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Maria Amelie went public last year with a book about being a paperless, illegal immigrant. Last night she was arrested, and now she is to be deported to Russia. She has not been in Northern Ossetia since her parents fled with her when she was twelve.
She, who has managed to get a master's degree without a single form of public identification, has to go, while certain radical terrormongers (who happen to face death sentences in their home countries) get to stay. And get protection from the police. Oh, and it took 8 big policemen to arrest her, at a speech at the Nansen school, and they strip searched her.
My country is also responsible for abandoning a woman (Kari Ann Volden) and her babies in India for the crime of not understanding the ramifications of her having surrogate babies with eggs that were not her own. India will not recognize the resulting twins, Norway will not recognize the twins as hers as there is no genetic connection, and of course it is perfectly fair to the woman and the babies to make an example out of them, in the name of the law.
We should all be politicians, as they apparently are Special and laws should not apply to them, especially if they feel entitled to get retirement payments and still work extensively on the side. I recall one of them saying he felt his double payment was justified as he would have to change his lifestyle if he were to only live off of his pension. How many other retired people would love to say that kind of stuff and get away with it?
Electricity from water is something we make all year round, export to other countries in summer, and then pay VERY dearly for in winter as there is not enough water in the magazines. People should save electricity, you know, and it is therefore right and just to let the market take care of itself. But even though we end up importing electricity from coal mines abroad, there is no way on earth we could actually start using the two gas power plants that have been built, because OMG that would generate pollution here instead of elsewhere!
Oh, and with a government that interprets everything as a reason to raise taxes and fees, and seems to particularly regard anything pertaining to climate change as something only manageable with adding a new tax or ten, is there any wonder this country is burgeoning with climate skeptics?
Norway might be considered one of the better countries to live in, if regarded with some arbitrary statistics, but this is no more an utopia than any other place in the world. Far from it.
She, who has managed to get a master's degree without a single form of public identification, has to go, while certain radical terrormongers (who happen to face death sentences in their home countries) get to stay. And get protection from the police. Oh, and it took 8 big policemen to arrest her, at a speech at the Nansen school, and they strip searched her.
My country is also responsible for abandoning a woman (Kari Ann Volden) and her babies in India for the crime of not understanding the ramifications of her having surrogate babies with eggs that were not her own. India will not recognize the resulting twins, Norway will not recognize the twins as hers as there is no genetic connection, and of course it is perfectly fair to the woman and the babies to make an example out of them, in the name of the law.
We should all be politicians, as they apparently are Special and laws should not apply to them, especially if they feel entitled to get retirement payments and still work extensively on the side. I recall one of them saying he felt his double payment was justified as he would have to change his lifestyle if he were to only live off of his pension. How many other retired people would love to say that kind of stuff and get away with it?
Electricity from water is something we make all year round, export to other countries in summer, and then pay VERY dearly for in winter as there is not enough water in the magazines. People should save electricity, you know, and it is therefore right and just to let the market take care of itself. But even though we end up importing electricity from coal mines abroad, there is no way on earth we could actually start using the two gas power plants that have been built, because OMG that would generate pollution here instead of elsewhere!
Oh, and with a government that interprets everything as a reason to raise taxes and fees, and seems to particularly regard anything pertaining to climate change as something only manageable with adding a new tax or ten, is there any wonder this country is burgeoning with climate skeptics?
Norway might be considered one of the better countries to live in, if regarded with some arbitrary statistics, but this is no more an utopia than any other place in the world. Far from it.
