THERE BE WHITE SUPREMACISTS AMONGST US

QUESTION:  Why, with the evidence of the livestream video and its accompanying manifesto available to them, did the media initially report the white supremacist terror killing on Friday 15th March at the two mosques in Christchurch as mass murder?  Why didn't they call it straightaway for what it clearly was, an act of terror?  

ANSWER: Because it was carried out by a white person against people of colour.  

QUESTION:  How did this white supremacist manage to plan and execute the terror killing of 50 people and the maiming of dozens of others without once coming to the attention of the GCSB, SIS, New Zealand Police or any of their international counterparts?  

ANSWER:  By being white.  

QUESTION:  Was the white supremacist being watched by any of these intelligence agencies?  Was he even on any of their watchlists?  

ANSWER:  No. 

QUESTION:  Had any of these so called intelligence agencies ever been alerted to the possibility of a white supremacist terror attack?  

ANSWER:  Yes.  For more than five years, Muslim representatives knocked on every door they could, (senior government Ministers and officials, Police, SIS, OEC, DIA, HRC) and spoke at every possible forum to point to the rise of hatred and of the alt-right in New Zealand.  Apart from Susan Devoy, former Race Relations Conciliator, and the Human Rights Commission, they were at best ignored and at worst derided. 

QUESTION:  Before the livestream of the terror attack spewed onto facebook, who and what were these agencies all watching instead?  

ANSWER:  Māori activists, Iwi Māori, Greenpeace and radicalised Muslims.

QUESTION:  Within three days of the terror killings, the New Zealand National Front website was down and their facebook page, though still open, had made no postings since Friday 15th March.  Why?  

ANSWER:  I have no idea.

QUESTION:  Some people have said since the white supremacist attack that we have lost our innocence.  What innocence was that? 

ANSWER:  I have no idea.

QUESTION:  Was this the first act of terror by white supremacists against people of colour in New Zealand?  

ANSWER:  Hell no!  Following the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840, there were a series of localised battles when white settlers with what are now recognised as notions of white supremacy, increasingly and lawlessly invaded hapū lands and territories. 

However, from the late 1850s until the early 1870s, backed by British armed forces, they ramped up their invasions and deliberately set out to destroy Māori strongholds of resistance to their thieving behaviours and their attempts to over-ride Māori Mana Motuhake. 

While they often came away from a battle worse off than when they entered it, they remained resolute that they were superior and had the God-given right to terrorise Māori into giving them, for little or nothing, our lands and estates, then accepting their sovereignty over us.  So no, this was not the first white supremacist terror attack in New Zealand.

QUESTION:  Will this be the last white supremacy terror killing in this country?  

ANSWER:  I’d like to hope so, but I doubt it because there remain white supremacists amongst us. 

While no amount of questions will turn back the clock and return 50 murdered people to their loved ones, these questions and more will need to be answered before there can be any hope of preventing another white supremacist attack.

And by the way, if you don't like these questions or their answers, then you need to check either your reality, or your fragility, or your white supremacy at my door before you enter; because NO!  I won't stop saying 'white supremacy' to you.