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mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 04:23 AM Mar 2019

Have NZ authorities definitively linked the manifesto to the killers?

I'm sure they can do this. CNN is not mentioning it at all. Maybe they're waiting on confirmation. The nut jobs tweeting on Owens' page are pushing the narrative that it was posted after the fact by presumably leftists.

Once confirmed the media needs to report it and detail her evil background over and over.

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Cattledog

(5,914 posts)
1. They were posted right before the shooting.
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 04:36 AM
Mar 2019
A white-nationalist manifesto

Before the shooting, someone appearing to be the gunman posted links to a white-nationalist manifesto on Twitter and the online forum 8chan. The 8chan post included a link to what appeared to be the gunman’s Facebook page, where he said he would also broadcast live video of the attack.

The Twitter posts showed weapons covered in the names of past military generals and men who have recently carried out mass shootings.

In his manifesto, he identified himself as a 28-year-old man born in Australia and listed his white nationalist heroes.

Writing that he had purposely used guns to stir discord in the United States over the Second Amendment’s provision on the right to bear arms, he also declared himself a fascist. “For once, the person that will be called a fascist, is an actual fascist,” he wrote.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/world/asia/new-zealand-shooting-updates-christchurch.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
3. I couldn't watch it all, malaise.
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 04:44 AM
Mar 2019

Right after the hate monger that occupies the oval office threatened us with "his" army, police and bikers. When in the fuck is the rest of America going to wake up? I've been telling my kids that something like this was going to happen right here in the U.S.

malaise

(268,930 posts)
5. White terrorism has been ignored for way too long across the globe
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 04:50 AM
Mar 2019

Violence against immigrant communities has been ignored for way too long.

mucifer

(23,530 posts)
11. and this event will probably incite more violence from isis
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:24 AM
Mar 2019

they have the video. It's going to be a horrific cycle I fear.

mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
6. Owens appears on faux, doesn't she.
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 04:56 AM
Mar 2019

The only time I ever watch anything faux is when I have no alternative for a sporting event.

underpants

(182,769 posts)
10. Fox News. Turning Point USA. PragerU-Her first big interview was with Roseanne Barr two weeks ago
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:08 AM
Mar 2019

Black female spouting rightwing hate will never lack for a job.

mobeau69

(11,141 posts)
8. Owens is mentioned in Tarrant's manifesto once, where he writes,
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 05:07 AM
Mar 2019

"The person who has influenced me above all is Candace Owens. Each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights and her own views helped me push further and further into the belief of violence over meekness. However I will have to disavow some of her believes [sic], the extreme actions she calls for are too much, even for my tastes.”

Amishman

(5,555 posts)
9. The manifesto seems aimed at creating at much ideological strife as possible
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 05:51 AM
Mar 2019

He is a white supremacist to the point of calling for genocide yet claims inspiration from a black woman.

He also calls China a perfect country but also denounces importation of cheap foreign goods and labor

He openly states he wants to incite a political crisis in the US and other countries.

The manifesto seems to hit in almost every hot button topic and seems intentionally crafted to create the discord he so desperately wants

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
12. The guy spent a lot of his time on 4chan/8chans where pissing people off is praised by degenerates
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:41 AM
Mar 2019

I'm sure he'll enjoy the chaos and suffering that will come of this

Amishman

(5,555 posts)
14. Chans and gamer definitely
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 07:45 AM
Mar 2019

I came across an evaluation of the shooting video that suggested the gunman was probably a gamer. Changing clips at every pause, even when only a few bullets were fired since the last reload. Proficient with fixed sights but very clumsy with reloads and handling of the gun. I'd link but it looks like it's been taken down (probably part of the larger effort to pull down the video).

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
15. Yeah I noticed that he reloaded and changed guns a lot
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 07:58 AM
Mar 2019

Maybe a heavy Counter Strike/Rainbow Six Siege player

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
13. It seems so
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:53 AM
Mar 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6812183/Christchurch-terror-attack-Shooter-published-manifesto-online-hours-earlier.html

Evil terrorist's twisted manifesto: Right-wing mosque shooter posted 73-page rant foreshadowing massacre just hours before the bloodbath and said he was 'inspired' by Norway mass murderer.
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