So it would appear. (WARNING — translation from Norwegian to English is rough.)
So before anyone else on the Left tries to connect the evil deeds of Anders Behring Breivik to mainstream conservatives (who, as far as I can tell, have universally rejected and condemned the acts of terrorism he committed) based upon some notion that he is part of the “far-right” — remember that the Unabomber was certainly a man of the Left inspired by the words and rhetoric of the Left.
So before we go much further down the road of creating a “transitive property of terrorism”, I’d like to remind folks of Jeff Jacoby’s observation at the time the Unabomber was arrested some 15 years ago.
He who says X must say Y. Either Al Gore, Earth First, and Greenpeace had a hand in the Unabomber’s killings — or Newt Gingrich, the NRA, and Rush Limbaugh’s radio show didn’t cause the carnage in Oklahoma City. If John Salvi is the product of “mainstream antiabortion rhetoric,” then Theodore Kaczynski was spawned by mainstream environmentalists.Every movement has its kooks and degenerates. To blame the left for the crimes of the Unabomber would be shameless. Even as it was shameless to blame the right for the crimes in Brookline and Oklahoma City.
Imputing responsibility for the deeds of loonies and fringe-oids to more mainstream figures is absurd and irresponsible. And if the Left and the media are going to try to do that in this case, they need to be careful — because from where I stand, that would mean jumping from Anders Behring Breivik to Ted Kaczynski and thence to Al Gore and a host of folks in the mainstream of the Left.
The Unibomber is going to rot in prison for the rest of his life.
The only thing about that that bothers me is that he actually has more square footage of living space than he did in his hideout cabin!
This guy from Norway was well aware that he could only get 21 years maximum for whatever carnage he committed.
He planned to survive his eventual capture.