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Well, there’s one thing we can thank the legacy media for: they’ve made a generation vastly more media-literate. Mostly, by way of teaching those who want to see, how to read between the lines and figure out exactly what the legacy media are trying to hide. This new form of media literacy is particularly summed up in Ann Coulter’s Law: The longer it takes the news media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male.
In the years since, Coulter’s Law has become more broadly applicable to reporting, especially crime reporting generally, by the legacy media everywhere. Even where the punters don’t get it exactly right, as when some agitators blamed the Southport stabbings on Muslims, they’re far more on the money than they are wrong. The instant the BBC started babbling about a ‘Welsh boy’, everyone sniffed a rat.
Here in Australia, when the media prattle about ‘teens’ or ‘youths’, astute media consumers’ bullshit detection meters immediately twitch. When the videos show dark blurs going at each other with machetes, the jig is up. Sometimes, it just takes the smallest slip for the legacy media to inadvertently let the cat out of the bag.
A 13-year-old boy inspired by online videos of Russian school shooters and stabbing videos had “imminent plans” to kill young children at a Queensland school, and had purchased clothing from webstore Temu to dress like them, police allege.
Russians, huh? So far, the narrative is intact, then. Everyone knows, after all, that Russians are white and only the ‘far right’ like Russians, these days.
During the search, police allegedly uncovered electronic devices that had a recorded video from the livestream of the New Zealand mosque massacre.
Oh, the ABC are on a roll, here. Everyone at ABC-land just knows without a shadow of doubt that the mosque terrorist was ‘far right’. Just ignore all the ‘eco’ stuff in his deranged ‘manifesto’. Just take the establishment’s word for it, because it’s literally a crime in NZ to check the facts for yourself. Just believe the Minitrue, comrades.
Whoever this unidentified would-be killer is, it’s plain that he planned an act of egregious violence against the most vulnerable.
The Courier-Mail reported that a Maryborough court heard the boy had allegedly planned to target children “who he deemed to be small and easy targets”.
He was later arrested by detectives from the Counter Terrorism Investigation Group and charged with one count each of preparation or planning to cause death or grievous bodily harm and possessing or controlling violent extremist material obtained or accessed using a carriage of service.
Queensland Police Acting Detective Superintendent Jason Hindmarsh on Monday said the boy’s actions “did involve a threat to a local school”.
“We’re in a very early process of reviewing these devices, but we do have evidence that there was planning towards death and GBH (grievous bodily harm),” Superintendent Hindmarsh said.
So, much the same modus operandi as the Southport stabber. The ABC is wading into dangerous – for the narrative – waters, here.
Then comes the big fumble.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service defence solicitor Clem van der Weegen tried unsuccessfully to have both charges dismissed, with the Courier-Mail reporting he told the court that the boy was a “child of trauma” who was at the service station “looking for kids to play with”.
D’oh! And they were going so well, too.
