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"The Sanity Plea"?

Declaration of "Insanity", "Diagnosis", Incarceration, Poisoning - these seem to be our contemporary Ultimate Punishment.

A "fate worse than death" indeed - as millions of innocents know.

"Insanity" DOES NOT EXIST.

A mass murderer now uses the new-fangled "Sanity Plea" :) as a DEFENCE :) ????

Even if Breivik thought genuinely that all he slew were alien beings from outer space he would still be guilty of a crime.

Mistaken beliefs are not an illness nor an exoneration.

Extremely obvious, extremely simple, extremely correct.

I am ashamed that I have to emphasise something so obvious and so simple.


Yet I repeat - to be clear - it could not be clearer - 
Mistaken beliefs are not an illness nor an exoneration.

This is ridiculous farce.

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Is it now required of Breivik to convince the world that he is a "normal", "run-of-the-mill", "good old fashioned", sensible, healthy, right-wing extremist? :) ? Is that it?.....

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Incidentally - a comparison between Anders Breivik and Tony Blair may be enlightening and perhaps helpful.

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Breivik perhaps fits more into the pattern of Michael Ryan/Hungerford, Dunblane, Columbine etc. etc. = the pattern of a "beserker"/mass killing.

This too is NOT an illness or "insanity". No behavior or misbehavior is or can be an illness.

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