Insane? Not Likely
Well, that's that, then. The xenophobic, immigrant-detesting Norwegian man, the berserk murderer of 77 people, most of whom were in their teen years, was obviously mentally deranged. Abnormal, psychologically unfit, an ill man. People who are deemed to be ill are deemed also not to be responsible for their actions. They are, therefore, submitted to the rigours of state-sanctioned rehabilitation. So they may, when the mediating protocol has been concluded, join normal society.Anders Breivik, whose cold-blooded action he claimed were brutal but necessary to rescue his country from the iniquitous harm being done it by the presence of immigrations who had dark designs on his society, and which action shocked the world at large, was simply not responsible. Not responsible for his rantings and his illogic, his anger and his hatred. It was, needless to say, however, his considered choice to act as he did.
He carefully planned his actions. They were not spontaneous, on-the-spur-of-the-moment actions of someone whose rage drove him to express himself by shattering the peace of a summer day at an island resort renowned for its trees and lake, and pastoral appearance where young people could meet and discuss issues of importance to them. Those issues, alas, also revolved around politics, including the politics of immigrant-inclusion.
Mr. Breivik was too enraged by what he felt was happening to the traditions and customs and heritage of his native land to use traditional methods of civil disobedience, or mounting a counter-political party of his own, or enlisting the aid of others who felt as he did, to turn matters around at the ballot box. Direct action was required. So he set off a car bomb, symbolically, outside government buildings in Oslo, where eight people died.
And then, carefully, methodically, he travelled to Utoeya, 40 kilometres from Oslo, where another 69 people met their end, in a gruesomely horrible, prolonged, and at that point dispassionate easing of the man's dreadful fury. He will not plead guilty to anything, for there is nothing to plead guilty to. He was possessed with the need to do something for his nation, and he pledged himself to an act of defiance to alert his countrymen to their duty to their country.
That it be kept pure and undefiled by the loathsome presence of 'others', strangers to their land. His actions, while "atrocious", were absolutely "necessary". The man is not criminally insane. He is quite normal, having committed a horrible act yes, but one that resulted from a quite normal human reaction to fears of his evaporating society. He is an unrepentant killer. He should be tried as such. He is not a gibbering, insane idiot.
Merely a crusader against the "Muslim invasion" of Europe.
Labels: Conflict, Crime, Prejudices, Security, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Friday, December 02, 2011
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