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Posted on Aug 1, 2011
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Jens Stoltenberg has been the prime minister of Norway since 2005.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, leader of the Labor Party whose youth activists were so viciously targeted by right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik, is warning against “a witch hunt on expression.” At the same time, the right-wing Progress Party is looking to exploit Breivik’s mass murder to revise a few civil liberties.  —PZS

BBC:

But the right-wing Progress Party indicated that it would press for tougher judicial measures.

Per Sandberg, chairman of parliament’s justice committee, and a member of the party, said when parliament reconvened in a few weeks there would be discussion “about sentences, searches by the police and everything else”.

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Peter Knopfler's avatar

By Peter Knopfler, August 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm Link to this comment

History is the Memory of Society, I[m old enough to
remember but not to forget.
1941 SS.)HITLER took over NORWAY, very little to no
resistance 15,000 Norwegians volunteered for NAZI
DUTY, AND to show solidarity they slaughtered 2,175
JEWS rest on the Train to no where.
The Nazi officers fell in love with white Norwegians
and made 10,000 Babies for the HITLER. THIS WAS the
LARGEST eugenic experiment in the WORLD. You TUBE
“NORWAY-NAZI COVER UP.” these are the roots of today
many Norwegians have seen and known all were touched
by their abuse of others. KARMA of death paying a
visit to those who hide history! THE GRAND PARENTS OF
THOSE KIDS! AND THE CHILDREN PAY FOR THE SINS OF THE
PARENTS=LIKE VIET NAM,OR,
LIKE 8000 military kids last year came home and
killed themselves USA! 18 A DAY USA! SHAME

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By diamond, August 2, 2011 at 12:08 am Link to this comment

Stoltenberg, a very intelligent man, and with the horrifying example of America losing what was left of its mind after 9/11 always before him, is acutely conscious that the right in Norway will attempt to use this tragedy to divide and conquer and also to strip away large swathes of Norway’s democracy and its social justice model. In fact, that’s why it was done, the same reason 9/11 was done and the same reason that most third world countries have been rendered bankrupt by corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel over many decades and held to ransom even to the point of having to hand over their vote in the UN to America. All of this is set out in chilling detail in ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ by John Perkins. No one can grasp what the true agenda of the far right elite in America really is without reading this book. These criminals are now moving on to destroy social justice in first world countries as they have in third world countries: that is the real significance of this attack in Norway and the ongoing economic war on the Eurozone run by the IMF.

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By Leefeller, August 1, 2011 at 3:50 pm Link to this comment

I love right wing ass holes, they will use any excuse to sell peoples liberties down the road, like I believe they would hold a nation hostage to sell their Entitlements down the river!

The fact Hedges, just as well blamed the murders on Atheists, like Hitchens and Hedges seems about the same kind of mental masturbation. The wold has way to many people in it who feel entitlements should only be theirs!

Using the killings for political advantage or opportunism seems as demented as the murderer himself, we have seen the Right wing in the USA do the same with 911.

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