"Left wing" UK Labour MP and "right wing" writer Peter Hitchens agree on what drove Norwegian Anders Breivik to kill

Peter Hitchens, the author of The Rage Against God and The Abolition of Liberty has identified a much neglected but likely cause of the insane murder spree by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, and it isn't "right wing" commentators in the media.

Labour MP Paul Flynn

Hitchens has an ally in British Labour MP Paul Flynn, who wrote on his website:

"Peter Hitchens is correct. There I have said it. It's today only. We share a view on which we have corresponded in the past. It's a bit of a puzzle to both of us that few others have noticed. About 80% of mass killers were on drugs - usually anti-depressants or anabolic steroids."

Flynn wrote in response to a column by Hitchens (the brother of noted writer Christopher Hitchens) in which he speculated:

Peter Hitchens

"It's the drugs, stupid. In hundreds of square miles of supposed analysis of the Norway mass murder, almost nobody has noticed that the smirking Anders Breivik was taking large quantities of mind-altering chemicals.

In this case, the substances are an anabolic steroid called stanozolol, combined with an amphetamine-like drug called ephedrine, plus caffeine to make the mixture really fizz. I found these facts in Breivik’s vast, drivelling manifesto simply because I was looking for them.

The authorities and most of the media are more interested in his non-existent belief in fundamentalist Christianity. I doubt if the drugs would ever have been known about if Breivik hadn’t himself revealed this. I suspect that mind-bending drugs of some kind feature in almost all of the epidemic rampage killings that Western society is now suffering. "

What drove Breivik to murder over 70 people was likely a combination of factors, from his own personal demons and obsessions to drugs to whatever. His act has brought to light a great danger in Western society. That danger is not the way that unhinged individuals can be motivated by political arguments.

The greatest danger in the wake of the Breivik killings is how neo-Marxist totalitarians and Islamists hope to capitalize on mass-murder by trying to fulfill their goal of restricting the expression of ideas with which they disagree.


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