Idiot's Fantasy

Idiot Anders Behring Breivik, the right wing psycho from Norway sees himself like this:

It's just incredible how stupid national and religious identity makes people.
Note the Iron Cross on his fantasy hazmat suit.

The reality is that right wing thinking historically lends itself all too frequently to national chauvinism and racial/tribal bigotry...which inturn lends itself to sociopathic violence.

But, Pick a cause...ANY cause...take to the extreme and you get fascists willing to kill and die for that cause. THAT is the enemy.

The only cure is an educated tolerance garnered from dismissal of blind faiths, group and tribal identities while embracing long term intermixing of cultures. Hate is just another mask of fear and fear is the result of ignorance. Nothing is more dangerous than willful ignorance.

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cofresi
Back in America

Not a monster.

This is a rational thinking person who's head is filled with ideas that circulate widely in our societies, and are voiced by many among us. The sooner we face that, the better. There are plenty of people who espouse these very same sick ideas, and gladly speak every day about harm to other people that they see as foreigners.

The sooner we admit that our society has many many people who believe and gather together and give voice and get profit from these sick ideas, the better.

Of course many of you will find ways to deny this. Go ahead. Deny.

I for one am not surprised that yet again, some self-righteous person believes it is their God-given patriotic mission to go out and act violently against other people who are threats -- to rid their world of muslims, or americans, or communists or jews or immigrants or whatever. And these people do not act alone, and do not think alone: they are acting out on what others advocate in public rhetoric, and tone, and ideology. Violence is simply the physical acting out of the ideas of hatred.

What is truly cowardly is for all those other people who speak the rhetoric of hatred on a daily basis, to now suddenly pull back and act as though this is an aberration, only the act of a madman. Because you can be sure, those who speak the ideas of hatred every day will now backpedal and say that only a madman would do this. They will say this is a lunatic, a deranged psycho, a loner, etc. And they will continue to deny and hide behind their "free speech rights" and voice yet more ideas of hatred against any and all "foreigners".

And I refuse to be surprised when this happens yet again.