Norway massacre - Censorship is only right

FREEDOM of speech is one of the fundamental planks of democracy.

Yet, there comes a time when the freedom of those with nakedly evil intent must be curtailed in the common good.

In the appalling case of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, that dilemma has been faced head-on by the Norwegian judiciary which is widely seen as one of the most open, fair-minded and transparent of legal systems.

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