Brenton
Tarrant, a 28-year-old man from Grafton ,NSW, Australia entered the Al Noor and Linwood Islamic centre Mosques
in succession in Christchurch on the afternoon of 15th March 2019 in
Christchurch shooting indiscriminately, killing 51 and injuring 49. He was
arrested shortly afterward and was charged with 51 murders, 40 attempted
murders, and engaging in a terrorist act. He initially pleaded not guilty to
all charges, with the trial expected to start on 2 June 2020. But on 26 March
2020, he changed his plea to guilty on all charges.
This is
not only NZs biggest single mass rampage murder by a single gunman but also the
world’s 2nd biggest political one.
This was a
politically motivated racist shooting by an organised terrorist and alt right
white individual assisted by others intent on motivating more people to the
same ideology.
A 74 page
“manifesto Tarrant posted online, lists various neo-fascist aims, including the
creation of an atmosphere of fear among Muslims, espouses far-right and
anti-immigrant ideology in the document.
Tarrant named
his manifesto The Great Replacement, a
reference to Renaud Camus's 2011 book, The Great Replacement (aka The Replacement
Theory). Which is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory which states the presence of Muslims in France is a potential danger with the
destruction of French culture and civilisation. Camus and other conspiracy theorists
attribute this process to intentional policies advanced by global and liberal
“replacist” elites. The "Great Replacement" is included in a
larger white genocide conspiracy theory that
has spread in Western far-right movements since the late 20th
century.
NZs chief media censor David Skanks says a review of the accused
Christchurch shooter's manifesto has ruled it was objectionable. Mr Shanks said
the aim of "hateful terrorist screeds" was to inspire others to
similar violent action. "Tragically, it appears that this may have already
happened. Since March the 15th we have seen horrific extremist attacks unfold
in a synagogue in Poway near San Diego, in a Walmart in El Paso and even more recently
in a mosque in Norway.
Fears of the white races extinction, and replacement theory in
particular, have been cited by several accused perpetrators of mass shootings
between 2018 and 2019. Analysts including Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty
Law Centre say the idea of white genocide has undoubtedly influenced American
white supremacists, potentially leading to violence.
In 2019,
research by the Institute
for Strategic Dialogue showed
over 24,000 social media mentions of the Great Replacement in the month before
the Christchurch shootings, in comparison to just 3,431 mentions in April 2012.
The use of the term spiked in April 2019 after the Christchurch mosque
shootings
Patrick
Crusius, the suspect in the 2019
El Paso shooting , posted an online manifesto titled The Inconvenient
Truth alluding to the "great replacement" and
expressing support for "the Christchurch shooter" minutes before the
attack; it alluded to a "Hispanic invasion of Texas" and "simply
trying to defend my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by
an invasion" as justifications for the shooting.
While
he was living in Dunedin prior to the attack a neighbour, who shared an
internal wall with Tarrant in his house in Andersons Bay, described him as a
"bit of a recluse" and a "loner, but a friendly loner." The
neighbour also stated that Tarrant would offer to mow the lawns for his and his
neighbour's landlord and help out around the property. He himself doesn’t
appear evil but the ideology he follows certainly is.
New Zealand has been considered a safe and tolerant place
with low levels of gun violence and was named the second most peaceful country
in the world by Global Peace Index 2019, the year of the attacks [1]. While
it’s a shock to many of us in “Peaceful” NZ, it should not be. Christchurch is
a hotbed of racism because it’s the South Islands biggest white city that lacks
the multicultural diversity of Auckland that challenges racist ideas.
The
signs had been in NZ for over a year prior to the mosque shooting. The united
front -Love Aotearoa Hate Racism - was formed in July 2018 for this very
reason, to combat the alt right, fascists , NAZIs and other racists gaining audiences
for their hate speech. Racism is fostered by speakers like Stefan Molyneux and
Paulin Hanson coming to NZ and being given air to speak. By allowing Tommy
Robinsons NZ supporters the space to protest without challenging them.
It’s not just from the outside but within also. Allowing white
supremacist or fascist or NAZI groups on university campuses to speak under the guise
of freedom of speech. Don Brash and his Hobsons pledge, Winston Peters, Bob
Jones and his Maori grateful day are all talking racist ideas. 8chan image
posting website allows this type of hate speech to spread through lack of
moderating.
The shooter posted a manifesto and photos of his guns (named after
rampage killers) online only, days before the shooting, and posted live feed of
the shootings on facebook. Thou both the video and manifesto were subsequently
banned in New Zealand.
We know all this as its available knowledge on Wikipedia, but
whats not being talked about is how governments and the NZ Government in
particular are complicit in all this.
The NZ Government slashes civil liberties and illegally spies on
internet entrepreneurs, politicians, earthquake victims, state abuse victims,
environmentalists, Maori and justice activists who want real change in NZ and
are ultimately about challenging the government and the capitalist system at
its core. Kim Dotcom, Keith Locke and communist party, Save Happy Valley and
Tuhoe to name a few of many. So the NZ Government ignores the alt
right/fascists/NAZIs and their more violent harmful threats to human life and freedom
because the alt right/fascists are no real threat to Government and big
business as the alt right/fascists don’t intend to eliminate either but to
redirect and use them. Where as the “real” or “far” left realise to fix the world’s
problems, it cannot be done through capitalism and the current governments and
they must both be replaced with credible alternatives. In short the government
is more worried about the threat to itself from public dissent than it is about
public lives.
Governments, especially NZ will continue to do so until that
violence loses politicians votes. Both
National and Labour parties are complicit in creating this event by
deliberately not spying on the alt right. Even when the NZ Government was warned by Alexander Gillespie in
August 2016 at a gun select committee, of the alt right, including fascist,
terror threat rise.
This attack is not an isolated incident, but part of the ideology of fascism that goes back to Mussolini (Italy), Hitler (Germany), Franco (Spain) and Hirohito/Emperor Showa (Japan) that gained power during the great depression when the capitalist economic system went into depression in one of its many crisis moments. While the wealthy vote right, to entrench their wealth and the poor know they are being screwed by the system regardless of who’s in government , the middle class who hadn’t been given knowledge and have not really thought about politics and who to vote for, follow whoever and whatever sounds good. Its then in the middle of a deep crisis the middle class realise that the middle of the road (centrist) political parties don’t know anything about economics and do not know how to solve the economic crises and so they look either to the far left at the real socialists or the far right to the fascists to solve that crisis.
Fascism and NAZism is simply the far rights way of curing capitalisms deep flaws. Fascism is neo liberal capitalism on steroids, run militarily.
-Fascism is authoritarian and paternal coming out of conservative ideology and bans democratic elections.
-Fascism believes in a class of rulers and a worker class, that have their rightful place ie like slaves or serfs in past systems. Yet Fascism believes capitalists and the workers have the same goals and that they should work together. It forces both sides of the class war to work together, punishing either for violations of this. It bans unions and worker’s rights. In Germany they reversed LGBT rights persecuting many and banned any other activities like jazz, cabarets, nightclubs etc that were considered immoral or hedonistic because they get in the way of hard work. Literature was destroyed, burning millions of books considered un-German.
-Fascism is based on ultra-nationalism, that one country – theirs - is better than another, that one ethnicity - theirs - is better than another which leads to white supremacy and racism, all the while blaming others as scapegoats for the economic problems instead of capitalism itself. And of course if you eradicate community which is the foundation that holds society together you rely on the gun to enforce your rules so fascism is a very military run economic system by dictatorships dispensing with democracy.
-Fascism is based on some idyllic strong heroic mythical past built on strong military that can be reclaimed.
One feature of fascism – the darker flipside of its ideological celebrations of utopian national unity – was its cynical exploitation of public fears about visible and invisible enemies.
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” – Hermann Goering (as told to Gustav Gilbert during the Nuremberg trials) [2]. He was referring to democracies. The USA shows much of this being at war for most of its inception.
Fascism will rear its ugly head wherever capitalism exists and creates big crisis.
President trump shows signs of fascism with
this cynical exploitation of people’s fears, with his campaign slogan (copied
from Reagan and Clinton) of “make America great again” , promoting building a
wall, blaming Mexicans for the economy, starting a trade war with China and the
world effectively saying free trade doesn’t work and china produces cheaper goods than USA so China is
the problem. Like previous presidents he continued military footprint overseas.
Continues militarising the police force with weapons, maintaining internment/concentration
camps. While still continuing interfering in other peoples countries for
Americas own ends, Iran, Venezuela etc . Trump has been endorsed by white supremist groups and failed to denounce their murder of a counter protestor in Charlottesville (even called out by his party)
Trumps stupidly and arrogantly in typical Trumpism attempted to ban the antifa movement as if it was a actual group. Antifa stands for anti-fascist.
Is Donald Trump a Fascist? | Robert Reich
Is President Trump Fascist? | NYT Opinion
Trump hasn’t yet displayed all the signs of fascism especially around eliminating democracy as he prefers smaller government.
Thou he’s been called by many as
simply a right wing populist in which rhetoric often consists of being for the working man with anti-elitist sentiments,
opposition to the perceived establishment, and speaking to the "common people". Trump shares
these commonalities with Marie Le Penn in Germany and UKIP party in UK, which
incidentally forced Brexit onto UK and was supported by people dissatisfied
with the economy wrapped up as anti-immigration. Trumps 2016 election was assisted by the alt
right and he in turn boosted the alt right movement in USA. Both of these are
signs of the failure of centrist political parties in those countries to
address economic issues.
He definitely shares more of the similarities with the alt right
which shares all the blame game of fascism but not its all of its military aims so far.
The alt-right, an abreviation of alternative right is a loosely connected far-right, white nationalist movement based
in the United States, although it has since established a presence in various
other countries. The alt-right came to prominence when Richard Spencer coined the term “Alternative Right” as the name
for an online publication that debuted in 2010. People
who identify with the alt right regard mainstream or traditional (right wing)
conservatives as weak and impotent, largely because they do not sufficiently
support racism and anti-Semitism. [3] Just the same as Hitler considered his
Weimar Republic Government that lost WWI as weak, motivating him to take
control of it and develop into fascism.
The term is ill-defined, having been used in different ways
by various self-described "alt-rightists", media commentators, and academics.
Groups which have been identified as alt-right also espouse white supremacism, white separatism, severe immigration restrictions,racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia. [4] Many rejecting democracy and multiculturalism.
In Europe the alt right and fascists are on the rise everywhere in
parliamentary elections as the 2008 GFC continues while governments do little
to solve it.
These racist nationalistic ideas are not natural to humans, they
have no factual or scientific base but they come from somewhere. Imperialism, colonisation
and slave owning have been around for thousands of years since the Egyptians
without racism. The feudal order got its authority from God but once the feudal
order was toppled from 1700’s onwards and Europe started having semi democratic
governments, the ability to colonise and rape and plunder at will needed more
consent. This was gained by giving the humans of the countries being enslaved
and plundered by Europe an inferior or non-human identity. Along with telling
them their Gods were invalid/inferior and our white gods are better. And so
racism was born.
The new emerging capitalist economies and industrialisation
unleashed from the yoke of monarchies went hand in hand with that imperialism
and colonisation. Since WWII there are no real imperialist countries/nations in
the traditional sense anymore. Capitalists have taken over that imperialist
role and just like sexism, racism is used to divide the workforce so it won’t
challenge capitalism, including the banking system, together in unity.
USA has become the biggest and worst state empire. They
bomb and invade other countries and financially cripple and usurp other
countries democratic governments putting in place USA puppet governments but
they don’t stay. USA may leave its army there for some time but eventually
withdraws relying on its puppet government it installed to foster and protect
USA economic interests. Murdering and causing deaths of millions in the process
for USA dominance and profits for their corporations. Unfortunately for the
world, part of this process included invading and interfering in middle-east
countries and politics. This had 2 effects; the push back from Arabs including
attacking USA personnel and army bases and the twin towers on home soil,
bombing and secondly the increase in domestic terrorism and by 2016 just 3
middle east countries accounted for 2/3 of the world’s terrorism. 3 Countries
USA had unlawfully invaded and interfered in – Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
These 3 countries are now no 1,2 & 5 of the worlds least peaceful countries
in the world in the 2019 Global Peace Index. These countries civil populations
fled the violence producing mass immigration into USA and Europe. These
cumulative effects were then used by USA as an excuse to start a war of Terrorism
on the world which was in effect a self-fulfilling prophecy causing what is now
termed Islamophobia.
It is our NZ Government that cozy’s up to USA and protects the capitalist system and its ruling class that created the economic situation such as the vast wealth inequality, housing crisis, poverty, crime, ecology destruction which is always unstable and going into crisis mode that has in the past and will in the future sow the seeds for the rise of fascism that came from the great depression when the next coming one hits . Governments and economists haven’t properly recovered from the 2008 GFC, in fact things are worse, the debt level is higher and economy just as unstable.
We will never erase fascist terrorism or the risk of it from our lives while capitalism exists and the world governments miss-educate us and don’t give us either the skills or knowledge for us to tell what is wrong with capitalism and what to replace it with. For example the NZ Labour party has completely failed to educate people on what democratic socialism is and the socialist alternative to capitalism . Yet it was created by socialist and unions and is supposed to represent workers . Despite also educating on Democratic socialism being its 5th of 5 goals and NZ Labour party has been in offfice 6 times.
How Capitalism Becomes Fascism - Economic Update with Richard Wolff
What "Fascism is capitalism in decay" means
Lastly Aotearoa is a landmass that was colonised by the colonial government
of UK and the NZ Government. It did this through racism and war. The NZ
Government has not paid fair reparations back to Maori for its theft of their
land, culture and murders, ergo the NZ Government is still racist by nature as
it treats Maori different than other victims of crime and unlawful acts. In the
process this still existing racism and white privilege creates a lower socio
economic class of Maori and provides the rich capitalists with cheap labour .
This filters through to the protectors of the system, the police force and justice
(courts and prisons), by the amount of many more times a Maori is likely to be
charged , tried and convicted of the same crime as a white man.
It’s time to stop being soft on these racists and their ideas that kill. Racism, ultra-nationalism and fascism/ NAZIsm needs to be challenged and stopped from getting any air. The NZ Government will not take effective positive action. The NZ Labour Government has used the corporate media to divert the news and the serious questions that need asking and discussions that need to be had, from taking place. As predicted the NZ Government has brought in more restrictive gun legislation, more draconian freedom reducing legislation, to further spy on the real left in NZ to prevent critique of NZ Government and its support for capitalism. Compounding their shock doctrine by placing permanently armed squads on the streets that now perform routine work including traffic stops. All the while crying and wearing hijabs and mumbling niceties about how terrible the shooting was and NZ isn’t like that, accept it is !
The only way to beat racism and fascism is for workers of all
nationalities and ethnicities to unite and take action together. We need to
shut down hate speech, racist speech and the alt right and fascist groups from
operating and anybody supporting them. Groups like National Front, Right Wing
Resistance, Western Guard, groups on universities masquerading as clubs like
Auckland University European Students.
Only building a mass united workers movement that is a credible
alternative to capitalism , can stop the
real violence and terrorism of the alt right and the fascists in the long run.
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
malcolm-daniel
24 Mar 2019
Updated 29 May 2020
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