This quote from New Zealand's PM is about to prompt me to quit being anything resembling polite:
"He [the gunman] sought many things from his act of terror, but one of those was notoriety, and that is why you will never hear me mention his name," Ms Ardern said.
"He is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist, but he will, when I speak, be nameless."
This is my response to that:
Prime Minister Ardern, you are a fucking ignorant bitch doing exactly what that asshole Tarrant wanted. You are his whore, sucking off his terrorist cock and doing exactly like he said people like you would do, and you are only making him forbidden fruit by unpersoning him.
You defeat terror by letting people denounce him, by showing the graphic majesty of his depravity to your own citizens so they can decry his evil after becoming so sickened with rage over what he did it becomes contemptible in the public eye. You defeat evil by removing any shadow it can hide in, not by providing it those very shadows.
I hope when you've defanged your country and have become the next victim because you stripped your own people of their ability to defend themselves you can die content knowing you were a bigger aider and abettor to Tarrant's message than what you think is suppressing it.
And when that day happens, I hope your last thoughts are regrets for the civil liberties you stripped from your own citizens and guilt for the stupidity and arrogance you have shown today.