MEANWHILE IN NORWAY!!!

[kpete]

Last edited Thu Apr 26, 2012, 12:11 PM - Edit history (1)

Tens of thousands take to Norway’s streets to sing a song that Anders Behring Breivik hates

Up to 40,000 Norwegians staged an emotionally-charged sing-along in Oslo on Thursday near the court house where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organizers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.

The crowd chose to sing a song – “Children of the Rainbow” – that extols the type of multicultural society Breivik has said he despised and one that he specifically dismissed during the trial as Marxist propaganda. (Photo: Kyrre Lien/NTB Scanpix/Reuters)
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/26/tens-of-thousands-take-to-norways-streets-sing-a-song-anders-behring-breivik-hates/
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Some+Norwegians+gather+sing+song+Anders+Behring+Breivik+hates/6521469/story.html

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[prefunk]

1. Wow. What would it take for us here in the U.S. to come together like that?

Seems like it will happen only in a fantasy.

[Jester Messiah]

5. More pain than anyone wishes to fathom. [nt]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. 9/11 sure didn't do it.

[prefunk]

18. Well, not after bush and co. fucked it away.

That was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to unite the country, and the neocons fucked it away by making a greedy power grab instead.

[RobertEarl]

22. Yeah

You could hear this in the streets tho.....

Bomb, bomb, bomb bomb, bomb Afghans..

Were Norway to react the same they would be clamoring to bomb, oh, say, Germany?

Norway shows us all how to act. Peace.

[SemperEadem]

14. something to make folks turn off their tv's and computers

put down the remotes.

IOW--a power outtage of epic proportions. but then, they'd all go grab their guns and shoot anything that didn't look like them.

yes, I'm being way sarcastic because I can't see our country being unified like the Norwegians in this sense, not with the influence of fux noose, the kochroaches and the teahadists.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That whole country is such a class act.

I wish my ancestors hadn't left there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. You and me both

World War II wouldn't have been pleasant, though.

[Diclotican]

27. Lydia Leftcoast

Lydia Leftcoast

Compared to many other parts of Europe, we in Norway got true the war with less pain than most nations... yes we got bombed, yes we got murdered, and yes, we also got a whole part of our country burnt to the ground (Finnmark and Nord-Troms) but compared to many other parts of the world, we got true it intact... And for the most part the germans who was here "loved" to be here, mostly because the civilians treated them with respect, and them self was under order of treating the civilians correct, as long as we doesn't did anything to harm them.. As the war progressed it got worse - but for the most part at least we survived intact.

But of course, compared to what was the case in US under world war two, everything was cramped, and we was also pretty poor, and the whole country was rather damaged by the end of the war... But I belive we would have survived with a couple of your ancestors too

Diclotican

[pampango]

3. Fantastic way to show that Breivik has not "broken" their "tolerant" and "multicultural" society

that Breivik despises.

[Little Star]

4. Nice example for the rest of the world. k&r

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. My peeps!

I feel so proud to have Norwegian heritage! This is how it's done -- they have shown us how to take care of business without violence/vengeance. We could learn something very important from them.

[Diclotican]

9. Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury

Heia Norge .. Yes We are a pretty "level-handed" people for the most part.. And I think it is the right way to show men like Breivik, that we are against him, and will continue to have our society even after a painfully attack..

I had planed to go to youngstorget to be with them - but I had a dentist appointment, so it was not to be... (I'm living 25 min with train from down-town Oslo)

Diclotian

[freshwest]

21. Maybe on another day. Thanks.

and to Norway.

[malaise]

7. Beautiful

Rec

[Bodhi BloodWave]

10. For those who wish to listen to them sing

[AllyCat]

19. I have goosebumps from this. Wonderful!

And in the rain. Actually, I think people do things like this in America (referencing post upstream): I live in Madison WI and I saw how many people will come together against hate (although not a grisly example like this incident). Look at Occupy. I really think we do things like this, but get little press.

[Chorophyll]

11. Damn, that's awesome. nt

[ZombieHorde]

12. My hope for humanity grew a bit while watching that video.

Thank you for posting this.

[jwirr]

13. I get the feeling that EU may be in trouble economically but what with Scotland laughing at Trump

and this I can see that their spirit is still intact. Maybe the world is finally going to turn back from the hate and ignorance it has been embrassing since raygun was elected. I hope so.

[Martin Eden]

15. I hope this sinks in to Brevik:

His owns actions will ultimately foster the kind of multi-cultural unity he so desperately hates.

[SemperEadem]

16. brought tears to my eyes

how I wish our country was enlightened like this. Bravo, Norway.

[Zalatix]

17. Effin' AWESOME!!! Way to go Norway!

[TheWraith]

20. That's pretty cool right there.

And probably a world's record for the largest single "fuck you" ever delivered to a single person.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Interesting way to put it!

[joshcryer]

25. This reminds me of The Singing Revolution.

Beautiful beautiful movie about Estonia's fight to break away from Soviet Russia.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Inspiring movie, and it gives a clue as to why right-wingers want to remove

arts instruction from our schools.

The Estonians (and their neighbors, the Latvians--also part of my ancestry) have a centuries-old tradition of choral singing. As I recall the film, there are community choirs for all ages and annual national choral festivals. They continued during the Soviet period in censored form, with no nationalistic or religious music allowed, but they continued with a repertoire of folk and art songs.

However, people somehow managed to learn the forbidden songs anyway. (Maybe they learned at home, just as my Latvian grandfather learned to read his own language at home during the Czarist period, when only Russian was allowed in schools.)

As a result, when the Singing Revolution came around, everyone in Estonia knew the same songs.

How large would the repertoire of commonly known songs be in the U.S.? How many Americans would be willing to sing in public, even in a group?

[joshcryer]

31. Beautiful movie, reveals the depths of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

And shows that in the end the oft admited Soviets were extremely brutal occupiers of the entire Eastern Bloc for decades.

[limpyhobbler]

26. cool. nt

[ck4829]

28. Great job Norway. K&R.

[MineralMan]

30. Excellent. Norway is a civilized country. nt