{"id":35287,"date":"2013-12-21T17:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T04:02:12","slug":"the-black-rose-syndicat-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=35287","title":{"rendered":"“The Black Rose Syndicat” : D’oh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update (January 11, 2014)<\/strong> : Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum)<\/a>, January 7, 2014.\t<\/p>\n

Update (December 23, 2013)<\/strong> : OK so I reckon I gotta bit of a handle on it, and the moral of this story is: drugs are bad, mmmkay?<\/em><\/p>\n

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I first encountered the bizarr0 ‘Black Rose Syndicat’ back in May: a Facebook page of that name was published on May 3 and a few indymedia articles appeared on May 10 and 16. Because of the craptastic nature of the posts which announced the fictional group’s existence, its adoption of the name ‘Black Rose’, and its claim to be located in the same suburb, I wrote to Black Rose infoshop in Newtown, Sydney asking if they knew anything more about these semi-literate keyboard warriors. I never received a reply, but over the course of the next few months I asked several anarchists I knew in Sydney the same question. None were able to provide me with any information to suggest that the Syndicat was anything other than a weird-arse ~jk~ — a local anarchist version of Crimer Show<\/a>, perhaps — a phantasist looking for attention and\/or to sell some merch, or even a badly-composed attempt by forces hostile to anarchism (and friendly to the G20) to gather infos on local anarchist organising and\/or to ensnare some teenage wanna-be insurrectionists in some rather dickheaded fun …<\/p>\n

In any case, given the derisory nature of the Syndicat’s online antics, and the fact that six months later its Facebook page had only managed to attract a little over a dozen likes, I decided to let sleeping dogs lie. Last week, however, the Courier Mail<\/em> decided to splash the name of the Syndicat across its pages, taking its idiotic outpourings on indymedia and elsewhere as serious attempts by ‘anarchists’ to create “CAOS and Mayhem” at the G20 summit in Brisbane next year. As evidence, the article referred to two seven-month old indymedia posts (one of which was written by the group posing as a critic: the non-existent “Sydney University Socialist Club”) and two posts on the Syndicat’s Facebook page, also dating from around the same time.<\/p>\n

The propaganda function of the mass media is hardly remarkable<\/a>, nor its capacity to reflect elite concerns over potential troublemakers, but given the shift by international law enforcement to entrapment<\/a> of activists in violent plots, the recent introduction of highly repressive laws in Queensland and weak opposition, the silly antics of the “Syndicat” may be worth taking a little more seriously than they would if they were just a reanimated Jonny Hammerlock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On repression of opposition: G20 in Toronto, June 2010 see<\/em> Over 9000 arrests @ G20 in Toronto<\/a> (June 29, 2010) and elsewhere | G20 in Pittsburgh, September 2009 see<\/em> Charges against Elliot Madison (and Michael Wallschlaeger) dropped\u2026<\/a> (November 3, 2009) and elsewhere | G20 in Melbourne, Pittsburgh, London see<\/em> G20 : Sunil & Tim (& Co.)<\/a> (July 30, 2009) and elsewhere …<\/p>\n

In the meantime, enjoy How The Press Sets Up A Protest Crackdown<\/a>, newmatilda.com, December 19, 2013. See also<\/em> : Anarchist group to target G20<\/a>, Brisbane Times<\/em>\/Nine News, December 9, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update (January 11, 2014) : Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum), January 7, 2014. Update (December 23, 2013) : OK so I reckon I gotta bit of a handle on it, and the moral of this story is: drugs are bad, mmmkay? … Continue reading →<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,2,29,6,16,9,893,15],"tags":[36,1691],"class_list":["post-35287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-anarchism","category-broken-windows","category-history","category-media","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","category-war-on-terror","tag-g20","tag-the-black-rose-syndicat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-9b9","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\/35287","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=35287"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35305,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35287\/revisions\/35305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}