Sadly Glen Beck has a number of adherents on these Forums and no doubt somebody will come by to defend him.
Unfortunately there is little a society based on rule of law can do to protect itself completely from a murderer with an agenda, a weapon and or access to bomb-making material.
Politicizing the tragedy in Norway provides Breivik with a veneer of legitimacy that is an insult to his victims.
On the other hand, writing him off as a merely insane does nothing to honestly try and determine if there are warning signs that can identify politically motivated sociopaths before they can do violence. It's unlikely Breivik was born to murder so somewhere along the way outside influences shaped his worldview so that slaughtering innocents was an acceptable and correct course of action in his eyes. While not excusing his crime we should try to objectively understand the Why? even if the answer might be unpleasant for some.
It speaks volumes for the People of Norway that they seem to be giving Breivik all his rights and representations under Norwegian law although I am sure that virtually every policeman and probably most Norwegian's would gladly put a bullet in his head personally. In any case, I would think that there are no prospects of him ever rejoining society nor should there be.
Too bad Breivik will not be the last sociopathic, politically motivated mass-murderer; no country has immunity from the type but hopefully Norway will never again see something like this repeated. The scary thing is, somewhere out there another Breivik clone is plotting, scheming and arranging his dominoes for a new outrage.
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