WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The courtroom was a GHOST TOWN. In a SHOCKING and DELIBERATE act of state-enforced silence, New Zealand’s justice system conducted a CLANDESTINE hearing for the Christchurch mosque killer, Brenton Tarrant, burying his racist ideology in a VACUUM of public scrutiny. This isn’t justice; it’s a GOVERNMENT-ORDERED MEMORY HOLE designed to protect the public from a terrifying truth they REFUSE to confront.
While Tarrant, who BUTCHERED 51 innocent worshippers in a white supremacist rampage, now claims a “nervous breakdown” forced his guilty plea, the state’s response is even more sinister. They have ERASED the very HATEFUL MOTIVATIONS that fueled the massacre from the official record. His manifesto is BANNED. His video is ILLEGAL. His name is UNSPOKEN. In a courtroom with an EMPTY public gallery, the Crown argued not against his racism, but against giving him ANY platform at all—even to plead.
This is a DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. By sterilizing the proceedings and muzzling the monstrous ideology at its core, authorities are not stopping the spread of hate—they are DRIVING IT DEEPER UNDERGROUND. They are admitting their own system cannot withstand the oxygen of public examination. The victims deserve justice, but a society that FEARS the words of a monster more than it seeks to understand and dismantle his creed is a society building its own prison.
Now, this remorseless killer plays the system, seeking to revoke his plea and force a grotesque public trial, tormenting the families all over again. The state’s solution? Shroud it all in secrecy. Is this the high road, or a COWARDLY abdication of the hard truths that fester in the dark? They have made the killer a ghost and his ideology a phantom, ensuring the real infection goes untreated. The question now is what other horrors we are willing to hide from to pretend we are safe.



