White is the subject of an article in the SF Weekly<\/em>. To be precise, ‘Local Idiot to Burn the Koran’<\/a> by Lauren Smiley (April 22, 2011).<\/p>\n The article details White’s latest publicity stunt for his group, which he calls the ‘Bay Area National Anarchists’, but which is more commonly known as BANANAs<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the title of Smiley’s article suggests, the stunt consists of Andrew’s burning a copy of the Koran in public — although precisely when and where this act will occur is uncertain at this stage.<\/p>\n As publicity stunts go, it’s not a bad one, and trades on the controversy surrounding mentalist Pastor Terry Jones’ attempt to organise a similar burning outside a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. (At this stage, it appears that the Pastor’s protest may be aborted: Pastor Is Jailed in Michigan Over Planned March at Mosque<\/a>, AP, April 22, 2011.) Politically speaking, the stunt’s utility is questionable. Otherwise:<\/p>\n Yeoman’s protests have been falling flat as of late. While last May, he got beat up<\/a> by some anarchists, his Machete<\/em> protest<\/a> ended up just being him and a couple of supporters handing out pamphlets in Livermore with cardboard machetes.<\/p>\n Cue trombone: Waa waa waaaaaah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See also<\/em> : [Local Idiots] to Burn at Least One Koran<\/a>, Lauren Smiley, SF Weekly<\/em>, April 18, 2011.<\/p>\n On an even more bizarre note, White (aka Yeoman) has split with his former leader, Troy Southgate<\/a>. Or rather, Southgate has denounced White<\/a> for, inter alia<\/em>, being censorious, dictatorial and of having had “a relationship with an anorexic Jewish girl he picked up from a website called Craigslist and … telling everyone that they were having sex without a condom. Yeoman is also said to be psychologically unstable and is in possession of a large number of firearms.”<\/p>\n Southgate also claims that White has recently been investigated by the US Secret Service for “making a juvenile online threat” against President O’Bama. Further, Southgate writes that White “turned up at the American Renaissance conference around the same time and then declined to testify against anti-fascists at his recent assault trial”.<\/p>\n Southgate suggests that White’s recent behaviour may be explained by way of his having been “bought off” by authorities. (Note that the accusation of being a state asset<\/a> has been levelled at Southgate in the past.) The accusation is a serious one, and indicates the poisonous nature of the once respectful relationship between student and teacher.<\/p>\n What does all of this mean for the ‘national anarchists’<\/a>?<\/p>\n In Australia, the national anarchists are represented by two men: Welf Herfurth in Sydney and Nicholas Cole in Perth.<\/p>\n Herfurth is friends to both White and Southgate, but is also a member of the neo-Nazi skinhead group known as Volksfront<\/a>, and a close comrade of Dr James Saleam<\/a> and the Australia First Party. In his capacity as MC, he welcomed White to the Sydney Forum in 2009<\/a>. It will be interesting to see which way the German neo-Nazi jumps and whether or not he remains loyal to Southgate, the person whom he credits for converting him to ‘national anarchism’.<\/p>\n As for Cole, he was once associated with the ‘Australian Protectionist Party’, and for this reason was outed<\/a> by the blog ‘Whitelaw Towers’ (Jim Perren and Peter Campbell). Cole is also attempting to establish a network of fascist University students (but without much luck). An extremely marginal figure, it’s likely that Cole will stick with White.<\/p>\n And as for me, polling suggests that 30% of the population believe I work for The Great Old Ones. I say “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/yeomanfromm2-e1303531607122.jpg\")
\nCanadian Holocaust denialist Paul Fromm and White, pictured at the AmRen shadow conference, 2011. The Australia First Party arranged for Fromm to tour Australia and Aotearoa\/New Zealand late last year.<\/em><\/p>\n