As Diehard posted the man is scum.
The bottom line is the perpetrator was a domestic terrorist. He could have been an immigrant, he could have been an animist, he could have been a member of the extreme left wing: However, what he was, was someone who did not believe in civil political discourse, rather he believed in terrorism and murder.
As I'm sure do all of us (or at least I hope so) I feel so sorry for the families of those killed and wounded, and for all the people of Norway. As Asterix wrote Norway lost a certain innocence today and that is a very great shame.
Agreed, it is tragic for the families of all those kids from camp especially...one sends one's kids to camp on some cottage-country island not expecting them to be mowed down by gunfire.
If true that the shooter was captured alive in a firefight with police I would think he now has a lot of very pissed off family members of all those kids he shot (80?!) who would like to get their hands on him and feed him alive to an ant farm. Can't say I blame them for wanting to do so...if I had children and this guy killed them for no reason I would make hunting him down a high priority.
I don't think people (not talking about Aardvark154 here) should go on the 'mental case' path just yet. Not all terrorists are mental cases/crazy people. They are extremists (and often criminals) who often don't believe in civil discourse to address issues and their method of getting their point across is often bullets and explosives. Timothy McVeigh wasn't a crazy mental case, he was a criminal. Most mentally ill people do not slaughter dozens of people, nor can they accomplish the extensive planning and preperation required to successfully bring off something like this multi-pronged attack. Evil, terrorist, criminal, sure, but to say mental case is to be in denial that calculating people in the world seek to end the way civil democracies function.
I always cringe when someone says that in Germany all Nazis were mental cases/mass psychosis, etc. BS I say. As Stanley Milgram pointed out, any society with an evil top in the power structure, will convince some underlings/people down the line to do whatever illegal things are desired of them. The ones who won't do so get pushed aside, the ones that will do the dirty deeds get promoted and rewarded. As Eichmann pointed out in his trial, to him his primary concern was career advancement and he would do whatever those in authority told him to do to get promotions in the SS. He committed crimes and was promoted through the ranks in administration from a lowly 2nd Lt up to a Lt. Col in a few years. My point as it relates to Norway is there are other reasons people do things other than being crazy.
