Mecca-Cola for Sweetman?

Posted on January 24, 2006 by @ndy


‘Outcry at neo-Nazi’s ‘soft drink’ parole switch’ reads an article by Greg Roberts in today’s The Australian (p.3).

He is a notorious neo-Nazi and axe murderer accused of headbutting a man for asking about his swastika tattoos in a Melbourne hotel.

And yesterday, despite Dane Sweetman’s violent background, the authorities reacted by amending his parole conditions, to ban him from drinking alcohol, sparking anger from anti-racist campaigners.

Sweetman, 36, was released from Fulham prison on parole last October after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence for the 1990 murder of David Noble at a 1990 party to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday…

Patrons at the Tote Hotel [arguably Melbourne’s home of rock and/or roll] alleged Sweetman headbutted and punched a man in the hotel in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood earlier this month after the man questioned him about swastika tattoos on his neck. Hotel co-owner Bruce [Eeek!] Milne said the incident was reported to police. “This person has been barred from the hotel,” Mr Milne said…

Sweetman created a sensation at his trial when he pulled a knife from his boot as he was sentenced and plunged it into a wooden dock rail.

He kept a diary in prison in which he boasted of having bashed two Asian men, a Caucasian woman with an Asian boyfriend and a homosexual, although he has a conviction for sexually abusing a boy under 16. His convictions include attempted murder, malicious wounding and assault with a weapon…

Great. A convicted neo-Nazi murderer and child rapist (allegedly) assaults someone in a pub, and the Adult Parole Board extends his parole conditions to include “bann[ing him] from entering the premises of any licensed venue in Collingwood” and “abstain[ing] from consuming alcohol generally”.

That’ll learn him!

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Filth! Perversion! Sickness! See It NOW @ Yr Local Sinema!

Posted on January 24, 2006 by @ndy


Pure comedy GOLD from Weerheym!

Newsflash: Western Civilization teeters on the brink!

“First Brokeback Mountain, now Tan Lines” says “PAD Writer” aka Ben ‘Getaway Driver’ Weerheym.

He goes he goes, he just goes… on… and on… and on… from “the very first article” on Ben’s blog to the latest entry, “the relentless assault” on intelligence, morals and good taste continues. First, Ben the literary critic; now Ben the cineaste. And guess what? It’s those damn (fat) Jews in Hollywood what are responsible! Again! As boofhead himself notes:

[That] Brokeback Mountain is received with acclaim by heavily-Jewish Hollywood — which has long sought to debase and destroy Western culture — should be reason enough to see such garbage as part of a concerted assault on White values and traditions.

Of course! (“Evidence? What’s that?”)

Not too long ago we had a movie that perverted the traditional American cowboy heritage with the fictional tale of two gay, yes, gay cowboys. So much for Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger… In an interview, Wyoming playwright Sandy Dixon objected to the film stating that she had “never encountered a gay cowboy” in a lifetime in the state, and doesn’t think what Hollywood is doing is right. To the film’s producers, she said: “Don’t try and take what we had, which was wonderful — the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was — don’t ruin that image just to sell a book… There’s nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone.”

No gay cowboys? Why son, that’s a load of horseshit, right up there with ‘no black cowboys’. Chuck Browning — a real rhinestone cowboy — sets the record, er straight, here. (Incidentally, the passages in bold are ones Ben plagiarised from a racist shockjock called “Frank Roman”.)

As for Tan Lines… Ben continues “in the same [thick, purplish] vein”. Thus according to boofhead:

…a new film is currently in production that concentrates on Australia’s world-famous White surfers[, the ones] who gave a serious kicking to the “multiracial dream” of the corrupt Aussie elite recently[. They] are being targeted [by] a new film portraying a [group] of homosexuals who surf [and live in] “a small town in New South Wales” much like the area around Cronulla, where thousands of Whites rose up against Muslim rape gangs who had been terrorizing the beaches.

Having declared his opinion on a film he hasn’t seen, Ben now proceeds to condemn a film that hasn’t even been released. The filmmaker’s crime, it seems, is to portray homosexuals — eeek! — as individuals capable of… surfing!

Now, Ben’s reasoning abilities may still be in short pants, but:

It wasn’t the Australian surfing community (lead by Mark Richards) who engaged in the violent assaults at Cronulla on December 11 last year. In fact, what happened was that a number of extremely cowardly members of a crowd of 5,000 assaulted several individuals of supposed “Middle Eastern appearance” (including Bangladeshi students, a Jewish boy and a Greek girl). While literally hundreds of arrests have been made in connection to that and subsequent events, the arrests of Danny Glen Shanahan, 20, an apprentice carpenter from Picton; Daniel Paul Kelly, 20, an apprentice plumber from Engadine; and Samuel Murray, 19, of Bardon Ridge, have received extensive media coverage. During their initial hearing, “Prosecutor Paul Upsall tendered media photographs of the riot showing Shanahan striking alleged victim Safi Merhi, who was “cowering” with his arms over his head in an effort to protect himself. Shanahan acknowledged that “this is a cowardly act and deserves punishment”, he said… [while] Kelly cried when he was refused bail.”

Little wonder then that surfers and beach-users around the country have since sought to put as much distance as possible between themselves and racist thuggery such as this. Not Ben though. I’m quite certain, however, that his exultation over violent racist outbursts such as this will — like Daniel Paul Kelly — end in tears.

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Mao More Than Ever // Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’

Posted on January 22, 2006 by @ndy


OK, well, ‘gray’ has forced me to complete my analysis of (non-mainstream) ‘left’ Marxist political parties in Australia by turning to the non-Trotskyist Marxist left. Most of these parties appear to be basically Maoist or Stalinist in orientation: all are quite silly (“more gauche than sinister”) in my opinion, in addition to being even scarcer than their Trotskyist counter-parts (a situation somewhat compensated for by their overall wackiness!).

1) Committee for a Revolutionary Communist Party in Australia: The Maoist CRCPA allegedly publishes two papers — Struggle and Rabblerouser — and is allegedly also ‘close’ to the political positions of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. As such, it appears to be one of the groups the RIM claims is struggling to form a vanguard Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, Down Under. In fact, let’s give over the floor to them (or, more likely, him): “We have set ourselves the task of reconstituting the Communist Party of Australia on the basis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Our perspective is one of leading and unleashing the masses to seize power through revolutionary war and [to] establish the dictatorship of the proletariat in Australia.” Once upon a time you could write to this mob at this address: GPO Box 474D, Melbourne, VIC, 3001. Big on ‘People’s War’, the group — assuming that it had more than one member — appears to have emerged briefly in 1996 only to run to the hills in preparation for the struggle ahead shortly thereafter.

2) The Communist Party Advocate(s) are another group whose continued existence has been rumoured but appears not to extend much beyond 1996. An account of the formation of the group may be found here, suggesting that the party should perhaps be renamed the Communist Party of Australia (CPA-ML) where ‘ML’ = ‘Marcus Larsen’, the ‘communist party advocate’ (singular).

3) Communist Party of Australia (CPA). In reality, the CPA are the artists formerly known as the Socialist Party of Australia. The SPA split from the CPA in 1971 (presumably in reaction to news of my birth) only to reclaim the title in an uncontested bout in 1996. The CPA publishes the weekly The Guardian in addition to the journal Australian Marxist Review.

4) Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) (CPA-ML) is a Maoist party which publishes the weekly Vanguard. It split from the (Stalinist) CPA all the way back in 1964. As was the fashion in those days, it affixed the term ‘Marxist-Leninist’ to its banner in the hope that the Australian proletariat might thereby flock to it.

We didn’t.

5) Marxist Initiative tries to initiate revolution through its publication Australian Socialist. It was formed in 1992 mainly by members of the (now-defunct) Association for Communist Unity (ACU) and is active in the Progressive Labor Party. The group appears to have involved in an abortive attempt in 1997 to establish the New Labour Party, before finally settling on the term Progressive. NB: The ACU was apparently the result of a minority of the SPA’s membership splitting away on the basis of support for the Accord.

6) The National Preparatory Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Australia (or NPCMLCPA for ease of pronunciation) is a Maoist groupuscle which allegedly publishes a rag called Eureka and which gets my vote for most grandiose title (although describing the NPCMLCPA as the Mystery Men of Australia’s fast-disappearing Maoist cult is probably more fitting: “Unlike other superheroes, the Mystery Men are not world famous. They are just ordinary guys trying to be superheroes, albeit not too successfully”).

7) The New Era Communist Party of Australia is an (almost) urban legend, with origins in Queensland.

Must be the heat.

EIGHT) The October Seventh Socialist Movement (known by the suitably sinister acronym ‘OSSM’) is a Stalinist group that publishes The Southern Cross. It emerged blinking into the twenty-first century as a split from from the CPA in 2003, and by now is quite possibly no longer crawling but walking; who knows? From the mouth of a horse known as ‘National President’ Raymond Berbling: “The October Seventh Socialist Movement in Australia was born in 2003, mainly from veteran leaders of the Communist Party of Australia in the state of Victoria, after a lifelong struggle first in the old CPA (now liquidated) and its contemporary, now also taking a similar, irreversible revisionist path. The founders of the October Seventh Socialist Movement believe it is our revolutionary duty to build a genuine Marxist-Leninist party in Australia.” For ‘genuine’, read “based on the writings of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Che, Castro, Hoxha and Mao”! If this sounds like your cup of tea, by all means send fraternal greetings to: John Bennett (National Secretary), October Seventh Socialist Movement, PO Box 607, Carlton South, VIC, 3053.

NB. Both the Socialist Labor Party of Australia and the World Socialist Party of Australia I’ve already referred to in the 2006 Trot Guide.

8 1/2) The Communist Left Discussion Circle is a funky bunch, members of which enjoy discussing… Left Communism (especially as one might find it represented in the pages of the ICC’s World Revolution). I remember being quite startled when not one but two members of this group (although admittedly one was a tourist) attended a meeting at Barricade (in 1999?) to discuss ‘Anarchism & Marxism’. Hell, I was so impressed that a pommy bastard had travelled half way ’round the world just to talk to my comrades, I even bought a copy of their paper! Unfortunately, the ICC homepage states that the PO Box for World Revolution (Australia) is “momentarily closed”.

Finally, an honorary mention must be made of Lastsuperpower.net: “A bunch of decayed Marxists and Stalinists in search of a home…”.

Corrections and/or additions welcome.

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Art = Ego

Posted on January 21, 2006 by @ndy


It seems that Azlan McLennan just can’t stay out of trouble. A couple of years ago (September, 2003) he managed to bring the conduct of students at Melbourne’s VCA into question (although not because they’d hatched a cunning plan to hang the last arts bureaucrat by the guts of the last gallery owner, unfortunately). Instead: “Student conduct at the Victorian College of the Arts is again being questioned after an unsuspecting security guard was hired and then humiliated as part of a performance piece last week.” ‘Again’ refers to an (other) art project of a few months prior: “a student filmed himself apparently killing a chicken”.

Take that, Mum & Dad!

Securicor

I am a working for Securicor,
Take the money and come back for more.
I want to do it cause I know I should,
For the customer and the common good.

As The Age describes it, Azlan:

hired a security guard for an exhibition at the VCA student gallery. The guard, from the international security firm Group 4/Securicor! – which runs various detention centres – was not aware he was being used as an “installation” in the project, which was designed to make a statement about Australia’s policy on asylum seekers. [The private in a private army] was told to let people into the exhibition only if they had an invitation. But the gallery is usually open to the public, and conflict soon mounted between the security guard and students who were kept out. Only a few students had been given invitations, so some people who were unaware of the project became aggressive, and at one point, a scuffle began…

McLennan defended the art work, saying it aimed to show people what it felt like to be denied entry into a place they wanted to enter. “This kind of work is always going to polarise the community, but I’m happy at the end of the day if it sparks debate,” he said. But the incident has been controversial at the college, with some, including staff members, questioning whether it went too far. “I think there’s a widespread climate at the VCA of unethical conduct. It just doesn’t seem to be something that’s on the agenda or something that people think about,” said one inside source.

Azlan has also gotten into trouble with Melbourne City Council authorities and various right-wing pundits in the corporate media over a work — Fifty Six — critical of Israel (and produced with the aid of an $8,000 MCC grant). In May 2004 the work was painted over and council funding to the art group responsible for displaying it was revoked. In fact, last September (2005), “City of Melbourne officials banned him from exhibiting [Canberra’s 18] in its Campbell Arcade under Flinders Street on the subject of 18 terrorist organisations that had at one time been supported by governments in the Coalition of the Willing. So he showed it at Monash University the next month.” (A charge which the Council denies, incidentally. See: ‘Melbourne Council denies censoring local artist’.)


“It’s just obscene and offensive,” he said.

This month, Azlan’s at it again, this time with a poster campaign which I was again unable to see thanks to MiniCult (= “Yarra Trams, the Victorian Government and the City of Melbourne”: the posters in question having been removed three weeks ago). Inspired by the much loathed Metlink (= Melbourne’s privatised and naturally detiorating ‘public’ transport system) propaganda campaign against The Glorious Proletarian Struggle for a Means to get from A to B, Azlan has once more had the temerity to use his ‘art’ to question more than our sense of aesthetics. According to Mark Moor writing in the January 10, 2006 edition of the Herald Sun:

A CONTROVERSIAL artist was censored for the third time in 18 months yesterday after posters that seem to discourage Muslims from using public transport[!] were ripped down.

Victorian College of the Arts student Azlan McLennan allegedly made two posters imitating the Metlink Pay Your Way advertisements, but his version was deemed offensive and obscene by members of Government, transport operators and advertisers.

One poster, in a tram stop on the corner of Victoria Pde and Latrobe St, read “Attention passengers — in the interests of personal safety non-Anglos are advised not to use public transport.”

The second, on the corner of Collins and Spencer St, warned: “Muslim commuters may be subject to suspicion.”

Interestingly, the liberal broadsheet The Age characterised this as a case of an artist victimising Melbourne transport companies and an advertising company! ‘Fare game! Shelters feel the brush of protest’, The Age, Chris Evans, January 10, 2006:

MELBOURNE transport companies and an advertising company that maintains sponsored bus shelters in the city are the latest victims of an artist who two years ago upset the establishment with a work attacking Israel.

Azlan McLennan… has attacked Australia’s part in the war against terror with a parody on MetLink’s campaign against fare evasion…

Outdoor advertising company Adshel, which provides and maintains the shelters, had donated the exhibition space to the Urban Art Collective.

“Racist!” they said.

Some critics argue that McLennan’s work is racist, a charge he denies in Holly Ife’s January 12, 2006, Herald Sun article ‘My art is not racist’:

A MELBOURNE artist whose controversial posters were removed from tram stops on Monday yesterday denied they were racist…

The posters were deemed offensive and removed. But McLennan, who is in Indonesia teaching at a political art workshop, said his posters were designed to highlight the victimisation of non-Anglo minorities.

He said the poster telling non-Anglos to avoid public transport featured an image of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man shot dead on a train by London police who mistook him for a suspect in an attempted bombing.

“This shoot-to-kill policy is a clear illustration of state terrorism and targeting of non-Anglo minorities,” the Victorian College of the Arts student said.

His second poster featured an image of Melbourne terrorism suspect Joseph “Jack” Terrence Thomas, who McLennan claims has been victimised for his religious and political beliefs.

He described the removal of his artwork as a “predictable exercise in damage control”.

McLennan’s website opens to an image of Osama bin Laden with the words “You need me” across it. The site contains links to Arabic news service al-Jazeera, anti-war websites and anti-Zionist organisations.

Stuffed if I can find it though! More serious, perhaps, is Rob Stary’s claim that Azlan’s work might possibly jeopardise Thomas’s right to a fair trial. As Fergus Shiel (‘Public art threatens fair trial: Thomas lawyer’, The Age, January 12, 2006) writes:

A VICTORIAN terror suspect’s right to a fair trial has been prejudiced by posters put up at tram stops as part of a public art program, his lawyer claims…

Rob Stary, lawyer for terror suspect Joseph Terrence Thomas, 32, said the posters were embarrassing and potentially a contempt of court.

Mr Stary said he was alarmed that the words “Attention passengers, Muslim commuters may be subject to suspicion” were superimposed over a photo of Thomas on one of the posters at the tram stops.

He said: “This has the capacity to abort his trial. It is completely ill-advised and probably amounts to a contempt of court. Who knows how many prospective jurors would have seen these posters?”

Thomas, from Werribee, is on bail and about to face trial, having pleaded not guilty to receiving money from al-Qaeda. He has not entered pleas to charges that he provided the terrorist group with resources or support to help it carry out a terrorist attack, and of having a false passport…

Proudly unAustralian

Finally, you can read some of Azlan’s reflections on ‘activist art’ here; critical commentary on “a grandstanding undergrad way out of his depth” may be found here; a more reflective piece on Fifty Six by Doris Reader, ‘Whiteout and the Madness of Truth’, may be found here; a lengthy and (eminently reasonable) Rationalist editorial on the same work may be found here; a ‘Submission by The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)’ to the Senate Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism (No. 2) Bill 2005 — which discusses some of the possible effects of this legislation on artists’ work and provides a potted history of recent censorship of artistic works — may be found here; an interview with Azlan (from some years ago) may be found here and (phew!) on the odd chance that you’d actually like to view some of Azlan’s work…

Proudly unAustralian
Arts Hub Australia
Monday, January 16, 2006

A Melbourne gallery is hosting a self-consciously seditious artwork this month, sure to contribute to the debate about freedom of artistic expression in Australia.

Proudly unAustralian, by artist Azlan McLennan, will be on show at Trocadero from the 18th January – 25 February.

The artwork shows an Australian flag ablaze – a hot button image intended to provoke reaction.

“Proudly unAustralian is an artwork designed to counter the continent’s upcoming anniversary, celebrating 219 years of European intervention,” said McLennan.

“The burning of the Commonwealth flag exercises Prime Minister John Howard’s public, yet begrudging reluctance to outlaw Australian flag burning in 2002, with his admission: “…I guess it’s part of the sort of free speech code that we have in this country.”

The flag burning symbolises the locally and internationally deplored treatment by the Australian government of its indigenous peoples, asylum seekers, its industrial relations and education reforms, US collaboration in the attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and the incitement against Muslim and Arab populations at home and abroad. This act is compounded by Howard’s denial that there is no underlying racist sentiment in Australia following the racial tensions in Sydney in December and more importantly, the government’s clear role in this division of class.”

Catch it while you still can!

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Angry Alien Productions

Posted on January 20, 2006 by @ndy

Brilliant. Artistic genius.

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Why British men are rapists

Posted on January 20, 2006 by @ndy

Why British men are rapists
The New Statesman
Joan Smith
Monday, January 23, 2006

In the world of stag-night excess, lad mags and lap dancing, paying for sex is losing its stigma and more and more men do it. These “clients” are responsible for a grotesque crime, yet they get away scot-free.

In the past couple of years the horrors of sex trafficking have been graphically exposed. It is now known that criminal gangs, usually from eastern Europe, offer innocuous-sounding jobs in restaurants and bars to young women who discover too late that their real destination is a brothel or massage parlour in the UK… [or, for example, Italy]

Such stories rightly cause an outcry, but there is something un-settling about the way trafficking is discussed, as though it were all about foreign gangsters and their victims. Why do these men (and occasionally their female accomplices) go to all the trouble of duping women and girls on the other side of Europe and in south-east Asia, and then transporting them to this country? How has sex trafficking become the third most profitable illegal trade in the world, after arms and drugs? Who, to put it bluntly, are these young women being forced to have sex with each day?

95% of female street prostitutes in the UK use heroin or crack cocaine
76% of the public favour introducing some form of regulation to the sex industry
69% of prostitutes say they report no or hardly any attacks to the police
60% of prostitutes say they have been beaten up or raped in the past year
55% of prostitutes say men have refused to pay them for their services
50% of working prostitutes are under the age of 25
27% of the public believe prostitution should be stamped out altogether
10% of men admit to having used prostitutes
1% of prostitutes say they have stopped street sex work as a result of police activity

See also: Bitch | Lab
The “Natasha” Trade – The Transnational Shadow Market of Trafficking in Women
Donna M. Hughes
University of Rhode Island
“In the Shadows: Promoting Prosperity or Undermining Stability?”
Journal of International Affairs
Spring 2000

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“Un-Biblical, unnatural and definitely un-African”

Posted on January 19, 2006 by @ndy

The BBC reports that “Nigeria’s government is planning a specific ban on same-sex marriages, with five years in jail for anyone who has a gay wedding or officiates at one”. Said the President at a conference of Nigerian bishops in October 2004: “Such a tendency is clearly un-Biblical, unnatural and definitely un-African”.

Preliminary Survey of Homosexuality in Nigeria
Gay Nigeria News and Reports 2002-05
Gay Africa News & Reports 2000-04
Behind the Mask : A website on gay and lesbian affairs in Africa

miss gay nigeria 2004/2005: a cry for understanding and acceptance
Jimmy Leon April 2005: Homosexuality remains one of Nigeria’s most serious crimes: your neighbours can denounce you on suspicion that you have slept with another man and turn you over to the police; if you live in one of [the] states that have adopted Sharia law you can be sentenced to 14 years in jail; in these states you could be stoned to death for showing feelings to someone of the same sex.

Despite all these atrocities the Nigerian LGBTI community face, there can not be a better embodiment of the spirit of resilience, courage, pride and commitment one man possesses. This enormous courage, wit and talent are personal traits Wale is gifted with. He was crowned Miss Gay Nigeria in a glittering function in December 2004.

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2006 Trot Guide Update #1

Posted on January 19, 2006 by @ndy

The 2006 Trot Guide requires a few small additions/corrections:

There’s been a split!

Nah, just kidding. A few points of clarification though:

1) The bloke representing the SLP in Australia would probably respond better to being called DeLeon rather than Lenin. In other words, they ain’t strictly ‘Trots’.
2) Neither is the World Socialist Movement.
3) This is bad news for conservationists. It also means our count goes down, from 57, to 18, to 16. (“Thanks” gray!)
4) But wait! There’s more! I’m now going to turn my attention to the remaining Marxist parties — they have better names and more Byzantine histories than even the Trotskyist groups do. Check it out: the “Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)”; “Committee for a Revolutionary Communist Party in Australia”; “National Preparatory Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Australia”.

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“These are a few of my favourite films…”

Posted on January 19, 2006 by @ndy

All Power to the People!
Barry Lyndon
Berkeley in the ’60s
Breaking the Spell
Broadway Danny Rose
Capturing the Friedmans
Casablanca
Casino
Chopper
Crimes And Misdemeanours
Crumb
Dead Ringers
Devil’s Playground
Dr. Strangelove, Or : How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
End of the Century : The Story of the Ramones
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
eXistenZ
Festen [The Celebration]
Fucking Åmål [aka Show Me Love]
Full Metal Jacket
GoodFellas
Guerilla : The Taking of Patty Hearst
Happiness
Hsi yen [The Wedding Banquet]
Hulk
Hype!
La Haine
Land & Freedom
Land of the Dead
Lilja 4-ever
Mad Max
Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky & The Media
Masters of Horror
Matewan
McLibel
Mean Streets
Mr. Death : The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Paradise Lost
Psycho
Rocking the Foundations
Sanjuro
Secrets & Lies
Sense and Sensibility
Serial Mom
Seven Samurai
Shadowlands
Skinhead Attitude
Spider
Starship Troopers
Taxi Driver
Team America : World Police
The Age of Innocence
The Backyard
The Boys
The Corporation
The Decline of Western Civilization : II & III
The Filth and the Fury
The Fog of War
The Ice Storm
The Killing
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Maltese Falcon
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Shining
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
They Live
Tillsammans [Together]
Todo sobre mi madre [All About My Mother]
Waco : The Rules of Engagement
Waking Life
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]
Yin shi nan nu [Eat Drink Man Woman]
Yojimbo [The Bodyguard]
Zelig
Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège [Zero for conduct]

And a film that I hope will become one of my favourites is The Edelweiss Pirate Film. Read some history and information on the anti-Nazi resistance movement in Cologne during World War II, the Edelweiss Pirates, and the documentary about their struggle here.

The Edelweiss Pirates have become local heroes in Cologne and are due to be immortalized in film. The director Nico von Glasow said he made the film after being surprised to discover the existence of this group. He says like many Germans he knew nothing about the Edelweiss Pirates despite having grown up in Cologne.

“And I wanted to know why I had not heard about them and I asked my friend Jean Jülich and he said something very interesting. He said that if there is one hero in the country then the rest of the country could say they knew nothing about what was going on. But if there is one hero on every street, then it looks bad for the rest of the street.”

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K2

Posted on January 18, 2006 by @ndy

Just one more brief note on the subject of Peter Campbell.

1) Peter is indeed well into his forties: he’s 48.
2) The WPCA was responsible for distributing racist fliers in Toowoomba last year. The latest incident:

Racist fliers left in street with Sudanese family
October 19, 2005
Greg Berghofer
[[email protected]]

THE Catholic Social Justice Commission will report to police that more race-hate fliers have been dropped in city letter boxes.

This time a circular headed White Australian Resistance was distributed in an East Toowoomba street into which a Sudanese family had moved only a few weeks before…

The recent flier depicts two white youths in front of a map of Australia and the words “Youth, Nation, Destiny” and “Save The White Race!” and an Internet address.

3) Peter’s ‘incitement to riot’ appears on Ben ‘Getaway Driver’ Weerheym’s blog. Peter writes:

Okay. No shit, only the facts. My life is communication. I am a Man of many contacts. As well as dealing with many on the high side of life I also have friends in (very) low places, so to speak.
Well, here’s the facts. On Sunday there WILL be many truly hardcore Whites heading out to Cronulla Beach in spite of (or perhaps because of) the warnings against “vigilante” action. Some of these Whites will include some senior membership of the Black Uhlans M.C. These people, including my contacts, are NOT chickenshit sightseers or innocent bystanders. Believe me, all bullshit aside, if these folk arrive at the beach and there is even ONE Arab face in view, there WILL be bloodshed!

Despite Peter’s continual big-noting, he claims:

I KNOW what these people are capable of and I do NOT want to be even on the periphery of any possible action. I am now a family Man and want to grow old with a cleansing ale in my hand.

In a more reflective mood, Peter states:

I got to thinking a bit more about the battle for Cronulla and perhaps there IS some merit to this particular manifestation of “community policing”.

It CAN be done for one simple reason. It has been done BEFORE.

He then proceeds to tell an old war story about violent racial conflict between rival ethnic gangs in Campbelltown, and the eventual triumph of the ‘whites’. The lesson to be drawn from this experience according to Peter?

The conclusion and the lesson? When pressed, and with their backs to the wall a community WILL defend its own people and territory. It is a FACT that this “vigilante” action DID THE JOB!

‘Nuff said.

Peter’s thoughts are also, predictably enough, on the subject of the difficulties neo-Nazis like him typically experience in jail:

…precisely why hateful and ruthless Anti-White groups like FDB will do ANYTHING in their power to put White Nationalists in gaol. Why perverted, vicious, twisted fuckers like “Weezil” and “Darp” burst into spontaneous bouts of masturbation at the very thought of any of us doing time.

They KNOW it is an unusually cruel punishment for Whites in general but an almost certain DEATH SENTENCE for White Nationalists!

THINK about that…

Peter doesn’t appear to be too perturbed at this prospect however. Writing as “People Power! Aussie Style”, inre to ‘Cronulla’, he states:

Their proudest day!

Apart from a few slimy bleeding heart traitors (the usual suspects from the Left) whining on about being “ashamed to be Australian” the White Australian callers to Sydney’s talkback radio stations have so far been almost exclusively supportive of the Cronulla protest.


…and as ‘Anonymous’ he adds:

The only time I am ashamed to be Australian is when they call a gook five minutes off the boat Australian. Let this be a lesson to the bleeding heart red maggots, the majority of White Australians are disgusted with what multiculturalism has bought to the country and now people are doing something about it.

Finally, Peter claims that it was simple love of family that prevented him from joining in on what was in his opinion the beginning of the end for Australia as a multicultural society:

I have spent most of the day beside myself with feelings of guilt and frustration for not attending the Cronulla protest myself. I had family commitments and had to hang around home until mid afternoon when I started phoning my contacts who DID go. Unfortunately I could not get them to answer their phones and I did not want to go into the area without some friends. Also, the media reports were indicating that most major roads into the area were now being blocked.

I must say it was also shameful to see the coppers FINALLY getting out their extendable metal batons and whippin’ the fuck out of White AUSSIES!

Can someone explain why they did NOT do the same on the Sydney Town Hall steps a few years back as they were being spat on by Arabs and hit with flying chairs?

Funny that, innit?

Maybe. But not as ‘funny’ as Peter.

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