Reading about terror in Oslo, and remembering a stroller
I remember seeing many things during the fast-paced day I once spent in Oslo: a 12-centuries-old Viking ship; the freaky sculptures at Vigeland Park; the hall where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each year; a can of Coca-Cola priced at the equivalent of $4 at an honest-to-goodness Seven-Eleven.
But the image that keeps returning to my mind today — after hearing that reports that several people were gunned down at an island youth camp, following a bombing near the Norwegian parliament building — is of a stroller.
It was sitting alone outside the entrance to a store in downtown Oslo. And, yes, there was a baby in it. As hard as it is for most Americans to believe, the trust among Norwegians, my wife and I learned, was such that a mother could leave an infant in a stroller outside the store while she shopped.
How shattered that trust must be today.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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independent thinker
July 24th, 2011
8:49 pm
Michael Smith Show me one white supremecy group or any anti semitic and anti muslim skinhead group or any chrstian hate group in the US who espouses socialism and communism as part of their sick ideology. -just one.
Linda
July 24th, 2011
8:57 pm
independent@8:49, Do you have a mirror?
Michael H. Smith
July 24th, 2011
9:12 pm
First of all SHOW YOU JUST ONE I’m not some kind of answer boy to YOU but for your angry lack of biblical intelligent information there is no way a hate group or a person with the type hate you are referring to can be a Christian, according to the Judeo-Christian bible.
But thirdly just to go one up on you to antagonize, I can show you just one common thread that appears in the fabric of all hate groups, which includes fascist, socialist and communist and do so in one word: Control
Personally I want everyone to have as much individual freedom and liberty from CONTROLLING governments, groups of any kind and from other people as possible.
Linda
July 24th, 2011
9:26 pm
independent@3:22, Anyone who reads Mein Kampf & analyses that Cain & Bachmann “appeal to the the ”hate crowd’ “without seeing that the Tea Party is nothing more than everyday Americans, Main Street, USA, is without the ability of comprehension.
I Report :-) You Whine :-( Thee Magnificent!!! Just sayin...
July 24th, 2011
10:42 pm
The Duh Report comes live tonight from Seattle, where the libs all freak out when you smoke, unless it’s a joint.
independent thinker
July 25th, 2011
7:18 am
Linda needs to do some research on her girl Bachmann’s association with far right wing Christian nut jobs who spew hate as political propoganda.
Edward
July 25th, 2011
9:34 am
Michael H. Smith is one of the saddest examples of a severely deluded right-wing extremist I’ve seen on any of these fora. Not only does he spew the rewrites of history, it is evident that he actually believes what he spews. So very sad.
saywhat?
July 25th, 2011
9:41 am
Michael Smith is ashamed of his fascist tendencies and so projects them onto his perceived “enemies”.
While historically the rise of fascism included figures from the political left and right, historians agree it evolved into a right wing phenomena. All the crap Smith is posting is the same kind of intellectual dishonesty frequently seen on these boards that equate the ideology of the previous generation of southern Democrats (who are all now Republicans) with today’s southern Democrats.