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The editorial says Canada is a natural target because we're not prepared for a terrorist attack,then goes on to mention several of the Muslim attacks in the last 10 years.
The Norway attack seems to have been the action of a lone maniac. His politics,or lack of same, don't really matter,neither Left nor Right,nor any organized religion is going to applaud what he did.
It is very unfortunate that Norway lacks capital punishment,as if ever there was a case for it,this is it. 21 years is the maximum he can serve,so unless s fellow convict has a more finely developed sense of justice than the authorities,he'll be out at 53 years of age.
I suppose we can assume he'll be better by then, no longer crying out in his pain.
Sometimes I admire the method of disposal of this type of criminal used by China.
Is it my imagination or does he look like the wikileaker.
"... not prepared for a terrorist attack ..."
Yes, I saw that editorial and wondered: Can we ever really be prepared? The number of possible targets is enormous and til attacked unknown. Timing is unknown - always a surprise. The best preparation would seem to be prevention, ie. having good intelligence as in the Toronto case; but where the perp is a lone lunatic there'll be no intelligence. Otherwise, it's kind of like earthquakes; beyond having good building codes meaningful "preparation" is always going to be a problem.
As for death penalties, even if heavily restricted and rarely used I think they should always be on the books, ready for special, obvious cases - like this.
Mary, By gosh you're right, or a close relative:)
The media see a senseless tragedy like this as an opportunity to continue the media agenda of fostering hate and nurturing intolerance. It's really an unfortunate shame that the media have to use the murderous act of a deranged lunatic as an opportunity to continue the practice of slamming the right, but the media have never been the voice of reason and sanity. In the warped minds of the media an inexplicable murderous act like this can be easily explained and dismissed as an act of the political right, and not as a horrendous act of cowardice and cruelty by an unhinged murdering SOB.
Sean, In the words of Ezra Levant the "media party" is, in the words of Ann Coulter, part of the "liberal mob" a malevolent, irrational force.
The part of this story that confuses me the most is the apparent need for the "lefties" to proclaim that this homicidal maniac is a "right wing" extremist. For a guy who lists one of his favorite books as "Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell", I have to wonder if he's perhaps more of a leftist who has come to the realization that only a conservative government can protect his liberal views. I would love to hear Christopher Hitchen's views of this deranges soul.
I meant "deranged", not "deranges".
That bad belongs to me.
As for the punishment to fit the crime, why not drop him off in Damascus and wish him luck?
Paul,
Good points. Even if this guy does claim to be "right-wing" and not as completely deranged as he appears to be, so far, he'll be strongly denounced by true conservatives if nothing else on grounds of his violent lawlessness. This would be in contrast with leftist mass murderers and lesser perps most of whom the left continues to romanticize and defend to this day - eg. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che and American homegrowns like William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and the other 1960s Weather Underground "revolutionaries" (most of whom have been rewarded with tenure at US Colleges and Universities where they continue teaching their same rancid ideologies.)
Also, hypocritical leftists and the leftist media enthusiastically accept and repeat any suggestion that terror suspects are or may be Christian while suppressing any suggestion that they may be Muslim.
I don't think there is any explantion for mass murder for the sake of mass murder. There are always those that use various labels to explain the unexplainable. I do not subscribe to the notion that politics is the reason for this type of perversion against your fellow human beings - its murder and the mind is always engaged in a complicated war of what is right, decent and sane behaviour. Sometimes the mind is just broken and cannot be repaired. Cheers.
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