Swedish National Library and Child Porn

Europe is so sophisticated compared to the U.S.

The Leftists tell us all the time that we should be more like Europe.

Personally, I disagree.

For example, Sweden is a pedophile's paradise.

Swedish national library reported for child porn

The Swedish national library will on Monday afternoon be reported to the police for the possession and distribution of child pornography.

The police report will be made by two Swedish child protection groups, Hand i Hand (literally: hand in hand) and the Föreningen Anhöriga Till Sexuellt Utnyttjade Barn (ATSUB - The Association of Relatives to Sexually-abused Children).

Birgitta Holmberg at ATSUB told The Local on Monday that the purpose of the police report is two-fold.

Firstly to put a stop to the distribution of the National Library's collection of child pornography, and secondly to expose how much of the library's collection has been copied.

"We want the report to demonstrate that the same laws apply for all regardless of whether it is a state institution," Holmberg said.

The existence of the National Library's collection of child pornography emerged after a visit by the writer Valentin Bart in November 2008.

Bart, who spent a year working in a pornographic book shop in central Stockholm in the 1970s, told The Local that he wanted to see if the law which requires the library to archive a copy of everything printed in Sweden, also applied to child pornography.

He found that not only did the library hold large quantities of pornography, featuring children as young as 10-years-old, but access to the material was straightforward.

"All I did was sign up to check out books and send a letter explaining my reasons for wanting to view the material. Anyone could have done the same thing," Bart told The Local.

The large collection at the library was built up in the years between 1971, when the possession, distribution and display of child pornography was legalized in Sweden, and 1980, when the law was repealed.

Until Valentin Bart's November visit brought the issue to the library's attention, the material had remained easily accessible to the general public.

It's a disgrace that the Swedish national library has been supplying anyone interested, presumably including pedophiles, with child porn even though the material has been illegal since 1980.

An argument is made that the child porn collection be kept accessible for research purposes.

Research purposes?

Give me a break.