[berntb]

The "funniest" part is that there really was a a scandal recently in Sweden about an upper class guy using his position for e.g. raping and abusing women.

He was a police chief which, despite police union criticism, got reinstated by the social democrat minister - because he was so politically correct...

Quite fun, considering the political leanings of Larsson.

[hristov]

Hmm source? I assume you mean Goran Lindberg, but there is nothing out there about him being reinstated to anything after being convicted. In fact wikipedia says he is in prison right now. How has he been reinstated?

I don't know what this has to do with Larsson at all.

[berntb]

Sorry for the late answer, I was busy today and didn't check hn until now, long after it went from the front page.

Lindberg was going to be fired because of complaints from the employees -- but he got reinstated, by Bodström himself! That was a few years before the big scandal.

That is well known and has been in the major media. Google gave me this link. IIRC, I originally read it in DN or SvD.

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1862998/lindberg-raddades-...

>>I december 2002 skickade polisfacket i Uppsala ett brev direkt till justitieminister Thomas Bodström där de krävde att Lindberg skulle avgå.

>>– Från justitieministern fick vi inget svar över huvud taget, säger Gunnar Elrud, som då var ordförande för polisfacket.

(And being at -3 in the original comment for posting well known facts, while that simple questioning got +11, is really funny...)

[hristov]

You may be right, I do not speak Swedish, so I cannot read your references. It really depends on how believable the complaints were.

But nevertheless your post was misleading because you made it sound like he was reinstated after the scandal. Also, again I do not really see the connection with the writer Larrson. Just because he is a leftie, he is not responsible for every remotely left wing politician out there.

[berntb]

Try translate.google.com

Ah, you mean it can be read as being reinstated after the crime last year? Sorry for being unclear, I was on the way into meetings.

The connection is that there really was a conspiracy where someone was misusing power and influence -- but it was political influence with a left wing government, because the psychopath claimed to be so politically correct...

Considering that Larsson was too left wing for the normal communist party, that was quite funny.

Edit: To back my claim about Larsson's politics, consider that Larsson was active with Eritrean guerrilla fighters. That regime he supported is much, much worse than even that rapist psychopath of a police chief...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/15/stieg-girls-with...