Brenton Tarrant
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New Zealand media to censor coverage of Christchurch terrorist’s trial By Tom Peters
The new charge of terrorism requires that prosecutors prove Tarrant’s political or ideological motivation. Discussion of this crucial evidence in court, however, is likely to be suppressed by the major media outlets on the pretext of denying the gunman “a platform.” Continue reading
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New Zealand fascist killer had known Australian far-right links By Mike Head
Substantial evidence has emerged in recent days that Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian who gunned down 50 people in a premeditated attack on two mosques in New Zealand on March 15, had intensive links with far-right groups in Australia. Continue reading
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Why was the New Zealand terrorist attack not prevented? By Tom Peters
Monday’s episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Four Corners” program, “The Christchurch Massacre and the Rise of Right-wing Extremism,” raised serious unanswered questions about how fascist and white supremacist Brenton Tarrant was able to carry out his terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Continue reading
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The Conservative Party is incubating the racism behind New Zealand terror By Nafeez Ahmed
The massacre of 49 people including children at a mosque in New Zealand has not come out of the blue — it follows the mainstreaming of the same ideology that inspired the first major far-right terrorist attack of this decade: the 2011 massacre in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik. Continue reading
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Censorship and Arrests in Wake of Christchurch Attack By Kit Knightly
No matter the source of the violence, no matter the politics or casualties or the location, it seems the reaction of governments in the face of “terrorism” is virtually always the same – clamp down, hard, on individual rights. Continue reading