Breivik manifesto copied parts of Unabomber text
Ted Kaczynski is serving a life sentence in federal prison in Colorado for mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others across the US from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The passages copied by Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski’s manifesto. Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists’ “feelings of inferiority” — mainly by substituting the words “multiculturalism” or “cultural Marxism” for “leftism”. Breivik did not cite Kaczynski.
Breivik’s treatise detailed plans to acquire firearms and explosives, and even appeared to describe a test explosion.!!!!
He also wrote that if he survived his assault and was arrested, this would “mark the initiation of the propaganda phase”.
His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said: “He has been politically active and found out himself that he did not succeed with usual political tools and so resorted to violence.”
Police had believed Breivik acted after losing faith in mainstream parties, even those that have gained popularity and parliamentary seats on anti-immigration platforms in otherwise liberal, tolerant European nations, including affluent Norway.
European officials said they were aware of increased Internet chatter from individuals claiming they belonged to the Knights Templar group that Breivik describes, in fantastical terms, in the manifesto. They said they were investigating claims that Breivik, and other far-right individuals, attended a London meeting of the group in 2002.
The officials would not confirm whether they had identified Breivik as a potential threat.
The attacker picked targets linked to Norway’s left-wing Labour Party. Breivik’s manifesto pilloried the political correctness of liberals and warned that their work would end in the colonisation of Europe by Muslims.
Such fears may derive, at least in part, from the fact that Norway has grown increasingly multicultural in recent years as the prosperous Nordic nation has opened its arms to thousands of conflict refugees from Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia. The annual Labour Party retreat reflected the country’s changing demographics as the children of immigrants have grown increasingly involved in Labour politics.
“He wanted a change in society and, from his perspective, he needed to force through a revolution,” Lippestad, the lawyer, told public broadcaster NRK. “He wished to attack society and the structure of society.”
His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said Breivik spent years writing the manifesto titled “2083 — A European Declaration of Independence”. It was signed “Andrew Berwick”. The document later explained that 2083 was to be the year when European government would be overthrown en masse.
The manifesto vowed revenge on those it accused of betraying Europe.
“We, the free indigenous peoples of Europe, hereby declare a pre-emptive war on all cultural Marxist/multiculturalist elites of Western Europe. ... We know who you are, where you live and we are coming for you,” the document said. “We are in the process of flagging every single multculturalist traitor in Western Europe. You will be punished for your treasonous acts against Europe and Europeans.”
The use of an anglicised pseudonym could be explained by a passage in the manifesto describing the founding, in April 2002 in London, of a group he calls a new Knights Templar.
A 12-minute video clip posted on YouTube with the same title as the manifesto featured symbolic imagery of the Knights Templar and crusader kings as well as slides suggesting Europe is being overrun by Muslims.
The video contained a series of slides that accused left-wing politicians in Europe of allowing Muslims to overrun the continent. One image showed the BBC’s logo with the “C’ changed into an Islamic crescent.
The last 100 pages of the manifesto apparently lay out details of Breivik’s social and personal life, including his steroid use and an intention to solicit prostitutes in the days before the attack.
