Posted on Mar 15, 2019
In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling
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A camera mounted to his head, the gunman who livestreamed part of his savage attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday began his video by casually making reference to a current internet meme.
He appeared to be steeped in the culture of the extreme-right internet. And in the terrible minutes of video that followed, he proved to be a nonchalant, unrepentant killer.
As of Friday night, the gunman had not been identified by the authorities. But just before the attack began, a man who said he was a 28-year-old from Australia published a link on a right-wing forum to a 74-page manifesto, and another link on the same forum to a personal Facebook page with the video that would soon document the slaughter.
Based on the video, the manifesto and social media posts, a picture has begun to emerge of a man primarily driven by white nationalism and a desire to drive cultural, political and racial wedges between people across the globe. That, he hoped, would stoke discord and, eventually, more violence between races.
He appeared to be steeped in the culture of the extreme-right internet. And in the terrible minutes of video that followed, he proved to be a nonchalant, unrepentant killer.
As of Friday night, the gunman had not been identified by the authorities. But just before the attack began, a man who said he was a 28-year-old from Australia published a link on a right-wing forum to a 74-page manifesto, and another link on the same forum to a personal Facebook page with the video that would soon document the slaughter.
Based on the video, the manifesto and social media posts, a picture has begun to emerge of a man primarily driven by white nationalism and a desire to drive cultural, political and racial wedges between people across the globe. That, he hoped, would stoke discord and, eventually, more violence between races.
In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling
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Someone , like me,who is conservative and hates racist Nazis or druggie depressed anarchists anti-fascist fascists who go to Berkeley and burn stuff down , understands that it's just take some crazy Lone Wolf types like this in Norway and now New Zealand. Banning assault weapons won't change the issue. Look how we had a crazy jihadist at Fort Hood with three pistols kill a whole bunch of soldiers and he was a crazy mixed-up psychologist. Even though they may have a right-wing or left-wing Manifesto, they are just plain insane! Saying that it's a right-wing person and so all considers are like him is like me saying that ocasio-cortez represents the average Democrat when she is just plain crazy who happens to borrow the crazy ideas of the green party from Canada and doesn't want to look at herself in the mirror at what happened to going all green and Ontario for the price of utilities Rose 600% to stupid crazy ideas like her. These are sick individuals who perpetrated massacres like this. Remember Charlie Manson wanted to start a race riot because the Beatles told him and Helter Skelter to kill people like Sharon Tate and others. Yes, you could flame Fringe groups for using social media and web cams to document their insanity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
PO1 John Johnson SrA Michael Webster
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
PO1 John Johnson SrA Michael Webster
2011 Norway attacks - Wikipedia
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli)[14] or as 22/7,[15] were two sequential lone wolf domestic terroristattacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in which 77 people were killed.
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SrA Michael Webster
These fringe groups use social media to gather more "true believers". It bolsters their ranks, and when they close themselves off to dissenting opinions, they are trapped in their echo chamber, which gives their beliefs some kind of validity.
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I will reserve my judgement until I read a verified copy of his manifesto.
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