Australia 1 Russia 0

In WA, John Van Blitterswyk, a member of the Australian Nationalists Movement (ANM), was recently (May 24) sentenced to two years and four months jail for conspiring to bomb four Chinese restaurants as part of the ANM’s bid to drive Asians out of town — and to thereby create what David Innes, and a mob of other fascists in Perth clustered around Stormfront, are also trying to create, albeit in a slightly less spectacular fashion: exclusively white residential areas (or ‘Pioneer Little Europes’ in their batshit terminology). And while der Führer of the ANM, ‘Java’ Jack van Tongeren, is these days seemingly content with daubing paint onto canvas in the seaside town of Inverloch in Victoria (rather than, say, attempting to spread the bodies of (fellow) Asians onto walls), and has given up on his quest to take over Australia — and to move the capital from Canberra to Alice Springs — in August, Innes is headed to Sydney, where he will embark upon a quest to seize control (from the hands of Dr. James Saleam) of what is seemingly the Holy Grail of the Australian far right: a racist political party not dominated by The Wicked Witch From Ipswich.

In Russia meanwhile, poor old ex-pat Peter Tatchell has been bashed; first by local boneheads, then by the bizarros @ Sp!ked, all for the crime of being publically gay (See Doug Ireland, POLICE BREAK UP MOSCOW GAY PRIDE, EUROPEAN POLS AND GAY LEADERS ARRESTED, May 27, 2007). Tatchell and others were assaulted by the usual muck, and then arrested by Moscow’s finest, in a repeat display of the reactionary authoritarianism for which the Russian state is justly famous.

A handful of lesbians and gays on Tverskaya Street won’t stop that. But they did speak out, and others heard. Sunday night I saw young Russians standing outside police stations for long hours, trying to get food in to those detained and to find them lawyers. Most of those defenders weren’t gay. Andrey Kozlov, a Green with an anarchist’s wisp of beard, worked heroically to help because he believes in democracy and dissent. “Obviously, this is about all of us,” he said.

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G8: Get ready to rumble…

    So much for the pre-game entertainment; the match begins on June 6.

MASSIVE RIOT AHEAD OF THE G-8 SUMMIT: The Rumble in Rostock
Florian Gathmann in Rostock, Germany
Der Spiegel Online
June 3, 2007

“It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration. But suddenly, it turned into a war with anarchists battling it out with police. Almost 1,000 people were injured. But what went wrong?”

LA chief cites police command breakdown at immigration rally
The Associated Press
International Herald Tribune
May 29, 2007

“LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles’ police chief said that a breakdown in command at an immigration [May Day] rally led officers to use force, swing batons and fire more than a hundred “non-lethal” projectiles to disperse a crowd of demonstrators and journalists… Officers reported being targeted by 20 to 50 “agitators” throwing rocks and bottles. “It’s just those anarchist kids,” one officer said. “It looks like they’re inciting everybody else.”

    Make Poverty History™: “Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty.

    You can help.”

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More gigs @ The neo-Nazi Birmy

A pseudonymous supporter of Blood & Honour Australia / the Southern Cross Hammerskins (and their HQ in Melbourne, a/k/a The Birmingham Hotel), has alerted me to the fact that, in addition to the dozen or so right-wing middle-class punk scabs who’ve played at the venue since September of last year, a handful of other noise-merchants have chosen to reward Gar(r)y the proprietor with money and, er, publicity. They are:

PASSENGER OF SHIT
DYSPHEMIC
XIAN
PRINCO
MAIN$TREAM (NSW)
WHEELSFALLOFF
DRILL BIT (NSW) and
ZANDOR

The above performers apparently performed on April 20(!). And previously on Birmy Shit Blues:

PASSENGER OF SHIT
EBOLA DISCO and
MANDARK

performed on February 22. (Like Sore Throat, only Twenty Years After.)

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Tarrant is a wanker / Go Pies!

The bad news: Medhurst put in another ordinary performance, Collingwood was badly beaten in the ruck, and in fact in most positions (with a few honourable exceptions, not least Swan), and for most of the match. The good news: thanks in part to some great play by Davis, some good kicking by Rocca (and some poor kicking by Pavlich), Collingwood still managed to sneak home with a win. Oh, and the best news: Tarrant played like a complete wanker — and it was reassuring to witness him continue to display the form that saw him finally depart from the club last year.

    FREMANTLE is incensed at a Channel 7 promo for tonight’s game against Collingwood that mocks Chris Tarrant’s kicking for goal. Tarrant, who will play his first game against his old club at the MCG, is seen spraying a shot at goal, accompanied by the voiceover: “Don’t miss the Chris Tarrant kicking extravaganza.”

COLLINGWOOD 15.13 (103)
Fremantle 13.16 (94)

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Back In Town

Guess who’s back in town today?
I know you missed me while I was away…

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Gabba Gabba Hey!

Go Pies!

After 12 years, Collingwood wins one at the Gabba… and I was there to see it!

COLLINGWOOD 18.12 120
Brisbane Bears 13.9 87

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Boofhead Goes to Court. Again.

    You want lies with that?

Man admits racist graffiti role
Ryan Pedler
The West Australian
May 22, 2007

A second member of racist group the White Devils yesterday admitted his involvement in a graffiti campaign across Perth three years ago.

Benjamin Weerheym [a/k/a Benedict Williams] told a District Court jury that he and several other men met Australian Nationalist[s] Movement leader Jack van Tongeren and his deputy John Anthony Van Blitterswyk to discuss the campaign in June 2004.

Mr Weerheym, who was recruited to the ANM in 2003, said Mr van Tongeren gave instructions to put up only “politically motivated” posters at various locations throughout Perth.

But Mr Weerheym said graffiti was incorporated when he and others put the posters up a week or two later.

[D’oh!]

Mr Weerheym was giving evidence at the trial of Mr Van Blitterswyk on a charge of conspiring with other ANM members to fire-bomb four Chinese restaurants in Perth in mid-2004.

Opening the trial last week, prosecutor Alan Troy said the fire bombings were due to be carried out in mid-2004 just before the release of Mr van Tongeren’s book The ANM Story but were postponed.

White Devils founder Daniel Tyrone Klavins [a/k/a ‘Donk’], who has admitted his group was racist, has told the court that Mr van Tongeren gave instructions to put posters up promoting the ANM but he and others decided to add racist posters and graffiti.

Mr Klavins confirmed the graffiti campaign included spray painting the slogans “Jews out” and references to six million at a synagogue and food mart in Menora and messages including “we will bomb you all” at a Chinese restaurant in Southlands.

Posters put up featured messages including “The ANM Story, read it now” and “Jack’s back”.

The court was played a telephone conversation intercepted and recorded by police in which Mr Weerheym threatened a fellow White Devils member named “Occy” with a $50 fine if he did not attend a mid-week meeting at the group’s “clubhouse”, at Mr Klavins’ home.

[As Boofhead himself might exclaim: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”]

Mr Weerheym confirmed that Mr Klavins later yelled at Occy by phone.

Mr Weerheym agreed that Mr Klavins liked to run the White Devils with an iron fist [Seig Heil!] and had insisted that people wanting to join do something that “made the news” as an initiation.

The trial continues today.

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2007 Sydney Forum

Sensitive New Age Hitlerites will be gathering in Sydney again this August, for the seventh annual Sydney Forum… and you’re invited!

“Speech!”

As in previous years, the Forum will function as a de facto Australia First Party conference, with AFP führer and convicted neo-Nazi criminal Dr. James Saleam organising things behind-the-scenes, and German-born unconvicted neo-Nazi (and Holocaust denialist) Welf Herfurth acting as MC. The Forum / conference gathers together, in the one place and at the one time, the er, ‘cream’, of the Australian fascist milieu, and addressing the one hundred or so attendees will be the following, largely middle-aged — and largely batshit — bigots:

    Perry Jewell : A far-right activist, founder of the now-defunct Queensland-based precursor to One Notion, the Confederate Action Party, and two-times Queensland Senate candidate (in 1993 and 1996), Jewell’s main claim to fame is having kidnapped his daughter a number of years ago in a bid to stop her using heroin (apparently);

    Jim Cassidy : NSW State President of One Notion, and speaker at last year’s Forum, last February Jim told Herr Doktor that he wasn’t welcome at ONP meetings… ‘cos he was a white supremacist. I guess Jim must now believe that Saleam’s alright ‘cos he’s belatedly discovered that he’s not all-white;

    Andrew Fraser : Since coming out of the closet, The Nutty Professor — and lover of all things blonde-haired and blue-eyed — has joined the long list of distinguished intellectual mediocrities to have spoken at the Forum, this being the third occasion the Canadian-born schmuck will have complained about there being ‘too many darkies’ in Australia;

    David Innes : WA Scumfront organiser, unemployed IT ‘expert’, and soon-to-be star in — appropriately enough — Zoo Weekly;

and last but by certainly no means least, Herr Doktor himself. Saleam’s also promised to arrange two vewy special surprise speakers from Europe this year too… one of whom, presumably, will be from either the German NPD or the British BNP.

Location location location…

The first day’s events, on Saturday August 25, will be held @ an as-yet undisclosed location, the reason for the non-disclosure being to ensure that a nervous host doesn’t withdraw permission for the fascist gathering to take place on its premises (as the Russian Club did in 2005).

To get the venue details: you will have to telephone either of the two numbers here after 7.30 am on the Saturday morning, August 25 or you will be phoned by us. It is our promise that plenty of time will be available for any resident to reach the venue by 9.15 am for a ‘start’ at 9.30 am. Phone 0407 732 868 OR 0411 669 181.

Judging by previous year’s events, in a kinda local, fascist, political equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest, the venue will most likely be one of Sydney’s Eastern European Clubs; while the Russian Club sensibly cancelled the booking in 2005, last year it was the privilege of Sydney’s Estonian community to provide a platform for racist bigotry and anti-immigrant rhetoric. And this year — who knows? — maybe Sydney’s Lithuanian community will seize the opportunity to drag its name through the mud. In any case, the second day’s events will be held, as is seemingly customary, @ Jim’s bunker in Tempe (725 Princes Highway). Note that the bunker was formerly the Sydney headquarters of the now-defunct neo-Nazi grouping National Action, of which Saleam was also, prior to his imprisonment, Der führer. It’s witnessed some wild scenes in the past, including the shooting to death in April 1991 of NA member Wayne “Bovver” Smith by fellow NA member Perry Whitehouse, a murder caught on tape by ASIO:

Smith : What’s it say?
Whitehouse : Ask him, mate. Just ask him. He’s…
Smith : You’re the one that’s fuckin’ sayin’ this.
Whitehouse : Just wait here. (Footsteps.) I’ll show what I got to say.
Smith : All right.
Music. Pause in conversation. Six sharp noises in succession. Distinct sound similar to a gun being fired. Crashing sounds. Music.
Whitehouse : That’s what I got to fuckin’ say, you fuckin’ cunt.
Another member, Gregory Jorgensen, then speaks. His words are inaudible.
Whitehouse : I just killed the prick. You wanna know. Yeah, you wanna fuckin’ know. What’ya wanna know… to kill you too… I just shot the fuckin’ prick. Right. I just shot the cunt. Wanna know.
Music stops.
Whitehouse : Because he’s a fuckin’ arsehole, that’s why I shot him. Right. Do you think I’m fuckin’ scared of fuckin’ goin’ to jail. I don’t give a fuck. I’m not scared. Right. I shot the cunt dead. That’s what it’s all about boy, that’s what it’s all about, right. You ain’t got the guts to fuckin’ face up to that, you’re fuckin’ weak as piss. Right, he’s fuckin’ dead. Now we gotta get rid of that body or I’m gonna get rid of the fuckin’ body, right.
A gasp is heard.
Whitehouse : Shut up, ya fuckin’ prick.

Ah, such history! And worth recalling too, especially given the recent spat between David Innes (Baron von Hund) and Saleam (radnat) on Shitfront regarding Saleam’s status as a (non-)white, convicted criminal, and leader of a white supremacist organisation.

Which is a problem, apparently.

Whatever Saleam’s claims to the contrary, Innes’ partner and Scumfront moderator Lilith Peterson has relegated poor old Jim to the ‘Opposing Views’ segment on the site; the segment reserved for non-whites.

Which certainly won’t please Jamahl.

The documents regarding the character of Saleam’s grandfather and great-uncle — produced during their attempts to become naturalised Australian citizens, and reproduced on Shitfront — make for some pretty bizarre reading. According to one Australian bureaucrat, writing in 1921, Davis Saleam “is, plainly, morally oblique, and would seem to be hardly able to distinguish right from wrong. The candour of his confession is, to a certain extent, proof of the unsophisticated nature of the man.”

Plus ça change

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APEC // G8 // G20

Summit protesters, whether ‘nasty’ (spiky) or ‘nice’ (fluffy), aren’t very popular with state authorities, that’s for sure. So while the trials of a number of G20 protesters who appeared earlier this month at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court have been set for August, according to Frank Walker and Kerry-Anne Walsh:

Demonstrators and anyone under suspicion can be arrested and held without bail under unprecedented police powers being brought in for the APEC summit in Sydney… Tough APEC security legislation being drawn up by NSW cabinet this week will include the suspension of normal bail provisions, new powers to do random searches and ban “prohibited” people from restricted zones. [NSW Police Minister David] Campbell said if police arrested anyone who did not obey orders to disperse or leave an area, they could be held in jail until APEC was over. Demonstrators will be kept well away from the world leaders during the summit from September 7 to 9 in order to avoid any “embarrassment” to VIPs. Known troublemakers will be refused entry to the city restricted zone. ~ Crackdown on ‘nasty’ summit protesters, Sydney Morning Herald, May 20, 2007

On the other hand — in an exercise that is estimated at costing hundreds of millions of dollars — Australian authorities will be locking down Sydney in order to roll out the red carpet to 21 even bigger troublemakers / ‘world leaders’, including the war criminals George Bush and Vladimir Putin, and Communist dictator Hu Jintao. Kinda like what’s happening in Heiligendamm, Rostock, and cities across Germany in preparation for next month’s (June 6–8) G8 Summit… so far, the only thing missing is pre-emptive raids on protest organisers.

Can’t wait for that one!

See also : Mike Head, Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney, May 21, 2007

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My computer is stoopid

It’s shat itself.

More news as it comes to hand… and the good news (May 21) is that a comrade has fixed it; the bad (?) news is that I’m gonna be away for a few weeks.

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