by Geoffrey Churchman
Although like many people I find him excruciating, I decided to make the effort to watch the ‘Patrick Gower on Hate’ presentation broadcast on TV3 last Tuesday, as it was undoubtedly timed to coincide with the present government’s promulgation of new ‘hate speech’ laws, or as many describe them, ‘laws against speech the Left Wing hate.’
Along with marijuana, cocaine, and crystal meth, so-called ‘hate speech’ is one of Gower’s favourite subjects and he is best known for making a fool of himself with an interview he did with Canadian ‘it’s all right to be white’ activists Laura Southern and Stefan Molyneux in 2018. This was on the occasion of a speaking tour they did, which caused Left Wing extremists to demand (clearly with serious threats of vandalism) that the owners of venues in Auckland they had booked cancel the bookings. One of the venues was owned by Auckland City and Auckland Mayor Phil Gough did cancel it — which resulted in the formation of the present Free Speech Union. In Gower’s interview he must have expected the pair to be Archie Bunker type bigots, but instead they were well educated, articulate and gave Gower a trouncing.
On this episode of Gower’s long running theme, he came up with little that was new, instead he had to make do with recycling the Christchurch mosque attacks by a visiting lunatic in March 2019. I lost count of the number of times he mentioned ‘right wing extremist’ ‘alt right’ and ‘white supremacist’. But as in the three-part series he made that year, and which we analysed at the time, he did not manage to come up with any evidence to support his contention that there is a legion of Nazis out there willing to indulge in race riots. The only thing he could cite was the police statement that they interrogated who they thought were ‘1700 potential extremists’ in the succeeding month. Note the word ‘potential’. You could say that anybody is a potential anything.
Accompanying Gower was his good mate Professor Spoonley who has made almost a career out of the same proposition. Apparently what set the latter off was a protest march he witnessed through Lewisham, England, in 1978 by National Front members who’d had enough of muggings by immigrants there. Both clearly subscribe to the view that due to “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” the only race it’s acceptable to blame for the actions of one demented individual is Europeans.
Most of Gower’s latest episode recycled his presentations on the effect on the Christchurch mosque attendees who had family members killed or wounded, or those who had survived with physical and/or psychological scars — and these would have certainly been severe.
But yesterday we discovered that the police had been tailing a known ISIS supporter, a Sri Lankan national, for years in Auckland, for the last two months 24/7 and the man had appeared in court before on a knife attack plot. You can’t help wonder what the cost to taxpayers of that was. At least having been shot dead by police he is no longer a problem. Police were shown at the mosque the man attended, presumably to find out if anyone else there was radicalized.
What triggered the man’s partially successful attack that wounded 7 people, 3 critically? Did the Gower broadcast 3 days before on how allegedly most white persons secretly hate Muslims have anything to do with it? In a TV3 interview with an Indian woman who the terrorist bypassed, she said it seemed he was only interested in attacking whites. Hmm.
In her media announcement yesterday, Dear Leader responded to the Islamist’s terror attack by worrying about a “backlash” against Muslims. There was no such concern about the backlash she and her cabinet pursued against law-abiding gun owners, particularly if they were pale and conservative.
Hyden said:
Government sponsored terrorism,
Its been proven many times by private investigators that ISIS is and was started by MOSSAD funded through them and helped CIA agents.
Hyden said:
Manchurian candidate’s everywhere in society.
Brendon Tarrent another one, believing in the 9/11 lies and half truths promoted by the media system’s.
K R Bolton said:
Jihadism originated with the USA’s commitment to get the USSR out of Afghanistan. Then they used jihadists against Serbia: the KLA which had previously been listed by the State Dept. as a narco-terrorist outfit; then against Syria, and against Libya, these wars resulting in the refugee exodus into Europe, about which Qaddafi attempted to warn.
While Ardern states that ‘S’ was a ‘lone wolf’ and did not represent any faith or community, Tarrant, also a ‘lone wolf’, has been made synonymous with a nebulously termed ‘far right’, which has been criminalized and demonised. The Islamophobic crap originates with well funded, and influential neocon think tanks and lobbies, which fund neoliberals such as Geert Wilders and Tommy Robinson, who are wrongly portrayed as ‘Right’ by the media, academics, and other such buffoons, which I documented in my 2018 book, Zionism, Islam the West, subsequently translated into Arabic, but banned by Amazon for reasons not defined.
What is important to keep in mind is that jihadism emanated from Wahhabism, a faction within Sunni, and backed by the USA’s allies, the Saudis and Emirates. Shi’a is something quite different, and its citadel, Iran is the primary bulwark against Wahhabism; yet again we find it targeted for ‘regime change’ by the USA, as was Syria, one might suspect as part of a geo-political scenario which military strategist Ralph Peters has called ‘constant conflict’.
Joyce Glennie said:
Excellent narrative Mr Churchman. I support your views above 100%. Best regards,
Joyce
Margaret Stevenson-Wright said:
‘When will they ever learn’…