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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/28/norway/index.html

Greenwald: "The Norwegian response to the Oslo attack was so glaringly un-American, even though its core premise -- a brave refusal to sacrifice liberty and transparency in the name of fear and security -- was once the political value Americans boasted of exhibiting most." (salon.com)

What is the point off this Post?

In America, the Police would have been on the scene with in minutes, not hours. Our Police love shooting perps even more than perps love shooting people. They sit around at headquarters oiling their guns and sharpening their blade waiting to spring into action for such an event.

Thanks for making my point.

kentm says

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/28/norway/index.html

Greenwald: "The Norwegian response to the Oslo attack was so glaringly un-American, even though its core premise -- a brave refusal to sacrifice liberty and transparency in the name of fear and security -- was once the political value Americans boasted of exhibiting most." (salon.com)

Our country is ran by a bunch of self preservationist bureaucrats who believe that private sector should be supporting them, not the other way around.

It's no longer government of the people. It is the government that is our monarch.

Hey don't blame me, it was you mugger fuggers, that Okey Doked and rubber-stamped Bush's gestapo goon squads, and have as of yet to disband them even though we lived in a Democrat monarch from '08-'10.

It was the Penguins, we were framed, the judges are Republicans!

Don't blame me, because Liberals have lost touch with reality and their voting base. The health care corporations are not going reelect Obama. The piss poor people with Obama's boot on their neck aren't either.

Obama and his merry band of thieves had ample time to make "CHANGE" he opted to give his corporate masters their pay day.

Obama was a butterfly? I thought he was just a Kenyan Communist Muslim. Who knew?

shrekgrinch says

In America, we don't have camping sites for political familes. 'Political familes'...sounds so Soviet, if you ask me.

Glenn Beck inspired and supported "Liberty camps" on his show, places where kids can get immersed in Teabagger indoctrination. Perhaps it was a big joke I wasn't let in on:

I take it your family was entirely decoupled from politics, and you are some kind of X-Men freak?

The effort to paint the island retreat as something unusual or weird is a tatic to diminish the impact of the event, nothing more, and this is revolting in several ways, not the least of which is that its simply an outright lie. You simply need to look at Glenn Beck's effort or make a quick Internet search for "young republican summer camp" or watch the film "Jesus Camp" to get a sense of it here, for the right, and of course similar efforts exist for the left.

In Norway that camp was one of the premier summer camps for the left with many of the top and most motivated young organizers present and this was well known and publicized. That it was attacked as it was is a calculated effort to damage the future efforts of the left in Norway. And that is callous, evil and sick, any attempt to lessen the impact of it by obscuring the intent or blaming the victims in some way is callus and sick in turn, and anyone going down that path, in my opinion needs to examine not only their political outlook but also how far from decency you've slipped in support of your political outlook.