{"id":10423,"date":"2011-07-25T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:35:34","slug":"mark-steyn-responds-to-accusations-that-he-inspired-the-attack-in-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/mark-steyn-responds-to-accusations-that-he-inspired-the-attack-in-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn responds to accusations that he “inspired” the attack in Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn<\/a> is quoted in Norwegian terrorist Breivik\u2019s “manifesto”, and this is being used to paint him and others as “inspiration” for the attacks. He responds:<\/p>\n

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I have been away from the Internet for the weekend, and return to find myself being fitted out for a supporting role in Friday\u2019s evil slaughter in Norway. The mass murderer Breivik published a 1,500-page \u201cmanifesto.\u201d It quotes me, as well as several friends of NR<\/em> — Theodore Dalrymple, Daniel Pipes, Roger Scruton, Melanie Phillips, Daniel Hannan (plus various pieces from NR<\/em> by Rod Dreher and others) — and many other people, including Churchill, Gandhi, Orwell, Jefferson, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, not to mention the U.S. Declaration of Independence.* Those new \u201chate speech\u201d codes the Left is already clamoring for might find it easier just to list the authors Europeans will still be allowed to read.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how seriously this \u201cmanifesto\u201d should be taken. Parts of it simply cut and paste chunks of the last big killer \u201cmanifesto\u201d by Ted Kaczynski, with the occasional [insert-your-cause-here] word substitute replacing the Unabomber\u2019s obsessions with Breivik\u2019s. This would seem an odd technique to use for a sincerely meant political statement. The entire document is strangely anglocentric — in among the citations of NR<\/em> and The Washington Times<\/em>, there\u2019s not a lot about Norway.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Any of us who write are obliged to weigh our words, and accept the consequences of them. But, when a Norwegian man is citing Locke and Burke as a prelude to gunning down dozens of Norwegian teenagers, he is lost in his own psychoses. Free societies can survive the occasional Breivik. If Norway responds to this as the Left appears to wish, by shriveling even further the bounds of public discourse, freedom will have a tougher time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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