The point is that legal systems are not built for exception. You need to treat Breivik exactly the same, at least in procedure, as the guys who shoplift or serious injure someone in a barfight that went too far. Introducing exceptionalism is asking for arbitrary decisions and a subversion of civil rights and democracy down the road.
Yes it blows and yes it does give him a platform to spew his hate. But the alternative simply isn't worth the price.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.LJ and RI have got this. Sooner or later someone would have to make the decision as to who falls outside of the human box, and then it would all go horribly wrong.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.He remains adamant on the Knights Templar, that it is an actual network and that he has described six actual people to the court, two of which still reside in Norway who are "going to commit new attacks of terror". Claims that the police know these people exist but won't admit this, as they "have failed to capture them and this would cause panic". Actual quote: "I'd hate to be the police spokesman when the next attacks occur".
edited 25th Apr '12 9:18:57 AM by LE0Night
That wouldn't be "best case" - it would mean his nuttiness is more widespread than a single person. Anyhow, I'm confident it's just an attempt to cause panic and paranoia. If it were really true he'd stay quiet about it so that his assosiates could cause as much damage as possible.
Laws are made to be broken. You're next, thermodynamics.20/04: Anders Behring Breivik deride children’s song Children of the Rainbow as a "blatant example of Marxist propaganda and indoctrination in the Norwegian public school system".
26/04: 40.000+ people gather in front of the courthouse where his case is currently treated, even more in every single major Norwegian city.
Absolutely. Tasteful fuck yous are a community responsibility.
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The Telegraph has live coverage has live connection of the event, if anyone is interested.
EDIT: Oh god they brought up World of Warcraft.
edited 24th Aug '12 1:22:03 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016THEY RULED HIM SANE AND ONLY GAVE HIM 21 YEARS!
Or he's going to repent, cease being a danger, be released (and kept under surveillance, obviously, and banned forever from owning anything even remotely weapon-like — mercy is not the same as stupidity, after all), and gradually fade into anonymity.
Hey, stranger things have happened. And a person can change quite a lot in 21 years.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.I'm just glad it's over so the papers will finally cease to cover this from every freaking angle they can wring out of it (the coverage of victims testimonies were fucking Nightmare Fuel Unleaded).
I wanna see the country that's waiting for him in 21 years. Bet it'll blow his mind.
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Yeah on that I agree with you. And that Breivik and people like him are human is what makes such crimes even more terrible. A real beast can't help itself but to act like a beast, but a human can be anything, can act anyway. Not always of course; sometimes there are psychological traumata and other damages. But it appears Breivik doesn't even have those!
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