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thepeoplesrecord: Iceland grieves after police kill a man for...
Iceland grieves after police kill a man for the first time in its history
December 5, 2013It was an unprecedented headline in Iceland this week — a man shot to death by police.
"The nation was in shock. This does not happen in our country," said Thora Arnorsdottir, news editor at RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.
She was referring to a 59-year old man who was shot by police on Monday. The man, who started shooting at police when they entered his building, had a history of mental illness.
It’s the first time someone has been killed by armed police in Iceland since it became an independent republic in 1944. Police don’t even carry weapons, usually. Violent crime in Iceland is almost non-existent.
"The nation does not want its police force to carry weapons because it’s dangerous, it’s threatening," Arnorsdottir says. "It’s a part of the culture. Guns are used to go hunting as a sport, but you never see a gun."
In fact, Iceland isn’t anti-gun. In terms of per-capita gun ownership, Iceland ranks 15th in the world. Still, this incident was so rare that neighbors of the man shot were comparing the shooting to a scene from an American film.
The Icelandic police department said officers involved will go through grief counseling. And the police department has already apologized to the family of the man who died — though not necessarily because they did anything wrong.
"I think it’s respectful," Arnorsdottir says, “because no one wants to take another person’s life. “
There are still a number of questions to be answered, including why police didn’t first try to negotiate with man before entering his building.
"A part of the great thing of living in this country is that you can enter parliament and the only thing they ask you to do is to turn off your cellphone, so you don’t disturb the parliamentarians while they’re talking. We do not have armed guards following our prime minister or president. That’s a part of the great thing of living in a peaceful society. We do not want to change that. "
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"It is December 6th, and I remember. I was 13 years old when Marc Lépine opened fire and murdered 14..."
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It is December 6th, and I remember.
I was 13 years old when Marc Lépine opened fire and murdered 14 women for being at engineering school when he wasn’t. He blamed feminism for the situation he was in, and murdered these women for being in non-traditional jobs, for being there.
Every year, the memorials I go to are different. Some are quiet - I remember several winters in the snow, holding candles and reciting names like a talisman against violence.
Geneviève Bergeron, 21 years old. Hélène Colgan, 24 years old. Nathalie Croteau, 24 years old.
When I was younger, they seemed impossibly mature and sophisticated. I used to imagine them laughing and enjoying university, cut down without warning. Now that I’m 35, they seem so young, and I wonder if they were afraid.
Barbara Daigneault, 23 years old. Anne-Marie Edward, 22 years old. Maud Haviernick, 29 years old.
For the past several years in Halifax I’ve tried to go to the Not So Silent Night vigil. One year it was held near the cenotaph, another year at the public library. There is less recitation of names, and more screaming. There’s less focusing on this incident, this moment, and more discussion of the number of women every year who are murdered, who disappear, who can’t get away and now never will.
Maryse Laganière, 29 years old. Maryse Leclair, 24 years old. Anne-Marie Lemay, 23 years old.
Every year, there are people who roll their eyes and tell everyone to get over it. Last year a clever person at Dal compared the yearly observance to people who are still upset about the expulsion of the Acadians in 1758. Back in 1998, Vancouver changed their city ordinances to avoid making memorials that might “purposely create antagonism or cause distress” in direct response to the memorial for this massacre and the campaign to have a memorial to AIDS victims put up in the city.
Sonia Pelletier, 28 years old. Michèle Richard, 22 years old. Annie St-Arneault, 24 years old.
But I can’t deny that this memorial always leaves me disquieted. We go silent for a night, or we scream for a night, we rage against the dying of the light. But 582 aboriginal women are missing or murdered, and we don’t remember them the way we do these 14. We have a barely-acknowledged Trans Day of Remembrance. We don’t talk about sex workers murdered whose deaths are so unimportant that serial killers can operate with impunity until they start on “real” women. If we started naming girls murdered by parents, women with disabilities murdered by caregivers, how long would our yearly remembrance be?
Annie Turcotte, 23 years old. Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, 31 years old.
I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. We name these 14, silently or quietly or screaming their names to heaven, because we can’t name the others. Because there is enough controversy around this day, this naming of 14 women who were undoubtedly killed for being women, and we can’t imagine the controversy in naming them all, acknowledging that some women are targeted because they are vulnerable, because they matter less, because they are hated beyond belief, because there will always be someone who tells me that women who don’t want to be abused shouldn’t be sex workers, shouldn’t be “liars”, shouldn’t be in relationships, should just leave.
I forget this date is coming every year, and suddenly it’s here, and I remember, I remember, I remember.
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I decided that this piece needed to be quoted more extensively, because it is so, so on point.
From Anna’s Je me souviens, in remembrance of the École Polytechnique Massacre.
The massacre occurred 24 years ago today, on December 6, 1989.
(via queenclaudiajean)
I was not on tumblr very much yesterday after first thing in the morning, so I missed the day of, but.
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Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso - Epic Rap Battles of History Season 3. - YouTube
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A+ recipe. I made it tonight with a small butternut and a blue...
A+ recipe. I made it tonight with a small butternut and a blue kuri Kabocha squash.
(via Baked Squash [pesto] Gratin Recipe : Giada De Laurentiis : Recipes : Food Network)
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The most dangerous neighborhood in NYC. And how to tell which guys are probably criminals.
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If you are an adult, becoming an adult, about to become an adult, or are worried about becoming an adult. take the time to watch this
actually, I think everyone, everywhere would benefit from this. please take the time. life is hard. SIGNAL BOOST.
This is important. Imagine if all of Tumblr can see it. I don’t want notes I want for you to each have a better day then the last. boost. watch.
Watch this. it might change your life. reblog. spread the word.
wow. Just … wow.
I’ve posted this before but it’s worth revisiting.
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The Smithsonian Megatherium Club = basically a 19th century Revenge of the Nerds situation.
The Smithsonian Megatherium Club was a group of scientists who researched all day and partied all night. No, really: they drank beer, ate oysters, and had sack races through the Smithsonian Castle. They even lived in the Castle…until they were kicked out for flirting with the Smithsonian Secretary’s daughters.
The group named themselves after an extinct species of giant sloth, and they made up a special greeting for their members: “How How!” (which I think we should appropriate for ourselves and combine with our secret handshake: big wink/drinky-drinky motion/high-five).
Here are a few of their original members. Bunch of party animals, these guys:
Image via Smithsonian Archives.
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phoco: Khaidarkanite by yaiba0390 on Flickr.
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Eleanor Parker, 91, Baroness in Original Sound of Music Film, Dies - NYTimes.com
Eleanor Parker, 91, Baroness in Original Sound of Music Film, Dies - NYTimes.com:
She was appalled by the terrible remake that aired the other day.
I always admired the Baroness and her perfect plan to ship the rugrats to a lovely little place called Boarding School.
And her dress during the party scene? Gorgeous.
This suit was stunning too.
Rest in peace Baroness Schraeder.
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"we’re taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a..."
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we’re taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a good grasp of it) and placing them in a new, unfamiliar, virtual space. This space introduces visual aids to language in the form of photos and gifs, the ability to comment on someone else’s text in a reblog and the ability to communicate a lot of information in very few words using hashtags. We also see the creation of tone in a toneless medium. In order to simulate conversational patterns in writing we SHOUT WHEN WE’RE SUPER EXCITED or *psssst whisper when we’re pretending to tell someone a secret while perfectly aware that anyone on the internet can read what we’re saying.* slash the coolest bit tho is that u can like ironically forgo all capitalization and punctuation just write in a weird speech pattern its ok everyone will still understand maybe it even helps read the text more quickly because nothing is interrupting the flow of words
In short, this dialect results when people who already share a language are given new tools. The result isn’t a butchering of English language but a creative experiment with it. Am I claiming that the Internet as a whole is operating on a level of postmodernism that would make Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon seem like novices? maybe i am maybe im not u punk wut of it like who r u to tell me otherwise
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Internet Linguistics (via ourhalloweddesign)
Follow up question, is Doge pronounced the Venetian way (dough-jah) or like doggie?
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