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    posted by  John Lovejoy in Germany forum 

    @ PartriK eso

    Agreed on the Norwegian security failure and your point about Breivik getting a free pass because he’s blond and blue eyed despite all the red flags he raised leading up to that.
    But the absolute dismal failure was the 1 ½ hr response time.
    No helicopter – Can’t get a helicopter
    Too many in one boat …Special Forces needed to be RESCUED by a civilian boat on their first attempt to reach the island. That's NOT Special Forces but amateur hr.

    What many are also missing is that Terrorism is not limited to Islamic extremists.
    There are plenty of other groups with an ax to grind, which you cannot identify by skin color or ethnicity.

    The emergency operators in Norway wouldn’t even take calls for help from the island in the wake of the Bombing. No calls for help reached Norwegian law-enforcement until Breivik was already shooting for ½ hr , because they either hung up on them, put them on hold or redirected them without listening to a word they where saying.

    Somehow this does not surprise me.
    Since I am in Germany I regularly notice that most cannot cope with doing two or more things at the same time or two or more things happening at the same time
    Everything seams to be linear and inflexible here making everything very slow.
    They cannot multitask and if asked come unraveled even with minor things happening concurrently.
    Explaining why there is so much waiting in line in Germany.
    I am pretty sure this what happened in Norway, not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
    I hope they learned their lesson.

    The Norwegian Police spokesman Johan Fredriksen rebuffed criticism with:
    "We can take a lot, we're professional, but we are also human beings,"

    Funny, because this is identical line, standard excuse you get in Germany every time the post offices looses your packages or people are incompetent at their job. “ We are only human beings”- Wir sind doch auch nur menschen.
    What do you say to something like that?

    Continental Europe needs to wake up to the 21st century if they plan on keeping up with the rest of the world.
    (Totally different in the UK btw)
    Beneath that tidy facade is a hug bureaucratic mess, where the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing , people work in positions in charge of others they are completely unqualified for.
    It just takes a slight rumble for their deck of cards to shake precariously.

    In closing, some of my German co workers frequently make snide remarks about how messy my or my fellow Americans desks is or about being on the phone with two people at the same time whilst talking to them.
    But we get more done in less time and more importantly are nor near as stressed out as they are if at all.
    Seriously, the slightest thing sends them into a tizzy, huffing a puffing about how difficult the job is instead of getting on and dealing with it.
    I can almost bet this is exactly what happened in Norway and why they did not take the cries for help from the island for ½ an hr.

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