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Accused mosque shooter 'changed' after visiting North Korea
Washington Examiner ^ | March 15, 2019 02:02 PM | Diana Stancy Correll

Posted on 03/16/2019 9:16:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Accused New Zealand mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant, one of four suspects in custody in connection to the attack, is a personal trainer from Australia who visited North Korea, where he was photographed in a tour group visiting the Samjiyon Grand Monument.

Tarrant, 28, is the son of parents who divorced when he was young. His father, who died in 2010 at age 49, was a garbage man who became a competitive triathlete who represented Australia.

He described himself as an "ordinary white man who decided to take a stand," worked at the Big River Gym in New Zealand from 2009 to 2011, according to gym manager Tracey Gray.

“He was a very dedicated personal trainer,” Gray told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “He worked in our program that offered free training to kids in the community, and he was very passionate about that. He was very good, very dedicated with his training. He would train a lot, and some could say quite excessively, but then he was passionate about health and fitness and making those changes in his personal space.”

Gray said after Tarrant left the gym in 2011, he funded travel to Europe and Asia through cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Gray cited Tarrant’s travels, which included a stop in North Korea, as the reason he changed. She also mentioned that his father died while Gray was in high school, due to an asbestos-related illness.

An obituary for Rodney Tarrant in 2010 said he died of cancer at the age of 49. He was divorced from Brenton's mother, Sharon Fitzgerald, an English teacher.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2011; banglist; bitcoin; candaceowens; newzealand; northkorea; pakistan; tarrant; tpa; turkey; turningpoint
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1 posted on 03/16/2019 9:16:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...mosque shooter 'changed' after visiting North Korea..."

...from moderately crazy to whole-hog wacked-out nuts.

Just like your average dummocrap.

2 posted on 03/16/2019 9:28:04 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Absolute nutjib
Candace Owens- extreme views? Only if you are a left wing racist


3 posted on 03/16/2019 9:28:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And nobody wondered why he went to N. Korea?

He also went to Pakistan.

Pure speculation, but sometimes people with connections with a spook agency travel to Pakistan, at least.


4 posted on 03/16/2019 9:30:50 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: silverleaf

https://www.quodverum.com/2019/03/75/a-new-form-of-atrocity-.html

Thomas Wictor post today.


5 posted on 03/16/2019 9:30:50 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: silverleaf

Attempt to create more chaos and violence, implicate an innocent who happens to adhere to Natural Rights?


6 posted on 03/16/2019 9:33:53 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: CondorFlight

And Turkey
Multiple visits
At least one observer noted his apparent professional military training in the actions he recorded on his video


7 posted on 03/16/2019 9:36:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What they won't tell you is what the shooter says about himself starting on page 15 of his manifesto:

-NOT a "conservative"

-Yes, a Fascist, an eco-fascist

-Aligns most closely with the Peoples Republic of China

-Detests Trump policies

8 posted on 03/16/2019 9:36:28 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Shia vs Sunni perhaps, and frame the Westerners.
http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/


9 posted on 03/16/2019 9:38:20 AM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: CondorFlight

I have read (but seen no confirmation) that he visited Turkey and Pakistan; and that one day after the shooting these countries both released photos of him.

If that is so (and again, I haven’t seen confirmation), then was he under surveillance? And if so, why?


10 posted on 03/16/2019 9:38:39 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NZ didn’t think to take a closer look at his round the world travels.


11 posted on 03/16/2019 9:55:32 AM PDT by bgill (New tagline - Judging someone by their weight is hating on their character.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So who’s responsible for this punk’s despicable crime...Trump or Rocket Man?


12 posted on 03/16/2019 10:15:05 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Neither. He is a psychopath who fixated on a jumble of contradictory ideologies in his madness, then chose to act out against innocents. What really burns me is that this animal is going to spend the rest of his life in prison instead of being marched to the gallows. Some “civilized” system of justice that is!


13 posted on 03/16/2019 12:15:47 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: ExTexasRedhead

That was the best explanation I’ve seen so far.


14 posted on 03/16/2019 12:36:49 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why am I not surprised?


15 posted on 03/16/2019 12:38:12 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: silverleaf
left wing racist

Redundant.

16 posted on 03/16/2019 12:40:32 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: G Larry

More in line with Charles Manson than Victor David Hanson.


17 posted on 03/16/2019 12:46:36 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This one was the most obvious false flag or orchestrated mass murder yet.

Ridiculous over the top “evidence tells” like msgs on his firearms, wanting to start a Helter-skelter Race war, blaming harmless Pewdiepie and Candace Owens.

That "OK" sign he made when white nationalist don't use that sign that was media driven fake news. If he was a white nationalist he would've known that. It's hard to figure out what is fake news and what isn't. The media believe their own lies. That is why this guy is obviously playing to the media.

There are twitter text of him traveling to Pakistan five months ago. Saying wonderful things about his stay with the people. He traveled to North Korea. Westerners can't get visas to these locations without political influence. how did he travel there? where did he get the money and political influences?

There are so many things wrong with this one. Māori Muslims (the Mosque type) is a variation of Ahmadi muslims which are the most persecuted Muslims in Islam. They're considered hypocrites and they're not even considered part of Islam and far worse then any other belief. Ahmadi muslim have left Pakistan and other Islamic countries trying to avoid persecution.

Is there a connection between Brenton Tarrant and him traveling to Pakistan?

18 posted on 03/16/2019 1:23:43 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: ExTexasRedhead
excellent post. I forgot the "OK" sign was a 4chan invention to troll fake news.

This guy is most likely a convert to Islam which is why he traveled to Pakistan. He targeted Armani Muslims. Whom are persecuted by "true Islam"

19 posted on 03/16/2019 1:37:25 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: G Larry

Yes, but he is a white male therefore, he is a Trump supporter. And he secretly communicated with DJT while no one was looking. So the next step is to condemn all white males in the world and investigate Trump.

(Not far from what the dims are thinking)


20 posted on 03/16/2019 1:44:37 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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