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Media Release: Bruce Bawer Praises the Legal Project for its Critical Assistance in Anders Breivik Trial
by Sam Nunberg and Adam Turner •
Jun 19, 2012 at 1:01 pm
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Today, Bruce Bawer, an American novelist and
scholar living in Norway, praised
The Legal Project at the Middle East Forum for its assistance in the lawfare
attack targeting him stemming from the trial of Norwegian killer Anders
Breivik. "Thanks to help
from The
Legal Project," Bawer said, "an activity of Daniel Pipes's
Middle East Forum, I had been able to retain a lawyer, who, at my request,
sent a splendid letter to the defense in which he spelled out the legal
absurdity of my reclassification as a 'regular witness.' Thanks, apparently,
to that letter, my name was dropped from the witness list."
Mr. Bawer was under a lawfare assault
stemming from the Anders Breivik murder trial. Breivik is a Norwegian accused
mass murderer, terrorist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 attacks in
Norway. On 22 July 2011, Breivik bombed the government buildings in Oslo,
which resulted in eight deaths. He then carried out a mass shooting at a camp
of the Norwegian Labour Party where he killed 69 people, mostly teenagers. He
is currently being tried for his attacks solely to determine if he should
considered sane – and therefore incarcerated in prison – or insane – and
therefore incarcerated in a mental hospital. Under a faulty reading of
Norwegian law, Mr. Bawer was originally being ordered to testify, as an
expert witness, by the Breivik defense to demonstrate that Breivik is not
alone in taking a skeptical view of multiculturalism, of Islam, and of mass
Muslim immigration which could have resulted in Breivik being ruled as sane.
As Mr. Bawer has said in his column,
"This purported strategy made absolutely no logical sense." He
continued, "Does it really need to be proven to anyone that such views
are widespread? And what, in any case, does any of this have to do with the
mental state of this wacko who remorselessly gunned down dozens of
teenagers?" John O'Sullivan, editor of the National Review,
Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a former Special Adviser to
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has further described the legal
pointlessness of this trial, writing
"Why should there be a trial at all — or at least a trial that treats
the verdict as something in doubt? Everybody knows that Breivik murdered 77
innocent people; we all know just why he did so. His rambling paranoid web
attacks on Norway's social democrats for betraying Christian civilization
were given wide publicity on the day after his rampage. Today he is not
denying but rather boasting about his crimes. Nothing crucial to justice is
in doubt. Why could the court not simply hear his plea, take very brief
factual evidence identifying Breivik as the perpetrator, pronounce him
guilty, and then dispatch him off to anonymous obscurity for the rest of his
life?" Later, O'Sullivan added that the trial strategy by the Breivik
defense of calling witnesses like Bruce Bawer is, in fact,
"dangerous" because, "(i)n effect he (Breivik) is claiming justified
homicide — which in this case means justified mass murder — presumably on the
grounds that it is legitimate to murder people if they promote, inter alia,
the immigration of extremists."
Sam Nunberg, Director of The Legal Project
had the following response to this successful outcome: "The Legal
Project takes great pride in the result of our critical representation of
both Bruce Bawer and Peder Jensen. This was a tremendous victory for the
universal right of freedom of speech and expression. Our success in the Breivik
criminal trial represents a victory for the West to continue to freely
educate the public on the Islamist threat." He continued,
"Unfortunately, the Norwegian government, at various levels, immediately
chose to use a terrible but isolated atrocity as the impetus for a new form
of lawfare by concocting a scheme to drag some of Norway's most prominent and
well respected critics of Islam-related topics into court. Should this ploy
had been successful, the next step would have been to use guilt by
association with the murderous coward Anders Breivik as the rationale to
silence our clients' speech related activities. Had this dangerous scheme
been a success, the result would have been the silencing of a specific
message, first in Norway and potentially across Europe. The Legal Project
looks forward to successfully continuing to defeat the attempt to silence
speech both in America and across Europe."
The Legal Project, as an activity of the
Middle East Forum, works to protect the universal right in the West to freely
discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding. Our
international client list includes journalists, bloggers, authors and
politicians.
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