Breivik’s social contract betrayal

The 76 lives wasted by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway on 22 July 2011 was a chilling betrayal by him of the democratic social contract by which citizens and governments co-exist with civility, but Dakota points out that Breivik’s action was provoked by a long-standing breach of the social contract by his government and that to understand one betrayal we need also to understand the other.

“In his manifesto Breivik makes it clear that for many years he and others had tried by democratic means to put a stop to what he considered to be the Islamification of Norway,” says Dakota. “He had given up hope in the democratic system because every new immigrant voted for the political party that allowed them citizenship, and most ethnic Norwegians – who lived outside of the big immigrant city of Oslo – were not fully aware of what was happening to their country, or did not care enough to vote the Labour / Green coalition government out.”

“Breivik’s political stance has been described as ‘far right’ or ‘Christian conservatism’, but in many ways he was a ‘reactionary’ in that he wanted Norway to return to the 1950s – a time long before he was born – when men were men and women were women and Norway was a relatively idyllic nation of seafarers, fishermen and ship builders with a distinctive language, culture, mythology and appearance.”

“Norway is not a member of the EU and as such has not been swamped as other EU nations have been by Eastern Europeans,” says Dakota, “but Breivik would have much preferred this outcome than what his government actually did instead.”

“The Norwegian government deliberately selected Muslim people from Somalia, Iraq and Pakistan as its new citizens,” explains Dakota, “and is happy for them to build mosques, practice sharia law and benefit from generous social services in return for their vote.”

“In large multi-ethnic and multi-cultural immigrant nations like the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa these people would blend in quite well,” says Dakota, “but in a nation of just 4.9 million citizens where most people are typically blond and blue eyed Nordic types, they would literally stand out like a sore thumb.”

“What on earth was the Norwegian government thinking?”

“Because ethnic Norwegians are exceptionally friendly and polite people, there was no public outcry when this immigration was taking place,” says Dakota, “but when it became obvious that a lot of these people were ‘freeloaders’ as well as being disrespectful towards women and other cultural standards, a groundswell of anti-immigration sentiment started to build up.”

“In his manifesto and in his statement to police Breivik was very clear about who the enemy was,” says Dakota. “He saw the members of the political Labour / Green coalition party ruling the country as traitors, and that’s why he targeted them – at their head office and at their summer camp for upcoming young politicians.”

“He saw them as having an internationalist agenda rather than a Norwegian agenda and as a patriot he could not stand by and allow his country to loose every value he held dear.”

“Now that Norway is the wealthiest country in the world measured by per-capita income due to the discovery of massive offshore oil and gas fields,” says Dakota, “it could have invested huge sums of money into making Somalia, Iraq and Pakistan a better place for people to live rather than taking in immigrants from those countries and trying to make them fit into a chalk and cheese climate and culture.”

“As Breivik himself complained – the Labour / Green coalition party will stop at nothing to keep in power, even if it means bringing everyone from Somalia, Iraq and Pakistan into Norway for their votes.”

“This sort of behavior by a political party can be seen as a betrayal of the social contract – especially in a country with such a small population which, up until 20 years ago, was quite insular,” says Dakota. “We need to understand all of this before we can understand why Breivik turned from a model citizen into an assassin.”


Read more by Dakota:

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The ethics of politicizing children
Breivik’s online fantasy world
Breivik’s July 22 Sarajevo Code
Breivik the white knight
Breivik, Christ’s Knight
Dating psychos like Breivik
Stepfamily loners
be proud of your race!
immigration promotes white shame?

See also:

Age Secrets of Anders Behring Breivik
Breivik’s Aquarian Humanity?