Ekeroth: “Good that SD is beginning to look at clearing up the deep state”

LEADER • In an op-ed signed by Jimmie Åkesson and Patrik Reslow, they, somewhat surprisingly but very welcome, go on the attack against “individuals in the corridors of power who have lost their connection to reality.” The description brings to mind the more established term “deep state” and in this case it refers to Anne Ramberg, whom Samnytt has written about many times before.

Anne Ramberg is an especially good place to start, as Åkesson and Reslow point out.

Anne Ramberg represents a form of elitist extremism that is deeply damaging. Under the cover of “human rights” and “humanism,” she has consistently defended individuals and ideologies which in truth despise the very rights she claims to protect. The fact that she is allowed to remain in prominent boards, such as for universities, is nothing less than an insult to those students and citizens who expect higher education to rest on a foundation of science and democratic values—not on the ideological crusade of one particular representative.

The fact that Ramberg has been allowed free rein in the service of the public all these years can only be explained by the utter dominance the left has had in the media, among public officials, and even politically, for decades.

The Moderates’ Appointments

The sad thing about all this is that the Moderate-led government has continued with an appointments policy perfectly suited to the Social Democrats. Take Kerstin Brunnberg as an example. She was appointed last year by the government as new chair of Riksteatern’s board, but she has a past as board chair for the left-extremist foundation Expo.

The Tidö government was also the one that appointed Mari Heidenberg in June 2024 as new president of the Svea Court of Appeal. Among other things, she has tried to sabotage new prison facilities. As a referral body to the investigation that the government and SD initiated on the issue, Heidenberg actually opposed proposals to allow exemptions from certain bureaucratic provisions in the Planning and Building Act aimed at enabling faster expansion of the additional prison and detention center spots that are needed.

Previously, she has, among other things, tried to stop the establishment of search and security zones at strategic locations as a way for police to combat immigration-related serious crime in “vulnerable areas.”

In a high-profile case, in August 2021 Heidenberg awarded the Syrian asylum-seeker and brutal serial rapist Damir close to a million kronor of taxpayers’ money because she considered the punishment had been somewhat too harsh, given that the perpetrator’s age could not be established to a hundred percent certainty as at least 18 years old.

I wrote earlier about BRÅ chief Jonas Trolle. He publicly backed a Social Democratic proposal on compulsory integration of residential areas. Not in a private conversation. Not in an anonymous memo. But in Swedish media. Publicly. Consciously. Trolle has also previously advocated for a ban on Islam-critical Quran burnings, even though such actions are protected by constitutional freedoms and rights.

Not to mention Petra Lundh, appointed National Police Commissioner by the government in fall 2023. She is a member of the Hilda network and drew attention when she was nearly in tears on TV speaking about organized crime.

Needs to be cleaned out

So one has every reason to wonder what the Moderate-led government is doing when they appoint, or let remain, individuals who go against their own policies and are clearly allied with the Social Democrats. Are they naïve, careless, or what?

But regardless, it is welcome that SD at the highest level, Jimmie [Åkesson], is now openly and concretely pointing to the problem of allowing the left to freely operate in our institutions, authorities, and so on. In order to govern the country and save it from the left, the left’s influence in all areas must also be limited.

Starting with Anne Ramberg is not wrong. Let us now hope that this is not the last but rather the first step in cleaning up the deep state.