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.
Well I see Pope Benny is trying to scrub the doo doo off his face....and save his neck from the rope of public opinion....by demanding that a bigot Bishop renounce his Holocaust denial.
In a move designed to head off condemnation, Pope Benedict XVI ordered Bishop Richard Williamson to unequivocally and publicly renounce his claims that there were no gas chambers and that fewer than 300,000 Jews died in the Nazi death camps instead of the accepted figure of six million. But not his violent homophobia. God did not wait for the founding of the Catholic Church to instill in men the horror of this sin, but he implanted in the human nature of all of us, unless or until we corrupt it, an instinct of violent repugnance for this particular sin, comparable to our instinctive repugnance for other misuses of our human frame, such as coprophagy.
I wonder why? Just like I wonder why although Richard Williamson spends ninety percent of his time attacking gay people, none of the reports I have read bother to mention that fact.
As if religion excuses homophobia. As if a crime against the dead buries a crime against the living. Even though the insane, violent hatred whipped up by these religious bigots keeps on claiming new victims.
A gay teenager was battered to death in a homophobic attack by a man armed with a hardback history book, a court heard.
A post-mortem examination showed multiple face fractures with extensive haemorrhaging and neck bruises.
They bashed the kid's head in with a hardback history book. But it might as well have been a Bible or some other barbarous religious text. Because that's where this murderous hatred springs from.
If Holocaust denial is a horror, so is violent homophobia. I just thought I'd mention that because nobody else did. And for Michael and all the others.
But hey don't you LOVE the fact that the Nazi Bishop now lives in Argentina ?
You know when you're gay sometimes you just HAVE to laugh. Even if you don't feel like it.
Now that the Nazi Bishop has apologized to the (former Nazi) Pope for making "imprudent" remarks about the Holocaust.
"Amidst this tremendous media storm stirred up by imprudent remarks of mine on Swedish television, I beg of you to accept, only as is properly respectful, my sincere regrets for having caused to yourself and to the Holy Father so much unnecessary distress and problems..."
But not to the Holocaust survivors or the Jewish people. I can only wonder if the Holy Hitlerite is ever going to offer a non-apology to gay people for his violent homophobia.
In fact the sin is so unnatural that Mother Church ranks it alongside murder, defrauding the worker of his just wage, and oppression of the widow or orphan, as one of the four sins "crying to Heaven for vengeance". Or a offer a non-apology to women for his depraved views on female equality.
What needs to be proved is that even to a decent university, if such could be found, few or no girls should be sent. This is because of the God-given nature of girls. Which, despite today's massive propaganda to the contrary, is quite different from the God-given nature of boys!
When they put up the small humble Gay Holocaust Memorial I wrote this: "They'll probably have to post guards to prevent the whole memorial from being destroyed." Then it was vandalized.
And now it's been attacked again. Berlin's memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.
Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably with a stone. Just like it was last time. To destroy the video inside it...
Talk about the beautiful power of a kiss. Talk about the ugly insanity of hate. Maybe now they'll surround the little memorial with guard towers and electrified barbed wire. So people will finally get the message. Hey Jo we hear you. That's why we FIGHT....
I wasn't surprised to see that the Berlin monument to gay holocaust victims had been vandalized. Just surprised that it took so long. Berlin's memorial to the thousands of homosexuals persecuted and killed by the Nazis was damaged over the weekend, less than three months after its unveiling.
A viewing window in the concrete monument through which a video of two men kissing can be seen was smashed in the attack.
There were more than 50,000 convictions of homosexuals in the Nazi era, and authorities in some cases ordered men to be castrated. Such a humble memorial for such an awful crime. But still too much for some.
What can you say about the kind of hatemongers that would attack a memorial to the dead? Or attack a video like this one...
What can you say about the power of a kiss that still drives so many people crazy?
Except that homophobia is a straight disease.Homophobes can only heal themselves.
All we can do is remember the gay victims like Pierre and Jo.
And all the others still persecuted today. Teach these bastard bigots that Never Again means Never Again. And FIGHT THEM, FIGHT THEM. FIGHT THEM....
The other day I wrote a post about a memorial to the gay victims of the Holocaust. So you can imagine how horrified I was to see this. A leading Holocaust scholar has criticized a monument in Berlin to homosexual victims of Nazi Germany unveiled this week, saying the location was poorly chosen. "The location was particularly poorly chosen for this monument. If visitors have the impression that there was not a great difference between the suffering of Jews and those of homosexuals, it's a scandal," Gutman said, according to AFP. "A sense of proportion must be maintained." And a sense of proportion isn't maintained? A scandal? Over a small concrete cube like this one? From a scholar and a Holocaust survivor associated with the Yad Vashem Institute? Words fail me. So I think I'll let Dr Dawg speak to it instead. All I would add to that is that Gutman's words sadden and disappoint me. Because although it's right to acknowledge the scale and genocidal intention of the Jewish Holocaust. Not to recognize the suffering of others murdered by the Nazis for who they were is simply unforgivable. But what do you expect from a man who would say this? Gutman, himself a Holocaust survivor, said the Nazis persecuted "exclusively German" homosexuals, many of them Nazis. They were "victims of internal political battles within the NSDAP," the Nazi party of Adolf Hitler, he said. The gay victims of the Holocaust as Nazis?
Even though they were cruelly abused by both guards and inmates. Used for medical experiments. Sixty per cent didn't survive. And none are alive now to defend themselves.
How truly evil is that?
I honour ALL the victims of the Holocaust. I believe that they would want me to work for a better world where genocide isn't allowed to happen. Never again. That wretched old bigot dishonours the memory of all who died. He should hang his head in shame. And how should gay people deal with this latest outrage? The same old. Keep on fighting the hate that leads to genocide. Remember the dead, and all those who are still being assaulted, tortured, or murdered all over the world. And of course keep the kiss alive....
It's a simple little memorial. A small concrete cube with no decorations on its sides.... so vandals can't deface them. But it sends out a powerful message.
Germany unveiled a memorial Tuesday to the long-ignored gay victims of the Nazi regime, a monument that also aims to address discrimination today by confronting visitors with an image of a same-sex couple kissing.
And reminding us that the battle continues. "This memorial is important from two points of view - to commemorate the victims, but also to make clear that even today, after we have achieved so much in terms of equal treatment, discrimination still exists daily..." I was sad no survivors lived to see this day. Survivors who endured bestial torture and medical experiments, but were kept in jail and denied compensation by their so-called liberators.
I really wanted him to be there. Because what they did to him and his lover Jo will haunt me forever...... The loudspeakers played noisy military music as the SS men stripped him naked, and violently jammed a metal bucket over his head. They unleashed on Jo the camp's ferocious guard-dogs, German Shepherds, who began to rip at his flesh -- first his genitals, and his thighs, and then they devoured Jo before our eyes. His screams of pain were amplified and distorted by the bucket over his head. Frozen in place and trembling, wide-eyed at seeing so much horror, I had tears running down my cheeks. I prayed that he would rapidly lose consciousness...."
Shortly before he died Pierre Seel wrote this:
"When I have finish wandering, I go home. Then I light the candle that burns permanently in my kitchen when I am alone. That frail flame is my memory of Jo."
One candle for Jo. One for all the other gay victims of the holocaust that never ends.
You know... with the way some straight bigots react to the sight of two men kissing.... no wonder they buried the television screen in a bunker.
Never mind the vandals. They'll probably have to post guards to prevent the whole memorial from being destroyed.
As you know I'm an atheist. I'm not moved by holy anythings. I believe that the only heavens and hells are the ones we make for ourselves right here on earth. But I still find the story of the Auschwitz Torah awesome and inspiring. It is the story of a sexton in the synagogue in the Polish city of Oswiecim who buried most of the sacred scroll before the Germans stormed in and later renamed the city Auschwitz. It is the story of Jewish prisoners who sneaked the rest of it — four carefully chosen panels — into the concentration camp. It is the story of a Polish Catholic priest to whom they entrusted the four panels before their deaths. It is the story of a Maryland rabbi who went looking for it with a metal detector. And it is the story of how a hunch by the rabbi’s 13-year-old son helped lead him to it. “This really is an opportunity to look up to the heavens and say, he who laughs last, laughs best,” Rabbi Youlus said. “The Nazis really thought they had wiped Jews off the face of the earth, and Judaism. Here we are taking the ultimate symbol of hope and of Judaism and rededicating it and using it in a synagogue. And we’ll take it to Auschwitz. You can’t beat that.” What a great slap in the face of the Nazis who tried to wipe out a people not just by killing them... but by trying to kill their culture and history. What a great story of courage and civilization in the face of bestial horror. What a great way to remember all those millions of Jews the Nazis murdered at Auschwitz. Which is why I find the idea of this memorial also extremely moving.
A monument will be erected in Tel Aviv honoring gays and lesbians persecuted during the Holocaust.
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai said that the design for the monument to LGBT victims will feature an iron triangle and bear the names of those victims who have been identified.
Sadly, a lot of people don't know what the Nazis did to gay people. So I'm glad and grateful to see that suffering remembered anywhere..... by anyone. But when it comes from those who suffered the most at the hands of the Nazi mass murderers.Those who like us continue to be attacked by Holocaust deniers and other fascist scum. It's REALLY special. Shalom. Peace. Resistance. Never again...
When I saw that the leathery Rube Queen of Small Defecating Animals had made a joke about Holocaust victims... and then posted a picture of herself on her hog....I was so disgusted two questions kept swirling around in my mind.
Why didn't she mount a REAL pig? Because she'd look even hotter humping away on its hairy back. And did somebody run up to the motorcycle ...after she'd stopped pleasuring herself ....and sniff the seat? To see if she had shat her pants? Because oopsy poopsy....it sure looks like she did. Phew!!!! . Kookamunga!!!! Or should that be Cacamunga?
Because it couldn't happen to a more vile human being. One who harvests hate just to get hits for her crummy blog. You can't get any LOWER than that. But you know what always horrifies me when I visit Defecating Animals? Not just that it's so rube and mediocre. And so full of smelly shite and racist and homophobic comments. But that it's so.....um.......PORNOGRAPHIC. Do you know why men love women in leather? Because they smell like a new truck. :0) Kate has brains, beauty, talent, her own successful blog, a fast bike... and more... I am unworthy! ...how come Kate has to look so cute? Kate, you are so hot!
If you are ever interested in a 37 year old classical musician of Italian origin, single, no kids, you let me know.
PS if we got married you could become a US citizen too. Whoa! Hotness! Whoa indeed. Stop it !!! All that sweaty, desperate longing...for a whiff of that grizzled, musky, rube dominatrix...or the stroke of her whip..... is more than I can bear. Fan me before I faint. "Mistress Katie daddy bad whip me please.... blow me with your brilliance... lick me with your leathery lizardness....Muslims want to fuck me in the ass...spanky wanky Warren.....Ezra's soooooo hot ...ooooooooh AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" I mean REALLY. I'm not in favour of censorship. But if Small Defecating Animals is going to be a hate AND S&M site ...... shouldn't it be X-rated? Or labelled "P" for porn. Or "R" for retarded? Yup. I'm with Kinsella on this one. Because to make fun of the poor victims of the greatest crime in history.
Is beyond all understanding...and CANNOT be forgiven. But what can you do with the rube dominatrix and her crazy horny hordes? Except keep the EVERLASTING memory of the victims of the Holocaust safe in our hearts. Make sure WE never forget. And hope that the reptilian Kate McMillan will REMEMBER when she was human. So she can scrub her filthy site with strong disinfectant. Or bug stuff. And have the decency to apologize... --------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. I think Balbulican at Stage Left has come up with exactly the right word. The Moronosphere.
Indeed. Do right wingers have to learn how to be loser morons? Or are they just born that way?
