The Great Replacement: Rambling rhetoric

that traverses a range of old talking points

As I believe the "Christchurch shootings" were a clumsy hoax, I see no reason to accept that the "shooter", who may or may not be Brenton Tarrant, is necessarily the author of the document described as Tarrant's manifesto. It follows, therefore, that I have little enthusiasm for a lengthy excusion into the manifesto's myriad of alleged ideological antecedents, such as the manifesto of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik and the writings of "alt-right YouTube performer" Stefan Molyneux. In other words, all the claims made in the official narrative of March 15 are, in my opinion, open to question. Anyone who disagrees with me on any point is welcome to send me
hard evidence, i.e. not the testimonies of putative survivors or witnesses, to support their stance.

According to Andreas Önnerfors, of Linnaeus University, Sweden, Tarrant believes "the white race is exposed to the threat of extinction through a form of reversed [colonization]. Tarrant is obsessed with birthrates (mentioned 12 times), population statistics, reproduction and ‘replacement fertility levels’ (fertility is mentioned 24 times)."

In Tarrant's view, "Falling levels of the purported indigenous European population will inevitably cause ethnic/cultural/racial replacement.

"The reasons [for] the disastrous decline are the destruction of [the] traditional family unit and nihilism." Furthermore, "the development is propelled by mass migration by ‘invaders’."

Önnerfors continues: "This apocalyptic language of deluge and the threat of [whites becoming] a domestic minority on the brink of extinction is ... also very prominent in the German Pegida" (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) movement.

"...There is no doubt that Tarrant’s manifesto is essentially ‘counter-jihadist’ and islamophobic in the sense that Islam and Muslims are portrayed as the major and existential threat to white/European supremacy.

"... However... it is not Islam or Muslims per se that is/are evil — ‘they’ turn into existential enemies [only when] ‘they’ transgress ‘their’ natural environment and turn into ‘invaders’."

Blogger Cameron Slater was also fixated on 'replacement'

Not one more Muslim immigrant, said ACT's David Garrett

"Ibelieve on the basis of the news coverage coming out of Europe and Australia that we should not allow one more Muslim into this country no matter how "moderate" or secular he claims to be. We have a peaceful Muslim community now, with just hints of strain. But the warnings suggest it is changing. Overseas experience shows with the percentage of Muslims below 2% they are probably no real threat. But, to borrow a phrase from promoters of the Climate Change religion, 2% of a population is a tipping point; beyond that, the dictates of a 7th Century religion — unmodified since its invention — will become very real threats to our way of life in this green and pleasant land." — Investigate Magazine, Aug-Sept, 2014
• Part 1 of Garrett's article is here and Part 2 is here.

The first thing to be said is that the above views are widely held, and can be found at all levels of society — from the locker room to the halls of academe. The second point to be made is that March 15 was a dramatic production in which the various actors followed a script, and that there is no reason to believe the "manifesto" is the work of one Brenton Tarrant. It probably had several authors, as there are several anomalies in its material and wording. (See panel below). Its beginning with a quotation, in full, of Dylan Thomas' poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (which Thomas dedicated to his ailing father) is just one of these. Since when have internet video gamers had an interest in mid-20th century Anglo-Welsh poetry — or in the 15th-century Albanian League of Lezhe for that matter? (See the historical references/allusions of Tarrant's graffiti.)

Greg Hallett says the manifesto is "obviously multiple-authored" and adds that "it is mainly a copy-and-paste of existing material on the internet, plus embedded messages added by Hillary Clinton to Jacinda Ardern and Jacinda Ardern to the people of New Zealand".

Slava Ukraini! A wonky swastika and a couple of Nazi salutes

Right wing? Left wing? What exactly is the manifesto?

"Tarrant supports communist China, dislikes Trump and is not a ‘white supremacist’", was a headline in Cairns News on March 19, 2019. The article begins: "As usual, the lying mainstream media is busy plastering up fake headlines all over the place about the latest mass shooting incident that took place in New Zealand, describing the alleged shooter as a “Trump-supporting white supremacist” who hates Muslims for being brown. But the guy’s own 1,500-page manifesto, which Big Tech is actively trying to scrub from the web, by the way, tells a much different story.

"Far from being a rally-attending apologist for President Donald Trump like the fake media is now claiming, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, the man whom Australian media outlets have named as the shooter, is a self-described "eco-fascist by nature" — meaning he’s a Leftist that’s more aligned with Democrats than Republicans." Indeed, Tarrant (or whoever wrote the manifesto) goes on to say, "The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of China."

Candace Owens denies inspiring the Christchurch shooter

Misfits of the world produce a family tree of manifestos

The official reason for the banning of the "Tarrant mainfesto" is that it might trigger a homicidal impulse in an unstable character who might otherwise live a law-abiding life. But as we have seen, the historical record is replete with the most intemperate verbal attacks on Islam and Muslims, any one of which could supply a motive for violence.

Who can forget ACT MP Richard Prosser's outburst in the February 2013 issue of Investigate Magazine: "I will not stand by while [my babies'] rights and freedoms, and those of other New Zealanders and Westerners, are denigrated by a sorry pack of misogynist troglodytes from Wogistan, threatening our way of life and security of travel in the name of their stone-age religion, and its barbaric attitudes towards women, democracy, and individual choice"? To read the relevant part of Prosser's column, click here.

Earlier, there was that Australian alarmist historian John Laffin, who warned in a Listener article, during a visit to New Zealand in 1986/87, of Islamic "sleeper cells" just waiting to be activated when the time was right. One suspects that most of those "sleepers" are now sleeping in various cemeteries, or at least collecting National Superannuation. Laffin himself died in 2000.

But most remarkable of all is the manifesto of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, which is not banned in New Zealand — despite the fact that Tarrant admits in The Great Replacement that he was “inspired” by the Norwegian and was in touch with him ahead of March 15: "I just had brief contact with Knight Justiciar Breivik and received a blessing for my mission after contacting his knights." (Breivik's lawyer says any contact was "highly unlikely".)

      "Like Breivik before him, Tarrant appears to have deliberately entered a subjective
      state of 'living death': a social and emotional celibacy — an asceticism that in many
      ways resembles his incarceration." — Max Harwood, Macquarie University, Sydney.

"The best way to deal with the Islamic world," Breivik writes in 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, "is to have as little to do with it as possible. We should ban Muslim immigration. This could be done in creative and indirect ways, such as banning immigration from nations with citizens known to be engaged in terrorist activities. We should remove all Muslim non-citizens currently in the West. We should also change our laws to ensure that Muslim citizens who advocate sharia, preach jihad, the inequality of “infidels” and of women should have their citizenship revoked and be deported back to their country of origin." Note, in passing, that this part of Breivik's diatribe is not radically different from what Messrs Peters, Garrett and Prosser have said in New Zealand.

But as if to prove that every guru has a guru, Breivik was himself no ideological trailblazer. On July 24, 2011, BBC News reported that "...according to the Norwegian anti-Islamic citizen journalist website Document.no, to which Mr Breivik himself was a frequent contributor, large parts of the manifesto are copied directly from "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski's own manifesto, with minor changes such as replacement of the word "leftist" by the phrase "cultural Marxist". Kaczynski is serving a life sentence for carrying out a bombing campaign in the US from 1978 to 1995, sending 16 bombs which killed three people and injured another 23, organised from a remote cabin in the state of Montana." Likewise, Kaczynski's manifesto is not banned in New Zealand.

Some will always dare
to swim against the tide

As a term of opprobrium, "conspiracy theorist" is the modern equivalent of "heretic" during the centuries of Christian disputation. All it means is that the person so described is not a "team player". He has "broken ranks", and expressed an opinion, or possibly only a suspicion, that is at odds with an official opinion, ideology or narrative. That's why Ole Dammegard says the opposite of a "conspiracy theorist" is a collaborator — a person who, at best, sees virtue in allowing "the experts" to do his thinking for him. These "experts" are revered to such an extent, their pronoucements become, in time, integral to the personality of the average citizen. And this is why "conspiracy theories" are so widely seen as not only wrong but dangerous and offensive — to be censored at every turn by vigilant enforcers of "community standards".