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"Here in Sweden, behind every deportation decision, every surveillance
proposition, every rejected asylum case, is a deeper ideology: that human worth
is conditional. That rights must be earned. That survival is not guaranteed.
This is the system I've come to know, not just as a jurist, but as a human
being living and working inside it. And what I've seen is not justice. It is a
slow, quiet violence cloaked in legal formalities.
This piece is a follow-up to
Sweden on Trial: Climate Betrayal, Racism, and
the Silence of Complicity — an article that traced how Sweden's rightward
shift and neoliberal consensus have hollowed out the meaning of justice,
citizenship, and solidarity. That piece examined how environmental collapse,
racism, and legal repression are not separate crises, but symptoms of the same
system. This piece continues that investigation — through the courtroom.
It also owes a debt to Neal Haddaway's essential work exposing how global
systems and structural forces — from structural adjustment programs to food
imperialism — shape migration patterns by design, not accident. His recent
investigations uncovered how EU trade policies, climate devastation, and
resource extraction leave Moroccan families with no choice but to migrate,
crossing hostile borders in search of survival.
In Sweden, I see a different face of the same system: one that operates not
through scorched fields or broken crops, but through courtrooms, legal codes,
and polite denials. The machinery looks cleaner. But the logic is the same, a
globally integrated economy that extracts, exploits, and discards, and a legal
system that punishes those it has already failed.
It tells people to follow the rules, but rewrites those rules in real time. It
upholds justice in theory, while gatekeeping access in practice. It promises
integration, while selling off the institutions that once made it possible."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
