very predictably, glenn beck is getting smacked at five minute intervals on msnbc for throwing out 'hitler youth' with regard to the political camp that was the site of the shootings in norway. well it's not the best way in, especially given that the nazi was breivik. still as i blogged that day, the camp has a creepy quality of youth indoctrination. so people have squawked that beck is directly/indirectly connected to right-wing youth programs in the usa. if so, maybe beck should pipe down. but on the other hand, beck isn't running camps for the republican party. and ask yourself: are you comforted by the fact that glenn beck does it too? does that make it less creepy? are you sending your kids to beck camp this summer?
this appeared to be something more than that, of course: it looks like a kind of installation, a youth training facility, actually owned by the rulling party of a democratic country. maybe that is routine? even if so i say it's creepy. not as creepy, of course, as going in shooting.