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.
You make me uncooooomfortable, and I know I’m not the only one.
And I think that’s a wholly rational reaction given the evidence you’ve posted.
It’s the absolute moral blankness of your posts that I find most alarming. Regardless of your sympathetic opinions of Eivind Berge (which itself should send alarm bells jangling full pelt), you don’t seem to show even the slightest sign of understanding why people might find your self-reported behavior to be utterly despicable.
You’re not just a creep but a predatory creep, and that’s the most potentially dangerous kind. No wonder you ended up with a chaperone.
Murphy said:
It’s a major step for a woman to want to divorce the husband of her children
Heehee
@ Murphy
It is indeed a myth that fathers are PREVENTED from seeing their children for no reason by the children’s mother following a relationship.
I’m still waiting for you to provide any evidence whatsoever that supports your contention.
It seems some of you are labouring under the feminist illusion that coercive ‘trafficking’ into commercial ‘sex slavery’ is an actual thing. Here’s a Guardian article and BBC article exposing the lies:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-fails
And yet, Channel 4 persevered with a three part documentary following the same nationwide police operation, and simply faked some victims:
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9496/
and obviously, failed to mention that the police operation resulted in zero prosecutions for forcing anyone into prostitution.
“Rape!”
Tom, is there any reason you’re talking about something other than everyone else is yet again? It’s OK honey, you can just wait until 4 a.m. to call everyone fat whores again, you rape apologist piece of shit.
@Cassandra
Tom Martin sees whores everywhere… but doesn’t know anything about the actual sex industry. Huh.
I guess that kind of makes sense?
Meanwhile I almost wish Eurosabra would start calling everyone whores, because that would actually be less creepy than his whole soft-spoken “oh, little ol’ me, I’m just a shy guy who has some trouble with women but I try to be a good person” shtick he pulls while bragging about gaslighting and women trying to trick him into raping them and how he’s a rape proponent’s biggest fan.
God, Tom Martham is just so tedious. This took me 5 minutes of searching through the first page of results in Google Scholar:
THAILAND:
Results: Approximately 10% of female sex workers (FSWs) met criteria for trafficking as an entry mechanism to sex work. Compared with their non-trafficked counterparts, sex-trafficked FSWs were more likely to have experienced sexual violence at initiation to sex work (adjusted risk ratio (ARR) 2.29, 95% CI 1.11 to 4.72), recent workplace violence or mistreatment (ARR 1.38, 95% CI 1.13 to 1.67), recent condom failure (ARR 1.80, 95% CI 1.15 to 2.80), condom non-use (ARR 3.35, 95% CI 1.49 to 7.52) and abortion (ARR 2.83, 95% CI 1.48 to 5.39).
Discussion: Both the prevalence of sex trafficking as an entry mechanism to sex work and the threats to sexual and reproductive health observed on the basis of trafficking status show the need for comprehensive efforts to identify and support this vulnerable population. Moreover, existing STI/HIV-prevention programming may be stymied by the limited condom-use capacity and high levels of violence observed among those trafficked into sex work.
Citation: Sex trafficking, sexual risk, sexually transmitted infection and reproductive health among female sex workers in Thailand. M.R. Decker, H.L. McCauley, D. Phuengsamran, S. Janyam, J.G. Silverman. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2011;65:4 334-339 Published Online: 1 June 2010. doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096834
EASTERN INDIA, NEPAL, BHUTAN, & BANGLADESH:
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among brothel-based sex workers of West Bengal, eastern India, to understand sex-trafficking, violence, negotiating skills, and HIV infection in them. In total, 580 sex workers from brothels of four districts participated in the study. A pretested questionnaire was introduced to study their sociodemography, sex-trafficking, violence, and negotiating skills. Blood sample of 4–5 mL was collected from each sex worker using an unlinked anonymous method to study their HIV status. Data were edited and entered into a computer using the Epi Info software (6.04d version). Both univariate and multivariate analyses were done to find out any association between HIV and relevant risk factors. Results of the study revealed that a sizeable number of the participants were from Nepal (9%) and Bangladesh (7%). The seroprevalence of HIV was strikingly higher among Nepalese (43%) than among Bangladeshis (7%) and Indians (9%). Almost one in every four sex workers (24%) had joined the profession by being trafficked. Violence at the beginning of this profession was more among the trafficked victims, including those sold by their family members (57%) compared to those who joined the profession voluntarily (15%). The overall condom negotiation rate with most recent two clients was 38%. By multivariate analysis, HIV was significantly associated with sexual violence (odds ratio=2.3; 95% confidence interval 1.2–4.5). The study has documented that the trafficked victims faced violence, including sexual violence, to a greater magnitude, and sexual violence was associated with acquiring HIV in them. There is a need for an in-depth study to understand the problem of trafficking and its consequences.
Citation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740670/
UNITED STATES
By now, most social workers are familiar with the issue of human trafficking. However, many are likely unfamiliar with research indicating that youths constitute the most vulnerable group in the United States for becoming victims of sex trafficking and that most women in prostitution actually entered as minors. Some experts are now referring to the sex trafficking of U.S. children and youths as “domestic minor sex trafficking,” or DMST. This article seeks to acquaint readers with what is currently known regarding the extent of DMST, who is at risk for becoming a victim, and implications for the social work profession in addressing this tragedy.
Citation:
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States. K. Kotrla.Social Work (2010) 55 (2): 181-187. doi: 10.1093/sw/55.2.181
Well, whatever I can do to make you feel better. “
Euorsabra, I’d feel better if you sleazed off to whatever hole you crawled out of. That probably sounds very familiar.
So basically I’m not Bruno (the blogger, not the film character). So, yeah, I get that my position is quixotic, I am trying to reform but I think the shitty assumptions are a valid map of the world, which is a nightclub writ large.
You can’t be fucking serious about this.
Well, let us say that the Thirty Mile Zone may be.
I’ve met Bruno IRL (I gave him his blog name!), and you, sir, are no Bruno.
And “nightclub writ large”??? For fuck’s sake. Like that explains or excuses fucking anything. You’re not supposed to gaslight or harass or rape people in a nightclub either.
See, this is what I mean about a “little ol’ me” act.
You call supporting a guy who thinks rape should be legal “quixotic.”
That’s not quixotic. That’s just fucked right the fuck up.
@Tom Martin
You’ve come to the wrong place for common sense. This is nazi headquarters. They scour the web looking for any who dare criticize the master race. Twitter, facebook, even games. If an avatar on a game insults another avatar it’s systemic misogyny. Virtual sexism in a virtual world is sexual harrassment. No criticism is permitted no matter how vulgar the behavior.
They’ve spent their whole lives gorging themselves on victimology and goddess mentality. Facts are irrelevant. The more facts presented the more militant the dogma becomes.
I think he’s a fascinating trainwreck of the commodity model of sex. If you haven’t seen Amnesty International’s anti-rape video for Norway, I suggest you check it out (no English subtitles, unfortunately, learn Norsk.) I also think he needs to repudiate his views and genuinely change his life and his discourse.
Bruno isn’t anything, sexually, apparently, but Incel. But he seems a decent type and based on his blog I am mystified by his continuing lack of sex/relationship.
Don’t forget his political opinions.
NWO, it would be nice if you showed up with a fact every now and again, instead of whatever you pulled from your ass or WorldNetDaily.
I think you may have confused my observation that “economic perpetrator” Nazis like Schacht never paid for their crimes with support for Nazis.
Alternatively, you object to my feeling that the perpetrators in Germany and Finland should have been punished more because you feel that would harm some innocents. I assume you do not support the perpetrators.
Cloudiah,
What you don’t appear to realize, is that behind the scenes, the “sex slavery” or “trafficking” story-using authorities, governments and NGOs have changed the definition of “trafficking”. It used to mean sex-slavery, but as there is no force, they changed the definition to mean any prostitute who travels to another country to work.
In Sweden, because they couldn’t find any trafficked (against their will) prostitutes, they changed the definition to include “trafficked-like” whatever that means.
It’s all a big joke – which you don’t appear to be in on.
The latest establishment scam in the UK, is to describe child prostitutes as “vulnerable children groomed for sexual exploitation”, then talk about them being “passed around” etc, without mention of the fact that these young people agreed to be whores, and are getting paid for it.
The Times is very keen to perpetuate this “child exploitation” narrative – it’s usually Pakistani men who are the pimps and punters (Jons) of these sometimes under-age white girls – and this gives the far right wing EDL the chance to jump on the bandwagon and stir up similar stories about brown men praying on white girls (when it’s more often the other way round, the whores).
Also, here’s a speech from the far right Nick Griffin of the British National Party, where he taps into similar bullshit stories about women being trafficked to promote HIS race-segregating agenda:
Tom, you are filth.
Tom, the only joke here is you.