Pics of walls, murals and collaborations in suburbs from Seddon to Fitzroy and Brunswick.
Some artists are: Jetz, Mako, Empty, Akuze, New2, Skout, Rime, Tres, Merda, Break, Happy, Two, Itch, Peyote, Dvate, Bailer, Awsem, Slice, Adnate, Anser and Deam.
Music: ‘Storms’ by Plutonic Lab from Codes Over Colours (Obese Records, 2006).
Video: LilithFilth.
A Nice Little Memento
Police-paid spy Rob Gilchrist says a senior officer shook his hand and gave him a “nice little memento” as thanks for his 10 years of undercover work. Mr Gilchrist said the officer visited him on Thursday night, five days after his role infiltrating activist organisations was publicly exposed. “It was a very gracious thanks,” Mr Gilchrist told the Weekend Herald. “He appreciated the work I’d done over the last 10 years [and] understood how difficult it might have been.”
Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
Georges Prevelakis is a Greek-born professor of Geopolitics at the Sorbonne University in Paris, the starting point for the infamous Paris riots of 1968. Speaking from Athens, he described the present situation: “There is still a little trouble, it is not as intense as last weekend; it is sporadic; there are demonstrations but from young kids, from schools rather than universities. We have just got confirmation that the killing of Alexandros was an accident – he was killed by a ricochet bullet as opposed to a direct shot so that may be a factor.”
A Farewell Kiss, You Dog
The Times and its ilk have a hard time dealing with activist journalists. Josh Wolf, the young blogger who broke the U.S. record for being jailed for his journalistic efforts (over 200 days in the federal slammer for refusing to identify participants in a San Francisco anarchist march that was attacked by the police), was treated in the corporate press as just another drug-addled adolescent. Like al-Zaidi, Brad Will, the Indymedia photojournalist cut down by Mexican cops during the Oaxaca urban rebellion in 2006, was tarred as “unprofessional”, a radical activist masquerading as a reporter. As an older activist reporter covering social turmoil in Mexico, I am regularly questioned by the representatives of the corporate press for my “lack of objectivity.” The “objectivity” so championed by j-school journalists is a weapon of class war that ascribes equal weight to the wronged and the wrongers alike. Held sacrosanct by “professional” journalists who are more attentive to their own career tracks than to the righteous indignation of the victims of Bush’s war on the peoples of the earth, this vaunted “objectivity” neutralizes injustice and negates responsibilities. ~ Que Huevos!: Where’s al-Zaidi’s Pulitzer?, John Ross, Counterpunch, December 24, 2008
Suffer The Children
We all have one thing in common. We are 15 years old in a society that you have made for us yet without us. You never asked us, nor did you ever listen. You choke us with the ideals of wealth, of the corporations, economic growth and power.
… The ideals of the broken window displays; of luxury cars, expensive clothes, jewelry watches. You flood us with rotten entertainment, food and culture saturated in convenience and stupidity and you condemn us for the broken windows of multinational chain stores who rob every one of us.
We are accused of destruction and arson. Yes, we set fire to all that which burns up our lives, so we can endure the tons of chemical tear gas thrown upon us by the police and the army. Because we don’t have any other weapons. Only our hands, tangerines, plastic water bottles and stones, the odd Molotov cocktail, but we must resist each one of us, however we can, in the face of the military machine of repression and armed murderers.
They shoot and kill us.
And when we protest,
They curse us.
They beat mercilessly.
Cripple us.
They handcuff us.
They choke us with tear gas
They condemn us…
We are on the streets and we are calling for our lives.
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“Thanks for the photos Rob!” Fnarr fnarr.
‘Nice little memento’ for police spy
Patrick Gower
New Zealand Herald
December 20, 2008
Police-paid spy Rob Gilchrist says a senior officer shook his hand and gave him a “nice little memento” as thanks for his 10 years of undercover work.
Mr Gilchrist said the officer visited him on Thursday night, five days after his role infiltrating activist organisations was publicly exposed.
“It was a very gracious thanks,” Mr Gilchrist told the Weekend Herald. “He appreciated the work I’d done over the last 10 years [and] understood how difficult it might have been.”
Mr Gilchrist would not identify the police officer, but said it was a “senior officer” he had not met before, rather than his handlers from the anti-terrorist Special Investigations Group (SIG). He would not identify the memento, except to say it was not “as cheesy” as a certificate of merit.
Mr Gilchrist said he was recruited by the police ahead of the Apec summit in New Zealand in 1999.
He infiltrated various activist groups until he was discovered and outed by his now ex-girlfriend, animal rights activist Rochelle Rees.
Mr Gilchrist said New Zealanders should be thankful for his work, some of which “saved the country economically”. After Police Commissioner Howard Broad’s assurances that the SIG only targeted individuals, Ms Rees released emails showing that Mr Gilchrist also passed police information about the Green Party, student associations and union groups.
The Greens and unions have called for a Commission of Inquiry, and the Maritime Union yesterday threatened to strike [sic] unless it got a full explanation and apology from the police.
Asked what the relevance of Green Party and union actions were to the police, Mr Gilchrist said it would have related to protests.
He said his job was a “gatherer”, not an analyst, and the information might have had some use he did not know of.
He conceded he was not a real police officer, but would not say whether police had stopped paying him since he was exposed.
Mr Gilchrist said his cellphone was with the electronic crime unit after Ms Rees had said she placed spyware in it after realising he was an infiltrator.
He would not comment if his work in part led to Operation Eight and its so-called terror raids.
Rob Gilchrist … a Christchurch-based man … spied on activist groups for more than 10 years. He worked for the NZ Police and was sending information to Detective Peter Gilroy and Detective Sergeant John Sjoberg. They are both members of the Special Investigation Group (SIG). The SIG has groups in Auckland (headed by Aaron Lee Pascoe), Wellington (headed by Brian Woodcock) and Christchurch (where Gilroy and Sjoberg are based). This is the unit responsible for Operation 8.
Rob Gilchrist has not only participated in illegal activity, including breaking and entering buildings, but has incited others to do the same, all the while, being paid by Police to report on them. The Police then use this information to make a case to a court of law in order to obtain search warrants and interception warrants and to make arrests.
Gilchrist provided Police with information on at least three of the defendants in Operation 8 – the name for the State Terror raids of October 15th 2007. The police affidavit which was used as evidence to gain interception warrants against these people and many others is filled with ‘informant information’.
The ‘informant information’ is not available to the defendants. The identity of the informant is secret. This leaves the defendants in a legal black hole – defending themselves against information they do not have access to, from a person whose credibility cannot be questioned.
Mr Gilchrist said his personal view was that many of the causes he infiltrated “do a lot of good”.
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Gilchrist sent naked photos of teenager to police
Sunday, 21 December 2008, 3:29 pm
Press Release: Rochelle Rees
21/12/2008
Rob Gilchrist sent naked photos of teenage activist to police
Further in the emails sent by Rob Gilchrist to the police counter-terrorism units, was an email sent on 30/07/2005, containing naked photographs of a female and then teenage activist, sent with the subject line “needs a shave…”.
For obvious reasons of privacy, I will not release the photographs themselves or the details of the activist concerned. However I feel that this matter is of huge significance, since this brings into question whether police attitudes towards women have actually changed in the wake of the recent police rape trials, police pornography scandal, and subsequent recommendations by Dame Margaret Bazley.
There is no evidence that the police objected to the “needs a shave…” email, and clearly Rob Gilchrist had reason to believe that police would want to receive such an email. On the contrary, the fact that the police continued paying Rob Gilchrist $600 per week for over another 3 years, shows they did not view his conduct as grossly inappropriate.
Also discovered on Rob Gilchrist’s computer were naked photos of a then 16 year old activist, which look to have been taken while she was sleeping. Naturally, I am left wondering if those were forwarded to the police, and whether any photographs of a similar nature were taken of me and sent to the police.
Rob Gilchrist also had photographs on his computer he had taken of the previously mentioned 16 year old girl, and another 16 year old female activist, taken seperately, with them posing with his guns. This included shots of one of the said girls posing with one of Rob’s guns pointed to her head, and in her mouth. The photographs showed these girls in various outfits, including full camoflague, and some of one of them with a towel in her hair, clearly having just got out of the shower.
A rather large pornography collection with some disturbing videos and images was also present on Rob Gilchrist’s computer.
If at the time of our relationship I had had any knowledge of Rob Gilchrist’s sexist attitudes towards women, or his now obvious repeated interest in very young women, I would not have gone near him. The whole thing makes me feel sick.
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See also…
Rob Gilchrist : Police Informant (December 14, 2008) | Moaron Rob Gilchrist (December 17, 2008) | “Allahu akbar!” “Free the battery hens!” “Allahu akbar!” (December 19, 2008)
Amanda is in your extended network (December 7, 2008) : Concerning the exposure of a number of police agents and informants who infiltrated the RNC Welcoming Committee, beginning in 2007. As a result of their testimony, eight anarchists belonging to the RNC-WC are facing terrorism charges in Minnesota. The four infiltrators are identified as being: Marilyn Hedstrom, Chris Dugger, Andrew Darst and Rachel Nieting (‘Amanda’).
Victoria Police denounce McDonald’s (Kinda sorta) (November 5, 2007) : On ‘Setha Sann’, Victorian Security Intelligence Group operative. He helped keep the world safe from people who save chickens, think Trotsky was a d00d, and don’t like war.
Mehmet Ersoy/Osman : Former officer hired to spy (October 17, 2008) | Revealed: spying on Anarchists (October 3, 2006) : On Mehmet, a former Victorian police intelligence unit officer, now training Iraqi police.
Tom Gabel : ‘Anna Is A Stool Pigeon’ (November 29, 2008) | Eric McDavid : Twenty Years Jail (May 14, 2008) | “My name is Anna, and I’m an FBI informant.” “Hi Anna!” (September 25, 2007)
God created Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve, reckons Ratso (aka Pope Benedict XVI). Which may be so — Hell, I’m not that old — but I’ve always wondered where all the other people came from. I mean, Adam & Eve had three kids, right? Cain, Abel, and Seth. Or maybe more. Adam had A LOT of sex…
…And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, after he begot Seth, were eight hundred years and he begot sons and daughters. And all the time that Adam lived came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Exhausted, by the sounds of it.
Anyway, point is: if there was only two peeps to begin with, at some point, there must have been incestuous relationships — surely. It stands to reason, after all. I mean, who did Adam & Eve’s kids have sexual congress with if not each other and/or Mom and Pop? And like, The Bible is chock full of such nastiness. For example, Genesis 19:30–36 recounts how Lot’s two daughters got him drunk and then took advantage of the inebriated old man. Or am I missing something? Like… lizards? Or… extra-terrestrials?
Where was I?
Oh yeah: rainforest destruction, trans-genderism, and other threats to humanity. Ratso, in a Crassmas address to a large group of men in dresses: “A sort of ecology of man is needed… The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less” (Pope likens “saving” gays to saving the rainforest, Reuters, December 22, 2008).
For what it’s worth, I think it’s about time someone stood up to these chainsaw-wielding trannies, as I’m pretty sure I read Andrew Bolt say that this vengeful, unnatural, unholy mob are responsible for over 3/4 of rainforest destruction.
IF there’s such a thing as “rainforest destruction”!
In conclusion: Baby Jesus would be smiling.
See also : Suffer the Children (December 6, 2008)
Readers,
The recent (December 11) police shooting of 15-year-old Tyler Cassidy has obviously raised a number of issues, and produced a considerable amount of commentary; much of it concentrating on the circumstances surrounding his death, the possible reasons for his behaviour at this time, and the adequacy of the police response. (The shooting is being investigated by the homicide squad, the Ethical Standards Department and the coroner. See Fatal shooting raises old, unanswered question, Editorial, The Age, December 13, 2008 for further discussion of some of the relevant issues.)
Tyler’s membership of the ‘Southern Cross Soldiers’ has also come under scrutiny. One of the least pleasant items to discuss this matter emanates from a bunker in the Sydney suburb of Tempe, a bunker which serves as the headquarters for the fascist Australia First Party (NSW). From here, its Fuehrer, Dr James Saleam, directs a manic propaganda campaign intended to help bolster his party’s profile, which at present — is very low.
Australia First Party
Australia First was originally established by maverick Labor MP Graeme Campbell (1939–). Campbell held the Federal seat of Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) from 1980 to 1995, was kicked out of the party in November 1995 on account of his ‘racism’, and re-elected as an independent in 1996 — the year he also established AF.
He lost his seat to a Tory in 1998.
Campbell was Chairman of AF from its inception to 2001, at which point Saleam’s mob moved in, under the largely nominal Presidency of Diane Teasdale (see below). In 2001, Campbell left AF to contest a Senate seat for One Nation. He was unsuccessful: Hanson’s party gaining just 6.31% of the vote. In 2004, Campbell again contested the seat of Kalgoorlie as an Independent, but again lost, gaining 10.26% (6,654 votes). In 2007, Campbell made another tilt at the WA Senate: his Group ticket gaining a minuscule 1,050 votes (0.09%).
As for AF, it has bumbled along, contesting a number of local elections, but without much success (the one exception being the election of Bruce Preece to a seat in the City of Prospect in Adelaide in November 2006). It received what it regarded as a massive boost in December 2005, however, when the ‘White Civil Uprising’ took place in Cronulla. At the time, Teasdale claimed that ‘The party was experiencing a “groundswell” of support’ (Australia First: reclaiming the agenda, Richard Baker, The Age, December 14, 2005).
Despite this ‘groundswell’, AF — registered on September 13, 1996 — was de-registered on August 13, 2004 (“Reason : s136(1)(a) – failed to endorse candidate(s) at elections for 4 years”), and in the subsequent four-and-a-half years, has failed to re-register. In order to obtain this historic milestone in the White Nationalist struggle, AF requires at least 500 members; a goal which Doctor Jim has declared to be almost within reach on a number of occasions. In the aftermath of Cronulla, for example, in January 2006, AF wrote to its supporters seeking their assistance in this worthy Endeavour — one of umpteen occasions it has done so (Australia First to re-register as party, The Age, January 4, 2006). Most recently, Saleam declared December 3, 2008, to be The Day: to nobody’s great surprise, AF remains un-registered.
On a state-level, however, AF is registered: as the Australia First Party (NSW), Inc. This is because, in NSW at least, the requirements for participation in local council elections as a registered political party are much easier to obtain. Thus:
To register to contest local government elections a party must have:
* an acceptable name
* at least 100 members who are enrolled on the NSW electoral role [sic] and not relied upon by another party for registration purposes
* a registered officer
* a written constitution that sets out the platform or objectives of the party.
Over the last 12 years then, AF has managed to accrue at least 100 members: a much better reflection of the party’s marginal political status, and just one of the many fruits of the more than 30 years Saleam has spent pursuing the Australian Nationalist Ideological, Historical, and Legal Struggle (one of the others being a term of imprisonment for organising a violent assault upon a political opponent).
Bananas
Leaving aside the fact that 100 or so middle-aged, cardigan-wearing racists can be found in NSW, another problem for AF emerged in September 2007, when there was a three-way split: 1) Australia First (AF) in New South Wales; 2) Australia First in rural Victoria; 3) the Australian Protectionist Party (APP).
The split has proven to have had a number of effects. One is the isolation of the rump of the party in Victoria, specifically Shepparton. The rump is relatively inactive, although its leader, Diane Teasdale, did contest local elections in 2008. TEASDALE, Diane Marie receiving 929 votes, placing 13th of 19 candidates.
Of more significance has been the emergence of the Australian Protectionist Party (APP). The APP represents a more thoroughly de-Nazified AF, and seeks to model itself upon the British National Party. Thus, while AF (NSW) continues to worry about the pernicious influence of The Jew over Australian society, APP anguishes over The Muslim. It has also sought to forge much closer links with the BNP. Earlier this year, one of its members, Andrew Wilson (an ex-BNP member) addressed the BNP’s annual knees-up the ‘Red White & Blue’ festival on behalf of the APP. More recently, the APP invited BNP leader Nick Griffin to tour the colonies: an invitation that appears to have got lost in the mail.
Aside from this, APP has contested one local election. In the shire of Sutherland, former admirer of Hitler and member of the Stormfront forum Darrin Hodges — the Nationalist Anarchist Protectionist — wanted a seat in Council Ward D. Unfortunately for Darrin, despite considerable media exposure — and a very handsome face — he came last, garnering just 333 votes or 2% of the total.
In response to these shenanigans, AF has not been idle. In addition to its Sydney branch, AF has a branch in Newcastle (Hunter Valley, NSW); in Melbourne (VIC), in Toowoomba and in Brisbane (QLD). (The APP has/claims to have branches in the ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, VIC and WA.) The Sydney and Newcastle branches took part in the NSW council elections, with predictable results; an unexpected intervention by Kitler and Steve the National Socialist failing to significantly boost their rather meagre vote tally.
Outside of NSW, AF can claim adherents from a PO Box in Croydon, John Drew in Brisbane, and Jim Perren in Toowoomba. The PO Box in Croydon is not very sociable, but John and Jim are highly motivated and very active supporters. Thus in addition to being the Brisbane branch of AF, John is also the Patriotic Youth League: no mean feat for someone over 50-years-old. In an exciting new development: “The inaugural Australia First tennis afternoon will be held in mid January in Brisbane. It will be late in the afternoon at a church court in a western suburb. The nearby church hall provides plenty of shade by then. Tennis rackets will be provided for those members who do not own one. Touch football or soccer can also be played nearby as well. For those who enjoy alcoholic drinks a train station is nearby.”
As for Jim, he too is a busy little neo-Nazi bee. Like John and Dr. Jim, Jim was a member of Stormfront. He was also a member of the ‘White Pride Coalition of Australia’ (WPCA), a neo-Nazi network comprised of members of the Australian Nationalists Movement (ANM); Imperial Klans of Australia (IKA); National Socialist Party of Australia (NSPA) and World Church of the Creator.
The WPCA — now sadly defunct — maintained a website, which is archived on Pandora. Once upon a time, clicking on ‘Enter’ produced the following message: “Welcome, My White Comrades, to the White Pride Coalition Australia. Heil Hitler! Hail Woden! Sieg Heil! Stay White Comrades 88.” Jim still maintains his Hitler fetish, maintaining the email address ‘anzac88’ — that is ‘anzac Heil Hitler’. He also maintains a blog, ‘Whitelaw Towers’ (which continues in the same vein as the WPCA), and is a member of the Australian New Nation forum, a gathering point for other nutzi refugees from Stormfront.
Finally, while AF organises tennis tournaments for hot, sweaty males in Brisbane (NB. “Females are often quite aerobically unfit and so are unable to match the libido of sexually active men who can sustain an erection for a lengthy time”), further afield, on ANZAC Day 2008, AF announced that it had hopped into bed with a handful of Kiwi fascist parties. This brought great rejoicing in the nation’s capitals, which will likely only be matched when AF formalises its loving relationship with various fascist parties in Europe.
Sharks
Press Release
Corrupt Political Police ‘Intelligence’ Killed Tyler Cassidy
December 19, 2008The shooting of 15 year old Tyler Cassidy by Victorian Police highlights the quality of political and criminal intelligence held on Victorian citizens, particularly youth. Public concern over intelligence held by a police unit in the 1990s was justified; but rather than be reformed, the processes of intelligence collection and dissemination have been increasingly corrupted by ‘terrorism’ considerations.
Australia First Party will demonstrate at the Coroner’s Court when an investigation is held into Tyler’s Cassidy’s death.
Australia First Party will campaign publicly on issues of political police surveillance and intelligence gathering. A submission to the Coroner will state that the police who attempted to arrest Tyler Cassidy were undermined in their duty of care by inflammatory and inaccurate intelligence contained ‘on line’ for use by police. This false information directly contributed to his death. This information must be revealed in full to the public.
Australia First Party states that a shadowy Internet discussion board, the Southern Cross Soldiers, with whom Tyler Cassidy had an association, was built up by political police intelligence, before and after the killing, into a racist, extremist, activist and criminal circle. Some media has assisted political police disinformation with lurid references to “white supremacists” and “neo-nazis”. Australia First Party denounces the political police line that the Southern Cross Soldiers, an ostensible “nationalist” group, substantively existed outside of the Internet sites – Facebook and MySpace.
The demonisation of Tyler Cassidy will distort the investigation into his death. The death will then become propaganda to attack groups and persons well removed from the central matters.
Dr. Jim Saleam, on behalf of the management committee of the Australia First Party, said today: “The Victorian Police intelligence groups are conditioned by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) definition of terrorism which is simply – and erroneously – any violence wrought for a political reason. The next corrupt process is to locate youth or political groups that challenge in any way multiculturalist orthodoxy and suggest they engage or could engage in violence. That makes them terrorists. The next step is to attribute to them a ‘gang’ or closed mentality which makes them dangerous anti-socials or – de facto terrorists.”
Australia First Party states youth structures of any sort are particular political police targets as they “could” provide recruitment pools for activist organizations.
Dr. Saleam concluded:
“We are very concerned that Tyler Cassidy may have become known to the secretive world of political police intelligence and that references on a police database recorded him as something he was not. Is that why he was shot? There must be an open hearing into political police intelligence before the next person is shot. The days of the Special Branch are back.”
Enquiries: 0407 732 868.
It must have been around 1988 when LÄRM* called its quits and Paul, Olav, Jos and Menno decided to call their new band SEEIN’RED. Menno did not stay long in SEEIN’RED because he moved to Amsterdam to complete his lawstudy and another reason to quit the band was the fact that he felt that belonging to the punkscene wasn’t that much fun anymore, the scene he used to know had changed too much, for Menno it was an end to an era…
You say you don’t give a fuck / About the bad things in society / You just close your fuckin’ eyes / And deny all the misery / Thanks to people like you / Nothing ever changes / You’re living your middle class life / Don’t care about the less fortunate / Your career and money is all you live for / It makes you fuckin’ hardskinned / Thanks to people like you / Nothing ever changes / Your aim in life is to get richer / Live selfish, think conservative / This road you follow is really heartless / You’re only taking, you never give / Thanks to people like you / We keep on fighting / Thanks to people like you / We know we do the right thing.
*…they recorded their half of the split LP with Stanx: 28 songs recorded in one single take on 8-track. Not wanting to use typical hardcore imagery for their record cover they chose a drawing of a distressed-looking running cow and the phrase “Campaign for Musical Destruction.” The band practiced in a barn at Jos’ house, and when they started playing the cattle would invariably start running.
You Say You’ll
You say you’ll fight
Against me and mine
Against ours and we
Against all we could ever hope to achieve
You say you’ll stand
Against freedoms and rights
Against all this country supposedly stands
You say a lot – but I say
With a little more respect we
Could have a lot more
Then you could ever, ever hope to achieve
You say you’ll stand
You’ll stand alone
You’ll stand alone
1991:
Hard As
The muscles flex so hard
The music gets lost
Trying so hard to be tough
But what comes across?
Bigotry and violence
Achievements to be proud
But who gives a fuck
As long as the music’s loud
An idea whose time has come – it came and went, sorry guys
Oh, so, harder than harder than hard
So unconcerned with your actions
So unconcerned with this divisive show of force
Where are the ideas
To be retrieved?
They’re nowhere
And there’s nothing left
Fucking nothing at all
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Volksfront Australia, like most local neo-Nazi groups, is a foreign import. Established in 1994 in the United States, and named in honour of a racist Afrikaaner mob, the group has recently embraced a few converts Down Under: chief among them (according to rival sect Blood & Honour / Southern Cross Hammerskins) the former German NPD and Australian One Nation Party member Welf Herfurth.
Did I happen to mention that Welf also considers himself an “anarchist”?
This is not the first time Volksfront has had an Australian franchise. In 2004, a young racist named Stuart McBeth (1981–), then the leader of the now defunct ‘Patriotic Youth League’ (PYL) — a risible attempt by Dr James Saleam to extend Australia First Party membership to the under-40s — threw his tinfoil helmet into the ring as an Australian organiser for the United States People’s Front. (Oddly enough, like Welf, Stuart was also a former member of ONP.) McBeth resigned as PYL President shortly after being fired, in late January 2005, from his job as a case officer for the Salvation Army. McBeth was replaced by Lachlan Black, also a former ONP member and, like McBeth, a former ONP candidate.
Like the PYL, Volksfront Mk I collapsed in a heap.
Last year, however, some hardy souls decided to revive the Front — presumably in order to provide yoof a boneheaded alternative to B&H and the SCHS. In the US, where the franchise is based, relations between Volksfront, B&H, and the Hammerskins have been frosty. Well, kinda. Actually there are two, rival B&H networks: in the US, B&H ~ American Division, is allied with Volksfront, while outside of the US, relations between different groups in different countries are more fractured. (‘Blood & Honour USA’, allied to the Australian mob, appears to be defunct.)
In any event, the corpse of Volksfront Australia has shown some signs of life. It also appears that at least some local boneheads aren’t all that happy about it. Thus on Stormfront, a local bonehead, ‘Pitbull38’, recently yap-yapped the following:
Re: Hammerskin Nation and Blood & Honour
HSN & B & H have worked well together for 15 odd years in Oz.
We have been here from the start & built things from the ground up.
VF’s been in Oz for about [a] year and managed to disrespect & piss off the 2 oldest bonehead crews in Australia (to put it very mildly)… certainly not the best way to start things.
Of their leaders, one [Welf Herfurth] runs National Anarchists & New Right (he goes to Asian countries a lot to live with and help the slopes… strange for a supposed WN to travel to Asia so much & without his wife… sure no hanky panky going on there??? Yeah right). He has his fingers in many different pies and is certainly no skinhead & never has been. His stated love for Asian culture, trying to be a politician & trying to appear everything to everyone & his twisted written works are proof of this.
The other guy ([Douglas Schott] singer of Blood Red Eagle) used to be [an] anti-racist/SHARP with his own anti-racist band to boot. A little big-mouthed midget with the ego of Napoleon.
VF leadership have been made aware of these facts & none seem to care, so yeah… sounds like a great NS [National Socialist: ie, Nazi] bonehead crew to me… lol!
VF are outcasts (akin to C18) in Australia as far as SCHS & B & H are concerned. So if you don’t want to be outcasts yourselves, avoid them like the plague.
Unfortunately for Poodle38, Stormfront moderator Lycia had to yank on his chain. Thus the above post now reads simply:
HSN & B & H have worked well together for 15 odd years in Oz.
We have been here from the start & built things from the ground up.
Hammers don’t forgive, but whether or not Poodle38 responds positively to his obedience training remains to be seen.
Incidentally, the next gig organised by Benson & Hedges is scheduled for ANZAC Day in Perf, WA, where a small assortment of boneheads will pay tribute to the ANZACs by celebrating the Nazi war-machine that killed them in their thousands.
Yes: they’re a weird mob.
As for Volksfront, it, like other bonehead groups, has a violent history. A few highlights:
Jacob Laskey, formerly Volksfront’s Prisoner Affairs Coordinator in Eugene, was arrested in 2005, along with his brother, Gabriel Doyle Laskey, Jesse Lee Baker and Gerald Anthony Poundstone, for throwing rocks engraved with swastikas at a synagogue in Eugene, Oregon, during a religious service in October 2002. They were indicted for conspiracy to violate civil rights and other related charges. Jacob Laskey also faced charges of attempting to intimidate a witness in the case. Jacob and Gabriel Laskey both pleaded guilty in August 2006. Poundstone received 15 months in prison in September 2006 after pleading guilty. Jacob Laskey was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison in April 2007. (Laskey had previously been charged with battery and commission of a hate crime for allegedly beating and threatening an African-American man in December 2000 in Jacksonville, Florida.) Gabriel Doyle Laskey was sentenced to five years probation, as well as six months at the Lane County work release program followed by six months of home detention.
Kurtis Monschke, 20, a probationary unit leader for Volksfront, was sentenced to life in prison on June 4, 2004, for his role in the March 23, 2003, murder of Randall Mark Townsend, 42, in Tacoma, Washington. Prosecutors indicated that Monschke, who has the Volksfront emblem tattooed on his chest adjacent to a swastika that is similar to the one depicted on the main racist skinhead character in the film American History X (1998), instigated the brutal attack in an effort to establish his fledgling crew among higher-ranking members of Volksfront. Emulating a brutal scene in the film, Monschke and his three followers placed Townsend’s open mouth on a railroad tie and stomped several times on the back of his head. Each blow was accompanied with shouts of “white power.” Scotty James Butters, 20, David Nikos Pillatos, 19, and Tristain Lynn Frye, 22, all pleaded guilty and testified against Monschke.
On January 25, 2003, five boneheads attacked a 17-year-old black youth in the parking lot of his residence in Vancouver, Washington. Matthew R. Schmoyer, Carl D. Wolff, Brandon Webb, Jeremy R. Whitten and one other bonehead who was later acquitted had been partying at Schmoyer’s apartment before heading to a Volksfront-sponsored concert near Hillsboro, Oregon, called “Rock Against Communism.” The group was holding the concert to raise legal funds for a Volksfront “comrade” whom they felt was “wrongfully charged with assault.” Whitten was sentenced for misdemeanor assault after striking a plea agreement. Wolff, Webb and Schmoyer were convicted of malicious harassment.
According to the ADL: “The rivalry between Volksfront/Hammerskin Nation and the Vinlanders remains high. An Internet exchange at the racist online forum Stormfront indicated that a prominent Vinlander even cut off the ear of a Volksfront member in St. Louis.” (On the Vinlanders Social Club, see Burnout: Vinlanders Social Club on the Decline, David Holthouse and Laurie Wood, Intelligence Report, Winter 2008.)
Volksfront was founded in prison by a bonehead called Randal Lee (‘Randy’) Krager. In 1989, when he was 15, Krager was arrested along with several other boneheads and charged with racial intimidation for allegedly assaulting three teenagers near a park in Portland, Oregon. During the attack, assailants pummeled a Hispanic girl in the face while shouting, “Why aren’t you white?” Krager was sent to a juvenile detention center.
The next year, he attended the civil trial of White Aryan Resistance leader Tom Metzger — who was being sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center for his role in encouraging the bonehead murder of a black man in Portland — and told a reporter that Metzger was a “cool guy … one of the nicest guys you’d ever meet.”
By the time Krager turned 18, police had encountered him 28 times.
That year, 1992, Krager was sentenced to 27 months in prison for putting an African-American man into a coma with a single punch. During sentencing proceedings, Krager reportedly shouted “Fucking Jew pig!” at court officials.
Krager’s white supremacist beliefs were reinforced in prison. While inside, he networked with boneheads outside, laying the groundwork for his Volksfront neo-Nazi gang. Krager assumed leadership of Volksfront immediately upon his release in October 1994…
There’s been a few ups and downs for Krager and his kkkrew since then, obviously — mostly revolving around violent crime and bad muzak — with a few lives ended and many more ruined, but what Volksfront Australia will achieve is likely to be a lot less. Much will depend on the ability of the German-born yuppie Welf to put a leash on the boneheads belonging to B&H/SCHS — a task which will probably prove to be a good deal more difficult than convincing a handful of teenagers that his peculiar brand of neo-fascism is actually a form of ‘anarchism’.
Above : Fredrick Töben (Adelaide Institute) and Welf Herfurth (ex-One Nation, ex-Australia First Party[?], mathaba.net) annexe Sydney using the MaGiCaL pOwErS invested in Horst Mahler‘s flag and on behalf of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, January 27, 2005. Unkle Fred was recently released from police custody in London; Herfurth, based in Sydney, has established a tiny fascist groupuscule called the ‘New Right’, consisting of various former members of Stormfront, and — following the lead of British and German fascists — espousing a doctrine he calls ‘national anarchism’. In the UK, the ‘New Right’, lead by Troy Southgate, specialises in Holocaust denial, various other forms of historical revisionism, and the promotion of racism and fascism.
Above : Viking Power Rock &/Or Roll. Members of Blood Red Eagle — (L-R) Jeff, Doug, Kerry & James — on the piss.
