{"id":31111,"date":"2012-06-06T19:44:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31111"},"modified":"2012-06-30T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T09:37:14","slug":"your-mission-australia-if-you-choose-to-accept-it-is-torpedo-the-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31111","title":{"rendered":"Your Mission Australia, if you choose to accept it, is: Torpedo the Boats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Further Update<\/strong> (June 13): On Facebook, rally organiser Darrin Hodges claims that the event is officially endorsed by the APP, making its National Chairman, Andrew Phillips, a liar (below).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The APP has denied endorsing Darrin and Nicholas&#8217; protest, as well as the effects of torpedoing boats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-in-reply-to=\"211074736908812288\">\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slackbastard\">slackbastard<\/a> 1. NOYB 2. Not an official APP event, but as if they mean that. Try torpedoing Gillard&#8217;s ridiculous policies.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aust. Protectionists (@AustProtParty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustProtParty\/status\/211445142069063683\" data-datetime=\"2012-06-09T13:10:24+00:00\">June 9, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Credit where it&#8217;s due: the two leading members of the Sydney-based &#8216;Australian Protectionist Party&#8217; &#8212; Darrin Hodges and Nicholas Hunter-Folkes &#8212; have seized upon one of the latest controversies surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/4corners\/stories\/2012\/05\/31\/3515475.htm\">&#8220;Smugglers&#8217; Paradise &#8211; Australia&#8221;<\/a> and declared that on Saturday, June 23, they&#8217;ll be rallying Australians to demand that the government<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/423401911027499\/\">Torpedo the boats!<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The dynamic duo&#8217;s publicity stunt feeds on the publicity stunt spearheaded by &#8216;Mission Australia&#8217;, which has declared June 23 to be a Day upon which Australians should assemble and declare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcometoaustralia.org.au\">&#8216;Welcome to Australia&#8217;<\/a>. Their Mission in this instance is<\/p>\n<p><em>Cultivating a culture of welcome in Australia. Providing practical opportunities for everyday Aussies to give asylum seekers, refugees and other new arrivals a warm, positive and dignified welcome to Australia. <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=20743\">Obtaining millions in government subsidies for tax-exempt religious institutions to micro-discipline the poor&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Formed by disgruntled former Australia First party members, disillusioned Tories and those seeking to emulate the once-successful BNP, the microscopic forces of the APP have two main selling points: hatred of Muslims and hatred of refugees. Included among its recruits (of which, at least on paper, there are over 500) is <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?tag=joel-buckley\">Joel Buckley<\/a>. Joel is (or was) a very proud member of the Australian Navy, and would presumably be appointed captain of whichever <em>Acheron<\/em>-class torpedo boat the Australian government assigns the APP should its campaign succeed. Also certain to be there on The Day is <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=29350\">Martin Fletcher<\/a>, whose re-publication of the video game <em>Muslim Massacre<\/em> and the board game <em>Cronulla 2230<\/em> (as well as Nazi cartoons) was indeed memorable but since supplemented by Darrin Hodge&#8217;s <em>Refo Invaders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Silly games aside, since its establishment in 2007, the APP&#8217;s success has been severely limited, partly because of the calibre of their cadre, mostly because xenophobia is an over-saturated market. Thus voting tallies have been feeble and public support minimal. Where the APP have been able to assemble more than a handful of (radically inarticulate) dissidents, it&#8217;s been because of a temporary alliance with similarly microscopic groups such as the quasi-mythical &#8216;Australian Defence League&#8217;. In summary, I haven&#8217;t been paying much attention to the antics of the APP of late: they&#8217;re non-existent in Melbourne, and elsewhere there&#8217;s been little activity of real interest to comment on. (Well, until now.) That said, the observations I made about them (and their rivals in AF) back in <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28874\">February<\/a> still seem accurate, and unless a local mentalist commits an atrocity, I can&#8217;t see much changing.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the Facebook page promoting the mass murder of asylum seekers is Troll City, so as Rambo might say, go for it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KzEPKGT-ZYU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further Update (June 13): On Facebook, rally organiser Darrin Hodges claims that the event is officially endorsed by the APP, making its National Chairman, Andrew Phillips, a liar (below). Update: The APP has denied endorsing Darrin and Nicholas&#8217; protest, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=31111\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[18,4,28,9,893],"tags":[1474,278,160,162,957,808,809],"class_list":["post-31111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-anti-fascism","category-death","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","tag-torpedo-the-boats","tag-and-thats-why-we-should-keep-the-bloody-flag-the-same","tag-australian-protectionist-party","tag-darrin-hodges","tag-mission-australia","tag-nicholas-folkes","tag-nicholas-hunter-folkes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-85N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31111","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=31111"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31363,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31111\/revisions\/31363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}