Irony in Norway

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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Jens Stoltenberg has been the prime minister of Norway since 2005.