Ark Tribe is a construction worker from South Australia. On Tuesday, June 15, he goes to court in Adelaide. Ark is charged with not attending a secret interrogation session conducted by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) about a workplace safety dispute @ Flinders University. Ark has displayed courage–we need to display solidarity. Word on the street is that a tent embassy will be established outside of the ABCC HQ (533 St Kilda Road, Melbourne) from Tuesday.
The Squatters and Unwaged Workers Airwaves (SUWA) invite you to an evening of trouble-making short films.
Come and see inspiring short films from all around the world with lush food, drinks and popcorn for sale. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be strangely aroused and even moar ready to abolish capitalist, white-supremacist patriarchy!
The SUWA show is on every Friday, 5.30–6.30pm on 3CR 855AM and covers a range of topics, from anarchist-feminist perspectives on the world / progress / pirates; why the state and capitalism are bad; activist rights and resisting the loss of civil liberties; the far right; state repression; squatting — and of course: love song dedications.
Love your local community radio, come kick back, and enjoy the show.
Stop the Racist Intervention! Picket FaHCSIA
Date: Friday, June 18, 2010 Time: Noon–2pm Location: Casselden Plane, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) Street: Cnr Lonsdale & Spring Streets, Melbourne
June 21 marks the third anniversary of the ‘Northern Territory National Emergency Response’. On Friday, June 18, a rally has been organised to call upon the Federal Government to ‘Stop the Racist Intervention!’.
Introduced under HoWARd, and based upon the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA), the Northern Territory ‘Intervention’ into Aboriginal communities has undergone some reform under KRudd. Critics argue that, under the new laws, all of the racist policies introduced by Howard in 2007 will remain in place, and affected individuals will not have access to the RDA to challenge these measures. The quarantining of welfare payments, for example, will remain compulsory. A recent detailed research report by the Menzies School of Health Research “found that income management was not associated with a sustained change in the sales of healthy food, soft drink or tobacco”.
The FIFA World Cup is on. Best chant: “Somos los hinchas, más anarquistas, los mas borrachos, los más anti-fascistas … (“We are the fans, the most anarchist fans, the drunkest, most anti-fascist fans …”). Go Chile!
During the early morning hours of March 27th, a Portland, Oregon anti-racist activist was shot in what appears to be a well orchestrated attack. It is suspected that the attackers were members of the neo- Nazi movement…
The March 27th shooting occurred within a backdrop of growing Right wing, racist, and emerging fascist organizing and activity. There has been a dramatic escalation of rhetoric and action from the broad Right. While all sectors of the working classes and poor face economic and social uncertainty, the racists, the Right wing, and the smaller but significant sections of the neo-Nazi and fascist movements are looking to divide our class and peoples…
We propose Saturday July 31, 2010 as a Call to Action Against Racism and Fascism. We want to use the CA to both engage the broad, independent, and radical anti-racist/anti-fascist movements… we argue for a maximum of creative and independent initiative… to use the CA as a means to increase collaboration between our forces and work in a popular manner to highlight the need for a mass, radical response to racist and fascist organizing.
Beating the Fascists: The Authorised History of Anti-Fascist Action, Freedom Press. A brand spanking NEW! book which, as the title suggests, is an ‘authorised’ history of AFA, to be officially (and with the requisite authority) launched on July 28 — the 25th anniversary of the now-defunct group’s launch. See also : Antifa England.
A Dangerous Place to Defend Human Rights, Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu and Grigory Yavlinsky, et al., The Moscow Times, May 31, 2010. In which various VIPs x swords with local yuppie experts regarding the contemporary political situation in Russia.
Australian Jock Palfreeman is currently serving a 20-year prison term in Sofia, Bulgaria, having been found guilty of murder and attempted murder in December 2009. In February 2010, Jock was placed in isolation for an indefinite period while an appeal against his sentence is being processed by the courts.
Background
In December 2007, Jock witnessed a group of men assaulting two Roma (“Gypsies”) in Sofia. Jock went to the aid of the Roma men and interrupted the assault. The men were able to escape, but the gang continued their vicious attack on Jock. Following the fight, one member of the gang (Andrey Monov) was killed and another (Antoan Zahariev) injured. Jock maintains that he tried to escape the violent gang, and was forced to act in self-defense.
Judge Provides Written Verdict, May 29, 2010: “After 5 months the senior judge in Jock’s case has finally handed down his reasons for the unacceptable verdict he delivered in December of 2009. The document is in Bulgarian and is currently being translated into English. Only now can Jock’s file be sent to the appeal court and an appeal date set. We do not have a date for the appeal as yet…”
vexta.com.au Rhymes with texta.com.au. But not Art. Which is funny. ‘Cause they’re an artiste… who may be found lurking, apparently, some where between ‘Acute Social Commentary’ and ‘Aching Beauty’ (which I’m pretty sure is located just after Stony Point Station). Or some thing.
Bloggy
‘Why I Blog’, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, November 2008. Old but good. And prolific. Really, really prolific. Really.
A Journey Round My Skull can has a truly wonderful collection of imgs compiled by a thirty-something bibliophile.
Undangon ang Mina. “This site is intended to bring the internet audience a comprehensive information and education about The Mining Situation in the Philippines. From the top most part of the archipelago to the bottom [tip], what’s shown here are the different scenarios and devastation the mining industry has brought about to the Philippine biosphere over the last several decades…” See also : KP Solidarity.
Undercurrents “is an award winning alternative news service producing videos of people taking inspiring actions” — and this is their blog.
White Supremacist “Nordic Fest” Event Held in Mokena, IL, South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action, June 7, 2010. LOL. The original location for the celebration of all things nutzi Nordic — the IKA kkkompound — was withdrawn. “Why? Because a week before the fest, the IKA headquarters was raided by federal authorities who arrested IKA “Imperial Wizard” Ron Edwards, his girlfriend Christine Gillette, and Jeremy Katro for dealing methamphetamines, marijuana, and hydrocodone. So much for “family values”!”
State / Politics… Philosophy
US cable television host slanders socialism, David Walsh, wsws.org, June 10, 2010. In which Walsh has a crack @ Glenn Beck, one of anarchism’s most famous double-agents working at the ♥ of the military-industrial-entertainment complex. Posing as the latest in a long string of capitalist stooges, Beck regularly brings to the attention of a mass audience the newest subversive texts and technologies.
Simon Critchley – Articles and Interviews is a place where ah, you’ll find articles, and er, interviews, with um, Simon Critchley. He’s from Barcelona a philosopher you know, so be nice.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — From the street, it was an unremarkable auto-body shop in a busy middle-class neighborhood.
Behind its metal garage door, Automotores Orletti was a tactical operations center for Operation Condor, a coordinated effort by South America’s dictatorships to eliminate dissidents who sought refuge in neighboring countries.
Bound, blindfolded prisoners were scattered on the oil-stained concrete floor among disabled cars and machinery. Engines ran to mask the screams as prisoners were given electrical shocks and hoisted on pulleys, then submerged headfirst in water — torture they called “the submarine.”
Sandro Soba was just 8 years old when he and his family — who sought refuge in Argentina from the Uruguayan dictatorship — were detained and taken to Orletti. Soba saw his father suffering from bruises and burns, barely able to speak or see, his eyes crusted with pus.
Soba and his mother and siblings were returned to their native Uruguay. They never saw Adalberto Soba alive again. For years, the son resisted sleep.
“I was afraid to close my eyes and forget the details of what I had seen,” he told The Associated Press. “I knew I would need to tell someone one day, so I could understand where they had taken us and where I had seen my father for the last time. And so there could be justice.”
Law and Disorder @ PSU – Jeff “Free” Luers : Free got free on December 16, 2009 after serving 9 1/2 years for ecotage. He’s continued to be an active and outspoken critic of environmental and social injustice.
Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee was aboard the [Mavi Marmara] and has since returned home safely.
Despite the Israeli government’s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee was able to retain some of her video recordings. Below is the unedited footage from the moments leading up to and during the Israeli commandos’ assault on the Mavi Marmara. You can also download this footage by clicking here.
“Cor” and “blimey”, ‘Wigan Mike’, one of my favourite bonehead commentators (“Nice[,] friendly, Nationalists [sic], gets on with everyone”), is in court in Liverpool, accused of publishing stoopid shit online. Mike has been a member and supporter of or on the periphery of a range of different fascist and neo-Nazi groups, including the BNP, the ‘British People’s Party’, the ‘British Freedom Fighters’ and of course the ‘Aryan Strike Force’:
Two men spread racist messages with a goal of encouraging the “eradication of ethnic minorities from Britain”, a court has heard.
Michael Heaton, 42, of Manchester, and Trevor Hannington, 58, of south Wales, are accused at Liverpool Crown Court of urging people to kill Jewish people…
…The prosecutor said Heaton made more than 3,000 posts on the ASF website between January and June 2008, before he had a “bust-up” with the organisation and created his own, The British Freedom Fighters.
The website changed its name to Legion 88 and then Wolfpack, before it was closed down.
Mr Edis explained that the number 8 refers to the eighth letter in the alphabet, H. So 88 stands for HH, as in Heil Hitler, a common greeting for neo-Nazis.
Both men used a number of monikers when they posted their comments on the website. Heaton called himself Wigan Mike, and then later Lenny. Hannington gave himself the names Fist, Lee 88 and Paul.
The prosecutor said: “These are the descriptions they gave themselves. It’s how they wish to be named.”
In addition to phantasising about a Fourth Reich, Wigan Mike has also apparently been involved in the ongoing antics of the E, E, EDL. A video of the E, E, EDL rallying in November last year in Wrexham… in er, Wales… LOL… supposedly shows Mike wearing a hoodie (0:11). He also went to an E, E, EDL rally in July 2009.
Whether or not Best Facebook Friends Forever Mike is found guilty as charged, his case and that of his co-defendant naturally brings to mind the earlier trial, and many tribulations, of Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle, aka ‘The Heretical Two’, “the first Britons to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online” (see : nutzis are W E I R D : Sheppard & Whittle Go to Jail, July 11, 2009).
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~ Buddha
Brisbane-based soldiers Darren Smith and Jacob Moerland died on Monday, the bloodiest day for Australian troops since the Vietnam war.
CHORUS
Rise it’s time to get on your feet
Rise there’s nothing holding us back
Rise it’s time to get on your feet
Get up and make your stand
Your world’s created by great leaders in the past
Choosing the path for our country
Maybe it’s time to set the future today
It’s good to have you with us
CHORUS
Our future in your eyes in your strong hold
You who see opportunity
Let your courage fight the challenge today
May your mother find the picture
CHORUS
You carry Australia on your shoulders
It’s a steady war times are gone
Men following your footsteps right behind you
Remembering your name
And calling out loud
rise
rise
Rise Up by Cypress Hill courtesy of some d00d called Ryan Simms on Vimeo. Playing at The Palace, September 23, 2010 for the meagre price of $82.50 LOL. Yo! Bum Rush The Show.
…In the past, through the meddling of Zalmay Khalilzad and Hamid Karzai as representatives of UNOCAL, the US dealt with the Taliban and pumped tens of millions of dollars into their pockets. Today if the Taliban once again comes to power, the US will easily “work” with them and prefer their bloody and suffocating rule of Afghanistan to an independent, pro-democracy and pro-women’s rights government, because the US counts on them as the most loyal group to safeguard its interests in the region. The Taliban also will not forget that the US was their creator, trainer and mentor through Pakistan’s ISI god-fathers.
The current conflict between the US, Taliban, and Northern Alliance is in fact a family matter between them which will be solved sooner or later. When that happens, the ranks of friends and enemies of our people will become clear and the illusion spread by pro-Taliban, pro-April 27 and April 28 treacherous intellectuals will be countered. Under such conditions, it is the duty of pro-independence, pro-democracy and pro-women’s rights intellectuals to increase their organized efforts for a coordinated uprising of our people against all traitors to Afghanistan.
Let the puppet mafia government of Karzai bring together all its agents in the “Peace Jirga” and similar ridiculous shows and by organizing luxury meetings, dance over the dead bodies of our innocent people, but the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), alongside the aggrieved Afghan people thinks that such deceitful games mean throwing salt on the wounds of our people caught in the US/NATO bombings, insecurity, poverty, unemployment and desperation all over Afghanistan.
A “glorious day for the Netherlands” is apparently how the freedom-loving Geert Wilders has described the outcome of the Dutch election (Liberals take narrow lead in Dutch election, Michael Steen, Financial Times, June 10, 2010), referring to the fact that his party, the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom), looks set to increase its representation in the 150-seat Dutch Parliament from 9 to 22. Partial vindication, perhaps, for his party’s fierce opposition to Dutch Muslims/the Islamification of the Netherlands, but also to all them foreigners, especially Moroccans / Who are on the dole / And stealing our jobs. In addition — and more importantly — the result opens up the possibility, however unlikely, of the liberty lobby entering into a coalition government with the Liberals (Chaotic race to form Dutch coalition after narrow poll, BBC, June 10, 2010).
In Australia, such an approach has appalled some few liberals among the Tories (most famously, VIPs such as Malcolm Fraser and, recently, Petro Georgiou), but the mildly psychotic form of xenophobia which has proven to be such a boon to blonde careerists such as Wilders will undoubtedly be put to work at the next Federal election by The Mad Monk (and already has). Joining the Tories in the Theatre of Cruelty will be a semi-reluctant ALP: still, presumably, under KRudd, but sooner-or-later being steered by Comrade Gillard. In which context, it’s worth recalling that the policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers was introduced in 1992 under the previous Working Families’ regime by the ‘Socialist’ Gerry Hand (now busy pursuing a career in the mining industry) — the location of these centres not only in the towns but the deserts and even in foreign territories a policy which has won bi-partisan support.
As for Old Holland, The Biggest Loser in the election was the Christian Democrats (followed by the Socialists), while significant weight gains were achieved by GroenLinks and Democraten 66. While it’s a little premature to start reading too much into the results — and my skills at haruspicy are a li’l rusty — to the extent that they reflect popular opinion, it should be noted that the polarisation of public opinion — along with disagreements among elites and widespread economic dysfunction — is generally considered to form one of the pre-conditions for the emergence of fascism as a mass movement. Fingers xed, as things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, sheer anarchy will be loosed upon the dying bourgeois world.
In summary:
Partij van de Arbeid/PvdA (Party of Labour/’left-of-centre’): 31 (-2)
Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie/VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy/’rightwing liberal’): 31 (+10)
Partij voor de Vrijheid/PVV (Party for Freedom): 22 (+13)
Christen Democratisch Appèl/CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal): 21 (-20)
SP (Socialist Party): 16 (-9)
GroenLinks (GreenLeft): 11 (+4)
Democraten 66 (‘liberal’): 10 (+7)
ChristenUnie (ChristianUnion): 5 (-1)
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij/SGP (Politically Reformed Party): 2 (-)
Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals): 1 (-1)
Trots op Nederland (Proud of the Netherlands): 0 (-1)
Here’s a fun game to keep you occupied. No Googling, now. You simply have to guess who said the following statements – Melanie Phillips or Geert Wilders…
Added Bonus Geert!
I know exactly how things stand
Don’t bore me with the facts
Give me one of those lefty newspapers
So that I can sh*t on it
The Dutch broadcasting corporations
Pretend to be journalists
They don’t do anything but lie
Those dirty socialists
They hate our Geert
We hate the government
That is secretly heading
For Islamisation
CHORUS:
We were born stupid
Never had any education
But we don’t give a damn
We’ll vote for Geert anyway
The government doesn’t do anything
About all those Moroccans
Who are on the dole
And stealing our jobs
They also have a god
But ours is better
Their women are all ugly
Ours are much hotter
They don’t have any respect
For rules and legislation
But Geert is not at all afraid
He’ll throw them out of the country
CHORUS
As soon as Geert is Prime Minister
As he’s told us oftentimes
He’ll ban the Koran
Allah and His prophets
But that’s not all
Geert is not easily satisfied
The Imams will have to go
He’ll close down all their mosques
And if the Muslims
Start protesting
Geert will shoot them through the knee
And we’ll all chant
The Kate Sharpley Library has re-published Albert Meltzer’s autobiography I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels: Sixty Years of Commonplace Life and Anarchist Agitation.
The one in the Freedom Group most in touch with Bohemia was Charles Lahr, a German anarchist who had come to London to avoid military service and stayed forty years. At first there was a suspicion by the police that he had come to shoot the Kaiser, who had unwittingly decided to pay England a visit at the same time, though he did not stay so long. Charlie was shadowed by Special Branch until one cold night he took pity on the detective staying outside the bakery where he worked, and came out to explain to him that the baker himself took sufficient precautions to see none of his nightworkers got away before time either to go playing cards or shoot visiting potentates according to their taste. A few years later the war broke out and he was interned in Alexandra Palace as an enemy alien and was interviewed by the same detective. ‘You thought I’d come to shoot the Kaiser,’ chuckled Charlie. ‘Pity you didn’t,’ said the detective in a decided change of position.
In his Bloomsbury bookshop in the twenties and thirties, Charlie had been a focus point for the literary set, a few of whom lingered on when I first met him. Charles Duff was one of them. I think he worked in the Foreign Office at the time but he was an authority on the Castilian (and possibly the Catalan) language, like Allison Peers. Both of them had written school textbooks I was using. He was intrigued at my passing on my Castilian lessons to Billy Campbell so he could talk with his Basque girl friend in her own tongue without either of us realising it was a separate language.
In those days newsbills used to announce the startling events of the day more prominently than they do now and they were mass printed. Charlie had a trick of slicing them in the middle and sticking them together again — to make up some such headline as Pope to Abdicate or The King to Marry Mae West. On the 20th anniversary of the Zeppelin shot down at Cuffley, there was to be a memorial service to which distinguished local German residents were invited. Some less than knowledgeable or perhaps cynical Embassy official had sent an invitation to Charlie. He turned up as the herrenvolk had solemnly entered the church, top hats on arms, and set up a soapbox newsstand with a saucer full of coppers, and the banner headline Hitler Assassinated — needless to say, with no papers to back it.
As the procession solemnly came out, von Ribbentrop among them, they looked at the bill and dashed helter skelter for the railway station. When the train came in with the evening paper every copy was grabbed by Embassy officials to the protests of the station master, while indignant shouts came from people pulled out of telephone booths by impatient Nazis wanting to use the phone, but the news of that happy event did not appear for another ten years or so.
Protest against Islamic Terrorism[:] exact date and time to be confirmed. Members of the English Defence League and other UK groups will be flying over in support and working closely with our Aussie counterparts to promote this demo against the biggest threat to mankind since the Nazis.
ROFLMAO.
After spearheading a risible attempt to whip up anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment in Melbourne in April, the keyboard commandos belonging to the ‘Australian Defence League’ (ADL) have declared that they’ll be journeying to Cronulla in Sydney later this year, a few months short of the fifth anniversary of the racist pogrom / ‘White Civil Uprising’. Coming along for the ride will (supposedly) be members of the E, E, EDL, including level boss ‘Tommy Robinson’, and perhaps even an Australian or two, who knows?
Facebook really does generate a wave of stoopid.
As for Mr Robinson, he plays a *ing role in the EDL (English Defence League), a potted history of which was recently published in The Guardian (‘English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest’, Matthew Taylor, May 28, 2010). “Forged on football terraces and targeting Muslim communities, rightwingers return to the streets in an increasingly violent form” is the byline, a development which, given the overall failure of the BNP at the ballot box recently, poses some interesting questions regarding the future of the British far right.
TBH, I’ve no idea why a racist teenybopper from Perth named Jack wants to import an army of whingeing Poms to protest against “Islamic extremism, immigration and other important issues that concern Australians” (such as, um, “Islamic extremism in our own backyard, uncontrolled immigration, political correctness gone mad and government enforced multiculturalism which creates anger”). Further, it’s extremely unlikely that an ultra-nationalist movement could be forged from among those who occupy Australian football (or soccer, or rugby) ‘terraces’ and — notwithstanding, perhaps, the yoof belonging to such online formations as the ‘Southern Cross Soldiers’ — in the absence of any other equivalent body…
The relationship between the EDL and other rightwing groups has been a turbulent one, with the BNP, for example, publicly distancing itself from the organisation, on the one hand, while at the same time having current and former members play key roles within it, on the other. One interesting recent development has been the announcement of a Jewish division (see : ‘Shema Israel!’: The EDL Jewish Division, Malatesta, libcom, June 3, 2010). Otherwise, Malatesta marks the first anniversary of Defensive Manoeuvres in the Park here.
“Welsh” Defence League
Despite some difficulties, a number of which remain unresolved, the English Defence League appears to be thriving in a way that the ‘Scottish’ and ‘Welsh’ Defence Leagues are not (see, for example : Stunning victory for Scottish Defence League in Edinburgh, February 21, 2010). Thus the uneasy alliance of various football firms which provide the EDL with its foot-soldiers appears to come under greater pressure the further the League moves away from London.*
The protest by the ‘Welsh [sic] Defence League’ in Cardiff on the weekend (June 5) would seem to be a case in point, with members of the ‘Soul Crew’ — a firm linked to the Welsh football club, Cardiff City — being uninterested in joining with the English hools bussed into Cardiff for the occasion (and seemingly only in order to be given a brief, guided tour of the city centre by local police). The League rally attracted perhaps as many as one or two hundred; the counter-rally was several times larger (some sources claiming one or two thousand attended), and seems to have included at least some Soul Crew members. In any event, Viv Smith assumes credit for the debacle on behalf of ‘Unite Against Fascism’ (Socialist Workers Party) in ‘Welsh Defence League forced to retreat in Swansea and Cardiff’ (Socialist Worker, No.2204, June 5, 2010).
See also : Welsh and English Defence League demonstration in Cardiff, Russell Pollard, Demotix.com, June 5, 2010 | Three arrests as rival protests end in Cardiff, BBC, June 5, 2010 | EDL Run Out of Town, Ross Saunders, June 7, 2010. Oh yeah. The WDL tried to stage a rally in Swansea too, but only a handful rocked up, and they only managed to strike a few ‘sieg heils’ before pissing off (anti-fascist protesters having occupied the Square they intended to protest in hours before kick-off).
soul crew the shame of Wales and the UK
Fuelled by English arrogance, one upset EDL supporter established a Facebook page — titled ‘soul crew the shame of Wales and the UK’ — dedicated to shitting on the Soul Crew: “today cardiff city, soul crew turnt [sic] on their own people of the UK and all that British people stand for … hang your heads in shame and swim away swim away”. The page was soon abandoned, but not before the author was able to mash the following into his keyboard:
cardiff soul crew made their intentions clear when they stood side by side with the muslim enermy [sic] and attacked their very own people … in my eyes this makes them worse than what we are fighting against and a disgrace to call themselves Welsh let alone British
~ Saturday at 11:21am
please try and invite your freinds [sic] to this group and get it up and running and let the country know how low these cardiff vermin are
~ Saturday at 11:28am
would just like time to thank the growth of this group as it[‘]s less than 2 hours old and 200 plus already. If you were at cardiff today please tell us your thoughts just so people can see this group is not biased
~ Saturday at 2:17pm
The anonymous fascist meathead responsible for publishing the page also provides a soundtrack to his silly: ‘Hang Your Heads In Shame’ by neo-Nazi Oi! band Strikeforce UK. Formed in 2001, the band, like the WDL, is from England (Newcastle). Funnily enough, the band’s album We Don’t Run featured the smash hit ‘Kick Racism Into Football’.
The ‘Australia First Party’ may place last on the ballot, but in NSW it’s obviously hoping to replicate Bruce Preece‘s success in Adelaide, and (angrily) sneak onto local council. Thus at the forthcoming Hawkesbury City Council by-election (June 19, 2010), the Party has nominated former Fields of the Nephilim bass player truckie Tony Pettitt to keep the people of Hawkesbury on the straight and narrow. Battling Tony for control of the wheel on local council are a Green, two Independents and a Tory (Liberal); all four witting — or perhaps unwitting — agents of The Traitor Class, intent on selling Australia out to New World Order liberal-globalist-capitalism.
Well, presumably.
Actually, AF reckon one of the two Independents is a closet Liberal. Can you guess which one? Is it Nathan Zamprogno (“I am an Christian, Extropian, Monarchist, Triumphalist, patriotic optimist”) or is it Janice Hart?
In the Penrith State by-election (June 19, 2010), AF has nominated another veteran, Mick Saunders, to lose on behalf of White Australia. Mick will be pitting himself against a broader, but equally traitorous, array of opponents: LABOR, GREEN, LIBERAL, OUTDOOR RECREATION, AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (FRED NILE GROUP), and an INDEPENDENT.
The party recognises that the electorate of Penrith sits about 90% inside the larger boundaries of the Federal electorate of Lindsay where Mick Saunders will certainly be the Australia First Party candidate later this year.
This geographic circumstance allows Australia First to raise the profile of Mick Saunders generally and to advance nationalist themes in this poll. It is widely expected that the Labor Party vote will crash and alternate candidates may feature stronger [sic].
~ Eureka! (Electronic Bulletin of Australia First Party), No.229, May 10, 2010
Of course, the question on every cat lover’s lips is: Will Kitler make a repeat performance?
AF is also planning on standing for Mayor in Griffith, a position currently occupied by Mike Neville.
Mike Neville has been an aggressive opponent of Australia First in the Riverina, repeatedly stating his support for contract labour, multiculturalism and immigration generally. He has supported the globalist notion of permitting imports of fruit and vegetables – which would undermine Riverina’s economy. He has criticised us for years – and offered smear to the press.
We cannot say whether Mr. Neville is guilty of the charges brought against him. That is for a court. Nonetheless, we counselled him thus on our Riverina blogsite: “if you are guilty, take responsibility and plead now – it attracts the sentence discount”.
~ Eureka! (Electronic Bulletin of Australia First Party), No.231, May 23, 2010
AF Fuehrer Dr James Saleam speaks from experience, having been convicted of both fraud and for organising a handful of his moar boneheaded comrades to shoot at the Sydney residence of the African National Congress representative to Australia (see also : Combat 18 / terrormachine clunks into Perth court, June 4, 2010).
I ask the men about Saleam’s criminal history and whether it was an impediment to their electoral success. Both men say they believe he was framed and that the police do it all the time. One moment we are talking about Roger Rogerson shooting Warren Lanfranchi in a Sydney lane and then, the next, Pettitt chimes in to give an example of how easy it is to frame someone like Saleam: “Yeah, look at Saddam Hussein. Mass weapons of destruction. Where are they?”
There is irony that is lost on or unknown to these two men. The building we are sitting in was paid for with the remnants of George Saleam’s estate. Jim Saleam has been able to spend his entire adult life pursuing his racist agenda principally because his grandfather slipped through the White Australia net to become a successful and valued Australian…
While AF worries about (*nudge nudge* *wink wink*) The Money Power and its dread influence over the activities of The Traitor Class — a class always willing to sellout The Nation for the price of a few (*nudge nudge* *wink wink*) shekels — the APP (‘Australian Protectionist Party’ — splitters!) is deeply concerned about The Muslim. Not given to overly-subtle analyses of contemporary Australian politics, the APP’s attitude to immigration (and The Muslim) mirrors that of AF, and may perhaps be best summarised as follows: ‘Fuck Off We’re Full’. ‘Fuck Off We’re Full’ (FOWF) is also a Facebook page, administered by APP NSW leader Darrin Hodges. (Note that the batshit antics of local racists on Facebook are documented on The Antibogan blog.)
FOWF has undergone a number of incarnations during its brief existence, but is probably best known for helping Griffith Community Radio 2MIA employee Terrie-Anne Verney lose her job. The outspoken Verney — whose hostility to Indian immigrants in particular bordered on the genuinely pathological — was even scheduled to address the few score fascists who gathered at the Petersham RSL last September at the annual gathering, known as the Sydney Forum, organised by AF. This year, Forum organisers are planning on bringing the Canadian neo-Nazi and Holocaust denialist Paul Fromm to town. (Last year’s international guest * was the San Francisco-based bizarro Andrew Yeoman, a BANANA. Yeoman was allegedly assaulted by a coupla anarchists in that degenerate town on May Day this year.) Fromm is apparently one of Canada’s more notorious White supremacists, and last year marched alongside the now-defunct (?) neo-Nazi groupuscule the Aryan Guard on White Pride World Wide Day (March 21).
Be that as it may, the latest version of the FOWF page features the following text:
After Sydney not wanting to offend other cultures by putting up Xmas lights…
After hearing that South Australian [sic] changed its opinion and let a Muslim woman have her picture on her driver’s license with her face covered…
Quote written by an [A]ussie citizen and published in an Australian [n]ewspaper:
“Immigrants, not Australians, [m]ust ADAPT. Take it or leave it! I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.
However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the ‘politically correct’ crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia.
However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.
This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.
This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom.
We speak ENGLISH, not [S]panish, [L]ebanese, [A]rabic, [C]hinese, [J]apanese, [R]ussian or any other language.
Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, LEARN THE LANGUAGE!
If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don’t like ‘A Fair Go’, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.
We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don[‘]t care how you did things where you came from.
This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.
But once you are done complaining, whining and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you to advantage of one other great Australian freedom[:]
THE RIGHT TO LEAVE!
If you aren[‘]t happy here then move on! We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So [a]ccept the country YOU accepted.
Pretty easy really, when you think about it.
If we all pass this around or invite your friends to read this sooner or later this will get to the complainers and THEY WILL GET THE POINT![“]
The text which the racist meatheads belonging to FOWF have chosen to adorn their page is both fraudulent and — typically — of foreign origin. Thus, while the bigoted creeps bemoan the presence of all-them-foreigners-what-come-over-here-and-steal-our-jobs-and-our-women, they positively scramble — off like a bride’s nightie — to cram into their tiny pea-brains whatever xenophobic shit their equally moronic Yanqui comrades choose to circulate online: re-confirming — if any further confirmation was required — that They’re bRanes are about as useful as tits on a bull.
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
