Extremists! Phah!!!

It’s easy to become an extremist. Here’s all you have to do:

1. Go online
2. Pick your extremism of choice from the wonderful array on offer. For those unable to decide from all the mouth-watering options, there’s web-sites that can help. Radicalised-R-Us is a good one. Compare the Murderers.com. And U-switch-blade, will turn you from a hunt sabateur to a neo Nazi in the flash of a letter-bomb.
3. Ensure that you’re a brain-dead supermoron with no sense of morality or decency
4. Become brainwashed by your chosen bunch of sociopaths
5. Buy a gun. Or two. Or rent a van.
6. Let rip.

I was in Christchurch just a couple of months ago. Beautiful little city. 300,000 people. Not one of whom was out and about on Christmas Day. The quietest place in the entire world. But terrorism? In New Zealand?? It’s almost unthinkable. And that’s what terrorism does, it strikes where least expected.

This time a ‘white supremacist’. The rhetoric is marginally different but the result is the same. Death to innocent people. Because terrorists don’t fight an enemy. Enemies fight back. Innocent civilians are much easier, safer, more abundant. Which is why, even though Brenton Tarrant felt himself in some kind of ‘first person shooter’ video game, and in fact did video the who sorry event, no-one was firing back. Not one shot at him. It’s an act of ultimate cowardice.

And they’re raging at Facebook for allowing the live video on its pages. As if Facebook is a little office in Croydon where Mr Facebook sits and checks everything before allowing it on. The very nature of the internet is that everyone is connected to everyone else WITHOUT INTERVENTION OR INTERMEDIARIES. Of course, there are facilities in place to try and filter out unwanted shit, like a mass murder, but essentially, until a person has drawn attention about such things, the nature of the beast is that 12 million people have seen it, uploaded it, forwarded it before it can be stopped or removed. Unless we want some kind of blanket censorship, and we certainly don’t, stuff will slip through.

So be they white supremacists, jihadis, IRA, its basically the same people, stupid, suggestible losers, looking for an excuse to kill. The ‘narrative’ changes, the ‘ideologies’ differ, but really the bottom line remains awfully, tragically the same.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx