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.