Norway Bombing

[TFOGGER]

No, what I'm saying is that from what I understand, unless you are criminally insane, the maximum sentence you can be given in Norway is normally 21 years.

However, there is some leeway for certain individuals to be judged sane, but the enormity of their crimes allows for them to be detained indefinitely. So even if this guy is judged sane, it seems likely that he's never going to be released.

When he should be fed into a wood chipper feet first, very slowly.

I realize the whole "due process" thing has to be followed, but the brigand/pirate/vigilante portion of my psyche cries out for blood. I find it unlikely that this cretin acted alone, so perhaps before his date with the wood chipper, he should be vigorously interrogated, Mossad style.

[bellavite1]

My cousins have gone from being the meanest, toughest, bastards to sail the seas to a country of no death penalty, terrible gun laws, and beer at $10 a pint. I blame it on Christianity. When we were pagans Vikings had Ireland, Scotland, a part of England, Normandy, Moscow, and were the bodyguards of the Byzantine emperor. Damn.

I rest my case...

[Irving]

What do you guys know about the party in power that he acted against? Besides what Hannu has already said.

[Uberjager]

Just based on the preliminary news reports, it has many of the earmarks of a politically motivated domestic terrorist attack. My number one question is where did the high yield explosives come from. Number two question is where the money for the attacks come from. Answer those two questions, and you'll figure out all the rest.

He was fairly wealthy, having around 4 million Krone in bank accounts at one time, which is roughly $750,000. He started a farming company, and bought 6 tons of fertilizer chemicals.

[nynco]

Armaments?
What did he have?
Where did he get them?
Norway is damn tight on guns. Read he had an assault rifle...so maybe an HK or an M16? Ammo only available in hunting calibers so...308?

From what I read it was a Glock 19 and a Mini 14. But I think he had more than just that alone.

[mcantar18c]

Sure, its terrible that it happened and the things I'd do to the guy for shooting up a kids camp would make Guantanamo detainees think they've got it good.
But you know what the most fucked up thing about this is? I'm so damn jaded that the fact this happened doesn't anger me, the numbers of innocents dead doesn't surprise me, and the pictures of the memorials brings no emotion out of me. Every day in the news there's something about "X number of people died in attacks on X" that I'm just desensitized to it... I can't be the only one that feels this way. Our world is one fucked up place.

I get philosophical when I drink.

[Irving]

If a Mexican citizen conducted a similar attack on the children of the major drug cartels in their town, would you feel any differently toward the event?

Just curious.

[mcantar18c]

If a Mexican citizen conducted a similar attack on the children of the major drug cartels in their town, would you feel any differently toward the event?

Just curious.

Probably not. How fucked up is that?
Don't get me wrong... if someone raises a hand to a female or yells at a child out of anger, I'll step in (and have). But the things we hear about in the news... its just become so commonplace that it doesn't hit home anymore.

[Irving]

Don't get me wrong... if someone raises a hand to a female or yells at a child out of anger, I'll step in (and have).

Yell at a child in anger? Give me a break.

[nynco]

If a Mexican citizen conducted a similar attack on the children of the major drug cartels in their town, would you feel any differently toward the event?

Just curious.

Sadly I know the Mexican cartels have done just that. I guess the horrible thing for Norway is the assumption it could not happen there and not by one of their own.