[John_D]

Re: Breivik Trial thread : Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:15 am  

Mintball wrote:

The IRA defence as well, if memory serves.

Quite possibly. He could have gone the Coulson/Blair/Murdoch jnr route: I don't recall.

Breivik Trial thread : Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:35 pm  

Although not a death-penalty advocater, if I was a parent of one of the many teenage innocents he slaughtered, I'd want my ten minutes locked in a cell with him, to forever wipe out that courtroom smirk he wore this morning!

Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:15 am  

Yup. I think it's the loony bin for this one judging by what he's having to say in court this morning (Tibet, Tolouse, Enoch Powell, Hitler, Sitting Bull). Interesting that Norway only has a 21 year maximum prison sentencing policy and that only 16% of the Norwegian public would want him to be given the death penalty.

Re: Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:29 am  

WIZEB wrote:

... Interesting that Norway only has a 21 year maximum prison sentencing policy ...

Yeah, right. When Mr Breivik is potted, I wish I could get a bet on that he will never get out of jail. But he won't. (They'll keep adding 5 year stretches on). I accept that in theory he could be released, but given his stated views and philosophy, he is never going to be deemed anything but a mortal danger to Norwegian citizens, and so trust me, he'll be in the clink till he shuffles off his mortal coil

Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:40 am  

Oh, I don't disagree....His mortal coil wouldn't last very long if he ever walked this earth a free man. I would doubt South America to be a safe option nowadays, unlike in the days of his bygone hero's.

Re: Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:06 am  

Mintball wrote:

The IRA defence as well, if memory serves.

And Hussein's as well.

Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:16 am  

What always strikes me is how stoic and dignified other nations are in the face of true national tragedy. The Japanese after the tsunami that killed thousands. The mass murder of tens of teenagers in a small populated country....I suppose the closest we came was when our 'Princess of Hearts' died in that Parisian underpass.

[John_D]

Re: Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:38 am  

WIZEB wrote:

I suppose the closest we came was when our 'Princess of Hearts' died in that Parisian underpass.

That was anything other than stoic

Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:49 am  

Shall I take my tongue out of my cheek?

Re: Breivik Trial thread : Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:33 am  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Yeah, right. When Mr Breivik is potted, I wish I could get a bet on that he will never get out of jail. But he won't. (They'll keep adding 5 year stretches on). I accept that in theory he could be released, but given his stated views and philosophy, he is never going to be deemed anything but a mortal danger to Norwegian citizens, and so trust me, he'll be in the clink till he shuffles off his mortal coil

Always dangerous to write off politically motivated offenders. I mean, Hitler didn't do too bad for himself after being tossed into jail over the Munich Beer Hall Putsch (bear in mind that he was facing a twenty year stretch until the very last minute).

Breivik is an odious individual. But societies and cultures change. Today he's viewed as a murderer. Tomorrow he could be a saint.