Wow. I downloaded and have glanced at the manifesto. No, I haven’t read all 1500+ pages, and probably never will.
This man is in no way insane. What he did was commit a cold-blooded, conscious, premeditated act of war against the Norwegian ruling class. Those are the people who are responsible for opening the floodgates for Muslim immigration.
He deliberately targeted and exterminated the next generation of Socialist leaders of that country. That was what the “youth camp” was all about: The children of the elites were being groomed to take their “rightful place” in the leadership.
Yep, we’ll be seeing more of this sort of thing, all right. And of course the elites will crack down even harder on any kind of dissent.
World Civil War I, folks. Get used to it.
Dozens of excellent comments, as usual, at Belmont Club.
So, it appears that someone - albeit not an American - has come to the same conclusion as many of us have here: that the Left is the primary cause of the proliferation of evil in the world, and that there is little to no hope of reconciliation.
Is this simply an inevitable manifestation of the coming conflict?
I always ask, when people start polishing their guns, "Who exactly are you gonna shoot?" It appears that this man identified a target: the Leftist government, and a Leftist indoctrination camp for socialist youth.
How do we feel about this? The easy answer is, "terrorism against the innocent is never legitimate". I've said it hundreds if not thousands of times myself, and I believe it - at least morally. I abhor terrorism. But I'm willing to contemplate the unthinkable as I explore my own thoughts on the matter.
If things pan out that this was really an attack against the Leftist establishment by a patriotic Norwegian who could not stand to stand by and watch his country crumble without acting definitively, I'm not so sure the lines of good and evil regarding terrorism are as Black and White as my past rhetoric indicates. It's one thing to rail against terrorism when it is committed against what one perceives as "good". It's another thing to be faced with the exact same act committed against what one perceives as "evil". I consider Leftism to be evil - the greatest enabler of evil on planet earth.
Just thinking out loud, not drawing conclusions.