The trial of Anders Behring Breivik

[HoreTore]

@Viking: ABB is from Skøyen, which is as white as you can get. Didn't stop him from bitching like a baby about his "rough teenage years". A wannabe gangstah kid who got smacked when he got uppity, is my conclusion. Heck, my own teenage years were rougher than his.

@Rhy: he most certainly are against those things. In alphabetical order:

Democracy: his vision of the perfect state is run by a council of the most senior knights of his imaginary order, who make sure his doctrine is followed by all of its subjects, in all parts of life. Ie. the very definition of a totalitarian state.

Openness: of course you won't get a lot of openness in such a system. He also advocates the systematical extermination of everyone who voices opinions he doesn't agree with. In fact, women should be barred from any influence in society, because he believes a statistically larger proportion of women vote left.

Tolerance: nothing he dislikes will be tolerated. Period. This ranges from sex to opinions to religion. Everyone has to adhere to his views or face punishment.

Dialogue: he has already proved that he prefers violence, because entering the public debate takes a certain level of dedication. He doesn't have that, so he decided to give it up and whine instead.

I find the lengths you go to defend racists and extremists quite interesting, Rhy.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I find the lengths you go to defend racists and extremists quite interesting, Rhy.

Woah, I have not in any way defended Breivik. I have defended racists and that I openly admit, but not Breivik.

If Breivik did indeed plan to run the country through a mysterious order of knights, than I hold my hands up and apologise, I was wrong.

From what I understood, his political views weren't that radical, and that his extremism was more in the lengths he went to to promote them. All I remember is that he seemed to oppose communism, Islam and Nazism, so everything from far-left to far-right. IIRC he subscribed to the Vienna school of thought on the economy, which would I think make him some sort of libertarian, and it is at least compatible with democracy. Didn't he see Muslims as a threat to democracy?

[Viking]

@Viking: ABB is from Skøyen, which is as white as you can get. Didn't stop him from bitching like a baby about his "rough teenage years". A wannabe gangstah kid who got smacked when he got uppity, is my conclusion. Heck, my own teenage years were rougher than his.

1) Did he not spend most of his adult life in Oslo?
2) I am sure he ventured out of Oslo West every now and then, and he would not have to go further than Oslo S to get a multicultural experience; and it would be easy for him to venture a bit further east and see for himself what the status is there.