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The West’s War on Dissent
The American Spectator ^ | June 10, 2022, 10:58 PM | BRUCE BAWER

Posted on 06/11/2022 2:40:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

very year, the Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, or PST) issues a National Threat Assessment report. Its objective is to identify what kinds of individuals or groups, either domestic or foreign, are likely to commit acts of terrorism in Norway in the year to come. Since I live in Norway and care about this question, I try to keep up with these annual documents. Granted, they tend to be rather exasperating — leaving the absurd impression, for example, that neo-Nazism is as prevalent as jihadist Islam. But this year’s report, published on February 11, proved even more vexing than usual. “Over the past year,” it reads, “PST has registered growing activity among individuals who advocate anti-government ideas.”

Yes, “anti-government ideas.” To be sure, the term “anti-government” (anti-statlig) isn’t entirely new to PST reports. It has cropped up previously in two of them — eight times in 2018, thrice last year — but in both cases it appeared in the context of statements that “anti-government” individuals were unlikely to constitute a security threat. This year, however, the word “anti-government” can be found no fewer than twenty-two times, and the passages in which it occurs express serious concern about the danger of “anti-government convictions” (anti-statlige overbevisninger), “anti-government thoughts” (anti-statlig tankegods), “anti-government ideas” (anti-statlige ideer), “anti-government sympathizers” (anti-statlige sympatisører), “anti-government currents” (anti-stalige strømninger), “anti-government perceptions” (anti-statlige oppfatninger), and “anti-government propaganda” (anti-statlig propaganda). The point: Norwegians who dare to disagree with the positions held by their nation’s ruling parties are potentially dangerous.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: antigovernment; dissent; freespeech; norway; tyranny; wot

1 posted on 06/11/2022 2:40:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unless you are a good obedient and compliant sheep they will now classify you as a potential threat.


2 posted on 06/11/2022 2:45:53 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.


3 posted on 06/11/2022 2:57:26 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From the land of Vidkun Quisling.


4 posted on 06/11/2022 3:04:04 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The greatest threat to the plantation comes from slaves who question the business model.


5 posted on 06/11/2022 3:17:23 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Would critics of the Trump administration be labeled “anti-government”? Would left-wing critics of the police, or of ICE, or of the judicial system, be labeled “anti-government”? Would anarchists? Somehow, I doubt it. But proponents of our federal system of separation of powers, limited federal powers, and states’ right probably WOULD be labeled “anti-government.”


6 posted on 06/11/2022 3:33:17 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...anti-government ideas..."

That encompasses speaking out agains the Five Year Plan, I'm sure.

7 posted on 06/11/2022 3:34:23 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Every thinking person is anti-government on some issue.

Extreme Leftists, Antifa and BLM are hardly pro-government.
Even though Biden is sympathizing with them, it will never, ever be enough for fanatics.

8 posted on 06/11/2022 3:35:17 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: stinkerpot65

Yes. We have to make sure not to let them pare down our numbers. If we can resist this, the outcome should be a lot different than in the ‘40s.


9 posted on 06/11/2022 3:39:33 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: stinkerpot65

So you now have Democrat politicians saying the Republican Party needs to be cleansed, they are racists, deplorable, the most extreme in modern history.

That conservative justices won’t know “what hit” them.

That whites must come to terms with their whiteness, any black or Hispanic who is conservative is guilty of “white supremacy”.

That Antifa and BLM rioters are bailed out by politicians while people accused of trespassing on January 6th and parents at school board meetings are either held without trial for almost two years or are branded potential terrorists.

If this goes on much longer there is the inevitable result:

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives/

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-socialist-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives-part-2/

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-socialist-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives-part-3/

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-socialist-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives-part-4/

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-socialist-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives-part-5/

https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-socialist-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives-part-6/


10 posted on 06/11/2022 3:54:23 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

And cowardly Republicans say nothing.


11 posted on 06/12/2022 3:37:47 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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