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.
youre rilly rilly rilly creepy, fyi
I’m an extrovert on flextime, I live in a walkable neighborhood, and I notice patterns. Surely I’m allowed to pitch myself if I can get someone to stop and chat?
First of all, ew, “day game,” that’s gotta make your days super pleasant when everything is a game you’re constantly playing and mostly losing instead of doing things and having fun.
Secondly, of coure you’re going to get rejected a ton if you “approach” shitloads of women at random and see what sticks. Women loooove a guy whose attitude is clearly less “you seem interesting” and more “NEEEEXT!”
1 sexytime… and then what? And then never again? That woman is just used up now? (She flees in horror?)
Nobody can get laid on a regular basis if they need to get a new partner every time. It doesn’t matter how sexy you are. People who get laid every weekend, whether they’re monogamous or not, are doing it via repeat business.
If you have to find a whole new woman every time you have sex, either you’re deep into “repeats don’t count toward my high score” thinking or you’re doing something that really scares them off once you have the sex.
…I hope it’s the first. 🙁
if you can talk to women on the street without being a huge creep about it, yeah, i guess.
its the way you talk about it that makes it so creepy duder.
Eurosabra’s dug so deep, he’s probably at the center of the earth by now.
A center of the earth where he screams “MARTIN BUBER IS DEAD, LONG LIVE PERMANENT REVOLUTION!”
(fun fact: reading Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism” right now. Arendt has quite the angle on Facism.)
Wow, Tom Martin has one of the most original concepts of what it means to be a whore that I’ve ever seen. What will this thinking-outside-the-box creative genius come up with next?
Tom Martin on whores:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3q31oh/
I still want to know why he chose penguins out of all the possible animals to represent whoredom. Biology fail, I guess.
I only know how you behave, not how you look, and no. Frankly, given that we’re talking about you, and you have about a million different rapist red flags, you’re not allowed. You’re going to, because you don’t care, and then you’re going to whine about how feminists think all ‘male sexual activity is bad’, but no, the problem is that it’s you.
Wow. So even though you think you’re ugly, you think you’re entitled to someone hot. Granted, I guess I don’t have a lot of room to talk, I think my girlfriend’s amazingly beautiful.
Spoiler Alert: If you are a tech geek who doesn’t actually care enough about their looks to do anything about it, you’re like all the women who are tech geeks, most of whom *ALSO* don’t care…
Also, NWO? With regard to your comment a few pages back: I called Martin a “shit stain.” So far, he hasn’t called me anything; so that’s not a good example of him countering insults with insults. FWIW, I don’t really care if he calls everyone here a whore. His tendency to label every conceivable human act as a form of prostitution is actually one of his least revolting qualities. No, I think he is a shit stain because he believes that child prostitutes should be viewed as morally and legally culpable, rather than as victims. In any event, I would be honored if David included my insult directed at Martin on the front page of Manboobz, and I will leave it to the discerning reader to pick a side in this argument.
What’s particularly sad is that I’m not sure that even Martin wants you on his side.
“I’m an extrovert on flextime, I live in a walkable neighborhood, and I notice patterns.
Like, say, what time that hot girl in apartment 3C gets home from work, and when she does her laundry. And what day of the week she washes her panties.
What, me, creepy? Nah.
Nope. Sorry. I’ve been diagnosed with depression since I was a teenager. I never thought it gave me the right to act like a jerk.
But Tom, Wikipedia is run by pedophiles.
When Tom Martin refers to a john as a Jon, I keep picturing Jon Arbuckle.
I walk to work and back every day; have been doing this for about 3 years. I mostly take the same route. Last winter, on my way home after dark, a man I didn’t know approached me to tell me that he “watches me every day.”
I imagine Eurosabra gives off a very similar vibe to that guy. Creeeeeeepy.
Your frequent usage of the gendered slur “creep” has been noted.
Do not ask the MRM to cease using gendered slurs like “bitch” and “pussy”.
“Using gendered slurs is bad! That’s why I’m going to do it!”
I swear, if MRAs ran the justice system, the punishment for breaking the speed limit would be that the cop gets to drive real fast.
‘Creep’ is not a gendered slur. There are plenty of creepy women out there.
All I’m saying is that you have no right to criticize the MRM on that basis.
Duly noted, Steele. I will continue to disagree with you on that one.
‘Creep’ is not a gendered slur. There are plenty of creepy women out there.
Give me a break. True, some women are called “creepy”, but the vast majority of victims are male. Much like while men can be referred to as a “bitch”, it is usually a woman on the receiving end.
“Creep” is gendered.
“Give me a break. True, some women are called “creepy”, but the vast majority of victims are male.”
“Victims”. Of being called creepy, when they do things like practise “mild gaslighting”. Oh, the humanity.
NOT CREEPY: Identifying as male.
CREEPY: Saying you’re angry women get to choose whether to have sex with you.
Also, calling a woman “creepy” is obviously not calling her a man. Calling a man “bitch” is calling him a woman.
No it isn’t. Your frequent tendency to make up definitions to suit your own purposes has also been noted.
Anyway, in the case of Eurosabra, ‘creep’ isn’t so much a slur as a resoundingly evidence-backed factual observation.
(Replying to Steele, obviously)