You have no doubt heard about the terrible tragedy in New Zealand. There’s not much to say about the massive loss of life. It hurts. We all hate it. It would be nice to come together and support each other in such a tough time.
Instead, we have leadership like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who have jumped on the tragedy as a chance to condemn prayer. She actually blamed prayer for failing to protect Muslims in the act of worshipping. That’s a new low even for her.
Mainstream media has been far worse. They have predictably tried to manipulate this situation to push a gun control agenda. So, instead of devoting our support to hurting people and finding human comfort in the face of tragedy, we have to spend our efforts on debunking another heap of media lies.
What You’ve Heard
As much as we’d all like to condemn this monster to anonymity, the mainstream media is determined to make him famous. They still don’t see why that’s a problem. So, we all get to hear his whole life story. The media will indirectly celebrate his motivations and actions. Since he published an 80-page manifesto before the shooting, we’ll get showered with what he had to say.
If you listen to the media, this shooter was a deranged white supremacist (the one thing they get right). They say he is on the far right and absolutely adores President Trump. He’s so enamored with the president of a foreign country (he’s Australian) that he tried to make President Trump’s hateful rhetoric into a reality. He wants to ethnically cleanse New Zealand because his xenophobia reached intolerable levels. In other words, they call him a run-of-the-mill Republican. That’s the narrative and they’re sticking to it.
The Manifesto
The mistake they made in pursuing this rhetoric is revealing the existence of his manifesto. It’s long, largely incoherent and a tribute to evil in this world. It’s not a good read. But, some of us make the sacrifice and read this garbage for the rest of you. You’re welcome.
After reading the manifesto, there are a few inescapable conclusions. First, this shooter is not right-wing at all. He says his favorite government in the world is communist China. He describes himself as an eco-fascist, and he spends pages condemning President Trump and American conservatism. He in no way supports any notion of a fair economy or general freedom, which are pretty important pillars in conservatism.
He also attempts to explain his motivation. It comes in two forms. The first is environmental. The shooter suggests that rapidly breeding, industrialized populations will inevitably win all trade wars. The only way to protect the environment from these populations is a culling.
That’s not run-of-the-mill Republican, but it is a pretty common notion among modern liberals. They may not advocate culling the population through shooting, but they push abortion and other forms of population control.
The shooter’s self-admitted second reason for the attack is the main driver. He wanted to create division among gun rights supports and gun grabbers. More specifically, he wanted to accelerate timelines where governments would increase gun control. Once again we see that’s not remotely right-wing or a Republican policy.
More to the point, he has so far been successful. New Zealand was not a bastion of gun rights in the first place, but they’ve already proposed major additions to their gun control laws.
What About Rhetoric?
You can already see that this shooter isn’t at all who the media claim he is. They also want to tell you that Republican rhetoric is why he killed people. They’re genuinely blaming President Trump for this attack.
Before we debunk the mainstream media’s narrative about President Trump, let’s make one thing clear. There was one person clearly responsible for this attack. Investigators might find that he had help, but actual collaborators aside, only one man pulled the trigger. The blame is entirely his.
If we want to go the route of blaming rhetoric, fault won’t fall at the feet of Republicans. Controlling and curbing populations to protect the environment is an entirely leftist ideology. So is using violence to push for more gun control. In general, everything the shooter mentioned in his manifesto is completely left-wing. Even white supremacism is a historically Democratic notion.
This should be a lesson in why blaming unrelated rhetoric for the actions of a mad man is a bad idea. Instead, the left and mainstream media will stick their heads further in the sand, continue to ignore all reality and try to dominate our lives through governmental control.
That stubbornness only adds to the tragedy that took place. Learning something from loss of life doesn’t take the pain away, but it can be something positive to cling to in the face of horror. Instead, the left will heap more horror on top.
What is incomprehensible from a rational standpoint is the surge in proposals to make gun ownership by law abiding citizens increasingly difficult and complex, more subject to totalitarian confiscation, every time an incident occurs that blatantly exhibits to us the need for defense against armed demonic aggressors – who are already in violation of the law and will not obey any law passed. Making it illegal for the common man to be armed protects the criminal, makes his evil acts less dangerous to the perpetrator.
Never let the truth get in the way of furthering your agenda. You can’t fix stupid.
The left will twist anything to suit their purpose.
what amazes me
PM of New Zealand banning all semiautomatic military style which is basically nearly all semi-auto firearms, which is the cause of a person not from New Zealand…
instead of screening more in detail of a person from out of the country,
they go after citizens (privilege) since its not a right to own in New Zealand…
I read his manifesto, too. It is not anywhere so clear to me as to other reviewers that the author was crazy–crazy like a fox, maybe. For not having attended college, the shooter is remarkably intelligent and well-informed about history, modern trends and shifting populations. He did identify his primary goal as starting a gun war in the US, but it was abundantly clear he was as conservative as they come with respect to that issue and favored everyone’s freedom to bear arms. His support of President Trump was by no means universal to the point of rampant self-delusion like most conservatives. He posed the question to himself, “Q: Were/are you a supporter of Donald Trump?’ then answered “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policy maker and leader? Dear god no.” He eventually, despite meandering somewhat getting there, comes across conclusively as a very conservative white supremacist who thought killing people was the answer to an immigration crisis through conservatives winning a civil war sparked by gun control legislation. What is worse is that this was a watershed mass murder, a turning point in history; mark my words, thousands of copycat killers, all conservatives disillusioned by the most economically inequitable society in the history of Man who conclude that the answer is killing people will make our lives a living hell for years to come.
I saw the video and watched it three times! It was a total fake! The first person shot was coming through the entrance hallway on his way out and was shot point blank with a shotgun point blank an dropped, just dropped…no blood splatter, nothing! No recoil from receiving a shotgun blast! There was another “dead” person in that same hallway that wasn’t even hit. He shot others that showed no bullet holes or blood even after he went to his vehicle and switched to a rifle. He entered the main room and shot a guy who just dropped. No blood, no bullet holes and another guy he never shot was laying “dead” with his head under a bench. Off to the left was a pile of bodies that never shot at. He sprayed bullets and there was never any bullet holes in any of the walls! It was a total fake to get the guns from New Zealanders! This is why it’s been outlawed, to cover the truth!
How can anyone who is sane believe that what happened in New Zeland is in anyway connected to the USA or to President Trump ?. This was a Terrible thing but we the sane people of the USA remember that this is in no way connected to the USA The PEOPLE or the President and we the sane PEOPLE must collectively do everything we can to protect our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ESPECIALLY THE SECOND AMEDMENT.!!
John Gage what a whopping load of gullible, liberal, Demwit BS.
” they push abortion and other forms of population control.” I’ve never heard of any liberals who propose that abortion is a means of population control. Just what exactly are some of the “other” forms of birth control liberals use? Condoms? Liberals view the right to have an abortion as a means to fix a “mistake” that they make – not “population control.” No wonder the author dared not put his name to this slanted drivel.