Norway terrorist is an Ayn Rand follower:

[Renew Deal]

Name your favorite books:

n. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan, John Stuart Mill - On Liberty, John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations, Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France, Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, William James – Pragmatism, Carl von Clausewitz - On War, Fjordman – Defeating Eurabia

[IndianaJoe]

1. It figures. Stylistically almost unreadable. Individualistic

to the max. No sense of any social obligations owed to others.

[Old and In the Way]

2. The opposite of socialism is anti-socialism.

Anti-socialism is the natural political philosophy of homicidal maniacs. How often do you read of an avowed socialist committed an act of indiscriminate mass murder? I'd bet the farm that, of the next 10 mass murders committed, 9 will done by people who are self-proclaimed anti-socialists.

[treestar]

3. Imagine he must be even more frustrated in a place like Norway

than such a person would be here. From wikipedia's article:

The Norwegian economy is an example of a mixed economy, a prosperous capitalist welfare state featuring a combination of free market activity and large state ownership in certain key sectors. The Norwegian welfare state makes public health care free (above a certain level), and parents have 46 weeks paid<67> parental leave. The income that the state receives from natural resources includes a significant contribution from petroleum production and the substantial and carefully managed income related to this sector.

Norway has a very low unemployment rate, currently 3.1%.<68> 30% of the labour force are employed by the government, the highest in the OECD.<69> 22% are on welfare and 13% are too disabled to work, the highest proportions in the world.<70>

The hourly productivity levels, as well as average hourly wages in Norway are among the highest in the world. The egalitarian values of the Norwegian society ensure that the wage difference between the lowest paid worker and the CEO of most companies is much smaller than in comparable western economies. This is also evident in Norway's low Gini coefficient. The state has large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, such as the strategic petroleum sector (Statoil and Aker Solutions), hydroelectric energy production (Statkraft), aluminium production (Norsk Hydro), the largest Norwegian bank (DnB NOR), and telecommunication provider (Telenor). Through these big companies, the government controls approximately 30% of the stock values at the Oslo Stock Exchange.

[MrScorpio]

4. Color me not very surprised. nt

[MineralMan]

5. That's no surprise.

[NC_Nurse]

6. How can uber-religious people follow an atheist? WTF? Do none of them

actually know anything about her?

I guess it's the same as the "christians" in the US who know nothing about the Bible. Lame.

He does sound a lot like her hero, the serial killer.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. As was expected.

There was even some discussion regarding this possibility on DU right after he was arrested.

[Faygo Kid]

8. FReepers want to put him in Congress.

Killing leftist kids has got to be admired by them.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Shocked.

:sarcasm:

[Warpy]

10. Typical right wing literature

for a megalomaniac headcase still living with Mom. I'm just surprised by the absence of The Turner Diaries. I'm sure he must have read that one by the nature of his attack, though.

Most of these guys are blowhards whose glory days came in their early 20s when they and their skinhead friends would beat up a few people they saw as weak. However, marriage and life deplete their ranks by the time they turn 30 and either they sit on the couch and computer and seethe in print or they turn into this guy.

It would be nice if we could find them and get them off the street before they slaughter their fellow citizens, but they tend to stay off the radar unless police are watching the right wing closely enough.