Anarchism and Aboriginal sovereignty

Posted on July 16, 2008 by @ndy

The relationship between anarchists and the state got off to a pretty rocky start in Australia. Initially established as a penal colony in 1788 — a prison island for the human excrement Great Britain’s rulers believed constituted a greater proportion of the criminal class than they wanted to pollute their cities — the Stolenwealth of Australia was officially declared open for business on January 1, 1901. When the first Australian Federal Parliament opened in Melbourne on May 9, 1901, the anarchist John ‘Chummy’ Fleming interrupted the proceedings (much to the displeasure of the detectives watching him) by loudly proclaiming that, for the poor, there was little to celebrate.

Since invasion, much the same has been true for Australia’s indigenous peoples. Prior to 1788, the territories that have come to constitute the contemporary nation-state of Australia were occupied by hundreds of different peoples, numbering perhaps 750,000. By 1911, 123 years after settlement, the Aboriginal population had been reduced to 31,000 (see Colin Tatz, ‘Genocide in Australia’, AIATSIS Research Discussion Papers, No.8, 1999), and most of its peoples exterminated.

So too, ‘Aboriginal sovereignty’.

John Tracey reckons that the left — in particular anarchists — “attempt… to euphemise the notion of sovereignty”; in other words, seek to somehow avoid acknowledging that ‘sovereignty’ means — in theory but, moreover, in practice — “the legitimate government and ownership of this land” (Australia). Unfortunately, I’m aware of relatively few anarchist writings on the subject of Aboriginal sovereignty. Two that I am aware of are a text, Whitewash: Australia’s Bicentenary: Another history, issued by the ASF in 1988 for the bicentenary of invasion, and a more recent essay by Owen Gager which appeared in a local zine produced by the Barricade collective several years ago (‘Aboriginal Sovereignty: An Anarchist Critique’, In Ya Face, No.5, 2003).

The ASF pamphlet doesn’t appear to be available online, but Gager’s essay is, and so I reproduce it below.

An important part of the anarchist project in Australia involves repairing the damage caused by white colonisation and the attempted genocide of indigenous peoples. As Owen Gager argues in the following article, part of this process involves critically examining the issues of sovereignty and how it relates to the struggle for a classless, non-hierarchical society.

Aboriginal Sovereignty: An Anarchist Critique

Some people within the anarchist community are now, after looking, understandably, at the expropriations of the Aboriginal people as the basis of white settler state and economy, trying to appeal to the concept of “sovereignty” as the basis for an anarchist conception of Aboriginal struggle, a struggle they see as crucial to ending Australian capitalism. In taking this course, however, they follow the dominant rhetoric of the campaigns promoted by the state-funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission (ATSIC) [abolished in 2005]; the rhetoric, that is, of those who claim to be Aboriginal leaders.

In looking at Aboriginal society, we are looking at a form of society which long antedates our own. The concept of “sovereignty”, as it has developed in Western (white) political theory, takes its point of departure from an analysis of such early societies, “societies without government”, as the English writer Hobbes called them. Hobbes [1588–1679] characterised these societies as sites of “war of all against all”. Such societies, it is claimed, are unsustainable as social entities and provide for their members only radical insecurity which threatens life and property. In Hobbes’ theory, the earliest statement of what sovereignty means apart from Bodin‘s [1529/30–1596], this “war of all against all” can only be ended through a “contract” with a sovereign – a King, a parliament, or a “Lord protector” such as Oliver Cromwell. This is for Hobbes, sovereignty. This “contract”, very much like the Newstart Activity Agreement and other Centrelink creations, is a contract which gives one party, the sovereign, all power, and the other parties to the contract the ‘right’ to obey. As a theory of state totally irresponsible to its subjects because the alleged alternative is chaos, or “anarchy”, it prefigures fascism and colonialism.

Readers of Peter Marshall‘s Demanding the Impossible will notice both extreme similarities and extreme dissimilarities with Hobbes. Most pre-twentieth century anarchist writers envisaged anarchy as the continuance of natural laws carried over from the very earliest societies, where the “natural rights” of men and women were respected and guaranteed, as outcomes of consensus in a society where each person knew everyone else. The state, when it arose, shattered these existing non-contractual rights, destroyed existing natural law with unjust edicts by all-powerful rulers, for whom, in Randolph Bourne’s words, “war is the health of the state”. The tranquility of a natural society is overthrown by a “war of all against all” as states dragoon ordinary people into wars for extension of state power and territory. For both Hobbes and his anarchist opponents, “sovereignty” and “anarchy” are diametrically opposed ideas. The differences are over the content of these concepts.

40, 000 Years is a Long, Long Time…

The problem with both kinds of theory is that they are based on myth rather than history. There is no historical record of “social contract”, in the forms Hobbes envisaged, ever being agreed to on a specific time or a specific date. Conversely, the search for societies which gave equal rights to all genders, and had no record of eradication of non-human animal species, has not produced large numbers of early utopias. Nor has the geographical spread of the social principles of these few model societies always extended very far or for very long. One can say, nevertheless, that most of the earliest societies of which there is some record, including Australian Aboriginal societies, were not “chaotic” or unstable in Hobbes’ sense; as we have noted, until undermined by external invasion, Australian Aboriginal society lasted a very long time indeed. The absence of state and of employment and of money is characteristic of a great number of early societies.

“Sovereignty” in international law arrived, like all written law, with white colonialism. It was in more ways than one the law of the conqueror; as the international law of the conqueror it was an etiquette of conquest agreed on between rival conquerors. Imperialism immediately proclaimed the “sovereignty” of the racist power it imposed, describing the pre-existing society as Hobbesian chaos. Where, as in New Zealand / Aetearoa, a militantly undefeated indigenous majority confronted a white settler minority, this majority were told that they were “sovereign” – using a word for “sovereignty” unknown to most Maoris – and that “sovereignty” would be recognised in the “treaty” in which they agreed to sign sovereignty away to Britain. Once, as a consequence of this treaty, a white settler government was set up, which waged open and victorious war against the indigenous people, the “treaty” was declared a nullity since the Maoris suddenly were found not to have been “sovereign” when they signed it! The New Zealand treaty, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, is still not recognised.

It is this colonialist conception of “sovereignty” which “leaders” like Pearson and Langton want to enshrine in a “treaty” they now chatter about – a “sovereignty” which has never existed under white rule, which they will formally renounce by signing a treaty, in return for promises, which, like the Wik judgments, will never be kept.

Sovereignty & Globalisation

How relevant is any form of national sovereignty under conditions of transnational corporate globalisation? Clearly, today, the national sovereignty even of existing “independent” states can be overruled by decisions and actions of transnational corporations backed by international economic bodies like the WTO, most obviously in freedom to make economic policy. The erosion of sovereignty through the absence and withdrawal of capital, which can take the form of a refusal of capital to employ, has been experienced by a would-be “aboriginal nation” pre-emptively as a strike on pastoral and mining capital in tropical Australia, following on court rulings giving Aboriginal workers equal pay.

The transnational corporations made explicit claims to a new form of sovereignty in the late 1960’s (see Global Reach [Richard J. Barnet and Ronald E. Müller, Simon & Schuster, 1974]). This was the claim, in the terms borrowed from neo-Keynesian economists like Benham, of “consumer sovereignty”, on its face a claim to a form of popular, not state sovereignty. Here the illusory social contract of Hobbes found a new expression, the social contract as the contract between buyer and seller, a contract on the basis of which transnational corporations claimed power over and against the state as the only entity which allegedly could sell to the consumer what s/he “demanded”. This claim is obviously tautological, since “consumer demand” is in turn defined as demand for what corporations produce, and can sell at profit, while any kind of demand (demands for basic commodities by the world’s poor) is excluded by definition, as incapable of expression in a contract of sale, since the poor lack the income to buy.

Aboriginal “Sovereignty”

This definition of sovereignty has excluded Aboriginal people since the beginning of European settlement as too poor to buy what capitalism produces and committed to social forms of moneyless exchange. The new global definitions of sovereignty do not recognise states and nations. Even if they did, Aboriginal states are composed of a majority of poor citizens, excluded by definition from sovereignty. There have been less of those who view ATSIC as precursor to an Aboriginal state than as a kind of corporation, with a land base, provided by land rights legislation (Michael Mansell), a capital base, provided by the expropriation of Aboriginal social security payments, and a labour force (forced unpaid labour of those deprived of social security payments). The existing Community Development and Employment Program (CDEP), which pioneered work for the dole in the Australia, already uses dole payments to some extent as capital, but still provides renumeration to workers and is not entirely conscriptive. The bulk of existing ATSIC funding is earmarked by the white government for CDEP programmes. CDEP is not a model of “consumer sovereignty” in that only a few consumer goods are produced for sale, but it is intended as a beginning. The problem of this model of “sovereignty”, which attracts Pearson, Langton, and even Foley in a recent issue of The Paper, is that a corporation, especially when the WTO’s projected General Agreement on Trade and Services is introduced, can be taken over by another corporation. Unpaid unskilled forced labour is not unattractive to some multinationals. (This might even be a bit much for Noel Pearson, though one wonders.) It is no protection against TNC takeover to limit claims to sovereignty to political dimensions; nations, too, can be taken over, as many Australians have noticed. One must ask, indeed, if a white Australian sovereignty remains for Aborigines to supplant.

Sovereignty, in its traditional political sense, is the ability of an elite to make laws with the backing of a standing army. Sovereignty is not government itself, but the physical and legal conditions for government. Once in place, such political sovereignty, placing beyond legal challenge government as a property-protecting agent, can be transferred to corporations. As the incarnation of property successfully protected, TNCs grow bigger than governments, subordinating them to themselves and basing themselves more on economic than military power as an ultimate resort.

How can anarchists endorse such a concept? Aboriginal societies have never needed such “sovereignty”, relying as they did and still do for their social cohesion on forms of consensus decision-making that long anticipated anarchists finding a name for the process. How can the form of liberation of an oppressed grouping be defined in the oppressor’s language?

Each distinct Aboriginal people has its own description of the relationship to the land which link it to a particular geographic area, in its own language. Although this is often now described as “traditional ownership”, it is not ownership in the capitalist sense of a right to do what one pleases with the land. It involves duties to the land as well as rights; more duties, probably, in most cases, than rights. One might, in very Western terms, describe such relations to the land as expressed – if one knew, or were permitted to know, the languages in which they were expressed – as poetic popular ecologies. And why should not ecology be expressed as poetry? If there is to be any claim to decide who may or may not enter a geographical area, it should be ecological, not political. (By “ecology” I do not mean a theory of “population pressure”.)

The argument between Aboriginal and white capitalist ways of life is about ways of life, not sovereignty. Ecology before economics. Consensus decision making, not “leadership” by individual politicians, white or black. Moneyless economies based on mutual exchange, where no-one is left hungry as resources are shared, instead of the creation of poverty for corporate power. Work reduced to physical minimum not systematic overwork. Self-activity (collective not individual) not employment. Yes, we know Aboriginal society was neither a paradise, nor a utopia – that it had many problems, in many ecological and social areas. But, compared with the society we are now living in, its values, what it tried and may often have failed to do, were infinitely preferable to the society we now live in unhappily. Shouldn’t that be what we are arguing about, not “sovereignty” – the imposition of the state on an anarchic people? The Aboriginal community leaders who fail to argue this – to present the dominant values of pre-European Aboriginal society as values that everyone, Aboriginal or not, can share and develop further – are, as their own people will tell them, not speaking after traditional discussion and debate, and are using whitefella language. It is not for anarchists to follow in the footsteps of any leaders, especially this kind.

The defence of Aboriginal society by raising issues such as sovereignty – which it claimed, so far wrongly, can be contested in Australian or international courts – assumes that the issues of what society we choose to live in raised by the Aboriginal past and the issues of proletarianisation raised by the Aboriginal present can be somehow resolved by litigation. This is ridiculous. These kinds of issues are not resolvable in law but raise questions about the relevance of law to radical social change. The dispossession of the Aboriginal people is not an historic act which occurred illegally in 1789. The wave of expropriations, of land, of children, the now threatened expropriations of personal incomes, have been continuous and still continue. Talk of “sovereignty” addresses, at best, only one of those atrocities, historically the most distant. Such talk tells people, like the politicians in the old Wobbly song, that the quickest way to revolution is “talking constitution!”. That is and has always been a lie.

Most Aborigines – with the exception of a few non-traditional leaders aspiring to be corporate CEOs – are now members of an unemployed underclass, who, unlike other unemployed, can look back to a past in which almost all capitalist relations were reversed. That early society arose, as it were, spontaneously, without conscious design – “natural”, in the sense that it could not and did not make plans to prevent its overthrow, which it did not foresee. A future society, borrowing enormously from Aboriginal and similar societies, will be a product of planning and agreement between all members of the oppressed classes – especially because it will comprise not capo individuals but real, social individuals who will try to form a society in which the forms of the present total and overwhelming sovereignty of capital we now experience can never be repeated.

Anarchists respect Aboriginal societies, and other indigenous societies adhering to the same family of non-capitalist values, not because they are compelled somehow to do so by pre-existing forms of “sovereignty” but because they choose the values of indigenous over against non-indigenous societies. The social values of Aboriginal society were worked out by people for whom globalisation in its present form did not exist and was inconceivable. The new international underclass, the millions thrown out of “their” countries by political persecution and poverty – and facing concentration camps in the countries in which they seek refuge – is the living critique of and the new destructive force threatening capitalist globalisation. The insights of the new underclass, one meshed with the old, combine the future and past in ways that global capitalism cannot counter.

Note that at the time of publication, the US anarchist Arthur J Miller offered the following comment in reply:

“[This] article is a good example of Eurocentic white supremacy within the anarchist movement. It is not up to white people, even white anarchists, to tell Indigenous people what is best for them, for that is just a continuation of white supremacy. Also the anarchist writer lacks an understanding of indigenous sovereignty. Indigenous sovereignty is not a statement of what form of self-rule they have but rather the need for self-determination in order to try to defend their right to their culture and ways against genocide. True sovereignty was not an indigenous concept before the invasion, but since the invasion it has become important for survival against the invaders. [This article] places anarchists in line with the invaders and Columbus.”

A veteran anarchist, Miller is also the author of another pamphlet, In the Spirit of Total Resistance: A Spark of Anarchist Resistance [PDF].

See also (links courtesy of Ana):

Settlers in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty (SISIS)
Indigenous Solidarity | An (Un)Settler’s Place
Confronting the ‘settler problem’: Thoughts on Indigenous solidarity organizing in “Victoria” [Canada], Joanne Cuffe, New Socialist, No.59, Winter 2006/2007
Indigenous Resistance (Insurrectionary Anarchists of the Coast Salish Territories / Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: “Against Capitalism and Colonization”)

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Them’s Fightin’ Words!

Posted on July 15, 2008 by @ndy

Jeff Monson v Kimbo Slice:

Josef Stalin v Tsar Nicholas II | Nestor Makhno v Bogdan Khmelnitsky:

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Tsar Nicholas II, the country’s last monarch, are running neck and neck in a contest sponsored by state-run Rossia television called “Name of Russia,” a Russian version of the BBC show “Great Britons” aimed at selecting the country’s most significant historical figure…

Mass voting by Ukraine-based Internet users placed two Ukrainians, anarchist leader Nestor Makhno and uprising leader Bogdan Khmelnitsky, in the top two places in June. “These two were deleted because that attack happened from the Ukrainian part of the Internet, and that was picked up,” Lyubimov said. Asked if this was democratic, he said, “This is a game, and I set the rules.”

Korean Drummer v Arch Enemy:

Love v Money:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.

I Corinthians xiii (adapted)

Bulldog Skin v Bulldog Spirit:

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I Fucking LOVE Mondays

Posted on July 14, 2008 by @ndy

On the one hand:

And on the other hand:


And on the third:

Monthly death tolls of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan surpassed US military deaths in Iraq in May and June. Police say they believe the death of 16-year-old Will Berky Saturday afternoon was due to either a prior medical condition or perhaps accidental. Today Cundle of Bullrush Close, Walkden, near Salford, Greater Manchester was starting four years and three months jail after being convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, driving without a license and having no insurance and having defective tyres. The Newsday article “Menthol cigarettes linked to higher tobacco-related deaths” describes the results of a new study dealing with the higher death rates among menthol smokers. The proof was a death certificate provided by the morgue with a change of date coinciding with Teddy’s own car accident. Mrs Dell points out that prime central London is unlikely to suffer from a ‘crash’ because the majority of owners are affluent and unlikely to become ‘forced sellers’ (those who have to sell due to death, divorce or a change of job). A STABBING and a separate sudden death incident failed to dampen the party atmosphere as 80,000 music fans enjoyed the 15th T in the Park at Balado. Cyril Obinka was shot to death in his cab in St. Petersburg in May. ‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sir Ian Mc Kellen has once again received death threats for being open about his sexuality and supporting gay US bishop Gene Robinson.

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First Josh Wolf now Tim Lewis

Posted on July 14, 2008 by @ndy
    In what appears at first glance a reprise of the situation once facing independent journalist Josh Wolf, the case of Tim Lewis:

Quash this subpoena Grand jury’s order violates Oregon shield law
The Register-Guard
July 13, 2008

It shouldn’t take a judge more than five minutes to decide to quash a misguided grand jury subpoena aimed at forcing a local videographer to surrender a tape he shot during a May 30 anti-pesticide rally in Eugene.

The grand jury’s order is an outright violation of Oregon’s media shield law. The law, one of the strongest in the nation, specifically protects anyone “employed by or engaged in any medium of communication to the public” from being compelled “by subpoena or otherwise” to testify or produce evidence from “any unpublished information obtained or prepared by the person in the course of gathering, receiving or processing information for any medium of communication to the public.”

Tim Lewis, a longtime local videographer and activist, says there’s “no way” he’ll give up the tape, which contains both released and unreleased rally footage. Lewis is on rock solid ground to resist the subpoena. The video is, as he told Register-Guard reporter Jack Moran, “the same as (a reporter’s) notes.”

Oregon’s shield law was written before the Internet completely redefined “a medium of public communication.” But there’s no question that the Picture Eugene videos Lewis shoots and posts on the YouTube Web site qualify as “information,” as defined by the shield law. And YouTube is nothing if it isn’t a whopper of a “medium of communication.” The video that has captured the interest of the grand jury has been viewed more than 8,000 times on YouTube since it was first posted on June 3 [below].

The 52-year-old Lewis is a fixture in the Lane County anarchist/activist community who for years videotaped police activities for public-access cable shows “Cascadia Alive!” and “CopWatch.” He describes himself as an independent journalist, and for purposes of the shield law, Lane County District Attorney Doug Harcleroad agrees.

Lewis was arrested in 1999 while videotaping a protest-turned-riot in downtown Eugene. Police seized his tape and charged him with disorderly conduct and interfering with an officer.

The charges were ultimately dismissed after Harcleroad conceded that “there were some problems” with prosecuting Lewis. “Mr. Lewis is a reporter, and he was reporting,” Harcleroad said at the time.

Just as Lewis was reporting on May 30 when he managed to capture some, but not all, of the events that took place during the rally in Kesey Square. Lewis said he tried to begin recording when uniformed Eugene police officers first approached Ian Van Ornum, but he didn’t realize that he needed to load a new tape into his camera. He wasn’t able to begin taping until after a Eugene officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue Van Ornum.

The potentially thorny question of whether independent online content producers qualify for protection under Oregon’s shield law isn’t very prickly in this case. The district attorney has already declared Lewis to be a reporter for the purpose of engaging in the same kind of video information gathering that is the subject of the current subpoena.

It’s important to remember the larger issue at stake in this case. If reporters are routinely compelled to provide testimony or evidence in legal proceedings, especially from their unpublished work, they will quickly be seen by the public as a de facto arm of law enforcement. Their promises of confidentiality in crucial cases of wrongdoing will be made meaningless.

Kyu Ho Youm, who holds the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, clearly expressed the value of a reportorial privilege in a guest viewpoint he wrote for The Register-Guard last October:

“The reporter’s privilege is not necessarily for the news media as an institution. It is for everyone, in that it promotes the public’s right to know.”

See also :

Ore. videographer vows to defy subpoena for footage, First Amendment Center, (Associated Press), July 13, 2008
Activist claims he won’t give up tape, Jack Moran, The Register-Guard, July 10, 2008
Witnesses to arrest want police prosecuted, Jack Moran, The Register-Guard, July 10, 2008
Police use of Taser prompts new complaint, legal confrontation, KVAL, July 10, 2008

Breaking the Spell on YouTube // Green Scare // Barwon 13

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Do Not Disturb

Posted on July 11, 2008 by @ndy

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Whatever happened to Andrew Sanders?

Posted on July 11, 2008 by @ndy

RRTAA!

Andrew Sanders is an odd fellow.

In December 2005, Andrew came to the attention of anti-racist activists, and subsequently state authorities, after authoring a website titled Fightback. (Funnily enough, that site is now home to a Trotskyist groupuscule.) The site gave detailed instructions on how to prepare for the second Cronulla civil uprising — one scheduled, in the minds of the perhaps few dozen phantasists who masturbated online over its commencement, for the following weekend. Arrested by police / ZOG agents in the days following the Cronulla pogrom / civil uprising, Andrew was charged with a number of offences. Trial commenced in October 2006, and Andrew was eventually exonerated.

As a white supremacist, Sanders had form, joining the Stormfront site in October 2003 as ‘blue-eyed-devil’ and again in May 2004, when he employed the pseudonym ‘blue8eyed8devil’. (For those of you joining us late, the number ‘8’ is used by white supremacists to represent ‘H’, the eighth letter of the alphabet. ’88’ is ‘HH’, where ‘HH’ = ‘Heil Hitler’.) The main point of agreement uniting the various racist and fascist crackpots on SF is their hatred of Jews — a message to be “forged in titanium” according to the Amerikkkans who administer the site — and Sanders was no exception:

At risk of getting flamed and offending people, I must say, very few White Nationalists I know would be moved by the American dead during this farcical ‘war on terror’ as we all see them as futile masses working for ZOG. Whilst there is some innocence in ignorance, following their Zionist overlords without question to their death is their own choice.

They did not die for us, they did not die for the White Cause, they died for greater Israel. I can not mourn their deaths or I will be, as most judaeic [sic] brainwashed folk, a hypocrit [sic] blinded by hollywood inspired patriotism. ~ January 30, 2005

And just in case anybody missed it the first time around:

The jewish power base is in America like a cancer, I do not think in my lifetime or as long as my Race exists we will see a White America. ~ February 1, 2005

At one point, Sanders even expressed interest in attending a meeting of ‘Klub Naziya’, arranged by Australia’s Most Loved Neo-Nazi, Dävid Palmer. As for his website, posing as an interested — to be precise: enraptured — third party, Sanders had this to say (prior to his arrest):

A fantastic organisation has been setup for this express purpose, a combination of various groups I believe, they can be found at [Fightback] … they featured on the front page of the news papers today, I recommend you read through their guerilla handbook of this Sunday[‘]s protests, some awesome -awesome- ideas there.

We need to stand united this Sunday, every one of you needs to attend, no excuses should be made as no excuses will be tolerated when the stormfront breaks.

So one day when your kids ask “Where were you when the revolution started daddy?” you can reply, “In the vanguard.” ~ December 17, 2005

Eerily prophetic words, as just a few days later Sanders was indeed in the vanguard: the police vanguard.

“STALIN IS COOL HAHAHA I R B JEWISH FJEER MEH!”

Prior to his Cronulla-inspired shenanigans, Sanders spent some time on Stormfront outlining his views.

My biggest problem with most self declared White Nationalists is the fact they have bollocks like mice attached to them. Most will not stand up in public because that would be suicide, but alot [sic] draw the line when in a semi-closed group also.

Your problem from this post and from your other post really sounds as though it could be resolved if you were to network and get together a select group of friends. I don’t mean start a cult or group of psychotic whites spouting hail [sic] hitler at every given opportunity as that severely ruins our image.

Just a clean cut group of White youths who influence the world around them to match their political views and agendas.

Remember, to all those reading this post, you don’t see Jews marching through Time Square screaming “STALIN IS COOL HAHAHA I R B JEWISH FJEER MEH!”. Neither should we. ~ May 15, 2004

Sanders is a few stubbies short of a six-pack, obviously, but the above does conform to his subsequent behaviour, not only with regards Fightback, but also the Tunnel Rats and most recently ‘The Law Society of the University of Western Sydney’.

There are many great ideas in this thread, there are some which would be twisted into our backs as knives too. The ultimate fact is, we cannot change the world. The jews have spent the last three thousands [sic] years infiltrating us, they have spent since the begining [sic] of the presses taking control of them and other niche industries (gold, diamonds, power in general).

What you men and I do in our lifetimes will never counter that, at risk of a reich to match the past reichs, a revolution. Revolutions however are not easy wins, and once you lose you can expect your countries and people to be opressed [sic] with severe dogma from the still controlled media.

The only solution is to inhabit someplace [sic] small and logistically sound (like Tasmania), begin swinging votes by making circumcision illegal (bam, there goes the jewish population), which isn’t a hard thing as most parents and doctors refuse to do it anymore as mutilating one’s children serves no purpose. It’s 2005, we can all wash our genitals quite well now.

Secondly you make kosher and hallal [sic] slaughter and meat illegal due to the fact it is cruel to animals. Already we’ve got the majority of voters on side as these are concientious [sic] moral issues most people agree with. You could even go as far as swinging with the advanced scientific beliefs of the third reich of a vegetarian state, which was a very strong idea put forth by Mr H…

[Sanders then proceeds to expound on The Wonders of Tasmania.]

Once the three legislative changes above have been made you will have a relatively core group of society remaining. A coup d’etat wouldn’t be neccesary, with 10,000 people alone assisting the masses in accepting our idea the social economic change itself would be like starting a boulder rolling down a hill to freedom. ~ February 2, 2005

Uh-huh. To create the perfect White Nation, just follow this simple recipe:

1) Move to Tasmania.
2) With 10,000 others, assist the masses in understanding and accepting the White Nationalist cause.
3) Take over the Government.
4) Introduce legislation outlawing male circumcision, kosher and halal butchering.
5) Watch the boulder rolling down the hill to freedom.

And voilà!

Coincidentally, when Sanders received bail, one of the conditions for his release was that his mother keep him on a very short leash while in public.

But hey, Andrew, what about Jude? As it happens, in his first post on SF, Sanders made available to the melanin-deficient world a mighty -mighty- manifesto. After advising against the use of the term ‘Jewnited States of America’, Andrew writes:

…The Jude organises himself through his church, through his social gatherings. Whilst their churches are unlike ours, they discuss matters directly affecting their people.

We on the other hand, as white nationalists, the men and women in the vanguard of our race, rattle chains, and throw stones at Israeli tanks, al [sic] la Palestinians.

This is NOT the way to win a war.

The implications in the post about the ADL that it was from a ‘goyyim’ [sic] defeated the purpose of the post and will bring their attention to the frame-up and is contra our efforts.

I live in Sydney, Australia. We too are infested with yids in power who are inbreeding our civilisation with asians and arabs in an attempt to water out our blood and prevent us from rising against tyranny.

Flyers are relatively pointless as they are merely white nationalists rattling chains and whinging. They will not help us.

The end game is approaching rapidly, coming closer every year, yet we let ourselves fall into this decay and disrepair as a species, and I’m sure that our overseers are quite pleased with this.

YOU MUST MAKE A CHOICE: — As a white nationalist you have two choices, you can either organise and strike clandestinely, or you can follow the path of destruction that many do, scream the odd ‘fsck the system’, rattle chains, and throw stones at tanks.

Our weakness is our lack of central communication, our lack of recruiting tactics, our lack of organisation and working as a team. We are seperated [sic]. Divided we are bound to fall.

We need SOLIDARITY, we need UNITY, we need each other.

What I ask of you men and women is that you simply think to yourselves for a moment, who do you know around you who shares your ideals? Your views? Your beliefs? Are they awakened to the cause that you are persuing [sic]? And if so, why aren’t you discussing or organising things with them specifically?

If you attend a church, is it one with a pulpit prostitute in the position of attention, or are they perhaps sympathisers to our cause?

If you attend a social group of any kind, do you know people there who are fed up with the persecution of our fellow men?

Why are you not contacting these people? Just a simple tap on the elbow, a wink, and a “I know how you feel.” will mean the world to most of us at any given time, to know there is that circle of brotherhood, or support amongst our own kind.

Whilst the governments of the world supress us, the ever present undereducated white nationalist (aka, red neck, skin head, what not) who are primarily our foot soldiers are defeating our entire purpose. What point is infantry when your officers are too busy sitting on their arses in an office killing time waiting for their next pay cheque?

We are too comfortable, and in comfort one finds laziness and lack of motivation. Because we are not directly being hurt, more often than not alot [sic] of us don’t SEE, don’t FEEL the damage that is being done to us.

I would like to make a motion, provided the administrators of this board are willing to allow it, that we organise a segment of this forum specifically to orchestrate communications between white nationalists. Whilst it is difficult to avoid detection of governmental bodies who will use the guise of us being ‘racists’ and ‘terrorists’ and attempt to track us down and find our dossiers, it is the only thing we have left.

I recommend that you do go to work and speak to fellow sympathisers for our cause, I suggest at church or at your social groups you speak to the leaders who have similar views and see how you can affect the thought pattern of millions of warriors amongst us who have yet to open their eyes to the truth.

Awaken those around you. If only 5,000 of us across the world were to speak with one person per day and let them KNOW that we are here, that it is okay to speak freely, and that we need to organise, in a week alone we would have 160,000 in one WEEK who are rallying to our cause.

We MUST unite, or we must accept our fate and fade away under the boot of the Jude. The choice, my brothers and sisters, is up to you. Do you want to be a part of the problem, or a part of the solution?

On reading this post, if you haven’t yet thought of one person you can speak with, I suggest you move to another country. I welcome you to come to Australia, and will give you any assistance you need, god only knows we need the numbers here.

Once you have your small networth [sic] of brethren together, register a hotmail account or another pseudo-anonymous web based email account and contact me via: –

[email protected]

Under the proviso we can get a working network of activists together I welcome the communication and will quite glady [sic] assist in orchestrating movements that will assist our cause.

If you are unable to get a single person on side with you, or do the little required to create some unity amongst us, then you may as well forget calling yourself a white nationalist and accept your fate under the boot of the Zionist occupational government of choice in the area you live.

Yours in brotherhood,

The Blue Eyed Devil. ~ October 27, 2003

A subsequent posting (October 30, 2003) from The Blue Eyed Tasmanian Devil (“Heil Hitler!”) reports progress on the above, and expresses his hope that “we can open up an entire new realm and hopefully manage to bring alot [sic] of groups that really damage our image into the frame with more avante gard [sic] WN cells”.

Almost five years later, it doesn’t appear that Sanders has given up on his efforts to confront The Yids in Power. Carefully avoiding the potentially damaging sight of Nazi uniform fetishists, and substituting this image for one of “a clean cut group of White youths who influence the world around them to match their political views and agendas” has taken a rather peculiar turn, however, with his establishment of something calling itself ‘The Law Society of the University of Western Sydney’.

So, what’s ‘The Law Society of the University of Western Sydney’? Apart from a figment of Sander’s imagination, the Society has a website; funnily enough, a Google search for it — lawsociety.org.au — results in not only a link to the Society but Andrew’s previous club, The Tunnel Rats. In any case, according to Andrew:

The Law Society of the University of Western Sydney was constituted on the 11th of September, 2007 at the Marsden Building (EZ) of Rydalmere campus. Operating across all campuses it’s main location of commencement, Rydalmere, draws upon a history dating back to the first settlement of the Rose Hill region by colonial British settlers on land once owned by the Darug nation.

From these eclectic roots the Law Society has taken into account its social responsibilities to the prestige of its forbearers [sic] and has sought to provide niche assistance in an area where a void has formed in relation to procedural aid, advocacy and assistance to those unable to obtain legal assistance through other means.

Building strong ties and relationships with the NSW Law Society, the Young Lawyers Association and Blacktown and Parramatta councils, the Law Society of the University of Western Sydney commenced an immediate rollout servicing all UWS campuses and communities nearby.

The Society began as a small project, when the current president who had been working and studying at the University of Western Sydney since 1999 found himself in a position where he was helping many students, staff and other community members with often minor procedural matters and directing them to already available resources that the general populace may not know is in place. In late 2005 due to an inability to assist all of the people seeking assistance he turned to the University to examine the apparatus in place to provide support in these regards…

That final sentence is a superb turn of phrase by Sanders: late 2005 being, of course, the beginnings of his troubles with ZOG.

The rest is simply badly-worded phantasy.

And who knows what other monkey business Andrew has been up to?

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egg benedict dot org

Posted on July 9, 2008 by @ndy

LOL!

Talk back to the Police-Pope state!

World Youth Day in July 2008, costing taxpayers $86 million, is a city-stopping, Sydney-wide recruiting fair for the Catholic church with its own anti-democratic police powers legislation. What’s not to love?

Pope Benedict XVI is a zealous anti-gay extremist, in 2006 leading the Vatican’s successful campaign against legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Italy. He has used his popeship as a platform to insult queer parents, to demean same-sex relationships, and to fight civil rights for GBLT people in the church and in secular society. This continues an obsession of long standing. And just recently he reiterated the church’s absolute opposition to contraception of all kinds: keep this in mind when you discover who in government promotes the Catholic agenda.

Inspired to talk back? The NSW government’s new laws allow police to arrest and fine people for “causing annoyance or inconvenience” to World Youth Day participants and permit partial strip searches at hundreds of Sydney sites, starting July 4.

So this collection of artwork for free download and distribution is designed to help you stand and fight. The artworks are made to be downloaded, printed, passed on, emailed, plastered about, and ironed onto tshirts… or undies, in case you’re strip-searched.

It’s all FREE. You’re welcome, though, to give a donation to support art production. Any amount is wonderful. Thank you!

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Ratso is funny… Pell… less so | Alas for you George!

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Alas for you George!

Posted on July 9, 2008 by @ndy

Whoops!

George Pell is a man who believes in transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio): “the change of the substance of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ occurring in the Eucharist… while all that is accessible to the senses remain as before. In Greek it is called μετουσίωσις (see Metousiosis)”.

On this, I think, we can be fairly clear.

On matters less spiritual — which is to say, potentially costly, in terms of filthy lucre — George is less clear. Thus while a Church-sponsored investigation into claims of abuse concluded that the complainants’ allegations “be sustained without qualification”, George’s pen slipped when it came time for him to communicate this finding to the man in question: “In the 2003 letter, obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Pell told Jones [the complainant] an internal report did not support his accusation of attempted aggravated sexual assault.”

George’s explanation?

He has today admitted that the letter to Mr Jones was badly worded. He says he made the mistake because he understood aggravated sexual assault to be synonymous with rape.

The letter said: “No other complaint of attempted sexual assault has been received against Father Goodall and he categorically denies the accusation.”

“Mr Murray was of the opinion that the complaint of attempted aggravated sexual assault cannot be considered to have been substantiated,” the Archbishop wrote.

So, two untruths. First, when George wrote that no other complaint regarding the priest in question had been received. In reality, on the very same day George wrote this, he also wrote another letter to another man, a former altar boy, acknowledging that the priest, Goodall, had assaulted him. Secondly, when George wrote that the Church investigator, Mr Murray, had found Jones’ complaint to be unsubstantiated. In reality, Murray concluded that Jones’ allegations “be sustained without qualification”.

Unmentioned thus far in media accounts of George’s innocent mistake has been the fact that he’s got form.

Pell’s man helped pedophile priests
Fia Cumming
The Sun-Herald
June 2, 2002

A new row broke out yesterday over the way Catholic Archbishop George Pell handled child-sex abuse cases, with claims his appointment of a psychiatry professor to deal with victims was “insensitive”.

Dr Pell, when he was archbishop of Melbourne in 1996, set up Carelink, a free counselling and support service for victims of clergy, in response to scandals plaguing the Catholic Church.

The man he chose to chair Carelink was Richard Ball, the former chair of psychiatry at St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne.

Professor Ball provided independent expert psychiatric reports which have been used in court for the defence of Catholic clergy. He had also helped treat priests accused of sexual abuse…

Among the trials at which Professor Ball gave independent expert evidence was that of one of Australia’s most notorious serial pedophiles, Father Gerald Ridsdale – a long-term associate of George Pell and the priest at the centre of a controversy over claims that Dr Pell tried to buy the silence of one of Ridsdale’s victims…

The criticism of Professor Ball’s role is likely to add to public disquiet over Dr Pell’s association with and treatment of sexual offenders within the church.

Several of the pedophiles for whom Professor Ball provided expert defence were well known to the Archbishop.

Dr Pell was a priest in Ballarat from 1971 and vicar in charge of the Catholic education system in the Ballarat Diocese, covering western Victoria, from 1973 to 1984.

Three Christian Brothers teachers from that era – Edward Dowlan, Robert Best and Stephen Farrell – have been convicted of sex offences against students at St Alipius Primary and St Patrick’s College in the early 1970s.

At the same time, the school chaplain and parish priest was Gerald Ridsdale.

For a year from early 1973, Ridsdale shared a house with Dr Pell at the St Alipius Presbytery, next door to the primary school.

When Ridsdale faced pedophile charges in May 1993, Dr Pell accompanied him to court to give him moral support.

Dr Pell, then an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne, said at the time that Ridsdale “had made terrible mistakes“. He said: “It was simply a gesture on my part.”

Three years later, on the eve of his swearing-in as archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Pell said he had had “no idea” about Ridsdale’s activities when they lived together.

“I lived there with him and there was not even a whisper,” Dr Pell said then. “It was a different age, it was never mentioned.”

…Shortly before being sworn in as archbishop of Melbourne in August 1996 – after Ridsdale and Best had been convicted – Dr Pell said his first priority was to restore the credibility of the church after the sex scandals.

Further:

…Ridsdale’s last parish appointment came in 1986 when he was posted to the town of Horsham, in Victoria’s Wimmera. He is reported to have told a colleague there that his past was catching up with him. And it was. In 1988, one of the Edenhope victims made a complaint, as did a Horsham woman whose son had been molested. But still the church protected him. In 1990, the year that Pell, by now an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne diocese, was made a member of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog – Ridsdale was packed off to New Mexico, where he was supposedly going to be reformed. In fact, he had a nine-month holiday, during which he did “locums” for the local diocese, and sexually abused children, some of whom have confronted the American church.

Time was, however, running out. In 1992, after being appointed chaplain at St John of God hospital in Richmond, NSW, a victim phoned Operation Paradox, a Victorian police child sex abuse phone-in. Three months later he was charged.

When he made his first court appearance in 1993, Pell was by his side. “My sympathies were always with the victims,” Pell said last week, adding that he “had little idea of the full extent and gravity of his (Ridsdale’s) crimes”. Pell now says his accompanying Ridsdale was a mistake, as it misled people about his position.

Just before the trial, Ridsdale travelled home to Ballarat to tell his family about his crimes. They were deeply shocked. He had, unbeknown to them, sexually abused some of his nephews, including David Ridsdale. David has claimed that Pell tried to silence him when he phoned him about the abuse in 1993. Pell denies this, and says, “David’s claims are inconsistent, discredited and wrong”.

What is not in dispute is the breadth of Ridsdale’s crimes. When he told his family, one asked: “How many, Gerald. Four, or five?”. He paused. “Hundreds,” was his reply.

“Please God we’ll be over this before World Youth Day.”

1) Australia cardinal denies cover-up of sex abuse
Tanalee Smith
AP
July 9, 2008

“SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Australia’s top Roman Catholic cleric has denied trying to cover up a sexual abuse case involving clergy, attempting Tuesday to fight off an embarrassing scandal just days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a visit…”

2) Australian Catholic leader in sex abuse row before Pope’s visit
AFP
July 8, 2008

3) Church sex abuse row ahead of Pope’s Sydney visit
Michael Perry
The Washington Post (Reuters)
July 7, 2008

4) Pell denies sex abuse cover-up
Joel Gibson
Sydney Morning Herald
July 8, 2008

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5) Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 23)
‘Matthew’
New Jerusalem Bible
c.70–100CE

23 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law-justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, those not neglected.

24 You blind guides, straining out gnats and swallowing camels!

25 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of cup and dish and leave the inside full of extortion and intemperance.

26 Blind Pharisee! Clean the inside of cup and dish first so that it and the outside are both clean.

27 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of corruption.

28 In just the same way, from the outside you look upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build the sepulchres of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the upright,

30 saying, “We would never have joined in shedding the blood of the prophets, had we lived in our ancestors’ day.”

31 So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the children of those who murdered the prophets!

32 Very well then, finish off the work that your ancestors began.

33 ‘You serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being condemned to hell?

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Anarchism: Then & Now

Posted on July 9, 2008 by @ndy

Now

Anarchists and anti-authoritarians belonging to the RNC Welcoming Committee — an organising body preparing for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota — have come to the attention of Faux News:

The Raw Story has the story:

Fox: Anarchists planning to ‘crash’ RNC convention
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
July 7, 2008

Since last summer, an anarchist group calling itself the RNC Welcoming Committee has been advertising its intention to be present at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN this September, even releasing a video showing black-clad figures cheerfully spreading the word…

The Bad News is that The Man appears to have succeeded in closing down the RNC Welcoming Committee website — both of them.

Then (& Now)

Meeting Spain’s last anarchist
Alfonso Daniels
BBC
July 8, 2008

Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon.

Here, in a simple one-storey brick house next to a row of wooden shacks, is the home of Antonio Garcia Baron.

He is the only survivor still alive of the anarchist Durruti column which held Francoist forces at bay in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the founder of an anarchist community in the heart of the jungle.

Mr Baron, 87, was wearing a hat and heavy dark glasses. He later explained that they were to protect his eyes, which were damaged when he drank a cup of coffee containing poison nine years ago.

It was, he said, the last of more than 100 attempts on his life, which began in Paris, where he moved in 1945 after five years in the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp,* and continued in Bolivia, his home since the early 1950s.

Stateless

He was keen to share his views on 20th Century Spanish history with a wider audience.

“The Spanish press has covered up that the (Catholic) Church masterminded the death of two million Republicans during the civil war, not one million as they maintain,” Mr Baron said before launching into one of his many anecdotes.

    THE DURRUTI COLUMN

    Column of anarchist fighters during Spanish Civil War

    Led by Buenaventura Durruti until his death fighting Franco’s forces on outskirts of Madrid in November 1936

    After defeat of Republican forces in 1939, many surviving members fled to France. Many interned in French prison camps

    After Nazis invaded, many imprisoned in concentration camps, others joined resistance

“I told Himmler (the head of the Nazi SS) when he visited the Mauthausen quarry on 27 April, 1941, what a great couple the (Nazis) made with the Church.

“He replied that it was true, but that after the war I would see all the cardinals with the Pope marching there, pointing at the chimney of the crematorium.”

On the walls of Mr Baron’s house is a picture of him taken in the camp. Next to it is a blue triangle with the number 3422 and letter S inside, marking the prisoners considered stateless.

“Spain took away my nationality when I entered Mauthausen, they wanted the Nazis to exterminate us in silence. The Spanish government has offered to return my nationality but why should I request something that was stolen from me and 150,000 others?” he said angrily.

Mr Baron arrived in Bolivia on the advice of his friend, the French anarchist writer Gaston Leval.

“I asked him for a sparsely populated place, without services like water and electricity, where people lived like 100 years ago – because where you have civilisation you’ll find priests.”

Some 400 people, mostly Guarani Indians, lived there at the time, but in fact also a German priest.

“He was a tough nut to crack. He learnt of my arrival and told everyone that I was a criminal. They fled and made the sign of the cross whenever they saw me, but two months later I started speaking and they realised I was a good person, so it backfired on him.”

Convinced that the priest still spied on him, a few years later he decided to leave and create a mini-anarchist state in the middle of the jungle, 60km (37 miles) and three hours by boat from San Buenaventura along the Quiquibey River.

With him was his Bolivian wife Irma, now 71.

They raised chicken, ducks and pigs and grew corn and rice which they took twice a year to the village in exchange for other products, always rejecting money.

Dunkirk

Life was tough and a few years ago Mr Baron lost his right hand while hunting a jaguar.

For the first five years, until they began having children, they were alone. Later a group of some 30 nomadic Indians arrived and decided to stay, hunting and fishing for a living, also never using money.

“We enjoyed freedom in all of its senses, no-one asked us for anything or told us not to do this or that,” he recounted as his wife smiled, sitting in a chair at the back of the room.

Recently they moved back to the village for health reasons and to be closer to their children. They live with a daughter, 47, while their other three children, Violeta, 52, Iris, 31, and 27-year-old Marco Antonio work in Spain.

They also share the few simple rooms arranged around an internal patio with three Cuban doctors who are part of a contingent sent to help provide medical care in Bolivia.

The hours passed and it was time to take the small plane back to La Paz before the torrential rain isolated the area again.

Only then, as time was running out, did Mr Baron begin speaking in detail about Mauthausen and the war – as if wishing to fulfil a promise to fallen comrades.

How the Nazis threw prisoners from a cliff, how some of them clung to the mesh wire to avoid their inevitable death, how the Jews were targeted for harsh treatment and did not survive long.

His memory also took him to Dunkirk where he had arrived in 1940, before he was caught and imprisoned in Mauthausen.

“I arrived in the morning but the British fleet was some 6km from the coast. I asked a young English soldier if it would return.

“I saw that he was eating with a spoon in one hand and firing an anti-aircraft gun with the other,” he laughed.

“‘Eat if you wish’, I told him. ‘Do you know how to use it?’ he asked since I didn’t have military uniform and was very young.

“‘Don’t worry,’ I said. I grabbed the gun and shot down two planes. He was dumbstruck.

“I’ll never forget the determination of the British fighting stranded on the beach.”

*”On August 8, 1938, just a few weeks after the Nazi occupation of Austria, prisoners from the Dachau, concentration camp near Munich, were transferred to the Austrian town of Mauthausen, near Linz.

They were brought to the rock quarry there, known as the “Wiener Graben”, where they began to build the granite fortress-prison of the main camp, mostly with their blood, bodies, bare hands and backs. It was known as the “mother camp” for all of Austria, comprising some 49 sub-camps. Between Aug. 8, 1938 and May 5, 1945, about 195,000 persons, men and women, were forced into these camps. Most of the people were imprisoned under the Nazi “protective custody” laws, that is, they were consider dangerous to the Third Reich of Germany and Austria, and therefore, these two nations, now joined, had to be “protected” from these people because of their racial origin, nationality, political affiliation or religious belief. It should be noted that Austria contributed more volunteers for the SS, per capita, than did Germany.

The Mauthausen camp was one of the most infamous in the entire Nazi alternate universe of human destruction. Many people, most of whom were innocent of any crimes, were tortured to death in its rock quarry, and in the tunnels of Mauthausen-Gusen, the most infamous of the sub-camps. The policy of death through work was instituted by Chief of SS, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. Prisoners were to be given only the most primitive tools, and also, whenever possible, they were to work with their bare hands. This policy was known as “Primitivbauweise”. In Mauthausen it resulted in a harsh, stone world, deprived of any human kindness and compassion. It is there today still… sitting on a small mountain-top in the astonishingly beautiful and bucolic Austrian countryside, maintained by the Austrian government.”

See also : Jewish human rights group hunts Nazi ‘Doctor Death’ in Chile, Argentina, AP, International Herald Tribune, July 7, 2008: “The center says [Aribert] Heim’s sadism as a doctor at the Mauthausen concentration camp earned him the nickname “Doctor Death.” If alive, Heim would be 94…”

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Dad’s bid to free murder charge son Jock Palfreeman

Posted on July 8, 2008 by @ndy

Dad’s bid to free murder charge son Jock Palfreeman
Charles Miranda
The Daily Telegraph
July 8, 2008

A SYDNEY doctor will make a desperate bid to free his son from a possible life sentence in a Bulgarian jail by acting as a cross-examining de facto lawyer.

Dr Simon Palfreeman has watched from the public gallery as a court in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia raised the prospect of a life sentence for his son Jock for allegedly stabbing to death a student and wounding another.

However, the Sydney pathologist has been granted special dispensation to sit at the front bench today and assist defence lawyers in cross examining witnesses.

The move comes as doubts have been raised about what happened on the night of December 28 last year and the father-and-son team push for a self-defence plea.

Jock Palfreeman, a 21-year-old former St Ignatius College, Riverview, student, has been charged with the murder of Andrei Monov and wounding of Antoan Zahariev in a bloody brawl.

Palfreeman claimed he was going to the aid of a gypsy when he was set upon and had to defend himself against “drunken football hooligans”.

There is now evidence there had been a verbal argument between the group of university students and two locals.

It only lasted a few moments with the two fleeing the scene when they realised the group was up to 25 strong.

The group continued walking toward a nightclub when Palfreeman suddenly appeared allegedly waving a knife and yelling, “no to fascism, no to racism”.

Mr Zahariev gave evidence that the group tried to run from the man wielding the knife but he could not escape. He said he recalled bleeding on the ground with Palfreeman standing over him with the knife.

“I am 100 per cent sure that the guy that made the stabbing is the defendant,” he said.

When asked how he could be sure, he replied: “Just looking him in the eyes I am sure.”

Another witness, Tony Yordanov, claimed he heard the knife-wielding Palfreeman yelling in Bulgarian “aide, aide” – which means “come on” – in a challenging manner.

See also…

Jock Palfreeman in court (May 2, 2008)
Jock Palfreeman : Update (February 26, 2008)
‘Murder accused has star status’ (Er… Marnie? Um…) (January 20, 2008)
Palfreeman not scared, did duty (says Mister Miranda) (January 7, 2008)
Happy New Year, Suckers! // Justice 4 Jock (January 1, 2008)

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