{"id":39366,"date":"2015-11-28T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T06:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39366"},"modified":"2015-11-28T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T12:13:05","slug":"unitedpatriotsfront-fails-to-rise-in-melbourne-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39366","title":{"rendered":"#UnitedPatriotsFront fails to rise in #Melbourne. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/destroyupf-e1448690610727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/destroyupf-e1448690610727.jpg\" alt=\"destroyupf\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that was embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons best known to himself, Blair Cottrell, the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=38730\" target=\"_blank\">neo-Nazi<\/a> fuehrer of the fascist grouplet the &#8216;United Patriots Front&#8217; (UPF), decided a few days ago that it would be <em>a really good idea<\/em> to hold a rally at Parliament House and a march from there to the Premier&#8217;s office in Treasury Place.<\/p>\n<p>Because the Premier, Daniel Andrews, described them as semi-literate and hateful bigots.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred anti-fascists and anti-racists made sure that things didn&#8217;t go quite according to the Master Race&#8217;s silly plan, however, and the 30-40 UPF members and supporters who stupidly thought they could swan about town on Saturday were soon disabused of the notion, being prevented from assembling at either Parliament or Treasury Place and instead being eventually confined to Macarthur Street &#8212; before going home with their tails between their legs.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, the UPF&#8217;s shit souffl\u00e9 simply failed to rise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/150-e1448691225929.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/150-e1448691225929.jpg\" alt=\"150\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, <em>The Age<\/em>&#8216;s John Elder claims that the UPF contingent was 150: this is false, as photos and video of the UPF rally demonstrates. Further, there was no &#8216;clash&#8217;; police effectively kept the tiny mob of flagwits well away from anti-fascists. In any case: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/united-patriots-front-and-no-room-for-racism-clash-in-central-melbourne-20151128-glaebb.html\" target=\"_blank\">United Patriots Front and No Room for Racism clash in central Melbourne<\/a>, <em>The Age<\/em>, November 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/vic\/a\/30220389\/no-arrests-as-patriots-and-anti-racisism-rallies-in-melboure\/\" target=\"_blank\">No arrests as &#8216;patriots&#8217; and anti-racism protesters run rival rallies in Melbourne<\/a>, 7 News (AAP), November 28, 2015 | <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=38216\" target=\"_blank\">#UnitedPatriotsFront sent packing in Richmond<\/a> (May 31, 2015).<\/p>\n<p><H2>BONUS LULZ!<\/H2><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgwJR10-91c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was embarrassing. For reasons best known to himself, Blair Cottrell, the neo-Nazi fuehrer of the fascist grouplet the &#8216;United Patriots Front&#8217; (UPF), decided a few days ago that it would be a really good idea to hold a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39366\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2033,2049,2099,2100,2122,2102,2047],"class_list":["post-39366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","tag-blair-cottrell","tag-campaign-against-racism-and-fascism","tag-chris-shortis","tag-linden-watson","tag-no-room-for-racism","tag-thomas-sewell","tag-united-patriots-front"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-aeW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366","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=39366"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39379,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39366\/revisions\/39379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}