Dr Matthew Feldman: Slaughter was killer's appetiser. It is the trial that is his main course

[xchrom]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dr-matthew-feldman-slaughter-was-killers-appetiser-it-is-the-trial-that-is-his-main-course-2325910.html

The heart-stopping events of 22 July 2011 appear to be the work of a far-right ideologue acting alone – Anders Behring Breivik, 32, who bombed central Oslo and shot down children for more than an hour. Every part of this tragedy is astonishing. The carnage of one fanatically driven man. A bombing in the very square used to award the Nobel Peace Prize annually.

Most surprising is this: Friday's atrocities seem to have been of secondary importance to Breivik. The slaughter was a kind of terrorist PR. That is how his rejected request for an open trial should be viewed: a failed attempt to reach a global audience with violent anti-Muslim propaganda. In fact, as claimed in his manifesto: "A trial is an excellent opportunity and a well-suited arena the Justiciar Knight can use to publicly renounce the authority of the EUSSR/USASSR hegemony and the specific cultural Marxist/multi-culturalist regime."

All his actions seem to have been done to publicise his 12-minute video and 1,516 page manifesto, "2083: A European Declaration of Independence". Comprising years of work by a lucid – if violent and racist – mind, it predicts that following a European Civil War there will be a "third" Muslim expulsion completed in Europe by 2083.

[Major Hogwash]

1. I don't understand. Is Breivik going to have a public trial or not?

He has to have a trial.
Is Feldman saying he wanted to have a televised trial, but was turned down?

[xchrom]

2. i don't know if there's been a final decision on the trial.

if it were up to me -- i wouldn't give the killer what he wants.

closed door trial.

[Major Hogwash]

3. Oh, okay. Thanks for the quick reply.

I haven't been keeping up on that story because it makes me ill.
When I read that he had dressed up as a police officer and killed so many children, it made me physically sick.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around violent situations like that.

[PCIntern]

4. He needs a five-minute trial and then taken out, hung, and

dragged thru the streets with grappling hooks.

sorry...I know...but his actions were genocidal.

[H2O Man]

5. It is evident

that this scumbag thinks that his actions have provided him a larger platform upon which to speak. He believes he will be speaking on the world stage.

[David in Canada]

6. Trying to Copycat Hitler?

Breivik seems to be trying to copycat Hitler's 1923 trial following the Beer Hall Putsch where he ranted and raved and used the trial as a platform for power.

Perhaps he is hoping for a televised trial in order to rouse impressionable people to his sick, demented cause and then get sprung out of jail and catapulted to power in a right-wing coup?

Surely it wouldn't work. However with deranged individuals, reality is no match for mad, demented plans.