Marie Simonsen surpasses herself in a column in Dagbladet. She poses the question, Was it a blunder to gather the nation together after 22 July? In a refined way, she manages to include Trump in the matter, in accordance with the number one rule of Dagbladet, Do not write a single word unless Trump gets negative publicity.
Then the treatment of the catastrophe gets attention. Norway did become an example to «the whole wide world». We were so filled with love that all the hatred in the world had no chance whatsoever.
She hails the recently deceased Hans Kristian Amundsen, and I will not criticise that. However, she also writes that he wrote the now famous speeches, before he knew who was responsible for the terrible actions.
The speeches written by Amundsen were an attack aimed at the terrorism, not at right wing extremism. The speeches addressed contempt of human beings and not political conservatism.
To me, the aftermath of 22 July was a nauseating issue. I remember the shock and the despair. Our family had rented a cabin Our family had rented a cabin by the sea on Rennesøy outside Stavanger. We were supposed to enjoy ourselves and the beautiful nature. 22 July hit even our small family like an earthquake. I, who has never experienced deaths in really close family – sensed the grief like a personal abuse. I had no close friends on Utøya, but I had periphery people with children in the milieu.
Then entered the nauseating sentimentality, paired with certain chosen enemies of the people.
Peder «Fjordman» Jensen was introduced as the intellectual brain behind the slaughter and had to flee the country. Document.no was made to look like some kind of kindergarten to Breivik and his many like minded. Even in 2018 – seven years after the catastrophe – one tries to blame Listhaug with some kind of responsibility for the terrorism.
The words procession of roses to me are the ugliest and most pathetic ones in the entire Norwegian language. They do not connote concord; it is all about showing forth our goodness. On the back of the bouquet of roses it says, «Refugees Welcome».
What happened in the wake of 22 July was not that the population came together as one. Quite the opposite took place; the left wing acquired an unbeatable weapon that every «right-twisted» was aware might be used at any time and consequently made any resistance impossible. 22 July became the nuclear weapon of the left wing. 22 July was the death blow to FrP. A pathetic figure like Jonas Gahr Støre was needed for Ap to push the red button.
Støre & co is not capable of understanding the simplest of matters; that one sees problems with mass immigration does not imply that one wishes to kill the youths of one’s neighbours in a summer camp.
And the fact that the youth were killed does not prove they had chosen the right politics.
Translated to English by Lars Hoem