Insofar as anti<\/em>-racist activity is concerned, the story of Stormfront Down Under really only begins in August 2004 (Stormfront as a whole was established by former KKK Wizard and international terrorist Don Black<\/a> in 1995). In that year, the now-defunct Patriotic Youth League<\/a> — an organisation for young friends of the white supremacist Australia First Party under Dr James Saleam<\/a> — came to some small degree of public prominence (it was formed towards the end of 2002). In 2004, it had begun a campaign of placing racist posters and stickers on University campuses, which appeared in both NSW (University of Newcastle, Macquarie University) and Victoria (LaTrobe University, RMIT and the University of Melbourne). At around the same time, a number of African and Asian students at the University of Newcastle were verbally abused and physically assaulted (Campus racism rises<\/a>, Sarah Price, Sun-Herald<\/em>, August 29, 2004). These events took place against a background of heightened xenophobia; fuelled by the public hysteria over the 9\/11 attacks on New York and Washington, the bombings in Bali in 2002, and further reinforced by the then HoWARd Government’s highly repressive policies on refugees (cf. the Tampa crisis).<\/p>\n The League’s principal spokesman was Stuart McBeth, a then-23-year-old Novocastrian and Salvation Army employee. McBeth and his group were linked to a range of far right organisations, including the US-based Volksfront (with which the group shared a PO Box), Blood & Honour, and, of course, Stormfront, on which a number of its members happily paraded their racist hatred and ignorance (Neo-Nazi link to campus anti-foreigner campaign<\/a>, Matthew Thompson, The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, August 31, 2004). For example, McBeth joined the Forum in September 2003 as ‘Eureka Spirit’, while Luke Connors posted as ‘young soldier’, joining in November 2004. During this period, Andrew Wilson functioned as the PYL’s representative in Sydney, while Connors did the same for Victoria.<\/p>\n The PYL was largely an Internet phantasy for those involved, but it did make some attempts to hold public rallies. In January 2005, for example, the PYL decided it would be a good idea to protest outside the HQ of a Sydney trade union. Upon being confronted by 50–60 counter-protesters, however, including a large number of unionists, the massed ranks of the PYL — all four of them, including Andrew Wilson — fled (Nazi Encounter<\/a>, Port of call [Maritime Union of Australia: Workers Journal<\/em>], March\/April 2005). One person who didn’t attend the abortive Sydney rally — aside, of course, from its leader, Stuart McBeth — was Andrew Fraser<\/a>. Fraser was shortly to come to notoriety for his concerns regarding the alleged criminality and low intelligence of blacks, but at the time he, along with Saleam, were on the ‘National Executive’ of the PYL. Or at least, that’s what the meat-headed Luke Connors claimed in an interview with a local “documentary filmmaker”. <\/p>\n Of course, the PYL weren’t the only members of Stormfront Down Under in its heyday. Others included Carl D. Thompson (posting as ‘Wodensvolk’). Thompson subsequently lost his job as editor of the One Nation Party publication The Nation<\/em> after making some rather dubious assertions regarding his and Stormfront’s Public Enemy #1: The Jew. Also to feature on the site were Sue Bateman, posting as ‘Suebdoo2’, One Nation\u2019s east metropolitan regional president in Perth and 2005 State election candidate (see<\/em> Storm for One Nation poster girl, Gary Adshead, The West Australian<\/em>, September 22, 2005), Sydney residents Peter Campbell (‘Kromlek of Asgard’\/’ZyklonB’) and Darrin Hodges (‘Proud to be an Infidel’), and rural Queensland-based Jim Perren (‘Stug111’\/’303SMLE’).<\/p>\n During 2005, SFDU was the subject of a few articles — Joe Hildebrand’s ‘Life as an uber fraud – the one race I won’<\/a> (The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, October 29, 2005) being one of the more amusing — and also an equally amusing expose<\/a> by FightDemBack! of a botched attempt by locals in Melbourne to hold a ‘Strictly Members Only’ BBQ. Needless to add, there have been very few such gatherings since. What really gave local white supremacists a shot in the arm, however, was the Cronulla pogrom in December 2005.<\/p>\n This episode was greeted with unabashed joy by the upright citizens on SFDU, and touted as heralding a new era for their scattered and tiny movement. Darrin Hodges (then a member of Saleam’s AF), AF and the PYL as a whole, for example, proudly trumpeted the affair as a ‘civil uprising’ against the multicultural tide. Luke Connors complained in the wake of the pogrom, \u201cMate, I\u2019m going to get brain cancer from having the mobile phone pressed to me ear all day and all night. Answering membership and media inquiries.\u201d Another member, James Newman (‘JN’), produced a video of the ‘uprising’, coupling captured images of the events with a soundtrack by neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver<\/a>. It was also at this time that Darrin Hodges was first publicly exposed as being the SF user ‘Proud to be an Infidel’:<\/p>\n One active local member, who goes by the moniker \u201cProud to be an Infidel\u201d, has been a regular contributor to international white supremacist organisation Stormfront.<\/p>\n Via a series of electronic footprints, anti-Nazi campaigner Mat Henderson-Hau has linked \u201cInfidel\u201d to Engadine local Darrin Hodges.<\/p>\n Hodges, who runs a website<\/a> for a sex toy distributor, yesterday admitted to being a member of the racist Australia First Party but denied being a member of any white nationalist groups or a contributor to Stormfront.<\/p>\n His alleged alter ego is not so shy.<\/p>\n \u201cFriends, today was an historic day, the day Australians stood up against state-imposed multiculturalism,\u201d he wrote on the night of the Cronulla riots.<\/p>\n Accompanying his posting is a series of photographs he took at Cronulla that day, including one of a T-shirt emblazoned with the words \u201cwog free zone\u201d and another of a sign offering free sausages to the crowd, with \u201cno tabouli\u201d.<\/p>\n Infidel also speaks of footage he filmed on the day which Henderson-Hau believes was used in a video released over the weekend that glorifies a mob of rioters bashing various non-whites at Cronulla…<\/p>\n ~ Joe Hildebrand, White supremacists casting a black cloud, The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, December 20, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The events<\/a> and attempts to politically capitalise on them by white supremacists triggered a predictable reaction on the part of the NSW Government: White supremacist crackdown call<\/a> (The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> (AAP), December 20, 2005). Also implicated at this time in racist fun and games were Andrew Sanders (‘blue8eyed8devil’ on SF) — who authored a website, Fightback<\/a> [now belonging to others], dedicated to encouraging locals to take action against the Lebanese hordes — and his comrade-in-arms and fellow ‘Tunnel Rat’, Andrew Roach (Friend of accused’s vile words of hatred<\/a>, Joe Hildebrand, The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, December 22, 2005). The author of one of the Cronulla videos, James Newman, was also exposed at this time (Video man is security guard in city<\/a>, Joe Hildebrand, The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, December 22, 2005).<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n The year 2006 naturally began with high hopes for the racists, fascists and bizarros on SFDU. After all, hadn’t the Australian masses just engaged in a civil uprising — “revolution” even — against ZOG and the symptoms of its multicultural machinations (see Nadav Shlezinger, “Victory in Cronulla”: What the neo-Nazis are saying<\/a>, AIJAC Review<\/em>, January 2006)? Unfortunately, it was at this point that the ethnic origins of one of the leaders of the forthcoming White Revolution was again exposed as being… well… not exactly ‘white’<\/a>. And while Darrin Hodges first left and then later re-joined SF, another SF veteran, Peter Campbell<\/a>, also chose this moment to retire<\/a> from online battle. Further, just three months earlier (October 2005), the internet forum he helped to establish via<\/em> the White Pride Coalition of Australia also collapsed<\/a>.<\/p>\n In March 2006, Saleam’s party was subjected to no small degree of public ridicule by Dan Box, writing in The Australian<\/em> (White supremacy in our backyard<\/a>, March 4, 2006). As a result of the ensuing kerfuffle, Luke Connors, the meat-headed spokesman for the Melbourne branch of the PYL, resigned from what remained of the organisation. His main complaint, at the time, was the involvement of AF member Welf Herfurth in helping to organise the local, Australian franchise of the international neo-Nazi network Blood & Honour. (Replacing Connors — who had in turn replaced Stuart McBeth — as spokesman for the dwindling ranks of young patriots, was Lachlan Black of Canberra, a former ONP member. Note further that Connors and Herfurth have since kissed and made-up, the two of them declaring themselves to be ‘national anarchists’<\/a>.)<\/p>\n In Brisbane, meanwhile, having failed to learn the lesson of their white brothers in Melbourne, a number of odds and sods on SFDU attempted to organise their very own BBQ. These were less than completely successful<\/a>. (See also<\/em> : Scumfront Brisbane : Comedy Central<\/a>, September 7, 2006.) Racist dingbats in Adelaide, however, struck back<\/a> on behalf of their Brisbane brothers, and distributed some SF posters and stickers in the City of Churches. Unfortunately, \u201cA lot of them were taken down by the public\u201d, said a local MP (aka<\/em> ZOG stooge).<\/p>\n Otherwise, 2006 was a fairly quiet year for SFDU members. The much-anticipated one-year anniversary of the Cronulla pogrom turned out to be a bit of a fizzer — ‘Cronulla all quiet one year on’<\/a> read one headline (NEWS.com.au\/AAP, December 10, 2006) — and was possibly even less exciting than the celebrations AF organised for Australia Day way back in January (and less than two months after the ‘uprising’ itself).<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n 2007 was a truly bewildering year for SFDU. In January, a racist storm in the Tamworth<\/a> teapot got the tosspots talking. A few months later, in March, SFDU habitu\u00e9 David Innes (‘Baron von Hund’) decided to hang up his tinfoil helmet<\/a> — another victim of ‘white nationalist’ intrigue. Innes and his partner Lilith — appointed SFDU Moderator in December 2005, the first Aussie to be granted the privilege by the SF Yanqui overlords — had for several years played a key role in popularising (destroying according to their critics) Stormfront in the land Down Under, even hosting monthly BBQs at their home for a handful of locals, similarly dedicated to getting pissed and dementedly discussing destroying ZOG’s nefarious hold over White Australia.<\/p>\n The person deemed chiefly responsible for David’s temporary demise? Doctor James Saleam<\/a>, of course, whom David had denounced on SFDU on account of his Middle Eastern ancestry.<\/p>\n Naturally, like a dog after a bone, Innes was back only a few months later. That is, before once again leaving, this time (June) taking the missus with him<\/a>. (Those left behind subsequently accused David and Lilith of being FDB! stooges.) Not surprisingly, there was stiff competition<\/a> among the manly Aryan hordes for the vacant Crown, and eventually — for reasons best known to themselves — the Yanquis picked<\/a> one \u2019AustralianEuro\u2019, a teenaged Novocastrian named Rhys McLean. In a show of gratitude for their two years of hard work, David and Lilith went Down the Memory Hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rhys’s reign as King of SFDU was, sadly, to be a short one. An organiser for AF, Rhys made the horrible mistake of being photographed wearing a swastika armband and giving the fascist salute. What’s worse, these photographs<\/a> mysteriously made their way into the hands of local ZOG agents FightDemBack!. Bad, yes, but worse was yet to come when in January 2008 Rhys starred in an article in The Daily Telegraph<\/em> concerning plans hatched on SFDU to have a neo-Nazi knees-up on Australia Day<\/a> (RSL slams Australia Day hijack, Joe Hildebrand, January 10, 2008). Within the space of a few days of its publication, Rhys too, was gone.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n Having lost first Lilith (Emma) and then Rhys (dummkopf<\/em>), the American management team at SF was again forced to find a willing volunteer among the proud Aussies deemed worthy of the job. In an online poll, the two favourites nominated by locals were Carl D. Thompson — an unashamed neo-Nazi — and David Innes’ brother, Paul (‘Steelcap Boot’). And while the faces may have been changing, the sounds coming from SFDU remained very much the same. For a sample, see<\/em> Australia, IMPORTED FKN SIMIAN PIECE OF NEGRESS CRAP, and lets get the ovens raised in melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n On a lighter, non-genocidal note, the departure of John Drew from SFDU was probably one of the queerest<\/a> moments in the Forum’s brief history. Queerer still, that at the time of his departure, Drew was the sole remaining member of the PYL. At well over 50-years-old, quite an achievement! (The PYL has since quietly folded, while Drew functions as AF in Queensland.)<\/p>\n Having been appointed Moderator, Paul Innes has overseen the rather precipitous decline in popularity of SFDU. The reasons for this are not, like those who post there, all that complicated. To begin with, its recent history is of one PR disaster after another. Secondly, those who post there are dimly aware — to the extent that they’re aware of anything much outside of their rank prejudices — that the Forum is crammed full of all kinds of fruits and nuts, traumatised teenagers, and creepy old neo-Nazis. As such, there’s always the risk that a fellow crank, angry at some slight, will let the cat out of the bag. This happened most recently in March, to Newcastle real estate agent and determined bigot Nathan Clarke<\/a> (‘Nafe’ — also associated with AF in Newcastle).<\/p>\n A few final points.<\/p>\n SF is trying to clean up its act. For this reason, Mister Black has announced a new ‘no Nazi swastikas’<\/a> policy. Not unexpectedly, this hasn’t gone down too well with the locals who, like everyone else who examines the Forum, frankly don’t see the point. Consequently, a number of members have either left or been banned for protesting too loudly. (Carl D. Thompson is one example, but there are others.)<\/p>\n Secondly, Doctor James Saleam (‘radnat’) has made a heartfelt (or batshit crazy, depending on your perspective) appeal<\/a> for information regarding the identities of some old Sydney-based boneheads in order to help him overturn his 1991 conviction for ordering a shotgun attack upon the then-ANC representative to Australia. What’s odd about the appeal is both its nature — why on Earth would anyone on SF have any knowledge of these individuals? And why couldn’t Herr Doktor simply alert his contacts in the English fascist movement instead? — but also its timing. Saleam is, apparently, intending to contest upcoming council elections in NSW on behalf of AF.<\/p>\n Best of luck.<\/p>\n Despite the removal of Nazi imagery on SF, the enimy remains — in keeping with the bizarro phantasies of chief ideologue David Duke<\/a> — the Eternal Jew. How much longer SFDU will continue fumbling its way along is anyone’s guess, but it’s likely that as long as the cash keeps flowing, so will Mister Black and Mister Duke reserve a spot for the boys and girls Down Under to continue to spread their online filth.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7318\/426\/400\/jimsaleam3.jpg\")
\nAbove<\/em> : Dr James ‘Jim’ Saleam<\/p>\nSee also<\/em> : Armed, dangerous but shocking organisers<\/a>, John Huxley, The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, December 20, 2005 | A reply<\/a><\/ul>\n
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\nAbove<\/em> : Darrin Hodges<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1126\/1437995549_20a41f19b3_m.jpg\")
\nAbove<\/em> : Rhys McLean<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2089\/2327876419_b2467ca5b3.jpg?v=0\")
\nAbove<\/em> : Sue Bateman and Paul Innes<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fightdemback.org\/files\/nafe.jpg\")
\nAbove<\/em> : Nathan Clarke<\/p>\n