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 really think Tom gets off on the abuse he gets here. Tom, too bad you’re so opposed to paying for it, some time with a domme (assuming they’d take an anal wart such as yourself) might make you feel better.
Does anyone else think that these unhinged rants are part of a cunning long-term strategy to get him let off the £37,000 on the grounds of diminished responsibility?
Because that’s pretty much the only even vaguely charitable explanation that I can think of. And even then it’s not especially charitable.
I mean seriously Tom, you’re one of the worst human beings I can possibly think of. You object to children who were raped getting victim compensation because they were given £12 after their rape? Fuck you, you utter shitting arseweasel.
But tell me how advocating paedophilia on the internet is paying your £37k court bill, because I’d love to know. Not worried about going down for contempt?
Stop talking about child ‘prostitutes’ (aka rape, for not disgusting people), Tom.
Wetherby, it doesn’t work like that. So if it’s an end goal it’s even stupider than believing that his poor delicate backside can’t handle a bit of wood. Not that anything other than frothing idiocy would surprise me, coming from this utter bit of crotchfilth.
Shouldn’t you be out promoting your pro child rape agenda to the public, Tom? Contacting the media, your MP, that kind of thing? Maybe go door to door, gather some signatures? Make sure to come back and tell us all about the reactions you get.
Here’s the British footballer who went down for 5 years for having sex with a drunk woman:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2132704/Ched-Evans-jailed-years-rape.html
I personally agree with the idea that a woman can be too drunk for sex. My only criticism is that the level of drunkness which constitutes rape and 5 years in prison should have been made very clear to men before the law was so over-zealously enforced. 5 drinks? 10 drinks?
And of course, there was no corresponding campaign warning women not to drink too much then have sex either.
But, hey presto, she gets compensation, and he loses a few prime money-making years out of his short sports-playing career span.
Two and a half years in prison for a footballer at this age is probably a quarter of their lifetime earnings gone.
If you’ve ever seen women around professional football players, you’ll know the women literally queue up to throw themselves at them – so the probability that it was genuine rape to me, is slight as fuck. She did not stalk him and the team, as a lot of women do, she just bumped into him at a kebab stall, but all he’d need to do is mention he’s a footballer, and the average brass will be up for absolutely anything, however drunk.
Uh huh, rape apologia, blah blah whatever.
How ’bout it, Tom? You’re a little publicity hound, aren’t ya? Shouldn’t the media and the public get to know the real you?
That’s not a new law you repugnant twit. And given how differently people metabolise alcohol, how do you propose to enforce a blanket rule? Also, why/how do you seem to keep returning to the notion that women are raped for money? You should be kept away from other humans.
But more than anything I’m dying to know how you plan on paying the court £37k.
“I mean seriously Tom, you’re one of the worst human beings I can possibly think of. You object to children who were raped getting victim compensation because they were given £12 after their rape? Fuck you, you utter shitting arseweasel.”
-TheNatFantastic
Worth repeating.
This is something the US is some states has not sorted out. Kids can’t consent to sex, but they can sell it and are called “prostitutes”? So weird, and to add insult to injury, many of them have pimps and don’t even get that fucking money.
One dude pays another dude to rape a kid, and the kid is a criminal.
@ Tom Martin
“Well, given that approximately 98% of manboobzers are whores themselves, I’m guessing
you’re probably going to want to blame it all on MRAs.”
Didn’t you previously state that 97% of women are whores?
Why the discrepency?
Also, since your fellow MRAs can’t find a single study to evidence the MRA myth that fathers are stopped from seeing their children for no reason at all, merely on the words of a spiteful mother, can you provide one?
Failing that, can you pull a statistic from your head and present it as fact?
Especially now.
Twelve hours ago, I could imagine some MRA-inclined types bunging him a few quid on the grounds of being a martyr to their cause, but I doubt they’d be especially keen to fund an apologist for child rape. If Steele’s near-instant reaction is any guide, I suspect they’d be keener to keep a pretty hefty distance lest they get tainted by association.
What are the chairs like in British jails?
@Wetherby http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4427768/Bottom-scanners-to-be-introduced-in-prisons.html
Hm. On the one hand, Tom has said one of the most revolting things I ever heard. On the other hand, it seems to have actually shut Steele up.
I don’t know what to think.
Oh, wait, yes I do. Tom Martin, you are a truly appalling person. I’ve seen poisonous spiders that are better people than you’ll ever be. I’ve scrubbed things out of my toilet bowl that were more more pleasant than you, and better thinkers besides. I hope that when you hand LSE’s lawyers the money, they have the good sense to handle it with rubber gloves. I’d wish something nasty on you, but the worst thing I can think of is that one day you realise just how ghastly you are and have to live with that knowledge for the rest of your life.
In France, starting this month, all drivers are required by law to have breathalizers in their car. They only cost a dollar or two each. Men should carry them too, and there should be a blood alcohol level which is permittable for women to have sex. Of course, if the woman is coming on to the guy and she is too drunk and he breathalizers her and she fails the test then she should pay a fine and lose her sex license (just like she would her driving license, but no – women are officially babies, so as always, the burden will be on the man.
The university is currently £37k down. If I am to pay this £37k, it will involve making money from documentaries and books, which will involve gender studies at LSE and feminism being further exposed for what it has become, so I really don’t mind either way. They won the initial legal battle but they won’t win the media war because I have the facts of the case on my side, which are all in black and white, and on my website, which the judge refused to hear in a formal trial. I am not under any confidentiality agreement, so I can draw people’s attention to what is going on. At the moment, despite, the judge, and the defense, and the Times, and the Guardian et al trying to delegitimate the complaint, I have about 55% support among the general population, most of the 45% opposition taking a position based on spurious victim-feminist general ignorance which this case gets to the route of. When the gender lies they’ve been fed by gender studies are explained to the general public, they tend to support me. Unsurprisingly, the general public don’t like being lied to. Political correctness is invariably factual incorrectness, and people would rather have the facts than have the establishment gender news gatekeepers digest and respin the news for them. Professional feminists and manboobzers dig their heels in, but they are a minority, and will be forced to drop the hoary old stories eventually if they are to retain any shred of relevance with a public already too aware, and subsequently, already too embarrassed to call themselves feminists. It’s about stepping around feminist wankathons.
See ya!
What’s the public support for your ‘women should be allowed no civil liberties’, ‘penguins are whores’, ‘people need licences to have sex*’ and ‘children who are raped did it for money, the whores’ positions? Assuming the 55% support you claim (dubiously), what percentage of that are women? What percentage non-‘whore’ women?
By the way, ‘political correctness’ has correctness in the title. I fail to see what’s factually incorrect about being nice to people, care to enlighten us with some more of your arse’s wisdom?
(*Seriously though, how would you enforce a sex licence?! I know you don’t care for civil liberties but this is fucking ridiculous. At least you made me laugh instead of puke.)
If you honestly think the general public are going to agree with you when you go around saying that 97% (oh, hang on – 98% now?) of women are whores, that vulnerable children in care exploited by paedophiles are also whores and deserve to be punished for it, and the disgusting bags of shit who prey on them in the first place deserve sympathy and understanding, you are seriously deluded.
Tommy-boy: They won the initial legal battle but they won’t win the media war because I have the facts of the case on my side, which are all in black and white, and on my website, which the judge refused to hear in a formal trial. I am not under any confidentiality agreement, so I can draw people’s attention to what is going on. At the moment, despite, the judge, and the defense, and the Times, and the Guardian et al trying to delegitimate the complaint, I have about 55% support among the general population,
Sure…
How did you conduct the polling?
What are the facts of the case again?
How does any of that change your owing £37,000?
God I wish I thought the British Press was going to find out about this little set of diatribes of yours.
That was your plan yesterday, when it sounded implausibly ambitious but perhaps vaguely achievable given enough third party support.
But now that you’ve unambiguously and aggressively outed yourself as a child rape apologist, I’d say it’s pretty close to impossible.
I’ve worked in documentary distribution and know people who work in publishing, and would say that it’s now a pretty safe bet that no-one in either business who’s of any repute (i.e. the kind who might be in a position to pay you the money you’re after) will want to touch anything that you produce with the proverbial barge pole.
And even if you manage to complete these “documentaries and books” with private funding, just how likely is it that anyone’s going to stick up for you in public to help you promote them? You’ll be as popular as Gary Glitter is now, albeit without the previous career success.
Since you’re British, I imagine you’re familiar with the phrase “the Ratner effect“. The LSE must be busting a gut laughing.
@Tom Martin:
“Well, given that approximately 98% of manboobzers are whores themselves, I’m guessing
you’re probably going to want to blame it all on MRAs.”
Given that your definition of whore is: “something which is comprised of matter and isn’t you” I’d say the rest of the existing universe qualifies.
@Pecunium If the worthless shit ever makes it into the news again, I know of three national papers I can get this stuff in, including one I write for. He won’t be able to pretend to be rational or sincere ever again 🙂
If they have cause to cover Tom Martin’s case again, they will.
And that’s not even a threat to point them in this direction: if there’s one thing the British press is notoriously good at, it’s Googling for scandal. They’ll find it themselves.
So it looks as though Tom’s media career is now dead in the water. What a shame.
The fuck?!
I… I just…
I can’t even…
Tom, I doubt you’ll win the media war once the media become aware of these completely public remarks by you calling raped children “whores.”
Ninja’d by many.