Anna Lindh

Swedish foreign minister, she was attacked at a mall yesterday and stabbed multiple times, she died this morning. Somwhow, the guy got away too.
 
i guess bush has many more enemies... why not him then? I dont get it. cause of the bodyguards? they can use a sniper rifle ffs!

its doing me head in.
 
she was really popular. bout 40 something?
we in holland experienced a similar thing. last year in May, this gay guy, a suddenly popular ('extravagant' in political terms) politician. He had some right-winged ideas, but he was quite social and and liberal at the same time. loads of people regarded him as a threat for stability in Holland, tho at the same time, many others voted for him in the elections. but that latter thing was basically becos he got killed like 3 weeks before. shot on the media area in the center of Holland. in my city of residence, there was even (ridiculously) a statue erected for what 'he did'. which was basically just shouting, cos he hadnt had a chance to practice what he preached.
 
i don't care that Anna Lindh, a mother of two, died at the hand of some madman, even though television is doing it's best to make me feel bad. thousands die every day. it's the political consequences that we should be worried about.

i wouldn't want this to snowball in some way to affect the freedom in our society, or to be precise: my freedom. but i don't see how it could, so..
 
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intet said:
i don't care that Anna Lindh, a mother of two, died at the hand of some madman, even though television is doing it's best to make me feel bad.

i wonder how you'd feel if you'd been her husband like, or anyone's husband in general. with or without kids. i just get pissed off by these kinda attitudes "too far from my bed" things... even if it's next door.

thousands die every day. it's the political consequences that we should be worried about. i wouldn't want this to snowball in some way to affect the freedom in our society, or to be precise: my freedom. but i don't see how it could, so..

political consequenses my arse. do something about it yourself, instead of awaiting the political consequenses, cos it's already too fucking much outta control. cos this crap is inside all of us. nothing political, peeps are that way; i see it as a form of social laziness.

sure, i realise that i cant do much for this 7-kid mother sufferig aids in fucking zulu-land, but i do also want my freedom to be respected and cherished. that way i can be of some value to her some day, (in)directly. tho everyone needs attention, especially ppl like in Zulu-land, i cant give anything if i'm forced to struggle as well (which i dont need to btw). in that perspective, i too dont want my freedom to be affected.

but if you even dont care about next door, what is your freedom worth anyway?
 
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The consequences of politicians being killed are horrid beyond belief, somehow it seemed more understandable (not acceptable) with Pim Furtuyn, since he was such a populistic man playing on the worst parts of man (fear of strangers, selfishness etc.) to gain popularity.

This was in every way a sympathetic woman, I admit the fact that I agree with most of her politics, but that is not central in my condemnation of this. If you want the human facts, she had 2 sons (9 and 12) and a husband and always insisted on taking the train instead of her minister car.

As a Dane I even remember how the murder of Palme affected my parents. This is just a horrid deja.vu. When a politician, who in every way follows the rules of democracy and in addition to that always keeps her arguments and methods fair and real, is killed, it is hard to keep faith in the principles of democracy, even the nature of man.

And everything just gets me pissed in relation to this. Swedish television saying how popular she was with the people, so popular you have to inform the people that it was so? The cheesy background music, what's the need? The serene look of the presenter, don't know quite how I would like her to look but it bothered me. My in every way dispicable minister of state standing forward to express his condolences. That thought this isn't really that tragic when compared to the unspeakable truths, but it's so near.

Spare me of cynicism today.