[OT]Swedish foreign minister attacked and stabbed

[green slime]

There's plenty of news forums out there. Crossing over our hobby with the unpleasant events of today's world is not due this forum or it's readers. Also, in respect for all of us, hateful comments to anyone's home country, is also not deserved.

jh

And yet somehow the more than 200 such similar OT threads over the last three years never invoked such ire.

Living in Sweden I can assure you that this indeed is a sad day for Sweden, no matter what party affliliation.

Colin Powell is quoted as saying that his three favourite things with Sweden were Abba, Volvo, and Anna Lindh. She replied: "Why am I only in third place?"

 

[med stud]

It is really a sad day.

The fact that Anna Lindh was a good minister who was respected by a lot of foreign statesmen is second to the fact that she was only 46 years old and had a husband and to small children. My heart goes out to those children, who have to live through the hell of losing a mother right now.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Colin Powell is quoted as saying that his three favourite things with Sweden were Abba, Volvo, and Anna Lindh. She replied: "Why am I only in third place?"

A politician with an actuall sense of humor...a true loss.

 

[LcKedovan]

Oh no. She just died.

Oh No!

This isn't the first tragic thing to happen to a public figure in Sweden. Wasn't someone assassinated as well not so long ago and it is still unsolved? I fear for the reprecussions these attacks will have on Sweden's "freedoms" where their public figures walk freely unhindered amongst the public (called jantelagen I think).

-W.

 

[WayneLigon]

It sounds like she was a wonderful person, and someone who will be sorely missed on both sides of the Atlantic. I need to call a friend of mine; she lived in Sweden for several years teaching English.

I can only hope they catch the person who did this.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Oh No!

This isn't the first tragic thing to happen to a public figure in Sweden. Wasn't someone assassinated as well not so long ago and it is still unsolved? I fear for the reprecussions these attacks will have on Sweden's "freedoms" where their public figures walk freely unhindered amongst the public (called jantelagen I think).

-W.

The Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed in the street by a man armed with a revolver back in 1986. The murderer was never caught.

Politicians can walk around in public, yes. We say that it's due to our "open society".

"Jantelagen" could be translated into "The I-shoudn't-law". An informal (originally Danish) "law" that states that you shouldn't think that you are anything special. Nowadays we use Jante-lagen as an excuse to failure, with the message being that we've been held back by our peers. It doesn't apply here.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

More news in English:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/11/sweden.stabbing/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/11/lindh.react/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/09/11/sweden.security/index.html

 

[LcKedovan]

The Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed in the street by a man armed with a revolver back in 1986. The murderer was never caught.

Politicians can walk around in public, yes. We say that it's due to our "open society".

"Jantelagen" could be translated into "The I-shoudn't-law". An informal (originally Danish) "law" that states that you shouldn't think that you are anything special. Nowadays we use Jante-lagen as an excuse to failure, with the message being that we've been held back by our peers. It doesn't apply here.

Thanks for the clarification, I thought it was related to the fact that because of that famous people in Sweden can walk around and have normal lives without being "mobbed" by fans etc. (unlike holywood stars for example).

 

[blackshirt5]

There's plenty of news forums out there. Crossing over our hobby with the unpleasant events of today's world is not due this forum or it's readers. Also, in respect for all of us, hateful comments to anyone's home country, is also not deserved.

jh

EDIT - Deleted by Henry. Some of us are
interested in this, you obviously aren't, but these
aren't your own personal playgrounds, so you don't
get to decide what goes up and what must come down.
Don't like it, take it up with a moderator.

 

[Rel]

I'm sorry to hear about this and I hope they catch the person who did it.

Has there been any indication that this was a random act of violence and not politically motivated?