Im going to get political. Hardcore. Not much to say on geology these days. Hopefully I will have more on geology in a few days time - but in general its going to take most of the summer before the geology picks up here again. Its all connected to the studies you see. In class - lots of material - out of class - less material.

If you dont like me complaining about very liberal political issues, dont read any further. You have been warned!

As a modern European, I love my social freedoms (wich some americans regard as "immoral", "decadent" or "eurotrash"). I value them more than the economical freedom of America. I have no eny on that part really. I wouldnt trade my rights to say or think what ever I do for a little bit less taxes. Money isnt everything. America has social freedoms as well, but its quite obvious that the christian moral norms apply, and that all who thinks different is thought of as strange - this I know from Swedish people living there. Of course it varies from state to state. Very conservative in some parts, very liberal in some. But in comparison, western Europe is all roughly like San Fransisco, and since 9/11 and your patriot act and such, Im not very impressed with the American view on freedom in general. On the contrary.

Social freedoms are more important to me than any thing else. No one should ever dictate what I should love and hate or when its OK for me to speak up and I should always trust that my rights are protected by law. But unfortunatly, the social freedoms of Europe are shrinkring. Unfortunally thanks to Americans ideas on freedom, where people can get imprisoned without trial for years like on Guantanamo. Our idiotical politicians look at the American modell. When its quite obvious that most Americans today are getting tired of the american way as it has been for the last 8 years.

One of the reasons I like to write blogs (and I actually write several more blogs than this one, but those are in Swedish) is the anonymity. Its not like Im up to no good, its simply that if I had my name and picture on my blog I not only could, but I most surely would recieve nasty threats from people who thinks different from me. Ive seen it happen to people I know. Geology is seldom a topic of discussion wich makes people angry, but when discussing politics and religion people have strong opinions. One is forced to think twice about everything that one publish. And even then, theres always the idiots you can never forsee.

Sweden and Europe is presently being dragged in to a political trend thats similar to the one america experienced after 9/11. Civil liberties are reduced in the ridiculus name of "freedom". A couple of days ago the Swedish parliament voted for a law that gives a govermental beurau called FRA (Försvarets Radioanstalt) the right AND duty to monitor ALL communication and radio/internet/telephone traffic that crosses Swedish borders in the hunt of terrorists. Meaning that when I send an email to a friend in the USA, our Swedish goverment has the rights to read that mail. Its quite absurd really. From one of the freest countries in the world, Sweden is reduced to yet another totalitarian fucked up fascist state that has USAs ridiculus view on freedom in combination with an East German Cold War monitoring system of the citizens. Hello China. Hello Noth Korea.

Thats not all, and this latest thing is what really pisses me off. Now theres a member of the parliament of the European Union that wants to impose a law DEMANDING all bloggers in the EU to be non-anonymous. That is, no more blogs if you dont post your name on it. Of course I doubt that this fascist rule will go through in practise, but if it does, I doubt that anyone will follow it. And good luck taking it to court EU, you will loose badly if you try to enforce the law on its citizens because this must break several international laws on humans rights as far as I know. 

The cowardly countrymen of my home Sweden might not do anything, but I doubt that the inventors of modern liberal freedoms, the French (liberal thoughts is not an american invention), will stand by if this ever becomes a law.

Hello second French revolution - Im in.

Oh, I almost forgot. The person behind the manifest from EU about more control over the bloggers is this person. Her name is Marianne Mikko and shes from Estonia. Screw you Marianne.