Cake scoffers, Totenköpfe and mateship: Fascism Down Under

Because you can’t, you won’t and you don’t stop: further documenting the bright shining light that is the Australian far right.

Cake Scoffer Diane

Following the dismissal from the Australia First Party of Darrin Hodges (* of Media Watch) in NSW and then John Drew (* of Zoo) in Queensland, then the expulsion of Perth-based David Innes and his partner Lilith from Don Black’s Internet business Stormfront, comes the shocking news that the President of the Party — a country bumpkin from Shepparton in Victoria called Diane Teasdale (above, with perm and words of warning) — has expelled two more party organisers from Victoria. And let’s face it, if news of the purge of a handful of AF members isn’t big news, then I don’t know what is. Newsworthy or not, any real shock suggests fantastic naivete on the part of party leader Dr James Saleam‘s opponents, for whom imagining Jim as a kind of fascist version of the potty-mouthed priest from Melbourne — and themselves as trespassing skaters — may possibly help them better understand the role they play in the world of fascist micro-politics. And that is as props in another’s rather odd play — one in which the nominal head of AF acts as a messenger girl.

I pity the fools.

Pride, Strength, Honour (Totenköpfe & Swastikas)

178km closer to Melbourne, Bulldog Spirit continues to play with a confessed neo-Nazi named Joel proudly pounding out manly Aryan beats on the drum. Well, occasionally anyway. In the meantime, Joel’s former bandmate in local neo-Nazi band Deaths Head, a pinhead called Jesse, has been busy recording songs for a side-project called Kilgore. Previously, Joel drummed on Feast of the Jackals, a Deaths Head album released by now-defunct US-based neo-Nazi label Panzerfaust in 2003 — tho’ Jesse also helpfully notes in an interview that “We’ve got Joel (who drummed on Feast of the Jackals) sitting in when we record and we aren’t really up for live shows at the moment unfortunately.” (Note that Panzerfaust was closely associated with the international neo-Nazi bonehead network the Hammerskins.)

Deaths Head is, of course, responsible for such wholesome family entertainment as the songs ‘More Dead Niggers’ (Hang the Traitors demo, 1999) and ‘Swastika’ (Onslaught, Panzerfaust, 2001). The title track on the album for which Joel recorded drums suggests that he and the band aren’t altogether appreciative of the Jewish community’s contribution to multi-cultural Australia either:

Will the white man waken to demons in their midst / Will the noose be tightened our bodies left to twist / Suspended from a gallows we fashioned for ourselves / Jackals sit and cackle over their ill-gotten wealth / Israelites amongst us are driven to the seas / Racialists must cut down the scavengers at feast

All good clean fun of course, and neo-Nazism is not something that the newest, highly conformist generation of Melbourne-based “working class” punks and skinheads will do anything about. Well, other than make excuses for — a task for which they seem exceedingly well suited.

Mateship

That was then:

Thanks Baron von Hund for [the] endless resource of information which you provided to me. The hospitality in your home to myself and Nichola. The opportunity you afforded to me on the radio show and the support and friendship over the last two years.

Thank you Lilith for a number of things. First and foremost for picking me out for a moderator[‘]s position and developing my skills on Stormfront. For the friendship and great time I had in Western Australia and for the hard work you put in on this board[;] it’s this hard work that has kept many of us members around.

It’s surprising to see you both leave. I hope to speak to you both soon sometime. If that’s not what you want, then I wish you both a very fond farewell and good luck. ~ AustralianEuro, June 26, 2007

But this is now, and all traces of David & Lilith have been obliterated from SF, in keeping with the scorched earth policy of the General Staff under the direction of jack_boot. At the time, however, joining in the chorus which sang their praises were nafe, Aussie_Nationalist, mithar, ladyfuro (and, presumably, her seven ferrets and one budgie), ferret, Nichola (“I am sure there will be many, many posts here on this thread as Baron and Lilith will be very sadly missed by Stormfront. Thank you to both of you for opening up your lives and your home to so many strangers (myself included) in the name of Nationalism. Your contributions and names will forever be linked to and valued by Nationalists here in Australia as well as overseas. To you and your family, I wish you all the best for a tranquil and fulfilling future”), WizardofAus, JohnJoyTree, The Croat, Dead_Raven, HVanDerMerwe, Sydney Patriot, Steelcap Boot, DrivenSno, Paladin89, dazzlingdazza, Ironman1, Scottatron, Standarten, Ned Kelly, FlemishOZ, AuSaxon, FrankW, sirino, Fridy1234 and ThunderHead. The Yanqui owners of Stormfront, however, have cracked the whip, and despite their propensity for terming John HoWARd a traitor, the boys and girls on Stormfront Down Under have responded well, yelping in agreement. With some foreign bloke. In gumboots.