{"id":28429,"date":"2012-01-09T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28429"},"modified":"2012-01-09T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T15:56:17","slug":"omgwtf-nazis-in-brisbane-hammered-muzak-festival-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28429","title":{"rendered":"OMGWTF Nazis in Brisbane! Hammered Muzak Festival 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4lP3Iwbo8w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For reasons best known to itself, Queensland&#8217;s <em>Sunday Mail<\/em> has decided to assist <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?tag=blood-honour\">Blood &#038; Honour<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?tag=southern-cross-hammerskins\">Southern Cross Hammmerskins<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/auswhitenoise\">White Noise<\/a> in their efforts to publicise an upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=24866\">&#8216;Happy Birthday Mister Hitler&#8217;<\/a> gig <em>aka<\/em> Hammered Music Festival (April 21, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper story (see below) contains all the usual elements, including lulz (<em>\u201cThe theme of this music festival goes against Australia\u2019s multicultural values,\u201d Dr Szoke said<\/em>) but nevertheless a few comments, corrections and clarifications are in order.<\/p>\n<p>First, this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=16084\">third<\/a>, not <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=24470\">second<\/a>, year in a row that the Festival has been held in Queensland. Previous performers include Deaths Head and Ravenous (Melbourne) and Open Season (Brisbane).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, both <a href=\"http:\/\/nazi-leaks.net\/bloodandhonour.html\">B&#038;H<\/a> and the Hammerskins have experienced legal difficulties overseas. Thus, B&#038;H is banned not only in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/925009.stm\">Germany<\/a> (where, as in Austria and a number of other European countries, the open promotion of neo-Nazism is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1911626,00.html\">illegal<\/a>) but also Belgium and Portugal, while the Hammerskins are outlawed in Germany, Portugal and Spain. (The leader of the Portuguese Hammerskins, M\u00e1rio Machado, is currently serving a seven-year sentence for coercion, robbery, kidnapping and illegal possession of weapons.) In September 2009 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialcohesion.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/shadow-security-minister-writes-letter-to-home-secretary-based-on-csc-research.html\">half-hearted<\/a> attempt to bring about a ban on B&#038;H in the UK was fail.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, while it&#8217;s technically possible for a &#8216;concerned citizen&#8217; to lodge a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hreoc.gov.au\/complaints_information\/RDA_complaints.html\">complaint<\/a> with the Australian Human Rights Commission regarding the gig, this depends upon them actually being in attendance (or having the misfortune of overhearing it). However, as the Hammered Festival &#8212; like all such events organised by the neo-Nazis concerned &#8212; is held at an undisclosed location this seems extraordinarily unlikely. (In order to attend the gig, a member of the public must first make contact with B&#038;H and arrange to meet; and only if they meet with the approval of the organisers will they be provided with further details.)<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the neo-Nazis involved have been successfully organising gigs for the last 20 years in Australia (indeed, Hammered 2012 is intended to celebrate the boneheads&#8217; 20 years of stoopid), their gigs have never been the subject of a complaint, and in only a handful of instances (that I&#8217;m aware of) have the groups experienced any real difficulties as a result of these activities.<\/p>\n<p>Might be an idea to avoid being too Jewish in Brisbane around Hitler&#8217;s birthday but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=22224\">A Brief History Of Neo-Nazi Music In Australia<\/a> (December 2, 2010). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Controversial Hammered Music Festival for neo-Nazis to be held in Brisbane in 2012<br \/>\n<em>Sunday Mail<\/em><br \/>\nJanuary 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>A CONTROVERSIAL neo-Nazi music festival will be held in Brisbane this year, drawing white supremacists from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial Hammered Music Festival, already being advertised through white pride websites, will take place in a secret Brisbane location in April and feature race hate music from international and local bands.<\/p>\n<p>The white pride gathering attracted protests and nationwide criticism last year when it was held on the Gold Coast, and a range of groups have already spoken out against the event.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke this week slammed the white pride festival as &#8220;abhorrent to our community&#8221;, and said offended parties could complain under the Racial Discrimination Act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The theme of this music festival goes against Australia&#8217;s multicultural values,&#8221; Dr Szoke said.<\/p>\n<p>Federation of Ethnic Communities&#8217; Councils of Australia chairman Pino Migliorino said the festival was the work of a &#8220;lunatic fringe&#8221; and he was concerned about the underlying message of the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an appalling set of beliefs that they have,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is a great majority of Australians are not racist and are comfortable with cultural and linguistic diversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event is being organised by the Southern Cross Hammerskins, the Australian arm of a worldwide group.<\/p>\n<p>Another organiser, Blood and Honour, was banned in Germany in 2000 after a number of foreigners were attacked by neo-nazis inspired by music at the group&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>But Queensland Police Service and the Brisbane City Council have said the groups can legally hold the event.<\/p>\n<p>A QPS spokesman said as long as the groups and the festival-goers abided by the law, the police would not become involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are aware of the festival in question. However, until such a time that a law is broken or a complaint is made, it is not a police issue,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor Adrian Schrinner said the Gold Coast City Council reported no problems when the event was held there, and the group had the same rights as any other organisation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOL. For reasons best known to itself, Queensland&#8217;s Sunday Mail has decided to assist Blood &#038; Honour, the Southern Cross Hammmerskins and White Noise in their efforts to publicise an upcoming &#8216;Happy Birthday Mister Hitler&#8217; gig aka Hammered Music Festival &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28429\">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":[4,11],"tags":[411,479,1359,63,925],"class_list":["post-28429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-music","tag-blood-honour-australia","tag-blood-and-honour-australia","tag-hammered-festival-2012","tag-southern-cross-hammerskins","tag-white-noise-productions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-7ox","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\/28429","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=28429"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28463,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28429\/revisions\/28463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}