Last [Friday’s shootings in Christchurch](https://www.oye.news/news/shootings/breaking-man-opens-fire-on-a-tram-in-the-dutch-city-of-utrecht/), New Zealand which ended with 50 dead and just as many injured have rung the global bell on a call for tougher media censorship.
Yesterday an open letter from Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, who is the head of Counter-Terrorism Policing in the UK was published on the counter-terrorism website.
Basu’s letter is a plea for the UK Government to recognise the threat that the free flow of information can have on a nation and to do something about it.
Basu points out the ironic fact that *“the same media companies who have lambasted social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content are simultaneously publishing uncensored Daesh propaganda on their websites, or make the rambling ‘manifestos’ of crazed killers available for download.”*
He said extremist propaganda that might reach tens of thousands of people through their own channels or networks has the potential to reach tens of millions if a national newspaper published it.
He goes onto say in summary that:
> ‘Society needs to look carefully at itself. We cannot simply hide behind the mantra of freedom of speech. That freedom is not an absolute right, it is not the freedom to cause harm – that is why our hate speech legislation exists.’ [source](https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/acso-neil-basu-issues-open-letter-about-reporting-of-terrorism/)
Basu continually refers to this dangerous information that the UK’s media is publishing as Terrorist propaganda, which he claims inspires other potential terrorists into action, he bases this assessment from the statements of terrorists his team have interviewed over the years.
I think it is undeniable that information can be dangerous, it can reinforce beliefs and prejudices, it can raise one’s emotions causing anger and fear. This is true whether the information is accurate or not. Information which has been designed to produce a specific public emotional response, propaganda, is even more dangerous – But, it’s not the root of the problem, it merely accelerates an exceptionally small minority of people to do what they were inevitably going to do anyway.
Censoring our media is a far more dangerous path to take, with dire consequences. A government which controls its media and dictates the flow of information is a Government who has a self-perpetuating power and thus unbreakable control over its people.
While we have been condemning dictatorships across the World for decades with the oppression they place upon their people through censorship and their own propaganda we are voluntarily begging for it ourselves, a little bit at a time.
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Australian Gunman Brenton Tarrant who killed 50 people in a violent gun attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday has been arrested and is safely behind bars, however, the days that have followed this tragic event have opened the doors for yet more censorship.
Tarrant who is a self-proclaimed white supremacist videoed the entire event live on Facebook, this has left social media open for yet more scrutiny on how they manage their platforms content.
The video as you’d expect has now been removed from [Facebook and have continued to take down copies of the video](https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1107117981358682112) that have been uploaded to the platform since and even edited versions of the video which do not show graphic content.
The Video itself is filmed in a Video game first-person perspective shoot em’ up style, with the weapon at the forefront of the scene and targets in the background.
While it seems reasonable to remove the video from a social network platform such as Facebook, particularly with young children accessing the platform regularly being exposed to this vile content, but the question of why now, why this violent and bloody massacre?
Over the past few years Facebook as been the host to hundreds of video’s of brutal attacks against innocent people, we saw the brutal killing of the Palestinian boy in 2016, this footage though marked as explicit content on Facebook and other platforms was still flooding the networks, some were removed but there was no declared censorship of the video from the media.
New Zealand authorities have not only pushed this censorship throughout online media platforms it has also made a stark warning to the general public:
> *“Anybody found “knowingly” in possession of objectionable material can receive a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.[source](https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1106978863400316929)”*
**DISSENTER BLOCKED IN NEW ZEALAND**
Investigations and censorship of content sharing platforms such as Bitchute and 8chan are already underway and it was just recently announced that Dissenter has been blocked from New Zealand. For those that have never heard of Dissenter here is how they define their purpose:
> *Dissenter is designed to extend American civil liberties protections for political speech to every corner of the planet, and allows people to express themselves on any subject, at any time, on any url, in a manner which is or would be permissible under U.S. law. Ideally we can accomplish this goal and empower hundreds of millions if not billions of people around the world to say what they want to, when they want to, how they want to and keep the internet free and open.*
In a nutshell, they attempt to keep free speech alive by allowing anyone, anywhere in the world to share any web content with comment(s) onto the Dissenter servers.
**BRITISH MAN ARRESTED**
The censorship has been far reaching beyond the borders of New Zealand as a man in the UK is arrested for sharing communications which are alleged to support the attacks on social media:
> “Police have made urgent enquiries and a man aged 24 from the Oldham area is now under arrest on suspicion of sending malicious communications.” [source](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-christchurch-mosque-attack-man-arrested-oldham-social-media-post-a8826576.html)**
Far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was also banned from Australia in the wake of the New Zealand shootings after he posted on Facebook that attacks like Christchurch happen because “the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures.”
**SETTING A PRECEDENT**
The problem we have here is not that people can no longer easily access a video showing the violent attack carried out in New Zealand, this without the consequences of what is to follow is a positive action – it is the new precedent set by the actions the extreme actions they have taken.
[Censorship has been occurring at record levels](https://www.oye.news/news/internet/does-nobody-see-whats-happening-here/) over the past few months, with [anti-vaccination narratives being shut down](https://www.oye.news/news/health/facebook-to-censor-all-anti-vaccination-conent/), alternative health care books being [removed from Amazon](https://www.oye.news/news/freedoms/media-calls-for-further-book-burning/), conspiracy-based media platforms being shut down across multiple social networks and the list goes on.
This latest effort in censorship has added another layer of censorship across the World, this time shutting down any material being shared involved with horrific criminal acts, while the obvious risk in play is that of copy-cat attacks inspired from the original footage, the reality is anyone can still see the footage if they really want to, with open decentralised networks now commonplace nothing is truly censored, at least not to those with a motivation to find it.
Typically someone in a mental state capable of performing copy-cat attacks replicating violent crimes as we saw on Friday is hanging out in places where such content is available anyway.
But what this censorship does do is place the fear into anyone wanting to check the evidence out for themselves and as we know sometimes the evidence is highly questionable as was the case with the [Manchester Bombings](https://www.oye.news/news/war/terrorism/manchester-bomber-british-intelligence-mi6-asset/) in the UK back in 2017. Just because people are dead and injured does not mean the evidence should not be scrutinized by people outside of Government control. Corruption and deception exist whether we want to accept it or not.
In this [article](https://www.oye.news/news/world-news/false-flag-operation-caught-video-iraq/) we see an example of a False Flag event reported as real by the Worlds mainstream media but proven to be fake footage thanks to the Internet.
**WAS THIS ATTACK A FALSE FLAG?**
Within minutes of the Attack being reported around the World, the usual False Flag claims were made across social media and forums, websites such as the conspiracy blogger aanirfan began putting the case together for a False Flag narrative, but is there any evidence to support these claims.
Well, not as much as there was since everything has been removed from the public eye. This has just bolstered the idea of a false flag even more so to many as questions are being asked to why such an aggressive censorship campaign is underway.
The truth is, we don’t know and we are not going to pretend to know, however regardless of whether this is simply a white supremacist losing his mind and gunning down 100 people in two mosques, the event itself will undoubtedly ensure further restrictions on the rest of us.
For New Zealand, gun control laws are already being placed into question, while media sharing platforms such as bitchute, dissenter and 8chan have also come under the spotlight.
Will we see decentralised media platforms banned also and anyone using them identified as a criminal?
There is more than we can imagine at stake here but unfortunately many will happily accept whatever is put in place by their Governments as the horrors we see override any form of rational thinking.
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In a bizarre effort to paper over the historical truth regarding Hitler and the Haavara Agreement, Professor Rainer Schulze of Essex University wrote an article totally lacking intellectual integrity. Schulze’s piece in the Independent, ‘Hitler and Zionism: Why the Haavara Agreement does not mean the Nazis were Zionists’, demonstrates that fear of Zionists and their extensive power extends beyond the Labour party. It is deeply entrenched within the British psyche and institutionally embedded in academia.
Schulze article leads him to the conclusion that: “any claim that Nazis and Zionists ever shared a common goal is not only cynical and disingenuous, but a distortion of clearly established historical fact.” The German/British professor’s failure to apply elementary academic analytical skills to the issue results in faulty scholarship.
Schulze accepts that the Havaara Agreement provided that “Jewish emigrants from Germany had to hand over their possessions before they departed, and the proceeds from the sale of such possessions were used by a company specifically set up for this purpose in Tel Aviv to purchase German goods for sale in Palestine.”
But Schulze continues, “The Haavara Agreement does not mean the Nazis were ever Zionists. Instead, it is testament to the fact that Nazi policy towards the Jews was not clear-cut from the beginning, but evolved greatly over the years.” Schulze clearly doesn’t understand what Zionism was and who the Zionists were at the time of the Agreement.
Schulze defines Zionism as; “a movement based on the right of self-determination.” This definition of Zionism is profoundly anachronistic and it is wrong.
Zionism was primarily and fundamentally the belief that Jews should return to Zion. Zionism was a Jewish ‘homecoming project.’*
Zionists Jews were divided amongst themselves what the ‘homecoming’ might mean. Some believed that Zionism should aim to create a spiritual centre, others believed in Bi Nationalism. Many engaged in a pragmatic political struggle to erect a racially oriented Jews Only State.
Crucially, Hitler like Churchill** and many others, saw in Zionism an opportunity for Europe to rid itself of some problematic Jewish elements. Whether Schulze likes it or not, Zionism was a successful project because from its onset, it formed a symbiotic relationship between Zionist Jews and the Jew haters who wanted the Jews out of Europe. Zionism promised a national home for the Jews and at the same time offered to ‘take the Jews away.’
In 1933 Hitler was a Zionist. Like Zionists (both Jews and their detractors) he wanted the Jews out of Europe. Palestine was his preferred solution. At a later stage, probably around 1936, Hitler changed his mind about Zionism.
One would expect an academic scholar specialising in Modern Jewish History to grasp that Zionism as well as the State of Israel are sustained by Jew hatred. If ‘anti Semitism’ disappears, Israel and Zionism become obsolete concepts. Understanding this, Israel and Zionism have consistently contributed to the rise of anti Semitism. When there is no anti Semitism to point at, Jewish institutions simply invent it, as they are presently doing in the Labour party.
Enough Schulze bashing for one day. To his credit, Professor Schulze is not entirely dishonest. Like other contemporary German historians, Schulze is very careful with his wording regarding the German oppressive mechanisms and practicality.
Towards the end of his Independent article, Schulze writes about the 1939 German Polish Campaign: “they (the Nazis) were looking for dumping grounds for Jews and other “undesirables.” These people were at best treated as ‘assets’ to exploit or, later, a stock of slave labour, and at worst simply expected to die of disease and starvation.”
Did Schulze miss something? He did. He forgot to mention the gas chambers. Was this unintentional? I don’t think so. I have noticed that more German mainstream historians are unwilling to commit to the gas chamber homicidal narrative. Let’s see how long it will be before Schulze is kicked out of Essex University for heresy of the one and only universal Western religion.
* Home coming” from a Jewish perspective only. The author of this article doesn’t agree in any way that Palestine is home for the Jews.
** ”Zionism offers the third sphere to the political conceptions of the Jewish race. In violent contrast to international communism, it presents to the Jew a national idea of a commanding character. It has fallen to the British Government, as the result of the conquest of Palestine, to have the opportunity and the responsibility of securing for the Jewish race all over the world a home and centre of national life.” (A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People, Winston S. Churchill 1920)
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It began in China; we heard of a novel strain of the coronavirus which was rapidly sweeping through the City of Wuhan. Then came the footage of people collapsing in the streets, police boarding up buildings to enforce quarantine on those within. Bodies being dragged out of buildings, what we saw in the west looked something akin to an apocalyptic movie straight out of Hollywood.
Then came Iran, then Italy, the death toll numbers began to grow exponentially and then before we know it, the World is in Lockdown!
So, from everything we have seen and by the unprecedented restrictions placed upon us by our Governments, you would assume that this virus must be the most deadly infectious virus that has ever faced humanity? It must be, surely?
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