“The best example of this was New York’s “Mad Bomber”, who blew up bombs for 16 years before being caught.”
I’d say the Norway shooter was quite effective too. He lit off the bomb in Oslo, had the police from the entire southern half of Norway at the site (they have very few police in that part of the world, which is going to be a HUGE problem when it comes to even holding on to the government...but that’s another discussion), and then went to that Socialist Training Camp and shot them up - unmolested for like an hour, before anyone could get there.
I am pretty convinced that Breivik carried out an attack based on a professionally composed military plan. It is known that he traveled to a Belorussian paramilitary training camp several times, and were he carrying out a plan, it worked to perfection, something that almost never happens with an amateur plan.
What he did accomplished a very focused military operation to achieve political ends, and it crippled a scheme by the ruling party to effectively destroy Norway.
The Workers’ Youth League (AUF) of the Labour Party in Norway was founded in cooperation between their socialist and communist parties youth movements, just five years after the founding of the Hitler Jugend, and based on that model.
The purpose of both organizations was to create a next generation of ideologically pure political leaders, to carry on the doctrines of their respective parties without internal dissension.
And since WWII, all the political leadership of the Norwegian Labour Party has been indoctrinated in that organization. In the last 40 years, not just Norwegian youth, but immigrant youth as well, with a decided purpose.
A major philosophical belief of the Socialist International, an organization of socialist political parties from around the world, is that nations are just a random social contrivance of no inherent value, and a major cause of war, and must eventually just become districts of a new world socialist order, formed into economic blocs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International
The way they figure to do this is by encouraging unlimited immigration, and welfare to the immigrants, on condition that they support the socialist party. Eventually they will make the natives a minority, and then their religion, culture and history will be so diluted that they will cease to exist as a unique people and live in a one-party district of their socialist economic bloc.
Norway would be particularly easy to do this to, as though they are still 86% Norwegian, there are only about 5 million people total in Norway, so dilution with foreigners can accomplish the socialist goal quickly. The destruction of Norway.
And that is, of course, the eventual goal of the Norwegian Labour Party, taught doctrinally through the AUF, their next generation of leaders.
But enter Anders Behring Breivik. Imagine the effect it would have on even a major political party, if 69 of their top leaders were killed?
The Norwegian Labour Party only has 55,800 members. So Breivik exterminated most of their indoctrinated future leadership. Though they will be replaced, the replacements will not be anywhere near as ideologically pure, and will likely deviate from their agenda enough to ruin in for the next hundred years.
So, though Breivik murdered 69 people, mostly teenagers, he might have saved his nation. And while the Labour Party government desperately tried to have him declared insane, the courts ruled otherwise, which sends a profound message to others whose countries are under threat by the parties of the Socialist International.
Yet the profound question remains, who were his confederates?