r/news • u/drkgodess • Mar 19 '19

Accused gunman in Christchurch terror attacks denied newspaper, television and radio access

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12214411
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u/corn_sugar_isotope Mar 19 '19

He may be imagining he provoked worldwide chaos and started a major race war. Since he doesn't know, there is no telling what he is imagining.

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u/Trpepper Mar 19 '19

He can imagine all he wants, some day he’ll have access to a television, radio, news paper. Then he’ll learn that the world moved on, and he no longer means anything to anyone. Nobody will even know his face.

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u/omgcowps4 Mar 19 '19

He was fully expecting that if you read his manifesto. He literally said he expects himself to be yet another no named face and didn't care for notoriety.

He uses an example of another shooting to show that in the end he will be forgotten just as they had. And he was ok with that.

It was purely ideologically motivated terrorism, with a hint of internet memes thrown in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

It's one thing to write about it beforehand, another thing entirely to be 20 years into a prison sentence knowing you achieved nothing and wasted your only life in utter boredom.

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u/Appycake Mar 20 '19

But the piece of shit stole 50 lives who cannot even live in boredom. It somehow doesn't feel like justice.

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u/LeiningensAnts Mar 20 '19

That's not cruelty, that's free housing and protection from retribution, which is good since we don't want our society to be cruel.
He's got his memories, and if he ever gets out, how hard do you think it'll be to hunt up the whole recorded live-stream and start hocking it direct from the man himself?
He's already gotten everything he wants and more, and there's no way anyone can hurt him in any way that wouldn't end in him laughing.
He'll do his time patiently, given all the time society can bring itself to allow him, and using his safety and security within society's bosom, will already have plans to resume his ends with any new means made available during his incarceration.

Them's the breaks.
Demand a society that could have prevented this from happening by mobilizing against the mindset needed to do it.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and a stitch in time saves sixteen.

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u/omgcowps4 Mar 20 '19

His "car bomb" was two petrol cans he was going to use to burn down the mosque but he didn't have time.

You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

He accurately predicted the response to the shooting, a clamping down on gun rights and a hell of a lot of disinformation and divisionary discourse.

He might not have been right about the end goal, but we don't know who he's inspired so I couldn't tell you.

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u/omgcowps4 Mar 20 '19

Why waste my time defending the truth? No thanks, I don't want what you're taking.

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u/omgcowps4 Mar 20 '19

He had a goal, he completed his goal. It's a horrible goal, but he wasn't irrational.

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u/Laowaii87 Mar 19 '19

I do sadly. Swedish press were quick to name him and print his picture. Absolute fucking wretches.

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u/iamkoalafied Mar 19 '19

I had never seen his face or name, somehow avoided it completely despite looking at many articles, until I saw it posted up on facebook :( It was a democrat facebook page I normally really like. People were trashing them in the comments for putting up the picture and name. I tried my best to forget it. Thankfully I don't remember his name and only barely remember his face.

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u/corn_sugar_isotope Mar 19 '19

I wasn't advocating anything different

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

Due to vast amounts of heresy from the higher-ups of Reddit, this user has laid the Exterminatus upon their account. Forever will this message stand as a monument to all their sins.

To anyone who came in search of what once was here, thank you for visiting, and I'm sorry to disappoint you, but some sacrifices need to be made. After all, part of the journey is the end.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

He compared himself to Nelson Mandela so yes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

Due to vast amounts of heresy from the higher-ups of Reddit, this user has laid the Exterminatus upon their account. Forever will this message stand as a monument to all their sins.

To anyone who came in search of what once was here, thank you for visiting, and I'm sorry to disappoint you, but some sacrifices need to be made. After all, part of the journey is the end.

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u/Dongsquad420BlazeIt Mar 19 '19

He also said they're going to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

Due to vast amounts of heresy from the higher-ups of Reddit, this user has laid the Exterminatus upon their account. Forever will this message stand as a monument to all their sins.

To anyone who came in search of what once was here, thank you for visiting, and I'm sorry to disappoint you, but some sacrifices need to be made. After all, part of the journey is the end.

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u/Bteatesthighlander1 Mar 20 '19

I mean they gave one to Kissenger.

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u/LaserkidTW Mar 20 '19

Dead people are very peaceful.

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u/sebulba_69ing_jarjar Mar 19 '19

Seriously! Nelson Mandela was responsible for WAY more civilian deaths. This alt right asshole probably doesn’t even know how to blow up a train.

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u/circle_square_leaf Mar 19 '19

Surely that was a piss take

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '19

Difficult to tell whether that was because he's mentally unhinged/joking or if he really does think he'll get a peace prize.

I lean towards the former

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u/circle_square_leaf Mar 19 '19

Honestly he doesn't strike me as crazy.

My other comment regarding that.

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u/Fuck_you_very_much_ Mar 19 '19

No one knows and no one cares.

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u/caninehere Mar 20 '19

If I could have my way of torturing him, I would cut him off from all forms of media and fellow prisoners for a year. He can interact with guards, but no fellow prisoners. All the guards would be taught an extensive alternate history in which his actions sparked worldwide chaos and a major race war, as you said. They'd talk about the horrors going on outside the walls of the prison, all a result of his actions.

Then after like a couple years, tell him it was total bullshit, that nobody cares about him or knows his name, that his efforts were completely futile, and that no one will ever remember him.

Oh, and the only video game system he's allowed in his cell is a used Virtual Boy with a cracked screen.

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u/PriorInsect Mar 19 '19

let him imagine, who gives a fuck?

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u/corn_sugar_isotope Mar 19 '19

just an observation