Many readers are objecting to my characterization of the Utøya camp as "creepy". The best response comes from a native Scandinavian:
First, I think you, and certainly Beck, fail to realize that this isn't that different from College Republicans or College Democrats in the US. These people are generally between the ages of 15 and 25. In other words, not much different in age to American college students (though because of the difference in school systems many of the kids up to age 19 would still be in high school).
They are part of a political organization that tries to get young people interested in politics and, of course, with a bias towards their own political leanings. There were also Danes and Swedes at the camp, much like the college republicans at Georgetown might invite College Republicans from George Washington University to one of their events.
Second, the fact that it was organized by a political party is perhaps creepy or bizarre when viewed against the backdrop of the American political system, but political parties play a very different role in the Scandinavian system. Parties organize parades, parties, camps, lectures, and all sorts of events for people. Some are political in nature, many of them are not. God knows I've been to plenty of parties organized by conservative youth groups (and I've never been a member). People wear lapel pins with the logo of the political party they support. No one in Norway, conservative or otherwise, with an even remotely sane mind, would consider a camp such a this one indoctrination of kids with loyalty to a supreme leader (in this case, Stoltenberg, I guess).
Before making your own judgments about people's participation in an event, consider that perhaps words like "political party" and "camp" have different connotations depending on the system from which they arise.
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