And the anwer seems obvious. Nobody could have imagined somebody would want to murder such fine young people. And Norway wasn't a police state, and doesn't want to become one.
The prime minister of Norway acknowledged yesterday that his country had fundamentally changed as a result of the attacks on a youth camp and government complex last week, but he vowed to protect the culture of openness that is a source of Norwegian pride. “I think what we have seen is that there is going to be one Norway before and one Norway after July 22,’’ he said. “But I hope and also believe that the Norway we will see after will be more open, a more tolerant society than what we had before.’’
But still it's so hard to accept. And for some reason I can't help thinking of a video I saw recently.
And wonder why couldn't someone, anyone, or anything, have stopped that right-wing Christianist monster?
And where was the porcelain unicorn when we needed one so badly?
There was no porcelain unicorn. Nothing could have saved them from that fascist beast.
But at least those noble, idealistic, young progressives didn't die for nothing.
The right-wing threat has been exposed for all to see.
I must admit that I'm finding it hard to blog these days. I'm not sure where I want to go. I don't know where this country is going.
There are a lot of stories out there, but after this story.
So many flowers cut down so savagely. They all seem so trivial.
And then there's summer...
It's so short I want to enjoy every minute of it. Soak up the sun, feel the gentle breeze in my face.
Smell the flowers...
Before they are gone.
Because what happened to Jack Layton reminded me that for everything there is a season. Life is so fragile. And I can't get his parting words out my head.
We WILL replace the Conservative government, a few short years from now.
And we WILL work with Canadians to build the country of our hopes
Of our dreams
Of our optimism
Of our determination
Of our values...
Of our love.
Because they sound so much like an epitaph.
But since I don't know to what dark place Stephen Harper is going to take this country...
I don't know how we can stop him. Nobody wants to talk about that because its summer. And since defeating the Cons means everything to me, the progressive blogosphere seems strangely hollow, and more of an echo chamber than ever.
Or the personal sandbox of a small group of gigantic egos, who can't write enough posts, and suck up all the oxygen in the blogosphere, competing against each other for votes.
JJ is an amazing blogger, a feminist warrior, and a very old friend who was one of the first to encourage me when I set out on this blogging journey six years ago.
I missed her terribly, and the progressive blogosphere has never needed her free spirit more.
You know I was thinking tonight if only the blogger Bruce MacDonald could come back it would be like it was before. But of course he can't, and maybe that's why I find his great friend's return so comforting.
I don't know where this summer is taking me. Or where Stephen Harper will take this country.
It seems like they are everywhere these days. Con apes on a rampage. Smelling their armpits, and shocking the world.
In Norway they are still counting their losses after one right wing monkey killed dozens of people. While his foul furry trainers lick the blood off their fingers, and run for the trees.
As they learned that their ideas had formed the ideological basis for one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in recent European history, these writers and leaders have delivered responses that range from denunciation to denial to awkward arguments that the killer was correct in his motives, but his actions damaged their common cause.
In the United States the RepubliKong gorillas are holding their country hostage.
Demanding tax breaks for the rich, no food for the poor, or medicare for seniors.
Or they'll eat the economy. Even if it kills them.
In Britain the Cameron chimps are beating their hairy chests, boasting that their savage cuts have saved the economy. Even as it stalls.
Chancellor George Osborne yesterday boasted his austerity measures have turned Britain into a safe haven from the storm just hours before figures are expected to show UK economic growth has ground to a halt.
Me Tarzan. You idiot. Me mankey. You Murdoch.
But wait, it gets worse.
Here at home, in the land of the Monkey King Harper, his Con apes are praising the Norway killer.
The good news is that people all over the world now know how incompetent and dangerous these Con apes are. And the Con brand has been seriously damaged
And the bad news?
If we don't organize, unite, defeat them, tame them and if necessary cage them.
As Norway mourns its dead. And sorrow turns to anger.
The right-wing monsters of this world continue to try to turn tragedy into triumph, by blaming Muslims for the massacre.
Or condemning the killer for damaging their bigot cause.
During the hours when I thought that Oslo had been attacked by jihadists, I wept for the city that has been my home for many years. And I hoped Norwegian leaders would respond to this act of violence by taking a more responsible approach to the problems they face in connection with Islam. When it emerged that these acts of terror were the work of a native Norwegian who thought he was striking a blow against jihadism and its enablers, it was immediately clear to me that his violence will deal a heavy blow to an urgent cause.
Great eh? From the man who did more than most to inspire the monster's bloody rampage. Never mind the dead kids, it's all about THEM.
Who after tying himself up in knots concludes...surprise...surprise... that the Mooslims made him do it:
Breivik’s rampage would likely never have taken place if Islamic terrorism wasn’t so ubiquitous. If we didn’t need to breathe that sigh of relief that al-Qaeda didn’t attack Norway, the attack probably wouldn’t have happened at all, since dangerous fanatics in Central Asia wouldn’t have inspired a dangerous fanatic in Norway.
Only to have that steaming turd attract some ghastly flies.
Like this one:
And this one:
The bigot bastards. Now can we call them ROACHES?
Oh well. At least the light of the world is shining on their Roach Motel.
The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.
And they can run but they can't hide:
Mr. Spencer wrote on his Web site, jihadwatch.org, that “the blame game” had begun, “as if killing a lot of children aids the defense against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, or has anything remotely to do with anything we have ever advocated.” He did not mention Mr. Breivik’s voluminous quotations from his writings.
The Gates of Vienna, a blog that ordinarily keeps up a drumbeat of anti-Islamist news and commentary, closed its pages to comments Sunday “due to the unusual situation in which it has recently found itself.”
Yup. Poor decent little Norway will survive. Which more than I can say for the bigots.
A monster so cruel and evil he would use dum dum bullets on helpless children.
Dr. Colin Poole, head of surgery at Ringriket Hospital in Honefoss northwest of Oslo, told The Associated Press the gunman used special bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body and cause maximum internal damage. Poole said surgeons treating 16 gunshot victims have recovered no full bullets.
"These bullets more or less exploded inside the body," Poole said. "It's caused us all kinds of extra problems in dealing with the wounds they cause, with very strange trajectories."
And this is his deeply disturbing video...
I made some screen caps of that video in case it's taken down for whatever reason.
(click pics to enlarge)
So you can at least get an idea of the hideous ideology behind his murderous act.
But here's the thing eh?
I also made a screen cap this morning of a comment left on the blog of a member of the Blogging Tories.
To his credit, the blog owner sharply criticized that comment. But he spends much of his time mumbling darkly about the Mooslim Threat. It does show you what kind of hate is out there.
And I know that if I visited other conservative sites, like the sewer called Free Dominion, I would find more and much worse.
Now I hate violent Muslim extremists exactly as much as I hate any other kind of violent religious fanatics, bullies, bigots, and thugs.
But the fact is in certain right-wing circles, bashing peaceful, decent, Muslim Canadians, and their religion, has become far too common. It's wrong, it's evil, it's nonsense. It can only create the conditions for some act of murderous violence.
And however flawed this country may be, or whatever our democratic differences, it's still a peaceful place to live.
I can only hope that our Con government, and our security services are monitoring potentially violent right-wing terrorists as closely as they are monitoring any others.
And that the Cons aren't blinded by their own foul ideology, or the ghastly grunts of their rabid Christianist base.
Because the beast that would tear our beautiful country apart is surely among us.
And it must be tamed or caged, before it destroys us ALL....
Although I don't want to be too harsh on the blazing furry fanatic, because HOURS before we knew that the killer was a Christianist right-wing scumbag.
He kinda....um... hit the nail on the head...
So if Shittle rolls her turds into some rancid pastry, and bakes it between her buttocks or her armpits, they can STILL share some humble pie.
Which is more than we can say about Coren eh?
Because he can't tell a sewer from the trickle between his ears legs. So he's still banging that nail. Into his own head.
Fear not, we are winning.
Golly. Has the Gollum lost his ring.... or his marbles?
Gawd. I KNEW this was going to happen. That old homophobe is going to Sun TV and he is determined to show Ezra Levant who is the top guy, the biggest asshole.
And the sleaziest Gollum...
Oh well. If they clutch and grab at themselves in loin cloths, and Levant becomes Coren's bitch, or vice versa, I suppose it could be funny. In a gross sort of way.
Although what's not funny is how after the MSM realized that it wasn't the work of Islamic terrorists, the killer morphed from a right-wing terrorist, into just another madman.
Anyone who claims therefore, that the perpetrator's "right-wing traits" and "anti-Muslim views", or even links with "Christian fundamentalist" websites are irrelevant is trying to draw a veil over the unacceptable truths of such "traits" and expecting us to believe that right-wing ideology is incapable of prompting someone towards such criminality.
Of course, that idea is nonsensical.
But that's Right Wing Derangement Syndrome eh?
Those ghastly right-wingers don't realize how ugly they are.
And they don't know when they're BEATEN.
Simon...Simon....you're not going to use this horrible tragedy against them are you?
