Kevin Forts, Anders Breivik's American 'Penpal,' Says Utoya, Oslo Murders Were 'Necessary'

Few people have anything good to say about Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway that killed 77 people.

However, 23-year-old Massachusetts native Kevin Forts has publicly announced his support for Breivik, and striking up a penpal relationship with the mass-murderer.

In an interview with Norway's VGTV (video above), Forts stated:

I believe that it [Breivik's attack on Utoya Island] demonstrates a sense of nationalism and a moral conscience. He's fighting against cultural Marxism and the Islamization of Norway and he found that the most rational way to accomplish that was through terrorist actions on Utoya and in Oslo.

All reports of Forts' interaction with Breivik hinge on the interview he granted to VG, Norway's most-read tabloid newspaper. Whether Forts is sincere in his views, or engaged in some kind of trolling, is unclear.

Asked how he could support an attack that killed children, Forts replied: "It was a necessary political sacrifice."

Not content with admiring Breivik from Afar, Forts explained to VGTV why he wrote letters to the imprisoned Breivik:

I decided that I wanted to contact [Breivik's] legal team to see if there was anything I could do, in the form of support. He said that all money would go to the victims' funds. So I decided what I would want to do is try to help him ideologically by sending him letters, showing him support, that I believe that he is a nationalist and patriot, not the terrorist neo-Nazi that the media portrays him to be.

Forts has received at least one response from Breivik. HyperVocal quotes the letter from Breivik to Forts: "I have received letters from supporters in 20 countries, but you appear to be someone who can write well. Yes, I am absolutely interested in discussing ideological issues with you and am thinking about how we can work together."

Forts' support for Breivik appears to come from his shared belief that, as Truthdig puts it, "Muslims are invading Western nations with help from sympathetic multiculturalists and that they will impose Shariah law if given the chance."

Germany's Der Spiegel quotes psychological expert Terje Tørrissen, who has examined Breivik, as saying that the terrorist has received more than a hundred letters from supporters. They “use the same language, the same terminology as Breivik. And some say they have been inspired by him and will be more extreme.”

Breivik himself claims to have taken inspiration from another violent right-wing group, the "Knights Templar," according to The Telegraph. A British blogger living in Malta who went by the name "Lionheart" admitted, "I do worry that he has taken what I say and overreacted to it," suggesting Brevik may have tried to connect with him via Facebook.

For his part, Forts is quoted by the paper as saying that he "dreams of meeting Breivik," or one day talking to him on the phone.

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Comments

[Doug Sandlin]

07:26 PM on 04/20/2012

One Word:

Unemployable.

[synergie]

10:27 PM on 04/21/2012

Neo-nazis love to employ each other. He'll just have a very limited field in which he can work.

[SGillLondonUK]

07:44 PM on 05/07/2012

4 WORDS
Send him to guantanamo

[ChezMJ]

01:42 PM on 04/20/2012

Asked how he could support an attack that killed children, Forts replied: "It was a necessary political sacrifice."

So, Kevin Fort, if someone has a cause that needs publicity, they could kill you & it would be a "necessary political sacrifice?"

No? I didn't think so.

[ChezMJ]

01:36 PM on 04/20/2012

Does Kevin Fort understand that there is this thing called Google & that he will never ever get a job or a date?

[sunflower12]

01:08 PM on 04/20/2012

I hope the FBI is keeping an eye on him, he's walking the streets freely. It's scary.

[synergie]

10:27 PM on 04/21/2012

Hopefully someone is keeping an eye on the rest of this monster's fans as well.

[sunflower12]

06:51 PM on 04/23/2012

True. It's not for lack of lessons, over time we have learned that some fanatics start out worshiping monsters.

[SGillLondonUK]

07:44 PM on 05/07/2012

hopefully that someone is a prison guard.

[MyNameIsMickey]

01:00 PM on 04/20/2012

Sick, sick, sick.

[vividrick]

08:19 AM on 04/20/2012

Oh goody, another Neo-Nazi getting air-time he craves!...

(Note he mutters to himself "...what am I trying to say?")... & on top of that, he mentions killings as "heroic", "nationalist"...& not surprisingly, the knuckle-dragging "EDL". I feel for the families of the murdered who have to listen to such psychopathic filth!

[synergie]

10:28 PM on 04/21/2012

Wouldn't you rather they announce themselves so we know exactly who they are and exactly whom to avoid?

[EdRea]

07:31 AM on 04/20/2012

Now, that is one who bears watching.

[akgdma]

07:31 AM on 04/20/2012

I was in Seattle in a resturant when Ted Bundy died in the electric chair, that got a standing ovation from diners. Although justice was "served" that day I was happy with the idea that we would no longer have Ted alive an in the media daily just blabbing non stiop. Since the day he died Ted Bundy is in the past where he belongs, no longer in a jail cell for decades, making news and a constant reminder of those who were killed by him,death is the only way to get away from the game these killers play on earth.

[SGillLondonUK]

07:46 PM on 05/07/2012

Bundy maybe dead, but the fact that people like that idiot on the video above can make statements like that and a guy can can kill 77 innocent people shows his legacy is still alive. The need for people to kill for the sake of it will never end

[akgdma]

07:25 AM on 04/20/2012

I don't need to read the manifesto of either idiot, they are like many white people all over the world and in the US who cannot bear the thought that the white race may not continue to be the dominant race on the planet. I even have some friends who complain about Obama non stop, they have no real gripe with him other than he is a black man. How do I know the gripes are not real? I ask them to explain the sound bytes they pick up and repeat and they can't.

[OBAMAMOI]

06:27 AM on 04/20/2012

Some people are plain and simply mad!

[avam2009]

06:23 AM on 04/20/2012

Christ almighty. Arrest him as well - yes, I know, 'free speech!' and all that yada yada yada. As far as I'm concerned however, once "free speech" is part and parcel of racist, backward, violent and oppresive ideology - the outcome of which has been the murder of innocent people in the US and worldwide - then it ceases to be free speech in any meaningful way. And as a democratic, thinking nation that has evolved TO the point of such democracy by outlawing such hate - this should be equally stopped.

[lawrence of america]

02:37 PM on 04/23/2012

the same "free speech" of Anwar awlaki = the same solution

[SGillLondonUK]

07:47 PM on 05/07/2012

He is a terrorist sympathiser and should be held under the patriot act

[nikki717]

06:14 AM on 04/20/2012

Bigots and violence....

[TheEmptyMonty]

05:46 AM on 04/20/2012

This guy says "Muslims are invading Western nations with help from sympathetic multiculturalists and that they will impose Shariah law if given the chance"?

So the 0.8% of the U.S. population that's Muslim is going to overthrow the justice system set forth in the Constitution? Wow, that would be scary---- if it weren't complete nonsense.

[OBAMAMOI]

06:28 AM on 04/20/2012

Whats is dead may never die but The Crusade lives on..

[TheEmptyMonty]

10:33 AM on 04/20/2012

Amen to that.

Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, drafted under George Washington, signed by John Adams:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen [Muslims]; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

And look how far we've come.

[briceverdi]

05:44 AM on 04/20/2012

Breivik was a murderer pure and simple. He slaughtered innocent children. If he lived in America he would be electrocuted. Extreme fanaticism leads to evil deeds.

[tpk]

06:25 AM on 04/20/2012

Not necessarily, some states don't have a death penalty and those that have it don't electrocute anymore.

[Yank in France]

05:25 AM on 04/20/2012

LESSON OF THIS STORY: if you want your 15 minutes of fame, just proclaim your support for some whacked out political murderer and you will get MASSIVE ATTENTION from the Huffington Post.

in contrast, don't try to criticize the Orwellain censorship policies of this online journal, unless you want to see 50% of your posts removed before publication!!

[avam2009]

06:26 AM on 04/20/2012

Ansolutely Spot on - I have made similar comments (one wonders if this will go through!). Funny that this paper purports to be a voice of democracy/democrats/liberal thinkers - and yet any post that does not agree with the status quo Or the moderators opinions (who are? could it be any less democratic or transparent) then the comment will not be posted.

[Yank in France]

06:56 AM on 04/20/2012

I think people who express strong opinions, be they left, right, pro or anti-Israel, end up getting their posts removed.

The problem is that NO ONE KNOWS what HP's true moderating policy is. Sure, they have their guidelines, which are WEIRD. It is hard to believe but they actually say that posts attacking a public figure will be removed! Further that posts that do not project a positive image for HP will be removed! That leave incredible leeway to remove posts that only a totalitarian could appreciate. And I use the totalitarian word very, very rarely. It is as this journal is being managed by Eastern Europeans or perhaps Asians who live in authoritarian/totalitarian countries.

While I have great respect for Ariana, somewhere along the line this issue will come back to haunt her. I don't know when or how, but this is just too strange to continue with a HUGE RIPOST!

[OBAMAMOI]

06:28 AM on 04/20/2012

C’est vraiment!