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harborshoreAt least 7 dead in the city center of Oslo and at least 9 dead in the shooting at the Labor Party Youth Camp at Utoya Island (outside Oslo). The death toll is expected to rise, particularly for the island. Where young people were meeting because they wanted to change the way their country works. It was, in fact, an attack on democracy. That in itself hurts, but it doesn't--teenagers are dead. I don't care why, it only matters that they are. I can't. I'm in shock, I think.
A 32-year old white Caucasian male has been arrested. He did the shooting and apparently they think he had something to do with the bomb as well. So he first set the bomb, then drove out of the city and went to the island.
God, everything feels numb. I can't. This isn't. Fuck. Everyone I know is safe and accounted for, but oh. God.
ETA: According to the police, he belongs to a right-wing extremist group. I don't even know what to say about that, except, no, I do, because we have a party who likes to talk about the disintegration of Swedish values due to immigration, and who claim all Muslims are equally extremist (one of them tweeted "finally!" when the failed terror attack in Stockholm happened, because it was proof they were right, you see). Tell me, dear Sweden Democrats, tell me what kind of values this man represents? Tell me, how Norwegian do you think he is? Extremists are extremists. And fuck you.
ETA 2: 84 confirmed dead at the island. 84. That's 84 teenagers and people in their early 20's.
A 32-year old white Caucasian male has been arrested. He did the shooting and apparently they think he had something to do with the bomb as well. So he first set the bomb, then drove out of the city and went to the island.
God, everything feels numb. I can't. This isn't. Fuck. Everyone I know is safe and accounted for, but oh. God.
ETA: According to the police, he belongs to a right-wing extremist group. I don't even know what to say about that, except, no, I do, because we have a party who likes to talk about the disintegration of Swedish values due to immigration, and who claim all Muslims are equally extremist (one of them tweeted "finally!" when the failed terror attack in Stockholm happened, because it was proof they were right, you see). Tell me, dear Sweden Democrats, tell me what kind of values this man represents? Tell me, how Norwegian do you think he is? Extremists are extremists. And fuck you.
ETA 2: 84 confirmed dead at the island. 84. That's 84 teenagers and people in their early 20's.
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