Terrorist attack in Oslo

[Guardian85]

What is the likelihood/possibility that he'd be killed by another inmate while in prison?

Considering that several criminal organizations (including Hell's Angels) have offered a price for his head... 
More then a little likely.

[Too Few Lions]

I was watching it live on the TV news too. It was pretty sick how he was completely unaffected when the killings were recounted in court, but was crying when his pathetic youtube propaganda video was played, making him out to be a modern crusader knight and defender of Europe and western civilization, yuck! I got the impression he's very narcististic and deluded on top of being a very unpleasant fucked-up individual.

[Sweetdeath]

What is the likelihood/possibility that he'd be killed by another inmate while in prison?

Considering that several criminal organizations (including Hell's Angels) have offered a price for his head... 
More then a little likely.

Good. I hope he gets shanked hard. T_T

[OldGit]

That's my gut reaction, too, but then I start to wonder if that wouldn't give other RW nutters the chance to make him a martyr.

Mind you, if I were banged up with a head-case like that, I'd probably want to kill him just to get him out of my cell.

[Asmodean]

Oh, one can be quite certain that he gets a one man cell and a small army of guards following him around. The jail is aware of the dangers and the threats.

[Sweetdeath]

Oh, one can be quite certain that he gets a one man cell and a small army of guards following him around. The jail is aware of the dangers and the threats.

Why would they waste time and money protecting someone like that?  It seems so ass backwards.

[OldGit]

They want the world to see how fair, humane and civilised they are.  And they're probably right, much as it pains me to admit it.

[DeterminedJuliet]

It was pretty sick how he was completely unaffected when the killings were recounted in court, but was crying when his pathetic youtube propaganda video was played, making him out to be a modern crusader knight and defender of Europe and western civilization, yuck!

Oh, Fuck off!  (to him, not you)

[Asmodean]

Oh, one can be quite certain that he gets a one man cell and a small army of guards following him around. The jail is aware of the dangers and the threats.

Why would they waste time and money protecting someone like that?  It seems so ass backwards.

Because the government frowns upon people killing people, assholes and polar bears 

[Ali]

They want the world to see how fair, humane and civilised they are.  And they're probably right, much as it pains me to admit it.

Agreed (including that it pains to admit.)

I wish we didn't have the death penalty in the US, no matter how much some people need killin'.

[Tank]

Breivik case 'shows insanity misconceptions'

Horrific crimes, such as the Anders Breivik case, illustrate the misconceptions the public has about mental illness, a leading expert says.

Professor Simon Wessely, of King's College London, said the simplest responses to mass killings were that the perpetrators "must be mad".

But he said the way Breivik carried out the killings suggested otherwise.

He said the idea a psychiatric diagnosis could help people avoid punishment was wrong too.

Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Professor Wessely said putting forward a mental illness defence in the UK could lead a person to spending more time behind bars than less.

"The forensic psychiatry system is not a soft or popular option," he added.

'Meticulous way'

The psychiatrist also said the Breivik case highlighted another misconception - that outrageous crimes must mean mental illness.

"For schizophrenia to explain Breivik's actions, they would have to be the result of delusions."

But he added: "The meticulous way in which he planned his attacks does not speak to the disorganisation of schizophrenia."

An interesting observation on insanity.

[Ali]

This made me smile.

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/04/23/anders_behring_breivik_apology_for_innocent_oslo_bombing_victims_but_no_apology_for_norway_youth_camp_massacre.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatest

[Asmodean]

I actually doubt that Breivik hates the song - it's just that many people quite understandably do not want it associated with him and his own personal world.

Still... 40000 people showed up in Oslo and more all over the country plus Iceland, apparently. As a show of sympathy for those worst affected, it was a nice gesture, although some quacky shrinks are already busily overanalysing it.

[En_Route]

Breivik case 'shows insanity misconceptions'

Horrific crimes, such as the Anders Breivik case, illustrate the misconceptions the public has about mental illness, a leading expert says.

Professor Simon Wessely, of King's College London, said the simplest responses to mass killings were that the perpetrators "must be mad".

But he said the way Breivik carried out the killings suggested otherwise.

He said the idea a psychiatric diagnosis could help people avoid punishment was wrong too.

Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Professor Wessely said putting forward a mental illness defence in the UK could lead a person to spending more time behind bars than less.

"The forensic psychiatry system is not a soft or popular option," he added.

'Meticulous way'

The psychiatrist also said the Breivik case highlighted another misconception - that outrageous crimes must mean mental illness.

"For schizophrenia to explain Breivik's actions, they would have to be the result of delusions."

But he added: "The meticulous way in which he planned his attacks does not speak to the disorganisation of schizophrenia."

An interesting observation on insanity.

Absence of empathy is probably what is needed to carry out this kind of atrocity. Plus too much time on your hands.

[Guardian85]

Coupled with a very inflated sense of self and conciderable paranoia.