Are PSYOPS legal in Sweden?

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Hello everybody. I haven't seen any discussions when it comes to the legality of Syrups. I guess the discussions are absent because we just assume that of course it should be illegal for a government to terrorize their own population and then their own decision makers. But maybe we're assuming it just a little bit too much. There's been some interesting discussions in a Swedish parliament where this one politician raised a question to the defense minister and in the prelude to this question he states that the legal situation for Syrups has been investigated. It's been done so in the defense high school in Sweden. And this illegal expert I guess Fredrik Konander states that there is non-legal restrictions for Syrups in Sweden. So the question is then put. Has the defense minister any plans or initiative to introduce a law which can regulate what the Syrups unit can do and cannot do? And he basically gets a non-answer on that one. They looped the question around seven times and the defense minister just goes the Babylon and then he after a while says that the Syrups unit is regulated by international law and Swedish law. He just avoids the fact that the defense departments own legal experts say that the Syrups are not regulated in any kind of manner. And then he says that the Syrups unit is under command of the defense department and the Swedish government and of course they are not going to approve of anything unethical. It's obvious right. And then you might ask yourself question why do we have any laws at all if we could just trust people. But they don't unfortunately go into that. After a little bit of searching around I found that this politician I actually get his some of his prelude in his questions. He got from an article that was published I think in 2000 and 2012. And I was very surprised. This newspaper interview the couple people working for the Syrups unit and they were quite frank. I was very surprised. I can't read a part of that article to you. I'm just going to pick out some good parts from that article. You're going to be a bit surprised when you need this. Eight years ago the government wrote that it was necessary to analyze the legal and human rights aspects and to clarify the conditions and consequences of the armed forces developing an offensive capacity for information operation. The current law was simply unclear. The question was investigated by Friedrich Konander at the Defense College and the study lasted for six years. Today the legal expert states there are no legal restriction on what Syrups may do on the Swedish law. As long as the 10th Syrups unit is in line with international law they can basically do what they want. Then the question is put forward through a lieutenant that works at this Syrups unit is some kind of boss as well. And the question is can the Syrups unit conduct black Syrups? They divide the Syrups in different categories. White, gray and black. White is when you tell the true and black is when you lie and I guess Stockholm, truck attack was pitch black. Any answers like this? That's a question like a moral question or a question of conscience. In practice what the Syrups unit does is decided by their own political, cultural and legal experts in really sensitive cases. When we try to mislead and those Syrups on high decision makers the operation is even secret for other staff members or staff officers. That is quite big. I really think they had a chat with this guy after this interview. He goes on to say he repeats the fact that there are no explicit legal issues when it comes to conducting psychological operations in Sweden and he states that even something that are really illegal in the United States we can do here in Sweden. And this is okay. And he also states that the tenth Syrups unit is really engaged when it comes to the conspiracy theorists. And then he says if it I'm just trying to translate here at the same time. If we if we can do what the conspiracy theorist says that we can do that we can beam thoughts into the head of people, nobody would be more happier than we. And also if we can do this in secret so nobody noticed as the theorists say that we can do that would be amazing. But unfortunately science is not quite there yet. Okay. Thanks for now.