In the wake of last week's massacre in Norway, U.S. conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Monday compared the summer camp where most of the 76 victims died to the Hitler Youth organization of Nazi Germany.
Beck, on his radio show, declared the killings "the work of a madman" and called the suspect "as bad as Osama bin Laden." But before launching into that condemnation, he questioned why the victims were doing at a summer camp run by Norway's ruling Labour Party.
Beck said the camp "sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."
However, politically-oriented camps are being organized in several U.S. states by chapters of the "9/12 Project" -- an organization founded by Beck himself in 2009.
The Colorado 9/12 Project hosted a "Patriot Camp" for kids in grades 1-5 earlier this month, featuring programs on "our Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the values and principles that are the cornerstones of our nation."
And in August, the Danville, Kentucky, chapter is holding a "Vacation Liberty School" that organizers pledge "will help your children understand where we came from. Understand where we went wrong. Understand where the fork in the road was, and which path we should have taken."
The suspect in Friday's Norwegian massacre is a right-wing Norwegian who police say wanted to halt what he believed as the Islamic "colonization" of the country. But while condemning the attacks, Beck said he predicted last fall that Europe "is going to go into problems with radical Islam" and cited Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders as saying "Political correctness and multiculturalism is killing Europe, and he's right."
Attempts to contact Beck's representatives were unsuccessful Monday night. Beck recently left his hour-long show on Fox News Channel, but his radio program is still heard on 400-plus stations and he recently launched a web television venture, GBTV.
Before joining Fox, Beck hosted a show on CNN's sister network HLN.
Fucking Hell, really? Really? What the fuck Beck? WHAT THE FUCK?
Beck is now in the same segment of Donald Rumsfield.
"it takes two sides to end a war but only one to start one. And those who do not have swords may still die upon them." Tolken
A white Aryan (a real one, since he's Norwegian) shoots up a school for immigrant (i.e. non-Aryan) children. But the school totally should remind you of Hitler's Youth!
*facepalm*
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It's the summer camp for AUF (Arbeidernes Ungdoms Fylkning / Workers Youth Movement). All Norwegian political parties have such camps and youth movements. Generally the conservative parties youth camps are more comfortable, and/or serve alcohol which the socialist camps usually don't.
I'm... not even sure I have the words for how fucked up this is.
I'm not sure what's worse, if he's saying it because he believes it or if he is using the deaths of dozens of young people as an opportunity to wave his arms around and go "Look at me! Look at me! I need attention!"
Personal grudge due to his actions as Security of Defense. Long story, if you really want the full chapter from the Frigid Book of Grudges you should PM.
Didn't Glen Beck himself run a youth camp? I seem to remember something like that.
From the article above
However, politically-oriented camps are being organized in several U.S. states by chapters of the "9/12 Project" -- an organization founded by Beck himself in 2009.
The Colorado 9/12 Project hosted a "Patriot Camp" for kids in grades 1-5 earlier this month, featuring programs on "our Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the values and principles that are the cornerstones of our nation."
"it takes two sides to end a war but only one to start one. And those who do not have swords may still die upon them." Tolken
A member of France's far-right National Front (FN) party was suspended after penning a defence of Norway attacker Anders Behring Breivik on his blog, the party said Tuesday.
Jacques Coutela, who stood as an FN candidate in local elections in March, "was suspended today pending a party disciplinary committee", FN general secretary Steeve Briois said, describing Coutela as a low-level party member.
On his blog, where he rails against the rise of Islam in Europe, Coutela presents Behring Breivik - the man who has claimed the twin attacks in Norway that killed 76 people - as an "icon" and "the main defender of the West".
Coutela also compares Behring Breivik to Charles Martel, the seventh century military leader who halted Islamic expansion in western Europe.
"The reason for the Norway terror attacks: fighting the Muslim invasion, that's what people don't want you to know", read the post, signed Jacques Coutela read.
Coutela took down the posting after the French Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples lodged a complaint against him for "inciting racial hatred", and on Tuesday denied having written it himself.
"I did not write those things, I found them on the internet and published them on my blog to inform people", Coutela told AFP. He did not condone terrorism, he added, "wherever it comes from, even if it comes from my ideas".
Coutela was a candidate for the controversial far-right party led by Marine Le Pen in local elections in the Yonne department in central France in March. Another FN member, Laurent Ozon, posted several unpopular tweets on microblogging site Twitter on Saturday apparently linking Friday's attacks to a rise in the number of immigrants in Norway.
Ozon told AFP he had not been suspended and that Le Pen had simply reminded him of the party line.
Though it openly opposes immigration, the FN, like other far right parties in Europe, has been quick to distance itself from Behring Breivik.
It's not that I'm unforgiving, it's that most of the people who wrong me are unrepentant assholes.
Ugh, what a horrible person. "Just found it on the internet".
But the Minx is confused:
A member of France's far-right National Front (FN) party was suspended after penning a defence of Norway attacker Anders Behring Breivik on his blog, the party said Tuesday.
Ozon told AFP he had not been suspended and that Le Pen had simply reminded him of the party line.
Anyway, if he's been suspended, then that's something at least.
But Glen Beck is still on the air. Does anyone know what his radio station is doing about it? Don Imus got booted out for saying "nappy-headed hoes" or something like that, isn't this a whole lot worse? Ugh.
