The Lawless Society - Living in the shadow of socialism

By Mikael Jörgenstam

A text collection about the author's personal experiences during the period 2009-2022 in Sweden. Each chapter is a detailed description of the living conditions and the circumstances that individual residents face on a daily basis but which are not always allowed to be highlighted in the politically correct society. The book asks whether the social contract exists or is a sham maneuver to control the country's inhabitants. A socially critical reality that is taken directly from everyday life and only rewritten to protect the individuals affected by the not always clear decisions and sometimes overly obvious missteps of authorities and businesses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mikael Jörgenstam
• Release date: Dec 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215734209

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Introduction

In the spring of 1987, the culmination of a turbulent time in my life was reached. Little did I know then that it was only the beginning of the misery that would unfold in the years that followed. It was a time just a year after the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Palme and the Chernobyl disaster that would leave marks not only on my but the lives of many millions of people in one way or another.

I soon realized that there were many flaws in our so-called social safety net and that the social contract, which was always so positively highlighted, might not be a matter of a binding agreement to protect the population at all. Instead, things began to look more like the contract was a forced agreement to shield authorities and the powerful from the very people who needed the not infrequently claimed protection.

This gave rise to my diligent work in highlighting differences, the special position of the weak on the one hand and the position of the strong on the other. Injustice, inequality, vulnerability and other words that authorities often want to downplay, for the fact that we allegedly have a social safety net, gained a more tangible and real meaning after walking from Stockholm, to Denmark, back to Stockholm via a trip through Haelsingland’s small villages for close to a year.

All this was followed by a number of years in the defense services, service abroad under the UN flag, living abroad and a personal development into today's role as self-employed, support person in social issues to technical consulting work after almost 12 years abroad.

My years abroad have given me a perspective on Swedish society, what works and what still has a strong and permanent need for improvement, but it is not infrequently met with a lack of understanding from Swedes who in very many cases and despite the development of the internet still lives in the delusion that we have the society and social structure that can be assumed to be the best in the world.

These individuals have little idea what actually happened regarding the individual's need for protection, financially and socially, but above all too many seem to lack the insight that we may not be as free to succeed as others want to claim.

I now, after discussions with a good friend, harbored the idea to write a book about just a few isolated phenomena in the Swedish society that in recent years have made it more difficult to ignore all the injustices that still exist in Sweden 2022.

Disclaimer

All chapters in the book will be taken from reality and in some cases names and places will be changed to protect the identity of individuals. What is important to add, however, is that everything described here is only the tip of an iceberg of the craziness, contradictions and sometimes outright abuses of law that occur in this nation's authorities and administrations but also authority-executive organizations that are in all reality companies given extraordinary rights.

In some cases, it is extremely difficult to protect the identities of government officials by having to describe their special position within the authority in order to do justice to how extensive the problems within or between the authorities are. While I apologize for this fact, the reality remains;

-You have a civil servant position within an authority! You appear in public! But thanks to almost unscrupulous politicians, official responsibility [1]is still missing.

However, remember that everything written here should not be interpreted as a refutation or scientific basis. I have largely chosen to exclude source references and other things that could mean that private persons mentioned would be too easy to trace and potentially expose them to threats or blame. The text in its entirety should therefore be interpreted as my own and very personal opinions on each occasion.

Mikael Jörgenstam

1 Civil Law Paradox

Imagine you are out walking your dog. All of a sudden three young guys appear with a firearm. The guy holding the gun acts like a real kid with a new toy in his hand. He waves and points the gun at his buddies, then points it into a grove of trees and fires a few shots at a tree trunk.

The guy then sees you and your dog and points the gun at you. You have heard the shots fired and understand that it is a carbon dioxide weapon usually loaded with diabolo pellets.

You know that if the bullets hit you at a distance of more than 10 meters, they barely go through your clothes, but with your dog it is different. You think about what could happen if they hit eyes, soft parts or your glasses.

They fire a few shots in your direction and then aim at a parked car on the side of the road next to the daycare center they pass. A few more shots are fired into the car door and the side of the car with the result that the bullets go straight through the car plate. With that knowledge, you wonder again what would have happened if they hit you or your dog with the shots that were just fired.

You call the police and want to report the crime that has just been committed. The least you can expect is for them to understand you have just been threatened with a firearm that is apparently powerful enough to punch holes in car sheet metal and that in itself should define the power in the weapon used.

Your call to 112[2] results in you being connected to the police command center. You describe what happened and the first thing that comes out of the police's mouth should make the least legally conscious person quite surprised. -It doesn't sound like anything serious. We train with such weapons and of course it hurts like hell, but they are no more dangerous than that.

My thought at this point was, -How the hell do they know what someone is going to experience or how this particular weapon was configured?

With a more or less arbitrary tone, the police did not even want to take up the report first, but say, typical of the time, that it is a civil matter.

Since when did civil law include concepts such as unlawful threats, weapon crimes or other crimes of violence against persons? In Sweden during the 21st century, more or less every report that people call in and want to report is arbitrarily referred to as being a civil matter.

Do the police and the general public have so little interest in the matter of individuals that even gun crimes fall outside the scope of the representatives of law and order?

Perhaps it is even the question of the lack of interest on the part of representatives of the judiciary and the ever-smaller resources allocated to investigative work.

In the end, the dog owner is finally allowed to report the incident when he pushes for the mandatory right to file a report and the next day we read in the local paper that youngsters have vandalized cars in the residential area. Not a word is mentioning people and pets having been threatened in connection with this and in a conversation with the journalist who wrote the article there is not an ounce of interest in this fact that people were threatened at the scene of the incident.

I'm a little surprised and wonder if it depends on who fired the shots according to the testimony, who owned the car that was shot at, and what skin color the lone dog owner had.

These are questions that may not be asked at the moment because they can be construed as racism, reverse racism, incitement against ethnic groups and things that cannot be discussed in today's politically and allegedly correct society.

Is it correct that we are not allowed to touch on issues because they can be sensitive or is it not rather that issues that are sensitive must be discussed in order to prevent even worse problems from arising?

Are we not even allowed to ask the last question in the new Sweden?

2 When Do You Become a Noncitizen?

In October 2009 I returned to Sweden after twelve years abroad. I have lived in quite a few parts of the world and this time I returned from England, where I was an EU citizen. Once I arrived in a small town in the south-east of Sweden, I would of course register as a resident, which is customary when you are back home.

This process took some three months for the tax office to simply register me again, even though I was born in Sweden and held a Swedish social security number given by birth. One naturally wonders under what conditions this delay occurs, as everyone must be factually registered. In particular, since no one may stay longer than three months before they are registered as residing in the country. Is it this legal requirement defined by the EU that regulates the time it takes and why does it happen with such a slow pace in the 21st century?

However, this in itself was not the only obviously macabre thing that occurred. Since I am of the old school and at this time could not believe that Sweden had changed significantly compared to how it was when I left the country in 1997, thus my conversations continued in the next stage with the state-controlled employment agency. You have to find a job, I thought, and then you should also be included in the statistics for the country's jobseekers. Little did I know how this conversation would unfold.

I call the central customer service switchboard and ask to be