Update : Steve the National Socialist has done the White thing and documented his support for Australia First (NSW) in the ding-dong battle for a seat in Sutherland Shire Council Ward A; a minor skirmish inspired by the “growing resistance to the politics of New World Order liberal-globalist-capitalism throughout Australia”. Take it away Steve:
Right
First, the far right (Australia First and Australian Protectionist Party).
In the shire of Sutherland, former admirer of Hitler and member of the Stormfront forum Darrin Hodges — the Nationalist Anarchist Protectionist — wanted a seat in Council Ward D. Unfortunately for Darrin, despite considerable media exposure — and a very handsome face — he came last, garnering just 333 votes or 2% of the total. In Council Ward A, the dynamic team of racists belonging to Australia First (AF) fared a little better; John, Karl and Marleen gaining 867 votes, or 4% of the total. They too, however, came last.
Outside of Sutherland shire, it was a mixed bag for AF. In Blacktown (Fifth Ward), the terrible trio of Tony Pettitt, Terry Cooksley and George Atkinson managed to assemble 1,229 votes between them, or 5% of the total. Congratulations Tony, Terry and George! (The racists also managed to beat Gavin Robinson, with just 139 votes.) In Coffs Harbour, despite being led by the remarkably talented clown Darrell Wallbridge — weddings, parties, anything — AF gained just 436 votes. Again, just 2% of the total. On the plus side, Darrell, Alex Parker, Greg Bailey, Richard Hedditch, and Kevin Baldwin did manage to defeat John Hearne, who received a measly 161 votes. Another plus for AF — or rather, Richard Hedditch — is the one vote he personally received, thus making him a very lucky man. For as Richard noted in his ‘Candidate Information Statement’ (CIS):
My observations of the way humanity is gives me the willies. I’m bored, I want to fail dismally. Electorally, I have no chance whatsoever. I’ll be lucky to pull a single vote, but I’m nominating to run so that my ticket will have the minimum 5 candidates. The ticket I’m associated with has very many good and profoundly brilliant policies. So much so, that if Australia First got a candidate elected I’m sure that I’d push for a 30 percent rates reduction for this electee.
Finally, in Newcastle (Second Ward), the Jew-hating real estate agent Nathan Clarke and his racialist comrades Ian McBryde and Jim Smith failed to sell their anti-Semitic schtick to the voting public. The AF ticket received just 302 votes in total; again, 2%. (Poor old John Sunol came last, however, with just 21 votes.)
Left
Secondly, the far left (Socialist Alliance).
In Newcastle (Third Ward), Socialist Alliance candidates Zane Alcorn, Laura Ealing and Thomas Cameron got 575 votes (2%). In the tense race for Mayor, MC Doc Fruit also came last, with 1,507 votes (2%). In summary then, for the voters of Newcastle, Leninism is more popular than white nationalism, by a margin of 273 votes.
SA, like AF, also stood candidates in Blacktown (Third Ward). Unfortunately for SA (Rachel Evans, Soubhi Iskander and Hassan Abaid), AF (1,229) more than doubled the Leninist vote of just 451 (2%). Finally, in Marrickville Council (North Ward), SA (Pip Hinman, Jill Hickson and Howard Byrnes) fared a little better. Despite coming last, the Leninists gained 4% of the total vote (368 votes).
Now: grab your calculators.
Q. Which comes first? A Bolshevik state? Or a White Australia?
For one night only, Blood & Honour Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins — in co-operation with the management of the Central Hotel, Beaconsfield (1 Princes Highway, Beaconsfield, (03) 9707 1511 / 9707 1128) — present:
and all the way from horribly multicultural Belgium…
Kill Baby Kill!
Note that previous winners of the annual prize for most neo-Nazi friendly venue in Melbourne have been the Melbourne Croatia Social Club (2007) and The Birmingham Hotel (2006 and 2005).
As previously noted, the globe–trottingBlood Red Eagle are from Newcastle (NSW), and their Viking-inspired aural assault is spearheaded by the diminutive Douglas Schott; Ravenous is a local band for local people, *ing the racist psychotic Jesse on vocals (and, possibly, Joel of Bulldog Spirit on drums); while Kill Baby Kill *s Dieter Samoy on vox.
Dieter Samoy is a top bloke and fits the bonehead stereotype exceedingly well: in 2006, good old Dieter was behind a vicious racist attack on a black man and his white friend in Bruges. As a result of these and other efforts by Dieter and his fascist comrades, and as has also been remarked by Belgian antifa, Belgium is rapidly turning into “a playground for all manner of right-wing extremists”; so too — at least for tonight — is Beaconsfield.
Almost 700 boneheads showed up for yet another “Ian Stuart Donaldson (ISD) Memorial” haterock fest in Belgium on 27 October, a disappointing result for the Blood&Honour-Vlaanderen (B&H-VL) organisers who had hoped to attract at least 2,000 nazis to the event.
It is not known whether the poor attendance was because of internal problems in the banned German wing of the organisation but the “event” nevertheless got lots of coverage in the Belgian national media. After having major trouble in finding a venue that could host two thousand participants, B&H eventually reverted to the venue used for last year’s ISD commemoration in the remote village of Wolfsdonk, near Aarschot, in the province of Vlaams-Brabant (Flemish Brabant).
The venue, hired a few weeks ago by a man – not a bonehead – who wanted the place for a “big birthday party”, turned out to be the canteen of a local football club and a huge tent alongside it. At the meeting points, car parks along Belgian motorways where the nazis gathered before moving off to the “secret” location, the people redirecting them were mainly Germans.
At the venue itself, the “security service” was organised by British B&H members who menaced a national TV team that wanted to interview local people. When not doing that, they were ensuring that those attending handed over all their weapons!
On the bill were, among others, notorious hate bands like Whitelaw, Propaganda, Eternal Pride, Avalon and the Flemish band Kill Baby Kill led by one of the fascists – Dieter Samoy – behind a vicious racist attack on a black man and his white friend in Bruges last year.
More attention, however, was paid to beer drinking than to the music with most of the participants at the gig getting drunk and, by getting into several brawls, reducing the event to a chaotic mess. When the organisers called for “a minute’s silence for white hero Ian Stuart” hardly anyone observed it. “Fuckheads who can’t even keep their drunk shitholes quite for a fucking minute for a true white hero” yelled one of the organisers in his own very subtile way. As a result of this fiasco, B&H Flanders had to shut its online forum the next day because it had received so many complaints.
The left-wing party “Spirit”, which was part of the previous Belgian federal government, has announced that it will reintroduce its demand that federal parliament outlaw nazi activities on Belgian soil and also ban groups like B&H that are illegal elsewhere. In Germany, B&H was outlawed seven years ago but in Belgium apparently, the political world lacks the courage needed to ban organised nazi activities.
This failure to act is turning Belgium into a playground for all manner of right-wing extremists. Just days before the B&H hatefest, for example, the far-right Vlaamse Jongeren Westland (VJW – Flemish Youth Westland) organisation staged a “national demo” in the streets of Bruges on 21 October.
Despite an intense mobilisation campaign and winning media attention, no more than 60 to 70 extremists showed up, among them numerous boneheads and a delegation from the Walloon fascist outfit Nation.
At the end of a short demonstration, VJW organiser Pieter Van Damme called for a “national-solidarist society” and demanded more respect for the Dutch language. Taking the presence of French-speaking nazis into account, it is unlikely that everyone present really understood his message. Even though “Freedom Of Speech” (for nationalists) was one of the main themes on the day, the participants in the VJW demo were not allowed to speak to the press.
Neither the far-right Vlaams Belang (VB) nor its satellite Voorpost were present at the demonstration because relations between the “bourgeois-liberal” VB and the “genuine nationalist radicals” of the VJW are very frosty. Perhaps this rivalry explains why the VJW deliberately made use of the old VB slogan “Eigen Volk Eerst!” (“Our own people first”) during the march. Most of the VJW’s activists, incidentally, share a past in the ranks of the VB but were excluded in one way or other.
About 300 anti-fascists, mobilised by the anti-fascist group Blokbuster, protested at the nazi march.
Wim Haelsterman
Reports from Flanders for AFF/Verzet – RésistanceS.
Things have changed a little for Belgian boneheads since this report (seeBad news for Belgian boneheads in Blood & Honour, May 5, 2008; also Blood & Honour in Belgium… and Australia, September 10, 2006) — prompted, in part perhaps, by the shooting to death in May 2006 of a two year old (white) child and her (black, pregnant) nanny. More recently, in the United States: “Two members of Tampa Blood and Honour, a chapter of a particularly violent international white supremacist organization, were indicted in Florida for beating two homeless men to death in 1998. Two other members had already pleaded guilty to the crimes. Federal officials say the men planned to participate in a race war and killed the homeless men because they were deemed inferior”: ‘The Blotter: Updates on Extremism and the Law’, Intelligence Report, Fall 2008 (Southern Poverty Law Centre).
And while the efforts of Dieter & Co. to cleanse Belgium of anarchists, Asians, blacks, communists, the homeless, homosexuals, Jews, leftists and people with disabilities (and assorted other undesireables) may be looked on unkindly by some, the band does at least have the full support of Tom and Myspace.
It may also be considered slightly odd that Australian Customs didn’t ask a few more questions of Dieter and his chums when they arrived in Melbourne last week, but presumably membership of a violent international neo-Nazi network and a violent criminal record is no barrier to entering Australia these days. Meaning that Nick Griffin’s entry to Australia on a proposed speaking tour in December should be a piece of (fruit)cake… As for what the good burghers of Beaconsfield think about making their little hamlet into a happy home to members of two of the most violent neo-Nazi associations in the world, who knows?
Dinosaur Jr : ‘Freak Scene’ Bug [1988] is the third and final pearl in the string of albums released by the original formation of Dinosaur Jr. The music here shows the band moving into ever more orderly realms of composition and structure, even as anecdotal evidence suggests that they were coming apart at their physical seams… (Or so they say.)
Sebadoh : ‘Skull’ Bakesale (1994). Robert Christgau doubted he’d hear a catchier indie album all year.
Mudhoney : ‘You Got It’ Superfuzz Bigmuff plus Early Singles (1988). Compiles their first stellar EP, plus their debut anthem “Touch me I’m sick”, the original studio version of their longest live favorite, “Hate the police”, and much more. Essential. (Or so they say.)
Lazy Cowgirls : ‘Who You Callin’ A Slut?’ Ragged Soul (1995). If The Ramones had been a road-tested biker gang instead of pop-obsessed cartoon speed merchants, they might have sounded something like The Lazy Cowgirls. (Or so they say.)
Update: Nick was scheduled to speak at an “Anti-Islamisation Congress” in Cologne, Germany over the weekend of September 19–21 but has now withdrawn (possibly in order to avoid arrest under Germany’s strict laws on Holocaust denial). “Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, had been on the guest list but after German anti-fascists, with help from Searchlight, published his comments denying the Holocaust, his name was withdrawn just before Cologne city council and the German Interior Ministry condemned the congress.” (Racists gather for Cologne anti-Islam rally, Hans-Peter Killguss, Searchlight, September 2008).
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ay,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty
Oh we are bound for Botany Bay
Oh we are bound for Botany Bay
A leading British far-right politician is planning a controversial speaking tour of Australia. The Chairman of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, has confirmed his intention to visit Australia in December. Mr Griffin’s tour is sponsored by the anti-Asian [read: fascist] Australian Protectionist Party which was formed last year by breakaway members of the Australia First Party.
Announcing Mr Griffin’s visit, the president of the Australian Protectionist Party, Andrew Phillips, said that the British National Party leader would speak to Australian audiences ”on the experiences of the British National Party in their fight to protect Britain and its people from the demographic genocide that is threatening their homeland, caused by the large-scale immigration of people from the Third World”.
Phillips is one of two public figures belonging to the APP; the other is Darrin Hodges, who will be contesting for a seat on the local council of Sutherland Shire this weekend. A former member of the world’s most popular white supremacist website Stormfront, Hodges has since disavowed both his anti-Semitism and his admiration for Hitler, and transferred his hatred and resentment from Jews to Muslims, the latter of which is now identified as belonging to a more general wave of Third World “filth” and “scum” threatening to overwhelm White Australia. Hodges is also a supporter of the fascist New Right/’national anarchist’ grouping, appearing as a member of their ‘black bloc’ at the APEC demonstrations in Sydney last year.
Mr Griffin joined the neo-Nazi British National Front as a teenager and has led the British National Party since 1999. Like the anti-Semitic historian David Irving, he has disputed whether the Holocaust took place, calling it the ”hoax of the 20th century”.
According to HOPE not Hate: “Nick Griffin is one of the biggest deniers of the Holocaust, describing it as the “hoax of the 20th century”. He has even criticised the far-right writer and Holocaust denier David Irving for daring to suggest that some people might have been killed.” According to Danny Ben-Moshe: “Both [Frederick] Toben and [David] Bennett regularly attend IHR conferences, but the more active of the two through these networks is Toben, who has extensive contacts with deniers across the globe. His European contacts are well documented in his travel diary of a 1998 trip to Europe which was devoted to meeting deniers, visiting concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and delving into archives where his findings reaffirmed his beliefs. In London he met Germar Rudolf where they discussed the involvement of Adelaide Institute Online in an English language publication Rudolf is planning, and he stayed with Rudolf on the farm of British National party leader Nick Griffin.” See : Holocaust Denial in Australia, Danny Ben-Moshe, Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism, No.25, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2005 (PDF).
In recent years, however, Mr Griffin has sought to ”mainstream” the British National Party, avoiding overt anti-Semitism and instead focussing on immigration, especially attacks on the Britain’s Muslim communities.
The British National Party has enjoyed modest but significant success in British local government elections, claiming more than 100 elected representatives, though some of these have reportedly split from the party. [See : Where now?, Nick Lowles, Searchlight, June 2008.]
In May 1998 Mr Griffin was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred after he published an article that referred to non-white people as ”mongrel slaves”. He received a nine-month suspended sentence and a large fine.
In 2006 Mr Griffin was again prosecuted for racial vilification, but was found not guilty in two trials.
Mr Griffin attempted to visit Australia in August 1998. That proposed visit attracted strong criticism from the federal Labor opposition and then immigration minister Philip Ruddock reportedly banned Mr Griffin from entry. Mr Griffin told The Canberra Times yesterday that ”I was formally told I would not be allowed in.”
Mr Griffin said he hoped there would be no problems with getting a visa 10 years later.
Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council spokesman Jeremy Jones condemned Mr Griffin’s planned visit saying his past criminal conviction for inciting racial hatred should be sufficient to ensure his exclusion.
”A visit by Griffin ought to be a matter of concern for Australia’s Muslim community, indeed by all communities here who have found that tolerance and engagement is a better path than division and hatred.”
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, said all visa applicants must satisfy the character test of the Migration Act that includes provisions to ensure that a non-citizen will not vilify, incite discord in or represent a danger to the Australian community, or part of that community.
Whether or not Griffin will be able able to visit Australia in December is one thing, but the previous HoWARd Government certainly acted to exclude a number of other undesireables. In 2001, US ‘anti-globalisation’ activist Doyle Canning was denied entry to the country; in April 2005, Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Negri experienced some difficulties (later cancelling on the grounds of ill-health), while Scott Parkin continues his battle with Government authorities to discover why he was kicked out of the country in 2005. On the far right, two leading members of the neo-Nazi NPD have been excluded on character grounds: in 2003, Udo “Six million cannot be right. At most, 340,000 people could have died in Auschwitz” Voigt, the leader of the party, was told to piss off, while two years later, in 2005, the NPD’s Gerd Finkenwirth was also denied entry. On both occasions, their tours were organised by Darrin Hodge’s ‘national anarchist’ comrade Welf Herfurth.
Still, things change.
In May this year, Don Black banned the use of swastikas on Stormfront; and the BNP itself is now lauding the virtues of Zionism. Jews are OK, apparently, if they stick to Israel.
THE British National Party (BNP) is a far-right group headed by Holocaust-denier Nick Griffin. They caused shockwaves in the White Power world a few years back by announcing they couldn’t be bothered hating Jews anymore.
Their rationale: there are so few Jews in England it was a bit like investing energy in loathing the Amish.
Besides, they hated Arabs more. White European Jews were even told they could join, although you had to be assimilated – so no turning up to meetings in a shtreimel. And tuck in your tzitzit for God’s sake.
The BNP even flouted the conventional White Power wisdom on Zionism. They respected Israelis’ sense of nationalism and admired its firm hand in dealings with the Arabs. On the current conflict in Lebanon, BNP legal adviser Lee Barnes says, “It is in our long-term interests that Hezbollah are ground into dust by Israel as that way we don’t have to do it in the future.”
Barnes also complains about media coverage of the conflict: “The obvious agenda for the media is to assist in ending nationalism as an ideology and the destruction of nationalist states like Israel.”
I don’t want to tell anyone how to run their white-supremacist movement but when you’re complaining that the Jews don’t control the media, maybe it’s time to go back to bonehead school.
I was under the boss when they made him
And I was made a short time after that
I was under oath when I testified
I’m under government protection
Now they’re calling me a rat
Mr. Moran, that’s who I am
Some call me Sal, some call me Sam
Some call me when they’re in a jam
Cause I’m the man, I’m Mr. Moran
I eat punks like you, I do for breakfast
You’re just a bowl of cereal to me
I might be from deep in the heart of Texas
Or maybe I’m from New York
Make that Knoxville, Tennessee
Mr. Moran, that’s who I am
Some call me Sal, some call me Sam
Some call me when they’re in a jam
Cause I’m the man, I’m Mr. Moran
They will motherfuck me in a heartbeat
But first they’ve got to find me to do that
I’ve been selling ecstasy in Arizona
Under government protection
Now who’s a fuckin’ rat?
[Mr. Moran, that’s who I am
Some call me Sal, some call me Sam
Some call me when they’re in a jam
Cause I’m the man, I’m Mr. Moran (x2)]
[I’m the man, I’m Mr. Moran (x2)]
…and the preliminary results are in. There’s good news and bad news for Socialist Alliance. First the good news. The SA candidate in the North Metropolitan Region, Julie Gray, who received 413 votes or 0.01 of a quota, has trounced a number of her opponents. Five in fact.
1) CITIZENS ELECTORAL COUNCIL 381
2) (Independent) Eugene Hands 153
3) (Independent) Wally Morris 134
4) Douglas Greypower 118
5) Christopher King 38
The bad news is that Julie failed to gain more votes than a number of her rivals. The five nearest being:
1) ONE NATION 805
2) (Independent) John Eyden 821
3) THE NATIONALS 1,477
4) Daylight Saving Party 1,496
5) (Independent) Brian Peachey 3,125
Because I can… add this update: Cuba, bloggers and the internet wars: a review of Antony Loewenstein’s `The Blogging Revolution’, Tim Anderson, Links, September 7, 2008. “Antony Loewenstein is confused. Flushed with the success of his first book, My Israel Question, he has ventured into the wider world of global politics and has stumbled.” Essentially, Anderson argues that, in his treatment of blogging in Cuba, Lowenstein places far too much emphasis on government censorship and far too little on the structural and technical issues — “where [restrictions] exist, we need to consider whether these are for reasons of bandwidth or of censorship” — which apparently inhibit ‘free’ use of teh Interwebs. Antony responds: Don’t touch our boy Castro (September 9, 2008).
Gosh! What an exciting week it’s been!
I bought some books!
How about that eh?
1) After Theory by Terry Eagleton (2003). Purchased as part of an ongoing but generally feeble attempt to maintain the charade of being a serious student of Philosophy (Theory) and er, the Big Ideas of (Once) Important Thinkers. And because Terry has a sense of humour: “Fate pushed Roland Barthes under a Parisian laundry van, and afflicted Michel Foucault with AIDS. It dispatched Lacan, Williams and Bourdieu,* and banished Louis Althusser to a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his wife. It seemed that God was not a structuralist.” Nice one Terry. See also : What Terry did next… “John Mullan enjoys After Theory, the latest ‘text’ from the high priest of theory, Terry Eagleton” (The Guardian, November 29, 2003) | Terry Eagleton’s After Theory, Amardeep Singh, April 1, 2005 | After Theory by Terry Eagleton, “Abdelkader Aoudjit discusses Terry Eagleton’s take on what comes after postmodernism”, Philosophy Now, #55, May/June 2006.
“Within a matter of a few years, in all the advanced societies, employers, international officials, high-ranking civil servants, media intellectuals and high-flying journalists have all started to voice a strange Newspeak. Its vocabulary, which seems to have sprung out of nowhere, is now on everyone’s lips: `globalization’ and `flexibility’, `governance’ and `employability’, `underclass’ and `exclusion’, `new economy’ and `zero tolerance’, `communitarianism’ and `multiculturalism’, not to mention their so-called postmodern cousins, `minority’, `ethnicity’, `identity’, `fragmentation’, and so on. The diffusion of this new planetary vulgate – from which the terms `capitalism’, `class’, `exploitation’, `domination’ and `inequality’ are conspicuous by their absence, having been peremptorily dismissed under the pretext that they are obsolete and non-pertinent – is the result of a new type of imperialism. Its effects are all the more powerful and pernicious in that it is promoted not only by the partisans of the neoliberal revolution who, under cover of `modernization’, intend to remake the world by sweeping away the social and economic conquests of a century of social struggles, henceforth depicted as so many archaisms and obstacles to the emergent new order, but also by cultural producers (researchers, writers and artists) and left-wing activists, the vast majority of whom still think of themselves as progressives…”
2) The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan. I was gonna buy this when it was first published (in 2006), but I don’t read much fiction, and didn’t wanna shell out $30… so I waited two years and got it for $12. (Which I suspect is a good deal less than DreamWorks Pictures paid for the film rights.) Curiously, in an interview with Stephen Moss in The Guardian, Moss notes that:
As the book was fermenting, Flanagan recognised the echoes of Heinrich Böll‘s The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, and the dues are paid in a note at the end of the novel. “I was after a police thrillerish-type story,” he says. “I tried a couple of different things and came up with this, which I then realised was Katharina Blum. I’d read it 20 years ago, and I thought, ‘Does that matter or not?’ I decided it didn’t, because everybody takes stories from everybody else, and when I went back and looked at it I realised that it’s not the same at all.”
Like Terrorist, Blum (1974) was made into a film (1975). I saw the film before I read the novel — both are… neat. No really: go see and read them. Both. And if you want quality lit and music crit, try this on for size.
3) Terror Laws: Asio, Counter-Terrorism and the Threat to Democracy by Jenny Hocking. A useful, if now slightly (slightly meaning 2003) dated text on the the raft of repressive laws passed in the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington (and Bali), and the historical evolution of state control in Australia via such agencies as ASIO. Speaking of Jenny, Mum gave me a copy of another of her books: Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life. (One day, I’ll read it, but I’m not sure if I should read Power Without Glory first. Probably.)
4) My Israel Question by Antony Lowenstein (I got the first edition, published in 2006 — there’s a second). Antony has a new book coming out right about now the funk soul brother. It’s called The Blogging Revolution.
5) The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. I’ve read the first chapter and it reads well… See also : A carnival of unreason…, Terry Eagleton’s review, The New Statesman, May 3, 2004.
WHEN : 5pm, Saturday, September 13 WHERE : 62 St Georges Road, Northcote WHAT : Food, beer, wine, exciting new stock, heavily discounted old stock… HOW to get there : By public transport: Barricade is located on the No.112 West Preston tram route, very near stop number 27, approximately 20 minutes from the CBD. The closest railway station is Merri on the Epping Line.
Update (September 12, 2008) : “Two members of Tampa Blood and Honour, a chapter of a particularly violent international white supremacist organization, were indicted in Florida for beating two homeless men to death in 1998. Two other members had already pleaded guilty to the crimes. Federal officials say the men planned to participate in a race war and killed the homeless men because they were deemed inferior.” ‘The Blotter: Updates on Extremism and the Law’, Intelligence Report, Fall 2008 (Southern Poverty Law Centre).
“In September 2006, the leader of the Celtic Knights, a now-defunct splinter faction of the Hammerskins in central Texas, planned to obtain firearms and explosives from an active-duty Army soldier in Fort Hood, Texas. The soldier, who served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, was a member of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group. He is now going through proceedings for military discharge.” ‘Extremists in the Military: FBI Reports on Extremists in Military’, Intelligence Report, Fall 2008 (Southern Poverty Law Centre).
This Saturday, a few score boneheads will be assembling in Melbourne for a gig to commemorate the overdue death in 1993 of the English neo-Nazi warbler Ian Stuart Donaldson, a ritual re-enacted every year for well over a decade now. As in previous years, the exact location of the gig is being kept a closely guarded secret. Performing will be local boneheads Blood Red Eagle and Ravenous, and a neo-Nazi band from overseas (almost certainly from either the UK or US). Last year, the Melbourne Croatia Social Clubplayed host to US band Final War, Melbourne bands Bail Up! and Fortress and Perth band Quick and the Dead. The latter band features Murray Holmes, formerly of Skrewdriver. Murray is making a minor comeback with the assistance of another (Perth) punk band called The Homicides — The Homicides are also releasing a split album with Sydney band T.H.U.G., which features two former members of the 1980s neo-Nazi band White Lightning. (The East Brunswick Hotel provided a stage for T.H.U.G. in July, when the band supported English band Sham 69.) The local, Melbourne chapter of Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice has refused to comment on the upcoming gig, instead suggesting that viewers gape in awe at footage of the Bully Boys touring Australia in 2004, especially the striptease at 0:44…
Oh yeah: in the (unlikely) event that Agent Gerbil comes through with the goods again this year, the location of the 2008 gig will of course be published here on Saturday.
Pigs in St Paul, Minnesota, after having raided a convergence space and a number of other buildings, have charged eight anarchists, allegedly members of the RNC Welcoming Committee, with being unpatriotic and conspiring to commit terrorism:
On Wednesday eight members of the anarchist protest group the Republican National Convention Welcoming Committee (RNCWC) were charged under provisions of the Minnesota state version of the Patriot Act with “Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism.” The eight charged are all young, and could face up to seven-and-a-half years in prison under a provision that allows the enhancement of charges related to terrorism by 50 percent. They are: Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald and Max Spector…
According to the Los Angeles Times (Terrorism charges filed in alleged plot to disrupt GOP convention, P.J. Huffstutter, September 4, 2008): “The arrests follow a nearly yearlong investigation by the sheriff’s office and federal law enforcement agencies. An undercover investigator and informants were used to monitor the group, according to court documents. The inquiry found that the group had connected with sympathetic factions in dozens of cities to recruit volunteers and raise funds, according to the documents”.
Crikey! Tricksy Darrin Hodges is… well… tricksy. That’s him (above), appearing as part of the fascist ‘black bloc’ at the APEC protests in Sydney last year. In September 2007, then, Darrin was a ‘national anarchist’. This September, Darrin is a candidate in the local council election in Sutherland Shire — and, presumably, a ‘democrat’, not a ‘revolutionary’. First, smash the state; then, a year later, ‘Vote 1 Darrin Hodges’. Tricksy Darrin has also — as previously noted — shut down his blog, thus preventing pesky journalists from being apprised of some of his more, ah, candid views on the matter of Muslims and the mud races. On the other hand, Jano Gibson, while being able to determine that Darrin is a member of the Australian Protectionist Party — and a former member of Dr. James Saleam’s Australia First Party — has proved unable to dig much deeper. While both APP and AF are ‘playing the race card’, it’s worth noting that Darrin has denounced AF as the ‘Australian Faggot Party’ following some rather… er… queer remarks by Queensland AF organiser John Drew. Darrin’s also described Dr. Saleam as a “criminal lunatic”, an “oily spiv”, a pathological liar, a “political gold digger” and so on and so forth.
Regarding the New Right / “national anarchist” demonstration Darrin briefly participated in, on September 13 Darrin objected to Saleam’s attempted appropriation of the event: “In a recent newsletter, Jim Saleam tries to co-opt the work of other nationalists by claiming he was involved in the planning and execution of the New Right APEC demonstration. This is what he is telling people, this is what he claimed in a recent newsletter…”. In reality, according to Darrin, “The nearest he came was sending his favourite lickspittle (who was told to fuck off) to spy on proceedings. As for being involved in the planning, nothing could be further from the truth and simply demonstrates that Saleam is nothing but a fraud”.
Whereas Darrin…
Candidates play white Australia card
Jano Gibson Sydney Morning Herald
September 3, 2008
THREE years after racial tensions turned Cronulla into a riot zone, several candidates in next week’s council elections in the Sutherland Shire are running campaigns aimed at attracting the xenophobic vote.
Another candidate, Darrin Hodges, a former member of Australia First who is the NSW chairman of the Australian Protectionist Party, has tried to link high-rise developments with an influx of Asian immigrants.
“To ensure that the Sutherland Shire remains a safe, peaceful and harmonious community of Australian heritage, it is important to prevent overdevelopment,” Mr Hodges said in a candidate information sheet submitted to the NSW Electoral Commission.
“Building large blocks of units encourages ‘Asianisation’ (for example, see Strathfield and Burwood).”
The IT consultant, 42, from Engadine, also wrote that he would oppose permits for mosques, sex shops and “any developments that undermine Australia’s traditional and family values”.
This is despite admitting to the Herald he had once been contracted to maintain the server of a company selling adult products over the internet.
Mr Hodges said Sutherland Shire should be a place for white Australians.
“It’s the birthplace of the nation. Europeans discovered and built this country and I can’t see any reason why the shire or any other part of Australia should not remain predominantly European.”
Australia First’s three candidates, Karl Glas, John Newton and Marleen Rapp, said in their letter to residents that Sutherland Shire council had proclaimed the region a “refugee welcome zone”.
“If this scenario was played out, there would come the crime, the violence, the sexual assault and the undermining of our identity to an extent that would dwarf those other problems of just a few years back,” their letter states.
Mr Glas denied his party was engaging in race politics. “The media try to ramp us up as an uber racist party, which is simply not the case.”
He said local environmental issues, such as sandmining at Kurnell, were his party’s primary concerns.
The Mayor of Sutherland, David Redmond, who is standing for Community First, said residents had moved on from the riots and would not be attracted to xenophobic messages.
“I don’t believe they even represent a minority view in our Sutherland Shire,” Mr Redmond said. “I would also expect that after the election you will find that will have been the case.”
Australia First has 14 candidates standing in four other council areas: Blacktown, Newcastle City, Coffs Harbour and Hawkesbury.
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