Anders Breivik has been found to be mentally competant during the vicious rampage he carried out last year. He wanted to be judged sane, and smiled when the verdict was announced. Despite the urge to confound the nazi bastard, it is right that he has been judged responsible for his crimes.
Now begins the job of making sure something like this never happens again. It starts with why it happened in the first place.
Breivik is a fascist (amply demonstrated here). That was his motive behind killing 77 innocent, defenceless people, many of them children. Judging him criminally insane would have depoliticised the atrocity, turned him into the 'lone wolf' he is sometimes portrayed as. Even if he somehow managed to fund, plan and carry out his atrocity all by himself (he didn't) Breivik emerged out of an environment of mainstream racism and bigotry, which, on its fringes, has grown ever more violent (in rhetoric) as the years have passed. Breivik simply transformed words into action.
We must take on the racists and the fascists wherever they emerge. In Britain they are currently gathered round the EDL, an organisation Breivik says he admires. On September 1st the EDL want to riot in Walthamstow. Be there to stop them.
Now begins the job of making sure something like this never happens again. It starts with why it happened in the first place.
Breivik is a fascist (amply demonstrated here). That was his motive behind killing 77 innocent, defenceless people, many of them children. Judging him criminally insane would have depoliticised the atrocity, turned him into the 'lone wolf' he is sometimes portrayed as. Even if he somehow managed to fund, plan and carry out his atrocity all by himself (he didn't) Breivik emerged out of an environment of mainstream racism and bigotry, which, on its fringes, has grown ever more violent (in rhetoric) as the years have passed. Breivik simply transformed words into action.
We must take on the racists and the fascists wherever they emerge. In Britain they are currently gathered round the EDL, an organisation Breivik says he admires. On September 1st the EDL want to riot in Walthamstow. Be there to stop them.