And it has come to pass.
The Filthy Australian White Supremacist Terrorist has been sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.
There could be no other sentence handed down.
The terrorism this obscenity of a human being committed could only be punished by a sentence that stains him as much as his action stained us.
The desire to demonstrate to any other white supremacist that you will face the harshest of sentences for this kind of monstrous violence outweighs any technical considerations for mercy.
This tumour of a human being will be treated humanly, will have their rights respected, will be fed, housed and looked after medically for the rest of his natural life.
That is NZ mercy.
But NZ punishment? It will be until he dies.
We pay that life long imprisonment cost as the price of a decent progressive liberal democracy.
99% of the time, I am the first to call for prison reform and am the greatest advocate for redemption you will find. I have argued endlessly that our incarceration industry is counter productive and the worst social policy we have.
I advocate leniency and mercy in all things and believe radical prison reform is necessary.
However.
There are some actions that go beyond the individual. There are things so perverse, so wretched and such an anomaly to the values we hold dearest as a society, that nothing short of the most severe sentence is acceptable.
This most evil of mass murder is that exception to the rule, and we have no obligation higher than seeing him imprisoned for life and treated with the basic dignity all human beings intrinsically have.
We will show mercy while expressing our total repudiation to his deplorable act.
Now, let us never mention his name, let the sun never find his face. You are a shadow that all righteous people should shun.
You will be forgotten and the damage you caused will not be used to turn NZers against NZer, we are not what you tried to goad us into.
Your twisted philosophy will find no soil to be fertile here.
You failed and your cowardice and sadism will bear no fruit in the harvest of our civilisation.
Thoughts and prayers to all those blighted by his sin.
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And I just hope he doesn’t get any “rights” around phone calls, visits and computer use.
Lock him up and throw away the key.
Another deadly border failure by the SiS, GCSB and the Police.
The NZ Labour Government asleep at the wheel again.
DennyPaoa,
The weather is not great today DennyPaoa. Are you going to blame the Government for that as well? Only a true lowlife would put the actions on this despicable gunman on the Government. You’re a sad sad man.
Absolutely agree with this. These are all government departments and the Labour government had been in charge for sometime when this happened.
The endless times the Moslem community went to the police because they were unsafe.
Read the report done by Frances Joychild QC!
Scott Morrison had the audacity to say that his understanding is that the person serves the sentence in the country they committed the crime. Clearly not talking of his own countries policies?
Slowmo strikes again.
All prisoners in Australia serve their sentence then are Depot ed to their home country.This applies to all prisoners not just NZ ones. At the present there are 900 NZ born prisoners in Australian prisons.
The repatriation is very popular with most Australians both left and right. It is a pity we do not have the same policy .
Yep, agree Trevor Sennitt… should be automatic deportation for criminals in NZ to their country of origin if they go to prison straight from prison. Any appeals should be made from their country of origin via technology … but also deportation needs to happen with home detention too and appeals via technology.
In a country of 5 million, if you give all the overseas criminals permanent residency and citizenship in NZ then doesn’t take long to get a huge increase in criminal society going forward, also attracts more international criminals coming to NZ as they see us as a soft touch.
Easy enough to get into NZ as a criminal from becoming a student in a pay to reside ‘masters’ or ‘degree’ course, to being unemployed and paying someone to be bought into NZ in a labour hire firm, being a dependant of someone for the above, being an intern or meeting someone on-line and getting married – once in NZ, you will be able to stay as it seems very difficult to getting anyone out of the country once they get here, no matter what crime they do!
You also see that criminals escalate here, they often get off 3 or more times before they kill someone, commit major fraud or bringing in Meth….
Indeed DennyPoa, and the nation was turned against innocent kiwi gun owners by police association lies for cynical ideology.
Both Nash and Ardern were warned and emailed before the tragedy over concerns with lack of vetting of Australian immigrants for gun licenses.
The Royal Commission findings keep getting delayed until after the election.
Ardern had earlier overseen law changes making it easier to buy guns online – excluded from the royal commission terms of reference.
“The sociologist Paul Spoonley has called Christchurch a hotbed for white supremacists and the extreme nationalist movement, a suggestion rejected by Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee.”
Wikipedia…
So had Brownlee not rejected expert advice this may never have happened?
There are just so many muppets looking to blame a left wing government for this, I am simply astounded?
Innocent gun owners, whatever! The fact you have to place innocent before gun owners tells me all I need to know.
I’ve a pretty fair idea of what processing level you operate at bert.
Gun owners being referred to as “fascists” around here is certainly a fine example of kiwis attacking their own culture, it’s wrong, polarizing and certainly reason for the qualifier of “innocent” because we are.
Just as Tarrant was an “innocent” until he went rogue.
And you have no idea, at any level, having seen your posts.
Any actual intelligent comment to make on Brownlee’s comment or just easier to insult?
He came in the gate under national so cant just blame labour.
He travelled to Europe and other places in the lead up to the murders whilst labour were in government.
He entered the country under National, Maori, ACT and United Future. Spin it however you like.
Bullshit. He returned from travelling to Europe in the preceding months before he murdered innocent people on Jacindas watch.
Pakistan and Isreal are not known as normal holiday destinations for backpackers. Like everything in NZ, our authorities seem to rely on people from overseas as all harmless and wonderful and locals as incompetent and dangerous. Tarrant was just another so called ‘harmless’ new person into NZ using automatic weapons and using the Internet as their references. Not the same approach to locals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_Zealand_police_raids
Should we not let any Australians in? Just in case.
Or not let people leave NZ and travel to Europe or other places?
Microchip everyone leaving to see where they go overseas?
Your pathetic effort to turn things into some political game is inane and childish and says a helluva lot more about you and warped perspectives than anything else.
DP-cheap childish troll comment.
Denny if you are referring to his getting a license to possess a firearm, then yes clearly a stuff up with background checking and interviewing that man with his history and mental state.
So what has happened to the police who clearly fell down on the job. Nothing I will bet.
Zzzzzzz
I can’t help but wonder about the mindset of the gunman in recent months. He’s done things that are not in keeping with what he’s about.
Almost every person charged with murder pleads not guilty, even when they are clearly guilty. The gunman also pleaded not guilty which created a scene of an even longer and more painful trial that everyone involved needed like stage 4 lymphoma. Then out of the blue, he changed his plea to guilty. Did he feel remorse? Did he just want out of solitary confinement and to have some prison privileges or had guilt arrived?
When it came out that the gunman would defend himself, the stage was set for him to unleash epic hate speech on a community already reeling. His decision not to speak at the trial was merciful from maggot excrement who’d previously displayed zero mercy even to a small child. Was that decision made after watching so many people give very powerful speeches and that further exposed all his inadequacies and filled him with dread and fear or was it an all too late act of mercy?
Whatever the case may be, there is no better argument for the death penalty than this individual. It’s my sincere hope that he ends up close by with NZ’s other most despicable murderer. William Bell. Both should be put down.
I take it you are NOT a Christian, due to lack of ability to forgive ever.
Marc,
I believe forgiveness is an extremely personal thing. If you choose to forgive diabolical actions that is your prerogative. It’s ridiculous to demand the forgiveness of others or critique them for choosing not to forgive….for any reason.
Fair point, just observing, did not expect you to be a Christian
Forgiving is personal and certainly not confined to Christians or any particular belief system.
Eternal punishment in the fires of hell is hardly an atheistic concept either.
@Jacindafan. Yes, I was also wondering why he changed his plea and how come he had nothing to say all the way. Even at the sentencing, when the judge asked him for comment, he said “No, thank you”. After such cold=blooded acts, he then went very quiet. I guess we will never know why.
What a load of rubbish. He will never be forgotten by anyone let alone the media. People will follow behind him as history tells us
Now that this man who committed this heinous crime has been severely punished, its time we had change in our legal and judicial system. When our whanau was prevented from saying what we wanted to, to our brothers killer. Our victim impact statements were heavily vetted and some of us were not permitted to say what we wanted to by our judge. Now is this fair? The crown lawyer made basic errors not once but at least three times and the detectives in charge were appalling. We in NZ need to start treating other victims with more compassion and understanding and we need to listen and start treating victims better.
The sign of the alt-right -the O formed by thumb and index finger as the other fingers are fanned out above the O – is right there in the photo of the FAWST above.
Yes, he deserves to stay in jail for life. But don’t imagine that his white supremacy madness has not already taken root here.
NZ began when Aotearoa was invaded by white supremacists. The land wars that allowed the theft of Maori land provides the economic base for an economy that perpetuates white racism today.
White racism serves to denigrate non-Euros and justify the right of Euro white supremacy to conquer the world. NZ is a first cousin of the other Euro white settler colonies with the US as the biggest and brutal case.
The old white empires of Britain and the other Euro powers, and the white settler colonies notably the USA, are in decline and with it the cultural dominance of white supremacy. So the fear that the Asian powers led bt China would come to control Eurasia has come to pass.
NZ’s European population is in decline relative to new migrants from Asia. This is a threat to the anglo-american settler culture that has dominated NZ since colonisation as a ‘property-owning democracy’.
Today the civil war between the old white world and the rising new world nations drives social divides along ethnic and nationalist lines. These cut cuts across social class and create a mass base for fascism. The civil war is now being televised on the streets in the US right now.
So watch out kiwis, you are not a ‘team of 5 million’ but a nation divided along ethnic and national lines. Ironically the reality is that NZ is a neocolony subject to both the US and China. So race and national wars serve both the Euro and Asian imperialist rule of NZ.
The solution is to wake up and recognise that fighting civil wars along these lines is a diversion from the class war – that between the 80% that creates the wealth, and the 20% that lives of that wealth – which is the only war that the majority can win.
Our symbol is not the circle of thumb and forefinger but the clenched fist!
DB
Good spotting! I didn’t notice that myself on first glance – nor hopefully did the editor. It’s supposed to be a W and P combo more than an O. Also, more often upward facing like an OK sign.
With the cuffs forcing him to invert the code gesture, it really just makes him look like even more of a colossal wanker.
The business of him enclosing his fingers to look like an O has been discussed endlessly from that very early appearance.
So a white Australian acting as a lone wolf and suffering from pretty severe mental issues is a manifestation of all white people, if so ,then I suggest you have racial hatred within you and change will not come from blaming white people for all the world’s woes.
However I see you not only denounce white poeple as being supermaists but also Asians and finally believe that this is all a diversion and the real threat is class warfare. Doesn’t leave you with many allies in your predicted racial class war, because you seem to be against everyone but your own ethnic origins. Life is to short to be winding yourself up over this nonsense, in fact it is almost hate speech, but then I would need to be a minority to claim your posting as hate speech. If I wrote a post like yours I’d be expecting a knock on the door and then a spell of re-education. Please try and see the positive things in life and let this dogma go.
Dave Brown, excellent spotting…
Wikipedia..
‘The sociologist Paul Spoonley has called Christchurch a hotbed for white supremacists and the extreme nationalist movement,[40] a suggestion rejected by Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee.’
No Gerry this was expert advice, not a conspiracy.
“Life is to short to be winding yourself up over this nonsense”
51 Muslim’s might agree to disagree.
Absolutely correct, the Brits (and yes I am of British stock) knew what was best for many countries around the world, if that is not white supremacy what is it.
And so the living incarnation of everything that is evil is finally sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. There is no pity for this monster. He should not see the light of day again. He decided to wreak havoc on the Muslim community and in doing so thought he would become a hero for the rest of us. How twisted, depraved and sick is that. But he did not achieve this and he did not achieve his self-imposed perception of deity. What he did achieve though is tremendous support and love and respect throughout New Zealand for the Muslim community and the bringing of our communities even closer together.
I listened to some of the heart-felt victim statements read out in the court hearing and I had tears in my eyes. What courageous decent people they are and they reflect the decency of the entire Muslim community.
Seconded JF. If ‘Dirty Protest’ thinks this abomination is all the Labour government’s fault, he should bugger off and join the New Conservative Party. He’ll be right at home swapping conspiracy theories about Labour and the UN with all the other nutters.
He should be incarcerated in Australia where he belongs.
He is a son of Australia
Australia should take responsibility for him.
Well, leaving abuse out of any judgment, his days in prison will be numbered.
And I hope his sentence doesn’t include “privileges” such as phone calls and computers and visits. Lock him up and throw away the key.
Are you Mike Hosking under an alias?
Yes, thanks Mike Hosking aka RosieLee
As the prisoner has a following of some with potentially similar screwed up views, then it will be important he does not have outside contact.
Wow all you saints take a bow.
‘he who is without sin cast the first stone’
(mind you if it was Gerry Brownlee LOL)
An appalling crime I agree.
BUT
What we have done really is to say this man can never ever redeem himself.
I simply don’t believe in that.
+100 Michal
…what he did was terrible….but we were not allowed to know why he did it….and who enabled it
Do you think his manifesto, his love letter to the world should be available to everyone?
Reading it would suggest why he did what he did.
And while we’re sagely nodding our heads and saying ‘Ah, now I get it,’ could there possibly be other disturbed lunatics reading it and taking their cue and using it to perpetrate similar mayhem? At least in subsequent cases we’d then be able to say we knew why and who enabled.
manifesto full of inconsistencies and some linguists say he did not write it…it was full of Americanisms
was he a tool or a useful idiot?
I’ll be surprised if Tarrant spends more than 5 years in prison.
Yes, Act are apparently looking for more young gunners……………………..
Why only five years? are you suggesting he will be killed in prison while the guards look the other way, or his white supremacist mates will secure his release .Quite a dark place you inhabit.
Maybe he cares about Europeans?
Freedom fighters or not, was HE?
https://archive.org/details/Dawlanasheedonly/Ahi+Ebligh+Huna'l+Ashab+(2).mp3
He moved to NZ whilst John Key was prime minister you idiot.
Nowt filthy about him. He’s an idiot. His background, his psychology and his encouraging media says much. And the failure to tighten the gun rules after the Aramoana killer. Which would have happened under ‘the Old Social Democracy’.
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