Most people learn from an early age that money doesn’t
grow on trees. And nowhere is that more true when it comes to paying for
cultural enrichment, which is a lesson that Norwegian Prime Minister Erna
Solberg learned the hard way the other day when she had to inform the Norwegian Parliament that the estimated costs of
processing the enormous influx of so-called “asylum seekers” would reach a
staggering US $6 billion over the next five years.
And to add to Mrs Solberg’s woes, this is occurring at
a time when Norwegian oil revenues have taken a severe blow, resulting in tens
of thousands of Norwegians losing their lavishly-paid jobs in the Norwegian oil
industry. More and more young Norwegians have been joining the ranks of the
unemployed, and have to rely on social handouts from the government to get by.
What could possibly be better then than to spend
billions of dollars on hordes of people from the Third World — mostly Muslims —
who are borderline illiterates, who have no intention of contributing to
society and who are only looking for a rich and gullible sugar-daddy nation in
the West that they and their extended clan can scrounge off?
Well, according to the Left, nothing could be better,
because they are literally walking on sunshine these days. They are
enthusiastically encouraging Norwegians to join in what has colloquially been
dubbed a “working bee” by the MSM, to ensure that the influx of future welfare
recipients is dealt with as proficiently and smoothly as possible. The
prospects of importing hundreds if not thousands of hard-core terrorists who
could destabilize the country and cause serious mayhem doesn’t seem to faze
them in the slightest. In fact, they are much more concerned that the police in
Norway are now carrying firearms at all times, a safety measure that was
introduced late last year due to the increased threat level, and a direct
consequence of by the Left’s aggressive pursuit of a multicultural society.
Hardly a day goes by when there isn’t a frenzied
reference in the MSM by a left-wing diehard about the outrageousness of an
armed police force and the possibility that a member of the police could
actually shoot and harm a violent criminal who took it upon himself to go
berserk on a crowded street with a samurai sword, a box cutter or some other
exotic type of bowel-slicer. But then again, these are the people that were
outraged over suggestions that Anders Behring Breivik should have been taken
out by a sniper’s bullet when he went on his mad killing spree on Utøya Island
in 2011, so what else can you really expect?
“Cultural enrichment” is, of course, a term coined to
mock the multiculturalists’ outrageous claim that importing hordes of people
with diametrically opposing views and values is a smart and decent thing to do.
And no, we’re not talking about importing people who think that capitalism is
superior to Norwegian social democracy, or people who prefer football over
cross-country skiing, but rather individuals from “exciting” cultures where
it’s considered completely acceptable to stone women to death and hang gays
from mobile cranes. To kill people who decide to leave Islam or who have the
temerity to offend the prophet Muhammad’s honour.
If you look at it from a completely rational point of
view, you’ll find that today’s cultural enrichment is just as beneficial as the
Black Death was in 14th century Europe. The reality is that this enrichment is
slowly destroying our culture and our way of life, and just like the Black
Death it is spreading like a malignant cancer, which the decision-makers are
doing their utmost to ignore.
The whole Western world was in an uproar
when ISIS blew up relics from the ancient Greco-Roman
civilization in Palmyra earlier this year, but when Norwegian and European
leaders destroy a living and highly vibrant civilization, and do it just as
effectively as the powerful explosives used by ISIS, no one even bats an
eyelid. The political classes in the west are more interested in preserving
memories of a long since extinguished civilization than trying to save the one
that is under attack at the moment. And, sadly, the cultural enrichment has
picked up some serious momentum in the last few months and it has now shifted
into high gear. People all over the European Union have begun in earnest to
discover what the term “cultural enrichment” really means.
That is also the case in Norway, where a kindergarten recently had to close down due the sudden
arrival of a reception centre for asylum seekers next door. The straw that
finally broke the camel’s back for the parents of the children was a bloody
fistfight between two of the residents staying at the reception centre just
outside the perimeter of the kindergarten. This was an incident that was
witnessed by several of the children. Prior to that there had been incidents of
asylum seekers wandering onto the grounds of the kindergarten during operating
hours. So what did the local council do upon learning about this? Well, they decided
to close down the kindergarten, of course! The children just had to toughen up
and deal with it. After all, they can always find new friends at a new
kindergarten; and besides, what’s the big deal if the parents have to spend
another hour or so each day dropping off and picking up their children from
kindy?
These might sound like cruel arguments, but apparently
they made perfect sense for the members of the local council.
Likewise parents are becoming increasingly worried about sending their children
off on organized school trips to various campsites around the country,
something which is an established Norwegian tradition and something that
hundreds of thousands of Norwegian kids have done in the past and have fond
memories of. A recent newspaper article highlighted some parents’ reluctance to
send their children to a camp after they learned that twenty asylum seekers
were living in buildings on the campgrounds. As one parent put it, they are
worried because they have absolutely no idea about who these people really are,
what their mental state is like and what they may be capable of doing when the
kids arrive. And the concerned parents have a very strong case, to put it
mildly. Why should they feel at ease when the authorities themselves have
absolutely zero idea about the real identities of the “asylum seekers”? Figures
show that 90% of asylum seekers who apply for political asylum in Norway do not
have any identification papers. For all we know the camp could be the new home
of senior members of ISIS or Al Qaida. It is also worth pointing out that the
two newspaper articles describing the aforementioned cases were written in such
a way that the reader might question the motives of the parents, and not the
authorities.
The increased pace of cultural enrichment in Norway
these days has also prompted the political Left to intensify its
mass-intimidation campaigns, in which leftists actively go after those who dare
to speak out against the official policies, with the intention of silencing and
shaming them. The more obvious it becomes that the policies of the Left are
failing, the more important it becomes to keep the situation under tight
“control”, that is, to make sure that the critics keep their opinions to
themselves and don’t rock the boat. Long-time readers of GoV should be very
familiar with the methods employed by the Norwegian inquisitors, their tenacity
and the unbridled pleasure they take in destroying the reputations of decent
people whose only crime is to have opposing political views.
One of those unlucky individuals who ended up in the
crosshairs of the political left recently is Hege Storhaug, a long-time critic
of Islam and a vocal opponent of the Norwegian authorities’ head-in-the sand
approach when it comes to dealing with multiculturalism and Islam. She is one
of the co-founders of the Norwegian think tank Human Rights Service, and is
thus frequently in the media discussing reports written by HRS, talking about
surveys commissioned by the organization, or just commenting on issues dealing
with multiculturalism and Islam. In this capacity, she has stepped on quite a
few toes, and the MSM have finally decided that it is payback time.
It came in the form of an extremely vile hit piece published
in Itromso a few weeks ago, where the author of the editorial even went so far
as to compare HRS and Hege Storhaug with Norwegian wartime collaborators, Jew
haters and Nazis during WW2 in German-occupied Norway.
The piece ended with a cryptic remark about the fact
that many Norwegian wartime collaborators were shot at the end of the war for
their treason.
This prompted Kjetil Rolness, a Norwegian sociologist
and a social commentator to pen an op-ed entitled “The hatred directed at Hege
Storhaug” in which he described in great detail the venomous vitriol that is
constantly being hurled at her by members of the political Left, the cowardly
guilt-by-association tactics that they use, and the fact that no one can refute
the facts and figures that are presented by Storhaug and HRS in the reports
that they publish. Rolness also correctly pointed out that this hatred will
make ordinary people afraid of talking positively about Storhaug, and make them
think twice about liking any of her articles posted on social media. The Left
has in essence succeeded in making her name synonymous with the bogeyman, which
of course was the ultimate goal and the sole motive behind the intimidation
campaign. Rolness’ op-ed was published a few days after the hit piece appeared
in iTromso, and it has generated massive ripples in the MSM and on social media
in Norway. It is still being hotly debated today, with the usual “racist”,
“Islamophobe” and “hater” epithets thrown in for free by Rolness’ and
Storhaug’s detractors.
It is also worth mentioning that until recently HRS
have received yearly state subsidies from the authorities that have allowed
them to keep the organization afloat (pretty much every Norwegian organization
receives some type of subsidies, and this is governed by law). HRS’s subsidies,
however, look set to be revoked after massive political pressure from powerful
forces on the left. One Norwegian politician from the Socialist Left, Audun
Lysbakken, actually broke protocol a few years ago and ordered
the subsidies of the think tank cut in half.
This prompted the leadership of HRS to contact the
well-known FrP politician (Progress Party) Carl I Hagen, whose party at the
time held the power of balance in the Oslo City Council. Hagen consequently
made it a condition that HRS subsidies be reinstated in full in return for
continued FrP support for the annual Council budgets in the capital.
However, after the recent local elections in Norway,
where FrP lost support in the city of Oslo, and the left made considerable
gains, proposals have yet again surfaced to revoke HRS’s financial support, which of course is
crystal-clear proof that the official subsidies in Norway are political in
nature. It clearly shows that any organization that dares to oppose the
official line on certain issues stand to lose its funding at any moment.
This is a good reason to scrap the entire system and
abolish state subsidies altogether which, would guarantee the independence of
these organizations and kill any questions of political meddling. Nevertheless,
that is irrelevant in this particular context.
Another person who has involuntarily ended up in the
media recently is Hanne Tolg, a Norwegian British-based writer for the
Norwegian conservative website Document.no. This website and its founder Hans
Rustad became famous after the 22/7 attacks due to the fact that Breivik had
posted a couple of dozen non-violent and completely ordinary comments in their
discussion section. For this Document.no was absolutely trashed in the MSM in
the months following the attacks. The fact that ABB had also written dozens of
comments in the MSM was quickly swept under the rug, because there is no reason
to “get caught up in details”. Anyway, the reason why Hanne Tolg ended up in
the MSM was that she was literally pressured to resign from her job in Wales after someone
requested information about her employer and justified this by referring to the
Freedom of Information Act, and used Tolg’s name as the reason.
This subsequently led to suspicion and additional
investigation by her employer, who soon discovered that she had been writing
articles for Document.no. The articles that Tolg had penned were average,
ordinary conservative articles of the type you would expect to find in a
run-of-the-mill conservative British or American magazine. However, this had no
bearing on her case, nor did the fact that she had never encouraged violence,
illegality, etc. The thing that became the focus of attention was that
Document.no “had been ABB’s favourite website and one where he had posted
several comments”. This is apparently what kick-started the official investigation
by her employer, a local fire station in a small town in rural Wales where she
had been working in admin for thirteen years. What followed was a process that
can only be described as a protracted witch-hunt that lasted for several months
and that eventually drained her of her strength, and which finally made her
cave in and resign.
The fact that everything was written in Norwegian
obviously complicated the process, as her British employers were forced to rely
on Google translate and Tolg’s own translations and clarifications. In the end
Tolg was never told about who requested the information about her employer and
used her name as the reason why, and she still does not know who that person
is. It is not unreasonable to suspect, however, that that individual is a
Norwegian, given the language of the articles in question and the fact that
Document.no is a Norwegian website. It could even be a prominent person working
in the Norwegian MSM or in the Norwegian academia, but we will probably never
find out. One thing for sure, though, is that there have been several cases in
Norway where people who disagree political with others have contacted the
person’s employer over things that he/she has said or written with the
intention of causing difficulties for the target.
Admittedly Hanne Tolg wasn’t “forced” from her job by
a Norwegian employer, but the list of Norwegians who have lost their jobs for
daring to state their political views has grown fairly long, and more names
will be added to it now that the official estimates of “refugees” arriving in Norway by the
end of 2016 have been raised to 60,000.
This is a far cry from the 8,000 Syrians that the Norwegian government so generously
pledged to accept a few months ago, before the local elections and after a
massive media campaign orchestrated by the Left urging the government to do so.
There are still many people in Norway who dare to oppose the official policies
of the Left, and there are still many who are unafraid to write under their
real names. It would not at all be that surprising if some of these were made
an example out of, for example by terminating them from their jobs and making them
unpalatable for any future employers. After all, we’re talking about “nice cosy
Norway” here.
No comments:
Post a Comment