more from Oslo: background to the massacre

Another email from Mike Seltzer in Oslo, this time with background information on 'Fjordman', the Islamophobic blogger Breivik so admired. There's more on Fjordman here and here; Mike's perspective (slightly edited) is below:

More supporting evidence for putting Breivik and his clones into a class perspective.

His ideological mentor, Fjordman, cited 111 times in the manifesto, was forced out from under his rock by police yesterday since he and Breivik had communicated via email.

Then his name was leaked (Oslo police and the tabloids work hand in hand) and this morning he is revealed in an interview forced I am sure on him by one of the tabloids.

Here is the short English version of the interview:

I have already checked on his family background. His father ran a record and "hippie" shop in Ålesund and then turned into a concert arranger for jazz and rock concerts.

The interesting thing class wise about this chap is that his only jobs (2) have been at municipal day centers for psychiatric patients which basically means low paid aide job, mopping up, etc.But in Norway, these are the kinds of jobs that, since the 1970s, immigrants from the Third World take (ie, the kind of jobs Norwegians don't want, is what is commonly heard).My ex-brother in law, a plumber, was very skeptical about immigration from third world, until he got burned and ended up in hospital here for about a month: nearly all his contacts with staff were from the Third World and he came out a confirmed anti-racist.

It's also interesting that this chap apparently has no girl friend and basically works at this low paid job and then goes home and takes on his Fjordman cloak and then goes after Muslims. His main argument, which he gets into nearly all blogs, is that all politicians and journalists who allow immigration – and especially Muslim immigants – are traitors and should be treated accordingly. Some of us interpret that in relation to the fact that the only executions carried out in Norway were after World War II when Quisling and some of his key helpers were shot for treason.

Twenty minutes after the bomb went off, this chap was on the net happily proclaiming that the Labour government got what was coming to them: he hoped that they were in the government building that was destroyed.