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galveston wouldnt need police from houston, they have police on the island. Aisha Send a noteboard - 25/07/2011 09:22:40 PM
I guess I just dont get the Norwegian/European way of doing things like cops and guns and every little town and island having their own police force. Here in Ct where I live now, there are state troopers for the whole state and every town has its own police force. The better comparison would be a bombing in Rhode Island and a shooting on Block Island, but Block Island would take care of their own situation not wait for police from the main land to show up. But his isnt really worth discussing any further, whats done is done, nothing will bring back the victims that were killed. But maybe the protocol for future disasters (god forbid) will be different.


It's sick that one person could intentionally kill so many others. And why? Okay, so you don't like immigration into Norway - you have a voice, you can try to change laws or whatever. Okay, so you don't like the largely socialist system that Norway has (and I can personally appreciate that) - so work to change it. But any change must be done peacefully. Don't these people who kill others see that they are no better than the people they claim to be their "enemies"??? This is a universal truth, whether we're talking about this guy, Hamas, al Qaeda, Timothy McVey, or anyone else.

When has killing people ever helped one's argument or position??? The best you can hope for is to kill everyone and go down as a butcher.


I think its amazing that the bomb didnt even kill a dozen people, but he PERSONALLY went and shot 83 kids point blank on an island. I still think it is a damn shame that it took the cops forever and a day to get to the island. the bomb distraction isn't a good enough excuse in my opinion for why they didn't get there for over an hour. But I disagree about the violence thing, It does help peoples causes sometimes, it doesn't solve the situation but it does bring ti to light. 93 dead kids and no everyone is talking and thinking about the so called threat of Islam and immigration into Europe. he got what he wanted and he wants to go to court and speak more on the subject. He will get the platform he wanted to keep spewing his garbage, so in that respect his violent rampage was very successful.

Under NORMAL (i.e. not the aftermath of a bombing and during a shooting rampage) conditions. Googlemaps says it's 38km, but that only takes you to the mainland across from the island, so that doesn't count the boat ride there. How long do you think it would take HPD to get to a shooter on Galveston, particularly in the wake of a bombing at the Galleria, many other suspicious looking packages strewn from Herman Park to Reliant, and no bridge to the island? My wife tells me that ONCE INFORMED OF the shooting they were scrambling to call in military choppers to get out to the island, but barring a transporter room it still takes time. Your expectations here are not reasonable.
Aisha - formerly known as randschicka
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Large explosion in Oslo and nearby shootings - 22/07/2011 03:52:56 PM 1882 Views
A bit too convenient for an accident, I'd say. - 22/07/2011 03:54:38 PM 612 Views
I agree - 22/07/2011 03:59:16 PM 606 Views
Why do you care about making a claim? You're not a reporter. - 22/07/2011 04:53:06 PM 612 Views
Because I was making the post to tell people what was happening - 22/07/2011 05:26:11 PM 597 Views
He IS reporting - 22/07/2011 11:46:30 PM 520 Views
Let's not get ridiculous. - 23/07/2011 02:10:26 AM 544 Views
Police in Oslo have confirmed it was a bomb. *NM* - 22/07/2011 04:15:04 PM 506 Views
Not good - two reported dead so far - 22/07/2011 04:23:03 PM 612 Views
Re: Not good - two reported dead so far - 22/07/2011 04:26:15 PM 586 Views
I've long assumed this was the case. - 22/07/2011 04:28:40 PM 546 Views
Ah, I has suspected so - 22/07/2011 04:32:14 PM 502 Views
I thought everyone loved Norway! - 22/07/2011 04:26:25 PM 589 Views
'cept Whales - 22/07/2011 04:31:01 PM 616 Views
Hey, I wouldn't put something like this past Green Peace. - 22/07/2011 04:37:40 PM 552 Views
I would. *NM* - 22/07/2011 06:52:38 PM 523 Views
Your faith is greater than mine then. - 22/07/2011 10:26:54 PM 543 Views
Sounds like you're confusing Greenpeace with PETA. *NM* - 22/07/2011 10:53:18 PM 517 Views
Earth First is more likely. - 22/07/2011 11:14:33 PM 616 Views
And 8-11th century Irish and Brits - 22/07/2011 05:20:07 PM 575 Views
This ain't cool. *NM* - 22/07/2011 04:55:21 PM 562 Views
It is terrible. - 22/07/2011 05:13:24 PM 515 Views
There are allegedly also people firing at the youth camp of the Labour party at an island - 22/07/2011 05:26:29 PM 625 Views
Are Labour the ruling party? - 22/07/2011 05:28:51 PM 557 Views
Yes. One of three. - 22/07/2011 05:33:42 PM 633 Views
That's horrible. - 22/07/2011 05:42:07 PM 563 Views
I hope the perpetrators are made to suffer - 22/07/2011 05:53:38 PM 563 Views
7 confirmed dead, 2 severly injured, several with minor injuries. - 22/07/2011 06:45:32 PM 579 Views
and at least 9 additional dead on Utøya... *NM* - 22/07/2011 09:23:25 PM 526 Views
Utøya was just.... terrible. - 22/07/2011 09:58:18 PM 552 Views
Norwegian papers article, in English: - 22/07/2011 10:51:32 PM 724 Views
so "Youth camp" doesnt mean little kids right? - 22/07/2011 11:05:42 PM 563 Views
I gather 14-18 years old *NM* - 22/07/2011 11:07:37 PM 481 Views
wow.... *NM* - 22/07/2011 11:11:34 PM 498 Views
HS kids, from what I can gather. - 22/07/2011 11:45:30 PM 545 Views
The person arrested is Anders Behring Breivik - 23/07/2011 01:14:58 AM 548 Views
At least 80 dead so far. - 23/07/2011 03:09:38 AM 673 Views
Oh I feel sick - 23/07/2011 03:55:04 AM 592 Views
Yes. *NM* - 23/07/2011 07:25:46 AM 529 Views
Wow, that's horrible *NM* - 23/07/2011 05:55:11 AM 535 Views
“It seems kind of unreal, especially in Norway. This is not something that could happen here.” - 23/07/2011 10:23:48 AM 560 Views
Yeah, but it is quite shocking in such a normally placid country. - 23/07/2011 04:04:04 PM 636 Views
Norwegians cops dont carry guns? - 23/07/2011 08:05:07 PM 559 Views
Re: Norwegians cops dont carry guns? - 23/07/2011 09:01:28 PM 586 Views
It's Europe; guns are a lot more heavily regulated. - 23/07/2011 09:32:15 PM 580 Views
Holy crap - 23/07/2011 11:06:32 AM 567 Views
Sounds like an anarchist, i.e., left-wing nut..... *NM* - 23/07/2011 03:10:55 PM 495 Views
Try Christian fundamentalist - 23/07/2011 04:12:55 PM 553 Views
Eerm, yeah...What Joel said - 23/07/2011 04:40:21 PM 608 Views
There's very few facts for anyone to be working with - 23/07/2011 05:52:26 PM 530 Views
Just having switched off the latest news... - 23/07/2011 06:21:09 PM 525 Views
Re: Just having switched off the latest news... - 23/07/2011 09:01:36 PM 479 Views
Why can't we just call him a wing-nut and agree? - 23/07/2011 07:27:33 PM 642 Views
why cant we call him a terrorist? - 23/07/2011 08:01:33 PM 538 Views
Because terrorist attacks only happens to the US. - 23/07/2011 08:21:05 PM 540 Views
Poes Law, man, Poes Law. - 23/07/2011 10:02:45 PM 501 Views
I'm fine with that; the media here's certainly calling him a terrorist. - 23/07/2011 09:59:15 PM 500 Views
i noticed the Norwegians are calling it a terror attack - 24/07/2011 03:17:53 AM 531 Views
Christian media bias, eh? - 24/07/2011 03:48:22 AM 538 Views
Sorry, new laptop. - 23/07/2011 09:59:15 PM 484 Views
oh, please. *NM* - 23/07/2011 09:09:40 PM 496 Views
My thoughts echo yours. - 23/07/2011 03:54:22 PM 526 Views
The people of Norway are in everyones thoughts and prayers. *NM* - 23/07/2011 12:51:38 PM 517 Views
This is awful, *NM* - 23/07/2011 03:43:37 PM 513 Views
Absolutely tragic. Sick sick person. *NM* - 23/07/2011 03:58:15 PM 457 Views
A victim's account - 23/07/2011 05:40:01 PM 635 Views
By the way - too bad Norway doesn't have the death penalty.....very justified in this case. *NM* - 23/07/2011 08:44:32 PM 477 Views
Very much true - 23/07/2011 09:31:14 PM 537 Views
Actually, it's more like "too bad the maximum Norwegian prison sentence is 21 years". - 23/07/2011 09:33:52 PM 604 Views
21 years? Wow, what a stupid system..... *NM* - 23/07/2011 09:41:18 PM 495 Views
Re: Actually, it's more like "too bad the maximum Norwegian prison sentence is 21 years". - 23/07/2011 09:43:12 PM 643 Views
Anything less than execution is wrong..... - 23/07/2011 09:52:07 PM 567 Views
By the Grace of God, that's not your call to make. - 23/07/2011 10:06:05 PM 539 Views
92 murders = execution - 23/07/2011 10:09:33 PM 556 Views
I don't think that the Norwegian criminal system is based on that ideal. - 24/07/2011 03:03:42 PM 481 Views
Which almost without exception makes a lot more sense. - 23/07/2011 10:04:48 PM 532 Views
I have a feeling - 24/07/2011 04:08:34 AM 542 Views
Not at all. Luckily, we don't have death penalty - 24/07/2011 09:16:28 AM 598 Views
Right wing terrorism always confused me. - 24/07/2011 04:44:34 AM 571 Views
I don't understand how anyone can be a fascist. *NM* - 24/07/2011 07:15:16 AM 489 Views
I don't understand how any Italian can not be. *NM* - 24/07/2011 01:51:34 PM 559 Views
Cause fascism didn't do much good for Italy? *NM* - 24/07/2011 05:06:34 PM 470 Views
Bahaha yeah except 20 years of peace, prosperity and effective government. - 25/07/2011 12:06:35 AM 520 Views
It's important to distinguish between Roman and modern fascism. - 25/07/2011 03:48:24 AM 555 Views
The problem with that is simple. - 25/07/2011 02:15:38 PM 488 Views
I can't speak to Italian civil liberties under Mussolini, but the little I've heard contradicts you. - 25/07/2011 04:27:54 PM 490 Views
Wikipedia, really? - 25/07/2011 05:07:28 PM 563 Views
Merely for convenience; the things I linked (e.g. blackshirt murder campaigns) are common knowledge. - 25/07/2011 07:00:22 PM 480 Views
Actually yes, he does. - 26/07/2011 03:23:20 AM 502 Views
Actually, I know quite a bit about fascism in Italy - 25/07/2011 08:29:04 AM 608 Views
If you did... - 25/07/2011 02:05:31 PM 403 Views
You're full of it... and apparently you don't know it. *NM* - 25/07/2011 06:40:14 PM 485 Views
Again, use facts... - 26/07/2011 03:24:02 AM 583 Views
I'm too amused by your unfounded accusations of ignorance - 26/07/2011 06:13:42 AM 461 Views
I don't debate with the ignorant. - 26/07/2011 01:43:07 PM 503 Views
My guess is they're viewed as "collaborators". - 24/07/2011 12:05:00 PM 536 Views
Even so. - 24/07/2011 01:55:08 PM 534 Views
Yeah, I can't really explain it; it's insane behavior. - 24/07/2011 04:57:27 PM 509 Views
/ignoring the ridiculous fascism stuff... on the subject of killing your own - 25/07/2011 04:36:01 PM 549 Views
Regardless. - 25/07/2011 05:17:36 PM 515 Views
That's tempting, saying he isn't a "real" or "true" nationalist. - 25/07/2011 09:20:38 PM 599 Views
Well I just don't comptrehend how he could be a "true" or "real" nationalist... - 26/07/2011 03:25:35 AM 539 Views
That's clearly not true - 26/07/2011 10:35:05 AM 499 Views
I'm pretty sure it's against nationalism as anyone defines it. - 26/07/2011 01:43:56 PM 546 Views
See? - 26/07/2011 02:05:09 PM 483 Views
Right, but... - 26/07/2011 10:47:29 PM 566 Views
Yes he is on the far right - 26/07/2011 10:54:06 PM 525 Views
I'm hardly a fanatic. - 27/07/2011 12:23:09 AM 404 Views
You do come across that way here. - 27/07/2011 11:05:26 AM 525 Views
Maybe to you, then again if you want to talk about how people come across on the internet... - 27/07/2011 10:05:39 PM 562 Views
That makes sense - 27/07/2011 11:27:29 PM 509 Views
How would a Nazi killing ONLY aryans be a Nazi? - 28/07/2011 06:27:03 AM 542 Views
Remember how the Nazis killled socialists and other people who disagreed with them? That is how. *NM* - 28/07/2011 07:40:24 AM 467 Views
and don't forget it was how the far left killed the people they did like as well - 28/07/2011 11:47:26 AM 481 Views
Sorry but when was the USSR nationalistic? - 28/07/2011 12:40:46 PM 475 Views
Great Patriotic War ring a bell? - 28/07/2011 06:04:02 PM 488 Views
And how was that nationalistic? - 28/07/2011 08:05:01 PM 488 Views
Can you read? - 28/07/2011 06:02:13 PM 504 Views
The rather famous Night of the Long Knives not ring a bell? - 28/07/2011 10:34:47 AM 479 Views
Again, I said a Nazi who kills ONLY aryans. - 28/07/2011 06:03:00 PM 536 Views
I have no idea why I want to jump into this but I would just point out two things - 28/07/2011 12:46:56 AM 541 Views
Okay that's fair. - 28/07/2011 06:28:57 AM 532 Views
So horrible. *NM* - 24/07/2011 06:24:28 AM 504 Views
Apparently, he plagiarised tehe UNA-bomber in his manifesto - 24/07/2011 02:52:36 PM 547 Views
Wow, that's impressive, in all the worst senses of the word. - 24/07/2011 05:05:24 PM 488 Views
Having read his manifesto and watched his youtube video... - 25/07/2011 01:50:07 AM 519 Views
Oh, so killing people who are NOT HIS OWN would have been ok? *NM* - 25/07/2011 10:38:50 AM 454 Views
Would have been understandable. - 25/07/2011 02:03:31 PM 525 Views
Much as it pains me to say, most of his victims were almost certainly not Christian. - 25/07/2011 07:04:21 PM 530 Views
Again. - 26/07/2011 03:26:51 AM 503 Views
I'm amazed that one person could cause this level of death. - 25/07/2011 05:35:33 AM 528 Views
I too was surprised - 25/07/2011 05:45:10 AM 497 Views
I'm told it takes most of an hour just to DRIVE from Oslo to Utøya. - 25/07/2011 07:14:16 PM 516 Views
galveston wouldnt need police from houston, they have police on the island. - 25/07/2011 09:22:40 PM 514 Views
That's because Galveston is more than 26 acres. - 25/07/2011 09:39:06 PM 564 Views
See below: - 26/07/2011 02:03:27 AM 508 Views
I really wish they would stop mentioning he was a fan of True Blood *NM* - 25/07/2011 05:47:16 AM 446 Views
In the middle of all this, why is that important to you? *NM* - 25/07/2011 09:04:54 AM 521 Views
its important to me to know why its important enough to mention - 25/07/2011 09:15:11 PM 491 Views
And ego shooter games, as if they were the final trigger *NM* - 25/07/2011 10:40:33 AM 468 Views
And the fact that he was a Eurovision fan - 25/07/2011 11:23:48 AM 516 Views
are political party sponsored youth camps common in Europe? - 25/07/2011 07:13:00 PM 536 Views
It is the labour youth organisation's summer camp - 25/07/2011 09:11:57 PM 520 Views
sorry but that just seems very odd to me - 25/07/2011 10:08:07 PM 508 Views
Re: sorry but that just seems very odd to me - 25/07/2011 10:20:27 PM 513 Views
that would make a big difference - 25/07/2011 10:32:52 PM 512 Views
I think most such organizations have a somewhat older membership - 16-25 or so. - 25/07/2011 10:30:04 PM 503 Views
having children who are passed their teens I still considered teenagers kids - 25/07/2011 10:57:50 PM 509 Views
Yeah, I guess that'd depend on your perspective. - 25/07/2011 11:17:17 PM 495 Views
Re:I know that - 27/07/2011 03:39:47 AM 565 Views
Re: Re:I know that - 27/07/2011 09:04:24 AM 517 Views
Re: He took lives. - 28/07/2011 12:23:43 AM 383 Views
are we really so bored and entrenched that we are debating the motives of a mad man? *NM* - 26/07/2011 02:13:38 PM 494 Views
Quite. *NM* - 26/07/2011 06:03:30 PM 473 Views