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.
“but at least I’m not David Futrelle.”
Of course you’re not, that would require you to be human first, silly!
Oh come now, Martin’s plenty human. Only human beings are capable of being his brand of stupid.
Funny, I think I’ve heard the same thing from other MRAs when I’ve talked about you in the past.
So let me ask you the question we often ask those MRAs who make this claim: Where are the rational, respectable “real” MRAs that truly represent the “broad aims of the movement?” Besides yourself, that is.
I did not call women whores, I called manboobzers and whores whores. To paraphrase Chris Rock, I love women, but I hate whores.
@Dracula:
“Oh come now, Martin’s plenty human. Only human beings are capable of being his brand of stupid.” Nah, he’s not human, he’s a troll. I know Einstein said human stupidity is infinite but trolls are created from the bowels of the worst sort of human stupidity and obnoxiousness.
Interesting point, Tom. Tell me, what’s the difference between a woman and a whore?
Sorry, but no. One idiot does not get to change the meaning of words arbitrarily.
Just so we’re clear, that was directed at Tom.
David, you cherry-pick the few fringe MRAs who make us sound bad! Now let me tell you about WHORES.
I guess that’s technically true. Last time you were here you acknowledged that a whole 3% of women probably aren’t whores.
http://manboobz.com/2012/03/16/tom-martins-anti-male-discrimination-case-against-the-london-school-of-economics-dismissed-he-responds-by-calling-his-critics-whores/comment-page-12/#comment-136962
And by “arbitrarily”, Dracula obviously means “exuding a strong odour”.
Tom “fuck your civil rights you lying whores” Martin. Tom “I do have a book, on the way, based on some experimental psychology I’m conducting” Martin. Tom “it is men being forced out of their seats, and by economically inactive Saudi whores” Martin.
Tom fucking Martin.
Ow! My leg’s asleep again! Stupid over-padded chair…
Who are the people who accurately represent the movement? David quotes from Harlan, Price, Elam, JtO… do they represent the movement or do you consider them the “lunatic fringe”?
Dude, what is going on with your chair? And why is it only cutting off the circulation on one side?
Tom, there is a man suffering a chair-related problem right in front of you. This is your area of expertise, will you not help ease his suffering?
Tom, I’d be happy to promote you as the true leader of the Men’s Rights movement. I’m just going to need a lot more new quotes from you about whores.
@David Futrelle: “I guess that’s technically true. Last time you were here you acknowledged that a whole 3% of women probably aren’t whores. ”
And those 3% he listed are most likely made up of virginal nuns and women born with mental limitations so severe that they will never mature into adulthood.
And chairs. Whores and chairs.
Tom`s batshit ramblings, an utterly abysmal understanding of sociology, gender and history, and blatant misogyny certainly do make him a good candidate for the leader of the MRM (Or should I say, “chairman”? No, I shouldn`t). But I`m not sure if Tom is eally the best person for the job. to be the leader of the MRM. At the very least, he needs to start making some veiled death threats about how things are going to get nasty if they don`t go his way.
Actually, bleh. I apologize for that. David, could you take that Youtube clip out, please?
Cloudiah said: “Tom “I do have a book, on the way, based on some experimental psychology I’m conducting” Martin. Tom “it is men being forced out of their seats, and by economically inactive Saudi whores” Martin.”
Yes Cloudiah, first you’re going to get a youtube video where I conduct some experimental psychology to measure the extent women are sexist towards men compared to vice versa.
It’s going to be a single take odyssey around the West End of London, taking in all the sights, and all the bile.
Then, you’re getting a video where I conduct some more experimental psychology testing my hypothesis that the more of a whore a woman is the less funny she is (the reason women are generally less funny than men, and why a lot of feminists don’t have much of a sense of humour either, I posit).
Also, two student documentaries are currently been shot/edited regarding my sex discrimination case against the gender studies brigade at LSE, and in a MRA v FEM debate with feminist comedian Kate Smurthwaite:
You can subscribe to my youtube channel for those, and news of a feature-length documentary in the pipe:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sexismBusters?feature=watch
Go sit on a hard chair.
Tom Martin is such a huckster, I almost feel sorry for the MRAs who will probably give him money for his “documentary”.
It will sure be interesting to compare his undoubtedly well-researched videos to Sarkeesian’s, when she gets them made.
…and you expect to film anything interesting besides people walking around and some cars and stuff? Like women are just going to jump out of alleys at you, one after the other, going “OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!”?
Or do you mean an “odyssey” in which you approach and harass random women in London, and if they respond negatively, it’s MISANDRY?
Are you going to confirm this via whore-o-meter readings?
…I’ll give you this, you are funny, Tom, but I don’t think you know it.