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The least they could have done is shackled the maleficent beast so he couldn’t proudly give his right-wing salute.
If we have to witness Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik’s trial – and the victims’ families are surely hoping to see justice done publicly – then truss him up and treat him as he deserves. As a morally void demon.
The court may find he was psychotic when he killed 77 people, but the latest reports are that experts reckon he was sane.
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Many Norwegian stores have removed violent video games from their shelves after Christian Fundamentalist terrorist Anders Breivik claimed he prepared for his attack by playing them. Yet there’s been no word from bookstores on when they’ll remove the Bible from their shelves.
What a load of bollocks. After all, Breivik claimed he played video games to prepare, but the only reason he had anything to prepare for was due to a truly twisted ideology that certainly didn’t come from game play.
Every time we suffer an atrocity like this, people immediately look for somewhere to place blame, while ignoring the fundamental causes. More often than not it’s heavy metal music or violent video games that cop the accusations, which is nothing more than lazy scapegoating.
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In another high water mark for human decency, left-wing and right-wing commentators have recently managed to cast blame on each other over the unthinkably horrible massacre in Norway.
It is of course deeply offensive to suggest either side is responsible for this atrocity. Especially when the truth is they both are.
In fact the far left have done more to promote the easy-flowing spread of right-wing ideology and sentiment than any other socio-political group, the “socio” being “upper middle class” and the political being “retarded”.
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HeatherG says:
Actually, I think Joe was trying to say more like, “in my experience, I’ve been treated more badly by leftist fundamentalists than rightist ones. Both extremists suck but the left have been ruder—in my experience—and I wish they’d stop that so they could actually get more done.” The “in his… Read more »
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Lachlan McKenzie says:
Long-winded and hypocritical Joe. You’re seriously using the Left/Right dichotomy? You’ve just made your own definition of what’s radical and you’re whingeing. Just look at policies, not this silly ‘political spectrum’ bogus. Everybody knows that the Libs aren’t totally about individual freedoms, Labor isn’t totally about working families and the… Read more »
The aftermath of news like that from Oslo leaves only numbness. The injustice of it, the disbelief that this was even possible. Bombs at least kill in a single action. The deliberate persistence involved in attacks like Anders Breivik’s make them all the more distressing.
For a writer with comedic inclinations, the usual set of responses are neutered. Laughter falters, mouth half open. Even in our bleakest political situations, there are moments of light. Something like this is all darkness.
As reports began to come in, it was the last subject in the world you would have imagined being used for political point-scoring. But if ever someone was going to do just that, it was Andrew Bolt.
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The savage, blood-soaked massacre in Norway might seem like the act of a deranged madman. But the perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, was nothing of the sort.
In fact, he appears to have been an intelligent, well-educated individual and a competent businessman, who owned a successful farm. Nothing in either his life story or even in this unprecedented atrocity smacks of wild insanity.
Just the opposite. He planned the whole operation with utter ruthlessness and precision, from using fertiliser from his farm to make the bomb that was planted at the government’s offices in Oslo, to disguising himself as a policeman to gain access to the island summer camp.
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LC says:
Your level of understanding of the Australian constitution? 0. Your level of understanding of the relationship between the constitution and the UN? 0. Your level of knowledge of atheists of any shape, form, gender or skin color? 0. Read more »
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Jo says:
“When people feel threatened and disenfranchised, when peaceful protests are seen to achieve nothing, then violence begins to look like an acceptable alternative.” Women are amongst the most disenfranchised people on this earth, yet a relatively few number of women undertake mass shooting sprees of innnocent people etc. as a… Read more »
It’s Friday @ The Punch.
Edvard Munch’s iconic artwork ‘The Scream’ was stolen from the National Art Museum of Oslo. After the painting was recovered, one of the two thieves, Paal Enger, went on to become a legitimate art dealer.
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Art Dealers ARE thieves. Thieves are Artistes - of a kind. Read more »
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All thieves become Art Dealers. (Or is that all Art Dealers become thieves). Read more »
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