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I'd love to hear about your ethical issues with the Finnish government.

ryanlol 10y ago
Utter lack of accountability for government officials, no matter how badly or systemically you screw up you'll never face any consequences for it. Actually, the justice system even actively rewards law enforcement for abusing their powers in a blatantly illegal manner. In this country we don't have the concept of "fruit of the poisonous tree", which in combination with police writing their own search "warrants" results in a perverse system where they can just march into anyones home. seize whatever they want and no matter what that'll be admissible in court. Now, it might actually be possible for this system to actually work if there was some level of accountability here. But no, if a police officer straight up falsifies the reasoning behind a search warrant, they will not face any kind of repercussions for that. Why would they? It's a win for them. Only thing you'll get from suing them is a symbolic piece of paper that says that the police acted wrong, and maybe a few hundred euros in compensation. Unsurprisingly, Finland has repeatedly lost cases relating to such searches in the ECHR. Very little has resulted from those losses.
- ryanlol 10y ago
  Hey, I actually just today got a letter thats yet another example of this. I got a notice from the government collections agency that they will start seizing two thirds of any transfers to my Finnish bank accounts to pay for a debt that was paid three years ago. This has already been sorted out in the courts a year ago, a judge has confirmed that I did in fact pay said debt in 2013. Nevertheless, today the collections agency decided that it can just ignore the courts decision and start seizing my funds. I just tried calling them, not once but four times. Each time I was given a different phone number to call, and each time nobody picked up. In fact two of the phone numbers had full voicemail boxes. Finally I managed to get an email address out of them. This is the kind of incompetence that the Finnish government allows to thrive, I've been trying to sort this out for 3 years now and have received several acknowledgements that it's sorted out. I even had a court confirm this. I feel that such incompetence simply shouldn't have a place in a civilised society.

Utter lack of accountability for government officials, no matter how badly or systemically you screw up you'll never face any consequences for it. Actually, the justice system even actively rewards law enforcement for abusing their powers in a blatantly illegal manner. In this country we don't have the concept of "fruit of the poisonous tree", which in combination with police writing their own search "warrants" results in a perverse system where they can just march into anyones home. seize whatever they want and no matter what that'll be admissible in court. Now, it might actually be possible for this system to actually work if there was some level of accountability here. But no, if a police officer straight up falsifies the reasoning behind a search warrant, they will not face any kind of repercussions for that. Why would they? It's a win for them. Only thing you'll get from suing them is a symbolic piece of paper that says that the police acted wrong, and maybe a few hundred euros in compensation. Unsurprisingly, Finland has repeatedly lost cases relating to such searches in the ECHR. Very little has resulted from those losses.

ryanlol 10y ago
Hey, I actually just today got a letter thats yet another example of this. I got a notice from the government collections agency that they will start seizing two thirds of any transfers to my Finnish bank accounts to pay for a debt that was paid three years ago. This has already been sorted out in the courts a year ago, a judge has confirmed that I did in fact pay said debt in 2013. Nevertheless, today the collections agency decided that it can just ignore the courts decision and start seizing my funds. I just tried calling them, not once but four times. Each time I was given a different phone number to call, and each time nobody picked up. In fact two of the phone numbers had full voicemail boxes. Finally I managed to get an email address out of them. This is the kind of incompetence that the Finnish government allows to thrive, I've been trying to sort this out for 3 years now and have received several acknowledgements that it's sorted out. I even had a court confirm this. I feel that such incompetence simply shouldn't have a place in a civilised society.