Wise Norwegian man Raymond Johansen wrote:Tim Phillips, lobbyist and chairman of Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is in Europe and Oslo to endorse and teach the Norwegian right wing party (Fremskrittspartiet) how to organize so-called grassroots campaigns. But the grass root campaigns such as those the Tea Party Movement and AFP holds aren't bottom-up crowds, but pure lobbying campaigns financed by billionaires with a clear political agenda.

When the financial crisis was a fact Mr. Phillips and AFP among others funded and organized campaigns to spread disinformation, fear and hatred. Crowds called the American president a Marxist to fight against government intervention to counteract the financial crisis. To the contrary Newsweek interviewed our Party Leader and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg this week about the financial rescue that really worked.

The campaigns have also traveled the country with a bloody hand logo to deny poor Americans the right to health insurance, and launched the "Hot Air Tour" to claim that the climate crisis is conspiracy and carbon cap and trade is the expressway to national bankruptcy. These so-called grass root movements and Mr. Phillip's salary is for the most part paid by the oil and gas company Koch Industries. This week he shared the podium with Party Leader of the right wing party Ms. Siv Jensen, called Scandinavia's Margaret Thatcher by her own International Secretary. Next week he shares the stage with non other then the Tea Party queen herself, Sarah Palin, to fight their common goal of tax cuts and limited government.

Until now we in Europe have watched this absurd political theatre from afar, but now I truly worry that the right wing party will learn from these extremely reactionary forces and adapt the same strategies, in Norway and Europe. It represents a form of campaigning that the Norwegian Labour Party fears. I am truly afraid that our society will not be recognizable in 20 years if the right wing party comes to power, with the help of a speculative American lobbyist - far away from the real grass root.

I ask you American progressives and people from the real grass root movements. How can we disclose and prevent these pure lobbying campaigns financed by billionaire's political influence? Please tip me on Twitter or Facebook.

Raymond Johansen, Party Secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party, which is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government, with Jens Stoltenberg as the current Prime Minister of Norway. The Labour Party has been the central actor in building the Norwegian Welfare State after the Norwegian Model post World War Two.

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Stu Kreisman, Emmy award winning writer-producer and author, wrote:

Sarah Palin's Flying Circus

Well, the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings came and went without the promised chaos and show of force that was promised by the right-wingers. However, there was a troubling undercurrent of violence, threats, ignorance and hatred that seeped onto the airwaves, enough to make one fear for the safety of innocent Americans at the hands of Fox News and Republican manufactured domestic terrorists.

To celebrate their new national holiday the usual gang of idiots, the parade of racists, kooks, religious zealots and totally misinformed nincompoops rushed in front of the cameras to promote their irrational hatred of President Obama.

Red Square wrote:Raymond Johansen, Party Secretary of the Labour Party of Norway, published this denunciation of American Tea Parties and a cry for help in preventing same occurring in Europe.

Tea Party Fear in Europe (HuffPost)



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These people are in charge of Nobel Peace Prizes. This clarifies the reasoning behind all the glorious selections in recent years.

Norwegian Knucklehead wrote:I ask you American progressives and people from the real grass root movements. How can we disclose and prevent these pure lobbying campaigns financed by billionaire's political influence? Please tip me on Twitter or Facebook.

Zorroli2 wrote:Consider now, how it is to live in this crazy country (Norway!) where every minute little detail is controlled by the state, even though it is none of the state's business... Raymond Johansen is also a potential next prime minister, alongside a new candidate Industrial Secretary Trond Giske, who has only one agenda: Trond Giske...