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# A Deafening Silence
- URL: https://goodoil.news/a-deafening-silence/
- Published: 2020-01-26T19:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-27T20:20:58.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: Featured, Media, NZ, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

With security issues highly newsworthy in New Zealand in wake of the atrocity last March, domestic terrorism a hot-button subject and the anniversary of the despicable act looming you could be forgiven for thinking that the launch of a New Zealand based journal featuring the writings of experts in their field and dealing with issues of domestic security and terror might have jolted the average journalist from twitcom-induced slumber, sufficiently arousing said navel-gazer’s to bring attention to the expert utterings therein.

Instead: there is only the sounds of silence. It’s almost inexplicable. Three months have passed since the inaugural issue of the **“National Security Journal”** and not a single scribe from main-stream news has made it to print with a report of the journal’s content.

How so?

Could it be the corral of cubs are too busy [looking under rocks for unhinged right-wing extremists ](https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/01/nz-msm-guide-to-spotting-far-right-wing-extremists-in-the-wild/?ref=goodoil.news)to have noticed the journal’s launch? Or perhaps the content was devoured but found to be unpalatable, indigestible in fact, and not aligned with the press-gang’s narrative thread? I strongly suspect the latter.

Since the MSM won’t do it, your favourite alternative news source will do the heavy-lifting [(again).](https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/01/left-wash-a-case-study/?ref=goodoil.news)

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The BFD.

Managing Editor John Battersby’s contribution to Issue 1, entitled *“The Ghost of New Zealand’s Terrorism Past and Present”* is an excellent and concise piece summarising the past fifty-years of our brushes with extremist lunatics. It’s a **politically neutral**, objective and memory-jogging summation in plain English, therefore an entirely newsworthy contribution, but I reckon some of our journalists will have choked on Battersby’s words:

> “**Contrary to the emerging media myth** that New Zealand has gone easy on its Right-Wing activism, it has been generally true that historically **there has been more Left-Wing political violence in New Zealand.”**   
>  
> \[My emphasis in bold\]

If that wasn’t enough to unsettle the horses, there’s more. Examining the attitudes of some precious pearls of domestic political activism, including a certain[ ’author’](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/08/the-truth-about-dirty-politics/?ref=goodoil.news), Battersby tells a truth the fake-news choose to ignore: the left will turn a blind-eye, play down, or even defend the un-defendable, if it suits their own political narrative:

> “**Hager seems to be denying that an act of political violence is terrorism** because it is an act of political violence and **the nobility of the cause made it alright.”**

I guess such comment is blasphemy in some circles and perhaps that explains what appears to be a media snub to the journal’s launch.

Based on Issue 1, I say the [‘National Security Journal’ ](http://nationalsecurityjournal.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)may become a valuable contribution to our understanding of the evil that is terrorism and the politics at play in suppressing, or promoting, it.

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