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Hamilton man gets life for killing neo-Nazi
The Canadian Press
September 25, 2008BARRIE, Ont. — A Hamilton man sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the beating of a man in Collingwood, Ont., already had 26 criminal convictions against him, a Barrie court heard.
Christopher Broughton, 30, was sentenced after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of Stephen Long, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat on April 16, 2006.
Court heard Long, who was a member of a white supremacist brotherhood called the Hammerheads [sic — Hammerskins], was attacked as he slept on the floor after a night of partying.
The group of white supremacist skinheads were at the home of Vaughn Newman, where Newman kept a baseball bat carved with slogans with reference to Hitler.
Broughton was not a member of the brotherhood, court heard.
When Broughton became drunk and obnoxious, he was put out of the house and beaten.
He returned after the others went to sleep and assaulted Long and another man with the bat, witnesses testified.
Broughton broke down in the prisoner’s box as he stood and tried to offer an apology to the father of the 22-year-old Ottawa man he killed.
“I’m sorry I killed your son,” he said, as he looked into Murray Long’s eyes.
Broughton will be eligible for parole in 15 years.
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Extremists sent to prison over neo-Nazi webzine
ČTK
September 26, 2008
Havlickuv Brod, East Bohemia, Sept 25 (CTK) – Two Czech extremists, Erik Sedlacek [Sedlacek is a well known member of the National Resistance, a neo-Nazi group] and Libor Budik, were sent to prison for heading a neo-Nazi Internet magazine by a district court Thursday.
Sedlacek was sentenced to three years and Budik is to spend two years behind bars.
The court found both men guilty of support for and promotion of movements aiming to suppress human rights and freedoms.
Both men worked as editors-in-chief and authors of articles in the Last Generation Internet journal in 2003-2004.
According to the court, the articles in the magazine contained hateful statements about Jews, called for their liquidation and openly questioned the Holocaust, and their authors followed the ideas of national socialism.
[According to www.antifa.cz, Erik Sedlacek was also responsible for helping to organise the failed attempt last year by Czech neo-Nazis to march in Prague to celebrate The Night of Broken Glass.]
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Austrian voters support party that wants to bring back Nazi symbols
Bojan Pancevski
The Times
September 26, 2008“We are the owners of Austria and we will determine who gets in,” Mr Strache, head of the far-right Freedom Party, told a cheering crowd that was chanting his name.
“We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come” ~ John HoWARd, Prime Minister of Australia, December 6, 2001
…This time Mr Haider’s former protégé, Mr Strache, is expected to capture about 20 per cent of the vote, and his new party, Alliance for the Future of Austria, could win more than 8 per cent.
Mr Strache, 39, who overthrew Mr Haider as a leader of the Freedom Party with even more hardline policies against foreigners and the EU, is likely to establish himself as the third-largest political force in the country.
The former dental technician has campaigned successfully with slogans such as “Homeland instead of Islam” and “Vienna must not become Istanbul”.
He once wrote: “We must not allow our own sons to be insulted as ‘pigeaters’ in our schools and our daughters to be exposed to the greedy stares and gropings of whole hordes of immigrants.”
The popularity of Mr Strache was not damaged despite photographs being published of him in his youth wearing military uniform at an alleged far-right gathering and also showing Mr Strache raising his hand and stretching three fingers in an apparent covert version of the Hitler salute, used widely in the neo-Nazi scene. Mr Strache said that he was merely signalling for three beers in a pub.
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What: The 14th Annual Anti-Racist Action Network Conference
When: October 11-13 2008
Where: Cleveland, OH
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