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.
I’m not sure if it’s my place to be saying this, but… not entirely.
😉
Tom Martham, you are truly one of the stupidest people I have ever encountered. No offense.
Work involved: 2 minutes of Googling and reference checking…
Source.
Note this, you ignorant twit, men & boys are trafficked too.
No, I’m referring to the part where you are a fascist.
WTF WTF WTF!! I hope to God you go out and espouse this shit offline. You fucking deserve the reaction you’ll get. Jesus fuck, this is the most disgusting thing I’ve read on this site and I’ve been lurking almost as long as Owly’s been posting
Shadow, here: http://www.ustream.tv/sevenkittens
They’re being super-cute tonight.
“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. ”
You seem to totally miss the whole CHILD part. Oh wait, I forgot, you are just a troll that is here to stir shit. Please continue with your rampant denial of there being sexually exploited children that are manipulated or forced into prostitution to appease your little trolling boner. That doesn’t make you a horrible person, at all.
@hellkell
Bless you, that stream is the point of origin for all the world’s awesome.
Also @Tom
You can keep your fucking advocacy to yourself, we’ll manage just fine without you. We’re perfectly capable of fighting against fucktards like the BNP without excusing the filth in our communities.
Shadow, you’re welcome. I had to look at that for a while after reading Tom’s latest bilge.
Tom, I’m sure the UK has consent laws similar to the US, in that children CAN’T consent to prostitution. But you’re a slimy piece of shit who denies this.
You know what? You and Eurosabra should go off and find your own little corner of the internet to foul up and leave this one alone.
Tom & Eurosabra deserve each other. The rest of us deserve KITTIES!
Shadow, Hellkell, Cloudiah, Bostonian – here’s the evidence, about the “trafficking” scare stories in Sweden and how fems cooked the books due to no victims, by creating a new “trafficking-like” category. Watch it from 13:30 on:
And here is the whole official definition of trafficking, which appears to include paying someone to be a prostitute abroad:
(a) ‘Trafficking in persons’ shall mean the recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of
persons, by means of the threat or use of force or
other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of
vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of
payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a
person having control over another person, for the
purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include,
at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of
others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced
labour or services, slavery or practices similar to
slavery, servitude or the removal of organs;
(b) The consent of the victim of trafficking in persons to
the intended exploitation set forth in the
subparagraph (a) of this article shall be irrelevant
where any of the means set forth in subparagraph
(a) have been used;
(c) The recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harboring, or receipt of a child for the purpose of
exploitation shall be considered ‘trafficking in
persons’ even if this does not involve any of the
means set forth; and 2
(d) Child means any person under the age of 18.
“Yeah, she offered me a job as a prostitute abroad, which would involve me receiving lots of money for taking cock, so I accepted, became a prostitute, and therefor, according to the official fem definition, this makes me a sex slave”.
Grow up!
Even a 10 year old knows, if someone is paying you for sex, that makes you a whore.
– and you people are calling ME vile etc? Whores are never going to give up the game with a chorus of sanctimonious twerps like you placating them.
Yes, Tom, you’re vile. A completely vile wanker with no soul.
@hellkell:
“Tom, I’m sure the UK has consent laws similar to the US, in that children CAN’T consent to prostitution. But you’re a slimy piece of shit who denies this.”
Considering the trolling arsehat wrote this (Saw it before on FSTDT):
http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2011/09/tom-martin-on-whoriarchy/#comment-9896
“The closest anyone here has got to winning the argument, is by pointing to underage females in arranged marriages – passing it off as forced rape.
Well those under-age girls still understand the meaning of consent (unless of course they’re marxist victim-feminists) and they definitely understand the value of marriage gifts – as do the mother whores who arrange these skanky little contracts.”
I don’t blame you for not expecting such a class act to show any understanding about kids & consent at all anytime soon. Pro-pedophilia trolling is apparently something he’s really into, almost as much as the word WHORE (but not quite).
Still stupid, I see. Really, really thick. But I bet you can convince the 10 year olds!
Just when I think he’s scraping the bottom of the barrel…
Gonna go look at kittens, BRB.
Anyone who writes off sexually exploited children as “whores” has no fucking place calling anyone sanctimonious, you self-righteous festering shitstain.
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).
Martin, you are a vile sack of shit.
Well, I am shocked that Tom Martin is a rape advocate! (not really)
But do the 10 year-olds make men sit on hard chairs? Because that would be infinitely worse.
Like Berge, Tom Martin is no MRA. His views are his own, and not mainstream MRM.
The more facts presented the more militant the dogma becomes.
NWO, how would you even know? When have you presented a single, verifiable fact? I mean, except about Super Dogs, which are totally real.
Eurosabra: It made someone uncooooomfortable. They were wrong, full stop, end of.
They were wrong about being uncomforatble?
But I thought nothing you did ever made anyone notice, or care?
In that You Were Wrong.
But wait, before it was that you had a friend whose behavior tainted you with one person, who went out of her way (wasting university resources) to have a minder put on you. Now it’s that you were “unnatractive and extroverted” and that upset the powers that be.
We can read you know. It’s all written down, in your own words.
Well, whatever I can do to make you feel better.
Join a religious order which insists on abstinence. Adhere to its tenets.
This mainstream MRM of which you speak, Steele, where would I find it?
Tom Martin is a MRA.
Steele, maybe you should think long and hard about why guys like this have become the public face of your movement, instead trying to handwave them away.
Those “moderates” at AVfM think Tom Martin is a MRA too.