Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 3:27 pm
Tom Peters
The report of the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public
last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency
could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and
prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15,
2019.
This finding is not supported by evidence. All
the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of
pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been
permanently suppressed.
The commission’s
predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and
Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up
the role of governments in both countries in whipping up
New Zealand inquiry covers up police dismissal of anti-Muslim threats prior to 2019 terror attack
The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15, 2019.
Al Noor mosque in Christchurch (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
This finding is not supported by evidence. All the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been permanently suppressed.
The commission’s predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up the role of governments in both countries in whipping up racism and Islamophobia, including through participation in US imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The final report was vetted and approved by the intelligence agencies themselves p