It happens gradually, bit by bit, and often faster than we realise. Almost imperceptibly, the society around us is changing beyond recognition. It follows a pattern. There is a strategy behind it. When unpopular political decisions that lack support or backing amongst the electorate are to be implemented, they use the ‘salami method’: many thin slices, a little bit at a time, so that it is barely noticeable until it is too late. In this way, the undesirable and the abnormal are gradually normalised over time, until it is too late to do anything about it.
The salami method
The poorly disguised lies, the blatant excuses and the systematic manipulation of the narrative are one thing. It is challenging, but it can be exposed. We do our best at Document. Citizens have a right to know. Informed voters are a prerequisite for democracy to function at all.
The gradual normalisation of the abnormal, and the piecemeal acclimatisation to undesirable social changes on which voters have never had the opportunity to vote, is often more subtle, concealed and harder to uncover. The changes are taking place right under our noses, but so gradually that we have become accustomed to them before we realise what has happened, and by then it is too late to reverse the processes of change that have been set in motion.
This applies to demographic change and the growth in the non-Western immigrant population, the ongoing transfer of decision-making authority and sovereignty to the EU through the EEA Agreement, the nationwide expansion of wind farms which is devastating Norwegian nature on a scale we have never seen before, the harmful energy policy with gradually rising electricity and petrol prices, the expansion of the public sector and the steady increase in all kinds of public levies.
The demographic shift
Anyone with eyes to see can tell that the unrest in France is something different and more than just school pupils demonstrating because of poor ventilation in classrooms, as NRK, VG, Nettavisen and the Norwegian media are portraying it. France is in line with the OECD average for expenditure per pupil, and far higher than the OECD average at upper secondary level and in terms of higher education.
However, France has the highest levels of non-Western immigration in Europe, and an integration policy that has fared just as poorly as in the rest of Europe. This has happened gradually and over time. The violent riots, looting and vandalism are led by non-Western immigrants alongside the far left, not by school pupils complaining about poor ventilation and a shortage of teachers.
But that is the story the commentariat would rather not tell. For it exposes how voters have been deceived by destructive immigration and integration policies, implemented by dishonest and incompetent politicians. Researchers claim that the risk of civil war in several European countries over the next five years is more than 50 per cent.
It is only a matter of time before the riots reach Norway. This will happen when the proportion of non-Western Muslims in the immigrant population reaches the same level as in France and the UK. And that won’t be long now. This is not difficult to understand if you know how to do simple percentage calculations and have a basic understanding of demographics.
The immigrant population in France has now grown to around 23 per cent of the total population. In Norway, it stands at 21.7 per cent. So we are not far behind. The proportion of non-Western immigrants is 14–16 per cent in France. In Norway, it stands at 11.7 per cent. Here, too, we are not far behind France. We have already witnessed clear, organised tendencies towards violence from non-Western immigrant communities and the far left during several recent demonstrations in Oslo.
We are approaching the tipping point in Norway too, though probably with some delay, because the political class in Norway – unlike in France and the UK, where the state coffers are empty – can grease the wheels of politics with oil money and welfare payments, thereby dampening, obscuring and delaying the biggest conflicts.
The ‘salami strategy’ in the field of immigration has been to spread immigrants out in time and space. In time: gradually over several years. In space: spread across the whole country by means of incentive schemes and transfers to local authorities. And this has been achieved through disinformation, primarily on the part of Statistics Norway. For several decades, Statistics Norway has systematically underestimated the growth in immigration, failed to report on negative issues relating to the immigrant population that ‘might appear stigmatising’, and by making immigration-related statistics confusing and difficult to access.
The ultra-liberal immigration policy, which began with a mixture of misguided humanism, postmodern lawlessness and a desire for cheap labour, is on the verge of ending in civil war. How did we get here? The people were not consulted. The answer is: the salami tactic – gradually, bit by bit and in stages, and at first almost imperceptibly!
The stealth entry into the EU
The people said no to the EU, twice. First in 1972. Then in 1994. However, the EEA Agreement was adopted by the Storting, without the voters having their say. This was in contrast to Switzerland, where the EEA Agreement was put to a referendum. It was rejected by Swiss voters in favour of an updated bilateral trade agreement with the EU, as both Switzerland and Norway had previously had. This was the first assault on popular democracy carried out in order to sneak Norway into the EU, despite the fact that the majority were opposed. In Switzerland, the rules of democracy were followed. This was not the case in Norway.
The second violation concerned the so-called dynamic element of the agreement, which meant that the EEAAgreement not only covered the internal market regulations in force when the agreement was concluded, but also all future regulations and laws in the EU relating to the internal market. 15,000 EU directives and legal acts later, we can now see just how extensive and far-reaching this has been for Norway’s right to self-determination and sovereignty.
The third infringement was a practice that the Storting allowed to develop – which was probably planned in advance – and which was later confirmed by the Supreme Court, regarding the transfer of powers by accepting individual directives or other EU legal regulations, such as the Railway Package and the ACER ruling, as ‘minor interventions’. They could thus be adopted by a simple majority in the Storting under Article 26 of the Constitution, rather than by a three-quarters majority under Article 115.
What the Storting chose to overlook, and what the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to, was the cumulative effect of the many individual decisions, each of which could be characterised as ‘minor’, but which, taken together, were clearly extremely far-reaching. The EU’s directives and legal acts were fully implemented into Norwegian legislation piecemeal, by sidelining the electorate and by the Storting obstructing itself through a legal manoeuvre. Voters were steamrollered, and legislative authority in Norway was shifted from Oslo to Brussels. We have been tricked into the EU using the salami tactic. Now we are caught in a vice and find it difficult to extricate ourselves.
Extensive use of the salami tactic
The salami tactic is constantly being used in Norwegian politics to circumvent the voters. This creates an ever-widening gap between the grassroots and the political elite. The latter, however, do not care much about this. They know that voters have short memories. They know that bread, circuses, Friday tacos and Mascorama distract voters’ attention. They know that voters, like frogs in a pot that is gradually being heated, gradually get used to the heat and do not realise what is happening until they have been boiled.
They therefore did not bother to consult the voters on immigration policy. Nor did they bother to consult them on the EEA Agreement and the backdoor entry into the EU. They are not consulted on the ‘green’ transition and the destruction of Norwegian nature by wind turbines. They were not consulted on the power cables to Germany and the UK, the export of Norwegian hydropower to the EU, or the import of EU electricity prices into Norway. They are not consulted on the continued growth of the public sector and the steady rise in public spending and fees to finance it. Nor are they consulted regarding the high taxes on petrol and diesel and the rise in fuel prices.
Wind turbines, much like immigrants, are scattered across the country, piecemeal and in fragments, so that you do not notice it until one fine, clear day when you fly from Kristiansand to Kirkenes and see the scale it has reached. And this is only the beginning.
Using the same method, households are now being lured into accepting European electricity prices, with temporary schemes such as the ‘Norwegian price’, which cushions the initial price shock, but which will gradually be reduced – first by 5 øre, then by 10 øre – before being phased out entirely. We are now paying 55 øre per kilowatt-hour for electricity that costs 12 øre to produce!
The same is happening with petrol and diesel duties. They may be temporarily capped when price rises become too steep and people react, but only for a while, until everything is forgotten and they can be raised again.
This is the salami tactic in practice. It has become an integral part of the political system, just as the parties constantly compromise on the core issues in their party manifestos and the promises they made during the election campaign, as soon as they have taken their seats in power. We are being taken for a ride, and the narrative-driven media are helping out as best they can.
The hour of reckoning is coming
The people are being kept in the dark. Democracy is being eroded. The gap between the voters and their elected representatives is growing ever wider. This leads to politics losing its legitimacy and to voters’ loyalty eroding, no matter how many Friday tacos and Mascorama programmes they consume. Ultimately, this leads to riots and civil war-like conditions, as we are now seeing in France. For the time being, this involves vandalism and looting carried out by non-Western immigrant groups and the far left, supported by a subservient police force and a narrative-driven media that covers up what is happening. Eventually, this will be met with a backlash from the ethnically native population, who will no longer put up with all the negative consequences of non-Western immigration, in addition to the ethnically native population being forced to fund immigration through ever-higher taxes.
One fine day, the deceptive use of the ‘salami tactic’ will be thoroughly exposed. The abnormal cannot be normalised indefinitely. When stabbings and violent rapes come to your own neighbourhood or to your children’s school. When they’ve set fire to your car. When they harass you on the tram. When street riots escalate into violent arson and looting raids. When the wind turbines ruin the surroundings in the village where you live. When the price of electricity forces you to chop wood, which the EU refuses to let you burn in your own stove in your own living room. When there are so many regulations and the rules have become so rigid, and public charges and fees have become so high that you can no longer afford to build or buy your own home. When electricity prices, food prices and mortgage interest rates have become so high that you have to prioritise putting food on the table and clothes on your children’s backs instead of the annual holiday to the southholiday to escape all this hell for a little while.
At some point, it all comes crashing down. There’s a limit to how long a salami sausage can be, even in oil-rich Norway.
