Norwegian Men’s Rights Activist blogger Eivind Berge, known for his violent rhetoric and rape apologia, has been arrested for death threats against police.
Not too surprising, given that he once announced on his blog that “[k]illing at least one cop is on my bucket list.”
Here are some Google-translated details from a news account here:
The right-wing extremist and anti-feminist blogger Eivind Berge has been arrested for having encouraged and glorified the killing of policemen. The police have found both ammunition and textbooks in use of explosives at Berge.
The police regard the threats as an invitation to others to kill police officers, but also feared that he would commit the acts themselves shortly.
He was evidently arrested on Wednesday. According to this story — at least as far as I can tell from the obviously crude Google translation — he made a specific threat to kill a police officer this Saturday:
Berge also writes about how he was planning to attack a policeman with a knife on a Saturday evening:
“Then I used the trial to come forward as a good example for men, and I considered it to be worth 21 years in prison for premeditated murder.”
According to this account, Berge is being held for two weeks. He claims innocence.
Berge, as readers of this blog may well already know, is a fan of right-wing terrorist and mass murderer Anders Brevik. On his blog, he’s also argued (among other things) that “Rape is Equality.”
He’s glorified the murder of police on his blog numerous times.
Some examples, taken from the second news account:
“… attack on the police is something 100% in harmony with everything I stand for.”
“I maintain that police murder is both ethically and tactically correct.”
Some other examples, direct from his blog (each paragraph is from a separate post; click on the quote for the source):
I viscerally despise cops and wish them the worst. Killing at least one cop is on my bucket list.
If ever a victim of psychiatry, here is what I would do. I would first attempt to kill the cops or whoever tried to apprehend me. Failing that, I would feign docility in order to get out as soon as possible and then kill a representative of the industry as revenge. … killing cops is also very much a men’s issue. Every pig killed is also a blow against feminism, so men should be doubly elated whenever an officer goes down in the line of encroaching on our cognitive liberty.
This was his reaction to a news story about a police officer being killed:
Good news for men is rare in this hateful feminist utopia that is Norway, but today is a joyous day! Today I feel schadenfreude in my heart along with all the hate that feminism and resultant mate deprivation have instilled in me. One blue thug less on the streets.
From another post on the same subject:
The swine Olav Kildal died while trying to enforce our lack of cognitive liberty. This was a defensive, much deserved killing that cheered me up.
Here he threatens a female prosecutor:
To feminist prosecutor Anne Cathrine Aga I have the following message: The Men’s Movement is watching you, bitch, and we are seething with hatred against you personally and the police state you represent. Actions have consequences. Trials are still (mostly) public and they sink into our collective minds, where they form the basis of future activism. Hate breeds hate — that is a fact of life too smugly ignored by feminists. …
2011 is the year Norwegian men as a group emerged out of the blogosphere and into the battlefield. This in turn has led to a breakthrough for MRAs such as my good self in the public discourse, probably for the simple reason that the powers that be now realize ignoring us has deadly consequences. Men are angry now, and we have proven that we are deathly serious about resisting feminism. So the feminist prosecutors referred to above ought to wipe that smug look off their faces before it is too late. Clearly seventy-seven body bags wasn’t enough, but I am fairly confident that you will be sorry one day.
Aside from the explicit threats of violence, the violent and threatening rhetoric here is not unlike much of the rhetoric we see regularly on A Voice for Men and other MRA sites. AVFM founder Paul Elam, for example, told one feminist that:
I find you so pernicious and repugnant that the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection. … We are coming for you.
The blogger Emma the Emo, Berge’s girlfriend, has posted comments here in the past defending him. The news account quotes someone identified as Nataliya Kochergova, described as his girlfriend; I assume this is “Emma,” because what she told the media is similar to what she posted here. She of course denies that he planned any real violence. According to the article, she said:
There are not really threats. He has never had plans to kill someone, he has said several times in his blog. When for example, he says that “the police killings are an effective way to prevent stupid laws,” it’s a factual description and not a threat. Even those who love the police agree with it.
Berge, for his part, has stated publicly that if he had not met Emma, he probably would have killed by now:
At the time I wrote my last blog post, I believed I would probably become Norway’s first modern violent activist in peacetime. Celibacy enforced by a feminist regime had driven me to the point where I saw no other option. I would target the pigs who enforce feminist law, knowing I could realistically at least kill one of them before I would be captured or killed myself. Thus revenge would be assured and if I lived, my reputation as a violent criminal would make me attractive to some women. But then in the nick of time this blog attracted a lovely girl commenting as “Emma.”
This is why I take violent rhetoric from MRAs very seriously.
Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, MRAs glorify MRA “martyr” Thomas Ball, who killed himself on the steps of a New Hampshire courthouse last year in hopes that his death would inspire MRAs to literally burn down courthouses and police stations.
Ball’s manifesto is still up on A Voice for Men in its “activism” section, including these passages:
So boys, we need to start burning down police stations and courthouses. … This is too important to be using that touchy- feeling coaching that is so popular with business these days. You need to flatten them, like Wile E. Coyote. They need to be taught never to replace the rule of law. BURN-THEM-OUT!
Most of the police stations built in New England over the last 20 years are stone or brick. Fortunately, the roofs are still wood. The advantage of fire on the roof is that it is above the sprinklers
AVFM tastefully omitted Ball’s specific instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails, but left this in:
There will be some casualties in this war. Some killed, some wounded, some captured. Some of them will be theirs. Some of the casualties will be ours.
For many more examples of violent threatening rhetoric from MRAs, I urge you to go through some of my posts here and here.
The funny thing is that I actually have a relative who’s a spook. He doesn’t go around telling people about it, not even anonymously on the internet. Especially not in ways that could lead to his employer being linked to a sketchy group of snake-oil salesmen that promote unethical sexual behavior.
(Not that the spooks aren’t capable of sketchy sexual behavior themselves, but one is not exactly encouraged to announce that to the world.)
Here’s the bit of the referenced article you douche faces chose to leave out:
… the high success rate of men in custody battles is yet another contender for the Phony Statistics Hall of Fame. The figures do not refer to contested cases. Weitzman acknowledged that when fathers got sole custody, it was typically by mutual agreement; of cases that went to trial, two-thirds were won by women. The work from which the Gender Bias Study gathered its numbers did not separate contested and uncontested custody bids, but showed that mothers filing for sole custody received it 75 percent of the time (the rest usually received joint legal/primary physical custody), while the “success rate” for fathers was 44 percent.
http://www.dadsrights.org/articles/young101296.html
I am surprised though, at the apparent lack of published research on whether men and women are winning court custody battles. I have emailed a fathers’ rights organisation asking if they know of any more recent stats than the link above.
It is undeniable though, that the truth about this issue is a highly politicized one, with women’s groups on one side and men’s groups on the other, and we know that in these situations, somehow the studies favouring women as victims usually make it to the fore.
Think false rape stats, domestic violence ratio stats, pay gap stats, anorexia stats, female poverty stats, et al – and would you believe it, manboobzers are trying it with child custody stats too.
Aw, Tom, what’s wrong? WHORING for attention again? Feeling unloved? Why don’t you go sit on a hard chair and think about what you’ve done.
Holy fucking shit batman — Tom, oh Tom, do you remotely realize that the enforced masculinity the MRM is so fond of is part of the problem in male anorexia?!
Find anyone here who’s denied that men can have anorexia too. Seriously, lack of gender roles, that thing feminism is for, is part of the solution.
Oh and let me grab the DSM on that, it is holding up a lamp within arms reach after all — “More than 90% of cases of Anorexia Nervosa occur in females.” — Would you like to try citing this claim that substantially more than 10% of cases occur in males? (No, finding some study saying 15% is not going to cut it as larger than the margin of error)
Everyone not Tom — should I cite my ongoing “prove 1 in 5” debate with NWO? Or is this pointless?
Argenti, it’s pointless. Tom won’t be satisfied until we admit that men are just the most oppressed people on the planet.
hellkell — yeah I kind of figured as much, and am currently too angry about that anorexia claim to do research anyways.
Tom — Seriously, find a citation that doesn’t say “An estimated 10-15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are male.” And explain how the MRM’s pseudo-interest in gay rights helps this — “Among gay men, nearly 14% appeared to suffer from bulimia and over 20% appeared to be anorexic.”
Poverty stats should be fairly easy to find, so let me try that one. Yep slightly higher for women in general, and higher for women, or equal in all 50 states.
Single parent households though? Using Tom’s previous “citation” —
And let’s play a little game with the DSM — we’ll call it “open to a random page and see the gender ratio” — should be fun.
Major Depressive Disorder — “Women are at significantly greater risk than men to develop Major Depressive Episodes at some point during their lives, with the greatest differences found in studies conducted in the United States and Europe.”
Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) — “Epidemiological and community-based studies suggest that Social Phobia is more common in women than in men. In most clinical samples, however, the sexes are either equally represented or the majority are male.”
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder — “In systematic studies, the disorder appears to be diagnosed about twice as often among males.”
Delirium — “Male gender appears to be an independent risk factor for delirium in elderly individuals.”
Schizophreniform Disorder — see Schizophrenia — “A slightly higher incidence of Schizophrenia has been observed in men than in women.”
Getting the picture yet that the writers and editors of the DSM really don’t have some feminist bias? Or should I keep going? One more for the road —
Asperger’s Disorder — “The disorder is diagnosed much more frequently (at least five times) in males than in females.”
Now, no one here wants to listen to me rant about psychology’s cis-sexism, but nonetheless, there you have it, when a disorder is more common in males, they say as much.
you sued a university about chairs and had to eat a bill for 37 grand.
go forth, oh galtian lord among men
Eurosabra:
I wish I could hate you to death.
VoIP — if it makes you feel any better, I’m in the middle of BloodRayne currently and about to go hack-n-slash some Nazis (maybe I’ll just get vampiric on them and drain them dry) — how do you make a half-vampire the good guy (girl)? Pit her against Nazis.
Most US child custody cases are worked out amicably:
In the U.S., only about 5-10% of child custody cases are litigated. That is because the divorcing parties work out what is best for their children.
Citations:
Melton, G. G., Weithorn, L. A., & Slobogin, C. (1985). The community mental health centers and the court: An evaluation of community-based forensic services. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Bow, J. N., Gottlieb, M. C., Gould-Saltman, D. J., Hendershot, L. (2011). Partners in the process: how attorneys prepare their clients for custody evaluations and litigation.
Family Court Review 49(4), pp. 750-759. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2011.01411.x
“…showed that mothers filing for sole custody received it 75 percent of the time (the rest usually received joint legal/primary physical custody), while the “success rate” for fathers was 44 percent.”
How does that add to more than 100% anyways? That’s off by too much to just be a rounding error.
Taking anorexia as an example, feminists have systematically lied about the number of women dying from anorexia, Gloria Steinham and others claiming 250,000 US women a year die from anorexia, when the true statistic, is typically around 75 deaths per year.
I ask UK people how many fatalites they think there are from all eating disorders in the UK. Most people guess there are around one to ten thousand per year – but in reality, it’s more like 17 people dying a year from all eating disorders (you cunts).
Now, I know that as feminists, you each personally know at least 400 women who have died of anorexia, and 4,000,000 who have been sex-trafficked and raped while you personally witnessed it – the only trouble is, the experts can’t find these victims, indicating these friends of yours, and friends of friends of yours that your friend told you about at your local women’s group, who have all genuinely been victims, are merely imaginary friends.
Police forces in every single police borough of the UK conducted raids, on over 800 brothels and private premises, finding a grand total of zero sex slaves for instance, and yet when I mention this to women, they often go into stories about women they’ve heard of who definitely were sex-trafficked into slavery – you people love the victim stories. And listening to it is like listening to a child who has realized that I know they are lying, but who just continues on anyway – it’s embarrassing for everyone.
@ Cliff: “Dude had a girlfriend. His problem was not that he was so lonely and neglected by women that he had no choice but to turn to rape.”
Well, it sounded like he had some dating problems before the gf, but even so, I’m going to go ahead and assume it wasn’t his looks that was the problem, either. Could you even imagine this guy on a first date?
Threats and violent rhetoric are such a great way to break the ice! I just can’t imagine how this guy could have been single for so long.
i read it and noticed how the references to studies that are totally out there and like exist man dont actually include citations. again, maybe your issues with grad school were your own fault?
Tom — another MRA claiming “Gloria Steinham said” eh? Really, we don’t care. As in, no one here gives a fuck what she said, I’m fairly sure we’ll all readily admit she was wrong about things sometimes, what being human and all. As for your “I ask people” great? Again, no one cares, try finding a survey asking an actually random sample or something?
And great, the UK has no sex slaves or sex trafficked people, congrats! (That isn’t snark) That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen anywhere — things you may’ve already realized, the UK is a few tiny islands, try finding a worldwide stat there eh?
Now to fact check that claim about how many people die from eating disorders annually. Before I even try figuring that out, please note — “Often, the medical complications of death are reported instead of the eating disorder that compromised a person’s health.”
Gloria Steinham is a noted anorexia researcher.
Best I can find — looks like 1 in 5 die from suicide, which is definitely not independent of having an eating disorder. Considering the numerous issues in determining this, could you cite your source?
I like that he couldn’t resist but to use slurs but he didn’t know where to put it so he just snuck it at the end.
I boggle at your venom. If it helps, I have saved lives, Palestinian, Jewish, Russian, Druze, Cherkessian, without asking, and I am no more guilty than any other Israeli noncombatant. The fact that many elite Germans never paid for what they did is a twist and a reminder.
Boggle away, Eurosabra. Still doesn’t excuse your creepy rape apologia.
Good for you creeper. Oh I’m sorry, did you want a cookie? All out I’m afraid.
tommm martinn can’t you have any conversations online with women without muttering “cunts” and “whores” under your breath?
@jumbofish
im sure he does a fantastic job of that irl…