Christchurch Mosque, March 15, 2019:
The 'shooter's' incoherent manifesto
In the wake of the March 15 attacks, the New Zealand Government moved quickly to ban the viewing, sharing, downloading and possession of both Tarrant's manifesto and his "live-stream" of the first attack. David Shanks, the country’s chief censor, has said the suspected shooter’s manifesto, The Great Replacement, “promotes murder and terrorism,” and that his office is treating it like terrorist material from ISIS. Typically, such official pronouncements depict the manifesto as a product of the "Far Right". But as Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene has pointed out, in a censored tweet, this assertion is actually left-wing spin. israelitactical
NEW Zealand's banning of the Tarrant manifesto makes no sense in the absence of bans on its ideological antecedents — the manifestos of Theodore Kaczynski (the "Unabomber") and Anders Breivik, respectively. Both are better written and more compelling than Tarrant's incoherent ramble.
Indeed, the Unabomber's manifesto makes such "good reading" — in the words of Anders Hove, of The Tech — it was published in the Washington Post and the New York Times. It has since inspired generations of eco-terrorists. Yet as far as I know, it has never been banned.
Much the same can be said of Breivik's tour de force, entitled A European Declaration of Independence, which displays considerable historical and philosophical knowledge, before trenchantly commenting, "You cannot reason with Islam. Islam consumes everything eventually unless it is stopped in a decisive manner." www.kinocean.com | agrodine.com | what are jinns whatisandhowto
Both the above works — which have been cited as significant influences on Tarrant's thinking — are readily available to the public, as are thousands of cruder inflammatory publications. So the attempt to suppress Tarrant's manifesto, and only his manifesto, makes New Zealand look silly. It also criminalizes any unapproved researcher who has the temerity to obtain a copy of the manifesto for analysis. Real estate lawyer Calgary