Sometimes I ain't sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't. Sometimes I think it ain't none of us pure crazy and ain't none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it…That's how I reckon a man is crazy…And I reckon they ain't nothing else to do with him but what the most folks says is right.- William Faulkner, As I Lay DyingABSTRAcT Anders Breivik is the right wing terrorist who planted bombs in central Oslo then traveled twenty-five miles to Utoya Island, where he murdered, maimed, and wounded more than 100 people-the children of left-leaning politicians and public officials-at a summer camp associated with the ruling Labor Party. Breivik maintained that the killings were an act of asymmetrical warfare aimed at alerting fellow citizens to the impending Islamization of Norway and beginning a revolution against the "traitorous" liberals who were permitting or encouraging immigration from Muslim countries. Breivik surrendered to authorities at the site of the mass murder, and whether he committed the shooting, killing, and bombing was never in controversy; the only issue at trial was Breivik's sanity. Psychiatric experts disagreed, leaving the District Court in Oslo with the challenge of determining whether acts rationally related to extreme rightwing political values and beliefs, in a culture with longstanding and deeply rooted right-wing traditions, satisfy the legal understanding of what it means to be deemed not guilty by virtue of insanity.
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