Standing His Ground
The BBC reports on day one at the trial: Breivik due to take stand in Norway massacre trial
Anders Behring Breivik will read out a prepared statement on Tuesday that will take about 30 minutes, his lawyer said.
He has admitted carrying out a car bombing in the capital before attacking a youth camp organised by the governing Labour party on the island of Utoeya.
However, he has pleaded not guilty to acts of terror and mass murder.
He said he had acted to protect Norway from multi-culturalism and Islam.
…The 33-year-old Norwegian was found insane in one examination, while a second assessment made public last week found him mentally competent.
If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he will be jailed if found guilty.
If jailed, he faces a sentence of 21 years which could be extended to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
He was just protecting his ‘community’ from the evils of letting people live as they wished and making their own choices without government interference.
Just like the ‘heroes’ who bomb women’s clinics and shoot doctors. Just someone who decided to stop commenting about the ‘evil liberals’ on rightwing blogs, and go out and do something about them … with a gun and bombs.
Just another warrior for ‘conservative’ causes … like al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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The worst thing is, Bryan, that the irony is utterly lost on these people. They do not perceive that what they are doing is precisely what Al Qaeda and the Taliban are doing. Call it “the principle of OUR intrinsic goodness,” where “OUR” is the population the bomber claims to represent. And yes, it most certainly applies to women’s clinic bombers and murderers of their doctors.
The ‘Islamic principles’ that al Qaeda and the Taliban espouse are the most conservative and repressive available. They are as close to Christian fundamentalism as is possible for the two strains to be if you ignore their principal ‘founders’, and they are also guilty of ignoring the real principles of their founders to be that repressive.
That Terry Pratchett quote in my sidebar sums them up.
This attitude of ‘my way or death’ really gets to me, because I would really like to give them death, but then I would be no better than they are.