“There must be some way out of here…”

While neo-Nazis belonging to Golden Dawn are exhibiting solidarity with their former comrade Epaminondas Korkoneas by lending Greek police a helping hand in Patras (and likely elsewhere), on Sunday (December 14) their German kameraden have upped the ante considerably by stabbing the Passau police chief, Alois Mannichl: politically significant in a way that their usual victims are not. Also of significance is the adoption by Russian neo-Nazis of a tactic usually associated with Islamic terrorists — the production and distribution of graphic accounts documenting the grisly executions of their victims. Following the release of a video titled Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani in August last year, a second, similar project has been realised, this time photographic.

Then:

The three-minute video, titled “Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani”, begins with two men kneeling before a masked extremist in combat fatigues. Apparently unprompted, they mumble that they have been taken hostage by “Russian Nationalist Socialists”. The masked man then uses a knife to decapitate one of his prisoners in a grim sequence lasting 90 seconds. The second captive is later forced to kneel in front of a grave before he is shot in the back of his head. The clip, which has a caption claiming to have been filmed by “The National Socialist Party of Rus”, ends with a still image of a red and white flag emblazoned with a swastika.

Now:

Salakhetdin Azizov was attacked as he walked across a stretch of wasteland in South Moscow. The 20-year-old Tajikistan market worker was stabbed and then decapitated. The Militant Organisation of Russian Nationalists claimed responsibility for the murder and demanded stricter immigration laws. A photograph of Azizov’s severed head was emailed to Sova.

At the same time, a small group of neo-Nazis in Russia have been convicted of a string of murders.

Russians sentenced for 19 hate killings
Paul Sonne
December 15, 2008

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court sentenced seven men to prison Monday for involvement in the murder of 19 non-Slavic migrants in what prosecutors called a series of brutal hate crimes.

The group’s sentencing comes as fears about racism, xenophobia and neo-Nazi groups explodes Russia — fears that were stoked earlier this month with the gruesome beheading of a Tajik migrant worker near Moscow.

Moscow City Court spokeswoman Anna Usachyova said the court sentenced the group’s leaders, Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, to 10 years — the maximum possible term since they were minors at the time of the attacks in 2006 and 2007. Another man was sentenced to 20 years, and four others to between six to 12 years…

In the United States:

Neo-Nazi must now lie in bed he made
Shanna Flowers
The Roanoke Times
December 8, 2008

For White, one of those reckonings came Friday, when the judge decided to hold him without bail until his trial. Hibbler’s concern was not so much White’s actions if he were released, but what others might do at his suggestion. As for Bill White, he’s been making this bed for years. Now, he’s finally lying in it…

The FBI [!] via Faxts News [!], provides further details:

Leader of American National Socialist Workers Party Indicted
December 18, 2008

William A. White charged with Making Multiple Threats of Violence via the Internet

Roanoke, Virginia – Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Julia C. Dudley and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker announced today that William A. “Bill” White, the self-proclaimed Commander of the neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Workers Party, was indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening five individuals and for attempting to intimidate litigants in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit.

The Grand Jury returned a seven-count indictment which charges White with five counts of making a threat to injure via e-mail, Internet or telephone communication, one count of making a threat to injure with the intent of extorting something of value and one count of making a threat to injure with the intent of intimidating a witness from testifying in an official court proceeding. All of these threats were made while White was a resident of Roanoke, Virginia.

“The Internet has proven to be a powerful force in our daily lives. It has made information from across the globe available at the click of a mouse,” Acting United States Attorney Julia C. Dudley said today. “The law enforcement community cannot allow individuals to unlawfully threaten anyone, in any manner. When violent threats are made, legal action must be taken and justice must be served.” …

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke,
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

About @ndy

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I like anarchy. I don't like nazis. I enjoy eating pizza and drinking beer. I barrack for the greatest football team on Earth: Collingwood Magpies. The 2024 premiership's a cakewalk for the good old Collingwood.
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One Response to “There must be some way out of here…”

  1. young.golfjedi says:

    it’s 2009 and murder is, still, not only a haunting truth in our lives but the manners and fashion in which these murders are being carried out has only gotten worse. people have been and are continuing to be desensitized to death and to the means by which a person can die. why are there no radical ways of exerting peace? i don’t want to reduce everything i’ve said to hippie rhetoric but where are the extreme examples of love?
    it is a cruel a world. and i’m afraid there isn’t a way out

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