Norway's mass killer Breivik declared sane

[Machjo]

BBC News - Norway's mass killer Breivik declared sane

 

[WLDB]

Both good and disturbing.

 

[Liberalman]

That is good now he can go to prison instead of the nut house or even fry the killer

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I heard his max sentence for all this will be 21 years. Great justice.

 

[petros]

Sane? Yeaaaaah riiiiiiight.

 

[Machjo]

That is good now he can go to prison instead of the nut house or even fry the killer

They don't have the death penalty in that country.


And also, it would seem Breivik considered the nut house a punishment worse than death. He himself prefers imprisonment it would seem.

But let's remember that the trial is not over, and now we have two separate and contradictory judgements on his sanity, so certainly they'll have to look further into it to determine whether he really is insane. The jury's still out in the court.

I heard his max sentence for all this will be 21 years. Great justice.

If found sane, I agree it ought to be death or ife in prison. But we don't make the rules.

 

[mentalfloss]

 

[Bar Sinister]

Right. A racist nutcase who thinks he has saved Norway from the perils of Islam by murdering 70 plus non-Muslim children is not insane.

 

[Praxius]

No Death Penalty?

Not officially.... let his fellow prisoners get within arm's reach and there'll be a death penalty soon enough.

 

[mentalfloss]

Right. A racist nutcase who thinks he has saved Norway from the perils of Islam by murdering 70 plus non-Muslim children is not insane.

If insanity is simply defined by not accepting reality, then I have a 2000 year old story to tell you.

 

[Bar Sinister]

If insanity is simply defined by not accepting reality, then I have a 2000 year old story to tell you.

Only two thousand years? You are forgetting the Old Testament.

 

[MHz]

So now he gets released into the general prison population and , what a year before a trial? Problem solved in the first week, both if it is a gene pool issue or a misdirected moral indoctrination, neither is going to be passed on.

Monarchs and such have killed a lot more than that in a single incident, they aren't even 'questioned'. Perhaps we are the insane ones.

 

[mentalfloss]

Only two thousand years? You are forgetting the Old Testament.

And Santa Clause.

There will always be good ole St. Nick.

 

[Colpy]

Sane. Right.

"At first, Breivik’s mental-health issues expressed themselves as mere anti-social behaviour: He would lock himself in his room for days a time, doing nothing but playing the sword-and-sorcery-themed online computer game World of Warcraft. But then his behaviour got more bizarre. Howard Hughes-like, he became germopohic, and began to wear a face mask, fixate on spiders, and avoid any contact with his mother. He believed he was being followed and spied on. Eventually, he embraced the delusion that he’d been deputized by a mysterious secret society to lead the forces of Christendom in a war being waged for the future of humankind. He even made a homemade military uniform that reflected his “commander” status in this secret society.
When Breivik paraded this outfit in front of his mother, she was horrified. But she still did not understand what had happened to her son’s mind. Had she pursued institutional treatment for Anders at that point, the massacre might have been prevented. Schizophrenia cannot be cured. But it can be medicated.
“The [mother] says in conclusion that when she looks back, she thinks that [her son] must have been insane, considering how different he became,” the original psych experts wrote. “She cries and says: You do not believe that such things can happen. I still don’t quite believe it.”
Breivik imagined that slaughtering a group of defenseless teenagers would earn him the status of “National Grand Master Knight Commander” in the purified society that would emerge from the war he was leading. He would kill the Norwegian royal family in 2020, and proclaim himself King of Norway, with the title “Sigurd II.” One of his edicts would be to create baby factories staffed by third world women implanted with eggs extracted by force from Norwegians."

Jonathan Kay on the Anders Breivik verdict: Not ‘conservative,’ just crazy | Full Comment | National Post

 

[mentalfloss]

He's not insane, just extremely fascist.

 

[DurkaDurka]

He's not insane, just extremely fascist.

If that's the case then Magnotta is an extreme fascist as well.

" Racist blog posts believed to have been written by Luka Magnotta have cast new light on allegations that he murdered and dismembered a Chinese exchange student in Montreal."

The hunt for Magnotta: was mutilation murder inspired by race hatred?

I think we should stick to what they really are, demented psychopaths.

 

[mentalfloss]

No, they are extreme assholes.

 

[Colpy]

He's not insane, just extremely fascist.

Read the piece.

Breivik imagined that slaughtering a group of defenseless teenagers would earn him the status of “National Grand Master Knight Commander” in the purified society that would emerge from the war he was leading. He would kill the Norwegian royal family in 2020, and proclaim himself King of Norway, with the title “Sigurd II.” One of his edicts would be to create baby factories staffed by third world women implanted with eggs extracted by force from Norwegians.
Breivik declares all of this proudly, and believes his plan is perfectly rational. To this day, he vigorously argues that he is of sound mind: “To send a political activist to a mental hospital is more sadistic and evil than to kill him! It is a fate worse than death.”

 

[mentalfloss]

Read the piece.

Big deal.

Anyone can make up a bunch of stuff to make themselves look insane.

It's pretty telling that you will take a mass murderer's statement at face value to imply that he is insane, simply because it jives with your ideological point of view. Can't wait to see that reduced sentence he 'deserves' to get, because he simply couldn't resist those delusions of grandeur.

 

[Colpy]

Big deal.

Anyone can make up a bunch of stuff to make themselves look insane.

It's pretty telling that you will take a mass murderer's statement at face value to imply that he is insane, simply because it jives with your ideological point of view. Can't wait to see that reduced sentence he 'deserves' to get, because he simply couldn't resist those delusions of grandeur.

What he "deserves" is execution. Insanity is not a defense, in my book.

Give it a break....it is obvious to anyone with a functioning intellect that this guy is cookoo, whacked, out of it, nutty, not playing with a full deck, etc etc etc.