Christchurch Mosque Shooting - moral comparisons and why we shouldn't censor

 

In sentencing Tarrant for the Christchurch Mosque massacre Justice Mander said:

"You slaughtered unarmed and defenceless people,"

"You maimed wounded and crippled many others, your victims included the young and the old, men women and children.

"Your actions were inhumane."

Hhmm, that’s interesting. Let’s consider for a moment some context…all the way back to 1991 and Gulf War 1. Back then US President and former CIA chief George Bush hired a PR firm to concoct a story about babies being pulled from incubators in order to get Congressional approval for a war of aggression. The mainstream media repeated these false claims uncritically and beat the war drums. Fast forward to Gulf War 2 and we saw another round of false claims repeated uncritically by the mainstream media about weapons of mass destruction. Those two wars and sanctions killed circa three million Muslims, nearly all civilians and most of them women and children. Actually the war never stopped because US forces are still being attacked in Iraq. Right now the genocidal US sponsored war in Yemen has killed perhaps a million Muslims so far, mostly children and mostly by starvation. Iran would be suffering the same treatment were it not for its long range missile deterrent. So we are up to four million of Abraham’s descendants murdered so far, or around 2/3 the number of Jews who by official estimates died in the holocaust.

Tarrant, believing in his own mind that he was defending his community from a foreign invading force, shot 60ish people in a Mosque.

OK, so the current moral schema for killing Muslims seems to be:

It is OK to slaughter Muslims in their countries if they nationalise their oil, refuse to sell it in US dollars, get in the way of Israeli expansion, or have an independent foreign policy.

However, if they come over here and rape local women, traffic children, take over entire suburbs, burn down churches, impose Sharia law, commit frequent acts of terrorism, corrupt our politics, reject democracy, and preach the overthrow of Western civilisation, we have to accept that as part of diversity.

A man like Tarrant (lots of testosterone no brains) could be forgiven for being confused.

If the 20^th Century teaches us anything at all it is that government censorship/control of the narrative is far far more deadly than the rantings or actions of private citizens. How unfortunate then, that Tarrant’s manifesto was quickly pulled off the net and any meaningful discussion of his grievances shut down. Since his grievances are real and widely shared that approach will only encourage further violence. Better to have it out in the open. So here a securelink to his manifesto:

https://archive.org/details/thegreatreplacementbrentontarrantmanifesto

OK so I have probably just committed a felony in New Zealand, but that is a reflection on New Zealand not on me. Moving on….

Tarrant states in his manifesto that one reason for his actions was revenge for the killing of a disabled girl by a Muslim terrorist (this actually took place) together with a long list of grievances from Islam’s 1000 year military campaign against Europe including the kidnapping and enslavement by Arabs of white children (cf the barbary slave trade).

His other key claim is that liberal left governments in the West are following a policy of ‘replacement’ through encouraging birth rates below replacement among white people, together with mass immigration from the third world, and particularly from Muslim lands.

Is he right?

According to this study in the Lancet (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30677-2/fulltext ) reported here by the BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521) he is.

But wasn't it a terrible hate crime? Yes of course. So was the bombing of Dresden by allied forces in WWII. But it was also a love crime, a crime committed for love of ethnos and terros.

Virtue signalling is easy and cowardly. Actually working through the issues is hard, particularly when doing so can lose you your job and land you in jail. But that is what we have to do now if we really care.

NB: The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.