CENTER-RIGHT COALITION TRIES TO KILL INTERNAL FRA ACT OPPOSITION

The FRA Act resistance within the center-right coalition is still strong, but in accordance with Swedish tradition the national leadership of the political parties are now trying to quell internal opposition. And the internal propaganda tour is like taken out of an East Europe Communist playbook. The daily Dagens Nyheter reports:

Representatives of the Center Party's local districts discussed Wednesday night what information to give their members in order to convince them that passing the FRA Act was the right thing to do. Mats Brannstrom, chairman of the Center Party in Gothenburg, and Per Ankersjo, chairman of the party district in Stockholm both admitted that far from everyone in the party is behind the FRA Act. 'After our meeting this morning the district chairmen have a very important job trying to present the information about the FRA Act to their members as clearly as possible.

In other words: the district chairmen, who are elected by the local members, are now the propaganda tools of the party leadership. Their job is to do what the party leadership could not muster, namely to convince regular party grassroots why blanket wiretapping of every man, woman and child in Sweden is in their own best interest.

If they can get away with this, they can get away with anything.