Christchurch mosque shootings: the heartbreaking hearing

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

About him: Tarrant is a sick, twisted fuck. The world is a better place now that he’s locked away until he dies.

About his motives: Hatred, fear, bigotry, all fueled by the usual combination of racism and ignorance. 

About his extreme views: He has views to which normal, sane people do not subscribe.

Minor correction: You used the word ‘trials’. Tarrant was never on trial. 

Boru

The "mental illness" card again? so unlike the terrorists in Al-Qaeda and ISIS he is not just practicing what his ideology taught him?

He is very, very, very sane, and practicing what his ideology taught him. Just like the ISIS militants.

Major correction to your post: the trial did happen and the sentence did come out: the terrorist got life in prison sentence:

https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-zeala...e70218ea1d

Australian national Brenton Tarrant, 29, was sentenced at the High Court in Christchurch today to life without the possibility of parole on 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and a charge of committing a terrorist act.

It is the first time this sentence has been handed down in New Zealand. Tarrant, through Crown-appointed counsel Pip Hall QC, did not oppose life without parole.

I would chop his head instead; but NZ's land; NZ's rules though.

Wait, you think I'm excusing him for what he did on the basis of mental illness?  Nothing could be further from the truth. Sorry, mate, but shooting 91 innocent people who had never harmed him in any way is manifestly NOT the act of a sane person. Being sane, stable and rational would cause you to reject the ideology that tells you to shoot people in a mosque.  Or to cut the heads off of murderers.

And a court appearance for sentencing is not a trial. Tennent pleaded guilty, no trial took place. His court appearances were 'hearings', not 'trials'.

Boru