shadowblaster86
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this is horrible.
So the mention of imposing gun restrictions in the future is applied to crimes retrospectively?BBM
It didn't work in this case.
Sorry but I can't debate you on gun control/restrictions on this forum.So the mention of imposing gun restrictions in the future is applied to crimes retrospectively?
How does that work?
this is horrible.
Yes, I do wonder if the police will find evidence of a double life, or really any life at all. We don't know much about him other than he loved to travel and he traveled extensively and thoroughly addicted to the internet. We don't know anything about his job or even if he had one recently.A personal trainer working as an independent contractor working from a gym(s) would make a good profession for an off again, on again low budget world traveler as one can "un plug" from the employment to travel, run out of money, then easily "plug back in" upon return home.
As for the apparent double life, some extremists can be very good at concealing their intentions. For example, Mohammad Attah and the other 9-11 hijacker pilots raised no suspicions in either Germany or the United States from their interactions with non Muslims, non observant Muslims etc., western culture etc.
Rather, they did not follow Islamic dress, attend mosques regularly, maintain rigorous prayer times, seek out halal food, or have 'red flag' material in their rooms.
With the exception of systematically not eating in restaraunts serving alcohol (dropped once they arrived in the US) and attending a store front type mosque with a conservative reputation- also dropped upon arrival in the US, the 9-11 terrorists maintained a near perfect impression of moderately religious or even secularized Muslims.
I think we can pretty much guarantee this will be just another internet show to entertain his online buddies. I gather New Zealand gives him the right to represent himself in court. I gather New Zealsnd doesn't require a defense lawyer when trying someone. Self-representation in court a growing trend That's disturbing.The accused gunman plans to represent himself in court - raising concerns he could attempt to turn a trial into a platform for his beliefs.
The duty lawyer who represented him in court confirmed he was no longer acting for him. He said the accused appeared to be lucid and was not mentally unstable – other than the extreme views that he held.
"I suspect that he won't shy away from publicity, and that will probably be the way he runs the trial. The job of the trial judge will be to deal with that. But it's not a place for any views to be put forward. It's simply there to determine innocence or guilt. The court is not going to be very sympathetic to him if he wants to use the trial to express his own views."
Christchurch mosque shootings: Brenton Tarrant to represent himself in court
No. He made it clear what his reasons were for why he did what he did. All of these questions can be answered by reading the manifesto.
This is why I think it is a mistake to try and suppress not just his manifesto but the manifestos or other forms of communication from ANY person who commits these acts. It's insulting to me that any government tells the world not to read it but then allows and even encourages "journalists" to select specific parts of it to "report" on, often taking things out of context or adding their own spin, or using it to promote their own beliefs or agendas.
If the manifesto is truly the senseless ramblings of a madman not worthy of discussion or debate, I can read it and figure that out for myself. I don't need nor do I accept someone else interpreting the contents of it for me.
All imo.
There doesn't seem to be any connection to any terrorist or supremecist group.
What's a cultural stock? He seemed to enjoy being in other countries like Pakistan. It seems like he spent quite a bit of his time with people of another culture.Grafton doesn't have a culturally diverse population. He would have had a cultural stock just going to a major city.
An 18-year-old accused of sharing a live-stream of the Christchurch mosque mass shooting has been refused bail.
The teen faces two charges: one of sharing the live-stream and a second for posting a photograph of one of the mosques attacked with the message "target acquired" along with other chat messages "inciting extreme violence".
He appeared in Christchurch District Court today and was granted name suppression. He is due back in court next month.
Police have said he was not involved in the shootings.
The maximum sentence for each of the charges against the 18-year-old is 14 years' jail.
Christchurch mosque shootings: Brenton Tarrant to represent himself in court
There has been a further update to the above:
The charge relating to distributing an objectionable publication is dated March 15, the day of the mosque shootings, court documents show.
The second charge, of making an objectionable publication, alleges the offence took place between March 8 – 15.
The teen was initially charged with publishing insulting material with intent to excite hostility or ill will against a group of persons on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origins. That charge was withdrawn today and replaced by the two new charges.
I think we can pretty much guarantee this will be just another internet show to entertain his online buddies. I gather New Zealand gives him the right to represent himself in court. I gather New Zealsnd doesn't require a defense lawyer when trying someone. Self-representation in court a growing trend That's disturbing.
I think we can pretty much guarantee this will be just another internet show to entertain his online buddies.
What's a cultural stock? He seemed to enjoy being in other countries like Pakistan. It seems like he spent quite a bit of his time with people of another culture.
I'm not aware of trials being live streamed in NZ (they don't in Oz either). It's even possible there won't be live tweets - this usually depends on the individual judge.
If the above is correct, and if I were the judge, I'd be making an announcement before the trial to this effect. That would take the wind out of his sails.
In my opinion it's all horrible. Filming torturing and killing people and posting it on the net is getting popular. Remember the people who kidnapped the mentally handicapped young man and tortured him while livestreaming it on Facebook? The man who beat a homeless man and livestreamed it on Facebook? The man who murdered that poor old man and posted it on Facebook, the list goes on and on. There are a lot of sick people out there. Much as I despise extremists and terrrorists, they are far from the only people turning horror and death into entertainment.Is that a reaction to the article that ZaZara just posted, or to the whole big picture of a lunatic with a gun killing 50 praying people? If it's about the article, keep in mind that the author, Javier Lesaca, is a Doctor in History and a visiting researcher at Columbia University. It is opinion, presumably well-researched, and the link in blue (turn terror into a multimedia spectacle) goes to an article about someone who used video to pledge allegiance to a radical group - not to do what Tarrant did. That alone suggest that perhaps there is a little stretching of information to make a point.
"From 2014 to 2019, the terrorist group Islamic State has broadcast a total of 243 videos through open social networks showing the murder of more than a thousand people, more than 90% of them Muslim and Arab from Iraq, Syria, Egypt , Libya and Yemen. Nearly 50% of these murders have been issued emulating the scenes of violence of well-known series, films and action videogames, in an attempt to turn terror into a multimedia spectacle capable of seducing new and young audiences in a global world, resentful and willing to avenge an internal enemy for internal frustrations."
Análisis | La estética del odio
For me one of the most overlooked aspects of the attacks is that the perp has sought to impose a very international framework to his supposed motivations which map very much to current popular narratives about white supremacy and threats from Islam
However this all lacks any local context in CHC - the guy isn't even from here.
The whole point of this is for his supposed global audience - which is why it is important we don't give him notoriety, platform etc