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"UNOFFICIAL" SAL NEWS 1994-12-15
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OCTOBER: The EU-referendum of Finland was held and pro-EU won with
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======= 57% support. The whole year of 1994 was characterized with
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very strong pro-EU-propaganda. All of the 6-7 leading news-
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papers (reaching the great majority of Finns) as well as two
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state-owned TV-Channels and one commercial TV-Channel
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(the all we have in finnish!) were PRO-EU.
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SAL was active in opposing the EU. However the co-
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operation between the EU-opposers was not very intense,
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because many of them were right-wing nationalists, rednecks,
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stalinists and even neo-nazis.
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OCTOBER A special riot-police-forces are founded. The new unit has
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NOVEMBER been through special training and was given special equipment.
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======== Such a unit has never existed in Finland before and police
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says it was founded because of left and right wing radicals.
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A more proper explanation may be that the police is afraid
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of possible riots caused by the unemployment (which is in
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Finland at the moment very high - 20%!!)
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One can also wonder, why during the present depression
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the police and the army get more and more funds and the
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health care and libraries etc get all the time less funds.
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NOVEMBER During the year 1994 has the satanism and satan worshipping
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DECEMBER greatly increased. After a sensational TV-document made by
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======== the Church (in Finland there is "state-Church") was shown
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there has been a lot of conversation around the matter.
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Very often satanists are claimed to be connected with
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anarhcism. For instance, the document showed some symbols
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satanists are said to use, and these symbols included
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circled A (symbol of anarchy), A-stars, peace symbols etc
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The thruth is however, that anarhists have little
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to do with satanists and in fact, the satanists are connected
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to neo-nazis, enemies of anarchists, and drug-sellers.
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In Helsinki and in Joensuu (eastern Finland) the street
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fights between black youths (especially the somali-refugees)
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and skinheads and other local youths have increased. These
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violent fights have now penetrated to the mass media.
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6th DECEMBER The Independence day of Finland. Neo-nazi-violence was
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============ expected, but (luckily) nothing happened. In the former
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years some neo-nazi gangs have attacked colored people
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and rioted on the streets breaking windows etc.
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Sad to say, as far as I know - there was neither
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any anarchist activity against the nationalism and patriotic
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spirit around the 6th of december.
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