Breivik verdict: mass-murderer declared sane and sentenced to 21 years

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18. ellisonz

ellisonz

To be honest I doubt anyone will go out to kill him, even after say 30 or so year in a prison.. Somehow I think most Norwegians will pity the man - but not accept him in our midst.. One thing is to pity the man - but another thing is to accept him into our neighborhood and our homes.. What he did was horrible - we have never experienced anything like he did in our modern history. Even the germans, when they occupied the country, was not acting out like this - and the germans was not exactly kindly to Norwegians under the war (but compared to other nations they might have been seeing as kindly) .

What he did will be remembered for a a long time - the victims will maybe now finally be able to sleep in peace - and the many families of the victims will be able to go forward with their lives, now as the worst mass murderer Norway have ever had - is in prison for the rest of his natural life..

And our country will come out of this stronger committed to democracy and "openness" as our prime minister put it, just hours after the horrible attack on us all. Our system is stronger than it looks, and I just hope we can make it possible to protect the government better, without the negatives, like more difficult to have an open dialog with the government agencies.. One of the hallmark of Norway have been the possibility to talk directly to our public servants - and that our government offices have been as open as possible.. Until 2011 it was even possible to walk into the lobby of the highest offices in Norway and talk directly the different government officials, and you could talk to the different ministers if you choose to do it.. I just hope this freedom, and respect from both sides is not lost, in the new security that I believe will be build into the new offices when they are repaired. It took just minutes to blow it all up (sort of) but it will take years to rebuild, and to build new security into important offices..

We may had lost something in the proses from 2011 and today - but I do believe we still have our core values intact - and with luck we will be as we was - a few year down the road. Norway is a country who can "take it". We might mourn our dead and wounded - and we will possible be in a state of shock for a long time, but at least the country for the most part, is level handed and will not let this type of things end up in a more repressive state...

And the extreme right - is still on the fringes of the society - and will be there for a long, long time.. If anything Breivik did, he show how violent the extreme right can be sometimes... And the necessarily to keep an eye on this type of groups.

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