Some 40,000 gather to sing children's song Breivik detests

[Swede]

Facing terror with music, tens of thousands gathered in squares across Norway to sing a children's song that gunman Anders Behring Breivik claimed is being used to brainwash young Norwegians.

The defiant Facebook protest against the right-wing fanatic took place as survivors gave tearful testimony Thursday in his trial for the July 22 bombing-and-shooting rampage that killed 77 people, mostly teenagers.

Some 40,000 people converged at a central square in Oslo in the pouring rain to sing the 1970's song "Children of the Rainbow" -- a Norwegian version of American folk music singer Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Race."



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[Scout]

1. i think they should surround the building

where he is being held, and sing it constantly so that is all he hears.

perhaps pipe the song into his cell 24/7.

[Luminous Animal]

2. I'm pretty sure the Norwegians, unlike the U.S. don't inflict inhumane treatment

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on their prisoners.

[Scout]

3. too bad. n/t