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Subscribe to RSSNorwegian mass killer Andres Breivik testified in an Oslo court Friday on the meticulous planning and execution of the plot that left 77 dead last summer, the Christian Science Monitor reported. He first warned people to leave the courtroom because his testimony might distress them.
Breivik explained how he arrived on the island of Utøya on July 22 and calmly and methodically executed Labor party youth members, many who stood paralyzed in fear as he shot them with a Glock pistol and Ruger semi-automatic rifle.
"I thought 'It's now or never,'" said a red-faced but composed Breivik, referring to his thoughts before taking his first victim. "A hundred voices in my head said, 'Don’t do this.'"
Read the entire Christian Science Monitor report here.
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Well hell, that explains it all. Too many voices speaking at once. It would confuse anyone. Some louder than others, and not one said "get it on."
"A hundred voices in my head said, 'Don’t do this.'"
Those were the Angels of your better half...
I think the next voice he hears will be the judge saying LIFE!
Should be more like "DEATH"!
And of all those voices...he didn't stop....he didn't think "maybe just maybe this is the wrong thing to do"...Kiss my butt...voices or no voices...he did what he did and he should be just as dead all those children are now...
He did something similar to what Che Guevara did, but yet Che is a cult hero of the Left. Bill Ayers was responsible for bombings here in America, but he is an esteemed professor at Univ of Illinois at Chicago now without serving prison time. Why is that?
Now "Come On Man" Barrack and Billy are friends.
Surely TBAustin, you're not suggesting there's an international leftist conspiracy that is controlling all the media and brainwashing people into having double standards on murderers according to their political beliefs?
Also Ayers never killed anybody. He was protesting an illegal war that was responsible for the murder of countless Americans and Vietnamese.
He still carried out bombings-- and that is still illegal. The fact that no one died is a happenstance. Those same bombs could very easily have killed someone at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Just beat him to death.
Sounds like this ass is trying to claim mental illness,"100 voices in my head said don't do it" he already said he would do it again. If i were the judges it would cost about sixty five cents(for a bullet) to try this clown.
Poor guy is mentally ill.
A sentence of Death is too easy. This nut case needs to suffer.
Love seeing the inane comments here. The Left and the Right have had their fanatics. Both are just as bad. The later killed Millions. IMHO, they are far worse. I have long said that the extreme Right has historically held many of the world's worst.
Agreed he is one sick person. We haven't heard the last of crazy testimony from this nutcase, it's going to get even crazier before it's all over. The guy is now in his next "phase" of his operation in that he now has the platform to spew his rhetoric onto the masses, just as he planned. There was so much premeditation to this violent act it's sickening. What a tragedy, all those young lives lost just for the effect it would have, thats all he wanted. The really scary part is that this sick bastard has people who agree with his view and condone his actions. It's a shame he can only be given twenty (20) years I guess according to the law. In the old days my people would have dealt with this guy the way he deserves.
Understand him-I don't think so.There is a logic tho.If he'd killed muslims he would've made them all into martyrs.
I don't know if this guy is mental or playing the part, but either way, he's a danger in any society, and should be locked up in a cage for the rest of his life. I think the max in norway is only 22 years so, when he gets out and whacks another 77, maybe they're going to wise up and change their laws.
Benediction
All terrorists are Muslim, right folks?
WMG-21, What if's are irrelevant. Anybody who drives a car could very easily kill someone in the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn't kill anyone. End of story.