His Abu Ghraib...
CRY ME A RIVER…
OK, this story, dear readers, will make you weep. Forget the dead and dying in Palestine or any other part of the world. Anders Breivik was forced to endure “an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism” because he was only given a stab free pen to write with.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik accused prison officers of trying to drive him to suicide in conditions he describes as “a mini Abu Ghraib.” Breivik wrote a 27-page letter addressed to prison officials, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.
“If it wasn’t for the fact that I am an exceptionally
patient person, I would most likely have lost my mind in pure frustration,”
Breivik said in the letter dated Oct. 15 that was updated on Oct. 26 and
Oct. 30. “Anyway, there are limits to what a person can take.” Breivik wrote he
is frustrated that guards do not
cooperate with his carefully planned daily schedule, where he
times his various activities down to the minute.
“One
cannot exclude that Ila Prison’s leadership has assured itself that ‘loyal
social democrats’ dominate the ward to prevent possibly benevolent people
gaining access,” Breivik said. He also alleges that the prison director
keeps the security regime tight out of personal vengefulness against
Breivik.
The
33-year-old right-wing fanatic killed
77 people in twin attacks last year in Norway’s worst peacetime massacre.
He detonated a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo killing eight people
and then drove to the island of Utoya where
he massacred 69 in a shooting spree at the summer camp of the
governing Labor Party’s youth wing.
Ellen
Bjercke, spokeswoman at Ila Prison where Breivik is being held, said the
prison had not lifted any security restrictions on Breivik in response to his
letter, although he had recently been allowed a normal pen instead of a rubber
safety pen, which he had also avidly used during the 10-week trial to make notes.
Breivik said the experience of having
to use the stab-free pen was as “an almost indescribable manifestation of
sadism.”
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Poor baby…
The self-confessed killer described numerous prison practices as “degrading” in his letter, including that he is watched when swallowing his vitamin pills, that he’s not allowed a mop to clean his cell and that he is subjected to daily strip searches, sometimes by female prison guards.
Keeping
up his personal hygiene is also a challenge, he said. “Use of a toothbrush and
electric shaver is always under supervision. One is therefore under mental pressure to finish quickly as the guards
are tapping their feet outside the cell … This limits brushing to once a day
and shaving to once a week in order not to have to go through the mental ordeal
more often than necessary,” he wrote in the letter.
“Therefore
there is the likelihood that Norway’s own ‘mini Abu Ghraib,’ in the cellars of
Ila Prison, are being kept a secret and that Norway’s human rights ambassadors’
work to spread the ‘world’s most humane principles’ are avoiding being
embarrassed.”
In
a handwritten note sent with the 27-page typewritten letter, Breivik said he
had sent copies of it to the AP, the International Press Center in Oslo, select
Norwegian media and Amnesty International.
The
Oslo District Court found Breivik guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder
for the July 22, 2011 attacks. He was given a 21-year prison sentence that can
be extended if he’s considered a threat.
The
self-styled anti-Muslim militant denied criminal guilt, saying he’s a commander
of a resistance movement aiming to overthrow European governments and replace
them with “patriotic” regimes that will deport Muslim immigrants. Police said
they found no evidence of Breivik belonging to any such group.
Too
bad his victims can’t brush their teeth anymore.
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