly […]

There are several million romani in Europe. This is not a proposal that we should take in all of these, but there is an enormous difference between all and none. In what follows I am not going to play the numbers game. How many is a question for general discussion. I am trying to show […]

What is meant in the west by freedom of expression, generally known as freedom of speech, is generally known. As a rough idea we can take the renaissance with names as Erasmus of Rotterdam,Galileo and Montaigne.  The rights have been won through centuries of struggle till today. Meanwhile they have been  changed, improved  and subverted. […]

Instead of writing a final word on terrorism of today, I am trying to define the problem and discuss a possible way out. I leave “celebrity” terrorism aside since that is a different problem. By terrorism I mean here attacks on civilians. In the middle east Muslims are attacked by Islamists and by Western (including […]

For Sweden, to join Nato, is to choose between malaria and the plague. With malaria you don’t feel very well but the plague is usually deadly. From this viewpoint the question is not to join but how to join.  The first that strikes one is the unanalyzed negotiation situation. Some demands are difficult to get a […]

The Balkans have traditionally been an the object of the great powers’  ambitions. 1914 in Sarajevo, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was assasinated. This led to a serie of events that became the First World War, the results of which still beset us today. The Great Powers of Europe were taken by surprise quite […]

If we could bring the signers of the Constitution to the present day and show them the place of religion in public schools they would be flabbergasted.  None of the signers were openly against religion and very few if any were antireligious at all.  Where is it? The Bill of Rights says two things. The […]

  Can voting by electronic voting machines or any version which doesn’t involve a paper trail be democratic? First we have to understand what a paper trail is. It is a ballot (piece of paper) which counts for one vote and where nobody can see that just you have cast that vote. Why couldn’t an […]

China benefits just as much as Tibet by Tibetan autonomy. The difficulty is to hammer out a harmonious agreement in a hypercommercial world. Could this be done then both China and Tibet will have created something new and worthwhile.

The only Western war aim that makes any sense is to prevent the extremists from controlling Afghan territory. .... the extremists run their territories so badly that even Western forces are tolerated.