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Time For Clearance

Time for Clearance I was in Norway once, the paradise of social democracy, I saw many beggars, mostly Roma people who the inhabitant wanted to get rid of or send them out of town in the woods where they were not seen. If you are beggar you got to beg where the people are, foxes and sheep and have nothing to give. There is a strong sense of nationalism in Norway. The police did not hesitate to round up Jews and send them to concentration, and when the war was over most of the police officers continued in their work upholding the law. Norway as a nation has never looked at itself and taking tally of the nation´s behavior during war years, instead it is lauding the few who resisted the Nazi occupation and made them into icons. They shot Quisling but it didn´t stop what made a quisling possible. Still has not done so. Oil made Norway rich, yet there is poverty amongst the low paid and incomers for whom there is little charity. The dark side of Scandinavia- violence,- hate against people who are different from them… those who do not fit into the nice, but untrue picture the country have of herself.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 9/28/2012 8:52:00 AM
yes now that I knew about the vikings.
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Date: 9/27/2012 3:16:00 PM
Interesting Jan and too bad. My limited impression (land of the midnight sun and all) was of a mild mannered group of fresh faced inhabitants not the horned vikings. The story of the resistance fighters' bravery has always impressed me. You've told me a whole other view which I did not know existed. Shows I know little of the world across the ocean; only opinion sometimes.
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 9/27/2012 3:26:00 PM
dear Kathy, thr romstized vilings abuch of paillaging and raping bastards

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