Dreaded Ventilation

His time in court is guaranteed Anders Behring Breivik who "defended European values" by slaughtering no fewer than 77 people, most of them Norwegian teens.  He is not a lunatic because he is a "Knight Templar".  And his mission, his sacred mission to Europe, beginning in his beloved Norway, was to "save" Europe from being taken over completely by Islam. 


The atrocities he committed, completely traumatizing his country and his countrymen, horrifying the world at large, and satisfying some deep inner need he felt, should be recognized, he feels, by his being viewed as a hero.  It was left to him to extinguish the lives of 69 Norwegian teens, fledgling members of the Norwegian Labour party.  It was that ruling party that was responsible for placing his homeland in such imminent danger.


His mission was to focus attention on the danger that Norway was facing as a result of unrestrained immigration.  An immigration policy that allowed an Islamic invasion.  Breivik, 33, is now able - thanks to Norway's justice system insisting he be given the opportunity to air his views and expose the country to his theories and conclusions - to call up witnesses of his choosing.


They will include "extreme left-wingers", a gay rights activist, an anarchist, Nazis, an Islamist, along with writers, academics and politicians, many of them also involved to some degree in concerns over the country's multiculturalism policies.


"I don't know what they want me to speak about in the trial.  This lunatic said he was defending European values and then killed a load of defenceless people", said Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian author.  It defies Norwegian law to refuse to appear when called up as a witness.  "Norway has been traumatized in a serious way.  We will be for years."


It is estimated that Norway will spend $16-million in prosecuting this trial.  The courtroom is set to receive 200 journalists who will be reporting on the process and revelations for the internal and international press.  Breivik will be permitted to question witnesses through his lawyers, and will testify from the dock.


"Right-wing extremists, many in Germany and France, see him as some kind of hero.  Sometimes you see expressions of support for him on blogs and on Facebook, not usually people who support him 100%, but there are those who think he had a point", said a 18-year-old student who survived the massacre on Utoya Island.


It is likely the trial will also make allusion if not outright fault the lack of police response.  No helicopter available to fly armed police to the island when the shooting began, and nearly all of Oslo's police on holidays.  Resignation had been forced on the head of Norway's intelligence service who was fixated on an Islamic threat, ignoring the threat from demented right-wingers.


And then there is the eventual verdict.  And the resulting sentence.  For the slaughter of 77 people, Breivik could be sentenced to 21 years, which could be extended under a completely rational fear that he would remain a threat; he most certainly would, his sacred mission was uncompleted, which he continues to express regret for. 


His complaint that it would be "sadistic" to send a "political activist" to a psychiatric ward, lends credence to the thought that this may be where he belongs. A totally unhinged Norwegian who decided to do the work that he imagined violent Islamists might be interested in pursuing.  Except for the fact that he envisioned the slaughter of a culture and a heritage he held dear.


Which is precisely what the radical Islamists who embark on their version of religious imperialism as committed jihadists claim to hold dear, their religious culture/heritage, for which they are prepared to act as executioner and martyr. 

They have much in common.