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If the suspicions against Laila Bertheussen are true, the case is another example of all the insane insane driving.
What they show is my bedroom window. They dragged me out in public and lied to me, “Laila Bertheussen said during her trial at the Oslo District Court this week. She is accused of threats and” attacks on the activities of the highest organs of the state. ” Photo: Egil Nyhus
The case against Laila Bertheussen has everything an intricate court drama needs: bizarre threats, fake profiles, famous lawyers, ex-councilors, and spicy accusations.
According to the indictment, Bertheussen wrote false threatening letters and got up in the middle of the night to spray swastikas and “racism” at the home of his own family, which includes former Justice Minister Tor Mikkel Wara (Frp).
The motive must have been to blacken the people behind the play “Ways of seeing”.
All of these adventurous details quickly cloud over to what the case is basically all about: the demanding and beloved freedom of speech.
One of the tools of the play “Ways to See” was to film the wall of the house of the Minister of Justice Tor Mikkel Wara (Frp) and his cohabitant Laila Bertheussen, with the following line: “Sometimes we see you through the windows of the bedroom: sowing snakes, cow snouts, the root-eating parasites of hope. ”
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I “Ways of seeing” Black Box Theater wanted to shed light on the moral gray areas and “map the networks that have an interest in making Norway a more racist society.”
This is where the Wara / Bertheussen couple comes into play.
One of the tools of the play was to film the wall of the couple’s house, with the following line: “Sometimes we see you through the bedroom windows: planting snakes, cow snouts, the root-eating parasites of the hope”.
Tor Mikkel Wara resigned as Frp’s Minister of Justice when cohabitant Laila Bertheussen was accused of faking threats against the couple. This week they met together at the Oslo District Court: he as the offended and she as the accused. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten, NTB scanpix
So many things happened disturbing things:
All these reactions undermine the freedom of artistic expression, which “Ways of Seeing” keeps within it.
The controversial play “Ways of Seeing” was performed during the Bergen Festival. The people behind the work wanted to map the networks that have an interest in making Norway a more racist society. Photo: Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen
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Last week started the lawsuit after the massacre against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
To mark, the satirists have created a dark anniversary magazine. There are both the controversial Muhammad cartoons that started the raging cartoon brawl in 2005 and the cartoon of a resigned prophet who claims that “idiots are hard to love.”
All this has been given the collective title: “Tout ça pour ça”.
As journalist Yngvild Gotaas Torvik points out in Klassekampen, a lot of punctuation is required for the translation to be completely accurate:
“All this … because of this?”
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The same headline could have been raise many issues where freedom of expression is a contentious issue.
In 2004, the film director Theo van Gogh was assassinated by a Muslim fundamentalist who did not like criticism of Islam in his films.
In 2006, drawings of the Prophet Muhammad sparked serious acts of violence around the world.
Last year, they allegedly threw a small boy against the wall and strangled him, because his mother is a supporter of the toll package in Nord-Jæren.
On January 7, 2015, Chérif and Said Kouachi broke into the editorial offices of the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and wounding eleven. The terrorists themselves died on January 9 in a dramatic police manhunt. Photo: Håvard Bjelland
It is certainly special Political art prints that get people off the hinges.
The genre is known for using powerful tools to evoke emotions and is therefore well suited for teasing.
‘There is a lot “Artists” and he sews a robbery story where he, the best of us all, is written in his absurd world with hints that he is a racist and a Nazi. They call it art, I call it a rude invasion of my private life, “wrote Laila Bertheussen in a VG article during the staging of” Ways of seeing. “
She did not stand up to the treatment that theater people gave her partner Tor Mikkel Wara, and she is not the only one who is bothered by artistic performances.
The state prosecutor Marit Formo is the prosecutor in the trial against Laila Anita Bertheussen, accused of violation of article 115 of the Penal Code, which applies to attacks on the activities of the highest state organs. Bertheussen is also charged with threats, false accusations and violations of the Fire and Explosion Protection Act. Bertheussen denies criminal guilt and maintains that someone else must be behind the threats. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB scanpix
Freemuse Annual Report on the state of freedom of artistic expression shows a disturbing tendency to censor artistic expressions across Europe.
But perhaps you should think that it is better in Norway, the nation of human rights. But in the Fritt Ord monitor survey, six percent of visual artists say they have received inquiries with threatening content, and 18 percent of respondents have been “harassed or otherwise hindered.”
Extremism, the rise of political correctness, and the demands of individual groups to protect against rape are highlighted as factors that put a brake on political art.
The Laila Bertheussen trial has a high profile. Lawyer John Christian Elden is her defender, while Ellen Holager Andenæs is an assistant lawyer to former Justice Minister Tor Mikkel Wara. Photo: Jil Yngland
When things really come at the forefront, disagreement becomes the problem quickly to the intense and irreconcilable hatred of the person.
Backlash to provocative statements and artistic expressions are disturbing, but sadly typical.
Murder – for a critical movie? Icy execution of 12 people in Charlie Hebdo’s editorial office – for some provocative drawings?
And, can it turn out: fake threat letters and arson for … a play?
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