Vigrid acquittal overturned
Vigrid leader Tore Tvedt. Photo: Torgensen. Hans o.Norway's Supreme Court on Friday overturned the acquittal of neo-Nazi group Vigrid's (in Norwegian) leader Tore Tvedt.
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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Tvedt can be convicted for his anti-Semitic remarks in an interview with newspaper VG in the summer of 2003.
The Vigrid leader told VG, among other things, that "we want to take power in society, cleanse out the Jews and send the immigrants out of the country".
Earlier this year Tvedt was acquitted by the Court of Appeals, which ruled that the remarks were extremely derogatory and insulting but that freedom of speech carried more weight, and that the remarks were not insulting enough to be covered by 'paragraph 135', Norway's anti-racism law.
The new ruling makes Tvedt eligible for punishment and will open the way for new trials.
The Supreme Court ruled that although freedom of speech must have wide parameters, "there is a limit to grave insults that can be tolerated in public, by society".
"It must be taken into consideration that Tvedt here does not only express his own opinions, but appears as leader and spokesman for an active organization composed of young people preparing themselves for the 'war' he describes. This makes the statements more threatening and frightening than if he was speaking exclusively on his own behalf," the Supreme Court ruled.
The ruling also compared Tvedt's remarks to those of the leader of neo-Nazi group Boot Boys, who was acquitted in 2002 in a similar case, on the grounds that his insults were so stereotyped as to be without content. Tvedt's remarks were considered to be concrete threats.
Karianne Larsen
Aftenposten English Web Desk
Jonathan Tisdall
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Contradictory Hate
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Around after 9/11/2001 and on, on AOL Messageboards, a certain AOL user posted obsessively against Jews.
She quoted a lot of pseudo material written by infamous Holocaust denier (completely denied it at least since 1972) Issa Nakhleh who worked with neo Nazis for decades [she appeared from ME, linked to his promoters, group].
She repeated, constantly 911 conspiracy theories.
When she repeated tropes used by Nazis, blatant ignorant about Judaism and recycling misconception, as she was being proven wrong, she never debated, she just went to another trope. And again. Next round. On a daily basis.
For example, she repeated every other day the words 'Kol Nidrei,' as if it's something "bad." (The prayer, by the way, that Jews state between God and themselves, it is not connected to between fellow men issues). When she was proven wrong, she was already 'at' the next canard. (The same goes to ignorance and malicious based misinterpreting some phrase in Talmud).
One day she pretended to be a "concerned Christian" avenging the blood of Jesus and blaming "da Jooz", the other day, the complete contradiction, promoting the anti-Semite's beloved Khazar myth about some part of some of Ashkenazi Jews.
[...]
A typical post by her went also something like this:
'Jews don't belong here ... they should all go to Palestine... oh, wait, they can't go there either. No place for them. They don't belong anywhere. LOL.'
[...]
After spamming for months, taunting a Holocaust survivor and hurting any Jews, denying there was a Holocaust, she posted against a Holocaust survivor under username Hafar10.... [and digits which I removed to conceal identify] (along the lines):
"Dr. Mengele, paging Hafar, paging Hafar to barrack 10.."
Just to taunt the poor guy.'
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