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Something is incredibly fishy about the New Zealand mosque shooting and how governments and the media have responded to it. Governments are now going to extraordinary lengths to eliminate the video from the internet while criminalizing anyone who dares possess it or distribute it.

An 18-year-old man was arrested in New Zealand for merely sharing the live stream video of the Christchurch shooting. “The live stream video of the shootings in Christchurch has been classified by the Chief Censor’s Office as objectionable,” reports Radio NZ. “Police said anyone in possession of the video of the shootings, or found to be distributing it, could face imprisonment.”

This means, essentially, that linking to content the government doesn’t like is now a crime in New Zealand.

But wait: Horrific videos of WWII death camps, assassinations and street shootings are NOT banned or criminalized…
So wait a minute. YouTube alone hosts countless murder videos covering everything from war-time military shootings to civilian gunfight videos in which people are fatally shot and killed. Yet possessing those videos — or sharing them, or posting them — apparently isn’t a crime in New Zealand or anywhere in the western world.

Assassination videos of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy being shot in the head are not censored online. They are considered part of the “historical record.” Yet wasn’t that shooting just as violent and just as hateful as the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand?

World War II documentary videos by Ken Burns and other documentary filmmakers depict horrific mass murder events including the Holocaust, yet there is no government in the world that criminalized citizens for sharing Holocaust incineration oven videos or historical footage of death camp survivors. Ever wonder why these videos are deemed “safe” to share but not the New Zealand shooting video? Is it okay to share videos that show the mass murder of Jews but suddenly not okay to share videos depicting the mass murder of Muslims? Who arrived at this logic, anyway?



Similarly, no western government banned videos of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City in which over 3,500 Americans died. In fact, the media went to extraordinary lengths to play those videos millions of times over as a way to burn them in the psyche of the public. Apparently, videos depicting the mass murder of Americans is perfectly okay with the media. “Be very afraid” seemed to be the point of all that because, of course, the deep state was desperately trying to push passage of the Patriot Act, which “legalized” government spying on U.S. citizens. That law, not surprisingly, was used by Barack Obama to wage a highly illegal covert spy operation on Trump campaign officials in 2015 and 2016. If it wasn’t for the 9/11 attack and the media hysteria that followed, there never would have been public support for spying on Americans in the first place. (Oh yeah, they promised the law would never be used to spy on Americans, if you remember. They said it was only for “international terrorists.” Yeah, right.)

Dwarfing all those examples, Hollywood movies that are perfectly legal to own and view in New Zealand are filled with extreme murder scenes, mass shootings, torture scenes, blood and gore. Yet those are apparently not deemed “objectionable,” and no one in New Zealand has been sentenced to prison for 10 years for watching Pulp Fiction or Die Hard. (Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie, in case you were wondering.)

Source: https://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/what-are-they-trying-to-hide-out-of-all-the-violent-videos-on-the-net-possessing-the-nz-mosque-shooting-video-can-now-get-you-10-years-in-prison/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-they-trying-to-hide-out-of-all-the-violent-videos-on-the-net-possessing-the-nz-mosque-shooting-video-can-now-get-you-10-years-in-prison