My cynicism about this one is borne from staying up most of that night watching the response because I inadvertently saw the footage live about halfway through. That will grab your attention.
Jerky wrote:Personally, I'm keeping a lid on my "suspicions" until something more than just early reporting errors, or stories about individuals being taken into custody (which accounts for a lot more paranoid suspicion than it should, considering the circumstances) are all that exist to bolster them.
>footage of two plainclothes guys, neither of whom are the arrested shooter, with automatic weapons and combat kit in a parking lot
>reports of a suspect taken into custody wearing an IED vest
>footage of man in full fatigues and facepaint, who is neither the shooter nor the two men in the parking lot, being taken into custody in front of some high school downtown
It's a considerably more pointed than "oh we had some people of interest but we were wrong."
Plus the fact you've got a manifesto full of the exact memes that your establishment would like to ban, but lacks the means or support to. You've got -- what? An eco-fascist who loves ... China? An Anti-Semitic Holocaust Denier From 4Chan who says the Jews ... are fine and he's got no problems with them? An Anti-Muslim Crusader who lists events from Crusades history all over his kit and clips, but the motherfucker never mentions Jesus or Christianity in 87 pages?
Johnny Rotten had a really good quote about this, towards the end of his career with the Sex Pistols.
JackRiddler » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:05 am wrote:I'm not impressed. It's not exactly pedestrian for someone (or someone and his friends) to commit mass violence like this, but hardly a new thing. Motivation + money (or a bit of spook background) can accomplish the details you seem to suggest require a state backing.
Training trips to Pakistan? That's a normal part of the post-Pepe indoctrination cycle that turns edgelords into human FBI Crime Statistics dispensers?
JackRiddler » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:05 am wrote:Now, a serious question? If you're entertaining your implied ideas and posting about them here, have you looked into whatever deep state or parapolitical scene New Zealand actually has? Who are the players, the agencies, the mobs, foreign and domestic, over there? I have no idea.
Good advice, thank you. I should probably spend less time on forums like 8Chan or AboveTopSecret and more time reading actual books about my area of interest.
Anyways, New Zealand is one of Five Eyes, maybe start there when you find the time.