Finnish blogger Mikko Ellila was harassed by a government official after he posted crime statistics produced by the Ministry of Justice.  Authoritative government statistics show that African immigrants commit far more crimes per capita than Finns do.  That kind of information is apparently too sensitive to be publicised by politically incorrect bloggers.

Mikko Puumalainen, Finland’s Ombudsman for Minorities, asked the Central Criminal Police (Finland’s counterpart to the FBI) to interrogate Mr Ellila.  He was eventually questioned by municipal police.

Finnish government bureaucrat Mikko Puumalainen want to establish a Chinese-style governmental firewall on the internet to prevent all 5,000,000 (five million) people in Finland from reading websites that “strive to maintain an anti-immigrant political climate” by e.g. publishing facts such as official statistics on crime rates.
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Quotes from official crime statistics published by the Ministry of Justice undoubtedly “help maintain an anti-immigrationist political climate” because they prove that e.g. the Somalis commit more than 100 times more (over one hundred times more, as in, over 10,000% more) robberies per capita than the Finns do.

Since Puumalainen has repeatedly said that he thinks all those who ”strive to maintain an anti-immigrant political climate” by publishing facts or opinions that might make other citizens more critical of immigration are “racists” and since, according to Puumalainen, “internet racism” is the same thing as “hate speech against an ethnic group” which is a crime, this means that Puumalainen considers it to be already illegal to publish crime statistics.

I wonder whether he is going to sue the Ministry of Justice.

Mr Puumalainen should consider advising Finland to adopt Canada’s way of dealing with crime statistics identifying the ethnicity and immigrant status of perpetrators: Don’t collect the information in the first place, and then no such statistics can be produced.

The post at Mr Ellila’s blog is dated 3 May 2007, but I only saw it today.  On 22 July 2007, the system administrator closed the blog for advocating “racialist” policies.

In related news, earlier this week a Swedish man was convicted of agitation against an ethnic group for carrying a placard accusing immigrants of gang rape.  He displayed the placard at an anti-racism rally. 

h/t: Tongue Tied