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I was born in year 4 of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius Claudius and raised on 66th Street and 13th Ave. in Brooklyn. And Coney Island, Traveled the world. Married my high school sweetheart and stayed together 40 years. Now a retired old widower crank living in Florida with my cat. Author of "Initial Verses" - a collection of poems on love, loss, poverty and war" and "Toritto's Blog - a Memoir of a life in posts."

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APRIL 20, 2012 11:29AM

Eichmann Laughed

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Norway attacks: police investigate fears main suspect was part of a larger terror group

 

Eichmann, Adolf.jpg

Do you not think the person who could personally kill 77 people, many of them teens because "it was necessary" and they were "multiculturalists"  would not wear the hat with pride?

 

Yesterday Adolph Eichmann was laughing. Could you hear him, along with the rest of the old gang?

"I told you! There is no need to kill them yourself! There is always someone who will do it for you!. Whether in Poland, Lithuania or Croatia there is always someone who will wear the hat!"

Yesterday in Norway Anders Behring Breivik went on trial for the murder of 69 teenagers, whom he personally shot and 8 others in a bombing before the massacre of the kids.

Norway was in shock as Breivik calmly and in great detail described how he killed the kids.

Breivik said he did not anticipate his victims' reactions.

"Some of them are completely paralyzed. They cannot run. They stand totally still. This is something they never show on TV. It was very strange."

But he has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying his victims had betrayed Norway by embracing immigration.

Looking tense but focused, Breivik spoke calmly about the shooting rampage, beginning with the moment he took a small ferry to Utoya, an island in a lake outside Oslo. He was disguised as a policeman, carrying a rifle and a handgun. He also brought drinking water because he knew he would get a dry throat from the stress of killing people.

Breivik's first two victims were Monica Boesei, a camp organizer, and off-duty police officer Trond Berntsen, a security guard.

The first shot was "extremely difficult," he declared, saying he then entered a "fight-and-flight modus" that made it easier to continue the killing spree.

Breivik said he couldn't remember large chunks of the approximately 90 minutes he spent on the island before surrendering to police commandos. Still, he recalled some of the shootings in great detail, including inside a cafe where he mowed down young victims as they pleaded for their lives.

Some teenagers were frozen in panic, unable to move even when Breivik ran out of ammunition. He changed clips. They didn't move. He shot them in the head.

Others pretended to be dead. He said he shot them, too.

Breivik continued his rampage around the island, luring youth from their hiding places by telling them he was a police officer who was there to protect them. When they came out, he gunned them down.

"'You will die today Marxists,' I yelled," Breivik recalled.

His testimony was physically revolting. Inside the Oslo court, a man who lost his son on the island closed his eyes hard, squeezing them shut. Another man to his left put a comforting hand to his shoulder. A woman to his right clutched onto him, resting her forehead against his arm.

He called the Islamist al-Qaida "the most successful revolutionary movement in the world" and said it should serve as an inspiration to far-right militants, even though their goals are different.

"I have studied each one of their actions, what they have done wrong, what they have done right," Breivik said of al-Qaida. "We want to create a European version of al-Qaida."

Comparing himself to a Japanese "banzai" warrior during World War II, Breivik said too many Norwegian men were "feminized, cooking food and showing emotions."

The biggest decision for the Norwegian Court is to decide whether or not Breivik is insane. We would perhaps all like him to be insane for if he is not, then he is just like us.

If declared sane, Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to society. If found insane, he would be committed to psychiatric care for as long as he's considered ill.

Christin Bjelland, a spokeswoman for a massacre support group, was horrified by Breivik's testimony.

"I'm going back to my hometown tonight," she told The Associated Press. "My husband, he's going to drive me out to the sea, and I'm going to take a walk there and I'm going to scream my head off."

Eichmann laughed all night.

Norwegian Bells 

Bells should ring

for our peaceful sister

mauled by the evil

come back from the grave.

Ring your bells in Warsaw

for our peaceful sister

revisited by the specter

you know so well.

In Paris, Brussels

Lublin and Krakow

Auschwitz Birkenau

and yes, Berlin

be aware the evil lurks among us

We have seen him

staring from old posters

singing to our children

come to life again

Evil with the handsome face.

Ring your bells for our peaceful sister

Throw open wide your holy doors

be aware he has returned

This time ye shall not wait.

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This is the first thing I've read about the trial itself. I'm sitting here shivering.
evil is evil; grow evil to fight evil and hear the old voice "check and mate."
Maybe the only part that fits is that it was on Holocaust Remembrance Day that the trial started.
Did you write that poem? It is unbelievable, it grabs the very essence of the precipice that we now dangle from.
Sheila - Yes I wrote it - the day that bastard killed those kids.
Toritto: This should come with a warning. Because even well-written it was shocking to read. One thing I'd like you to embellish: "If he is not insane that means he's just like us" --a paraphase. I think that would be a great follow up post. Why? Because I never have gotten into the notion that we all have a little Nazi, Hitler or Stalin in us. If true, I have never made contact with my inner mass murderer. Apparently you get this, so I think a second post would be great. R
Wendyo - thanks for reading and commenting. It is appreciated.

I guess I am dividing people into two catagories - those who are declared insane and need help and sympathy and then there are the rest of us. If this monster is "sane" then he would walk among us and be considered a rational human being. All those in times past who wore "the hat"considered themselves very rational. That's why killer collaborators were so easy to find. Even Norway had Vidkun Quisling.

I find that thought very disconcerting for I, like you, cannot fathom such depths of depravity in a "sane" human being. Yet here he is, staring us in the face.

Regards,

Frank
Before I read this, I saw the title. My first thought was: Fuck Eichmann.

Then I read what you had to say. Well said. I think they should take the guy out back and save us the money and agony of having someone like that breathing the same air.
I watched the documentary about this tragedy and can only conclude that Breivik is insane, just not legally so -- at least here in the States. Did he know what he was doing? Yes. Did he plan it ahead of time? Yes. Can he rationally discuss the events? Yes. All these argue against an insanity defense. The only legal point in his favor is that he shows no signs of remorse.

I'm not a fan of capital punishment, but in cases like his, I can see the point of ridding society of a mad dog -- which is what he is. But whatever the outcome of his trial, there is no way this man should ever be allowed out of an institution -- whether is be a mental hospital or a prison.
Chilling.

Powerful poem.

RRRRRRR!
Toritto,I did not know there had been a live broadcast about the trial.
The comparison Eichmann/Breivik is excellent.
Eichmann was a coward,and in his uniform ,he grew beyond himself.This is where his madness had it's cause.
In Breivik's case, we have the same mental conditions.
His brain functions,but the obstruse deranged state of mind in it's output is horrific.
I guess for such category of disorder,the name still has to be invented.
"The Evil in us",yes,long known in psychology,and it was C.G.Jung who is supposed to have said:
"If we encounter our own shadow,no more wars are needed"
Rated,
and the poem needs to be placed and honored separately.

Torotto,thank you for sharing this poem.

(and the rest)
bless you, sheila, for this r.
Amazing they let him go on like that. I vote for obviously insane - we're all capable of ghastly things, if circumstances get us there, but to do it totally on one's own, in one's own little world - that strikes me as nutz.
Myriad,it is haunting that he was not on his own.
There must be cells.
Breivik has said so himself.
With his young face,he looks like someone of the French revolution;now,a year after the monstrous killings,he looks insane.He looked insane last year too,immediately after the killing had taken place,but if you compare the pictures,there is a drastic change in his expression.The madness seems to become manifest.
The monstrosity of such act is too extreme for any well functioning brain.
Heidi - I haven't read about any connections he had except those in his imagination. No Al Qaida claims or anything. Interested if there is any evidence of his not being a lone lunatic.

But he was beautiful in that Before photo, wasn't he? The very model of his racial type. All goes to show, books/covers, etc.