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Anders Behring Breivik Wins?

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:33 pm
by Mike Sullivan
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Colin Liddell

Look at this news story from the BBC. They'd have you believe it's just another trivial election story from a small, boring country, where an uninteresting centre-right party beat a forgettable centre-left party in the tedious, run-of-the-mill way that these unexciting things happen in the unstellar world of Norwegian politics...yawn.

But, for some reason, they can't stop mentioning Anders Breivik:
  • It is Norway's first general election since attacks by a far-right extremist left 77 people dead in 2011.
and:
  • The vote was Norway's first general election since Anders Behring Breivik - a far-right extremist - killed 77 people in an Oslo bombing and a gun attack at a Labour Party youth camp in 2011. Breivik had previously been a member of the Progress Party.
Then the sidebar analysis chimes in:
  • They [the Labour Party] showed their gratitude for the way he [the Prime Minister] had led his party and the country through the worst terror attack in peace time when Anders Breivik killed 77 mainly young Labour supporters.
Plus there is a link to another story: Breivik 'failed', says survivor running for seat.

Another story by Reuters also mentions Breivik, but then unwittingly points out that the defeated Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, lost even though he had the rather easy task of dividing up Norway's vast oil wealth among its relatively small population, enabling him to preside over a large rise in living standards.
  • Norway has enjoyed rare economic success during the past decade, escaping Europe's economic crisis with little more than a scratch, as its booming offshore oil sector lifted per capita GDP to $100,000 and a huge public sector insulated the economy.
  • But growth is now slowing, competitiveness is stagnating, and the government's record on critical social services is mixed. Voters have accused outgoing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of wasting a once-in-a-lifetime economic boom.
So, what is going on here?

The latest projected election result show that Labour has lost 9 seats in parliament, sinking to 55, the centre-right Conservative Party has gained 18 to reach 48, and the anti-immigrant Progress Party has lost 12 taking it to 29. With two smaller parties, the Conservatives and Progress can now form a coalition government.

In short, an anti-immigration party, associated with Breivik, has seen some drop in its support, but, with the centre-right Conservatives, has successfully defeated the pro-immigration Labour Party, just two years after Breivik launched his attack, despite the vast outpouring of sympathy for Labour and the fact that it has presided over an easy economy with a large rise in living standards; and all the while Breivik's name keeps getting mentioned.

From this, we are supposed to somehow conclude that Breivik has "failed," even though it is clear that his attack – precisely because it was so brutal, evil, and, as the media likes to say in these cases, "cowardly" – broke through the cloak of silence and political correctness and forcibly brought the issues of mass immigration, Islamization, demographic replacement, and racial rape into the political arena and the consciousness of voters.