There was nothing controversial about Anna Lindh. Olof Palme was very different. He was arrogant, provoking and radical. You either loved him or hated him. I belonged to those who hated him. A great part of the opposition in Sweden hated him, and numerous foreign governments. He had plenty of international enemies, including but not limited to Saddam Hussein and Ayatolla Khomeini (for trying to stop their war), South Africa (for supporting Nelson Mandela), Pakistan (for selling Bofors guns to India) and USA (for supporting North Vietnam). The list could go on. I saved the newspaper issued the day he was murdered. The big black headlines were "Palme's betrayal to the stock holders". He was controversial indeed.
Anna Lindh was loved by her friends and highly respected, if not loved, by her opponents. I would not had been so upset if any other member of the cabinet had been the victim. I was not so upset when Palme died as I am now. Most members of the cabinet are there not because of their competence, but for their loyalty. Some are there because of their gender, to make the statistics look good to the feminists. I mean, the finance minister did not even finish high school, and the minister of defence has no experience whatsoever of anything "military". Anna Lindh was the only obvious exception. Why her, the only true star among those morons?
I could see a few possible enemies she might have had.
1) Domestic Euro-opposers, most likely neo-nazis, but possibly anarchists or ultra-commies. But none of those groups are normally street junkies.
2) Italian mafia connected to Berlusconi, after her opposition to his politics in EU. But that is far-fetched.
Anna Lindh was loved by her friends and highly respected, if not loved, by her opponents. I would not had been so upset if any other member of the cabinet had been the victim. I was not so upset when Palme died as I am now. Most members of the cabinet are there not because of their competence, but for their loyalty. Some are there because of their gender, to make the statistics look good to the feminists. I mean, the finance minister did not even finish high school, and the minister of defence has no experience whatsoever of anything "military". Anna Lindh was the only obvious exception. Why her, the only true star among those morons?
I could see a few possible enemies she might have had.
1) Domestic Euro-opposers, most likely neo-nazis, but possibly anarchists or ultra-commies. But none of those groups are normally street junkies.
2) Italian mafia connected to Berlusconi, after her opposition to his politics in EU. But that is far-fetched.
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