Go Delroy! LOL

Posted on April 1, 2010 by @ndy

Unbelievable!*

G20 police officer Delroy Smellie cleared of assault
BBC
March 31, 2010

A Metropolitan Police officer accused of striking a woman with a metal baton at a G20 protest has been cleared.

Sgt Delroy Smellie denied common assault on Nicola Fisher, 36, of Brighton, during the protest in Exchange Square, London, in April 2009.

The officer told City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court he feared objects in her hand were weapons…

[Ian] Tomlinson, 47, died after he was pushed to the ground by a police officer during clashes on 1 April. He had been walking home from work and was not part of the demonstration.

Judge Wickham watched video footage of the incident and looked at numerous photographs before coming to a decision on the case, which was heard without a jury…

Prosecutors have spent some six months looking at the death of Ian Tomlinson. They are yet to decide whether to charge any officers over that incident.

Bonus Justice!

See also : Cops Are (Still) Tops! (March 25, 2010) | Ian Tomlinson & G20 @ The Age (April 23, 2009).

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Whatever happened to… Pauline’s United Australia Party?

Posted on April 1, 2010 by @ndy

*sob*

I only just learned that Pauline’s United Australia Party is no moar. Such dreams we shared…

Party Registration decision: Pauline’s United Australia Party
Voluntary Deregistration

File reference: Reg3607, 07/1038-2

The delegate of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) determined that the application by Pauline’s United Australia Party for voluntary deregistration under s135 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 be accepted.

See also : Whatever happened to… the One Nation Party? (March 23, 2010).

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Notes

Posted on March 31, 2010 by @ndy

Greek Bombs

At the same that the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei/Nuceli of Fire Conspiracy has apparently disavowed responsibility for a lethal attack in Athens on the weekend, a group calling itself the ‘Revolutionary National Socialist Front’ has done gone and claimed it. Authorities still appear to be convinced It’s A Conspiracy!, however, and have pooh-poohed suggestions that it’s fascists what done it. In The Real World, meanwhile, an appeal will presumably be launched to provide financial support to the family devastated by the blast, as the Greek state takes advantage of the incident in order to justify its more general repression of political dissent; a necessity in light of new austerity measures currently being imposed upon the general population…

Greek new terrorist group claims responsibility for Sunday’s bomb attack in Athens
March 31, 2010

ATHENS, March 30 (Xinhua) — Greek terrorist group “Revolutionary National Socialist Front” claimed on Tuesday responsibility for Sunday’s bomb attack in the central Athens which caused the death of a 15-year-old Afghan boy and serious injury of his 10-year-old sister.

In a new development for local guerrilla groups which operate in Greece for years and mostly are anarchist and far-Left, the new terrorist group is pro-racist and targets immigrants on purpose, as well as political and financial targets. That is the first conclusion of counter-terrorism experts based on a statement released on an internet site.

“In Greece in 2010 we are in danger of ending up as foreigners in our own country … Greek governments have no policy on migration … We will not accept this situation. Not at Patisia nor anywhere else. For their sake and ours, foreigners leave every district,” said the statement which concluded with a warning that in the future no gathering in a mosque should be considered safe in Athens.

The perpetrators did not confirm police estimations that the Afghan teenager is a victim of a tragic mistake made by whoever is responsible, but stressed that they do not apologize for any death. “We are at war and in wars even minors die,” the statement said.

Greek police still have not confirmed the authenticity of the claim of responsibility, as just a few hours earlier on Tuesday another group “Guerrilla Group Lambros Fountas” also claimed responsibility for the same attack with a phone call to a Greek newspaper.

A Sale of Two Titties A Tale of Two Cities

In Barnsley, ‘Devil Bitch Tattoo’ in Wellington Street and ‘The Fleets’ pub in Smithies Lane have both closed for business according to Antifa UK. This follows their exposure as being closely associated with and strong supporters of the BNP. (“The Fleets was established in 1993 as the family owned, family run business that it is today. We pride ourselves on a friendly, efficient service…” and keeping the darkies at bay.)

In Melbourne, ‘The Birmy’ pub on the corner of Smith and Johnston Streets in Fitzroy was until mid-2008 under the management of Gary Wayne Kitto, a fascist sympathiser who provided a platform for members of the neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour and the Hammerskins for almost a decade. Despite resistance from local patriotic punks and skinheads, after a community boycott of the pub was initiated it changed hands, and is now a Nazi-free zone. ‘Hold Fast Body Art’ — a tattoo studio on Burwood Highway, Burwood — on the other hand, is still under Nazi occupation, in this case by Justin O’Brien, the Victorian state representative for Blood & Honour. Naturally, patriotic punks and skinheads continue to support the business, but whether or not this is sufficient to keep it afloat remains to be seen.

COMMUNISM!!!!

Richard Bartholomew has an interesting post on the subject of English Teabaggers: The EDL vs “COMMUNISM!!!!” (March 30, 2010). It’s all about the threat posed to England by COMMUNISM!!!!, and how the English Defence League is defending England from it (and Islam).

Speaking of COMMUNISM!!!!, the Socialist Alliance has thrown down the gauntlet to the Australian Protectionist Party (who, it should be noted, are no fans of COMMUNISM!!!! Or Islam). Thus in Sydney: Socialist candidates take on the racists (Peter Boyle, Green Left Weekly, March 27, 2010). Both the APP and Australia First have declared they will be fielding candidates at the upcoming Federal election: Tony Pettitt (Greenway) and Mick Saunders (Lindsay) for AF; Nicholas (Hunter) Folkes (Sydney) for APP. Unlike SA, neither AF nor APP are registered political parties.

“It’s unfortunate but thankfully he has his parliamentary pension to keep food on the table.”

For reasons which remain obscure, former One Nation Party MP David Oldfield will no longer be polluting the airwaves on behalf on 2GB. Aside from (allegedly) having sex with Pauline Hanson — who is (supposedly) pissing off to England at some point — Oldfield was also known for being pranked. “The silly kids who called in” to his show will no doubt be disappointed upon learning that he’s departed, but I reckon his replacement will be rather similar.

“hey everybody iam the bloke that put the [nazi] flag up”

In a shocking new development, the bloke what put the Nazi flag up in his backyard in Brisbane recently has announced he is a member of the Stormfront forum — the world’s leading White supremacist forum, the Australasian section of which is capably administered by Perth plasterer Paul Innes.

Re: White Nationalist forced to remove ‘Nazi’ flag 🙁

hey everybody iam the bloke that put the flag up in the first place the only reason i took it down is that i had threats against my children who were threatened with being stab and bashed and can you believe it by more whites then blacks or any other race work that out. it will be going back up as soon as the media […] off i have had channel ten, nine, aca 4bc radio and the courier mail hanging around still it is the 25th of march as i right this and yesterday it made the local papers again. […] i will fight for the rights of white people and my brothers and sisters but i will not put up with threats to my family and that is that. 14/88

Last edited by Steelcap Boot; 03-25-2010 at 03:52 AM. Reason: No profanity/Avoid racial eptihets.

Obviously, Paul is kept very busy removing profanities and racial epithets, but removing spelling and grammatical errors, logical fallacies and nonsensical assertions from Stormfront is a task he is ill-equipped for. As for ‘chopper 88’ (88=HH=Heil Hitler), he announced his fucking flag’s fucking presence back in January:

Re: Do you fly the Australian flag from your home?

i proudly fly the battle flag from the front of my shed at home and yes ?some people have had a winge about it, but i stand my ground and tell em to […] off its on my property.

Last edited by Steelcap Boot; 01-13-2010 at 03:01 PM. Reason: No profanity.

Poker Face Xtian National Anarchists Sieg Heil!

Poker Face. I thought I’d encountered that name before somewhere, and I had: it’s one of a tiny handful of ‘punk rock’ bands so patriotic they almost burst with pride, strength and honour (and anti-Semitism), and as such the band was interviewed by Portuguese bizarro Flávio Gonçalves, a ‘national anarchist’ who, like Sydney-based fascist Welf Herfurth, once mashed a keyboard on behalf of the bizarro mathaba.net site. In fact, in 2007, Gonçalves interviewed Poker Face for the site.

But who are Poker Face, and who cares anyway?

Well, a bizarro Xtian kult/crazy last-days war-gamers known as the ‘Hutaree Militia’ got themself arrest recently, and of them Poker Face wrote: “At the present time, Poker Face has no comment on the situation developing/unfolding with the Hutaree folks. But given the governments track record against we the free, it makes us suspect government motives first, not the Hutaree… We pray that cooler heads prevail, and we are talking about ALL sides.”

One People’s Project has lots moar on the plastic punks here.

Bonus humanism/neo-Nazism!

Free speech or hate speech?
Norrie May Welby
South Sydney Herald
December 2009
[PDF]

Riot squad, sniffer dogs and police on horseback gathered around the Humanist Society building in Chippendale on the first Friday night in November as a hundred local folk conducted a lively street protest against a neo-Nazi group that had planned to meet in the building.

The demonstration had been initiated by some local people who had been disturbed at the sight of Nazi icons on those apparently using the building for a regular neo-Nazi meeting. In an address to the crowd, one local resident told of his fear as a gay person at seeing people gathering with brazen displays of Nazi paraphernalia associated with murderous homophobia, racism and cultural intolerance. Other people from groups targeted by Nazis expressed similar concerns. Yet the second speaker, Chris Mansergh, a long-term truth and social justice activist, spoke in favour of the right of the neo-Nazi group to meet, on the principle of freedom speech.

Mr Mansergh told the SSH that he had gone to the Humanist Society building a few weeks previous for a meeting of another group, and he and his friends had then been terrorised by people attacking the building with baseball bats and smashing windows, not knowing until afterwards who those people may have been or what they wanted. It seems likely that these people had been trying to protest against Nazis, using the same techniques for which Nazis are notorious.

Kieran Adair, a local university student who came to support the rally, told the SSH: “I don’t want fascists in my city or my country. The Nazis started this way and it’s too dangerous to even let them plant their roots. Hate speech is not free speech.” Dale Mills, 46, a long-term member of the Humanist Society, told the SSH: “I think that freedom of expression is very important, but this is more about organisation, and far-right organisations coming together to organise and promote their policies. If their policies are racist and hateful, I think that leasing them a room to let them do that is a step too far.” He said the booking had probably been made without the nature of the groups being known.

President of the NSW Humanist Society, John August, issued a statement to that effect, explaining that a group called the Public Information Forum (PIF), banned from meeting at Humanist House in 2005, had returned under the name Klub Nation. At the recent AGM in August 2009, PIF/Klub Nation participants and supporters were elected to the Humanist Society’s management committee.

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…Athens bomb blast…

Posted on March 30, 2010 by @ndy

Athens bomb blast kills one and badly injures two writes David Batty (The Guardian, March 29, 2010). Nobody appears to have claimed responsibility for the blast, but the death is the first for some time from such an explosion. The victims have been identified as Afghani and the location a building housing the National School of Public Administration (EEDE) in the neighbourhood of Patisia, but there are few other details. Most reports place the bombing in the context of anarchist and leftist actions such as those conducted by the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei/Nuceli of Fire Conspiracy (the most recent of which occurred only last week). One thing worth adding which does not appear in corporate/state media accounts is the fact that Greek fascists have also been utilising explosive devices in their struggles.

See : #226 | Bomb explosion outside the National School of Public Administration in Athens; 15-year old Afghani boy is dead; was there a warning call?, After the Greek Riots for moar.

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antifa notes (march 29, 2010)

Posted on March 29, 2010 by @ndy

RaHoWa!

“We gird for total war against the Jews and the rest of the goddamned mud races of the world — politically, militantly, financially, morally and religiously. In fact, we regard it as the heart of our religious creed, and as the most sacred credo of all. We regard it as a holy war to the finish — a racial holy war. Rahowa! is INEVITABLE. … No longer can the mud races and the White Race live on the same planet.”
~ Creativity founder, Ben Klassen (1987)

OMGWTF. Bizarro White supremacist cult The Creativity Alliance has gotten a guernsey in the local press in Penrith, NSW. Apparently, ‘It’s Alright To Be White’ — which message comes as quite a relief to this Whitey, I can tell you.

White supremacists target Penrith
Omar Hamwi
Penrith Press
March 29, 2010

WHITE supremacists are targeting Penrith in a recruitment campaign for a group that first emerged in the US.

The Creativity Alliance has distributed flyers at Glenmore Park and Kingswood and posted a banner on the Kingswood Rd M4 overpass recently.

A Glenmore Park resident contacted the Press about the group, which has a Penrith postal address.

The resident, who asked for his name to be withheld, said he was “disgusted” by the group’s message.

“I saw the flyers and thought they were junk mail,” the 18-year-old said.

“Then I had a good look at one and thought, ‘What’s the point?’.”

He said the contents of the flyers didn’t have a place in Penrith.

After receiving about 10 in the past few months, he saw the banner while driving on the M4.

“I remembered the flyers when I saw the flag,” he said.

“I ripped it down and ditched it in a bush, but someone put it back up.”

On the group’s website, its NSW co-ordinator is listed as Chris Smith.

The Press contacted him by email and he responded to questions.

Mr Smith said the group hoped to educate white Australians about “what is really going on in the world”.

“(We are) helping them see through the everyday hypocrisy of a morally bereft society … rather than relying on a biased media and a corrupt government telling them what, how and where to think,” he wrote. “It is time white people awaken to reality and realise that doing what is best for the white race is best for themselves.”

Asked how many members the group had, Mr Smith refused to comment.

LOL.

Actually, Creativity is pretty awesome. Its founder, Ben Klassen, committed suicide in 1993, while its last ‘Pontifex Maximus’, Matt Hale, currently sits in jail. Here’s a video of a March 24, 2001 meeting Hale and his followers organised four years prior to his receiving a life sentence (for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill Judge Joan Lefkow):

The story of ‘Creativity’ — which has undergone numerous schisms since Klassen’s suicide, Hale’s imprisonment, and numerous other, violent incidents — is summarised by the SPLC in its Intelligence Files. In Australia, there’s a bloke in Sydney, and others in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. The Melbourne representative is Patrick O’Sullivan, who gained fame in 2002 after being sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail (for stabbing another bonehead), but is otherwise known for plastering White Man Awake! stickers all over town.

In Sydney, followers of a similar (but even tinier) group, known as the ‘Christian Separatist Church Society’, function under the leadership of a bloke called Ken Cratchley. Cratchley, along with several score other racist froot loops, have joined the Humanist Society of New South Wales (Inc.), and in February 2010, one of their number, Mark Pavic, was elected Vice-President of the Association. His election took place after two small public rallies at the Association’s headquarters, Humanist House, in Chippendale last year to protest monthly meetings of racist kooks; a small amount of media reportage; and a rather larger degree of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of non-fascist membership of the group. Finally, note that another Cratchley — ‘Syd’ — stood for the Australia First Party at NSW local council elections in 2004 in Sutherland, where he gained 289 votes.

Elsewhere, Mick Saunders, Australia First Party candidate for the seat of Lindsay in NSW, reckons that there oughta be less taxes on fuel (he works as a truckie), that the country needs fixing, that his Party is the right man for the job, and that the people of Penrith “need a hospital somewhere” (Libs silent on Lindsay candidate, as Australia First steps up, Caryn Metcalfe, Penrith Press, March 27, 2010).

Move over Patriotik Yoof League, here comes Eureka… Yoof… League

Several years ago now, the Australia First Party initiated a yoof wing, and called it the Patriotic Youth League. It had its moments, but ended with a whimper and having John Drew, a middle-aged gentleman and confirmed bachelor from Brisbane, as its sole member. Chris Smith — the Creative man cited in the Penrith Press — is a fan of the EYL, as is Robert Wills (one of the organisers of the rally AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND ISLAM in Melbourne on April 9), neo-Nazi bonehead Murray Holmes, and numerous other racists, young and old. (Oddly, the ‘Patriotic Youth League’ brand has also been revived by another, seemingly separate, but overlapping, yoof group.)

Bonus !nataS

I’m beginning to think that Satan Is Real, and that Uncle Kerry Bolton is a man NOT to be messed with. Thus:

Case Number: 2105 KERRY BOLTON AGAINST THE PRESS

Council Meeting MARCH 2010

1. Kerry Bolton complains that an article in The Press, on 5 December 2009, entitled ‘A Right muddle’ was inaccurate and biased.

2. The complaint is upheld.

Now, if only Dr James Saleam could take a leaf out of Dr Kerry Bolton’s !cinataS Bible…

Anyway, the Devil is in the detail, or so they say, and one detail of Kerry’s complaint I found fascinating is the following:

10. Its response to the matters raised in paragraph 7 above are:

(a) The initial source for its statement that Dr Bolton was a member of the Nationalist Alliance was a document from April 2008 The ANZAC Declaration: Australia First Party and New Zealand National Alliance: Declaration of Common Interest and Future Relations, signed by Dr Bolton. In response to Dr Bolton’s claim that he was not a signatory to the declaration, nor did he have any input into it, The Press says that the document when originally sourced on the “slackbastard.anachobase” website showed Dr Bolton as a signatory but a later document on another website does not show him as a signatory. The Press’s position is that the original page from Way Back Internet Archive shows Dr Bolton’s name as an active signatory on July 19, 2008 and it cannot speculate as to why the declaration has subsequently been altered or by whom. It stands by its statement that Dr Bolton was a member of the National Alliance.

The Press is correct. The original declaration was signed by Bolton; his name was subsequently removed. In addition to the text on my blog, the document also exists on the Australia First Party website. The archived version (July 19, 2008) includes Bolton as a signatory; the version AF currently publishes on its site does not. Obviously, Bolton’s name was removed from the text at some point after July 19, 2008, for reasons which are not provided on the altered document.

See also : The murky politics of the Right (in New Zealand/Aotearoa) (March 16, 2010) | Don’t mess with Uncle Kerry! !nataS strikes again in New Zealand (December 26, 2009).

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Moar dead in Moscow : Good news for Medvedev

Posted on March 29, 2010 by @ndy

Oh noes! I guess this means that there’s a job for the FSB/KGB/All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage after all.

Long live the siloviki!

Twin Moscow metro explosions kill 34
The Sydney Morning Herald [AP]
March 29, 2010

Two explosions blasted Moscow’s subway system on Monday morning as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 25, emergency officials said.

Russia’s top investigative body said terrorism was suspected in the blasts, although there was no immediate confirmation of how the explosions happened…

See also : [For Dion] Russia ~versus~ Terrorism (December 1, 2009) | “Uranium is ace!” (On Angarsk) // antifa notes : russia (May 27, 2009).

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The evil of sexual abuse has no place in the Catholic Church

Posted on March 29, 2010 by @ndy

Cardinal Pell on Pope’s Letter: Critics Need Facts First
Catholic Communications (Sydney Archdiocese)
March 24, 2010

The evil of sexual abuse has no place in the Catholic Church, and no one should doubt Pope Benedict XVI’s resolve to seeing it eradicated, the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell said this week.

Which kinda begs the question really, which is: if sexual abuse has no place in the Catholic Church, why has it found such a happy home there? Secondly, while Pell certainly has no reason to doubt Ratso‘s claims, nobody else is under any particular obligation to invest them with any more authority than if they were uttered by, say, a child. “Without God we are nothing”, argued Pell recently, but as a speaker at the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne stated, it would be more accurate to argue that without God, Pell is nothing.

See also : Alas for you George! (July 9, 2008).

In the photo, Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale (left) walks to court, accompanied by his support person (Bishop George Pell, then an auxiliary bishop in Melbourne), when Father Ridsdale was pleading guilty to his first batch of criminal charges in May 1993.

But no bishop accompanied the victims, who felt deserted by the church hierarchy. Therefore, Broken Rites quickly became Australia’s main support group for church-abuse victims.

Broken Rites has supported victims (male or female) from the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and the Uniting Church, as well as from smaller denominations.

About 90 per cent of the men and women who have contacted Broken Rites Australia have been from a Catholic background.

The researchers and advocates in the Broken Rites Australia executive team all have a Catholic background but we are non-denominational in our outlook.

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Informal Anarchist Federation… Again.

Posted on March 28, 2010 by @ndy

I think it was maybe a decade ago that the world last heard of the Informal Anarchist Federation, and by way of a very similar stunt… Oh, actually, it was more recent. Anyway, anarchism, terrorism and the Italian state have a history that is very long and quite tortuous (often literally), but Jane reckons ‘The Italian government identified anarchist-insurrectionalists as “the most active and dangerous” force on the domestic subversion scene in its report to parliament on intelligence and security policy for the first half of 2004. That continues to be the case as a heterogeneous galaxy of anarchist groups takes advantage of the political space left empty by the arrest of the latest generation of Red Brigades militants.’

Threatening letter with bullet sent to Italian leader
The Sydney Morning Herald [AFP]
March 28, 2010

Italy’s postal service intercepted a threatening letter containing a bullet addressed to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, while letter bomb sent to a minister caught fire, police said on Saturday.

A large envelope containing a letter addressed to Berlusconi with the threat “you will end up like a rat” was discovered on Friday in a post office in the Libate suburb of the northern city of Milan…

See also : Alfredo Maria Bonanno in trouble (again) (October 3, 2009) | Smash! Magnavox! Spectacle! Videocracy! (September 4, 2009) | “revolutionaries into secret agents and secret agents into revolutionaries” (August 12, 2008).

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LOL ADL : “Australian Defence League” Rally : Melbourne, April 9

Posted on March 26, 2010 by @ndy
    Update (March 28) : It appears that the ADL has decided that discretion is the better part of valour, as one of two Facebook Event pages promoting the mini-Nuremberg Rally has been cancelled (“This event is no longer available because it has been cancelled”).* Those left holding the bag are Glenn Anderson, Mark Hill, Zowie Hodgson, Brian McCrory and Robert Wills. Oh, and the APP and the SCS have offered their support, but what this means in reality is anybody’s guess. Presumably, a few older men in cardigans and some inebriated boys wearing the Australian flag as a cape may attend.

    *Following the publication of an article in the Herald Sun advertising the rally AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND ISLAM, the ADL — a bloke from Perth called ‘Jack’ — has decided to go back to the drawing-board and, in a stroke of genius, re-titled the protest as one against Sharia Law, which is apparently about to sweep down upon Flinders Street Station. Or something. Presumably, the next step in the ADL’s ideological re-positioning will be the adjustment of its aim from the cleansing of Australia of all Muslims to defending Australia from ‘Islamic extremism’.

    Update : Far-Right white supremacists planning anti-Islam march on state Parliament, Padraic Murphy, Nick Leys, Herald Sun, March 27, 2010 | Keep racism out, [Editorial], Herald Sun, March 27, 2010.

Uh-oh spaghetti-oh…

It seems like the E, E, EDL’s last ‘victory’ in Bolton has finally inspired local bigots to organise a rally of their own. Sadly for this mob, This Is Boston, not L.A. Melbourne not Bolton, so the likelihood of any further ‘victory’ is pretty slim… although on the other hand, if the organisers can recruit local patriots from the local punk and skinhead milieu, who knows? At least then they’ll have a soundtrack.

In any event, three boofheads have nominated themselves as organisers of the event: ‘Jack’ from the ADL (Australian Defence League), Mark Hill and Robert Wills. It’s being promoted on Facebook (of course), and scheduled to take place on the afternoon of Friday, April 9 @ Flinders Street Station. The rally is then, it seems, supposed to march from Flinders Street to Parliament House on Spring Street, a process which is scheduled to take three hours.

MASS RALLY AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND ISLAM

Date: Friday, 09 April 2010
Time: 13:30 – 16:30
Location: MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Street: FLINDERS STREET STATION – PARLI[A]MENT HOUSE SPRING ST
Town/City: Melbourne, Australia

Description

LISTEN AUSSIES, IT[‘]S TIME TO HARDEN UP, CLOSE THE GATE, LOOK AFTER OUR OWN AND KEEP OUR COUNTRY AS OUR COUNTRY.

WHO WANTS A WOMAN STONNED [sic] TO DEATH FOR REPORTING RAPE?
WHO WANTS THEIR YOUNG DAUGHTERS CIRCUMSIZED BY [a] DIRTY ARABIC BUTCHER?
WHO WANTS TO HAVE 4 WIVES (1 IS BAD ENOUGH HAHA)?
WHO WANTS THEIR 5 YEAR OLD SON LEARNING TO KILL PEOPLE?
WHO WANTS TO BE EXECUTED IN PUBLIC BECAUSE YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN ISLAM AND [the] QU’RAN?

IF YOU ANSWERED NO THEN WHY WOULDN’T YOU BE THERE??

IT[‘]S TIME TO STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!

Mad as cut snakes, obviously, but not necessarily unable to bring together a few angry young White men eager to demonstrate their masculinity against the enormous threat posed to them and their women by “DIRTY ARABIC BUTCHERS”. Further, given the disruption which has accompanied the antics of the Little Englanders in The Mother Country, the event is likely to attract the fulsome attention of state authorities — that, and the fact that the rally is scheduled to take place at the busiest public transport thoroughfare in Melbourne.

At a more general level, public hysteria, such as it is, regarding the supposedly corrosive effects of IMMIGRANTS AND ISLAM on Australian society is one, perhaps inevitable by-product of the relentless torrent of propaganda from the state and corporate sector regarding the threat posed by Islamists. While this is a message still strongly associated with the former HoWARd Government, which effectively used it, among other other phobias, to prolong its rule, it’s also a factor capitalised upon by the KRudd Government. Last month, KRudd re-emphasised the threat Islamists still pose to the Australian public (Homegrown terrorism an increasing threat, says Rudd, The Age, February 23, 2010) as a means of justifying, at least in part, policies which are only marginally distinguishable from his predecessor.

Leaving the context for such performances aside, the last occasion upon which local (Melbourne) bigots attempted to capitalise upon unease with the presence of Muslims in Australia was, by comparison to the antics of the ADL, relatively moderate, even if the action itself was exceedingly bizarre. Thus in December 2006, a handful of concerned suburbanites declared their intention to organise a contingent of bikini-clad women to descend upon a mosque in Brunswick; not unexpectedly, the organisers abandoned their plans soon after it became clear that: a) there was nobody actually willing to execute it and; b) a tiny number of local fascists declared their support for the proposal (see : It’s Official: ‘Chicks in Bikinis’ prefer Beaches to Mosques, December 10, 2006). In the end, the mosque declared an Open Day and hosted a community BBQ, no bigots were stoopid enough to march, and the day passed peacefully into posterity as one of the more bizarre examples of massively misguided community activism.

The ADL, then, has a difficult job ahead of it, which is partly why it’s attempting to secure support from, for example, racist yoof belonging to the Southern Cross Soldiers, and a myriad of other tiny bands of bigots. (Of course, it would welcome support from just about any quarter in the fight against IMMIGRANTS AND ISLAM.) Regardless of the level of support it does secure, local anti-racist activists have organised a meeting to discuss the event, and what might be the most appropriate response to it. Given that this is the first occasion upon which the ADL has attempted to organise such a provocation, it is also a unique opportunity to ensure that it is met with strong opposition.

    Meeting to plan actions against racist rally
    6pm, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
    Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton

TO BE CONTINUED…

See also : Stunning victory for Scottish Defence League in Edinburgh (February 21, 2010) | EDL in Stoke (January 25, 2010) | New South Whales will NEVER have Sharia Law! (January 6, 2010) | Stop Islamisation of Harrow (in Defence of England)! (September 12, 2009) | English Defence League (September 7, 2009).

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José Manuel Flores Arguijo

Posted on March 25, 2010 by @ndy

See : Honduras: Fue asesinado lider magisterial José Manuel Flores Arguijo., KAOSENLARED.NET.

José Manuel Flores Arguijo, a teacher, writer and trade unionist, was assassinated at his workplace (the Instituto San José del Pedregal) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on the afternoon of March 23, 2010. His killing appears to be one of a growing number of recent murders of opposition activists in Honduras, a country which currently enjoys the leadership of Porfirio Lobo, a rich and therefore good man elected under slightly, er, questionable circumstances in November 2009 after a military coup ousted the previous leader, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, in June. In early March (2010), Hilary Clinton announced the US Government would restore ‘aid’ to Honduras as a further step towards normalising Lobo’s regime (the legitimacy of which has been questioned by some, probable Communists).

The US state has always had a pretty sweet relationship with Honduras, although it had to battle with the United Fruit Company for control of it in the 1920s. In the 1980s, the country served as a base for the US-sponsored contras — the brave men who fought Communism across the border in Nicaragua by kidnapping, raping, murdering and torturing thousands upon thousands of civilians: men, women and children. Currently, Lobo’s government serves, along with that of Chile, as a rebuff to a resurgent ‘left’ in Central and South America, but continued opposition will presumably result in larger piles of bodies, and perhaps even some mildly embarrassing questions for nice people like Hilary.

See also : Latin American Solidarity Network / Red de Solidaridad con los Pueblos Latinoamericanos | Upside Down World on Honduras.

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