Breivik is identified as a self-declared ‘anti-Muslim crusader’ with a 1500 word [sorry page!] manifesto and links to the English Defense League.[i]
That the terrorist self-styles as crusader is no surprise, but again media attention focuses upon the lone-wolf, rogue element, and individuation so as to engender control, in the same way that the manufacturing process divides items, and persons, for management on the assembly line and market.[ii] This trinketization ignores, even as we see it on screen, the intimate connections and overall tendential movement that should be diagnosed as a new and vicious military-informational complex, modeled and sold with glossy brochure News Corp and ‘dot.gov’ publicity campaign. It starts with so-called humanitarian bombing, moves through years of attritional combat, and extortion, assassination, murder-death-kill, and at best ends up with construction contracts and ongoing client state dependency, at worst, dissolution, despair and destructive neo-fascist entropy. A form of privatization over scorched earth – the policy choice of the crusades, colonialism and now fully global as World War Three – this blowback only begins to show as breaking news if you are not actually watching.
And on his list of to do things was to start a Norwegian EDL. Gah.
[i] http://t.co/ScCFovi and http://t.co/dYRUtgk – last accessed 26 July 2011
[ii] See Adorno, Theodor 1952[2005] In Search of Wagner, London: Verso, p39.
Comments
I thought it was a 1500 page manifesto.
indeed. pages, not word. which seems so much more serious and still no calls for the EDL to be crushed in the egg.
Demo 3 Sept Tower Hamlets.
As in “EDL, meet pavement”?
pavement, without ceremony