Explosion Norway

[Peter Lemkin]

WOW, 87 dead or more for a nation of 4.5 million is gigantic loss. More so that their murder rate is about the lowest in the world - along with other forms of physical violence! Norway also has no death penalty, and while I agree with that, on some special occasions, such as this, when it is beyond murder - to the point of a one-person war crime, the most I believe he could get would be life in their very nice prison system. They don't even, to my knowledge, have specially designed cells to punish a person for especially heinous crimes. While by definition he is likely to be declared mentally incompetent, I don't think he is. He knew right from wrong from what I can see and chose wrong by a few thousand km. This will change the country in Europe I always liked the best, for many reasons. My heart goes out to Norge. I have been trying to move there of late, as the last sane bastion left in this disintegrating world. While this doesn't change my mind, it does sadden me deeply. The perpetrator is from Oslo. There is still some though he may have not done it alone. 87 are confirmed dead and that is expected to rise. More than 100 are in hospital and some of them will not recover. This is mind blowing. One has to know how small Oslo is, how small and peaceful Norge is to fully understand the immensity of this horror. My Norwegian friends are speechless - these are things that happen to other countries. That most of the dead were young teenagers at a political camp for the Labor Party is really horrible. I'd guess that fully one third of all of the country would know fairly closely the family of the victims, if not the victims themselves.