Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg has vowed not to let the terrorist attacks on his country be used as an excuse for taking away fundamental freedoms. He’s treating the attacks as a policing matter (a crime), not as a military matter (that is, something requiring a “war on terror” with concomitant war-footing). He acknowledges that his country will be changed by the attacks, but he’s hopes it will be “more open, a more tolerant society than what we had before.” My goodness, what I would have given to hear those words sometime in the autumn of 2001.
Norway’s Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society
(via Reddit)