http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8658569/Norway-shooting-police-response-criticised.html
To my mind, this level of unpreparedness, is criminal.
The Prime Minister, the Mayor, police chiefs and senior tactical team execs should all resign or be fired.
In a city of 500,000 people there wasn't a single helicopter that could carry officers. There was only a spotting helicopter. Truly shocking and stupid
Last edited by K. A. Adams (2011-07-24 17:13:55)
I see The Independent and Guardian have lost no time in using this event as an excuse to label anyone who dares to question unfettered immigration from Pakistan and Somalia as a Neo-Nazi racist and are intent on stifling debate through a climate of intimidation and fear.
I chat to Muslims from time to time and tend to find them mild and unassuming. Some of the funnier ones talk about immigrants who can't speak English. One chap I took a particular liking to had similiar views to my own on TV in the home: on the whole bad. The Nordic Nutter of course had Facebook etc. as a vehicle, just as the Islamists use bits of the Internet (and don't some of these anti-western types wear Bench etc.?) In Derby, where I grew up, young Muslim jack the lads thought English girls were easy and tried it on. They tended, however, to be partly westernised (the great smell of Brut, dodgy leather jackets, listening to acid house).
I've known white boys for the past thirty five years for whom gunning down Muslims (or, say, Rastafarians) would form part of a lovely wet dream: admirers of the Waffen SS etc. One took a long detour in order to avoid them.
Facile rubbish in the 'Daily Telegraph', too. Cameron says 'lessons must be learned' and the usual academic 'expert' is allowed his voice.
The thing I take most from this, apart from the no recognised threat of any extremism, from what ever group of people, is how the UK press, namely the BBC , are completely disrespectful, overly prying, leading and just down right lacking in any taste, humanity and decency.
At the moment they are pounding their chests over being the only 'official' British news group the Norwegian Prime-minister is talking to. I got the impression from people being interviewed, whether officials or regular people they all seemed rather shocked at the angle BBC reporters were taking, and taken aback by the lack of basic respect to the people, and they're country, such obvious stupid question aimed at getting sound-bites.
I have been disgusted by the event obviously, but our press and media in this country really need to get a grip on how to go about carrying themselves, and not wielding news in such a sensationalist way.
Really you should get your facts right KA before you start calling Oslo stupid. The place where the shootings took place is 40 minutes away from Oslo, I don't think its even in Oslo county. Too bad your country has been tapping the phones of hundreds of our muslim cizitens over the last ten years for no results. If only you'd have tapped the conservative racist bible basher we had here we'd all have had a result and you'd could have wiped thousands of $$$$ of your national debt. Spying on your allies? Sticking your nose in every where its not wanted and propping up dictators and war criminals when it suits till it blows up in your face. You'd be better off worrying about what goes on in your own land than mine.
Last edited by Simon (2011-07-25 14:26:02)
I'm sorry that it took something like this to make me aware there were such Liberal minded places as Norway to live, the UK and US are guilty of so much, and like the sheep we are we give up our rights, most of the terrorism laws in this country has been used to arrest peaceful protesters involved in climate change demonstrations and other protests usually against someone's business interest. It's an absolute joke. People may call Norway naive, but even in this country lone bombers/gunmen have slipped through the net, whether they were mental or working to some ideology.
What I cannot understand is all the continuing, smirking pictures of this bastard in the media. He had no real motivation, beyond complete insanity. I wish that they'd close down the coverage of him. The trouble is that he is like a circus freak and they probably will not do so soon.
I thought this, but the whole idea I gather from Norwegian practice in the past was open up dialogue with the far right, I remember a survivor stating it was about ideals. and 'he' the gunman, would not win as his ideals were not proper. Like I said I'm surprised by the response of many Norwegian's but feel without making a positive generalisation, they are a bit more clued up than the average Joe in say Britain or America, who constantly appear to be emotionally wound up by their media, or maybe just in themselves. My background is Nordic and I've always found myself to be more measured than emotional, I'm not going to be as simple as to just put that down to lineage, but I honesty feel that the Nordic countries are more liberal and more progressive, and look to understand things and correct them in a positive way. We may look at that as lilly-livered idealism, that could cost more people their lives, but when you see how much life is lost fighting terrorism, you can see how actually their more placid response, may in fact be better.
Last edited by Oo Bop Sh'bam (2011-07-25 14:29:30)
In the North of Holland there's a cemetry full of Georgian muslims who were fighting in the SS.
Hitler had a tremendous respect for Islam and this is reciprocated with the popularity of 'Mein Kampf' in Arab nations. Its the heady mix of anti-semitism and despotism that is so appealing beneath the harsh desert sun.
Now the Telegraph is on the act: Geert Wilders is a right wing fascist and the EDL is a right wing organization that was in league with the killer.
I'm aware of the SS-Muslim connection. Not sure that some of the boneheads I was referring to in my earlier post are. It was always more to do with skin colour for them than history or ideology.
Paxman, I couldn't help noticing, tried pissing all over the 'working class' (possibly Catholic) EDL leader on 'Newsnight', then went soft and soppy over that pillar of the establishment Lord Mandelson. It seemed pretty obvious that, after the tube-bombings, the Blair government was keener not to be seen as racist than anything else, i.e. murder was seen as a lesser crime than racial predjudice. A friend of my wife's, who happened to be Jewish, was murdered on that day.
In common with Henry Kissinger, I revile the mob. Kissinger wrote his thesis on Metternich, so presumably everything was set within the context of the period between the French Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. I can't even stand yelling, baying football crowds. The Norwegians looked so nice and gentle with their candles and flowers on the BBC news, but there's obviously a seething undercurrent and a NDL. The English working classes, though, have been told to grin and bear it by their elders and betters for 60 or more years: Paxman is just another spokesman for the liberal elite. As for the BBC and its selective reporting...
The fact is the EDL although outwardly denouncing racism is packed to the brim with racists, of all types of intellectual calibre. If the EDL is true to what Mr Lennon believes it to be, then I think he should've at some point disbanded it, and become something else. Because if his message is of true diplomatic debate, over peoples' concerns on over-immigration and the threat of extremism, (from all areas) as he stated last night, then the EDL has had itself undermined, not by the Liberal media, but by the words and actions of it's members on the internet, and at public demos.
He really is naive to think he can rescue the face of the EDL.
The gap to discuss these things politically will always be undermined because as we know immigration is good for the economy, and as with most cases concerning our quality of life we receive the biggest threat from our politicians. Working against it's peoples' interests Not from the tiny amount of extremists, who may blight us every 5 to 10 years with terrible acts of violence.
As for the Muslim SS, some Indian's looked to the Nazi to help them over throw the Raj, but many others fought of the Allies, I think 2 million or so fought on that front.
But to cut to the chase, the propaganda these extremist spurge, is really a collection of semi-historical facts that back up their claims, why they cleverly ignore the other facts, that undermine their argument, to many extents they are deluded, and probably if not definitely boarding on mental illness, no matter how logically they frame their argument, it is definitely not rational to resort to the type of violence we've seen.
Last edited by Oo Bop Sh'bam (2011-07-26 02:38:25)
The EDL look like football hooligans, don't they? I'd rather spend fifteen minutes chatting affably to the chaps who sell me my biryani than be exposed - person to person - to Tommy Robinson.
Glenn Beck hasn't been terribly helpful, has he?
Large amounts of people/the public don't have the capacity to process the huge huge problems that we see of globalisation, what that means to immigration, and then the further problems it can cause a native population, but lets face it like Doug Stanhope says if someone takes your job and they don't speak English, then what the hell was your job worth anyway... is that the best you could do. See Youtube for his half an hour special on immigration, it is quite hilarious.
The fact is people look for scapegoats, they are usually failed people through their own means, but direct any anger towards themselves outwardly. Which is why they are in no position really to begin to understand the things that they hate, because they use them as a tool for self-denial.
Last edited by Oo Bop Sh'bam (2011-07-26 02:46:13)
Globalisation. Hmm. Now that's something else entirely. We're sailing through choppy waters. By we, I mean we Brits, we English. I suppose I must like it, though, otherwise I wouldn't have a fridge stocked with Coca-Cola. On the other hand, I've come to enjoy an English pint once more (and the last time I looked Pedigree was still being brewed down at Shobnall).
Globalisation has lead to economic migration. Since the Empire. Now we see it really as being competitive against other countries, to win contracts, to be competitive we have to have cheap labour, for that we import people and pay them less. Add to that someone's immediate family, and you soon start to have a lot of non-natives entering a country, it's down to the government to manage this in such a way that far-right sentiment doesn't start to appeal to a large part of society, simply the government has failed, and has helped fuel racist propaganda indirectly.
Last edited by Oo Bop Sh'bam (2011-07-26 03:03:58)