5 Years after the Christchurch Atrocity and we don’t want to talk about it

We don’t want to talk about it.

We don’t want to talk about a white supremacist plotting an atrocity.

We don’t want to talk about the ease with which he manipulated lax Police process to buy his sub machine guns.

We don’t want to talk about the garden variety bigotry against Muslim people in this country.

We don’t want to talk about the cascade failure of our Intelligence apparatus is finding him.

We don’t want to talk about any of it.

Pakeha NZ is very brittle and fragile when it comes to death and pain. We are an emotionally uptight ruddy people with little forgiveness.

Māori culture know how to grieve, they’ve suffered so much pain their death rituals are intrinsic to the cosmology.

NZ hasn’t managed to process what happened in Christchurch while the victims continue to suffer from our refusal to process the horror that erupted.

We are a pre-teen juvenile culture desperately trying to understand an adult obscenity.

We have had a white washed report into the Intelligence Failures of the Christchurch Terrorist.

TDB has been critical of this enormous security failure since it occurred.

We spend hundreds of millions on the Intelligence Apparatus in NZ and yet their focus is on Environmentalists, Unionists, Māori, Muslim students and Left wing Political figures NOT white supremacy…

Christchurch terrorist discussed attacks online a year before carrying them out, new research reveals

In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, gunman Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified.

In fact, for four years before his attack, the terrorist had been posting anonymously but publicly on the online message board 4chan about the need to attack people of colour in locations of “significance”, including places of worship.

In its final report in 2020, the royal commission of inquiry into the terror attacks wrote:

The individual claimed that he was not a frequent commenter on extreme right-wing sites and that YouTube was, for him, a far more significant source of information and inspiration. Although he did frequent extreme right-wing discussion boards such as those on 4chan and 8chan, the evidence we have seen is indicative of more substantial use of YouTube and is therefore consistent with what he told us.

Given the importance of online environments in radicalising lone actor terrorists, we questioned this and set out to investigate whether right-wing websites were important in the terrorist’s radicalisation.

What we found overturns a great deal of what we thought we knew about him. It also raises serious questions, not only about why this posting was not detected before the attack, but also why it has not been discovered in the five years since the March 15 attacks.

…these new insights go alongside warnings made from his shooting club about his behaviour and shooting stance alongside extremist material downloaded near his address.

If the NZ Intelligence Apparatus had made white supremacy a focus, they would have seen him.

Add to this white supremacy as a red flag an anti Islamic fetish, anti Vaccine propaganda, Qanon Conspiracy theorists and Sovereign Citizen movements and you have a boiling swamp looking for the stillborn embryo of extremist violence.

My fear is that we will not have managed to process Christchurch before the next atrocity.

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