1) The Sporting Version
An event widely recognised as being pivotal in shaping Anglo-Australian relations occurred in 1882, when an Australian cricket team beat England on an English ground for the first time. The following day, on August 30, 1882, the Sporting Times carried a mock obituary to English cricket which concluded that: “The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia”.
Hence: The Ashes.
(The first team to tour England, in 1868, was composed of Australian Aborigines, and coached by Tom Wills, who was instrumental in developing the game of Australian Rules football. Wills is honoured with a sculpture at the MCG by Louis Laumen, erected in 2002. The sculpture reads that Wills: “Did more than any other person – as footballer and umpire, co-writer of the rules and promoter of the game – to develop Australian Football during its first decade”; a contribution based — arguably — on his knowledge of and familiarity with the game of marngrook.)
2) The Nutzi Version
As noted several weeks ago, Perth nutzis have some ashes of their own: dead nutzi David Lane’s ashes. Upon announcing that the handful of dust would be scattered in Perth, on Stormfront Down Under, a Victorian Creator asked (February 11): “Sounds good. Who is hosting the event?” To which the ever-helpful Stormfront Down Under moderator Paul Innes (‘Steelcap Boot’) replied:
Mr David Lane.
I have just returned from witness to the package that contained the ashes.
All those White Nationalists who wish to attend and show their respects during this overdue service for David [L]ane here in Western Australia will need to contact [email protected]
Pretty fucking w e i r d — but this is a story that just keeps on giving:
Combat 18 Accused Of Purloining David Lane’s Ashes
Larry Keller
March 11, 2009He’s been dead nearly two years, but there’s a fight brewing in the white nationalist movement over one of its heroes, David Lane.
Actually, the brouhaha is over only a part of Lane. About one-fourteenth of him. That portion of his ashes is reportedly in Perth, Western Australia, more than 9,000 miles from where he died in Indiana. The last time a dead man’s ashes traveled this far may be when the cremains of LSD devotee Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were blasted into orbit in 1997.
How Lane’s ashes got all the way to Perth is a matter of controversy. Women for Aryan Unity activist Victoria “Vickie” Cahill is accusing members of the Australian division of the violent neo-Nazi skinhead group Combat 18 of misappropriating the ashes “through lies” and then “sending rape threats, threats of beatings” to Cahill and other WAU members when they protested.
“We want those ashes back,” Cahill posted to Stormfront and her MySpace page March 9.
Some background:
Lane died in March 2007 in a federal prison in Terre Haute at the age of 68. He was serving a 190-year sentence for racketeering, conspiracy and violating the civil rights of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, who was murdered in his driveway in 1984 by Lane and other members of the Bruders Schweigen, or Silent Brotherhood. The terrorist group was also known as The Order. Lane, a onetime member of the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan, was a founding member of the group and served as the getaway driver in the Berg murder.
While in prison, Lane wrote screeds about race and became revered among white nationalists. He is perhaps best known for coining the “14 Words,” “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children.” He co-founded 14 Word Press in Idaho to publish his writings. After his death, neo-Nazi stage mom April Gaede announced that she “and the gals from WAU [Women for Aryan Unity]” had created a memorial fund to have Lane’s ashes stored in the capstone of a pyramid monument to be erected in a white homeland, per Lane’s wishes.
But the gals couldn’t raise enough money for a full-sized pyramid, Gaede later revealed, and so they decided to apportion Lane’s ashes among 14 miniature pyramids – one for each of the 14 Words. Each of the puny pyramids was to be enshrined in the homes of 14 white nationalist women, including Cahill.
It wasn’t long before Gaede and Cahill and other members of Women for Aryan Unity were feuding over Lane-related matters, with Gaede accusing the WAU coven of “showing off” Lane’s remains at white nationalist events.
Now Cahill is urging a boycott of a proposed “ash spreading memorial service” for Lane in Perth. An invitation to “pro-White concious [sic] people” to attend the big event was posted last month on Stormfront. “Date will be finalized when attending numbers have been estimated,” it read. “Civil and neat attire is expected for the proceedings.”
Cahill is vowing to reclaim the ashes before said proceedings can proceed. “If I have to make my way to Australia to get these ashes I will,” she wrote. Cahill then added, ominously, “I will be contacting the bruders about this.”
Hmmm. The bruders ~ versus ~ the Innes brothers. I’d pay to see that.
ACHTUNG!
Jake is the man with the plan. And access to David Lane’s ashes. He’s also desperate for a drummer. His band, Indigenous Hate, will be playing a gig in Perth to celebrate the deaths of Australian soldiers in WWII. Scheduled to take place on ANZAC Day (April 25), it is being organised by Blood & Honour Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins, with Murray Holme’s band The Quick & the Dead and Melbourne band Ravenous. Jake (February 11, 2009):
Perth band Indigenous Hate are in desperate need of a new drummer. With weeks to go until some gigs, and half way through recording our album, our drummer has done the dodgy on us and left us in the dark. I am willing to pay for someone, anyone, across Australia, to come over to Perth and live for a couple of months so we can play the gigs and record the rest of the album. I can email a couple of songs that we have done in the studio to see what we sound like, but if you like hard, skinhead music, you wont be disap[p]ointed. Please contact me, Jake, A.S.A.P [at] [email protected].
88.
Every time they get stupider I bow my head, pinch the spot between my eyes and exhale loudly out of my mouth.
Ashes aren’t until July. It’s okay, you are trying to forget it already.
Eddie bought a new mansion in Toorak.
This is like Shibuya Station. One of the busiest places in the world, I’m sure someone there cares about the Maggies @ndy! Like one person at the least.
Have you told the full story of Vicki on this site?
She’s the niece of Martin ‘The General’ Cahill a drug dealer in Ireland who was wiped out by the PIRA for selling drugs. Great story how they ambushed him!
Her father Peter is a convicted Heroin dealer.
http://www.geocities.com/irishafa/phoenix03.html
And there is a connection between Vicki and the Irish band Primordial’s lead singer – more on that later.
Nice find Paul: cheers.
The General’s Niece
It is disappointing to note the lack of gumption among Irish racists, with the disbandment of the Irish ‘branch’ of NSRUS (National Socialists R Us) due to the poor response to their activities. A lone Cork racist leaflet distributor was also recently hounded off the street and had his pamphlets nicked by local anti-fascists. However some bizarre exchanges are still taking place on Irish racist web discussion forums.
American-based stormfront.org is a site dedicated to giving racist/white power/neo-Nazi types space on the Internet and has a section devoted to Irish users. The following exchange recently took place between two users, ‘Fionncool’ and ‘WarMaiden’:
“Fionncool: Whilst keeping an eye on the reds and a**holes at AFA [Anti Fascist Action] I came across the most ludicrous of claims I’ve seen by them: That our fellow race patriot WarMaiden is The General’s Martin Cahill’s neice (sic). What will the lying morons come up with next?
WarMaiden: Well I am his neice (sic) “sorry” to disappoint you. My name being Vicky Cahill, Oh the shame lol.
Fionncool: Sorry about that. I thought it was all a wind-up. I should have checked it out first. No disrespect intended. Racial regards, Fionn.”
In fact Vicky Cahill is Martin “The General’ Cahill’s niece, being the daughter of convicted heroin dealer, Peter Cahill, as reported in the Irish Sunday Mirror in June of last year. She spends most of her time in New York and is a member of the small Women for Aryan Unity race hate group, another of those that seem to exist almost solely on the Internet.
The Phoenix – August 15th 2003
The murder has also been blamed on the INLA.
IRA crime godfathers are winning drugs war
Independent
Jm Cusack
June 25, 2006
While in a film review of The General for An Phoblacht, he is depicted as a vicious, anti-social thug:
The General – a grotesque myth
Art MacEoin
Republican News / An Phoblacht
May 28, 1998
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