Everyone is equal.

Sweden is an amazing country. It really is. We have freedom of speech, writing and human rights. For everyone. Everywhere. Even in jails. Isn't that wonderful?

The prison management invited children to appear before some of Sweden's worst pedophiles. After the passing of the Lucia train this Friday some of the interns said:
'I wish I had one of those.'
At 7am last Friday the lights went out in the dining area at Skogome prison at Hisingen in Gothenburgh.
The Lucia train consisted of girls between 15 and 17 years old. And in the audience were some of Swedens worst sex offenders, convicted pedophiles, rapists and murderes.

The Lucia train was arranged by a local organisation and the children have been practising on their performance all through the Autumn. The Lucia train appeared on several workplaces and they were invited to appear in the prison by the prison management.
Skogome prison is specialised to receive sexual criminals and the arrangement is now withstanding hard critisism from the employees.
'I think it's very strange that a child should appear for these men, one of them convicted for sexually assaulting and raping his daughter more than a thousand times', one employee says.
The train is an appreciated tradition among the interns, who are given the opportunity to drink alcoholfree glögg (mulled wine) and eat Lucia buns.
But several of the employees at the prison were upset over how the interns commented the children.
'When they were gone they started saying things like "how cute and pretty they were", "I wish I had one of those" and "how well developed they were", I was so upset I had to leave', one source says.
Even the organiser of the Lucia train experienced the athmosphere last Friday as frightening. Straight after the performance the alarm went off.
'It was something that happened in the cellblock, the gates were closed and we couldn't leave the prison. We had to wait in the car for at least ten minutes', one of the organisers says.
She has been a Lucia herself and performed at the prison as a child. This year her daughter performed.
'The girls don't exactly know what kind of interns who are imprisoned there, I haven't thought of it either', she says.
Last Friday's performance was the 35th in a row. But now it's over.
'This was the last time we appeared here, it doesn't feel right. The clients have changed with the years', another of the organisers says.

Afterwards one of the interns tried to commit suicide. The pedophile convicted man was saved by the staff.
A lot of people of the staff thinks the suicide is directly linked to the children's performance.
'Pedophilia is a very shamefilled crime and the Lucia train probably exposed a lot of feelings', the source says.

The executive chief for the correctional system, Anne Marie Dahlgren, doesn't see any problems with the performance. Is it really appropriate that children perform for people commited for assaults against children?
'One can think about that but even the interns have to experience something extraodrinary', Dahlgren says.

Sweden truly is amazing. We're making sure that even the people who commit crimes have a good life after their deeds are done. I'm almost getting tears in my eyes now. Oh, don't worry - I'm not going down the prison-lane today. I would, however, take this opportunity and just complain about how completely stupid people are. "Everyone is an idiot" is one of my guidelines in life and every time it's shown to be true I find myself surprised. I don't know why - I really should be used to it by now. So why complain? Well, the morons shut down more websites at work, so not only are we now not allowed to enter anything with "games", "jokes/entertainment", "adult/swimsuit", "religion/occult/spiritualism" and "social" - now I can't check a simple forum. I could this morning before breakfast (at 8:30am) but not after (at 9am). I feel loved. Yes, I can wait until I get home and yes, if there's work to do I shouldn't surf the web anyway, but what if there's nothing to do? Imagine a 10-hour shift and about 2 hours of efficient work time - that's 8 hours of nothing. Checking the news? Do you know how many times you can read the news before they get so dull you want to shoot yourself? About 3 times - if you stay within a country. So if you don't read incredibly slow or are extremely interested that's 7 hours to go. Boredom. Thank god I don't work evening this week.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! The earthquake this morning didn't shake the whole fucking world, it didn't make paintings fall down, it didn't make windows shatter. It made a sound and made the windows in the roof shiver a bit. Everything else is a lie.