Anders Breivik

Last Friday, around 1.30 pm GMT, Anders Breivik, 32, made a car-bomb explode in a Govermental area in central Oslo, near the building where the Norwegian PM, Jens Stoltenberg, had his office. Stoltenberg is the head of the Norwegian Laborist Party (Socialdemocrat). Then, Breivik swiftly and masterly, let's say, escaped the crime scene and moved on to the small Island of Utoya, about 45 minutes from Oslo. There, dressed up like a policeman, approached the summer camp of the youngsters of the Laborist Party and, one by one, killed by shotgun over 60. The overall toll of casualties is about 76, although the counting was higher immediately after the killings, as the police was counting injured people as well.

Not until today I did care about it, I honestly must say. And I do not need to know anything else about the story now after listening to the chronicle of this great professional, Paco Perez Abellan. If you don't understand Spanish, try to find a guy of similar profile like Paco in your own country: I am sure, he or she exists.

People get too complicated when things like that happens. At the beginning of It's a mad, mad, mad world Russell comes back to the car after the accident and says "things like that happens" and his mother-in-law gets crazy and retorts "why do you say things like that happens; the whole world is a mess because when things like that happens, people say things like that happens".

The truth is that Evil happens. And you cannot do anything about it, nor create any agency against Nazism or Islamofobia or Xenophobia or any sort of -phobia. Evil will exist ever, and education nor any kind of rational cure will ever do it any better, not necessarily. The key point is what societies do in order to prevent it. According to the story of Abellan, I share his opinion that Breivik is a "solitary wolf", crazy if you wish, but he is no nuts. He knew very well what he was doing; he had up to 20 bombs prepared from aspirin and fertilizers. The police knew and did not proceed further with the investigation.

Again, Breivik is very conscious of his acts and has fully responsibility upon them. The motivation, according to Abellan, is a notoriety urge. Breivik, indeed, fulfilled this his aim. The credit and repute of the idyllic Scandinavian society, where everybody is gentle and happy, is at stake and damaged; the Norwegian Government is to move to a different location and is facing the demand of this man to make his reasons and "philosophy of life" public: just as other serial killers, like Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber, who terrorized the Universities and air companies of The States since 1978 for almost 20 years, Breivik carried a diary, a 1,500-page diary, very detailed and elaborate, and has composed a Manifest. Extracts of the diary can be found here.

Breivik is Bruce Willis' Jackal.

Evil is part of the Human Journey; only Utopias, like the Socialist crap, believe in its eradication by rational means. Again: what are societies doing to prevent it as much as possible?

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