Exremist School..

Mr Norway..: 30th Aug 2005 - 01:13 GMT

Jeeff.. I ment: In one of our lockal newapaper here in Norway, this artical was represented there.This people had an early morning meeting in one of the moskees in Oslo. Norway is a country where we recive alot of people from other countryes, some of them have conections with people from Taliban. What i ment with this was, that Norway gives people like this protections against american police investigators from arresting them. We are aginst death penalty.. so we are afraid tha if we let them loose, you americans will charge them, and put them to death.. I know my english writing is not good anymore.. but i belive that you get my picture..

jeeff: 30th Aug 2005 - 03:30 GMT

your english is ok but you seem to have a problem with preconceptions. regarding "you americans" this website actually represents a group of people from a variety of countries, including active groups from canada (including me), the uk, and russia. canada is similar to the scandanavian countries in many ways (immigrants, fairly liberal populace). i still don't get what point you're trying to make about the taliban unless it's just pointless american-baiting.

jack: 30th Aug 2005 - 16:29 GMT

does the guy from norway think that we are murderers. what kind of reputation do we have out there in the world. do people forget that we saved them from the dam nazies in wwII. how quickly we save people, then help them financially, rebuild them and then watch them turn against us because we are murderous hunters of innocent, religious people who only want to teach the united states a lesson because we backed israel. sure norway, harbor the taliban and let them rebuild so they can come back and drop a nuclear bomb on us. there is too much political bull shit out there and everyone just wants peace and rightousness at the expense of the US.

Mr Norway..: 30th Aug 2005 - 19:02 GMT

I think the few people who have read my artical, is missing the point of what im writing and what i mean. My country,Norway has an very strange way of politic... We don't agree with the USA going into battle with Iraq. And when terrorist is seeking protection from prosecuting in other countrys like USA,UK, and so on.. they hide themselves in Norway because they know that Norwegian goverment will protect them. If Norway knows (for an example) that USA will execute terrorists, they will protect this people because Norway is against this kinds of punishments..(haven't you read about Mullar Krekar, well known terrorist of taliban hiding in Norway?) The picture shown abow this page, is a picture taken by norwegian newspaper, in a lockal moskee in Norway. I read an artical about them, and wanted to share this with you whats going on in my country.. I know what USA do in this war.. is on the CNN very often.. Many countrys all over europe is against this war.. It's a new Vietnam war!! a war you can't win.... If USA are not careful, you might get hit by terrorist again... This terrorist..this animals.. have nothing too loose, only USA have lot to loose! I have nothing against USA... but sometimes it seems to me that USA injoys to play WORLD COP to much...

Peter: 31st Aug 2005 - 13:30 GMT

the funny part is that most americans dont agree with the usa going to battle with iraq either. perhaps thats why im not getting your point... i agree that america plays "world cop" to a fault, and i agree that that is wrong. most americans do, at least the ones i know. you seem to not be realizing that what our politicians say doesnt necessarily reflect what the whole population thinks. bush has a TERRIBLE approval rating... showing that a minority of our country thinks hes doing a good job.

you also should realize that america isnt homogenous. in nyc, where i live for example, thigns are very liberal, openminded, fair and socialist-leaning, generally. alot like norway, if you will...

mcpherson: 14th May 2008 - 10:25 GMT

i feel very uncomfortable why peoples are treating human beings like animals..every has to has his/her liberty .

carrie: 22nd May 2008 - 15:00 GMT

while i do agree that our nixon-era bred conservative government does employ a 'world cop' approach in their international relations, and also recognize the dangerously slippery slope this entails, i can't stomach yet another accusatory slam on "you americans" that lumps ME (a politically active leftist new yorker, born and raised by two liberal and politically aware individuals, etc) into the same category with THEM.

and yes, at this point in our history, an easily measurable majority do consider "them" to be a damaging, self-serving, and almost demented handful of government officials who can not be said to lead (as they DO NOT have the mandate of the people for their actions!!) but can more accurately be said to abuse the power they have managed to procure. literally everyone i know (former conservatives included...as no one i have contact with continues to support the bush regime) counts the days until we can elect into office a new era of intelligent, compassionate, forward-thinking government.

it may take generations to undo the damage that has already been done, but we are committed to that struggle. i only hope that the rest of the world will support us in our efforts instead of continuing to bait us with flippant references to "you americans" that entirely gloss over the complexities and deeply felt pain of our current situation.

Franny Wentzel: 8th Aug 2009 - 05:08 GMT

Ask some of the survivors of genocide from Darfur or Rwanda or Cambodia or a million other places around the world if they would've objected to 'American cops' walking the beat in their baileywick.

The truth is that much of the world was, is and always will be a cussed brutalitarian wasteland of dehumanising brutality with or without the presence of Americans - ask any of the Norwegian 'lebensborn' children about the torment your government put them through after the war - but even the most heinous of crimes against humanity are only wrong if 'the Americans' have even tangiential involvement... even more so if the American is a member of the Republican party. Democratic Party members get a free pass.

Never mind that the 'Democrats' were the party of Eugenics, slavery, Jim Crow, The Ku Klux Klan (their terrorist wing), Federally mandated segregation - the esteemed President Wilson was one of the most brutal segregationists - that in the 1930s ruthlessly divided cities like New York on strict color lines and continued the crime after the war by refusing to allow GI bill loans to integrated housing developements...

But I digress...

Franny Wentzel: 8th Aug 2009 - 14:37 GMT

If America was the true threat everyone has built their entire philosophy of life upon people would do what they always do when faced with absolute evil. Kowtow grovel and cower, or go so deep in denial of the threat you'd think they were Egyptians. They'd teach their children it's racist to think America is a treat and would instead make up a problem... like global warming rather than face up to an evil that had no qualms about wiping them off the face of the earth.