22 July — One Of Us

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Three years ago, when it first came out, I read One of Us, a book by Åsne Seierstad about the 2011 mass shooting in Norway in which right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik exploded a bomb in Oslo (killing 8) and then gunned down 69 more (mostly teenagers) on the island of Utøya. This was a Summer camp for AUF kids, the youth wing of Norway’s Labor Party.
It is a well known summer camp that teaches multiculturalism and progressive values. He used a Mini-14 and a pistol.
As the children ran he mocked them as Marxist scum.

On the NYT List of the 10 best books of 2015
https://www.amazon.com/One-Us-Massacre- ... 0374536090
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Netflix has come out with a 2 1/2 hour movie about it, titled 22 July.
As you’d expect, the book goes into much more detail on Brehviks planning and “why?” questions. The movie is more a surface treatment that begins with the attacks and the second half is about the aftermath and trial. The Norwegians were vulnerable to homegrown terrorists because they thought that one of their own couldn’t do such a thing, so they focused on Islamic threats. The later Inquiry confirmed this and several other ways the Norwegian government and police dropped the ball. Sometimes being too civilized can work against you.

On Netflix. Filmed in Norway with a Norwegian cast, but in English. No subtitles.
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Re: 22 July — One Of Us

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He's a neo-nazi and has NO remorse--even proud of what he's done, and other sickos like Adam Lanza (NewTown) were inspired by him.
I hate to advocate murder but I hope he never sees freedom again. Which means he'd have to be murdered in prison, die of disease, or be murdered the moment he steps out of prison as Norwegian law doesn't have life imprisonment, much less life without parole.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

Re: 22 July — One Of Us

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Unlike Adam Lanza, the Norwegian shooter, Brehviks, was "fully there" and an ultra-right wing nationalist who felt marginalized watching the country of his birth favor foreign immigrants and refugees. In that, he is quite similar to Terry Nichols/Timothy McVeigh, the Proud Boys and other Neo-nazi fascists in the US who hate Liberals and "socialists".
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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