You gotta be shittin' me, Sherlock!
Queensland police, investigating the ambush of four of their colleagues at a remote location last December, have declared the attack to be a case of religiously-motivated terrorism.
Police have been investigating whether the group - brothers Nathaniel and Gareth, and Stacey, who had at different times been married to each man - were linked to conspiracy theories. Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Tracey Lindford on Thursday said their investigation had found the Trains "acted as an autonomous cell" and "executed a religiously-motivated terrorist attack". They subscribed to a Christian fundamentalist belief system known as "pre-millennialism", and had targeted police. "They did refer to police as monsters and demons - as evil."
Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News
The United States of Armaments' pro-gun lobby readily falls back on mental illness, rather than the availability of firearms, to explain shooting atrocities. In contrast, Deputy Commissioner FrootLoops seems to be at pains to avoid upsetting Australia's crazies.
Ms Lindford said their mental health had also been considered by investigators, but ruled an unlikely factor. "We quite often do see in our terrorist investigations, people who are impacted by mental health because they are easily radicalised." "When you've got three acting together, it's challenging to say that there's a mental health issue in this instance."
Tiffanie Turnbull, BBC News
Let's just break this down for a moment. Three people, two brothers and a woman who'd married both at one time or another; two of whom had lost their school jobs, after refusing to comply with Chongvax mandates; are Christian extremists believing in premillennialism, itself associated with the rapture; and have a mighty hate boner for the authorities. They appear to fit the very definition of radicalised. Yet mental health is simply dismissed as a factor in the attack?
Well, okay chief.