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Anders Breivik Latest Update
Sane or Insane?

Vic Magnet

Last updated on April 23^th 2012

Update April 23, 2012:

This page is no longer being updated as we now have an understanding of what made Breivik plan and carry out a shooting spree, killing unarmed ethnic Norwegian youth attending a summer camp, in order to save ethnic Norwegians from an invasion of Islamic hoards.

This is covered in the summary of what the purpose is of spending 10 or 11 weeks on Breivik’s trial.

Breivik’s psychological profile is covered here.

Update April 13, 2012:

The week before Breivik’s trial starts, his defence team announced the line-up of witnesses to be called for Anders Breivik's defence. Bizarrely he wants to call a convicted Islamic terrorist to witnesses for his defence.

From the beginning of January 2012, Anders Breivik the Norwegian rightwing terrorist and mass murderer was allowed visitors. Family, old friends and journalists are understandable, but there are people who feel they have a “mission” to reform or convert him. Don’t these people have a life and better things to do?

However his own family are delaying any reunion. They do not remember anything psychotic about Anders Breivik. Nasty ideas yes, but otherwise normal and sane. They have distanced themselves from him.

Breivikn himself is not interested in contact with his family or friends. Neither does he care what they think about his actions.

Then there are the inevitable love letters. What is it about mass murderers and other evil people sitting in jail, that attracts some women to feel sorry for them and think they can change these people with “their” love. Don’t they have a life either?

Breivik is hoping that journalists will ask to visit him, for interviews, so that he can get his message out into the world outside his four prison walls, but he appears nervous of contacts according to his lawyer Geir Lippestad.

The hundreds of people from all over the world who have so far applied to visit Breivik are likely to be turned down, these are those seeking to get him to change his ideological view, convert him and pray with him. Breivik will not be informed about these requests.

Is Breivik Psychotic or is He Sane?

The original two court-appointed psychiatrists said Breivik was insane, living in his “own delusional universe where all his thoughts and acts are guided by his delusions.”

However a team of four psychiatrists monitoring Breivik in prison reached a different conclusion, saying they believe he is not psychotic.

This is not the first time in Norway that a politically uncomfortable Norwegian has been declared insane. After the Second World War the Norwegians could not understand how Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, and called “Norway’s soul” before the war, could have supported Hitler and the Nazis.

Declaring Hamsun insane was a convenient way for Norwegians to deal with the inconvenient truth that their hero liked their enemy, and was therefore a traitor. Being declared mad allowed the Norwegians put the matter to rest.

The conclusion that Breivik, who killed 77 and injured 158 ethnic Norwegians in a bizarre bombing and shooting spree to save Europe from a Muslim invasion, was insane angered many people in Norway.

According to this second report, submitted by Svein Holden the Public Prosecutor, the prison expert team said they do not believe Breivik is psychotic or schizophrenic and do not think he needs drugs.

These terrorist acts by Breivik were a result of a well planned and thoroughly thought through ideology and philosophy. The people around Breivik before he embarked on his killing spree did not see any psychotic or schizophrenic behavior in Breivik.

Being paranoid is not unusual in any society from Europe through the Unites States to Afghanistan and Iraq. How many Americans and Europeans are comfortable with Islam extremists?

Murdering ethnic Nordic Norwegians to save Europe from an Islamic invasion does seem irrational and delusional, but Breivik was sharing his ideas with likeminded irrational and delusional individuals on Internet chat sites. The difference between those others and Breivik is that they went back to work the next morning and vented their spleen against Islamic extremism during their tea and lunch breaks, while Breivik went on to kill ethnic Norwegians.

Anders Breivik has for years been a focussed and clear thinking debater in these extremist and Nazi circles. He clearly understood the consequences of his actions as he has meticulously described his plans in his manifesto.

Having a different ideological or political view from the majority in a country is not being delusional, psychotic or insane. Taking the next step and murdering people because they disagree with one’s political ideology is a criminal act.

Breivik is sane enough to stand trial and be held accountable. He is a nasty individual, maybe sociopathic, but psychopathy is not a mental disorder. When psychopaths commit crimes they do no go to mental institutions, they go to jail.

From the wording in the report, declaring Anders Breivik insane is a political act worthy of Stalin or Hitler.

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