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Accused Norwegian Terrorist Has a Pen Pal

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Posted on Apr 18, 2012
AP/Frank Augstein

A court-appointed psychologist said Anders Breivik has received more than 100 letters of support from Sweden, Russia, Germany and Britain.

Early in the 20th century, Ayn Rand admired serial killer William Hickman from afar. Today, 23-year-old Massachusetts resident Kevin Forts has found his own murderous darling in the figure of accused terrorist Anders Breivik.

On the third day of Breivik’s trial for the killing of 77 people in a mass shooting on the Norwegian island of Utoya and the bombing of government buildings in Oslo, Forts outed himself as Breivik’s pen pal to the Norwegian tabloid VG, which Spiegel Online describes as the “country’s most-read newspaper.”

Forts sympathizes with Breivik’s view that Muslims are invading Western nations with help from sympathetic multiculturalists and that they will impose Shariah law if given the chance.

Forts appeared strained and nervous in an interview with a VG reporter, in which he called Breivik a “nationalist and a patriot and not the terrorist neo-Nazi that the media portrays him to be.”

—ARK

Spiegel Online:

In a video of the interview posted on the VG website on Wednesday in which he explained why he is defending the murders, Forts said: “I believe it demonstrates a sense of nationalism and a moral conscience. He’s fighting against cultural Marxism and the Islamization of Norway and he found that the most rational way to accomplish that was through terrorist actions on Utøya and in Oslo.”

When asked how one could defend the murder of inncoent children, Forts added: “Because I believe that he used it as an unprecedented attack. I don’t believe that it should occur again, but I do believe that it was atrocious but necessary in that it has raised awareness for it and Breivik did that with the executions.”

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By omop, April 25, 2012 at 6:19 am Link to this comment

OM will get a kick out of this “antisem” video. It showed on Isreali tv on
Easter.

Talk about denigration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA6vRC1xW_c&feature=related

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By PatrickHenry, April 25, 2012 at 3:37 am Link to this comment

OM,

You have a good point that ‘control’ is an incorrect word, ‘heavily influenced by’ is a more correct term.

As far as having the anti-semitic label applied, zionism is not judaism and has been recognized internationally as a form of racism.  Now days it’s being applied to stifle any criticism of discrimmination in media, banking and repression of others natural rights by a monied class which a large percentage happen to be Jews.

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By OzarkMichael, April 24, 2012 at 9:14 pm Link to this comment

While OM has a point that this kind of psychotic killer is not restricted to the zionists, it should be recognized that their control of the media can create a false impression that the muslim nutjobs are mainstream while the zionist nutjobs are random.

I am not interested in pinning control of the media on zionists. It is too big an accusation and it is too conspiratorial for my taste. Also, it edges towards anti-semitism.

Lets talk about who controls the media here on Truthdig. I think Truthdig creates a false impression that the muslim nutjobs are mainstream. I dont think zionists are behind it. I think it is accidental because Leftists are inadvertantly prejudiced against muslims.

Many Leftists who post here propel that narrative by treating muslims as if one shouldnt be held responsible for what he did.  That type of treatment makes all muslims look like children who have no control of themselves.

The Leftists think they are loving-loving-loving when they do that. It is meant to be supportive of muslims, but in fact it denigrates all of them. I am probably the only person who sees it as prejudice.

If you are interested in examples, the next time it happens I will point it out to you.

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By PatrickHenry, April 21, 2012 at 6:09 pm Link to this comment

omop,

While OM has a point that this kind of psychotic killer is not restricted to the zionists, it should be recognized that their control of the media can create a false impression that the muslim nutjobs are mainstream while the zionist nutjobs are random.

Whoever wishes to be a penpal of the likes of Anders probably wishes Jonathan Pollard to be freed.

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By omop, April 21, 2012 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment

PH.

Do you think it may be that OM is a an admiring pen pa*?

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By PatrickHenry, April 21, 2012 at 6:46 am Link to this comment

OM,

Does his hatred justify your blanket statements about any topic or group of people? No.

The fact is Anders is a devout zionist and hates muslims, immigrants and loves israel.

The group is small but rabid.

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By OzarkMichael, April 20, 2012 at 11:09 am Link to this comment

The guy is an asskisser and avowed follower of israeli zionism, hates muslims and is willing to kill because of that hatred

So there he is. Is this really a surprise? That there are a few people in the world who are full of hate, and you find them everywhere, isnt really news is it? You even find some haters in Gaza.

Is Forts an important person? No.

Does his hatred justify your blanket statements about any topic or group of people? No.

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By PatrickHenry, April 20, 2012 at 3:31 am Link to this comment

OM,

The guy is an asskisser and avowed follower of israeli zionism, hates muslims and is willing to kill because of that hatred.

Reminds me of some posters who shill here 24/7.

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By rend it, April 19, 2012 at 4:22 pm Link to this comment

I just ate too many potato chips.

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By omop, April 19, 2012 at 12:52 pm Link to this comment

@ OzarkMichael.

    Spoken as a true nematode.

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By OzarkMichael, April 19, 2012 at 11:00 am Link to this comment

Judging from the posts so far, you would think that Kevin Forts is a spokesman for a major political movement.

Such as this by omop:

One could hazard a guess that if Anders was named Mohamed or Omar he would be condemned as a TERRORIST.

Murdering 77 fellow citizens including many children in certain European countries by a man named Anders though is called ” a nationalist and a patriot and not the terrorist neo-Nazi that the media portrays him to be.”

Does this article mean anything at all? Is it really news? Or is it just a cheap way for Truthdig to stir up a disgruntled cicada buzz by Truthdiggers like omop and PatrickHenry?

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By omop, April 19, 2012 at 5:17 am Link to this comment

One could hazard a guess that if Anders was named Mohamed or Omar
he would be condemned as a TERRORIST.

Murdering 77 fellow citizens including many children in certain
European countries by a man named Anders though is called ” a
nationalist and a patriot and not the terrorist neo-Nazi that the media
portrays him to be.”

Cecil Rhodes some years ago pontificated…” I contend that we are the
first race in the wolrd, and that the more of the world we inhabit, the
better it is for the human race”. CR was born in England but lived most of
his life in Africa.

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By PatrickHenry, April 19, 2012 at 3:27 am Link to this comment

Zionists come in all shapes, sizes and nationalities and are all as morally defective as each other.

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