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Title: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 16, 2019, 10:15:17 pm

from The Washington Post…

Demonizing Muslims and immigrants leads to predictable results

Where does responsibility lie?

By JENNIFER RUBIN | 2:42PM EDT — Friday, March 15, 2019

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The New Zealand national flag is flown at half-staff on the Beehive executive wing, at Parliament buildings in Wellington on Friday evening.
 — Photograph: Marty Melville/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images.


THE HORRIFIC MASSACRE in Christchurch, New Zealand, which has taken at least 49 lives, reminds us of the slaughter at the Tree of Life synagogue (https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/10/29/most-visceral-moments-my-life-revolve-around-this-pittsburgh-synagogue-now-its-scene-worst-ever-attack-jewish-americans) in Pittsburgh, which reminds us of the murders of innocents in a Charleston, South Carolina, church (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/charleston-church-shooter-i-would-like-to-make-it-crystal-clear-i-do-not-regret-what-i-did/2017/01/04/05b0061e-d1da-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html). White supremacy. Fear of an invasion. Conspiratorial, apocalyptic thinking. The alleged murderer in New Zealand — as in the other incidents — tells us exactly why the attacks occurred.

The Washington Post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/15/shootings-reported-mosques-christchurch-new-zealand):


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The 74-page manifesto left behind after the attack was littered with conspiracy theories about white birthrates and “white genocide.” It is the latest sign that a lethal vision of white nationalism has spread internationally. Its title, “The Great Replacement”, echoes the rallying cry of, among others, the torch-bearing protesters who marched in Charlottesville in 2017.

President Trump issued a perfunctory message of condolence (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-offers-us-assistance-after-horrible-massacre-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/931833d2-4712-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html) on Friday and then went back to decrying the special counsel's investigation and claiming victimhood for himself.

I cannot help but think back to the actions President George W. Bush took in the wake of September 11. Bush went to an American mosque just days later. Instead of stoking division and Islamophobia, he told Americans (https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010917-11.html):


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America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.

Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That's not the America I know. That's not the America I value.

I've been told that some fear to leave; some don't want to go shopping for their families; some don't want to go about their ordinary daily routines because, by wearing cover, they're afraid they'll be intimidated. That should not and that will not stand in America.

Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.

That is how a responsible leader of a pluralistic democracy that enshrines religious freedom behaves. It might have been Bush's finest moment as president. He knew the temptation was there to blame Muslims indiscriminately for the 9-11 attacks and that anti-Muslim violence and rhetoric would tear at the fabric of American society.

Now we are confronted with yet another white-nationalist attack. The Anti-Defamation League put out a statement (https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-new-zealand-mosque-attack-shows-that-white-supremacy-is-an-international), which read in part:


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“This attack underscores a trend that ADL has been tracking: that modern white supremacy is an international threat that knows no borders, being exported and globalized like never before,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “The hatred that led to violence in Pittsburgh and Charlottesville is finding new adherents around the world. Indeed, it appears that this attack was not just focused on New Zealand; it was intended to have a global impact.”

As has become a pattern with white supremacist violence, the shooter not only meticulously planned the attack, but also designed it for social media, even live streaming it on Facebook. The fact that his video is still accessible on several social media websites is a reminder that these platforms need to do more to stem the flow of hateful messages and memes on their platforms, especially white supremacist memes targeting Muslims, Jews and other minorities.

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media during a news conference in Wellington. — Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images.

In the third year of Trump's presidency we've witnessed the president stoke irrational and baseless fears of Muslim invaders (hence the travel ban and the lies about Middle East terrorists mixed into the caravan). We've seen him declare that there were “very fine” people were among the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, who chanted the white nationalist theme (“Jews will not replace us”) — the same “replacement” ideology apparently at the heart of the New Zealand attacks.

Trump has hired advisers who believe the United States is in a life-and-death struggle with Islam, blurring the distinction between members of a worldwide religion and fundamentalists responsible for terrorism attacks. He has falsely labeled acts of terrorism from radicalized people in the United States as evidence of the Muslim threat he tells his followers they should fear. He has virtually ignored right-wing domestic terror (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html) — despite its rise in the United States and around the world (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-12-05/global-terrorism-deaths-down-globally-right-wing-terror-on-rise):


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The threat of far-right political terrorism, for one, is a growing concern in North America and Western Europe, according to the findings. While the United Kingdom, Spain, Finland, Sweden, and Austria were the only countries to experience increases in deaths from terrorism in Western Europe, both Canada and the U.S. experienced increases in total deaths in North America.

Far-right groups and individuals caused 66 deaths and launched 127 attacks in the regions between 2013 and 2017. The majority of attacks, according to the findings, were carried out by lone actors with far-right, white nationalist or anti-Muslim beliefs.

If one wanted to follow Trump's rationale, they'd ban immigration from the countries identified above. But that would be insane, you say, because it ignores the scourge of domestic terrorism and casts suspicion on millions of innocent people. Precisely.

Trump has at his disposal a right-wing media that trumpets his themes and echoes his baseless accusations. The alt-right and white nationalists fill social media with the same blind hatred. Ordinary MAGA fans listen to Trump's venom again and again.

In this cauldron of Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia, we have seen a sizable increase — 17 percent in 2017 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hate-crimes-rose-17-percent-last-year-according-to-new-fbi-data/2018/11/13/e0dcf13e-e754-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html) — in hate crimes in the United States. What did we expect would happen?

Did Trump “cause” the mosque killing? No. The murderer(s) are responsible for the deaths of innocents, for the assault on religious freedom, for an act of unimaginable evil. Does Trump contribute to the broader problem, amplifying rather than discouraging (as Bush did) Islamophobia? Yes. Does Trump give legitimacy to “replacement” ideology by creating a moral equivalence between its proponents and anti-Nazi protesters? Yes. Does he prefer to fuel fear of Muslims at the expense of taking serious and sustained effort against right-wing terrorism? Absolutely.

Bush put it best: “Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.” He never conceived that such a person would occupy the Oval Office.


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Worshippers pray for victims and families of the Christchurch, New Zealand, shootings during a Friday-evening vigil at a mosque in Lakemba,
New South Wales, Australia. — Photograph: Mark Goudkamp/via Associated Press.


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Jennifer Rubin (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jennifer-rubin) writes reported opinion from a center-right perspective for The Washington Post. She covers a range of domestic and foreign policy issues and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican Party and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades, an experience that informs and enriches her work. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Northern Virginia.

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Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 16, 2019, 10:15:30 pm

from The Washington Post…

Australia provided fertile ground for Islamophobic culture, experts say

The alleged gunman's rhetoric, and the target, suggest the influence
of a newer, global and Internet-inspired extremism.


By ADAM TAYLOR and RICK NOACK | 6:41PM EDT — Friday, March 15, 2019

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on March 15, 2019, condemned the deadly attack on two mosques in New Zealand on Friday afternoon.
 — Photograph: James Gourley/Getty Images.


SHORTLY AFTER the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 49 people dead Friday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed that the primary suspect was an Australian citizen and denounced him as a right-wing “terrorist.”

“We stand here and condemn absolutely the attack that occurred today by an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist,” Morrison told a news conference.

Authorities in New Zealand arrested a suspect and charged him with murder but have not released his name. In a manifesto published online before the attack, the alleged gunman describes himself as “an ordinary white man, 28 years old. Born in Australia to a working class, low income family.”

Australian media reports have suggested (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/christchurch-shooting-brenton-tarrant-what-we-know/10904744https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/christchurch-shooting-brenton-tarrant-what-we-know/10904744) that the man worked as a personal trainer in Grafton, a city in the state of New South Wales, after graduating from school in 2009 and before leaving to travel in Europe and Asia two years later.

It remains unclear whether he had established links to far-right groups, but such groups have been active in Australia for decades. Some experts say that anti-Muslim rhetoric has been normalized by mainstream right-wing news outlets, many of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

These publications have fomented “the kind of Islamophobic culture which makes it easier for extremists to think that they are legitimized to enact their deadly fantasies,” said Ghassan Hage, a Lebanese Australian academic at the University of Melbourne.

But although Australia may be fertile ground for far-right radicalization, the suspect's rhetoric — and, notably, the target — also suggests that the motivation for the attack was not traditional far-right nationalism, but a newer kind of international, Internet-inspired extremism.

“The fact is that he chose New Zealand quite carefully,” said Aurelien Mondon, an expert on the far right at the University of Bath in Britain. “He wanted to make clear that Muslims weren't safe anywhere.”

Australia has a history of far-right groups that have targeted immigrants and minorities. From the start of the 20th century, the country adopted a number of policies designed to exclude immigrants of non-European origin. These measures, known collectively as the White Australia policy, were fully abandoned only in 1973.


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Australian Senator Pauline Hanson removes a burqa she wore into the Senate chamber in Canberra in 2017 to press for a ban on the garment.
Hanson heads the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant One Nation party. — Photographs: Lukas Coch/Associated Press.


In the mid-1990s, far-right political parties such as Pauline Hanson's One Nation were able to draw on anti-immigrant sentiment against Asians to gain a small foothold in national politics. In recent years, One Nation and other right-wing groups have gained new political relevance by pivoting to the issue of Muslim immigration from the Middle East and South Asia.

Though most of those groups focus on Australian concerns, the manifesto released before Friday's attack indicated the alleged gunman had moved to New Zealand specifically to carry it out, suggesting it would show that Muslims were not safe “even in the remotest areas of the world.”

In the manifesto and several videos of the attack, there was only fleeting mention of Australia. Instead, there were repeated references to far-right movements and incidents in other countries, including the United States, France, Norway and Serbia, as well as memes and in-jokes popular with online far-right groups.

Mondon said such references were indicative of a new generation of the Australian far right. “This kind of international alt-right, for want of a better term, are really Internet-based,” he said, adding that they were “much closer to what you've seen in the United States in recent years” and “more violent and less interested in the parliamentary game” than previous Australian far-right movements.

Established far-right parties such as Hanson's One Nation have largely refrained from commenting on the Christchurch shooting so far. However, Fraser Anning, an independent senator from Queensland, released a message (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/15/right-wing-australian-senator-blames-immigration-new-zealand-mosque-attacks) saying that Muslims “may have been the victims today,” but “usually they are the perpetrators.”

“The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,” Anning said in his statement.

Mehreen Faruqi, Australia's first female Muslim senator, accused Hanson and Anning of normalizing language used to target Muslims.

“This is the consequence of the Islamophobic and racist hate,” Faruqi wrote on Friday on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MehreenFaruqi/status/1106412760424828928).


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Rick Noack reported from Berlin.

Adam Taylor (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/adam-taylor) writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Originally from London, he studied at the University of Manchester and Columbia University.

• Rick Noack currently covers international news from Australia and New Zealand for The Washington Post. He is usually based in The Post's Berlin bureau. Previously, he worked for The Washington Post from Washington D.C. as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow and from London. Originally from Germany, he studied at Sciences Po Paris, Johns Hopkins University and King's College London.

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Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 16, 2019, 10:15:50 pm

from The Washington Post…

‘Let's get this party started’: New Zealand
gunman narrated his chilling rampage


Police say the shooter who live-streamed the assault on one Christchurch mosque,
killing more than 40, was a 28-year-old Australian they arrested on Friday.


By STEVE HENDRIX and MICHAEL E. MILLER | 8:28PM EDT — Friday, March 15, 2019

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This frame from video that was live-streamed on Friday shows a gunman in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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THE RECORDING blinked to life shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Friday to reveal the ordinary gray interior of a Subaru Outback. The overcast skies of the late New Zealand summer filtered through the windshield, casting pale light on three rifles laying across the passenger seat.

With the camera mounted on the driver's helmet, all that was visible of him were legs beneath the steering wheel, clad in tactical protective wear, and flashes of green, fingerless gloves as he fumbled with his gear. An occasional glimpse of a fair, clean-shaven chin crossed the rearview mirror.

“All right,” he said before putting the car in gear. “Let's get this party started.”

It was a short drive toward downtown Christchurch, a historic, English-flavored city on New Zealand's South Island. “Take the second left toward city center,” the windshield-mounted navigator intoned, and the man — later identified by police as a 28-year-old Australian named Brenton Harrison Tarrant — put on his turn signal. He drove carefully. At one red light, he reached to turn on a strobe attached to the military-style rifle resting between his leg and the door.

A few blocks on, he hit a button and a Serbian nationalist song filled the car. He had made a mix tape for a massacre.

A day earlier, he had allegedly uploaded a 74-page manifesto online that obsessed over immigration and “white genocide.” Minutes before the attack, a link to the manifesto was posted on the website 8chan (https://8ch.net), along with a chilling promise to live-stream an “attack against the invaders.”

Five minutes into the live Facebook video, the attacker pulled into a driveway on Deans Avenue, turned around in a small parking area and finally positioned the Subaru at the end of the drive, pointing outward, ready for a fast exit.

Methodically, he readied his guns and magazines, all of which had been covered with white lettering and symbols, including references to Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” and the names of mass shooters.

Military fife-and-drum music was playing as he climbed out of the Subaru, lifted the car's rear hatch door and uncovered two other graffiti-covered rifles and multiple red gas cans. Selecting an additional shotgun, he walked to the sidewalk, leaving the car hatch open and the car running.

The street was quiet; only one elderly couple seemed to notice as he carried his weapons a few yards to the grounds of Christchurch's Al Noor Mosque, its high minaret rising above an angular whitewashed building. The attacker ignored the pair and entered a parking lot crowded with small cars. One man walking on the far side looked his way as he advanced steadily toward the arched front entrance flanked by tall evergreen shrubs.

Suddenly, the center of the image was filled, as it would be for much of the next six minutes, with the pointing barrel of the rifle. Several figures stood at the top of the steps, just inside the entrance. Someone could be heard saying, “Hello, brother.” The worshiper nearest was turning away from the camera, just a dozen feet away. The rifle tip moved over the center of his back.

About 1:40, just before regular Friday prayers at Al Noor got underway, the gunman pulled the trigger for the first time.


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‘We heard screaming’

Al Noor is Christchurch's most prominent mosque, serving a local Muslim population of about 3,000. Its golden dome is a landmark for cricket players and other visitors to the city's central park across the street.

New Zealand's 50,000 Muslims make up only 1 percent of the population, but the country has welcomed increasing numbers of families fleeing hardship in recent years. Gathering for prayers Friday were immigrants and refugees from Syria, Jordan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The shooting, when it started, was relentless. The first dull pop was followed by eight more in four seconds. The gunman, never pausing, stepped through the entranceway, already lined with bodies lying among the shoes of dozens more worshipers within. What followed was a calm, methodical onslaught, hundreds of rounds that would kill more than 40 and wound dozens more.

At first, some worshipers thought the sound of gunfire was simply one of the mosque's speakers crackling.

“Then we heard screaming,” Nour Tavis told The New Zealand Herald (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213211).

“Everyone panicked,” he said. “There was shooting and shooting and shooting…. People were running and all of a sudden you saw them fall.”

Firing almost constantly, the shooter did not hesitate to train his weapon on any human he encountered — those fleeing, those cowering, the injured. He canvassed the small suite of interior rooms, returning repeatedly to the central prayer room, where dozens huddled in two corners.

Adeeb Sami, a 52-year-old engineer, had flown from Dubai to New Zealand the day before to surprise his twin children on their 23rd birthday, which was Friday, his daughter told Gulf News (https://gulfnews.com/uae/dubai-based-dad-takes-bullet-in-back-to-save-sons-in-christchurch-terror-attack-1.62689049). Amid the firing, Sami reportedly threw his body over two of his sons, taking at least one bullet near his spine but shielding them. All three would survive.

Many others were not as lucky. The father of a Syrian family that had fled to New Zealand to escape the carnage in their country was killed. So was a 71-old refugee who had survived decades of war in his native Afghanistan.

Tavis, a Moroccan who moved to New Zealand 15 years ago, told The Herald he escaped by crawling through a broken a window. Later, Tavis said, he re-entered the mosque to try to help.

“There were people bleeding to death,” he told The Herald. “It was terrible.”

When the gunman had no moving targets to shoot, he returned to those already down, shooting them until the green-patterned floor was a litter of shell casings and gore.

The gunman, unrushed, replaced clips more than once. Then he headed back outside, stopping to unload several shots down the sidewalk at fleeing pedestrians, first to the right and then to the left. Back at his car, he grabbed a new weapon and one of the gas cans and returned to the front of the mosque.

At the top of the driveway, he fired repeatedly at someone not visible deep in the parking lot. The gunman was breathing heavy now, muttering something hard to understand to his “lads.”

He mounted the front steps, now running with blood, and went back inside for an additional 70 seconds, killing a few who had managed to avoid his first attack.

He exited the front for the last time just as two figures were scrambling through a gap in the wall. He hit the second one, a woman who went down on the sidewalk immediately in front of his waiting car. Her cries for help grew louder as he approached but were silenced when he shot again.

“I am the god of hellfire,” was the lyric of his soundtrack as he slammed the hatch, climbed in the vehicle and drove off, turning left on Deans Avenue. Within a short distance he stopped, programmed something into the navigator and then, suddenly, heaved a gun barrel up beside the dangling pine-tree air freshener and shot through the windshield at someone out of camera range. For the next few minutes, he progressed haltingly on the roadway, firing once at a car pulling in front of him. He stopped to fire a shotgun round at someone else, shattering his passenger window.

Soon he was driving rapidly, talking, marveling at how many people were in the mosque, how crowded the car park had been.

“It was too quick. I should have stayed longer,” he said. “There was time for the fuel…. Burn that f---ing mosque to the ground.” He seemed calm.


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Police search for evidence near the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch. — Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images.

‘He shot point blank’

About nine minutes after the first shot, the sound of a police siren penetrated the music for the first time. The video ended, but the slaughter would continue.

The gunman was traveling in the direction of a second, smaller mosque four miles away. The Linwood Mosque, a gray framed building no bigger than a ranch house, was busy with a Friday crowd of families, including many young children.

As police were responding to calls from Al Noor, shots erupted at Linwood.

Inside, several dozen terrified worshipers tried to take cover as the gunman burst into the prayer room.

“There were old people sitting on the chairs and praying,” Syed Mazharuddin told The New Zealand Herald (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213205). “He started shooting at them.”

Seven would be killed at Linwood, bringing the day's death toll to 49. Among them, according to grieving relatives around the world, were a 4-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy.

“He was shooting indiscriminately,” Mazharuddin said. “There was a lady screaming ‘Help! Help!’ and he shot point blank in her face.”

A young man who works at the mosque as a caretaker rushed the shooter, Mazharuddin said.

“He saw an opportunity and pounced on him and took his gun,” he said.

The gunman allegedly fled to his car and left the scene as the cries of pain and grief rose.

Shortly after, police said, they had him. Following a chase, patrol cars forced a Subaru onto the curb of a divided Christchurch street. Officers dragged the driver from the front seat, apparently uninjured, after a spasm of violence that killed more people in one afternoon than New Zealand typically suffers in a year.

By the end of the day, as emergency rooms scrambled to treat the wounded and families gathered to mourn the dead, police had three people in custody, including Tarrant, a former fitness instructor who moved to New Zealand two years ago.

Authorities said Tarrant had a gun license and used five weapons in the attacks. At an initial court hearing on Saturday (local time), he did not enter a plea.

And a peaceful country had begun the long investigation into a brutally violent day.


__________________________________________________________________________

Siobhan O'’Grady contributed to this report.

Steve Hendrix (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/steve-hendrix) came to The Washington Post more than ten years ago from the world of magazine freelancing and has written for just about every page of the paper: Travel, Style, the Magazine, Book World, Foreign, National and, most recently, the Metro section’s Enterprise Team. What his stories have had in common (in addition to awful first-draft spelling) is the goal of taking readers to a place they might never visit otherwise, from the top of Kilimanjaro to the mind of a local dude who lives life as a pirate, eye patch and all.

Michael E. Miller (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/michael-e-miller) is a local enterprise reporter for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2015, Miller covered crime and the Caribbean for the Miami New Times. He has reported from almost a dozen countries and won several national journalism prizes, including the National Press Foundation's Feddie Reporting Award and three Sigma Delta Chi awards for excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Suspect in New Zealand mosque attacks appears in court (https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/suspect-in-new-zealand-mosque-attacks-appears-in-court/2019/03/15/60befbbc-28be-4e9a-968c-a80ae0a343b8_video.html)

 • Main suspect in New Zealand shootings that killed 49 appears in court (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/main-suspect-in-new-zealand-shootings-that-killed-49-appears-in-court/2019/03/15/2d00b7a4-476c-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html)

 • Suspect charged with murder; prime minister vows gun laws will change (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/main-suspect-in-new-zealand-shootings-that-killed-49-appears-in-court/2019/03/15/2d00b7a4-476c-11e9-8aab-95b8d80a1e4f_story.html)

 • Suspected gunman was a globetrotting Australian unknown to authorities (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boundless-racism-zero-remorse-a-manifesto-of-hate-and-49-dead-in-new-zealand/2019/03/15/3d407c64-4738-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html)

 • The New Zealand shooting shows how YouTube and Facebook spread hate and violent images — yet again (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/15/facebook-youtube-twitter-amplified-video-christchurch-mosque-shooting)


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lets-get-this-party-started-new-zealand-gunman-narrated-his-chilling-rampage/2019/03/15/fb3db352-4748-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lets-get-this-party-started-new-zealand-gunman-narrated-his-chilling-rampage/2019/03/15/fb3db352-4748-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 16, 2019, 10:18:14 pm

The good thing about this tragedy perptrated by a Trump-supporting white-trash supremacist is that it will probably result in considerably tougher gun laws in NZ.

And that has to be a good thing for the entire country, apart from a few stupid boofhead righties who will screech & moan & whinge like old women.

But we'll soon learn to ignore the dumb white noise from the “stupid brigade” and do what is right for the country.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 17, 2019, 08:43:24 pm
Don't let facts get in the way he never said he supported trump but supported the idea that Trump wanted to put his country first
Left wing media love to twist the truth to suit their agenda its for fucked in the head people just like you.

Let us call it what it really is The Facebook Massacre it was a Facebook live stream and seen worldwide Muslim killings for 20 minutes

I think he's  a white trash communist who thinks China is great he just wants to start a race war like the leftwing mainstream news tries its best to do every day

his manifesto is 72 pages some of the things he says I can agree with the rest is nutty

he is more interested in starting a civil war in the USA by causing a gun ban




Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 18, 2019, 12:16:03 am

It's going to be hugely entertaining when the government rams new restrictive gun legislation through parliament and enacts it into law.

But what will be even more entertaining will be armed cops kicking down the door and arresting at gunpoint the gun nutters who refuse to comply with the new laws.

I might have to get in the beer & popcorn to watch the entertainment.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 18, 2019, 12:18:09 am

Quote
file:///C:/Users/Old%20Man/Downloads/The%20Great%20Replacement%20Manifesto%20by%20Brenton%20Tarrant.pdf


Faaaaaark .... you such a dumbarse that you posted a link to a pdf file on your own computer's hard-drive.

Only stupid Trump-supporters living in Woodville would be that dumb!!

Fucking hilarious, eh?






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Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 18, 2019, 07:47:57 am
you won't want to read it

wonder why police need guns is it because they are a gang

I don't care if they take guns it's not my worry
they will only get the legal ones
next, they will ban knives haha

I wonder how much time he will serve in prison how much is 49 lives worth?


It's going to be hugely entertaining when the government rams new legislation to kill all worthless commie white trash
but it's to save the planet ;D


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 18, 2019, 12:32:09 pm

Well, I'm going to find it hugely entertaining when the “police gang” arm themselves to the teeth and kick down your door at 4am looking for your illegal guns.

Even more entertaining will be when you crap your pants in fear when you wake up to police guns aimed at your head.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 18, 2019, 11:21:41 pm
the idiot who killed all the people he's a leftist clown

it would be great if a gang of armed police broke down my door looking to take my guns

they would need to get me a new door because I don't have any guns

YES YOU ARE A BRAIN DEAD BRAINWASHED WHITE TRASH COMMUNIST, IDIOT


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 19, 2019, 01:35:31 pm

The idiot who killed all those people is a white-trash supremacist.

Name even a single mass-shooting carried out by muslims in New Zealand.

Just to show you aren't completely “full-of-shit!”


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 19, 2019, 02:57:09 pm

A racist despot spewing out hatred & bigotry as he speaks to his white-trash supremacist supporters…


(https://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_999w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2019/03/18/Editorial-Opinion/Images/6RSU6JCI2EI6TDH4FROQTGOCDY.jpg) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/18/morning-bits-trumps-megaphone-amplifies-white-nationalism/)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 19, 2019, 04:57:53 pm

Two interesting articles from The Washington Post, one about a leader who is admired by the world over her handling of a terrorist attack in the country she leads; the other about a “fake leader” who is a nasty, racist bigot who by his actions feeds the sort of nasty bullshit preached by white-trash supremacists…


New Zealand’s prime minister receives worldwide praise for her response to the mosque shootings (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/18/new-zealands-prime-minister-wins-worldwide-praise-her-response-mosque-shootings)

Trump response to New Zealand massacre highlights his combative history with Muslims (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-response-to-new-zealand-massacre-highlights-his-combative-history-with-muslims/2019/03/18/bca24248-4996-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 20, 2019, 06:21:39 am
again you didn't read the killers manifesto so you are talking bullshit i don't care if he's white the guy is a fuckwit
the idiot is more a communist than anything

none of this bullshit has anything to do with trump

oh thats right you think white people are all bad

because your a fucken self hating white trash cum bucket


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 20, 2019, 06:35:04 am

Quote
Name even a single mass-shooting carried out by Muslims in New Zealand.

I never said they did
the media would hide it anyway if they ever did

they have killed people by the millions all over the world nearly for the last  2000 years

you don't know shit


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 20, 2019, 11:09:19 am

Christian have killed multi-millions all over the world for 2,000 years.

The hilarious thing is their god doesn't even exist.

He/she/it is merely a god delusion inside the imaginations of stupid people.



Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 21, 2019, 01:59:04 pm

(https://static3.stuff.co.nz/sorensen-jacinda-trumpcmyk-2ea5c396.jpg) (https://static3.stuff.co.nz/sorensen-jacinda-trumpcmyk-2ea5c396.jpg)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 21, 2019, 02:46:17 pm

Christian have killed multi-millions all over the world for 2,000 years.

The hilarious thing is their god doesn't even exist.

He/she/it is merely a god delusion inside the imaginations of stupid people.



wheres your proof of this, when are you going to tell the Muslims Allah doesn't exist?
and why are you calling a god you don't believe in he or she?

mostly Christians were defending themselves from Muslim invasions
if Muslims really did kill less it was because they killed all the men and took the women for sex toys and the children for slaves .
you're are a history failure

you just make up bullshit .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7y2LRcf4kc


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 21, 2019, 02:47:15 pm

from The Press…

Seeing their global poster-boy arraigned might
set back the white supremacy movement


By JOE BENNETT | 4:00AM — Wednesday, 20 March 2019

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Joe Bennett writes that he'd like to have been Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during her call from Donald Trump after last Friday's massacre.
 — Photograph: Rosa Woods.


I'D LIKE to have been Prime Minister for 10 minutes. Those 10 minutes would have coincided with Trump's phone call offering condolences for the recent massacre. I would have got some bitter pleasure from replying with a pair of Anglo-Saxon monosyllables.

Trump isn't responsible for the massacre. But he represents the sickness that caused it. The murderer put together a manifesto of sorts, a rambling self-justification drawn mostly from the internet. He wrote of ‘invaders’. That's Trump language. Trump speaks daily of the invasion of the USA. Half an hour after talking to our prime minister he was back at it. “People hate the word invasion,” he said, “but that's what it is.”

Trump may be too stupid to know what he's doing. He knows no history. He knows no literature. But the murderer knew exactly what he was doing. He was killing, as he saw it, lesser beings. The oldest instinct of our species is that the alien is both inferior and a threat. The instinct lurks in even the nicest of us and it won't go away. It's what gives pep to an All Blacks test.

And it's the easiest instinct to inflame politically. Trump's done it. But have we forgotten when it happened here? Have we forgotten the 1996 election when New Zealand First brought 20 MPs into parliament on the back of anti-immigrant rhetoric? And look where Winston Peters is now.


(https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/u/b/n/e/l/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240x700.1ubmpl.png/1552958244170.jpg) (https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/u/b/n/e/l/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240x700.1ubmpl.png/1552958244170.jpg)
Joe Bennett writes that seeing their “poster-boy” in handcuffs might set back the global white supremacy movement. — Photograph: Evan Vucci.

I used to go out on the town sometimes in Auckland with an Indonesian friend. I was astonished by the casual abuse he suffered. F…ing Asian was a common epithet. Chink was another.

So while everyone's been quick to stress that the killer wasn't bred here, he could have been. We're no better or worse than, say, Norwegians, and they produced Anders Breivik. So more important than dodging blame is preventing another massacre.

Gun control, as the prime minister said, is the obvious place to start. There will always be bastards so let's make it hard for them. No-one needs a semi-automatic rifle. A ban is overdue.

And then attention should pass to the internet. If this newspaper published a torrent of inflammatory racist falsehoods it would be held responsible. But internet platforms never are. They profit hugely from enabling the spread of material. They should be held responsible for its consequences.

Beyond that there's not much the authorities can do. If a fanatic wants to kill he'll find a way. A terrorist in Nice killed 86 with a truck. You could kill dozens with just the family car.

Authorities can only ever react, and by definition they are cumbersome. Our 'terrorist threat level' was officially raised to high only when 48 people lay dead and their murderer was in custody. The horse of threat could not have more emphatically bolted. That's not a criticism. It's just the way things are.

The massacre was genocide. I'd be happy to see the perpetrator swing for it. But that wouldn't suppress the global white supremacy movement. (Nor would pointing out the grim irony of its name.)

What might make a difference would be seeing their global poster-boy arraigned, seeing Trump in handcuffs, minus his tan and his hairspray, his suits and his sycophants, exposed for all the world to see as the lying cheating stealing greedy stupid sickening bigot that he is. And while we wait for that, yes the Crusaders should change their name. It was always ill-chosen. They should adopt a name explicitly Islamic. Let that be the murderer's legacy.


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• Julian “Joe” Bennett is a writer, columnist and retired English school teacher living in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Born in England, Bennett emigrated to New Zealand when he was twenty-nine.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111397305/seeing-their-global-posterboy-arraigned-might-set-back-the-white-supremacy-movement (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111397305/seeing-their-global-posterboy-arraigned-might-set-back-the-white-supremacy-movement)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 21, 2019, 03:09:11 pm

EXCELLENT NEWS: Semi-automatic and military-style weapons BANNED!!

Now I await the entertainment of armed cops kicking in the doors of stupid fuckheads who refuse to comply with the new laws.

Throw their arses in jail so they can spend some time contemplating the error of their ways.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 01:07:38 am
commie dictators
now all those dark unknown guns will be now worth 3 times their normal price criminals will cash in on this new black market


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 04:40:11 am

The government had better build a new prison to lock up all the gun-nuts who keep their now-illegal weapons.

And in America, this tweet (https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1108562224514326528) from Bernie Sanders hits the nail right on the head.

As does this tweet (https://twitter.com/RUMINT79/status/1108557848689041408). And this tweet (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1108563593304436736).

And even the Nats support the new gun bans.

So shove that up your arsehole, gun-lover.

Prepare to have armed cops kick down your door when you refuse to hand over your illegal guns.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 12:06:55 pm

from The Seattle Times…

Racial violence is very much with us

New Zealand massacre is the latest shock from a resurgent white nationalism
that should have been buried with Adolf Hitler.


By DAVID HORSEY | 12:51PM PST — Thursday, March 21, 2019

(https://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/White-nationalism-TCA-3-20-19-1020x655.jpg) (https://twitter.com/davidhorsey/status/1108822232329908229)

FROM the deadly attack on an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, to the deadlier attack on a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the horrendous slaughter at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the resurgence of white nationalism (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/new-zealand-shooter-steeped-attack-in-dark-internet-culture) across the world has grown steadily more homicidal.

__________________________________________________________________________

• See more of David Horsey's cartoons at The Seattle Times HERE (https://www.seattletimes.com/author/david-horsey).

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/racial-violence-is-very-much-with-us (https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/racial-violence-is-very-much-with-us)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 02:16:01 pm
there you go again talking bullshit

it's not racial violence because Muslims are not a race they are a religion with a built-in political system of domination

there is a drug that if someone gave it to you
they could tell you to do anything and you would do it
including shooting yourself in the head
they could make you give them all the money in your bank account
or they could give an ar15 and send you to a school and get you to do a mass killing

you have no idea

all you have is a fake life with a fake belief system

the question is this killer a victim of mind-control is it a false-flag to get the guns?

the CIA have drugs like this or even better ones that do the same thing

CIA and most of the spying agencies around the world are control by satanist
who run the Catholic church
as you will one day find out


The Most Dangerous Mind Control Drug in the World

'Devil's Breath' chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill

By Beth Stebner / Daily Mail

A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia.

The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Devil's Breath,' and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America.

Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror stories of how people were raped, forced to empty their bank accounts, and even coerced into giving up an organ.

VICE's Ryan Duffy travelled to the country to find out more about the powerful drug. In this video he reveals the shocking culture of another Colombian drug world, interviewing those who deal the drug and those who have fallen victim to it.

Demencia Black, a drug dealer in the capital of Bogota, said the drug is frightening for the simplicity in which it can be administered.

He told Vice that Scopolamine can be blown in the face of a passer-by on the street, and within minutes, that person is under the drug's effect - scopolamine is odourless and tasteless.
‘You can guide them wherever you want,' he explained. ‘It's like they're a child.'

Black said that one gram of Scopolamine is similar to a gram of cocaine, but later called it ‘worse than anthrax.'

In high doses, it is lethal.

Drug Creates a Mind-Controlled Zombie
The drug, he said, turns people into complete zombies and blocks memories from forming. So even after the drug wears off, victims have no recollection as to what happened.

One victim told Vice that a man approached her on the street asking her for directions. Since it was close by, she helped take the man to his destination, and they drank juice together.

She took the man to her house and helped him gather all of her belongings, including her boyfriend's cameras and savings.

‘It is painful to have lost money,' the woman said,' but I was actually quite lucky.'
According to the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, the drug - also known as hyoscine - causes the same level of memory loss as diazepam.

In ancient times, the drug was given to the mistresses of dead Colombian leaders – they were told to enter their master's grave, where they were buried alive.

In modern times, the CIA used the drug as part of Cold War interrogations, with the hope of using it like a truth serum.

However, because of the drug's chemical makeup, it also induces powerful hallucinations.

The tree common around Colombia, and is called the ‘borrachero' tree – loosely translated as the 'get-you-drunk' tree.

It is said that Colombian mothers warn their children not to fall asleep under the tree, though the leafy green canopies and large yellow and white flowers seem appealing.

Experts are baffled as to why Colombia is riddled with scopolamine-related crimes, but wager much of it has to do with the country's torn drug-culture past, and on-going civil war.

http://mindpowernews.com/MostDangerousDrug.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ToQ8PWYnu04

So we come back to the same question is the Muslim killer a mind control victim?
and are satanist ruling the world by blackmailing all the politicians?

because it wouldn't be the first time



Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 02:53:30 pm

Whatever ... the fact remains that the government are going to take your semi-automatic assault rifles off you whether you like it or not.

You can either comply with the new laws, or the cops will take your guns from you by force and then you will either cop a heavy fine, or get thrown in jail, or both.

And guess what? The Nats are supporting the new measures, so its no good running off crying to them.

White-trash supremacists are the new jihadists and they need to be stomped on everywhere they stick their heads up out of the shitholes they reside in.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 02:54:32 pm
white nationalism is made up fake left-wing propaganda white nationalism hardly exist anymore

it's just a made up conspiracy theory and a big lie

racism exists in all cultures against blacks browns yellow and whites

your just targeting whites as part of your communism propaganda and that is the big lie

so your full of bullshit but don't let the real facts get in your way


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 02:59:58 pm

This white-trash supremacist mob resides around the corner and about half-a-k down the road from my place…


(https://arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/3VHDNOH26RDYFA6FWSEJ6IT4EE.jpg)

(https://leftwin.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/12004868_1639534402999247_4983403216294978979_n.jpg)


…a workmate who lives diagonally across the road said armed cops kicked down the door and tipped the place out early on Tuesday morning, then the daughter of one of them appeared in court later that day charged with inciting racial hatred on Facebook the day following the terrorist attack in Christchurch by the white-trash supremacist. She was remanded in custody until her next court appearance. Good fucking job ... jail is the right place for pieces of rightie trash like her and her ilk. The cops need to lock up a few more of that scum.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 03:07:13 pm

Whatever ... the fact remains that the government are going to take your semi-automatic assault rifles off you whether you like it or not.

You can either comply with the new laws, or the cops will take your guns from you by force and then you will either cop a heavy fine, or get thrown in jail, or both.

And guess what? The Nats are supporting the new measures, so it's no good running off crying to them.

White-trash supremacists are the new jihadists and they need to be stomped on everywhere they stick their heads up out of the shitholes they reside in.


you are a white trash self-hating clown eating your own bullshit

you are an alt left extremist much more dangerous than Hitler and you need to be stomped on wherever you raise your ugly troll head.

you are a white trash fearmonger troll soon you will die and no one will ever see your bullshit anymore  ;D

the picture below is a small group of idiots just like you.
You and them are both the same, hate mongers

but lucky for the world there are fuck all of you


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 03:12:19 pm
I don't really know why but I guess you're fucked maybe you have mommy or daddy issues
but something is wrong with your brain

you hate and thats all the treasure you have


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 03:16:15 pm
skinheads I used to beat them up just for fun and I loved doing it because i always hated bullies
and beat the shit out of them was a buzzy form of entertainment for me
so I must be the good guy right and fuck me last time I looked in the mirror I found out I am white

I also like all races of people I don't care what colour they are



Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 03:25:57 pm

The fact you are a Trump-supporter says everything anybody would want to know about your defective mental state.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 03:32:59 pm
I think you need to retrofit your belief system
you're not playing with the full deck

muslims will outbreed all western cultures and dominate the world and they will be all skin colours
and one day if you are still alive they will take over and make you either worship Allah or they will kill you by cutting off your ugly head;D

that is the funny irony for people like you ;D

don't call me a racist Islam is a religion, not a race

life is a rat race and the rats are winning


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 03:38:27 pm

The fact you are a Trump-supporter says everything anybody would want to know about your defective mental state.


In the soviet union, they put any dissidents who did not follow their totalitarian rules into mental hospitals or slave labour camps, so nothing you say about my mental health worries me because Joseph Stalin is dead but his worm is eating your brain.

I only like Trump because of all the worlds evil rulers are fighting against him I love the underdog He is the enemy of the worlds 1%

but it's funny you can't see that "can you?


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 22, 2019, 03:57:34 pm

Trump is sucking the dicks of two of the world's evil rulers: Vladamir Putin and Kim Jong-un.

And while he is sucking their dicks, they are playing Trump like a fiddle.

Yet he is too dumb to comprehend that he is being played.

Hilarious, eh? No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at America and their stupid emperor with no clothes.


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 04:01:00 pm
and about guns, I don't care about guns

there are plenty of normal household weapons lying around in everyone's homes
that can kill people

which is something I would never want to do to anyone although a few times I almost did
but by fate, and a little bit of luck I managed to stop myself at the last second lol

inside every human, there is a wild animal, a beast that can take over and destroy human life.
we all live in hope this does not happen in our fine country
but every now and then there is some crazy cunt and if they want guns they can get them on the black market
because there will always be hidden guns out there for sale

so taking good peoples gun is a waste of police resources that won't stop the madness of the human condition


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 04:07:51 pm
you are thinking a lot about sucking dicks lately, do you hang around toilet blocks late at night?
I got nothing against you being gay it's ok

this bullshit about Trump is driving you nuts ;D

hows the fucken weather?

heard any good fiddlers lately?

will Hillary go to jail?

do you have a life or are you just an anti trump troll hahaha



Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 04:15:43 pm
Hey Do you really think anything you say about Trump annoys me

I don't care what you say or think I am just pissing around on my computer studying a bit of history for fun
and you are a sideline joke of a human I love to rattle your cage for shits and giggles(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/XtraNewsCommunity2/Animated%20emoticons/26_NyaNyaNya.gif)


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Im2Sexy4MyPants on March 22, 2019, 04:18:02 pm
You should be working for CNN FAKE NEWS they would love to bits


Fuck You Are A Funny Cunt  ;D


Title: Re: Trump hate speech + Aussie white-trash supremacist = mass murder in NZ…
Post by: Kiwithrottlejockey on March 23, 2019, 01:16:46 pm

from The Washington Post…

‘Hiding in plain sight’: In quiet New Zealand city,
alleged gunman plotted carnage


In Dunedin, the suspected attacker frequented a gym and lived in a rented
apartment with bare walls and a bed as the only furnishing.


By SHIBANI MAHANI, WILMA McKAY and KATE SHUTTLEWORTH | 3:56PM EDT — Thursday, March 21, 2019

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A police car is seen outside the accused gunman's home on March 17, 2019, in Dunedin. — Photograph: Dianne Manson/Getty Images.

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND — When the stocky Australian man moved into the bluish-gray house perched on a small incline in 2017, he told the young couple next door he had traveled the world and was looking to settle down.

This quiet college town, surrounded by hills and a small harbor on New Zealand's South Island, appealed to him, he said.

It was almost flattering to hear that a well-traveled bachelor in his late 20s would pick Dunedin — a city of 127,000 better known as an easy stop for visitors en route to penguin and albatross colonies.

For the next year and a half, the newcomer built a life of solitary routines, according to a dozen people who interacted with him.

He would exchange polite hellos and waves with neighbors and make frequent trips to a nearby gym, they said. His rent would always arrive on time for an apartment he kept meticulously austere, with bare walls and a bed in the living room as the only furnishing.

The next-door neighbor, Brooke, said he was so quiet that she never heard a sound from his house, even though they shared a wall. No friends visited. He had no job or discernible romantic partner.

“He was bizarrely quiet,” said Brooke, who asked to be identified only by her first name in attempts to maintain some privacy while the spotlight is on Dunedin. “You would never hear anything, not music, nothing. No one ever came round. He was always by himself.”

On the other side of the wall, [no name] — the alleged gunman in last week's mosque massacres — was apparently planning.

He trained with semi-automatic rifles at a gun club in a forest about a 45-minute drive south of Dunedin. He bulked up, hefting weights of up to 440 pounds at a 24-hour gym. Either by choice or happenstance, the gym he picked had a view of a day-care center for Muslim children across the street.

He trawled the darkest corners of the Internet, finding inspiration and kinship for his white-nationalist rage.

Investigators are still trying to piece together the full timeline and tipping points that led to the horrific spray of bullets — streamed live on the Internet — at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15 that claimed 50 lives and shook New Zealand to its core. They have named [no name], who posted a rambling 74-page manifesto on a Twitter account he created three days before the attack, as the only suspect.

A massive forensic effort, said New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush, includes the FBI, Australian police and officials from nations visited by the alleged gunman — Turkey, Bulgaria and elsewhere. It seeks “to build a comprehensive picture of this person that we will put before the court,” said Bush.

But in Dunedin — about 210 miles down the coast from Christchurch — it's also about what may have been missed.

“The other poignant feature of this for Dunedinites is, of course, the revelation that the evildoer lived among us — in my case, just three blocks away from my home,” said Michael Woodhouse, a member of Parliament based here. “He was hiding in plain sight.”


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[no name] grew up in the Australian town of Grafton. — Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images.

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The alleged shooter is said to have gone to Grafton High School. — Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images.

'Like hell on earth'

[no name] was born in Grafton, a town of 18,000 near Australia's east coast known for its annual jacaranda festival, when trees bloom in a canopy of purple-hued flowers. His grandmother, 81-year-old Marie Fitzgerald, told The Washington Post she remembers him as a “lovely boy” from the early years she spent babysitting him.

“He was mostly a good kid — naughty at times just like ordinary children,” she said.

Speaking separately to an Australian news network, Fitzgerald said he spent most of his time on the computer, playing video games, and was awkward around girls.

[no name], who never went to college, became a personal trainer at a gym in Grafton between 2009 and 2011. Tracey Gray, the gym's manager, told ABC News he worked in a program that offered free gym training to children in a community hit hard by bankruptcies in the dairy industry and falling agricultural subsidies. [no name], in his manifesto, described his own family as “low income.”

He showed no obvious interest in firearms, Gray said, which are heavily restricted in Australia.

In 2010, [no name]'s father took his own life at age 49, turning to suicide after he was diagnosed with cancer as a result of asbestos exposure, Fitzgerald said. He had been a competitive athlete who participated in triathlons, according to an obituary at the time.

[no name]'s mother, Sharon, and sister Lauren have been under police protection, sequestered since the attacks. They have not spoken with the news media.

“This news is like hell on earth,” Fitzgerald told The Washington Post. “We had no idea — it hurts so much. It's a hard thing to swallow.”

Few in the city will even say his name.

But Australia nonetheless has had to grapple with the fact that the alleged shooter was one of its own, adding to the ongoing debates over Islamophobia and racism against groups including Australia’s native inhabitants. [no name] views Australia as “simply an offshoot of the European people,” he wrote in the Twitter manifesto.

“It hasn't come as a complete shock to people that things have come to a head like this,” said Tasneem Chopra, chair of the Australian Muslim Women's Center for Human Rights. “There has not been a strong counter-attack to it, [and] there's also been a lot of platforms that has been provided those views.”


Path to Dunedin

Coming into some money from his father's estate, [no name] traveled the world (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/16/north-korea-pakistan-bulgaria-unusual-travels-new-zealand-shooting-suspect), apparently solo.

In 2016, he visited Turkey twice, first in March and later in September, according to the Daily Sabah newspaper. Late that year, he visited Serbia, Montenegro and other parts of the former Yugoslavia, stopping at the sites of battles between Muslims and Christians during the centuries of Ottoman rule.


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[no name] was filmed by CCTV as he arrived at Istanbul's Ataturk international
airport in Turkey in March 2016. — Photograph: TRT World/Associated Press.


By early 2017, he was traveling through some of the bloodiest spots of the 1990s Balkan wars, including mostly Muslim Bosnia and mostly Roman Catholic Croatia.

That spring, he was making his way across Western Europe, [no name] said in his manifesto. Here, his views on immigration were “dramatically changed.” He traveled through France, Portugal and elsewhere, he wrote in the screed, and was unsettled by a truck attack in Stockholm around that time that left a young girl dead.

His fury grew, he wrote, as he observed the 2017 French elections. In the document, he lashed out against immigration to France in particular, claiming there were so many immigrants “the French people were often in a minority themselves.”

At some stage, he also went to North Korea, apparently with a “friendship association” on closely monitored tours. A photo shows [no name], in jeans and a black sweater, kneeling in the front row of a group that had visited the Samjiyon Grand Monument. Behind them stands a huge bronze statue of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung.

It was right after these travels, according to property and hotel records, that [no name] came to set up base in Dunedin. After spending four nights at the cheapest available room in a city center hotel, he moved in August 2017 to a one-bedroom duplex apartment on leafy Somerville Street, which is dotted by shadows from surrounding hills.

He was unemployed but provided a reference, according to the property manager, and agreed to pay eight weeks of rent — about $1,550 — upfront. He told the property manager he had money from his father's estate. [no name], in his manifesto, said he invested in cryptocurrency, which he used to fund his travels.

“The rent came through like clockwork. All the inspections checked out fine,” said the manager of the real estate company, who spoke on the condition that neither he nor his company be named because of an ongoing police investigation. “He seemed to be in and out of the place quite often. He was doing a bit of traveling around while he was here, but we had no reason to suspect anything.”

[no name] kept the flat impeccably clean. Nothing was on the walls — no posters, photographs or paintings. Oddly, the property manager said, he had no furniture, just the bed in the living room.

“[He] didn't have any lounge furniture. But I mean, that's just quirky rather than raising a red flag or anything like that,” the property manager added. “It's just like, okay, this is the way this guy lived, that's fair enough — each to their own sort of thing.”


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[no name] purchased his first firearm from Gun City, one of the biggest gun retailers in New Zealand. — Photograph: Dianne Manson/Getty Images.

Gun license

Three months later, in November 2017, [no name] obtained a gun license, a prerequisite for owning a firearm in New Zealand. He purchased his first firearm (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gun-owners-in-new-zealand-brace-for-big-changes-to-their-right-to-carry/2019/03/18/6460f8e0-48ec-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html) from Gun City, among the biggest gun retailers in the country, the next month. He bought three more up until March 2018, said David Tipple, the store's managing director.

He also bought a hunting rifle from the Dunedin branch of Hunting & Fishing, an outdoor store, in late 2017, according to Radio New Zealand.

[no name] apparently sought out a gun club and found one that suited him: Bruce Rifle Club, nestled in a forest near Milton, south of Dunedin, which has confirmed he was a member.

Recreational shooters say that no other club in the area offered shooting and target practice with military-style assault rifles. A video on YouTube of the rifle club that has since been deleted shows its members practicing on human silhouette targets, frowned upon by the vast majority of shooters in New Zealand.

“New Zealand shooting culture is very conservative,” said Grant Dodson, a recreational shooter and president of the Dunedin Clay Target Club, which uses only shotguns and clay targets. “There's not a lot of military-style semi-automatic weapons used for shooting.”

Pete Breidahl, a former member of the New Zealand military and a competition shooter, said he raised concerns about the rifle club in late 2017, according to an interview and to Facebook posts from the time that he shared with The Washington Post.

“Its ethos is appalling, everything from the ‘You can take these guns from my cold, dead hands’ mentality to their members turning up to a military shoot wearing camo,” he said in an interview. “They said stuff that scared me.”

In a statement, the Bruce Rifle Club's vice president said Tarrant “seemed like a normal person and never gave anyone reason to suspect he would carry out an attack like he has.”

“The club is feeling shocked, stunned, betrayed and used that we've had this person in our Club who has used our facilities to hone his skills to do these horrible things to some innocent human beings,” the statement added.


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The alleged shooter trained at the Bruce Rifle Club near Milton, south of Dunedin. — Photograph: Dianne Manson/Getty Images.

In late 2018, Tarrant took off on travels again. He visited the Gilgit-Baltistan area of northern Pakistan on the edge of the Himalayas, according to an archived version of Facebook posts that has since been deleted from the Osho Tang hotel.

In comments to CNN, the owner of the hotel described Tarrant as polite, and did not notice anything out of the ordinary.

Bulgarian officials confirmed that he also had visited the country in late 2018, flying to the capital, Sofia, and later driving to Hungary. Bulgaria's chief prosecutor, Sotir Tsatsarov, said that Tarrant spent around a week in the Balkan nation and that prosecutors are now probing whether he visited as a tourist “or if he had other objectives.”

Sometime that year, he went back to Grafton to celebrate his sister's 30th birthday, according to Fitzgerald, his grandmother.

“He was no different,” she told The Washington Post. “We all went out for dinner to a pub in Grafton, and he was pleased to see all of us. He made a speech for Lauren. He seemed happy.”


‘Could have been me’

Back in Dunedin, neighbors said, [no name] seemed obsessed with working out.

“He's a big guy — as in, he works out a lot,” said Jess Corbett, 35, a neighbor who went to the same gym, Anytime Fitness, as [no name]. “I did remember thinking when I saw him at the gym just how thick he was.”

Anytime Fitness lies directly across the road from An-Nur Childcare Center, a day care for Muslim children under age 5. The treadmills face out directly toward the center.

[no name]'s manifesto does not mention the center but does state that he initially was planning to attack the Al-Huda Mosque in Dunedin. Muslim community elders there say the mosque's security-camera system was stolen about three weeks before the Christchurch attacks.

An-Nur's owner, Mohammad Alayan, happened to be Christchurch on March 15 and was critically injured in the attack on the Al Noor Mosque, the first site targeted. The shooter's bullet hit his shoulder, just missing his heart. His son, 33-year-old football player and entrepreneur Atta Elayyan, was among those killed.

“We are still unraveling all of this,” said Haizal Hussaini, 45, who moved from Malaysia to Dunedin in 2007. “It could have been me. It could have been any of us.”

The city's small Muslim community, he said, certainly had felt pockets of racism before but never had experienced a presence of organized white nationalist or extremist groups, or felt their lives were threatened.

“There's always intolerance — you know, some words or someone pulling off a scarf [from a woman's head], or telling us to go back home,” he said. “But we never imagined this would happen, never anything like this.”

A road outside the Al-Huda Mosque is lined with flowers stretching the entire block, with declarations of solidarity and sorrow. On Thursday evening, 15,000 people — approximately a tenth of the city — gathered for a vigil to honor the lives lost.


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A police presence can be seen on Somerville Street, Dunedin, near the accused gunman's home. — Photograph: Dianne Manson/Getty Images.

Officers remain stationed outside the apartment on Somerville Street, where Tarrant had paid his rent up to April 2. He told the property manager, however, he would move out by mid-March.

Investigators have not spoken publicly on forensic work or any other possible evidence they have collected. On a recent visit by The Washington Post, electricians were installing sensor lights as a precaution, guarding against harm to the property.

“Someone might try to torch the place,” said the police officer on duty.

The new tenants, a young couple in their late teens, have now changed their mind. They will not be moving in.


__________________________________________________________________________

Kate Shuttleworth reported from Cairns, Australia. Anna Fifield in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Siobhan O'Grady in Washington D.C. contributed to this report.

Shibani Mahtani (https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shibani-mahtani) is the Southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, covering countries that include the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia and Malaysia. She joined the Post's foreign desk in 2018 after seven years as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Southeast Asia and later in Chicago, where she covered the Midwest. She was the first Myanmar-based correspondent for the Wall Street Journal following the country's opening in 2012, and covered the elections that saw Aung San Suu Kyi come to power and their aftermath. In Chicago, she covered national news with a focus on criminal justice and policing. Shibani Mahtani's education achievements include: Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, MS Journalism, 2011; London School of Economics, BS Government and History, 2010.

• Wilma McKay is a freelance journalist and author, living in New Zealand.

• Kate Shuttleworth Kate is a New Zealand-based freelance journalist and a former foreign correspondent for The Guardian reporting from Jerusalem.

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