I don’t know anyone who has a good idea of what Norwegian politicians are actually doing at the moment. We can describe the symptoms, such as them joining the EU against the will of the people using the salami method, or dismantling the Norwegian Armed Forces and going to war with Russia, or throwing our oil wealth out of the window on nonsense and neglecting fundamental maintenance tasks.
The list of politician-inflicted damage is endless, but we have become so used to this that we no longer react. Nevertheless, many raised their heads when our elected representatives attempted something akin to a coup d’état on 23 April this year, using amendments to the Civil Protection Act.</p
The coup attempt was well-organised, because the media allowed them to prepare quietly for a whole year without reacting. The subsidised media, led by the state broadcaster, kept their mouths shut until the story “went viral” on Facebook at the 12th hour. Only then did Fredrik Solvang appear on the screen.
I have registered three hypotheses for what may have happened to our political class:
1) Either for some reason it’s worked for them, or
2) the selection mechanism of national politicians is such that we recruit ignorant mediocrities who, by virtue of sheer incompetence, are driving our country into the ditch, or
3) they are part of an international movement that seeks to impose a world dictatorship where it is first necessary to lay nation states in ruins.
The Net Zero movement supports Option 1, because without diesel, agriculture and fisheries will be unable to function, resulting in poverty, hunger and billions of deaths.
But surely no-one can be that mad? Sure they can, because the EU supports the initiative and because Maurice Strong (organiser and secretary general of the Rio conference) said that “the collapse of industrialised civilisation may be the only way to save the world”. Klaus Schwab says the goal is that we will no longer own anything, and in order to achieve this, they must necessarily take away what little we have, and they are already in the process of doing this. So, yeah, they mean business.
However, they know we won’t agree to this voluntarily, so they’ve smuggled us into the EU by the back door, which means the nation state of Norway has already been euthanised. That’s why today we have three foreign ministers but no prime minister. The coup attempt was just the last piece of the puzzle to be put in place. The fact that they failed doesn’t mean much, because they boldly announce that they will try again.
Presumably, they will do so by passing a piece of legislation that is so spacious that it will pass an alarmed press corps, but at the same time spacious enough to allow them to throw the parliament and the courts out the window when they think it is necessary. Then they let the matter be forgotten, then they declare some kind of crisis, probably by hyping up a new cold virus. Next, Fredrik Solvang will receive a text message telling him to join the Civil Defence as a window cleaner, and the debate is over.
What bothers me is that we have no legal means of protecting ourselves against our own politicians when they stab us in the back, so why not a new law that protects us against this?
They can’t be eliminated at the ballot box, because they work together in coalitions, so the policy is more or less the same regardless of which parties we vote for.
In addition, they deceive us by going to the polls on one set of conditions, only to govern according to a completely different set. Nor is it any use trying to reason with them, because they neither listen nor know much.
So, if we are to follow the law, we have no way of getting rid of such a regime, because they have also ensured that, unlike us, they are exempt from criminal liability. How they have managed this, I do not know, but such manoeuvres have no place in a civilised society, and their actions should therefore have been investigated and the guilty held accountable.
So what happens when our politicians stab us in the back? Nothing yet, but they’re playing a high-stakes game, because they risk a revolt. It won’t start in Norway, because our press censorship is currently far too effective, but in Germany, England or France. Eventually it will spread to Norway, and then it won’t help that Dagsrevyen calls the rebels “right-wing extremist racists”.
By then it will be too late.
Dr.philos. Jon Gulbrandsen is a retired biologist who has worked for Akvaforsk and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).