In a lesson for Americans seeking responsive government, a Trumpist white supremacist (that’s redundant) shoots 49 people to death in New Zealand, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern steps right out and says, “Our gun laws will change“:
Prime Minister Ardern sounds infinitely more human and sane than the pretend leader of the free world, Donald Trump, who sees the news of this white supremacist attack on two mosques and says he doesn’t really see an increase in white nationalism. America’s white-supremacist-in-chief, whom the New Zealand terrorist praised as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” then proceeded to justify his veto of Congress’s revocation of his fake emergency declaration by saying of migrants at our southern border, “People hate the word ‘invasion,’ but that’s what it is. It’s an invasion of drugs and criminals”:
TRUMP echoes white supremacist rhetoric: “Congress’ vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality…People hate the word ‘invasion,’ but that’s what it is. It’s an invasion of drugs, criminals, & people…in some cases, they are killers.” pic.twitter.com/nupFMpmHQZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2019
The New Zealand killer invoked invasion to justify his own fake emergency:
The alleged gunman described himself in the manifesto as “just a regular white man, from a regular family.”
…“We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history,” the document said. “Millions of people pouring across our borders, legally. Invited by the state and corporate entities to replace the white people who have failed to reproduce, failed to create the cheap labour, new consumers and tax base that the corporations and states need to thrive.
…He said his mission was to “show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people.”
…The man said he’d been planning an attack for about two years and chose Christchurch as the target about three months ago. Though New Zealand wasn’t the original choice, he wrote, “an attack in New Zealand would bring to attention the truth of the assault on our civilization, that no where in the world was safe, the invaders were in all of our lands, even in the remotest areas of the world and that there was no where left to go that was safe and free from mass immigration.”
…“I will carry out and attack against the invaders, and will even live stream the attack via facebook,” he wrote [Judy L. Thomas, “New Zealand Shooting Suspect Says in Manifesto He Was Inspired by Violent U.S. Extremism,” The Kansas City Star, 2019.03.15].
The New Zealand terrorist also called on fellow white supremacist terrorists to assassinate London Mayor Sadiq Khan, another “invader”:
The far-right terrorist who massacred Muslims in Christchurch called on his supporters to target Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, in a rambling manifesto posted online… that lays out his justification for the attack and demands that far-right extremists murder “enemies of our race that freely walk through our societies”.
[He] specifically tells his supporters to kill Mr Khan, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and President Erdogan of Turkey.
He describes Mr Khan as a “Pakistani Muslim invader [who] now sits as representative for the people of London…. What better sign of the white rebirth than the removal of this invader?” [Will Huphries, Emma Yeomans, Hugh Tomlinson, and Adam Sage, “New Zealand Shooting… Targeted ‘Invader’ Sadiq Khan in Manifesto,” The Times (UK), 2019.03.16]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister responds to the neo-Nazi terrorist threat by vowing immediately to change gun laws. Donald Trump responds by parroting back the deranged white supremacist’s (that’s redundant) words to justify abuse of Executive power.
But no, ossifer, says Trump, lurching toward the curb, there is no fascism here.
Drumpf sent “best wishes” to the invaders. I thought that was a nice touch.
Before US gun control debates get going again, Sesame Street should be mandated viewing for all white supremacists and wingnut pols until they learn to play nicely with others.
Who needs to own an assault rifle? Nobody! Australia had a very successful voluntary buyback program, but if the Democrats pursue vigorous control laws, perhaps almost to any degree, they will lose (again).
We’ll see if Dems can tie Russian money laundering into the NRA and neuter the over powerful NRA lobby once and for all.
Wingnuts need to grow their own and stop falling for the lies of the lobbyists. No one is coming to take all yer guns. You just don’t need military style weapons for hunting or self defense.
Adam Serwer wrote this article, “White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots,” prior to the white-supremacist terrorist attack in New Zealand. Serwer tells how American white-supremacist Madison Grant’s 1916 book and other American anti-immigrant strains inspired Hitler to genocide:
Serwer gives us this rallying cry against Trump’s defining racist principle:
Nazis. I hate these guys.
2020 is about nothing less than removing Nazis from power and reversing the aid and comfort the American Republican Party is projecting right now to Nazis worldwide.
“America’s white-supremacist-in-chief”
100% true.
I’ve been saying those guys are terrorists, not “mass murderers,” as our soft US media coquettishly calls them. Just as ordinary Muslims have terrorists hiding in their midst, so do we.
We must root out 2 chief sources of support for our white US terrorists– Frantic Flaccid Fool and the NRA.
While the GOP has made itself into the party of white terrorists, it cannot be rooted out in the same way, but it must fully fail as a political party and it’s criminal leadership– Chinless Wonder McTurtle, #2 and the rest in Pootie’s pocket, must be imprisoned for their crimes. The walk of justice must be ruthless to save our country.
Terrorists are bad, be they misreaders of the Quran or loyal readers of Hitler and Trump. We should root out all such terrorists.
We can also prevent the radicalization of otherwise decent people by holding to the most basic American principles of liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. We will not sustainably defeat terrorism with more and bigger guns. We will most effectively suppress terrorism by winning hearts and minds with the concerted application of inclusive, pluralistic democracy.
Cory, exactly.
This is what that decent nation has already done. Frantic Flaccid Fool could take lessons.
https://goo.gl/U7PeQV
meh. That’s what i gather from ADL militia and white supremacy ect diatribes. I am going to stop letting Bundys and 3%ers ect stir me up. They are not going snywhereRednecks basically. Republicans cultivate hate. Cowboys cutting Hippie’s hair.