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The modern Swedish Democracy
* 1918 (Universal suffrage passes and is first practiced in 1921.)
✝ 2008-06-18 19:21 UTC (The ubiquitous wiretapping bill passes and will eventually become law.)

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WHEREAS this law attempts to covertly legitimize organized illegal activity by the National Defence Radio Establishment for the past 30 years,

WHEREAS this law bestows upon the National Defence Radio Establishment power to in effect constantly wiretap every Swede attempting to converse over cellular networks or navigate to servers outside the local network,

WHEREAS recent and historical events have uncovered the National Defence Radio Establishment’s disrespect for powers established to control it as well as its inability to prevent leaks,

WHEREAS this law’s refocus from listening to ethereal frequencies to allowing actual wiretapping will, in a very profound way, change the bulk of the underlying traffic from commercial and governmental to personal correspondence,

WHEREAS the aforementioned power infringes on the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 8, a law that is by constitutional mandate endowed superiority over every other Swedish law save the Swedish Constitution itself,

WHEREAS the aforementioned power also severely cripples fully half of the Swedish Constitution in effectively removing the right from inquiry into anonymity by public authorities set forward both in The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression (Chapter 2, Article 4) and in The Freedom of the Press Act (Chapter 3, Article 4),

WHEREAS the circumstances under which this law was discussed, debated and attempted repeatedly to covertly pass is a disgrace to the political system,

WHEREAS the law is passed under the guise of attempting to guard the Swedish nation from foreign threats, legitimate examples thereof which could (and are, and have) easily and routinely circumvent this wiretapping by routing around the Swedish borders and applying encryption, and

WHEREAS the creation and movement to pass this law has been in violation of The Instrument of Government (the first law in the Swedish Constitution), Article Two, which contains the passages “Public power shall be exercised with respect for the equal worth of all and the liberty and dignity of the private person.” as well as “The public institutions shall promote the ideals of democracy as guidelines in all sectors of society and protect the private and family lives of private persons.”,

WE, THE PEOPLE OF SWEDEN, impeach the following public servants on charges of high treason:

Tina Acketoft (fp), Jan Andersson (c), Yvonne Andersson (kd), Gunnar Andrén (fp), Staffan Anger (m), Staffan Appelros (m), Sofia Arkelsten (m), Lena Asplund (m), Stefan Attefall (kd), Gunnar Axén (m), Hans Backman (fp), Eva Bengtson Skogsberg (m), Finn Bengtsson (m), Ulf Berg (m), Sten Bergheden (m), Anna Bergkvist (m), Sven Bergström (c), Per Bill (m), Gustav Blix (m), Helena Bouveng (m), Anita Brodén (fp), Katarina Brännström (m), Ulrika Carlsson (c), Mikael Cederbratt (m), Margareta Cederfelt (m), Staffan Danielsson (c), Inger Davidson (kd), Kjell Eldensjö (kd), Lars Elinderson (m), Annicka Engblom (m), Hillevi Engström (m), Annelie Enochson (kd), Karin Enström (m), Jan Ericson (m), Erik A Eriksson (c), Jan Ertsborn (fp), Mahmood Fahmi (m), Fredrick Federley (c), Eva Flyborg (fp), Inge Garstedt (m), Mats Gerdau (m), Karin Granbom (fp), Rolf Gunnarsson (m), Holger Gustafsson (kd), Lars Gustafsson (kd), Walburga Habsburg Douglas (m), Liselott Hagberg (fp), Björn Hamilton (m), Carl B Hamilton (fp), Ann-Charlotte Hammar Johnsson (m), Krister Hammarbergh (m), Anders Hansson (m), Lennart Hedquist (m), Emma Henriksson (kd), Lars Hjälmered (m), Christian Holm (m), Isabella Jernbeck (m), Annie Johansson (c), Bengt-Anders Johansson (m), Jörgen Johansson (c), Mats Johansson (m), Jeppe Johnsson (m), Christine Jönsson (m), Reza Khelili Dylami (m), Marianne Kierkemann (m), Dan Kihlström (kd), Anna Kinberg Batra (m), Bertil Kjellberg (m), Margareta B Kjellin (m), Maria Kornevik Jakobsson (c), Tobias Krantz (fp), Sofia Larsen (c), Nina Larsson (fp), Olof Lavesson (m), Björn Leivik (m), Lennart Levi (c), Anna Lilliehöök (m), Göran Lindblad (m), Lars Lindblad (m), Lars Lindén (kd), Else-Marie Lindgren (kd), Kerstin Lundgren (c), Maria Lundqvist-Brömster (fp), Ulla Löfgren (m), Malin Löfsjögård (m), Fredrik Malm (fp), Betty Malmberg (m), Göran Montan (m), Karin Nilsson (c), Mats G Nilsson (m), Nils Oskar Nilsson (m), Rolf K Nilsson (m), Ulf Nilsson (fp), Andreas Norlén (m), Kent Olsson (m), Mikael Oscarsson (kd), Johan Pehrson (fp), Sven Gunnar Persson (kd), Sven Yngve Persson (m), Désirée Pethrus Engström (kd), Göran Pettersson (m), Lennart Pettersson (c), Karin Pilsäter (fp), Maria Plass (m), Jessica Polfjärd (m), Marietta Pourbaix-Lundin (m), Annika Qarlsson (c), Helena Rivière (m), Eliza Roszkowska Öberg (m), Hans Rothenberg (m), Rosita Runegrund (kd), Lennart Sacrédeus (kd), Mats Sander (m), Fredrik Schulte (m), Birgitta Sellén (c), Ulf Sjösten (m), Lars-Arne Staxäng (m), Ola Sundell (m), Elisabeth Svantesson (m), Ingvar Svensson (kd), Henrik Sydow (m), Solveig Ternström (c), Ewa Thalén Finné (m), Göran Thingwall (m), Roger Tiefensee (c), Gunilla Tjernberg (kd), Tomas Tobé (m), Stefan Tornberg (c), Lars Tysklind (fp), Peder Wachtmeister (m), Hans Wallmark (m), Marie Weibull Kornias (m), Barbro Westerholm (fp), Cecilia Widegren (m), Allan Widman (fp), Cecilia Wigström (fp), Rune Wikström (m), Christer Winbäck (fp), Ingemar Vänerlöv (kd), Claes Västerteg (c), Solveig Zander (c), Anders Åkesson (c), Per Åsling (c);

AS WELL AS the former and current Ministers of Defence:

Sten Tolgfors (m), Mikael Odenberg (m);

INCLUDING the current Prime Minister of Sweden:

Fredrik Reinfeldt (m);

AND the Minister of Defence under whose administration work on the original bill began:

Leni Björklund (s).

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