Brenton Tarrant was a leftist, communist environmentalist concerned about overpopulation, not a Trump fan
If you turn on the media and you will hear how the New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant was a fan of President Trump or his ilk, as the President mentioned a fleeting remark, before being denounced as part of the system, a sellout if you will. Further examination reveals a leftist, an environmentalist and a fan of communist China.
“Conservatism is corporatism in disguise. I want no part of it. … The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of China,” the terrorist says in his 73-page “manifesto.” (CNN reports that their version is 87 pages)
He declared himself an “eco-fascist” concerned by the “overpopulation” of these “invaders.”
“Why focus on immigration and birth rates when climate change is such a huge issue?” Tarrant asks rhetorically. “Because they are the same issue. The Environment is being destroyed by overpopulation. We Europeans are one of the groups that is not overpopulating the world. The invaders are the ones overpopulating the world. Kill the invaders, kill the overpopulation, and by doing so save the world.”
Tarrant calls for worker “ownership of the means of production” and the institution of a “Green Nationalism” to stop “the continued destruction of the natural environment itself through mass immigration and uncontrolled urbanization.”
At one point in his video rant, he sounds like a gun control nut: There are “two ideologies within the United States” regarding the ownership of firearms, says Tarrant, and one of his goals is to spark “conflict over the 2nd amendment and the attempted removal of firearms rights” which “will ultimately result in a civil war that will eventually balkanize the US along political, cultural and, most importantly, racial lines.”
He continues: “the gun owners of New Zealand are a beaten, miserable bunch of baby boomers, who have long since given up the fight.” But also because he sees a relationship between America‘s’ “melting pot” mythos and the “cult of the individual,” which he sees as instrumental in enforcing the “Wests’ egalitarian, individualist, globalist dominant culture.”
The death toll stands at 51 for his massacre as the aftermath is just beginning to be unpacked. Sadly, the media are using this as a hammer to attack Trump and the right-wing instead of report on the facts.
How is Donald Trump mentioned?
In the manifesto, Tarrant posed a series of questions to himself.
“Were/are you a supporter of Donald Trump?” the author of the manifesto wrote.
The reply: “As a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose? Sure. As a policymaker and leader? Dear god no.”
Was this a terrorist attack? “Yes,” he wrote, “it is a terrorist attack.”
“Do you feel any remorse for the attack?”
“No, I only wish I could have killed more invaders, and more traitors as well.”