Norwegian Public Safety Forces Ill-Equipped To Stop Possible Worst Shooting Spree in History

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Immensely sad indeed. That it was directed at a left wing government is commentary enough, and that right wingers should use assassination as a tool is becoming even more of a given these days.

RIP all those young people on the Island and passerbies in Oslo.

Too close to the murder of Anna Lindh and Olof Palme for comfort.

Hi Ergon.

A feature of these extreme right wing groups which are really taking hold in Europe is that they are very contemptuous of government. They sit around arguing that the government is in the grip of all these huge conspiracies (sound familiar?) and only they can save the day.

Here is a quote from one news story online this morning:  “Authorities said Anders Behring Breivik confessed to the twin attacks, but denied criminal responsibility, saying his actions, which killed 92 people, were “atrocious” but necessary.”

Sadly it too often takes a wakeup call like this to result in a readiness capacity to counteract attacks like this that matters. But extreme right wingers UNDERMINE it.

In New York the readiness capacity is fairly unobtrusive but massive and an effective response to a crazy like this guy would have been under way in minutes. It took two bombings of the World Trade Center (1993 and 2001) to get it that way though.

And a long fight with the right-wing anti-government Bush administration to fund it.

Those who continue to watch the Norwegian situation will see a lot of analysis of what systems were not in place or went wrong and then hopefully enough of the right adjustments to stop this happening again.

The “advanced” economies are under immigration pressure because so many other countries (including China and India) cannot get their growth model right for all of their people. The US has maybe 12 million illegals because countries south confine most growth gains to a few.

Those lower income Americans born here are being squeezed by this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE

He’s wrong on the root problem (left wingers get it wrong too) but the lack of any growth gains for most of the population is quite real and exhausting them and slowly jacking up more and more anger, including against multiculturalism (one of Anders Behring Breivik’s beefs).

OT to this subject but relevant to this site

Stefanoni is apparently considering legal action

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/24/amanda-knox-dna-appeal-threat

And ultimately this, and the ongoing horror in Somalia,is more important than the Amanda Knox story. But the media, having established a lone nut (not) can move on to Perugia, hoping the Appeal Court will exonerate her.

Not.

Where next:

Or to next entry Perugia Prosecutors In Italian News Daily For Formidable Investigations Into National Government

Or to previous entry French Divided Over French Woman In Mexico Jail: Take A Hard Noisy Line Or One Quiet And Subtle?