Anders Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people 2011 is threatening to go on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his imprisonment which he describes as "torture-like".
Among his demands are having his PS2 replaced with a PS3 and the ability to pick the games he plays because the titles he has aren't adult enough.
Anders Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people 2011 is threatening to go on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his imprisonment which he describes as "torture-like".
Among his demands are having his PS2 replaced with a PS3 and the ability to pick the games he plays because the titles he has aren't adult enough.
This story reminds me of the British naval personnel who were captured by the Iranians after straying into their waters in a motor boat or rubber dinghy or something. They had their smart phones and iPods taken away and it made them cry! Man, we are so **********.
I know Norway doesn't have a death penalty...and that's cool.... But shouldn't we be able to just put a noose hanging in his cell... with a rickety stool he can stand on to help get up.... you know just in case he has a bad day.
Haha, I was going to make a thread on this. He claims his condition is akin to torture and breaks European laws on human rights. Pff, the PS2 isn't that bad! I'd say give him a GameCube..
He also demands that his allowance is doubled so he can afford the postage to reply to all his fan mail from abroad.
I trust that it'll be resolved under Norwegian law which is generally refreshingly humane when it comes to prisoners and I cannot be bothered to care further about this vicious person other than to see how Norway continues to refuse to give in to his behavior and instead to value their free, generally just society instead.
This story reminds me of the British naval personnel who were captured by the Iranians after straying into their waters in a motor boat or rubber dinghy or something. They had their smart phones and iPods taken away and it made them cry! Man, we are so **********.
Though, to get the debate back on the ground, the PS2 and money for postage isn't his biggest complaint, nor are they the source of his claim of torture.
The isolation is. Breivik has been in isolation since he was incarcerated. Isolation can be considered torture, both under Norwegian and European law. The demand for a better game system is in relations to that, as he feels that a newer, better system would be compensation for that isolation.
But in Breivik's case I would argue that isolation, for now at least, is reasonable - he has, after all, said that he intends to use prison as a recruitment ground for new anti-Islamic terrorists. I'm not sure if he really expected that they'd let him into the general prison population after that.
I am possessed
By the pale devil of a shaking heart!
My stubborn will is bent. I dare not face
That devilish monarch's black malignity!
He tortures me with torments worse than death,
I haven't anything to grumble at!
He finds out what particular meats I love,
And gives me them. The very choicest wines,
The costliest robes the richest rooms are mine:
He suffers none to thwart my simplest plan,
And gives strict orders none should contradict me!
He 's made my life a curse! [Weeps.]
Whene'er I poke
Sarcastic joke
Replete with malice spiteful,
The people vile
Politely smile
And vote me quite delightful!
Now, when a wight
Sits up all night
Ill-natured jokes devising,
And all his wiles
Are met with smiles,
It's hard, there's no disguising!
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
When German bands
From music stands
Play Wagner imperfectly--
I bid them go--
They don't say no,
But off they trot directly!
The organ boys
They stop their noise
With readiness surprising,
And grinning herds
Of hurdy-gurds
Retire apologizing!
Oh, don't the days seem lank and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at!
I've offered gold,
In sums untold,
To all who'd contradict me--
I've said I'd pay
A pound a day
To any one who kicked me--
I've bribed with toys
Great vulgar boys
To utter something spiteful,
But, bless you, no!
They will be so
Confoundedly politeful!
In short, these aggravating lads
They tickle my tastes, they feed my fads,
They give me this and they give me that,
And I've nothing whatever to grumble at!
[He bursts into tears, and falls sobbing on a bank.]
I trust that it'll be resolved under Norwegian law which is generally refreshingly humane when it comes to prisoners and I cannot be bothered to care further about this vicious person
Yep. Much better to know that he's in a hole, where his minimal rights will be scrupulously granted, and there nothing notable needs to be said or thought about him ever again. Much worse to imagine the comparable person thrown in Guantanamo tortured, water-boarded, etc., which (aside from the inhumanity itself) forces you to remember the guy for the sake of objecting to the inhumanity.
I remember being distinctly glad that Bin Laden was killed rather than captured. If he'd been captured, we'd have spent the subsequent 20 years listening to saturation news coverage of debates about the details of his treatment. DRUDGE REPORT EXCLUSIVE: SOFT-ON-TERROR PRISON OFFICIALS REPAIR OSAMA'S DIALYSIS MACHINE versus RED CROSS DENOUNCES OSAMA'S ALL-BACON PRISON DIET and I just don't want to think about him that much.
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