LEADER: Problems inside the Right

For the criticism has been massive against the Conservative and FRP government refusing to accept Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for fear of "offending" the Communist Party in Beijing – or "China" and the "Chinese" as Norwegian politicians and media as a rule call it. As if most people in China are represented by this murderous regime, which not only executes and arrests most of the opposition and non-criminals in the world now. These so-called communists are thus responsible for millions of deaths from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution from 1958 to 1976, via the Tiananmen Square massacre of students on June 4, 1989 to the current brutal, capitalist regime.

And these communists are what Solberg would rather cooperate with and meet than a nonviolent peace prize winner. This is actually not as surprising and paradoxical as most people now want it to be. Solberg only shows the true face of the party. That's the money they want. Although they are dishonestly served by cooperating with more or less totalitarian regimes such as in Saudi Arabia, China or Iran.

We have heard and seen this before: That is, human rights are only something you support when you have something to gain from it. No wonder the Right on Tuesday this week would only vote on some of the human rights in the new Constitution: The party gives priority to the simple and non-binding rules on freedom of expression and Norwegian children's rights, but excludes social and human rights for the (asylum-seeking) children in Norway that may need it most.

Worse, it's foreign. There, the old shipowner party Høyre not only has its pigs in the forest. Rather, they have a forest by its wide swine path. And as one nests, so is one.

Then we need not mention how today's government uncritically paid tribute to Israeli President Shimon Peres this week, without considering what he is responsible for. Or how Solberg passively supports Statoil's and Telenor's financial visit next week in St. Petersburg, where the current warlifter and former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is likely to emerge. Unless otherwise followed by the Solberg government's uncritical Sochi Olympics visit:

It wasn't skiing and snow they were interested in, or opposition and workers' living conditions, but Putin's oil and gas. The thirst is so great that one cannot stop himself by warnings from the president of the United States, nor by the respect one should show to the dead from the ongoing mini-civil war in Ukraine.

We have seen the same thing before: Not only that the Right, and the now-so-celebrated Kåre Willoch, in the 1970s and 1980s were the foremost to support the apartheid regime in South Africa. In practice, they arranged for Norwegian shipowners to sail oil and raw materials to the murderous racist dictatorship. Boycott to help incarcerated Nelson Mandela? Phew, no, it was just naivism to think that the white minority government could ever lose power. The blacks, after all, were not "clear enough" (read: "skilled") to govern themselves. Then both the Botha regime was supported.

And it is not necessary to mention what the Right people did to Ole Kopreitan and others who demonstrated against the regime on Madserud's tennis courts in the early 1960s. And you know how central people in the same party openly supported America's brutal progress in Vietnam. It is perhaps less well known that the Right in the 1980s also supported Red Khmer, when Pol Pot was still alive. The right did not like the communists in Vietnam took control in Cambodia after the massacre of Pol Pot was expelled. So Norway and the Right pushed for Red Khmer to get the UN place.

On August 15, 1984, there was an interesting interview on print at Aftenposten, where the leading Pol Pot allies visited: «The Red Khmer have not changed since Pol Pot's days, but they will never get the chance to regain power in Kampuchea alone, says Prince Norodom Sihanouk about his notorious allies in the three-party Democratic Kampuchea coalition, which he heads. "

And: "Prince Sihanouk, the 62-year-old former king, prime minister and head of state in Kampuchea, is in Norway, as he says, to thank for the political support in UN – do not ask for money.
– You can not kill Vietnamese with dollars, but you can and must kill them with rifles. You get it mainly from China.

But it is against a new vote in UN next month, and Sihanouk is the coalition's foremost PR figure. During the meeting with Foreign Minister Svenn Stray in Oslo on Monday, he was promised continued Norwegian recognition. Norway will now vote for Democratic Kampuchea to retain the UN seat, ”Aftenposten wrote.

It may seem like a paradox that the bourgeois-conservative Right are the foremost to support communists in Beijing, ex-KGB agents in Russia, Wahabist fanatics in Saudi Arabia, and allies of the Marxist mass murderer Pol Pot.

But this is rather logical. The party's previously so revered soul has been put out to tender. The highest bidder wins. Faust was apparently not interested.