{"id":39687,"date":"2016-04-02T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39687"},"modified":"2016-04-02T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T12:00:23","slug":"unitedpatriotsfront-versus-collingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39687","title":{"rendered":"#UnitedPatriotsFront ~versus~ #Collingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The neo-Nazi grouplet United Patriots Front (UPF) staged a(nother) provocative little stunt on Friday night, unfurling a banner reading ‘Go Pies’ and ‘Stop the Mosques’ at the Collingwood-Richmond match. After a short while, MCG security removed the banner and ejected those responsible — which included UPF fuehrer Blair Cottrell<\/a> — from the ground.<\/p>\n

See<\/em> : AFL condemns offensive banner unfurled at Collingwood-Richmond game<\/a>, ABC | Anti-mosque banner at Aussie Rules game condemned<\/a>, BBC | AFL season 2016: Richmond player Bachar Houli allegedly abused by Collingwood fan<\/a>, The Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A few points:<\/p>\n

The UPF have staged a series of publicity stunts since forming in April\/May 2015<\/a>. These include an ‘anti-Communist’ rally in Richmond (May 2015<\/a>), roasting a pig outside the ABC offices in Melbourne (June 2015<\/a>), beheading a dummy outside Bendigo council offices (October 2015<\/a>) and being uninvited guests at the Melbourne Anarchist Club and community radio station 3CR (November 2015<\/a>) — while trying to hunt me down.<\/p>\n

The Collingwood stunt attracted a good deal of attention for the grouplet, and while it was denounced by the AFL, Collingwood, Richmond and many others — including, of course, many Collingwood supporters — it earned Cottrell another opportunity to appear in the media and to promote the UPF: the purpose of this and previous stunts. Further, the media is loathe to describe the UPF accurately, and the group is variously termed as ‘nationalist’ and ‘far right’ — but never neo-Nazi.<\/p>\n

In any case, fair play to the UPF: the stunt was successful, and Collingwood’s statement<\/a> that if it’s ‘established that [Cottrell & Co] have a formal connection to the club, this connection will be severed’ means little to a man who loves Hitler and hates Collingwood.<\/p>\n

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Finally, a few months ago Cottrell declared that the UPF would be staging a commemorative rally this weekend to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the April 4<\/a> Reclaim Australia rally. It looks like this plan has been shelved, but an anti-fascist gathering will be taking place at Fed Square in any event.<\/p>\n

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