• by Johan Galtung
• Tuesday, July 26, 2011
• Inter Press Service

22 July 2011 will be engraved in Norwegian history like 9 April 1940, the German invasion. Words pale before this enormity. The center of Oslo, where the ministries are located, resembles a war-zone more than during the Second World War, when it was hit by some bombs from the resistance and from England. Even worse was the massacre at the Labor Party youth camp on Ut"ya Island near Oslo with 68 killed and many seriously wounded, writes Johan Galtung, born in Norway, Founder of TRANSCEND, a Peace, Development and Environment Network

The massacre fits the nazi model and Western neo-fascism. But why killing labor party youth, as little left-wing and marxist as the Progress Party is right-wing? Both parties agree on the NATO Libya bombing and on buying, at enormous costs, US F35 fighter planes. Why did he not hit an immigration agency, or mosque, or a muslim meeting? His thinking does not reflect Norway's political landscape. He is a loner, a nazi.

Let us look forward: What to do now?

Maybe having dialogues with "extremists", searching if they possibly also have some legitimate goals, even if they use illegitimate means? Maybe changing the amateurish secret police technicians close to CIA-FBI, with a left eye so sharp that it even sees the non-existing but a right eye so blind that Breivik passed undetected?

Maybe seeing illegitimacy as something that can occur all over the political spectrum, not only far away from oneself?

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