The female Premier of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, wants to seize Russians’ and Belarusians’ firearms.
“Nationals of Russia or Belarus living in Estonia who own firearms will be given a deadline to surrender them voluntarily, or have them seized by police as security threats, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Monday. All the details of the law to that effect have been worked out, the cabinet just has to present it to the legislature, she added.
There were 629 people who would be affected by the confiscation, Kallas was told during an interview on Monday, and asked how she envisions carrying it out.
‘In any case, we will send this draft law to the Riigikogu during the current government’s term. This has already been agreed upon, and a deadline has been set. We will definitely give time for people to voluntarily hand over their weapons, and after this deadline expires it will be the police’s turn’, she said, according to the outlet Postimees.
Asked if she expects the gun owners to comply voluntarily, Kallas said it was ‘difficult for her to judge’.
‘I hope that given the current circumstances, people will understand that the citizens of Russia and Belarus with weapons in their hands are a threat to the security of Estonia’.
The former Soviet republic has been an outspoken supporter of Kiev in the current conflict over Ukraine. Last month, the government in Tallinn voted to stop issuing Schengen visas – documents needed to enter the European Union, of which Estonia is a member – to Russian nationals. That too was justified by Kallas as a ‘security threat’.
Between that and the ban on financial transactions with Russia, many Russian nationals who own property in Estonia may end up having it confiscated by the state.
Kallas had resigned as Prime Minister in July when her coalition fractured over the proposal to switch education in the country of 1.3 million entirely to Estonian. She has since put together another coalition cabinet, and is proceeding with the plan to make sure that ‘in Estonia, everyone must speak the state language, especially those who make decisions’.
That statement came in reference to Narva, a city on the Russian border where the local government mainly converses in Russian”. -RT
Most people are unaware of the historic fact that “disarming the general public” is less pursuant to the diktat of the 1921 Italian National Fascist Party and the 1933 National Socialist German Worker’s Party than is the exigency of women taking part in represented government.
Not only was the German Worker’s Party dependent upon women’s suffrage for their 1933 rise to power, but the demand for proportional political female representation is the first plank in “The Manifesto of the Fascist Struggle”, published in The People of Italy on June 6, 1919, by Benito Mussolini.
Italians! Here is the program of a genuinely Italian movement. It is revolutionary because it is anti-dogmatic, strongly innovative and against prejudice.
For the political problem: We demand:
1) Universal suffrage polled on a regional basis, with proportional representation and voting and electoral office eligibility for women.
The women at the time largely preferred Recht und Ordnung in the name of security for the very reason that women of today are, rather uncritically, more than grateful to be halted at mandatory late-night traffic stops, ordered to enter walk-through metal detectors to set foot inside a shopping mall, or told they must wear a face covering to be permitted into their local grocery store.
An extreme inclination for solipsism, rhetoric and emotional reasoning is why women in politics so persistently favor promises of safety, however ludicrous, over liberty.
In a democratic system, statist totalitarians will always favor the women’s vote. This is even true in Islamic democracies such as Turkey.
“Both female and male MPs admitted that male leaders easily coopted women through women branches to extend their control over women at the same time as providing them access to politics”. -Yesim Arat, Patriarchal Paradox: Women in Politics in Turkey, Associated University Press
As for the Estonian Prime Minister, for all her meaningless rhetorical posturing purportedly aimed toward mitigating a nonexistent security threat, she has foolishly placed the Estonian people at far greater risk as a direct result of her decision to side with the Ukro-NATO alliance in its war against Russia and its allies.
Her political priorities are seriously out-of-line. While ensuring that a few hundred Russian nationals will be left without personal firearms might make Estonia a somewhat safer place to live, the minuscule potential hazard simply pales in comparison to the truly viable threat posed by a cold and dark winter without Russian natural gas.