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Disaster Transbian episode 49
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00:00I'm not the only one, hey, you join us
00:29and the world will live
00:32Each murder was the product of calculated and lengthy planning
00:38and was committed with a high level of cruelty and callousness
00:44Some of your victims were children, others were murdered by you as they lay wounded and incapacitated
00:52If a minimum period of imprisonment was to be imposed
00:55that bare summary of aggravating features would indicate a starting point considerably higher than 17 years
01:02A single murder committed in such circumstances would warrant such a minimum term
01:09Your act of terrorism resulted in the murder of 51 people and the serious wounding of 40 more
01:17You shot people in the back and ignored the pleas of the wounded to be spared
01:24You advanced on them, stood over them and viciously took their lives
01:31Most of your victims were at prayer
01:34You violated places of worship where people came together for peace and fellowship
01:40Like the rest of the country, the worshippers had no inkling of the terror and carnage that was about to be perpetuated
01:49Having given the matter much consideration, I am satisfied that no minimum period of imprisonment would be sufficient to satisfy the legitimate need to hold you to account for the harm you have done to the community
02:04Nor do I consider that any minimum term of imprisonment would be sufficient to denounce your crimes
02:10Tarrant appeared in the Christchurch District Court on March 16th, where he was charged with one count of murder
02:18The judge ordered the courtroom closed to the public, except for accredited media
02:23And allowed the accused to be filmed and photographed on the condition that Tarrant's face be pixelized
02:30In court, Tarrant smiled at reporters and made an inverted OK gesture below his waist, said to be a white power sign
02:40The case was transferred to the High Court and Tarrant was remanded in custody as his lawyer did not seek bail
02:48He was subsequently transferred to the country's only maximum security unit at Auckland Prison
02:55He lodged a formal complaint regarding his prison conditions on the grounds that he has no access to newspapers, television, internet, visitors or phone calls
03:08It's an emergency in Springfield
03:10$900 a dues
03:13On April 4th, police announced they had increased the total number of charges to 89, 50 for murder and 39 for attempted murder
03:23With other charges still under consideration
03:26At the next hearing, on April 5th, Tarrant was ordered by the judge to undergo a psychiatric assessment of his mental fitness to stand trial
03:36On May 20th, a new charge of engaging in a terrorist act was laid against Tarrant under the Terrorism Suppression Act of 2002
03:46One murder charge and one attempted murder charge were also added, bringing the total to 51 and 40 respectively
03:55On June 14th, 2019, Tarrant appeared at the Christchurch High Court via audiovisual link from Auckland Prison
04:03Through his lawyer, he pleaded not guilty to one count of engaging in a terrorist act, 51 counts of murder and 40 counts of attempted murder
04:13Mental health assessments had indicated no issues regarding his fitness to plead or stand trial
04:21The trial was originally set to begin on May 4th, 2020, but it was later pushed back to June 2nd, 2020
04:30To avoid coinciding with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan
04:34During his time in prison, Tarrant was able to send seven letters
04:39One of which was subsequently posted on the internet message boards, 4chan and 8chan, by a recipient
04:47Minister of Corrections, Kelvin Davis, and the Department of Corrections were criticized for allowing the distribution of these letters
04:57Prime Minister Ardern subsequently announced that the government would explore a commending the Corrections Act of 2004
05:05To further restrict what mail can be received and sent by prisoners
05:11On March 26th, 2020, Tarrant appeared at the Christchurch High Court via audiovisual link from Auckland Prison
05:19During the appearance, he pleaded guilty to all 92 charges
05:25Due to the nationwide COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the general public were barred from the hearing
05:31Reporters and representatives for the Al Noor and Linwood mosques were presented in the courtroom
05:37According to media reports, Tarrant's lawyers had informed the courts that their client was considering changing his plea
05:45On March 25th, Tarrant issued his lawyers with formal written instructions confirming that he wanted to change his pleas to guilty
05:54In response, court authorities began making arrangements for the case to be called as soon as possible in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown
06:03The judge convicted Tarrant on all charges and remanded him in custody to await sentencing
06:10On July 10th, the government announced that overseas-based victims of the shootings would receive border exemptions and financial help to fly to New Zealand for the sentencing
06:22On July 13th, it was reported that Tarrant had dismissed his lawyers and would be representing himself during sentencing proceedings
06:31Sentencing began on August 24th, 2020, before Justice Cameron Mander at the Christchurch High Court and it was televised
06:40Tarrant did not oppose the sentence proposed and declined to address the court
06:46The Crown prosecutors demonstrated to the court how Tarrant had meticulously planned the two shootings and more attacks
06:54While numerous survivors and their relatives gave victim impact statements
06:59Which were covered by national and international media
07:06Their loss is profound
07:09Lives changed forever by injury
07:13Others by death
07:15The last words I will hear from Sire
07:18For now
07:19Were
07:20Calvary
07:21Oh, how I regret not doing that
07:27The last time I saw him alive
07:29When he left for school
07:31That faithful mum
07:33I love you, Sire
07:36My angel
07:38A child stolen
07:41My father
07:44The apple of our eyes
07:49Abdel Fattah Qasim
07:52Hear the name
07:54A parent
07:56Gone
07:57I wonder if he was in pain
08:01If he was frightened
08:03And what his final thoughts were
08:08Tarrant was then sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for each of the 51 murders
08:18And life imprisonment for engaging in a terrorist act and 40 attempted murders
08:24The sentence is New Zealand's first terrorism conviction
08:28It was also the first time that life imprisonment without parole, the maximum sentence available in New Zealand, had been imposed
08:36Mander said Tarrant's crimes were
08:39Quote
08:40So wicked
08:41That even if you were detained until you die
08:44It will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation
08:50Following the sentencing
08:51Deputy Prime Minister
08:53Winston Peters
08:54Called for Tarrant to serve his sentence in Australia
08:58To avoid New Zealand having to pay the cost for his life imprisonment
09:02The cost of housing Tarrant in prison was estimated
09:05At $4,930 New Zealand dollars per day
09:10Compared to an average cost of $338 per sentenced prisoner per day
09:17On April 14th, 2021
09:20Tarrant appealed against his prison conditions
09:23And his designation as a terrorist entity
09:26At the Auckland High Court
09:28According to media reports
09:30He is being imprisoned at a special prison within a prison
09:35Known as a Prisoners of Extreme Risk unit
09:38With two other inmates
09:4018 guards have been rostered to guard Tarrant
09:44Who is being housed in his own wing
09:47On April 24th, Tarrant abandoned his appeal
09:51In early November 2021
09:54Tarrant's new lawyer, Tony Ellis
09:57Stated that his client intended to appeal against his sentence and conviction
10:03Claiming that his guilty plea had been obtained under duress
10:07And that his conditions, while on remand
10:10Breached the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act of 1990
10:14Mosque attack survivors
10:16Have criticized Tarrant's appeal
10:18As a form of grandstanding
10:20In an attempt by the terrorist
10:22To re-traumatize the Muslim community
10:26In early November 2022
10:29Tarrant appealed against his sentence
10:31And conviction
10:32At the Court of Appeal
10:34In Wellington
10:35The Court of Appeal spokeswoman
10:37Confirmed Tarrant's appeal
10:39And that no hearing date had been set
10:45Present day
10:46Present time
10:49The Christchurch shooter's specific part of the internet that he came from
11:02Was a message board called 8chan
11:04And specifically a chunk of 8chan's called SlashPoll
11:07Now 8chan is one of the 5,000 or so largest websites on the internet
11:11So it's quite popular
11:12And I would describe 8chan and other similar sites
11:15As almost a 24 hour a day clan or neo-Nazi rally
11:20Where every now and then someone will leave
11:22In order to commit a violent attack
11:25And so people talk about this shooter being a lone wolf
11:28The Christchurch shooter
11:29And I don't think that's accurate
11:31I think it's more accurate to look at him
11:33As part of a transnational fascist movement
11:36That is radicalizing people all over the world
11:39The shooter posted links to his manifesto
11:42As well as an announcement that he was going to be carrying out an attack
11:47And a link to his Facebook page
11:50Where he was live streaming video of himself
11:53In route driving to the mosque
11:56Where he carried out his attack
11:58And the initial responses before the shooting started
12:02Were excitement and some amount of disbelief
12:05That anything would actually happen
12:07And then as he began to kill people
12:09I would describe the result of the other users on 8chan slash pollboard
12:13As riotous glee
12:15They were incredibly happy
12:17Incredibly excited to be witnessing so many people being killed
12:21So many Muslims being killed
12:23They began pouring through his manifesto
12:26For the in-jokes that he had left in there for them
12:29For members of their community
12:30References to memes that were popular within that community
12:33There was a great deal of celebration over his actions
12:38And within an hour or so of him beginning his attack
12:42There was rampant speculation about who would carry out the next attack
12:46And about where in the world it would be
12:48He took great care to construct both his manifesto
12:52The post that he started on 8chan's pollboard
12:56And the killing itself
12:59And the things he said in the video of the killing itself
13:01One good example of the things that he included in his manifesto
13:05And in the things he wrote on his weapons
13:07To target a very specific internet audience
13:10The users of 8chan's pollboard
13:12Were references to the Remove Kebab meme
13:15Now Remove Kebab is a comedic music video created by Serbian nationalists
13:20To celebrate one of the war criminals of the Bosnian genocide
13:24And it sort of went viral on 4chan and on 8chan
13:28As a meme generally referencing their desire to remove Muslims
13:33From western civilizations, from western countries
13:37And so Remove Kebab could be seen as essentially saying
13:41We should kill Muslims
13:43And not only were there references to Remove Kebab in the Shooter's Manifesto
13:47But he wrote Remove Kebab on his rifle
13:49The rifle that he used to kill so many Muslims
13:52And in 8chan's pollboard
13:54In the minutes after he started shooting
13:56People picked this out
13:57And were celebrating his inclusion of the meme
14:00They thought it was hilarious
14:01It made it more engaging to them
14:04It made them connect to it more
14:06Because that was his goal
14:07His goal was to signal to these people
14:09To these members of this niche internet community
14:11That he spent so much of his time
14:13That radicalized him
14:14His goal was to signal to them
14:16I'm one of you and I'm doing this for us
14:20While this shooter carried out his attack on his own
14:23He was the exact opposite of a lone wolf
14:26And in every way that matters
14:27He was a member of an international terrorist organization
14:31Unlike the organizations we're more used to fighting
14:34Like ISIS and Al Qaeda
14:36It was not an organization with a single head
14:38It's not an organization with a single funding stream
14:41And that makes it much more difficult to fight
14:43But he was very much not a lone wolf
14:45He was part of a larger group of people
14:47They cheered him on
14:49He was influenced by other people
14:51He was inspired by other people
14:53And he was directly carrying out his attack
14:57To inspire similar violence in other members of his community
15:01And I suspect before very long
15:03He will be successful in that goal
15:05The Christchurch shooter should absolutely not have fallen under the radar
15:10And the fact that he did is evidence of a massive failing
15:13In global counter-terrorism strategies
15:16If right-wing terrorism was treated the same way
15:20We've been treating Islamic terrorism for years now
15:23This could have been stopped at an earlier point
15:26There have been other attacks
15:28That have been directly connected to a Chan's poll board
15:31There have been other attacks announced there
15:33If global law enforcement had been monitoring that board
15:37And watching when this person began his attack
15:40And posted his video
15:42He was driving to the site of the attack
15:44For something like six minutes before he began shooting
15:47You could clearly hear over the audio of his video
15:50The GPS directions telling anyone listening where he was going
15:55If law enforcement from the United States or from Great Britain
15:58Had been dealing with this the way they deal with Islamic terror
16:01Which is where they communicate with one another
16:03Someone could have reached out to law enforcement in New Zealand
16:06And warned them about what was going to happen
16:08That is evidence of a great failing in international law enforcement
16:12To grasp the seriousness of this threat
16:16Prime Minister Ardern called the shootings
16:19An act of extreme and unprecedented violence
16:22On one of New Zealand's darkest days
16:26She described it as a well-planned terrorist attack
16:30And said she would render the person accused of the attacks nameless
16:34While urging the public to speak the victims' names instead
16:38Ardern directed the flags on public buildings to be flown at half-mast
16:42In May 2019, the New Zealand Transport Agency
16:47Offered to replace any vehicle number plates
16:50With the prefix gun on request
16:54For the first three months following the shooting
16:57Almost 1,000 reports were published
16:59In major news outlets in New Zealand
17:02Less than 10% of the news reports published
17:05By major media outlets mentioned Tarrant's name
17:09Susanna Everypalmer, an academic psychiatrist
17:13Suggested that the media made a moral choice
17:15To deny Tarrant exposure
17:18And not sensationalize his views
17:21Deviating from how similar events
17:24Internationally were covered in the media
17:27The court required the media to pixelize Tarrant's face
17:31When covering the legal proceedings
17:34Thus, within New Zealand
17:36He remained largely faceless and nameless
17:39Instead, media coverage focused largely
17:42On the victims and their families
17:44In contrast, the media response in Australia
17:48Was different
17:49Focusing on the extreme violence of the attack
17:52As well as the attacker and his manifesto
17:56For example, The Australian published an audio excerpt
18:00Containing cries for help
18:02And The Herald Sun wrote dramatic descriptions
18:05Of victims being shot
18:06And used poetic devices
18:08To create more vivid imagery
18:10Coverage of the victims
18:12Was largely focused on physical horrors
18:15Such as bloodshed, injuries
18:17And graves being dug
18:19Mosques around the world
18:22Became the focus of vigils, messages
18:25And floral tributes
18:26The mayor of Christchurch, Leanne Dalziel
18:29Encouraged people to lay flowers
18:31Outside the city's botanic gardens
18:33As a mark of sympathy and solidarity
18:36School pupils and other groups
18:39Performed haka and wayata
18:41To honor those killed in the attacks
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18:46O'er the eu'opiんだ
18:46O'er the u'u'.
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20:49The imam of the Al-Nur Mosque thanked New Zealanders for their support and added,
20:55We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken.
20:58In late June, it was reported that the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh had raised
21:06more than $967,500 New Zealand dollars, $650,000 U.S. dollars, for its New Zealand Islamophobia
21:15attack fund for the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
21:20This amount included $60,000 raised by Tree of Life, or the Shempsha congregation.
21:28These funds will be donated to the Christchurch Foundation, a registered charity, which has
21:34been receiving money to support victims of the Christchurch shootings.
21:37This philanthropy was inspired by local Muslim support for the Pittsburgh Jewish community
21:44following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in late October 2018.
21:49So, I believe that New Zealanders, they are together in one thing, that we want safety and security
22:03for each and every Kiwi in this land.
22:06And that way, Muslim will be safe, you know, Buddhist will be safe, believer will be safe,
22:13or people who do not have any faith, they will be safe.
22:16Because we are human first, and we have to be united on humanity.
22:23Fareed, would you like to acknowledge your wife today?
22:26I always acknowledge her, and, you know, I would say that, you know, New Zealanders have given
22:37lots of gifts to my wife, but, you know, what would be the most important gift to her?
22:43And that would be, if my wife and also 50 other martyrs, their soul will be very happy, and they
22:57will take this gift very seriously, if they see that we have learned the lesson from hate.
23:04And if we can work hard, to turn that hate into love, and unity in love in New Zealand, and we prevent any loss of life,
23:20that would be the most wonderful gift to my wife and to all others.
23:27And I believe in that, and that's why I am doing my part, even the little whatever I can do,
23:36for building an inclusive society, a safe society, spreading the message of love and peace.
23:42And I will beg to the New Zealanders, to give my wife that gift, that let us work hard,
23:52make New Zealand safe for each and every home, and we get rid of the domestic violence,
24:00and we love and care for one another, and together we prevent any life loss.
24:07And I beg for that gift, for my wife, because I believe she will be very happy,
24:15and all other martyrs, people will be very happy.
24:19Farid Ahmed
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