Well, I mean, as long as he's comfortable...

I mean, yo have to be more sensitive, Santa! The man killed 90, maimed 100+ more, set off a bomb, and published a 1500-page manifesto and a 12-minute video all in the same day...

He's CLEARLY tired and deserves some comfort for all that hard work murdering people...

The sentence can be extended indefinetly in increments of 5 years.

I've heard that doesn't happen often, and all the guy has to say is he repents, cry a couple times, write some letters to be deemed not a threat. The release is not based on the severity of the crime but on whether he is a danger to the community

Well we'll see I'm sure after writing a violent manifesto its a given that he's never getting out.

hope so, but I actually doubt it, the law is the law, and something tells me the norwegians take that seriously.

Well I think they take the fact that he's a mass murderer seriously too

Yeah no way they'd ever let him out he is Norway's national villain. He is unprecedented.

The only way he'll not be out after 21 years will be either because he's dead or because he does not want to leave. Norway's reaction to this guy has been to do everything possible to convince themselves that their core values cannot be changed by the actions of madmen, and as such I fear they will make a point of treating him in the same way they treat every other criminal. He'll get out early on good behavoir after promising to limit his political activities to door to door leafleting and song writing.

"he is Norway's national villain"...and Israel's hero.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/215928#.TjALJWH-Xvs

Breivik's 1,500 page book attacks the European political establishment because he sees it as an ally of the Muslims against Israel, and praises Israel for not giving Muslims the same rights they enjoy in different European countries.

Breivik says, "The time has come to stop the stupid support of the Palestinians...and to start supporting our cultural cousins - Israel." The sight of the massacre was a camp which demanded, days earlier, that Israel "finish the occupation." Anti-Israel, pro-Arab signs were hung in the camp.

Norwegians are notoriously soft-hearted toward the mentally disturbed, even violent ones, but this time there are going to be many that do not forgive him. I predict life in prison until he is too old to get around on his own, then a safe, comfortable retirement home for his last days.

So what? He's Norwegian, the victims were Norwegian, they make their laws and their prisons. You're not a victim, you shouldn't even care to have an opinion on what should happen to him.

Geez... And they call me a cold hearted bastard... Geofram, the Norwegians are fellow human beings. They have all the same joys and fears as we do, so discussing how we'd feel if we were Norwegian is only to be expected.

BRONSON!!!!
He'll be Norway's Bronson! Or not... Still, hell of a movie that I recommend to all of you out here!

As for Norway and how they'll deal with him, it's hard to tell. Even if they have a very sophisticated judicial and penal system, they also have political institutions that have their own necessities (read: any government seeing to this man being released will pay a huge political price).
Also, I don't believe that any decent system (and Norway's is surely decent) would be deprived of means to deal with cases such as this one. The psychology and science on which their penal logic lies also suggests that people like this man usually cannot be trusted to be safe before old age (75 and up): once the hormones and strength are gone, the desires to act out on irrational thoughts also dwindles.

But my real point is: we'll see!

Who's Bronson? Do you by chance mean Manson?

Nevermind, a google search showed who you were referring to. Stupid American me...

I don't know, I find Geofram's attitude refreshing in its lack of hypocrisy. Around 25,000 other children died on the same day due to boring reasons such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, HIV etc, which we happily ignore as somebody else's problem. The only reason this bunch of fellow human beings are being talked about is because they died in an exciting and dramatic fashion.

Well... maybe not the only reason. A really cynical person might say that we're talking about the poor Norwegians because it's a problem that we can do very little or nothing about, and therefore have no obligation to actually do anything no matter what we conclude. The other problems, however, can be solved, so if we talk about them we're in danger of being inconvinienced by an urge to do something about them.

...luckily I'm not cynical :)

Hahaha! No worries Draug, I didn't know of him either before I came across the movie.

Don't believe the people who will sell you this movie as an action flick, or a Stallone-style-prison-flick. It's really clever, and superbly put together. Bronson is played by that cool guy that joins with Leo's team in Inception.
From the same director, Valhalla Rising is a must see. You need to be into contemplative movies with a high dose of violence though (Peckinpah movies come to mind as a comparative). The main character here is played by the actor who did LeChiffre in Bond's Casino Royal.

@Darwyn: ""he is Norway's national villain"...and Israel's hero."

I live in Israel. He is not Israel's hero. He is a mass murderer, and I hope he will never live outside of prison.