While the world mourns the victims of the Christchuch terror attack, disturbing footage has emerged of Pauline Hanson seeming to suggest the 1996 Port Arthur massacre was a government conspiracy, ABC News reports.
The Port Arthur attack is known as one of Australia’s darkest days – when 35 innocent men, women and children were murdered in a lone gunman’s open fire as they enjoyed a day out at the tourist site.
It was this event – this horrific act of terror in which a 28-year-old man was able to purchase a semi-automatic assault weapon from a gun dealer without holding a licence – that saw Australia declare, “This can never happen again.”
But according to Senator Hanson, there are “a lot of questions” surrounding the massacre which prompted the John Howard Government to introduce The National Firearms Agreement, making history in the country.
The video in which her unnerving claims are made is part of Al Jazeera‘s three-year long investigation exposing One Nation for attempting to weaken Australian gun laws, approaching powerful US lobby groups for $28 million in funding for their cause.
Senator Hanson was secretly filmed by Rodger Muller, an Al Jazeera journalist who posed as the leader of a fictitious firearm advocate group called Gun Rights Australia when she made the comments.
In the video released by the publication, the senator claims an MP had told parliament it would take “a massacre in Tasmania” for gun law reform, before the attack had happened.
“An MP said it would actually take a massacre in Tasmania to change the gun laws in Australia,” she said.
“Haven’t you heard that? Have a look at it. It was said on the floor of parliament.”
In a separate, equally as concerning video, Senator Hanson is sitting with her chief of staff James Ashby, discussing other conspiracy theories, including 9/11.
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I watched both Part 1 and Part 2 of the "How to Sell a Massacre" documentary.
1) Hanson is just as complicit as Ashby and Dickson. She was on the phone to them daily while they were in the US.
2) Alcohol was not a factor. Both Ashby and Dickson were sober during their hour long meetings trying to procure over $20 Million from NRA reps, Gun manufacturers, and the Koch Brothers reps.
3) ON wanted to procure donations from foreign entities to gain the balance of power in both the House and Senate. In return, ON planned to weaken our gun laws.
Hanson has been caught out, and instead of accepting responsibility she continues to lie and blame the media. Currently the ALP, GRN, and LIB are all preferencing ON last. Both NAT and the QLD LNP need to follow suit.
This is no surprise. I recall reading that she believed Port Arthur to be a conspiracy in a news article 3 or 4 years ago. I totally forgot about it, until now. I thought everyone knew she believed it was a conspiracy? Shrugs.
Her media press conference was a lie-fest. She never takes responsibility for anything. She never admits any mistakes. Ever. It is always someone else's fault. Oh they were drunk, oh the media trapped us into talking about it. FFS the public would respect you if you simply just copped it and said sorry. She is a compulsive liar. She has been caught out lying numerous times, even on documents and then media about whether she knew about Rod Culleton being bankrupt. Said she had no idea. But emails from her, and a taped (by Culleton) phone conversation proved she knew before she pre-selected him. She is like the energiser bunny; she just lies and lies and lies!!!
I remember reading about the conspiracy when I was in like year 9 in high school (some 16 years ago) and writing an essay about it for "Australian History Class." The difference being I was a 16 year old student. She's a 64 year old Senator and is paid by the public to be a representative of the Australian people. I was a bit of a peanut. She's a disgrace.