Breaking News - Major Terrorist Attack In Oslo, Norway

[The Minsky Moment]

I think it takes a special kind of enthusiasm to butcher a bunch of children though.

The Nazi kind would suffice.  Nazis have a long and distinguished track record when it comes to butchering children.

[Slargos]

And here I'm talking more about the attack on the camp than on the government building which can always be rationalized. The camp simply cannot.

Why do you think an attack on a government building which kills people (or at least one person) can be rationalized whereas the attack on the camp which kills people cannot.

Let me rephrase myself, since anything can be rationalized.

An attack on a purely political target can be justified, even if tenuously, by the fact that it is an attack on agents of the government.

Butchering children for the shock factor can't. It's just murder.

[Slargos]

I think it takes a special kind of enthusiasm to butcher a bunch of children though.

The Nazi kind would suffice.  Nazis have a long and distinguished track record when it comes to butchering children.

So do Communists. 

[Slargos]

Police expect the death toll on the island to go higher. Judging from the pictures, in that one with the pleading kid in the the water alone it looks like a dozen corpses...

[Norgy]

They also found explosives there. Why?
Assassination attempt planned tomorrow, then Blondie gets impatient and sets everything off today? 

[Pat]

I think it takes a special kind of enthusiasm to butcher a bunch of children though.

The Nazi kind would suffice.  Nazis have a long and distinguished track record when it comes to butchering children.

So do Communists. 

That's your bet on this one? I don't even need to say you're stupid, it's already evident to everyone.

[Slargos]

They also found explosives there. Why?
Assassination attempt planned tomorrow, then Blondie gets impatient and sets everything off today? 

It seems like such an elaborate plot to be able to pull off alone.

[Admiral Yi]

They also found explosives there. Why?
Assassination attempt planned tomorrow, then Blondie gets impatient and sets everything off today? 

You're hooked into the Norwegian blond community.  What inside scoop can you provide us?

[Slargos]

I think it takes a special kind of enthusiasm to butcher a bunch of children though.

The Nazi kind would suffice.  Nazis have a long and distinguished track record when it comes to butchering children.

So do Communists. 

That's your bet on this one? I don't even need to say you're stupid, it's already evident to everyone.

Yes. My bet is actually Communist Martians attempting to destabilize the Norwegian government.

[Slargos]

They also found explosives there. Why?
Assassination attempt planned tomorrow, then Blondie gets impatient and sets everything off today? 

You're hooked into the Norwegian blond community.  What inside scoop can you provide us?

[PDH]

I'm going to hazard a guess that when all is said and done there's a chick involved.

Pussy terrorism is the worst kind.

[Norgy]

You're hooked into the Norwegian blond community.  What inside scoop can you provide us?

I've heard mutterings about how the anti-blond policies of this government could have "serious consequences", but I always imagined we'd have to dye our hair.

[crazy canuck]

An attack on a purely political target can be justified, even if tenuously, by the fact that it is an attack on agents of the government.

Butchering children for the shock factor can't. It's just murder.

How old would a person have to be before an attack on them could be justified?

[derspiess]

"And, it could be that it's by no means a right-winger, but a more Baader-Meinhof type leftist who thinks the Labour Party is a tool of bourgeoisie oppression. I know some of those."

Single example of something similar to this for the reasons you describe?

Brigado Rosso. Baader-Meinhof. Carlos the Jackal. Granted, that's thirty odd years ago, and it looks more and more like this was a right-winger. The apparent close-range murder of at least ten youths indicate that the man in question had very personal issues with the Labour Party.

Or maybe he's just a wacko without any coherent political ideology, like the Arizona shooter.  That would surely disappoint those already certain that it's a right-winger.

[Slargos]

An attack on a purely political target can be justified, even if tenuously, by the fact that it is an attack on agents of the government.

Butchering children for the shock factor can't. It's just murder.

How old would a person have to be before an attack on them could be justified?

I don't know. How old would a person have to be before it's justified to drop a bomb on their wedding party?