Some Questions and Concerns on Anders
Behring Breivik: a New Cultic Anti-Hero
I met comrade Memet in a café in
Temple Bar a month ago. While having a talk about political issues, he offered me
to deliver a speech on Breivik in a public meeting. We couldn’t make it yet because
of our daily activities, after all I have decided to put my thoughts, concerns
and questions into writing. My aim is to call attention to the image of Breivik
having been built by the media so far.
After
Norwegian killer had got arrested on 22 July 2011, the media eagerly followed
him and tried to find out what kind of psychological problems he might have
suffered. Psychiatric evaluations were published. Most probably various disputable
claims on his psychological problems will be come up and discussed in the
future. That may well be a common and understandable interest of all people,
when somebody kills a large number of people in a cruel way and when it occurs in
one of the most developed country in the world . However, as digging deep into
the subject, we have realised that Breivik’s case is even more than a case of a
serial killer so to speak.
It
is the easiest way to make Breivik a victim of physically and emotionally abused
in his childhood. As known, the stories of victimised people always sell in the
media. Furthermore, it has become a truism that serial killers are always the center
of attraction considering women send letters to them and propose to them while
the good are just good and boring enough. Hundreds of documentary films, movies
and tv series have been made about serail killers. Willingly or unwillingly the
media encourages people to feel sorry and to find excuses for them.
But
what about Breivik? Is he only a simple and clever killer? Is he capable of having
planned such a kind of ‘elaborated’ massacre completely alone? My answers to
all these questions are a big ‘NO.’ At this point I wonder how many people were
interested in psychological problems of Osama Bin Laden or other terrorists
after September 11 attacks; I wonder how many people thought that those attacks
were planned by a criminal gang other than a terrorist group? I am not trying
to justify anybody, groups or organisation. Besides, under no circumstances can
terrorism be justified. Terror never pay attention to innocent people,
children, countries and so on. It is an organisational and violent action to achieve political aims just
as Breivik did.
After
Breivik had been captured his manifesto and video records transpired, what a
coincidence! He claimed that he had been planning the attacks for 9 years, all
alone!. Somehow, he succeeded in drawing attention to his ideology which will
cause the rising of new fascist movements all over the world in the near
future. But why is the media still not going behind the clouds? Why are we
directed to Breivik’s images in the media, but what kind of organisation is
behind him instead? Otherwise, is it an attempt to create a new cultic
antihero?
Eichmann,
a Nazi SS and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust said that he was
merely a "transmitter" with very little power and never did anything,
great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler
or any of his superiors. Now Breivik is saying that he did what he did for the
sake of his country. Evil arises from ordinary people who obey to rules without
questioning. We have the right to know what is happening behind the scene.
Best wishes,
Nilufer Akcay
Dublin May 26, 2012
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