The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

So the parliament just approved a law giving the police permission to detain foreigners for an unlimited time period without them having a right to go before a judge.



I think I might have read that wrong. Nope, but, ah! They're only allowed to detain the foreigners under certain conditions. Oh, those conditions are not specified? I'm sure that won't cause any problems.

srsly?

[Razgovory]

You can just unfollow them so you never see anything of theirs unless they directly post it on your wall.

Like you do with me!

[Habbaku]

Poor, put-upon Raz. 

[mongers]

A wall is something put up as a barrier, right?

Sometimes people then paint it with graffiti.

Am I getting the hang of what social media is?

[Liep]

I just heard a Danish politician use the phrase "kartoffel, kartoffel" which means "potato, potato", except he said it with no difference in pronunciation.

[Liep]

The well liked and famous DANISH POLITICS POLLS are back! This time for something as exciting as the EU judicial membership. Will we vote yes or continue to stay out side of EU's judicial system? What will a no mean? More baby rapists says the Yes-side, what will a yes mean? Loss of sovereignty says No-side whilst mumbling something unintelligible about how that's very important while the electorate thinks about who should win this season of dancing with the stars.

[Syt]

You do your duty as a civilized netizen, continue to fact check everything and correct them on their book of faces until they unfriend you.

I have a new favorite:



Apparently, refugees are either cowards, or victims of excessive gun control. (Possibly both.)

[Josquius]

It's amazing how the whole little guy militia man thing persists in the US despite them having long since became the big scary empire.

[jimmy olsen]

Just googled it.  "Intersex"?  First time I heard of this.

Super rare health issue.

[jimmy olsen]

So the parliament just approved a law giving the police permission to detain foreigners for an unlimited time period without them having a right to go before a judge.



I think I might have read that wrong. Nope, but, ah! They're only allowed to detain the foreigners under certain conditions. Oh, those conditions are not specified? I'm sure that won't cause any problems.

srsly?

Yeah, I want to hear more about this.

[Valmy]

It's amazing how the whole little guy militia man thing persists in the US despite them having long since became the big scary empire.

Nothing amazing at all about it. It is how big scary empires are made and maintained.

[Liep]

So the parliament just approved a law giving the police permission to detain foreigners for an unlimited time period without them having a right to go before a judge.



I think I might have read that wrong. Nope, but, ah! They're only allowed to detain the foreigners under certain conditions. Oh, those conditions are not specified? I'm sure that won't cause any problems.

srsly?

Yeah, I want to hear more about this.

One example is if the police asks a foreigner for id papers and the person refuses the police can then detain that person until papers are produced. If there are no papers though, there's no actual time limit before a judge has to rule on the case. It's because the politicians expect this to happen a lot when Sweden actually closes its borders or civil war breaks out in Sweden.

The problem is that the limits to this law are not defined, the politicians may have examples of what they call extreme cases that calls for this, but it's up to the police to use it.

The justice minister's response was: When it's used we will later try that case in court to see if it was used correct.

EDIT: A law professor actually says that it's the minister of justice who will give the police the authority to use this new law, it's at the discretion of the minister if he sees any given case as "an extreme situation".

[Liep]

I am thoroughly confused about this and find it quite disconcerting that on one side you have law professors yelling POLICE STATE! and on the other you have right wing politicians calmly saying: you're wrong, it's not so bad, we've got this.

[jimmy olsen]

One example is if the police asks a foreigner for id papers and the person refuses the police can then detain that person until papers are produced. If there are no papers though, there's no actual time limit before a judge has to rule on the case. It's because the politicians expect this to happen a lot when Sweden actually closes its borders or civil war breaks out in Sweden.

They expect this to happen in the near future?

[Eddie Teach]

First step when Brain tries TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.