Norway and the right

The extreme rightist moron who killed so many people in Norway helps to alert us the the danger of rightist, racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic morons in general. I find it difficult to imagine the depths of evil that give rise to such thinking, if one can call it thinking. In the UK, the gutter press helps feed paranoid delusion such as the notion that imigrants get more money than UK pensioners as a general rule, rather than as an occasional and aberrant exception. How does one convince the people who read these rags that they are just that - rags, and that they are written by exactly the same sort of self-seeking rogues who hacked into people's phones etc.

Unfortunately it is not just the rags any more, I heard the BBC World Service suggesting that the excellent Norwegian police had in some way made a hash of the action against the bomber/shooter. Even immediately after the major bombing in Oslo, wthin an hour they had the miscreant under arrest. When you consider that it took the UK police 24 hours to take-out the shooter in the north-east a year or so ago, I wonder by what standards the Norwegians are being judged. Then it struck me that, of course, they are operating that famous old British double standard of 'Blamestorming' in which instead of thinking how we can change things for the better in future we look for someone to blame and castigate. It is no wonder that UK continues to scream down the track to national disaster.