Osama...

So then; Osama Bin Laden has finally been killed...Or so we're told anyway.
The Freddy Kreuger of the Western world since 9/11, has been used to legitimate wars, suppression and violation of human rights in a big way.

It might seem strange to start with such a political case, in a non-political blog.
It might not be so strange after all though.

As the free thought and the free mind is what I want to encourage, it might be fitting to start with what is possibly the biggest lie ever sold to the masses in the western world; namely 9/11...

So, let's start by having a short look at how and why Osama 'Freddy Kreuger' Bin Laden became what he became...:

After being useful for the US in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation, Osama Bin Laden, like so many others the US supported with weapons, found other 'wars' to fight.

The sheer stupidity of the US by supporting the person who became the symbol of evil from their perspective, is very likely down to a mentality of 'shoot first and ask questions later'. To the common man and woman, it lacks everything we entrust elected politicians to have; brains and common sense. (More on this later)

9/11; the day that changed the world.

What happened? What didn't happen? (We will revisit more details of this as we go along)

Far from being a conspiracy theory supporting forum, some questions forces themselves on:

How did a drivers-license survive temperatures that allegedly melted beams of steal?

Why has no photo of a plane hitting Pentagon been released?

How could it be that the hijackers were identified almost over night; only later to be found well and alive several of them?

How could president Bush see the first plane crash into one of the twin towers that day, when no video footage of the first plane was shown on TV until the day after?

One don't have to be into conspiracies to sense the smell of something that stinks; and that something is not the soldier hygiene of Osama Bin Laden on the run in the mountains of Afghanistan!

More on this will follow, and an accompanying blog with more in depth analysis's will also be created...

In the wake of 9/11 and the war on terror, the individual freedom has suffered.
In the US we find the Patriot Act - written well in advance before 9/11 - which makes one really wonder how much US officials knew and when they knew it. Troops were also assembled close to the borders of Afghanistan before he 9/11 tragedy...

The question to be contemplated here though, is the effect this has had on our mentality; our personal freedom, and to try and see if this fits into a larger perspective.

The biggest genocide in our history took place not in Nazi Germany, but on the American continent with the slaughter of indian tribes. The US was quite literally built on the blood of the innocent local population being very close to total wipe-out.

Since then war has been part of the US and them acting like a world police.
The country has killed some 20 million people after WW2, and is the only one to be insane enough to drop A-bombs - and on civilians to make sure the deed got even worse.

Today, with personal freedom restricted by the Patriot Act and the war on terror, one has to ask what will be the outcome for the western world.

What will be gained if protection against terror leaves us as 'prisoners' in relative peace, and our individual freedom getting more and more restricted?

Isn't the extremist Islamic threat and the suppression of human rights just what Norwegian soldiers are risking their lives for in Afghanistan?

Does the war on terror make us accept restrictions on our freedom without asking questions, and is the thought that it might not be about terror, but about oil and power, seemingly too far fetched for us to think the unthinkable could be happening before our very eyes?

The unthinkable being giving up many of our human rights to extreme right wing and left wing politics and a philosophy of control of the individual and total loss of freedom...

To bring this up in a country like Norway, is a 'no that you cannot do'. The protests of the 68'ers is long gone, and being well-fed with diabetes sky-rocketing our lives have simply become too easy in many ways.

To most people bringing in a a paycheck and spending a life-time paying on a house to live in and a car or two to drive, has become something we accept as normal and a right, and even a good way to do things; as it does ensure - for most of us - an incredible high standard of living measured in material goods.

Norway has now been in war in Afghanistan since 2001'.
Home in Norway there is no ay to tell that we live in a country at war...and that is probably why we so easily has accepted this.

We seem to buy whatever 'product' we're presented with, even those which takes us down 'roads' not so easily seen on a 'map' so we don't know what we've signed up for; nor how to get off these 'roads', and we do not even ask what this does to our spirit and mind.

Should we?

If we don't...why?