ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

The Swedish-born British writer and political activist Lars Gideon Petersson (b. 1951) is the author of a large number of articles and seven books (three titles in three languages): FANEFLUGT (Danish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2004), DESERTERS (Danish Resistance Museum Publishing, 2005), ABUSE UK (Chipmunkapublishing, 2010), MUSTERUNG (Chipmunkapublishing, 2010), MEDICAL RAPE (Chipmunkapublishing, 2010), HITLERS FAHNENFLÜCHTIGE (Chipmunkapublishing, 2012) and HITLER’ S DESERTERS When Law Merged with Terror (Fonthill Media, 2013).

Trained as a nurse – specialising in mental health, social issues and addiction – he has through the years persistently used his insider knowledge to disclose matters otherwise hidden from public scrutiny. In a number of cases this has led to serious public debate and major improvements for vulnerable people. In one case, criticism of serious maltreatment of (non criminal) Iran/Iraq war deserters in a Copenhagen prison (Amnesty International Report 1991) led to significant improvements in the treatment of refugees in Denmark. In another, disclosures from a psychiatric unit under the Danish Ministry of Defence led to major reforms in military ‘training methods’ of recruits.

For a number of years Lars Gideon Petersson was coordinator of the Danish section of Amnesty International’s work against the death penalty. 

An insider’s understanding of the military he achieved as a conscripted soldier (trained as a lowest possible grade fighter-plane mechanic) in the Swedish air forces at the time of the cold war. Finally, he has gathered extensive knowledge of German politics and society ever since the early seventies when he worked as a massage therapist in Bad Soden-Salmünster in the state of Hesse.

Lars’s lifelong special interest in Palestine, and justice for the Palestinian people can be dated back to a stay in the Israeli kibbutz Ein Harod in 1971.

Lars G Petersson is part of the global core team of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies.  Three of the above mentioned books (Musterung, Medical Rape and Abuse.UK) can be downloaded as e-books for free from Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies’s website.

After 25 years in Copenhagen and 12 in London Lars now lives in Edinburgh with his Irish wife Josephine – his staunchest ally and friend – and their most beloved dogs, Boo and Bentley.

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Early role model for me was the Swedish journalist Rune Moberg, a strong campaigner for prison reforms and rehabilitation instead of vengeance. As a young boy I read his weekly editorials in SE:  Wikipedia (Swedish)

This is a little bit about how I see the world. Public enquiryI have finally lost my long-held belief that we as humans one day will live to see a world ruled by real justice and fairness, kindness and responsibility. Unfortunately, it is ruled by those in power and wealth, helped by the silent approval of all those millions who would have done the same had they ever been given the chance. polarbearAfter 40 years as a supporter/campaigner for the environment I do no longer believe we have a chance as a human species. As I (around 1980) first became aware of where we were heading as consequence of human consumerism, greed and life-stile I thought that it would all change as soon as the message had reached us all. After all, we are the only animal that deliberately destroys the habitat we are completely dependent on. As soon as the message had reached everybody, behaviour would change, so I thought. I know better now all these years later: individual greed is leading us into an unavoidable disaster. But, though it is now known by everybody, it seems like still very few care. ‘Use it all for yourself, what does it matter that there is nothing left for coming generations…(apart from rubbish of course).’ In my most cynical moments I use to comfort myself with the fact that at least then, when we as a specie are gone and the world is left to recover in peace, torture and ill-treatment of human beings and animals and the destruction and pollution of the environment will automatically stop. Then there will be no more conscripts to fight and kill each other in other people’s wars and no prison cells, slaughterhouses, gallows, torture chambers, battery chickens or tortured sows etc. etc. left. Mengele, Mao, Nelson, Stalin, Leopold II, Trump, Netanyahu or whatever they were all called: they will all be forgotten, not even footnotes in the long history of the planet as all our books and electronic files will go with us – including this humble rant of course, which very few will take notice of.

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