Norwegian Hero Recalls Rescuing Over a Dozen Children With Boat During Massacre
- Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:13pm by
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The unspeakable tragedy that occurred in Norway is enough to shake one’s faith in mankind to the core, and the selfless acts of heroes like Kaspar Ilguard are enough to restore it.
In the aftermath of the fatal shooting spree on Utoya island, one vacationer found himself in the midst of the carnage, rescuing over a dozen children in his boat and shuttling them to safety.
Ilguard, who said he’s vacationed in the area for the last five to six years, was boating on the outskirts of Utoya island when he witnessed the massacre unfold. During a chilling interview with CNN, Ilguard recalled seeing three children huddled together, hiding behind a large stone near the shore. He intended to rescue them before realizing they were, in fact, already deceased.
But thankfully, Ilguard didn’t turn his boat around. Instead, he made roughly three trips to various parts of Utoya’s shore, rescuing over a dozen children.
In total, Ilguard said he saw at least ten dead bodies on the island. But despite the heartrending tragedy that occurred on Utoya, Ilguard still thinks of the island fondly, calling it a “pearl.”
And while Ilguard said he will remember and respect those who were killed, “life must go on.”
Watch the poignant interview below:
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PApeacemaker
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 12:14pmI have a hard time calling someone who saves little communists & little Eichmans a hero. They were there getting brain washed by there older comrades to hate Christians, Conservatives, Jews & Freedom. That day they were prolly learning how to Goose step in sync.
ChicagoJenn
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:46pmExtremely ugly comment on your part. As a Jew who sends her child to Jewish sleep-away camp during the summer, this massacre at a youth camp, regardless of their ideology, was abhorrent. The man in the boat did exactly what any human would do, your comment tells me you are not human.
Report Post »Eventhough I am a staunch conservative (even took my child to 8/28 last year to see Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin), I have nothing incommon with the likes of you. Do not even think you support Israel if you have no sympathy for those children and their families, regardless of ideology.
blownaway
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 2:45amPutting yourself at risk of death to help strangers is indeed a heroic act… thank you sir for being a man of character, may you live a long and happy life!
Report Post »LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:44amProbably one of ten people in Norway who still have a set.
Report Post »SpreadingTheNews
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:14pmCool boat I love steering wheels
Report Post »HL Shancken
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:34pmMarxists: 150 million
Anders: 76
The battle has been joined.
The outpouring of sympathy for the deaths of several dozen Marxist activists and organizers is perhaps a bit misplaced when it is understood that these “kids” (they ranged in age from late teens to late 20′s) represent the future of the Marxist State. Marxists have been waging war against society since the time of Marx, and they have been winning. By the comments here and elsewhere it is clear that Anders failed in his mission to jolt the world out of its Marxist-induced stupor.
My sympathy for the victims is tempered by my knowledge of the slaughter carried out by Marxists against the world for more than a century, and my knowledge of the slaughters they plan in the future. I also understand very well the indoctrination conducted by Marxists that has you weeping for their children when they are gunned down as if Pavlov himself had trained you. They have covered up their crimes and it never occurs to you that you cry for the deaths of people who were being trained to order your lives, to be your slave masters in a Brave New World.
If these Marxist martyrs had been members of the Hitler Youth, would your reaction be the same? I think not. But as evil as was Nazism, Marxism IS MORE EVIL.
Anders Breivik desires no sympathy and he will be punished for what he did. If you understood Marxism, your sympathy for his victims would conflict you.
http://thefinalphaseforum.invisionzone.com/index.php?sho
Report Post »Bekrhed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:23pmAhhh, a proud graduate of Glenn Beck University.
Report Post »Your parents must be very proud.
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“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions” – Thomas Jefferson
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:28am@ HL Shanken,
I couldn’t have said it better myself. The mainstream media makes it sounds like a bunch of toddlers were killed. Not the case. Innocent blood was not spilled. Anders is a hero and, and when all of Europe is speaking Arabic by force, they will finally recognize that.
Report Post »BrennaMan
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 3:29amThese “Marxists” in Norway seem to be doing quite well for themselves. What with Norway being the richest country in the world per capita and all…
You are trying to rationalize the murder of innocents with your flawed logic, that is truly disgusting.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 8:52amHL -You stand behind your hero but do nothing to help him. Makes us wonder if you are man or mouse, just sayin.
This insane murderer of potential liberals reminds me of our hardy, big talking taxed enough already citizen patriot brothers and sisters who impulsively reject anything remotely associated with Obama and constantly talk militant smack to defend their indefensible views that the entire federal government is a Sharia conspiracy.
Except that they are all talk, they have not evolved as our Norwegian brother did.
TEA
Report Post »purplehelmet
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:56pmWhy did Glenn call these children that were murdered Hitler youth?
Report Post »LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:37amBecause they are?? Yep.
Report Post »Stronge
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:33amAnd who would be the ‘Hitler’ in this Hitler Youth movement?
Report Post »LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:56pmThe Labour movement. Duh?
Did you forget Hitler was a socialist and so was the Nazi party, as is the current leadership of Norway?
How uneducated are you simpletons?
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:01pmHooray for this BAMF (Bad A$$ M-F)!!! Too bad he wasn’t able to take out this racist, religious nut-job.
Report Post »freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:48pmYou rock sir! You rock! :)
Report Post »sheik
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:09pmAnd still, nobody has seen as much as picture of one of those “kids”, how strange is that? Whereas the MSM displayed the blood-splattered bodies of the Norwegian victims of the Oslo bombings on their front-pages, we are not to see any of these socialist ‘kids’, not even when they were still alive. Who were these people?
WTF is going on?
Report Post »Tharpie
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:16pmYou don’t publish pictures of murdered children. That’s ridiculous…
Report Post »BrennaMan
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:40pmDo you really want to see murdered children? Stop spouting nonsense.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:06pmAgree w/ THARPIE; you don’t show pics of murdered kids … most decent media won’t even show kids period!!! unless the kids & parents agree & it is deemed to serve a greater good.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:03pmKaspar is a real hero,he ran into danger with nothing to gain. What if kaspars mother would have aborted him? He would not have been there to save these children. Maybe one of these children will grow up and find a cure for cancer or some great thing. Just something to think about. There will aways be evil men in this world, that’s is why there are good men with guns to stop them. Jaspar is a good man.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:58pmWhere did it say he had a gun? Oh…just in your head
Report Post »Jack2011
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:57pmI am bored with this whole Norway thing. Enough already. The press is going overboard only because they attach a right wing angle to it. The press story overload is getting to be almost as bad as the Casey Anthony and Natalie Holloway thing.
Report Post »Don Logan
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 6:05pmUnbelievable
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:04pmSticking your head in the sand won’t change the fact that the realisation is here and there is a NEW group of terrorists and they are not muslim. Wouldn’t it be nice if Christians could now say to muslims “hey, we have unbalanced extremists in our group too, how about all us sensible believers break some bread and stop this nonsense”
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:05pm@SURVIVORSEED This is not a matter of equivalence. Christians in this country every day break bread with Muslims and treat them kindly. This event is not a manifestation of Christian hatred towards Muslims. Its the act of a one-in-a-billion outlier who was able to pull off a horrific massacre by himself. You can be assured that real Christians all over the world denounce the actions of this man as evil.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:18pm@Dougral – Christians in this country every day break bread with Muslims and treat them kindly. – Not on this site they don’t, read some of the comments.
@Dougral – Its the act of a one-in-a-billion outlier who was able to pull off a horrific massacre by himself. You can be assured that real Christians all over the world denounce the actions of this man as evil. – This was an ideological killing spree, there are posters all over this site who agree with the principal of this guys motives but pretend to be horrified of what he did. Even Beck has come out and said they look like the Hitler youth anyway so who cares. Oh……but I denounce the crimes…..but they asked for it. oh….but I denounce the crimes
Report Post »william.wadsworth
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:50pm@SURVIVORSEED
Report Post »I haven’t seen any evidence to say that this guy was a Christian. In fact, the only mention of it came from a Norwegian policeman who was making a speculation.
John 3:16
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:35pmGood man.
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:26pmMonicne, i was talking about the man in the boat as a hero– NOT the shooter
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:34pmI do believe the man in the boat is one of the best things ever.
TEA
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:14pm“Show me a hero and i’ll write you a tragedy” F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:19pmTragedy? By snuffing out those potential leftists, ABBA crushed Norway’s future socialist elite. His act was of course regrettable, do not condone it. But admit he was determined, creative and very effective, obtaining unbelievable results. Hero?
TEA
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:22pmI feel that murderer was drawing a bead on Mr. Ilguard as he was picking up those kids, but for some reason didn’t shoot him.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:01pmJust like the German recuer and his family, true heros! God bless them all for putting their own safety at risk and STANDING WITH COURAGE to help!
Report Post »gregdog17
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:58pmYes, this guy did the right thing, and brave thing. He should be commended.
As for the rest of the prior comments:
Norway does allow private citizens to have guns, but not without some scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Norway
I am appalled that the press is continuing to call him a “Right Wing Extremist” for several reasons.
First, that he has blonde hair and blue eyes. Does that mean that all people with Blonde/Blue are right wing extremist?
Second, that his alleged web site says that he is a Christian. There are doubts about the changing of his site. Lazy reporting.
Third, his mom sent him to a prostitute to make him more of a man. Not too Christian here.
Last, he murdered scores of defenseless people…no, not a conservative in the US, but maybe Europe.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/norwegian-killers-writings-tell-of-family-problems-prostitutes-and-fine-wine-20110724-ncx
We who know the real Christ know that Jesus would never condone this act, in fact Jesus would have convinced any man, woman, or child with his wisdom of the love of life to change, and realize the value of any human life!
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:00pmHe was a King James Lutheran, a good Baptist taught to hate and distrust Mormons and Catholics. He regarded those kids he killed to be Trolls, nothing but Trolls.
Report Post »BrennaMan
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:09pmHe murdered the people because he isn’t well in the head. Then he tried to cover this under ideology, in this case extreme right wing ideology. Conservatives don’t murder, crazy people murder, this one was what you might call a fundamentalist conservative.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:34pmNo. he murdered people because he didn’t like his SOCIALIST govt because he thought it was TOO LIBERAL. He was very much ANTI MUSLIM and claimed CHRISTIANITY to be the only true religion. Gee that sounds awfully familiar
Report Post »bruce_baker
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:58pmKudos to a hero. Right actions need to be applauded. Too bad he didn’t have a gun on that boat. Then he would have been able to go ashore and prevent many more deaths. I wish to God that I had been there, armed. I was trained as a soldier. I would have known what to do. The fact that there wasn’t an armed citizen on that island is a direct result of government policies. The fact that an evil person chose to act that way was his fault. The fact that an armed protection of the innocent wasn’t possible was the fault of the government there.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:26pmI wish Representative Allen West (R-Plantation) had been there armed to the teeth with a big old Captain America shield.
When Scrappy Coco was done, lil’ ABBA would have literally been a red skull (because America rocks).
TEA
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 8:21pmThe fact that there wasn’t an armed citizen on that island – well there was one, didn’t turn out too good
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:48pmThis tradgedy is a great example as to why gun control does not work. The law will not stop a criminal from aquiring a gun and killing people. It is then the law abidining citizen that is put at risk. Check out the book more guns less crime on guerillatics.com on the left side of the page.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:56pmIndeed, gun control does not work.
Thank God there are still heros who will rush into areas to the rescue despite the risk and odds of coming back.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:10pmNorway has strict gun control laws so Anders Behring Breivik; A/H (ABBA) had to lawfully obtain his guns, which took considerable time and patience. In the end, Norway’s liberty-killing gun control laws do not work, and need to be repealed. When guns are severely restricted, only very serious patriots and outlaws will have guns.
Report Post »AmericaTheFree
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:32pmIn great pain comes great heros
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:30pmHe is as blessed as a mortal can be.
Report Post »His ancestors have smiled upon him today.
MotoMofo
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:24pmGod bless this guy.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:22pmIf I’m not mistaken, the citizens there have a gun control policy in affect on them?.
Report Post »Conservative Hippy
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:27pmcops there dont even have guns.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:38pmWell, the cops didn’t get there for 90 MINUTES!
Where the hell was Delta Force or something… a chopper perhaps?
Something?
This dude had all the time in the world to calmly waltz around killing children!
Why did the cops know who he was when they got to the island?
Something stinks.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:42pmIf those summer campers had all been armed, then the massacre would have been a shootout, and ABBA would have been pinned down in a crossfire, maybe having killed a half dozen teens instead of 5 dozen. Laws must be enacted obliging citizens to own firearms (like the Swiss) and carry them at all times. Norwegian teenagers can obtain drivers licenses and legally have sex at 16, why not be required to carry guns and ammunition too?
Report Post »bitter clinger
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:19pmGood job! Kaspar.
Report Post »joan k
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:18pmWe need more people in the world like this guy!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:17pmGod bless this man.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:29pmIndeed. An angel in the face of evil sent to rescue the children.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:44pmMy heart goes out to the children and their parents who because they did not subcribe to the anti-semitism of the day[anti-muslim] had their children hunted down like wild rabbits [run rabbit run].I stand with the norweigiian socialist tolerant secular democracy and the muslims they protect..
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:54pmGood Rose, stand real close- like 1 foot away. See there is a place for you in this world, you were just planted in the wrong garden.
Report Post »MartyTr
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:01pmRose Ellen, go to yahoo and type in rapes in Norway. Do you condone rape?
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:28pmRose Ellen – just be careful to avoid the neo-nazi web sites, they have unsubstantiated claims that resemble news videos and print.
Report Post »LeftyLieDetector
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:40amRose-Fascist: Norwegians protect the Muslims alright, esp. the ones in Hamas. Fascists protecting fascists. Who would have guessed. People in Norway are tolerant. Tolerant of people who are Communists, fascists and all-around totalitarians. Typical citizens who live there, in their State of socialist bliss.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 1:32pmMartyTr and Rose-Ellen
Here’s some rape in Norway links:
Report Post »http://duckduckgo.com/?q=rapes+in+norway
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145161#.Ti74hmEUlmI