The assistant mayor of Finland’s major city Turku was convicted of beating up his physically handicapped wife. You can’t make this stuff up, I wish you could, then it would save a lot of people from physical violence. The only thing that tops this is when Dick Cheney shot his seventy-seven year old friend in the face with a shotgun.
The assistant mayor of Turku was the SDP member Tero Hirvilammi. Mr. Hirvilammi was adamant that he wanted to continue in his job, because it was a “private matter”. This shows a rather peculiar type of rational. A little like being convicted of drink driving, then openning up a driving school and saying “well I was caught drink driving in my own time, so it’s a private matter”. Just to make make my point crystal-meth clear, it would be similar to a crack smoker opening up a pharmacy and saying “well I only puff outside office hours”.
The rather saddening thing about this sordid affair was that afterwards the wife had stated that “he only slapped me about a bit”. Oh so that makes it alright then.
Mr. Hirvilammi ended up getting the axe last week and it turns out that he had often turned up to work drunk. This is not an uncommon occurrence in Finland. However his drinking had not stopped his political machinations. Mr. Hirvilammi is a close friend of the Finnish National Broadcasting Corporation YLE Mr. Mikael Jungner. Hirvilammi and Jungner had set up a new chapter of the SDP party which has been named The Finnish Democrats. Mr. Jungner is a man for whom nothing is private he loves to air his private life on Youtube and Twitter. Jungner is a man who is quick to have an opinion on everything under the sun… Yet when it comes to beating up defenseless handicapped women by those close to him Mr. Jungner stays peculiarly silent.
So here’s a question to Mr. Jungner the violence to woman condoning YLE director. Do you beat up Mrs. Maria Jungner or do you just like to slap her about a bit?
Tags: Maria Jungner, Mikael Jungner, SDP, Tero Hirvilammi, Turku, violence against women
03/08/2010 at 2:07 pm |
IT IS SO SAD….
I just cannot understand why people let this to go on for such a long time?
03/22/2010 at 7:04 pm |
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