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2011-11-30 Europe
Norwegian Killer of 77 People Breivik Declared Insane
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Posted by Fred 2011-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15954370

Does somebody's extreme opinions preclude them from being held responsible for their actions?

Posted by BernardZ 2011-11-30 05:34||   2011-11-30 05:34|| Front Page Top

#2 did it take PHD too figure this one out. Not too mention he is only facing 21 yrs. for this horrendous crime in the first place.
Posted by chris 2011-11-30 07:06||   2011-11-30 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Vidkun Quisling could not be reached for comment.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-30 08:47||   2011-11-30 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The government has created a catch-22 with this. Since he is likely not insane, or doesn't come across as what the public thinks of insanity, it smacks of what authoritarian states do to political prisoners. It also seems that they are *afraid* of what he has to say, afraid that others will agree with him.

Other than that, his logic as a nationalist fascist was excellent. He has severely crippled that very left wing party, whose open floodgates immigration policy might have eventually overwhelmed Norway with foreigners who would vote for that party.

It would not take many more to do this, as immigrants are now 12% of their otherwise small population of only 4.9m people, and it seems to be a strategy employed by very left wing parties affiliated with the socialist international, in many places.

But having a small population also makes the damage he did to the Labour Party (membership 49,407), pretty devastating, as these youth were the cream of the crop of future party leaders. Replacing them will be very hard, and this puts their entire agenda at risk.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-30 10:02||   2011-11-30 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 the Girl with the dragon tatoo could not be reached for comment.
Posted by bman 2011-11-30 10:19||   2011-11-30 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I've worked in the forensic psychiatric services (AKA "criminally insane") of the UK and Australia for about 20 years. I'm not pretending I'm conversant with the Norwegian criminal justice or psychiatric systems, HOWEVER, I do know that in most countries (without modern anti-terrorist mechanisms to detain indefinitely without a trial such as the USA) that when a criminal act is committed and the suspect deemed to have "capacicity" might serve a limited sentence for good behavior, cooperation and leniency, BUT someone deemed criminally insane (having commited a violent crime) has far more chance of indefinite or protracted detention.

So, in this sense Breivik could theoretically be detained in Norway for much, much longer through the forensic psychiatric systems than the criminal justice system.
Posted by Incredulous 2011-11-30 21:36||   2011-11-30 21:36|| Front Page Top

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