Collingwood is good and old forever and Vince is a big fat l o s e r

How good was that? The soon-to-be-ex Federal Treasurer and his “beloved” Bombers were once again shot down by the Magpies today: the first time since 1997 Collingwood has defeated Essendon twice in a season, and just the fifth win of 19 games played between the two sides since 1998. This was a deserved victory that was made all the more sweet by the fact that Collingwood was in fact playing against two teams: one wearing red and black, and the other yellow.

Magpies storm home to sink Bombers
ABC

A stirring final term from Collingwood kept Essendon at bay as the Magpies held on for an important 29-point victory in their round 16 AFL clash at the MCG on Saturday afternoon.

Trailing by 39 points at the long change, the Bombers mounted a spirited fight-back to draw the margin back to within nine points deep in the third quarter, but the plucky Magpies fired in the final exchanges to close out the match 18.14 (122) to 14.9 (93)…

    Combien bon était ce ? Le trésorier fédéral bientôt-à-être-ex et ses bombardiers “aimés” ont été abattus de nouveau par les Pies aujourd’hui : la première fois que depuis 1997 Collingwood a défait Essendon deux fois dans une saison, et juste la cinquième victoire de 19 jeux joués entre les deux côtés depuis 1998. C’était une victoire méritée qui a été rendue plus douce par le fait que Collingwood en fait jouait contre deux équipes : un port rouge et noir, et l’autre jaune.

    L’essendon sont des porcs militaristes de guerre qui ont mérité de perdre
    ABC

    Une limite finale d’agitation de Collingwood a gardé Essendon au compartiment comme Pies tenues dessus pour une victoire 29-point importante dans leur désaccord du rond 16 AFL au [MCG] samedi après-midi.

    Traînant par 39 points au long changement, les bombardiers ont monté un vif combattent-en arrière pour dessiner la marge de nouveau à à moins de neuf points profonds dans le troisième trimestre, mais les Pies courageuses mises le feu dans les échanges finals pour se fermer hors de l’allumette 18.14 (122) à 14.9 (93)…

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David & Lilith: Down the Memory Hole

They certainly don’t muck about on Stormfront. Formerly the reigning King and Queen of ex-Klansman (1978–1987) and convicted criminal Don Black‘s Internet business ‘Down Under’, David Innes and Lilith Peterson really are dead parrots. Thus both David, a former host of ‘Thunder Down Under’ (a Stormfront Internet radio show), and Lilith, a former moderator of the Australiasian forum, have now not only been removed from Stormfront, but all of their posts — over three years’ worth — have been expunged from the record too. This suggests, among other things, that Black and his fellow supremacists are not exactly ‘grateful’ for the three years of unpaid labour the racist Perth couple donated to the promotion of all things Stormfront. (In addition to radio and Internet, the couple also hosted monthly Stormfront BBQs at their private residence, as well as distributed racist propaganda from the likes of (another) former Klansman David Duke.)

The beginning of the end for the pair may be found in their initial challenge to The Old Man of Australian fascist politics, Dr James Saleam. As leader of Australia First and — prior to his imprisonment for arranging a shotgun assault upon the home of a political opponent — a former leader of the now-defunct National Action, Saleam is without doubt the pre-eminent figure among local fascists, and to question his standing as such is to invite upon oneself a world of trouble. Further, Saleam has survived over three decades as a fascist militant, and one simply can’t do so without cultivating both enemies and friends; in this case, influential friends, such as disgraced former Sydney academic turned professional racist Andrew Fraser.

As well as obtaining a massive amount of media attention several years ago for declaring, among other things, that blacks are criminal degenerates — and therefore unwelcome immigrants to the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Australia of his imagination — Fraser also obtained the opportunity to establish links with like-minded ‘intellectuals’ in the United States. Of particular relevance in this context is the mob associated with American Renaissance. Fraser addressed the ‘AmRen’ conference in 2006 (on “Reversing the Racial Revolution: Reinventing a Responsible Ruling Class”), and his asshattery is described by conference organisers as follows:

Next to speak [after Nick Griffin, fuehrer of the British National Party] was Andrew Fraser, a former professor of public law who was suspended last summer from teaching at Macquarie University in Australia for defending the “White Australia” policy and for insisting on the reality of race differences. In his talk, “Reinventing a Responsible Ruling Class,” he argued that the West must return to the republican tradition in which governing elites are loyal to their people and to past and future generations. Today[‘]s rulers are an arrogant, exploitative class of managers who have no sense of ethnic ties, and are therefore willing to let in alien populations.

Prof. Fraser proposed specific policies to make citizenship more akin to family membership. He argued that the vote should be granted only to heads of households, and that each head of household cast a number of votes equal to the number of people in the household. This would give families with children greater power in elections, and force rulers to consider the interests of future generations. The law should give greater weight to precedent, thus enforcing respect for past generations. Whereas lawyers used to be a natural aristocracy of civic-minded statesmen, they are now motivated by profit. One way to give lawyers more civic spirit and make the profession more independent from corporate interests would be to let lawyers elect judges. Prof. Fraser added that the proper role of the churches and universities, which are now at the forefront of the multiracial revolution, is to give society a sense of ethnic identity and of ties between the past, present, and future. He concluded by hoping for the return of the “old-time civil religion that once fused the history and destiny of our people with the realm of the sacred.”

Nonsense yes, but of note because it’s nonsense of the sort popularised by the pseudo-intellectuals at AmRen and that embraced by related forces in the US, especially those gathered around David Duke, Don Black and Stormfront. Together, these seek to legitimise a White supremacist discourse within popular culture. One measure of the increasing success of this project is the recent appearance (April 4) of James Edwards on CNN. Edwards is a “promoter of neo-Nazis, segregationists, Holocaust deniers and Klan associates, but was introduced on CNN merely as a Memphis radio host” (Into the Mainstream: Radical ‘Cesspool’ Host a Commentator on CNN, SPLC Intelligence Report, No.126, Summer 2007 (July 17, 2007)).

In Australia, a natural ally of these forces is Australia First. This is partly why Andrew Fraser spoke at the Sydney Forum last year, and why he will do so again in August. In comparison to Fraser, Innes (who was briefly scheduled to speak alongside Fraser at this year’s conference on the subject of employing Internet technologies to further the White nationalist cause) is of little significance, and has in any case contributed as much to Black’s coffers as he was probably ever going to. These facts, combined with Saleam’s behind-the-scenes lobbying, effectively sealed David and Lilith’s fate: they were simply more trouble than they were worth. Interestingly, despite his appalling treatment by Stormfront, Paul Innes — David’s brother, known on SF as ‘Steelcap Boot’ — remains as quiet as a mouse, as do the dozens of David’s supporters who only weeks ago were commending him for his many fine efforts on Stormfront’s behalf, as well as his general work in promoting the ‘White nationalist’ cause.

With comrades like these, who needs ZOG?

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mood: surly, then silly. it’s late, and i’m tired and emotional

The more I dig, the more I discover, and the more I discover, the more disgust I develop: for the fakes, for the frauds, and for the fucking fashion victims.

Fuck you.

Good Old Rich Kid Bashing Day ~ LOIKAEMIE

Good old rich kid bashing day
You call yourself free
But that is just a lie to me
You boast about how sweet life can be
On top of our hierarchy

Chorus:
Today
But today we’ll wipe this weakness from your face
Today
Cause today is Saturday
Good old rich kid bashing day

And the only thing that’s bigger
Than your mouth is your self
Proclaimed magnificence
But today we’ll put an end to this

Chorus

And your filthy inherited wealthiness
Is the only thing that stinks more than your arrogance
But today we’ll put an end to this
But today we’ll put an end to this

Chorus

And once you are stripped
Of the nothing you deny
You will see what we see
You will see you lived a lie

After which, there’s really only one solution.

Take the skinheads bowling.

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Like ice through a crackpipe, so are the days of our white pride

RRTAA!

Bloody hell.

Keeping track of the soap opera that is the local franchise of convicted criminal Don Black‘s racist Internet site Stormfront is becoming increasingly difficult. Several weeks ago, its two leading lights, Perth-based couple David Innes (Baron von Hund) and Lilith Peterson (Lilith) declared that, as a result of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (fired at them by their fellow bigots), ’tis perhaps nobler to permanently retire from the world’s largest White supremacist online forum than to take up arms against a sea of far better spellers. Or to put it another way: their membership had passed on, was no more and had ceased to be. It had expired and gone to meet its maker; a stiff, bereft of life, it rested in peace. And if FDB! hadn’t nailed the pair to its site long ago, their participation would be pushing up the daisies. Their involvement in Stormfront, in other words, was off the twig; it had kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible. David and Lilith, in short, were ex-members.

Well, for a short while anyway.

But just as Innes’ first retirement in March was rather brief, his second disappearance has proved to be as short-lived as the first, and — like the monster from some B-grade horror flick — Innes is back; tinfoil helmet firmly affixed to his meat head, and partner and Chief Protector Lilith firmly in tow.

Well, not quite.

Everyone Wants To Be Moderator

Since David and Lilith’s departure, there’s been a few changes on SFDU, chief among them a temporary settlement to the squabbling over who gets to be Don Black’s deputy sheriff in the Pacific. Consequently, for now at least, this privilege is reserved for a teenaged Novocastrian named Rhys. And unlike David, Rhys is a firm supporter of Australia First and its fuehrer, the soon-to-be-exonerated-of-his-criminal-conviction Doctor James Saleam; Rhys happily ignoring, as do most if not all of Saleam’s supporters, the fact that Herr Doktor’s of non-White descent. Not that this is all that unusual among ‘White nationalists’. Thus another prominent, local example of a wacky not-quite-white racist is ‘Java’ Jack van Tongeren, a man whose father was of Javanese descent, and who attempted to expunge the memory of this shameful legacy by blowing up Chinese restaurants. Fortunately, like another moustachioed figure from the past, Jack has since turned to painting.

In the world of racist rock ‘n’ roll, on the other hand, the collapse of Panzerfaust Records (1998–2005) was the result of the exposure of one of its co-founders, Anthony Pierpont, as being of Mexican descent. (Note that local boneheads Fortress, playing in Melbourne on October 13, released the tracks “Commie Scum” — about, er, their fondness for communists — and “Parasite” — about their willingness to send non-White immigrants home in body-bags — on a Panzerfaust release called Project Schoolyard USA, aimed at recruiting high school students to White supremacism.) And of course, Nicky Crane, co-founder (with the other good fascist Ian Stuart Donaldson) of Blood & Honour, was both gay and died of an AIDS-related illness. Then there’s the case of the bonehead from Adelaide who fell in love with a cross-dressing young woman (with Bonus! penis), or, closer to home, the case of the Right Reverend Patrick O’Sullivan.

And that’s just scratching the surface.

In any case, trading, as Stormfront does, as being the world’s leading online forum for ‘White nationalists’ raises two obvious questions. The first is a person’s status as White; this question being a source of constant anxiety on Stormfront (and one which, incidentally, produces some of the more humourous threads). The second, obviously, is what it means to be a nationalist. In this context, there are almost daily invocations to Odin (and perhaps even the private sacrifice of chickens; you never know with this mob) appealing for his divine assistance in achieving unity among the Bruderhof. But as most soon come to realise, when push comes to shove — and as in ‘mainstream’ Australian politics — it’s the seppos who ultimately call the shots, and most manouevring among the locals revolves around competing to see who can be the most deferential to their foreign masters. And so it was that, upon her return, Lilith re-assumed her role as moderator, only to then be unceremoniously dumped by her superiors — for reasons which remain somewhat obscure, but which may have something to do with allegations that she and her less literate half have somehow collaborated with teh enimy; and which may even involve her having referenced my blog…

Old Nazis Never Die, they Just Join ANN

The slow demise of David and Lililth on Stormfront is a cause for celebration on local forum Australian New Nation, where Stormfront rejects — survivors of Jack van Tongeren’s ANM and the short-lived White Pride Coalition of Australia — gather under the banner of all things White and Australian: football, meat pies, kangaroos, Holden cars, and a marked tendency to burn in Summer. Oh, that, and a pathological hatred of Asians, blacks, ‘communists’, gays, lesbians and Jews — and black Asian gay communist Jews in particular — combined with a paranoid suspicion of the many machinations of ZOG. Of which, FDB!, we are assured, is merely one of the more visible of its numerous tentacles, whose outrageous assaults upon the honour of upstanding citizens is courageously exposed in the following extract from the online Diary of a NotMadWhiteMan:

Was [David Innes], like [Jim Perren and Pete Campbell], stalked both physically and electronically? Was his computer hacked? Did he receive telephone harassment? Did he have his personal files illegally accessed? Did he [receive] a series of threatening emails from journalists and people claiming to be private investigators or high ranking Jews? Did he have his family members threatened and harassed? Was he falsely accused of “terrorism” and reported to the Federal authorities? Was he named in a national newspaper as a “terrorist”? Has he had FDB! openly solicit for his murder? Did anyone detonate a reasonably sophisticated and shrapnel filled explosive device at his mother’s residence? Has he ever been woken at two or three in the morning by a car horn only to see an FDB! vehicle driving off? Has his car ever been tampered with in his own driveway? And the list goes on…

Ahem. Time for a cup of tea, a Bex, and a good lie down if ever there was.

The ANN site is run by ‘Delos’ (Alex Fogerty) and ‘Trouble’ (Trevor Lewis). Besides these two Übermensch, the ANN / SFDU casualty list includes ‘Lord Sidious’, ‘OZMAN’, ‘Stug111’ (Jim Perren), Imperial Wizard & Emperor Of The IKA KKKK Daevid Palmer, as well as a number of current SFDU members such as ‘Wodensvolk’ (Carl D. Thompson) and assorted other boneheads, Klansmen, racist freaks and anti-Semitic weirdos… kinda like Stormfront itself really. And for which reason, the seppos in charge, in particular “Editor and Stormfront Chief of Staff” jack_boot, have recently been forced to step in and try and sort out the mess…

To be concluded…

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mood: culturcide

The 80s. Teenage wasteland. Music as spam, spam as music. Brought us star bellied Sneeches as luminaries. Two decades ago I hated the sons of bitches. Now all of a sudden they’re legendary. And we all like to get nostalgic. But the heart of rock ‘n’ roll is the profit.

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For reasons of state

Following on from AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty’s recent decision to try his hand at comedy after the Coalition loses the Federal election later this year, Minister for Immigration Kevin Andrews has declared his intention to become a rock *. And apparently, he’s a fan of Judas Priest:

There I was completely wasting, soon thrown out of town
All inside it’s so frustrating, as the polls go down and down
Feel as though nobody cares, if I live or die
So I might as well begin, to put some action in my life

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Or to put it another way:

Finding a way to keep Haneef locked up
Mark Davis
Sydney Morning Herald
July 16, 2007

For a few hours today Mohammed Haneef, the Gold Coast-based doctor accused of supporting terrorists, was free to walk the streets, in theory if not in practice.

About 10am today a Brisbane magistrate decided to release Haneef on bail pending his trial on charges of breaching anti-terrorism laws in connection with the recent bombing in Glasgow. But as Haneef’s legal team started making arrangements to meet the bail conditions, including raising a $10,000 surety, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews found another way to keep the Indian doctor in custody.

At 2.45pm in Canberra Mr Andrews announced he had decided to cancel Haneef’s visa because the medico had failed the Migration Act‘s requirements for immigrants to be of good character. The upshot of this decision is that the Indian doctor will now be held in Sydney’s Villawood immigration detention centre until his trial on the terrorism charges is finalised. And even if Haneef is eventually acquitted by the Australian courts, Mr Andrews decision would allow the Government to then deport him from the country in any case.

Civil libertarians attacked the minister’s decision as a way of circumventing the Brisbane court’s decision to release the doctor on bail and said it prejudged the issue of Haneef’s guilt or innocence. Mr Andrews insisted the legal process he had invoked under the Migration Act was separate to the criminal proceedings under way in Brisbane.

Under section 501 of the Act, a “character test” applies to people seeking visas to enter the country. A person fails the character test if, among other things, he or she has an association with another person or group whom the minister suspects is involved in criminal conduct.

Mr Andrews said he had considered information provided by the Australian Federal Police. Based on this information, he had formed a reasonable suspicion that Haneef had an association with those accused of carrying out the Glasgow bombing and had decided to cancel his visa.

Normally the result of having one’s visa cancelled is that one is deported (once any appeals against the minister’s decision are finalised). But in Haneef’s case, the Attorney-General is likely to issue a “criminal justice stay certificate” stopping him from being deported until the finalisation of his trial.

Haneef has two avenues of appeal against these migration decisions. Firstly, he can apply to Mr Andrews to revoke the decision cancelling his visa. Secondly, he can go to the Federal Court and ask it to review Mr Andrews’s decision on legal grounds. But his chances under both of those avenues are made harder because Mr Andrews has invoked a special “national interest” element of the section 501 visa cancellation process.

The Migration Act provides that when the minister is satisfied it would be in the national interest to cancel a person’s visa, then the legal rules of natural justice do not apply to his decision. In a strict legal sense, Mr Andrews’s decision is separate to the criminal proceedings under way in Brisbane. Haneef will join many other immigrants in Villawood whose visas have been cancelled on character grounds. But in a practical sense, the visa cancellation is a mechanism that has allowed the Government to override the decision of the Brisbane magistrate and ensure that Haneef, whether guilty or not guilty of the terrorism charges, never tastes freedom again in Australia.

What a load of bollocks. So too, the ALP’s decision to move in lockstep with the Gub’mint: ‘Labor spokesman Tony Burke accepts the Minister’s decision. “On the information provided by the Minister, Labor provides in principle support,” he said.’

    There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: “for reasons of state”. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism, 1867
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Boneheads come in all shapes and sizes

[Updated : See Below]

In Melbourne, local punks claim that boneheads aren’t a problem, support their venues (that is, The Birmingham Hotel), and have accused me of being a weak coward, a “clueless cunt”, and the ideological equivalent of a neo-Nazi for claiming otherwise. In Wellington, three boneheads have recently been convicted of the kidnap, assault and robbery of a Canadian tourist, Jeremie ‘Little Wolf’ Kawerninski (Jeremie is indigenous Canadian / Coast Salish). Further, police claim that jurors were subjected to threats and intimidation during their deliberations.

Would the real punks and skins please stand up?

Threat to juror ‘attacks justice’
Paul Easton
Dominion Post
July 16, 2007

A threat to a juror considering the fate of boneheads who kidnapped a Canadian tourist is being treated as an attack on the justice system, amid revelations the case was dogged by earlier fears of intimidation.

The juror was discharged from the case on Friday, with deliberations to start that day, after finding a note outside his house bearing the words “Not Guilty” and a swastika. The 11 remaining jurors found Benjamin Peter McPadden, 19, Jaydon Russell Borland, 31, and Jason George Gregory, 20, guilty of kidnapping 26-year-old Jeremie Kawerninski in April last year.

The group took Kawerninski from central Wellington to Naenae in Lower Hutt, where they robbed him of $40, clothing and jewellery, then dumped him battered, bound and blindfolded on a roadside. Borland was also found guilty of beating and robbing Kawerninski while Gregory was found guilty of robbing him.

It is understood police had held fears that witnesses in the case would be interfered with. One witness told them he had been assaulted and threatened about giving evidence in court.

Borland, a heavily tattooed bonehead with a scalp tattoo and the word “Nazi” tattooed above one eyelid, shouted “F…… pigs” as he was led away from court on his first appearance for depositions at the Lower Hutt District Court in September last year.

During the depositions hearing, friends of the accused sat in the public gallery making hand signals to the three in the dock. One female was warned about making threatening looks at a prosecution witness who was giving evidence.

Detective Inspector Shane Cotter said police were treating the intimidation of the juror as “a very serious offence”. Any attempt to influence the justice process was an attack on the justice system itself, he said. Police have refused to make further comment while the investigation is under way, and have also declined to comment on whether jurors were now under police protection.

A man who attended the two-week trial, and who did not wish to be named, said the 12 jurors were clearly visible as they came and left the High Court in Wellington each day. Associates of the accused were constantly “up and down the road”, and it would not have been hard to follow a juror home. “I think they could do a bit more for jurors, maybe have a pick-up for them and take them straight into the basement. It’s not good,” he said.

Auckland University faculty of law associate professor Scott Optican said that in the United States, measures were often taken to make sure jurors were safe. These included officials to protect them, picking jurors up from a safe point, keeping their identity secret and having them stay at a hotel during the trial. But he said such measures should only be considered in New Zealand where there was clear evidence that intimidation of jurors could occur.

Writing on an anti-racism website, Kawerninski has said he was not afraid of the men who beat and robbed him. “In Canada we deal with gangs every day … there are murders every night here on the east end of Vancouver … stabbings every day … and I am not going to stay inside scared of these guys,” Kawerninski wrote.

Also:

Police Confirm Second Juror Intimidation Attempt
newswire.co.nz
July 16, 2007

The police investigating a threatening note sent to a juror in a High Court trial in Wellington have confirmed a second person has reported an attempt at intimidation. Three men were found guilty on Friday of kidnapping a Canadian tourist, by a jury reduced to 11 members. A 12th juror had been discharged after telling court officials he had received a note at his house, which read ‘not guilty’ and had a swastika drawn on it. Lower Hutt police have confirmed another person involved in the trial has reported being intimidated during the hearing. They are investigating both incidents, and say it is important to get to the bottom of the issue to make sure all jury members feel safe to do their jobs.

Update:

Police arrest man over alleged threat to juror
NZPA (c/o FDB! and Asher)
July 17, 2007

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man after a juror in a Wellington trial was threatened last week. Detective Sergeant Brent Murray from the Lower Hutt police said the man had been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice and was due to appear in Lower Hutt District Court. The alleged incident happened during a trial in the High Court when a note saying “not guilty” and marked with a swastika was found in a juror’s home letterbox. The trial involved three boneheads who were on Friday night found guilty of charges ranging from kidnapping to causing grievous bodily harm to Canadian tourist Jeremie Kawerninski. The juror in the Wellington case was discharged before the trial ended. Mr Murray said police had not ruled out the possibility that other people may have been involved…

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Napalm Death @ The Corner, Thursday September 6

Multi… national… corpo… rations… genocide… of the… starving… nations…!

Bllleeeeeeuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Formed in 1982, NAPALM DEATH are the legitimate forefathers of grindcore and achieved legendary status during their early days with their viciously raw demos like Hatred Surge and the debut album Scum (1987), which started a truly violent revolution within the world of extreme music. For the first time in 11 years NAPALM DEATH will head over to Australia to support their latest blasterpiece Smear Campaign. With this new record NAPALM DEATH once again have concocted an explosive cocktail of the band’s classic trademarks, increasing variety and flow by adding an even more extreme contrast of sheer brutality teaming up with irresistible groovy mid-pace attacks. On tour with Australian grindcore legends Blood Duster, NAPALM DEATH will be here to melt your faces & tear your skin off with an extremely potent & explosive metal lesson.

Blah blah blah: most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read, and press releases ain’t much different. Here’s hoping the band do their version of ‘Nazi Punks Fuck Off’ for the benefit of all their racist fans eh? (And er, ‘You Suffer’ as their encore…)

Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore ‘cos you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks
Nazi punks
Nazi punks — fuck off!

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Boneheads found guilty of GBH, kidnapping, robbery…

In Wellington, Aotearoa / New Zealand, three boneheads — Benjamin Peter McPadden, 19, Jaydon Russell Borland, 31, and Jason George Gregory, 20 — were today (Friday the 13th) found guilty of a number of charges relating to the kidnapping, assault and robbery of a Canadian tourist, Jeremie Kawerninski, 26, on April 18 last year. Previously, in September, proceedings were delayed when Kawerninski failed to appear in court to give evidence; as a consequence, “Borland – who has the words “Nazi” and “skin” tattooed above each eye – smirked from the dock and made hand signals to a bonehead friend… in Lower Hutt District Court”. According to news reports, one juror was threatened during these most recent deliberations, and “The juror was discharged from the case after reporting that he had found a note outside his house on Friday morning saying “Not guilty”, and marked with a swastika.”

In Melbourne, boneheads from throughout Australia and overseas will be gathering on October 13 in order to commemorate the death in 1993 of Ian Stuart Donaldson, vocalist with neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver and co-founder of international neo-Nazi muzak network Blood & Honour. As in previous years, the gig is being organised by the local B&H franchise in conjunction with the local franchise of another, US-based group, the Hammerskins, although it’s unlikely that the gig will be held, as it was in 2006 and 2005, at The Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy. Notably, a racist assault occurred on the night of last year’s gig, and members of both networks have been guilty of numerous acts of murder and assault (in Indiana in 1999, a pack of five Indiana Hammerskins tracked down one ‘offender’, roughed him up, tore off his colors, held him down, burned off his Hammerskin tattoos with a blowtorch, and then shoved a pool cue up his rectum). B&H is banned in Germany and Spain, and faces possible bans in Belgium and Holland, but operates with absolute impunity in Australia, and its major venue in Melbourne maintains the full support of a number of local punks.

Previously, in April, local Newcastle band Blood Red Eagle traveled to Wellington to perform at a gig, organised by the New Zealand B&H and Hammerskins franchise, to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Both Blood Red Eagle and Skrewdriver are available for purchase through Sydney-based hardcore label Snapshot Records, a label which also claims affiliation to the anarchist group Class War.

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Careful with that SIM card, Eugene

It appears that AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty is busy preparing one-liners for his upcoming debut as a stand-up comic at next year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival:

Terror suspect doctor charged
The Age
July 14, 2007

Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation, the Australian Federal Police said in a statement today.

Haneef, 27, an Indian national who was living and working at Southport on Queensland’s Gold Coast, was charged today over his involvement with the alleged perpetrators of the failed UK bombings on June 29 and 30.

“He has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation contrary to Section 102.7(2) of the Criminal Code Act 1995,” the AFP statement said.

The maximum penalty for this offence is 15 years’ jail.

Haneef is already in custody and is expected to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning.

Police will allege Haneef supported a terrorist organisation by “recklessly” giving his mobile phone SIM card to people planning car bomb attacks in the UK.

“The specific allegation involves recklessness rather than intention,” AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty told reporters in Canberra today.

“The allegation being that he was reckless about some of the support he provided to that group, in particular the provision of his SIM card for the use of the group.”

    102.7 Providing support to a terrorist organisation

    (1) A person commits an offence if:

    (a) the person intentionally provides to an organisation support or resources that would help the organisation engage in an activity described in paragraph (a) of the definition of terrorist organisation in this Division; and

    (b) the organisation is a terrorist organisation; and

    (c) the person knows the organisation is a terrorist organisation.

    Penalty: Imprisonment for 25 years.

    (2) A person commits an offence if:

    (a) the person intentionally provides to an organisation support or resources that would help the organisation engage in an activity described in paragraph (a) of the definition of terrorist organisation in this Division; and

    (b) the organisation is a terrorist organisation; and

    (c) the person is reckless as to whether the organisation is a terrorist organisation.

    Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.

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