{"id":1645,"date":"2009-01-23T01:38:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2009-01-24T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T10:07:54","slug":"not-racists-just-patriotists-southern-cross-soldiers-go-to-war-on-australia-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Not racists. Just patriotists. Southern Cross Soldiers go to war on Australia. Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3268\/3218185878_b419bb7040_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Above<\/em>: SCS cymbal. And yeh, their rool god spelers &#8216;n&#8217; tht.<\/ul>\n<p>Southern Cross Soldiers plan Australia Day rally<br \/>\nStaff writer<br \/>\n<em>Herald Sun<\/em><br \/>\nJanuary 23, 2009<\/p>\n<p>A RIGHT-WING nationalist group has organised a show of strength at a popular Melbourne beach on Australia Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Cross Soldiers, or SCS, has told members to gather at Mordialloc beach in Melbourne&#8217;s south this Monday to promote &#8220;Aussie Pride&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The nationalist group, which boasts about 900 MySpace members, plans to meet at the steps of Flinders Street station at 12pm before heading to the beach &#8220;for drinks, etc&#8221; in what it describes as &#8220;the biggest day for SCS 2009&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police are monitoring the group and have assured beachgoers that existing patrols will be able to deal with any antisocial behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Members of SCS yesterday said the group was not racist and there were no plans to cause trouble at Mordialloc beach on Australia Day.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith said the meeting was unlikely to get out of hand if police patrolled the popular beach on Australia Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there will be 5000 people there, so I think even normal beach patrols should be able to handle it,&#8221; Mr Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Cross Soldiers came to prominence last year after the police shooting of Northcote teenager Tyler Cassidy in December.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler, 15, was a participant on the group&#8217;s chat sites before he was shot dead at a Northcote Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said the group was known to police, but police recognised the right of people to join groups and meet as they wish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of police is to ensure that these groups do not cause any harm or offend the wider community,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any gathering of a large group of people would be monitored by local police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SCS boasts chapters in Melbourne, the city&#8217;s north, north-east and west.<\/p>\n<p>The group also has chapters in New South Wales, and the Gold Coast, with one member who uses the name &#8220;The Australian Defence Force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1606\">Southern Cross Soldiers : Last Words<\/a> (January 9, 2009) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1576\">Doctor Saleam Jumps the Shark<\/a> (December 23, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1567\">International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) on callous and brutal police<\/a> (December 19, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1559\">Southern Cross Soldiers, Tyler Cassidy and the far right<\/a> (December 16, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1549\">The Ugly Australian(s)<\/a> (December 14, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1548\">Southern Cross Soldiers : Into the Blogosphere<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1547\">More press on Tyler Cassidy shooting<\/a> (December 13, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1545\">Tyler Cassidy and the Southern Cross Soldiers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1544\">Southern Cross Soldiers\u2019 first casualty<\/a> (December 12, 2008) | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1485\">OH NOES! Southern Cross Soldiers go to war<\/a> (November 23, 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: SCS cymbal. And yeh, their rool god spelers &#8216;n&#8217; tht. Southern Cross Soldiers plan Australia Day rally Staff writer Herald Sun January 23, 2009 A RIGHT-WING nationalist group has organised a show of strength at a popular Melbourne beach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}