The question of Hitler’s sexual perversion is a matter of concern to those interested in his personality. It is also a matter of considerable dispute. Many responsible observers who knew him well are emphatic that there was no perversion: later historians are not at all persuaded either of its existence or its importance.
The first published statement that Hitler may have had a perversion was made in an article appearing in 1971 and drawing on a valuable psychological investigation of Hitler prepared for the OSS in 1943 by Dr. Walter C. Langer and other American psychoanalysts and clinical psychologists. This wartime report, subsequently published in 1972, reached the following conclusion with regard to Hitler’s aberrant sexual activity:
It is an extreme form of masochism in which the individual derives sexual gratification from the act of having a woman urinate or defecate on him.
Historians were not slow in responding. The Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, for example, found the discussion of Hitler’s perversion outrageous, irrelevant, and totally unsubstantiated. He concluded roundly and with conspicuous confidence, “There is not a shred of evidence on any of these matters”.
It is important to emphasize that a historian dealing with an emotionally disturbed subject is obliged to use two quite different types of evidence. There is, of course, the familiar kind of testimony which is often thought of as being “solid”, objective, rational, or factual. This sort of historical fact is important and should be evaluated very carefully. But another category of evidence, psychological data, may prove equally valuable when handled with discernment. Historians who feel professionally ill equipped to interpret such data may find it advisable to consult professional psychologists.
With regard to Hitler’s alleged sexual perversion, the traditional kind of direct evidence is not entirely convincing. It comes largely from a former intimate of Hitler’s, Otto Strasser, who told OSS officials during an interview in Montreal on 13 May 1943 that he had learned about Hitler’s perversion from Geli Raubal herself. He said that “after much urging” concerning the nature of her relationship with her famous uncle, she said:
Hitler made her undress … He would lie down on the floor. Then she would have to squat over his face where he could examine her at close range and this made him very excited. When the excitement reached its peak, he demanded that she urinate on him and that gave him his sexual pleasure. Geli said the whole performance was extremely disgusting to her and … it gave her no gratification.
One might well raise questions about the reliability of Otto Strasser’s testimony on anything. In particular, one might well wonder whether Geli would be likely to confide in him over such intimate matters. Langer and his associates, however, reported that other informants–whose names are not mentioned–gave similar testimony about Hitler’s perversion.
Long before Dr. Langer and his colleagues drew up their report, a Catholic priest provided evidence which tends to support their findings. This priest, Father Bernhard Stempfle, had befriended Hitler and helped edit Mein Kampf for publication. He asserted that in 1929 Hitler had written Geli a shockingly compromising letter which explicitly mentioned his masochistic and coprophilic inclinations. Geli no doubt would have been repelled by the letter, but she never received it. It fell into the hands of Hitler’s landlady’s son, a man named Rudolph. Hitler was saved from embarrassment–and conceivably from political disaster–by a remarkable person, a gnomelike eccentric named J. F. M. Rehse. For years this indefatigable little man, who was a close friend and confidant of Father Stempfle, had collected political memorabilia. His rooms were packed to the ceiling with cartons containing copies of official decrees, pictures, political advertisements, and thousands of newspaper clippings. One day Hitler sent the Party treasurer, Franz X. Schwarz, to Rehse and asked him to buy Hitler’s incriminating letter from Rudolph with the excuse that he needed [it] for his collection. But Rehse, on the advice of Father Stempfle, saw an opportunity to profit from Hitler’s embarrassment. He demanded that the Nazi leader assume financial responsibility for his beloved collection. Hitler yielded to this extortion and found the money to underwrite the Rehse collection, which still may be found in the archives of the Nazi Party, now largely on microfilm in the Hoover Institution and in the National Archives.
At any rate, the compromising letter–which probably never went through Rehse’s hands at all–was delivered by Father Stempfle to Schwarz, who gave it to Hitler. It may well be that this service to Hitler helped make Schwarz one of the more influential though publicly obscure figures within the Nazi Party. Hitler further testified to his confidence in Schwarz when he made him the sole executor of his personal will of 2 May 1938.
There is another bit of evidence that would seem to support Father Stempfle’s story of Hitler’s perversion. In June 1934, during the so-called Blood Purge, when Hitler settled his accounts with people who were in a position to embarrass him politically, Father Stempfle was found dead in the forest of Herlaching near Munich, with three shots through his heart.
[For R. See also : Lost Innocents and Forgotten Australians Revisited, Forgotten Australians Recommendation 1: “That the Commonwealth Government issue a formal statement acknowledging, on behalf of the nation, the hurt and distress suffered by many children in institutional care, particularly the children who were victims of abuse and assault; and apologising for the harm caused to these children.”]
MARGARET Penry knows she has spent too much of her life hating.
Transported to Australia from England in 1953 as a child migrant, aged nine, she hated the authorities responsible for her fate, hated the cruelty of the nuns at the children’s home in Camberwell that took her in, and hated the ”filthy, dirty bastard” of a man to whom she was sent to work as a domestic servant, aged 13.
Most of all, she resented living a life so filled with hate…
Federal Minister for Families Jenny Macklin says the event is about “acknowledging the wrongs of the past”.
“I think a lot of people who were placed in institutions and foster homes or came here as child migrants feel that many Australians don’t know their stories and others simply don’t believe it happened,” she says.
“It’s a chance for all of us together to say that we are sorry … that we will never let this happen again.”
[A formal apology, with no acknowledgment of financial liability on the part of the two multi-millionaire politicians — Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull — delivering it on the part of the state will take place in Canberra on Monday, November 16.]
But for Mr Knight, tomorrow’s apology will be ”pretty hollow”. ”We were robbed of any real family life and education,” he says. ”What kind of country sends children to another country – little children without any moral or social support. What kind of country is complicit in that?”
“Of course the people don’t want [X]. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” ~ Hermann Goering, 1947.
Earlier, “Ms Macklin reiterated the Federal Government’s insistence that it was up to the states and former care providers – which include the Catholic Church and Salvation Army – to make reparations” (Nation will apologise to abused and forgotten, Misha Schubert and Miki Perkins, The Age, October 28, 2009).
VICTIMS of Maitland-Newcastle pedophile priest John Denham took the first steps this week in what could be Australia’s biggest compensation payout by the Catholic Church to child sex abuse victims.
Denham is scheduled to be sentenced in December 2009 after pleading guilty to sexually abusing dozens of boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
Some victims have sought a meeting with Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone, one month before Denham is sentenced for child sex offences from 1968 to 1986.
The Denham case could produce a total payout greater than the previous known highest Australian payout of $6 million, paid to nine victims of Maitland-Newcastle pedophile priest Vince Ryan
But it is extremely unlikely to top the known highest individual Australian payout of $2 million, paid by Maitland-Newcastle diocese to a Ryan victim because of the catastrophic impact of the priest’s offending.
Solicitors said this week the Denham matter could be Australia’s biggest compensation case because there were 39 victims, and because of the successful prosecution of former Vicar-General Tom Brennan in March.
Brennan was convicted of knowingly making a false knowingly making a false written statement.
Newcastle solicitor Kate Maher, of Braye Cragg, who acted for a number of the Ryan victims, said evidence that Brennan didn’t act after he was repeatedly told of Denham’s offending was similar to the failed duty of care issue raised in the Ryan case.
Evidence that the late Monsignor Patrick Cotter knew of Ryan’s sexual abuse and “decided to say nothing” was significant because of the breach of Cotter’s duty of care to the children, she said.
Brennan’s conviction is believed to be the first successful Australian prosecution of a priest linked to failing to act over another priest’s offending, Ms Maher said.
But the impact of another church sexual abuse case that went to the High Court in 2007 remained a “significant hurdle”, some solicitors and barristers contacted by The Herald this week said.
Solicitor and sexual abuse victim John Ellis lost his case against the Archdiocese of Sydney, and was ordered to pay the church’s $750,000 legal bill, after the High Court refused an appeal to challenge the church case that there was no one to sue because of its internal structure..
AN EXTREME right-wing group sparked anti-fascist protests after it was revealed it had been holding meetings in a Humanist Society hall in inner Sydney.
The Public Information Forum – also known as Klub Nation or Klub Naziya – was prevented from meeting on November 6 after about 50 protesters gathered at the Shepherd Street address in Chippendale.
Police were called to an earlier demonstration in October when protesters yelling “Nazis out” attempted to disrupt the meeting by banging on doors and windows.
“If they get the message that they are not welcome in Chippendale and move somewhere else we will follow them,” an online post from one protester read.
The group was banned from using the hall by the Humanist Society once before because of alleged racist associations.
David Duffy, the Humanist Society member responsible for bookings at the hall, said the group of about 30 young men had been meeting peacefully there for about eight years. He conceded the group was “right of centre” but said he did not believe it was a neo-Nazi group.
“The sort of people who attend [Mr Rafty’s] meetings would be considered conspiracy theorists to a certain extent,” he said.
“They run a series of discussion groups on political and geopolitical themes. It’s invitation-only. It’s not a thing where they advertise publicly. They don’t do any interface with the community in any way.”
An anonymous letterbox drop of the area calling on residents to “do something about” Australia’s high level of immigration coincided with last week’s protest.
Darrin Hodges from the Australian Protectionist Party said his group stopped using the hall after hearing meetings there were “getting out of hand and rowdy”.
Mr Hodges denied any knowledge of the leaflet drop in the area, but said: “[It] sounds like there’s some funny things going on around town.”
Humanist Society president John August said it had planned a review of its hall hiring policy, but would allow the group to continue meeting at the hall until a decision was made.
“I do not wish to defend any right-wing groups, but equally there is an issue of free speech and free expression,” he said. “How you reconcile those two goals is a complicated issue.”
Mr August said he was disappointed some of the protesters were prepared to resort to violence.
“I have been involved with discussions with Redfern police over this. They are very concerned. We are as much the victims in this situation as anyone,” Mr August said.
In April 1972, sixteen sticks of gelignite exploded in the Communist Party’s Brisbane office, lifting the floor of the building almost six centimetres off the ground. Later the same evening, three rifle shots ricocheted through the Maoist East Wind bookshop…
The next month, the terror campaign returned to Melbourne with an attempt to set the Third World bookshop alight. A week later, the East Wind bookshop in Little Londsdale Street received a fire-bomb through the front door, while Molotov cocktails hit the Radical Action Movement’s headquarters in Palmerston Street, Carlton, the China Friendship Society, and the Source bookshop in Collins Street…
Many naturally suspected the NSPA of involvement in the bookshop attacks, since the Nazis had previously clashed with the Left. In January 1971, the NSPA announced a fascist rally to be held on Melbourne’s Yarra Bank. The Left and the Jewish community organised a counter-rally. When the Nazis did not appear, thousands streamed up to their headquarters in North Carlton. The party’s leader Cass Young later complained:
“All this time we could hear a noise such as that at a football ground, getting louder. Looking outside, I saw that a huge crowd was coming down the street towards our headquarters.
Within minutes there were several thousand people, mostly reds and those of the chosen race, milling around outside. We closed all the doors and windows and I posted sentries at the back and on the roof. We hoisted the mighty flag of our race — the swastika — and the Eureka flag at the top front window. The crowd outside began throwing anything it could get its hands on: eggs, tomatoes, rocks and tins. Soon all the windows had been smashed by flying missiles.”
In June 1972, the NSPA tried to hold its annual conference. The fascists kept the location secret. Protesters instead marched to a triple-fronted brick veneer in St. Albans, which served both as Young’s house and the new [neo-]Nazi HQ. To resounding chants of ‘Death to the Nazis’, they tore the building apart. Surveying the wreckage of his property, Young lost some of his enthusiasm for overt displays of Nazism, and the NSPA collapsed in a bout of internecine warfare, a process nicely captured in the title of David Harcourt’s study of Australian Nazism: Everyone Wants to Be Fuehrer. ~ Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow, Radical Melbourne 2 : The Enemy Within, The Vulgar Press, 2004, pp.148–150.
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This post might be difficult territory for some. It is a minor labyrinth of detail. Even those amongst us with no particular interest in political ‘detective work’ and an esoteric discussion about a lot of funny persons from the political twilight, might spare a moment for reflection. Why?
Essentially, it has become obvious that the ‘Humanist Society of New South Wales Inc.’ (and any other somewhat decrepit organisation with considerable assets for that matter) is now on the receiving end of electronic and paper cheers, jeers and smears, excitements and incitements, and at long last – confrontation.
“Klub Naziya is understood to have met in the area on a monthly basis for the past few months.”
Klub Naziya has been meeting since 2003. Its principal organisers have included a range of figures on Sydney’s far right: David Palmer, Simon Laine and — currently — Jason Rafty. In addition to his role in KN, Rafty addressed the ‘Humanist Society of New South Wales Inc.’ on the subject of ‘Russia Resurgent’ on October 1, 2008.
Rafty, like Palmer was (and as Dr James Saleam is currently) a member of Stormfront, an online forum for aggrieved Whites of various sorts, established by convicted terrorist Don Black. Rafty’s account has recently been expunged. However, traces of his postings may still be found. Thus, on the matter of ‘KN’, ‘JBR’ (Rafty) writes:
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06-06-2007, 09:24 PM
Klub Nation is the only continuous meeting place for white Nationalists in Sydney since 2003. [W]e invite those interested in attending our meetings to reply with your expression of interest by private message. We currently have a central branch and a Hills District branch with a Greater Western branch to be initiated soon.
Klub Nation is sponsored by the PIF Inc ([P]ublic [I]nformation [F]orum) and in essence is a networking and social point for Nationalists. [W]e present a range of guest and in house speakers covering the full gamut of political-economy, and other subjects of relevance to the Nationalist milieu.
The conveners of Klub Nation seek to cast an image as a survivor’s Klub.
Urban survival against the predations of the NWO–Globalist over class is less about arms caches, compounds and tin food stock, but rather having the knowledge, network and social capital to assail and prevail over everything this insidious over class throws at us. NWO tyranny and enslavement is predicated on the atomization of Anglo-Celtic people. Any brotherhood or Klan based unity is like a silver bullet[.]
Klub Nation promotes the “viable Nationalist”: – one who isn’t crest fallen, physiologically addled, impecunious or effeminate. Remaining viable is the linchpin to survival. Like hell, we’re going to become the white trash of South East Asia.
So come along to the next meeting for a bit of good cheer and company of fellow Nationalists.
Klub Nation provides generous food and beverages. It is general etiquette and protocol that entry requires a donation
JBR
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06-10-2007, 06:58 PM
Sydney has become a foreboding and alienating place where the best of our mettle and wherewithal are put to the test.
[W]e live by the mantra “Deal with reality or reality will deal with you”. [N]arcotics and consumerism will only numb you so far.
Klub Nation is a sanctuary from the hellacious environ we call Sydney today.
This coming Friday June 15th we have a presentation entitled:- “A guide to white survival in Oriental Sydney”[.]
JBR
And here Dr James Saleam (“Saleam [Saa-leem],” I say, “isn’t a very European-sounding name.” “It’s pronounced Saleam [Sail-’em],” he says, correcting me. “Saleam.”) sticks his oar in:
1. Stephen Murphy — Independent [“climate sceptic”]
2. Fiona Patten — Australian Sex Party
3. Kelly O’Dwyer — Liberal Party*
4. Isaac Roberts — Liberal Democrats [“libertarian”]
5. Clive Hamilton — Greens
6. David Collyer — Australian Democrats
7. Joseph Toscano — Independent [“anarchist”]
8. Steve Raskovy — One Nation
9. Peter Brohier — Independent
10. John Mulholland — Democratic Labor Party
1. Stephen Murphy is a “climate-change skeptic”. In fact, he is a member of ‘The Climate Sceptics’. You can find out moar about Stephen at his blog. “I strongly believe that we have been mislead on the issue of climate change. I can find no credible scientific evidence supporting the claim that human CO2 emissions are causing dangerous global warming – can you?”
2. Fiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party also has a bone to pick — with Clive Hamilton. Not because of Hamilton’s concerns over global warming, but his ‘clean living’ and ‘nannying’ approach to the availability of sexually-explicit material (pornography): “He might have some great economic ideas but it is frightening that the Greens will endorse a candidate with such Nanny philosophies. When you consider that he joins another anti-sex campaigner endorsed by the Greens, Kathleen Maltzahn, we could be starting to see the rise of a morally conservative streak in the Greens as they increase their vote” (Clean Living Clive, fiona patten, October 25, 2009).
3. Kelly O’Dwyer is a Tory and a former adviser to Peter ‘Catch the Fire’ Costello. She is also the next Member for Higgins.
4. Isaac Roberts — Liberal Democrats. The Mystery Candidate. A Dark Horse.
5. Clive Hamilton — Greens. A well-known face, Hamilton will come second to O’Dwyer.
6. David Collyer — Australian Democrats. Yes, they still exist. “We are the voice of middle Australia, the party of moderation and progress,” Collyer said at the announcement of his candidacy.
7. ‘Uncle’ Joseph Toscano — of the Anarchist Media Institute / ‘Anarchist World This Week’ / Citizens For A Royal Commission into Corruption / Defend & Extend Medicare Group / Direct Democracy Not Parliamentary Rule (nee Vote Informal Today, Direct Democracy Tomorrow) / Libertarian Workers For A Self-Managed Society / People for Constitutional Human Rights / Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion / Sedition Charter / Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner Commemoration Committee — is the go-to man for The Age‘s gossip column, and its favourite local anarchist. A one-man anarchist band, the indefatigable Doctor Toscano has been declaiming anarchy for over thirty years, and contested numerous elections, receiving up to 0.2% support in various tilts at the Federal Senate:
8. Steve Raskovy (OAM) is a 76-year-old anti-immigrant Hungarian migrant and former wrestler (1964 Tokyo Olympics) who lives in Ringwood. “Unfortunately Pauline Hanson made a few racist comments,” he said. “But it’s different now, our treasurer is Dutch, the state director is Italian” (Raskovy in for one more shot at seat, Bianca Carmona, Progress Leader, November 10, 2009).
One Nation is the tenth party Raskovy has joined, and he will also be failing to obtain a seat in the Federal Senate on behalf of One Nation at next year’s Federal election. He “joined One Nation because he knows the horrors of living under a totalitarian regime where only one way of thinking is tolerated [and] people can be jailed for speaking their views”.
9. Peter Brohier is a law-talking guy and a proponent of a ‘National Sea Highway’: “The National Sea Highway concept is that Tasmania should be connected to Victoria by a ferry-based surface travel option offering, all year, comprehensive National Highway equivalence for both people, vehicles and non-bulk freight.” Brohier is bursting with lots of other ideas to reform the state’s transport systems — but will the citizens of Higgins pay attention?
10. John Mulholland — Democratic Labor Party. A descendant of the party born in 1954 and dying — or at least being in extremely poor health — in 1978, the DLP was re-born/the zombie stumbles on in its home state of Victoria, and remains a home-away-from-home for right-wing Catholics and Protestants (see : Turning hard right: the battle for Right to Life, Michael Bachelard, The Age, August 23, 2009). Weirdly, the DLP website states that:
The DLP is not running a candidate for the Higgins By-election. Due to [an] anomaly in the registration of candidates with the AEC, Mr Dominic Farrell, the candidate pre-selected by the DLP executive to represent the DLP at the Higgins By-election[,] has been unable to stand. The DLP hopes to stand Mr Farrell at the next Federal election.
Better still, upon visiting Australian soldiers in ‘Kamp Holland’, PM KRudd has declared that “We in Australia are here for the long haul… We from Australia will remain for the long haul.” Sadly, KRudd had to hop on a plane shortly thereafter, and will soon be (re-)joining other stay-at-home patriots back in Canberra, making his own personal ‘long haul’ a rather short one.
In any event, Operation SLIPPER — involving approximately 1550 Australian soldiers — is going really well, apparently, with billions upon billions of dollars flowing steadily into the bulging pockets of Afghani elites… tho’ a handful of children are not getting enough to eat, and a few civilians have been killed. And yeah, a few chicks are complaining, but then, don’t they always?
Noam Chomsky in HARDtalk
Another wryly-amusing BBC skit. Uncle Noam plays the straight man — as usual — while Stephen Sackur provides the laffs.
As a final illustration of the callousness of the American response to what the mass media reveal, consider a small item in the New York Times of 18 March 1968 headed, ‘Army Exhibit Bars Simulated Shooting at Vietnamese Hut’. The items reports an attempt by the ‘peace movement’ to disrupt an exhibition in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry:
Beginning today, visitors can no longer enter a helicopter for simulated firing of a machine gun at targets in a diorama of the Vietnam Central Highlands. The targets were a hut, two bridges and an ammunition dump, and a light flashed when a hit was scored.
Apparently it was great fun for the kiddies until those damned peaceniks turned up and started one of those interminable demonstrations, even occupying the exhibit. According to the Times report, ‘demonstrators particularly objected to children being permitted to “fire” at the hut, even though no people appear there or elsewhere in the diorama’, which just shows how unreasonable peaceniks can be. Although it is small compensation for the closing of this entertaining exhibit, ‘visitors, however, may still test their skills elsewhere in the exhibit by simulated firing of an anti-tank weapon and several models of rifles’.
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a flashing light when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.
Those and a thousand other examples testify to moral degeneracy on such a scale that talk about the ‘normal channels’ of political action and protest becomes meaningless or hypocritical. We have to ask ourselves whether what is needed in the United States is dissent — or denazification. The question is a debatable one. Reasonable people may differ. The fact that the question is even debatable is a terrifying thing. To me it seems that what is needed is a kind of denazification. What is more, there is no powerful, outside force that can call us to account — the change will have to come from within.
~ ‘Introduction’, American Power and the New Mandarins, Penguin, 1969, p.17.
“…a younger persons’ music gig…” is how Dr James Saleam has described the annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig organised by the neo-Nazi groups ‘Blood & Honour Australia’ and the ‘Southern Cross Hammerskins’ (Melbourne, September 12, 2009). I think this statement probably trumps Ben (the ‘Commie Killer’ who plays bass for Marching Orders et. al.) and his description of the gig as involving ‘persons of a right-wing persuasion’… “and fuck you stupid fucking anarchist pieces of shit. Fucking die already.”
ROFLMAO.
Anyway, over to that Lebanese Greek fella…
It’s A Small World? Who And What Is Now Mobilizing Against Us?
Dr. Jim Saleam Eureka! #196 (8.11.09)
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This article might be difficult territory for some. It is a minor labyrinth of detail. Even those amongst us with no particular interest in political ‘detective work’ and an esoteric discussion about a lot of funny persons from the political twilight, might spare a moment for reflection. Why?
Essentially, it has become obvious that Australia First (and anyone else pushing a pro Australian barrow for that matter) is now on the receiving end of electronic and paper smears and incitements and at long last – confrontation.
This was shown when the Sydney Forum was picketed on September [26]. A small number of demonstrators arrived to shout ‘fascist’ at Forum guests and try to obstruct entry to the RSL venue. The Police ultimately moved them on. These people called themselves ‘Antifa’ (or [anti-fascist] as the term means) and were drawn largely from the anarchist inner-city sub-culture. A couple of websites have tried to fuel this world of marginal people with the hype to take on the nationalists physically and, although there is some sort of tension between the anarchists and the scribblers at these sites, they finally took their cue.
Some weeks prior in Melbourne, the Antifa opted to damage the shop of a man involved in organising a younger persons’ music gig. Reason: Antifa considered the gig “fascist” and “racist”. Needless to say, this may have led to other incidents and the anarchists complain of – a certain direct response.
Herr Doktor refers here to two incidents — one on (or about) September 14; the other on the afternoon of Monday, September 28. On the first occasion, a post on Melbourne Indymedia states: “On the morning of the 14th of September, anti-fascists attacked the business of Justin O’Brien, known to be the Victorian representative of Blood & Honour, a worldwide neo-[N]azi organisation responsible for various race-hate crimes, including [?] the racially motivated murder of a woman and her baby in Belgium. O’Brien’s tattoo shop, ‘Hold Fast Tattoo’ [Hold Fast Body Art] in Burwood was painted with ‘Nazi Scum’ and signed ‘Antifa’, in addition to its windows being smashed. This comes after Blood & Honour held its annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig in Melbourne on Saturday night. Ian Stuart Donaldson was the singer of the late British neo-[N]azi skinhead band ‘Screwdriver’.”
On the second occasion, Justin and three of his kameraden paid an impromptu visit to the ‘Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre’. Staying for approximately 10 or so minutes, the boneheads demanded to ‘speak’ with myself, threatened with violence the group of six or seven individuals present (who were attending a meeting of a group campaigning against sexual violence), and stated that if there were any further ‘anti-fascist’ activity in Melbourne they would return and make good on their promise of violent assault.
All in all, an odd way for Justin to drum up business for his tattoo studio; but I suppose that, in fairness to Justin, in these uncertain economic times, thinking outside the box is a prized tactic for aspiring small businessmen. See also : MAC statement on neo-Nazi attack on MARC.
Let us be very clear and precise. Anti-fascism is usually a game operated by deluded people at the behest of others who play from behind the scenes. A group is found that the establishment dislikes and fears. Australia First Party, the nationalist movement generally, is that target. The media reacts and smears the challenger in any number of ways. Lately, figures from the major parties and other liberal commentators have criticised our movement as a dangerous and evil thing, but our challenge grows and has raised itself to a national profile. We are still a small force, but we are taking on organizational flesh.
So it occurs that we must now receive a dual attack: an entity (ie. Antifa) is brought to bear, one that stalks the new movement physically whilst also stigmatizing it propagandistically in the terms the establishment would have it labelled. In other words: through confrontation and harassment, we may be restricted; by calling us names in public and via reporting of the new group’s actions, some people who may be available to us as voters and activists, could turn away in confusion. Just as screaming at a bloke “wife beater, wife beater” might cause some to think he is one, so calling patriotic ordinary Australian working people “fascists”, could cause some members of the public to think it’s true – and they would decline support.
Note that Saleam has two criminal convictions: one for fraud, the other for his involvement in the organisation of a shotgun assault upon the home of ANC representative Eddie Funde: “Saleam was living [at The Bunker] in 1989 when he provided a shotgun to two boneheads who fired into the home of Eddie Funde, the African National Congress representative in Australia. Funde and his wife were inside and shotgun pellets narrowly missed their sleeping baby. Saleam was sentenced to 3½ years’ jail for his involvement. It was also the venue for an insurance scam in which he falsely claimed the house had been robbed. He was jailed for two years for fraud.”
This anti-fascism is as much psycho-politics as physical politics. It is designed to vex, confuse and disorient. Having someone scream that the party is something it is not, to risk arrest and carry out assaults in the name of a false position, is bizarre. Yet, that is the point. To mobilize people against us, the operators of Antifa must spoon feed something to the troops to keep up their activism. “I get it”, said one old World War Two veteran, who had just been called a “Nazi” as he entered the Sydney Forum venue; “he needed a straw man to knock down, some idea in his head to keep him fighting.” True.
The anti-fascists in the street are genuine fools. They really believe that the Australian nationalists would impose fascist rule if we could, will cause no end of social turmoils and hatreds on our path to power and they really imagine that we are inspired by historical fascism. As anarchists or Trotskyites or Maoists, they are impelled to act. For sure, it is all a delusion. In fact, we intend to impose (sic) a radical democracy upon Australia! Yet, knowing this impulse to act against us exists, the shadowy players who need a confrontational Antifa to do the dirty work can move more easily to mobilize it. Hence, we observed those websites like ‘Fight Dem Back’ and ‘Slackbastard’ and which tried to organize the protest movement, had establishment connections with the Labor Party and Zionist groups and so on, were just too brazen and the Antifa was hesitant. Reasonably, pseudo revolutionaries don’t like the establishment either. So other less obvious agents are undoubtedly employed such that the new Antifa structure can be promoted into street politics and given a certain media sanction – as long as it does its job.
That was bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E., very bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.
A month or so ago, the staff at the incontinent pro Australian I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. blog ‘Whitelaw Towers’, put it out there that in Sydney at least, a peculiar clique of people based on the leadership of the former Builders’ Labourers’ Federation (BLF) in New South Wales and a network that was connected to it and formerly instrumental in the old Maoist-style Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist), had been sniffing about, setting up small structures to push odd communist type agendas.
The members of this grouping have freed themselves of much of the ideological baggage of Maoism, but have retained their taste for a radical communist solution. In that regard, these people were not beyond embracing such of the arguments and methods of the anarchists if it leads to ‘direct action’.
After yet another ‘anti-fascist’ action on October 2 in Sydney, this time aimed at a speaking event in inner-city Chippendale, the interest of the ex Maoist group in anti-fascism, was revealed. Such a small world politics can be when bad eggs return to the fray.
A certain writer appeared on the Indymedia website, someone whose suggestions are pregnant with the future. This writer, who I quickly understood to be one C. Maltby, recorded how he and his friends once turned over a literature table of a student nationalist organisation at the University of New South Wales and directly confronted the group. That was 1979. I was there. Maltby naturally omitted that he had positioned himself behind Mr. F.K. Salter chairman of our group [‘National Alliance’] and struck him to the head with a (thankfully smooth) rock. Although Salter sustained no real injury, it was a dangerous assault. Maltby was alluding to old, perhaps to his mind, happy memories. His article counselled further and aggressive action based upon the ‘validity’ of violent confrontation.
Salter stood for the seat of Grayndler in June 1979: he gained 863 votes (1.7%). He quit the Alliance in May 1980. In October 1980, Saleam stood for the seat of Parramatta. He gained 1,248 votes (1.9%). In May 1981 the Alliance merged with the ‘Progressive Conservatives’ and the ‘Immigration Control Association’ to form the ‘Progressive Nationalist Party’; following the PNP’s collapse a short while later, ‘National Action’ was launched on ANZAC Day (April 25, 1982).
To say that Maltby is just a would-be thug underestimates the fellow and those he sails with. The Maoists were not unintelligent. He has reviewed the political landscape and – using my name to make the point – tells his readers [captain swing, Re: Anti-fascist demonstration, Chippendale, October 14, 2009]:
…Kevvie’s ALP, with the Breakfast Creek mob providing invaluable support ‘in the rear’ – but beware, the collapse of the ALP could give the likes of Saleam rallying points around which to gather votes… If Saleam et al ever get anywhere west of Parramatta in Sydney, watch out! And what will the likes of the Greens do then? Hit them with banana leaves, or try to reason with them? No, they’ll just ‘peacefully protest’ as all democratic institutions are torn apart. Only one answer and it’s still Socialism Comrades – it would be a very different form of Socialism – perhaps the Anarcho-Syndicalists do have something, other than books to sell! Cheers, The Captain.
In one regard, Mr. Maltby is dead right. Australia First intends to campaign to gather the support of working people – and Western Sydney holds many disgruntled unionists and self-employed people under the gun of big business and now too hosts a legion of young unemployed. This social pattern is duplicated in every metropolis.
Maltby proposed a new alliance to stop us from realising our objective – an alliance of the anarchist movement and leftover activist Maoism. Interesting. Now that anti-fascism is in the street, we now see the forces of our opposition meld together. We are warned and must become prepared.
I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. is down! I repeat, we have no I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.!
The opposition, which Australia First Party and the entire patriotic movement faces, will gather in pace and in intensity. This cannot be avoided and is a reflex to our growth. How we handle it will be a major test of our courage, resources and professional acumen. Needless to say, whatever plans we may have cannot be discussed in the open on a website or in an e-mail newsletter.
Certainly, we will stand our ground and extend our reach. We intend to develop a party with popular roots and to do so over the next twelve months. Swatting the blowflies of Antifa is simply ensuring that we reach those Australians we need that we may move to higher stages in building our mass work.
Australia will be getting their hands on Lily for three special headline gigs taking place in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in January 2010!
Lil’ will be heading down under to wow the crowds on the following dates…
Tuesday 19th January – River Stage, Brisbane
Thursday 21st January – Hordern, Sydney
Thursday 28th January – Festival Hall, Melbourne
Wow.
Also wow is the fact that, a lil’ while ago (September 2009), Lily done a Metallica.
In September 2009, Lily started blogging: http://idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com/. Sadly, her blogging efforts were less well-received than her muzak, and not long after she opened it, Lily closed her blog down. On September 20, Lily posted the following:
letter to all artists
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The debate on digital music piracy is reaching a critical point as Peter Mandelson and the government move to legislation that will tackle unlawful file sharing. The industry’s had a say, the ISPs have had a say and some artists – through the Featured Artists Coalition [-] have had a say. But I don’t agree with them. Do you?
I feel really strongly about file sharing. I see it having a damaging effect on British music – especially on emerging artists. Overall the internet’s had a great effect on music and been crucial in helping people like me break through. But file sharing is different to legal streaming or making some music available as promotion. File sharing eats away at opportunity for new artists: by cutting off income at the most crucial, cash-strapped point in their careers and by limiting A&R’s ability to sign new acts outside of the mainstream.
The ISPs have got their message out there: they don’t want to be the internet police. Fine. The industry has got its message out there: they’re losing money and they want it back. No surprises there.
And now some artists have got their message out there: that file sharing is fine when you’re a successful artist with sell out tours and a back catalogue ready to be sold to a new audience. That might be fine for them, but it’s not fine for the acts that haven’t made it big yet.
What I’d like is for artists that don’t think file sharing is fine to get their message out there too. I want to make it clear that file sharing is not alright. And I want the industry and the artists that have made it, to look at how we can help those artists that are still struggling to break through in the file sharing age.
So obviously I’m writing you because I’d really like your help. You don’t have to like my music – you don’t even have to like me. But if you think file sharing’s not alright and reckon we should be doing more to ensure emerging artists aren’t cut off, then I’d love a hand.
I want to get everyone together – the artists, record companies, ISPs and government – to properly talk about this. So we can stop bickering and try and come to a solution. We can even see if we can come up with some new ideas too.
I want us to talk about how we support emerging artists. If we support emerging artists, we can ask our fans to support them too. And if we’re not going after piracy, we need to talk about how we are going to support new talent.
The majority of British artists are against file sharing, because it will harm British music. We can talk about all the legal means of accessing music out there and even come up with new ways to access music, but ultimately we need to establish that we think file sharing is wrong.
If you agree with what I’m saying and want to be involved with voicing our opinion, then get in touch.
I THINK ITS QUITE OVIOUS [sic] THAT I WASN[‘]T TRYING TO PASS OF [sic] THOSE WORDS AS MY OWN, HERE IS A LINK TO THE WEBSIITE [sic] I ACQUIRED THE PIECE FROM . Apologies to Michael Masnick[.]
My email is working again, and to celebrate I’m posting.
Stuff.
Alpine Anarchist Productions
Alpine Anarchist Productions is a site maintained by some troublemakers — who really should know better. Anyways, one troublemaker, Gabriel Kuhn, is in town to talk. On Monday, November 16, he’ll be speaking on the subject of ‘Anarchism, White Supremacy, and Anti-Racist Action’; on Wednesday, November 18, on ‘(The State and the Future of) Radical Publishing’. Both events are being held @ Loophole Community Centre (670–672 High St, Thornbury), from 7–9pm.
[Viola/Gee]
Amadeu Casellas
Amadeu Casellas, an anarchist prisoner in Spain, ended his hunger strike — begun on July 15 — on October 21. This followed the decision by a Spanish magistrate to authorise his forced feeding. Amadeu is in a very poor state of health, but his family, friends and comrades remain determined to free him.
[Martita]
Kulon Progo : Peasant Resistance
‘Kulon Progo Regency’ is one of the four regencies of the ‘Yogyakarta Special Region’ (Indonesia). Coastal farmers in that part of the world are fighting against mining company ‘PT Jogja Magasa Mining’. The company, in conjunction with Indo Mines Limited (the Australian-based company formerly known as ‘Australian Kimberley Diamonds’), is planning on establishing an iron mine, one which will displace local farmers. Thus:
Indo Mines Limited owns a 70% interest in the Jogjakarta Pig Iron Project located approximately 30 kilometres from the major city of Jogjakarta, Indonesia. In November 2008 Indo Mines signed a Contract of Work with the Indonesian Government to develop the Project. The Company is now in the process of completing the Bankable Feasibility Study and arranging finance. The Project has a JORC compliant mineral resource of 605 million tonnes and the initial focus is to mine and process the 273 million tonne surface sand unit down to a maximum depth of 9 metres.
Peasant resistance to the mine, and the organisation of that resistance through the umbrella organisation PPLP (‘Paguyaban Petani Lahan Pantai’ or ‘Association of Shoreline Farmers’) is documented in a blog : Bertani atau Mati – Tolak Tambang Besi. Of the PPLP, the author(s) note that:
The organisation had an unusual structure. Aside from a chair, secretary and treasurer and their deputies, they also appointed older farmers as advisors. There is also a field coordinator in each village, who acts as a delegate, uniquely this coordinator is only ever one person, and they often rotate in a quite flexible way. Each village also has an autonomous PPLP unit, each with its own structure. What is clear is that there is no-one that holds authority in the PPLP structure. The whole coastal community are members of PPLP and their feelings about new information in the mining plan is always discussed at the meetings of each PPLP unit as well as the umbrella meetings. One more unique feature is that there is no office for either the umbrella organisation or for each PPLP unit, as each household along the coast is a space for coordination.
The PPLP has also been active in organising protests. Here is footage of a protest held on October 20, 2009:
[Jurnal Anarki]
Noam Chomsky
Dunno why, but for some reason the ABC’s ‘Background Briefing’ has broadcast an interview with Uncle Noam. Who’s Uncle Noam?
He’s over 80 and has written or contributed to 95 books. At one time he was the most cited living academic, a Vietnam activist and a thorn in the side of Reagan. Today he is also critical of ‘the left’ with dire warnings. Noam Chomsky is as astute and interesting as ever. Producer, Kirsten Garrett.
[dj/Viola]
Bonus!
McShit has been expelled from Iceland! This just goes to show that every global financial crisis has a silver lining…
Huzzah!
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald’s restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight Saturday due to soaring costs.The world’s largest fast-food company said earlier this week that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would shut down October 31. Iceland has been reeling from the effects of the financial crisis since October 2008, when its banks collapsed in the space of a week under the weight of billions of dollars in debt. The fall of the banks sapped confidence in Iceland’s economy and sent its currency, the crown, into freefall. McDonald’s said the crown’s weakness was part of the reason for its withdrawal, along with the high cost of importing food from abroad. McDonald’s said it would not seek to come back to Iceland. In a nearby stationary store, Thora Sigurdardottir, a 35-year old nursing assistant, said she had no intention of going for a final McDonald’s meal. “Good riddance,” she said.
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
