There are some pitiful characters still haunting Icelandic politics. Stirring up nationalistic rhetoric, they are unable to get a grip in post-crash Iceland.
Bjorn Bjarnason, Styrmir Gunnarsson, David Oddson and Bjarni Hardarson are not the only failed ghosts of the past who want to determine Iceland’s future. Ogmundur Jonasson, the leader of the “unruly division” within the Left Greens has managed to top them all by likening the EU to Hitler and positioning Icelanders with the North American Indians who faced genocide from the white man entering their lands.
Ogmundur has so far achieved notoriety by being the staunchest anti-EU, anti-IMF, anti-Iceland paying foreign debts, anti-foreign investment, anti-government politician in the post-crash period. Even rabid demagogue Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson of the Centre Party and money-puppet Bjarni Benediktsson of the Independence Party come nowhere close and have basically stepped aside to let the madman do their biddings.
In an article in Morgunbladid (of course), Ogmundur alludes that the EU’s goals are to provide its citizens with “lebensraum“, therefore it is coveting an expansion towards Iceland. He ponders whether the destiny of the citizens of Iceland will be the same as the one of the American Indians who lost their land in exchange for glass-pearls and fire-water.
The worrying thing is that Ogmundur is granted ample time in the press for his musings.
And there are plenty of scared and confused people in Iceland who are ready to buy his rhetoric.
“Nazi EU preparing genocide in Iceland”.
Meanwhile constructive critics are drowned out in his blaring noise. One of them, Fridrik Jonsson is outraged.
Pitiful, dangerous, stupid and downright evil.
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snowball
1 year ago
- 65% of iceland is heavily eroded desert, mountain region or glacier and 2/3 of the rest is on the verge of desertification.
so if iceland is the new lebensraum for the european union then eu geo politicians must be nut-cases.
irony on
if der führer would know about ogmundurs article he would turn in his grave
irony off
Yessica
1 year ago
He who shouts the loudest…
How incredibly sad that anyone listens to this fool. Most European expats I’ve met in Iceland leave the island within 2-5 years of residence. If foreigners cannot be convinced to stay for longer than a few years (or months!), how exactly is that turning into “lebensraum”? Let’s hear old Ogmundur explain that…or no, let’s not!
Blubber
1 year ago
Godwin’s law.
Is there any hope for intelligent debate in this country?
Lino
1 year ago
see what inbreeding generates?
:):)
perhaps you should open the door to different DNA stock, since the recession (not just genetic but cultural and societal as well) involved in a very limited breeding base like Iceland’s has this kind of effects…
Sean
10 months ago
These EU scumbags are full of themselves and are so hypocritical. Such leaders such as Sarkozy and Merkel squirm and whine about how Multiculturalism has failed, but at the same time, they were the ones who bribed foreigners to work in their countries. The EU goes around and hypocritically criticises other countries for human rights violations, but Sarkozy discriminates against gypsies and Merkel lets Nazi’s roam around her country and burn down the houses of immigrants.
They bully soveirgn nations such as England, Ireland, Iceland and especially Turkey, because they are Muslim. They even destroyed Turkey’s secular system and put the Religious Fundamentalist AKP in power. They even also jail people if they disagree about the mainstream arguments of some world events, such as the So-Called Armenian Genocide. The EU is the biggest hypocrites on the planet and I pray to see the fall of the EU, just like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.