{"id":40002,"date":"2016-06-23T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=40002"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:10:45","slug":"antifa-notes-june-23-2016-nazis-patriots-islamophobes-bigots-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=40002","title":{"rendered":"antifa notes (june 23, 2016) : nazis, patriots, islamophobes, bigots, elections &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<strong>>>> This SUNDAY, JUNE 26 \/\/\/ 11am \/\/\/ Victorian State Parliament \/\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1043092919079717\/\" target=\"_blank\">Say NO to Racism in Melbourne<\/a> <<<<\/strong>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ala.jpg\" alt=\"ala\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ala.jpg 470w, https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ala-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ala-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Briefly:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There&#8217;s been a few line-up changes in the various party&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39974\" target=\"_blank\">tickets<\/a> for the July 2 federal election, with John Bolton making way for Wanda Marsh in the ALA (you may remember Wanda from such puff pieces as <em>Sunday<\/em>&#8216;s TV program on Reclaim Australia from last <a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/sunday-night\/features\/a\/29784783\/were-just-mums-and-dads-inside-reclaim-australia\/#page1\" target=\"_blank\">October<\/a>), while Nick Folkes (Party for Freedom) has decided not to run at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Speaking of Reclaim Australia, it organised a small rally in Perth on the weekend (June 18). Somewhere around 1-200 supporters attended while a &#8216;Reclaim Australia from Reclaim Australia&#8217; counter-rally attracted about half that number. The United Patriots Front (UPF) leadership &#8212; Blair Cottrell, Thomas Sewell and Chris Shortis &#8212; attended, as did several local flunkeys (Dennis Huts and Elijah Jacobson\/Kevin Coombes) and dozens of men sporting True Blue Crew and UPF merch. The Aryan Nations failed to show because they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39845\">on trial for murder<\/a>, while the MUA issued a statement condemning Reclaim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The MUA condemns the actions and hatred spread by the group Reclaim Australia and fully supports and endorses the anti-Reclaim movement.<br \/>\nWhilst we cannot speak on behalf of every single union member, we can speak to one of the core values of unionism: equality.<br \/>\nThe union movement stands for equality.<br \/>\nNo matter race, gender, religion, sexual preference or what country you come from, we are all equal. This equality is the foundation of a strong union movement and a strong society.<br \/>\nThe Eureka flag is a powerful symbol and emblem of equality; maybe someone should tell Reclaim Australia that&#8230;<br \/>\nKeep up the struggle against racism.<br \/>\nIn unity,<br \/>\nDanny C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise, <em>see<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/western-australia\/reclaim-australia-protesters-descend-on-perth-for-parliament-place-rally\/news-story\/2c5154e339d11580ffbc8b66fc67281c\" target=\"_blank\">Reclaim Australia protesters descend on Perth for Parliament Place rally<\/a>, Joel Kelly, PerthNow, June 18, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The violent criminal history of UPF fuehrer Blair Cottrell, and his appearance in a recent documentary on youth in prison, has finally been picked up by media (<a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39650\" target=\"_blank\">four months later<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>United Patriots Front leader Blair Cottrell details violent criminal past in video<br \/>\nGeir O\u2019Rourke, Angus Thompson<br \/>\n<em>Herald Sun<\/em><br \/>\nJune 11, 2016<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE leader of anti-Islam group United Patriots responsible for the violent Coburg riot has detailed his criminal past in an educational video distributed to Victorian schools.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Cottrell, who has convictions for violent assaults and trafficking testosterone, details his jealous rage in the film that is meant to discourage youth crime.<\/p>\n<p>Cottrell, who is called \u201cBruce\u201d in the film, details how he chased his ex-girlfriend\u2019s new partner with a tomahawk and torched his garage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started damaging his house, throwing things at it, through the windows and, I made a couple of molotov cocktails, and lit his garage up with those,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had this little tomahawk that I put it inside my jacket and in the middle of the night, at one and two o\u2019clock in the morning, I would go out the front of his house and hover around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the door would open, my heart would skip and I would stand up and be holding a knife because I\u2019d be ready to go round there and be ready to kill him because I was pretty determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film, titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/storiesfromtheinside.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stories From The Inside<\/a><\/em>, was produced by inmates from Port Phillip Prison in 2013, with funding from British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, to build their self esteem and discourage youth crime.<\/p>\n<p>Port Phillip Prison youth development officer Anne Hooker defended Cottrell\u2019s involvement in the project despite the UPF leader\u2019s radical views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deliberately didn\u2019t use real names in the documentary to allow him and the others to express themselves honestly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cottrell, 26, was sentenced to four months in prison in May 2012 after being convicted of 13 charges, including seven counts of intentionally damaging property.<\/p>\n<p>County Court Judge Michael Tinney convicted the then-22-year-old of throwing a missile, stalking, failing to comply with a community-based order, and two counts of recklessly causing serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2013 he was fined $1000 and sentenced to seven days in jail by a County Court judge for aggravated burglary, property damage, arson, trafficking testosterone, possessing a controlled weapon and breaching court orders.<\/p>\n<p>Cottrell has also been fined almost $3000 for driving offences, including speeding 25km\/h over the limit and failing to obey a traffic sign.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was dealt with by a magistrate in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Sunday Herald Sun<\/em> spoke to Cottrell about the video, but he said: \u201cI\u2019ve got nothing to say about any of that stuff, mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d appreciate it if you didn\u2019t come to my house.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/blairc-e1466606224162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/blairc-e1466606224162.jpg\" alt=\"blairc\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40014\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On Sunday June 26, TBC, UPF &#038; Co will be holding a flag-waving ceremony and march. The flag-waving is set to commence at 11.30am outside Parliament House in Melbourne. The Campaign Against Racism &#038; Fascism has organised a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1043092919079717\/\" target=\"_blank\">counter-rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The events of May 28 in Coburg has inspired local folk-pop group The Bon Scotts to record a single. Titled &#8216;Main Street&#8217;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RJzqqUGrBtk\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> for the song features footage from the protests on May 28 and intones against confronting fascists. The band has come in for some criticism on their Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thebonscotts\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a>, while another musician has been inspired by The Bon Scotts to do a little re-mixing of their own:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZR7MPJqk7_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A handful of &#8216;patriots&#8217; heckled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Grandmothers-Against-Detention-Of-Refugee-Children-Bendigo-845609712157255\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grandmothers Against Detention Of Refugee Children &#8211; Bendigo<\/a> event on the weekend; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-06-20\/vandals-attack-newcastle-refugee-centre-ahead-of-opening\/7527090\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a>, &#8216;A support centre for refugee women in Newcastle has come under attack by vandals just days before it was set to open.&#8217; Today (June 23), UPF fuehrer Cottrell and sidekick Thomas Sewell harassed a gathering in the city of Friends Families and Feminists Against Detention &#8212; furthering confirming the boys&#8217; already well-established reputation as brave soldiers. (Folks should bear in mind the possibility of disruption at future &#8216;left&#8217; events, especially those addressing racism and refugees.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The (alleged) murder of British Labour MP Jo Cox by Thomas Mair is examined by Tom in <a href=\"https:\/\/undercoverinfo.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/17\/racism-far-right-ideology-hatred-of-refugees-the-toxic-mix-that-killed-jo-cox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racism, far-right ideology &#038; hatred of refugees: the toxic mix that killed Jo Cox<\/a> (June 17, 2016); the mass murder of nightclubbers in Orlando by Angela in <a href=\"https:\/\/s0metim3s.com\/2016\/06\/13\/pulse-orlando\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mi existir es resistir. Estamos aqui<\/a> (June 13, 2016). <em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/06\/14\/why-tolerating-your-queer-loved-ones-is-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why \u2018Tolerating\u2019 Your Queer Loved Ones Is Dangerous<\/a> (Bianka Bell, The Establishment, June 14, 2016) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2016\/06\/16\/alleged-killer-british-mp-was-longtime-supporter-neo-nazi-national-alliance\" target=\"_blank\">Alleged killer of British MP was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance<\/a> (Hatewatch\/SPLC, June 16, 2016). <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On the weekend, news.com.au published the following article by Paul Toohey on &#8216;Extremism taking us to dark places&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AT THE Bush Pig Inn, a rustic Aussie-themed drinking hole in bush just out of Bendigo, the inner-circle of the United Patriots Front, the public face of Australia\u2019s most far-Right \u201cracialists\u201d, are holding court.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40 people, mostly men decked out in black with nationalist insignia, have come from around the state and beyond to hear today\u2019s seminar on the white genocide facing Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The UPF claim to be great patriots, who feel a deeper love and concern for this country than the general population. Pink Floyd\u2019s \u201cComfortably Numb\u201d plays in the background, summing up their view of Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE MAIN PLAYERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main man is Blair Cottrell, 27, leader of the UPF and its so-called political wing, Fortitude. He was sentenced to four months jail in 2012 for torching a man\u2019s garage in a jealous rage, and has convictions for burglary and trafficking testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>Tall, well-built and V-shaped, bringing to mind the guy from <em>Despicable Me<\/em>, Cottrell talks with scrupulously controlled diction, to provide the impression that he is intelligent \u2014 which he is.<\/p>\n<p>Even Cottrell\u2019s most furious detractors admit he has charisma. He offers tea, because even though the bar is open and some guests have started drinking, this is not meant to be a piss-up: frivolity is frowned upon by these intense men.<\/p>\n<p>At his side is Chris Shortis, 45, who like Cottrell has short, chiselled hair. Of English-Irish descent, Seventh-Day Adventist by faith, Shortis says he found an outlet for his thoughts when he finally discovered like-minded people on Facebook, in late 2014. Prior to that, he thought he was alone.<\/p>\n<p>He will address the crowd on how white Australia is being overrun.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s Thomas Sewell, early 20s, taciturn, watchful and mildly seething. The best guess is that he\u2019s an adviser and tactician.<\/p>\n<p>A former Australian soldier, he\u2019s the one who decides after two minutes that enough photos have been taken. Sewell can be seen on video, brawling at a UPF rally last year.<\/p>\n<p>The UPF rejects Islam, but also Christianity. They especially despise multiculturalism. \u201cWe\u2019re modern-day heretics,\u201d says Cottrell, who once said a portrait of Hitler should hang in every Australian classroom.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely, according to a reformed white supremacist source who once planned to hit the streets of Sydney with a small army to gun down Asians, but these days assists authorities in infiltrating Right-wing extremist groups, that someone in this crowd is reporting back to federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>Far-Right groups are now everywhere on social media, mostly using Facebook sites with no links to web sites or organisers. Unchecked, the fear is they could attract exactly the same sort of disaffected young man who, on the extremist scale, is no different from those they despise most: the loose-wheeled young Muslim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. SURGE IN ONLINE EXTREMISM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The concern is that the UPF, which six months ago broke away to take a harder line from the more mainstream \u201cmums and dads\u201d anti-Islamic group, Reclaim Australia, has begun engaging some angry young minds.<\/p>\n<p>There is an unnamed young white extremist on remand for weapons charges, but News Corp understands he was plotting actions that were far more organised than anything Man Haron Monis planned for the Lindt Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Oboler, who leads Australia\u2019s only monitoring site for online extremism, the Online Hate Prevention Institute, says interest in patriotic groups is surging, with 200,000 Australians now actively following hate sites.<\/p>\n<p>He reveals that neo-Nazis out of the US have been using pro-Islamic State forums in Australia \u201cto incite them to attack targets within Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing the internet being used as a way of creating strange coalitions across borders, and through anonymity people are able to use others,\u201d says Oboler. He will not publicly name the targets, which are now heavily guarded.<\/p>\n<p>He says his organisation, in conjunction with ASIO and the AFP, monitored \u201cthe content, the conversations and the planning right through to the final tweets from ISIS\u201d. Neither ASIO nor the AFP will comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cISIS certainly would not have known they were being manipulated by neo-Nazis,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. DIVISIONS IN THE FAR-RIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UP IN Sydney, Ralph Cerminara, who encourages people to take and post video of lone Muslims to show \u201chow out of place they look\u201d, warns: \u201cThere will be another Cronulla II. There will be a backlash, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police are aiding by not arresting the violent left wing, while scores of Muslims are getting slapped on the wrist with the coward-punch law. They get good behaviour bonds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says he\u2019s currently on a court order that prevents him badmouthing Muslims after a dust-up in Lakemba. None of it slows him down. \u201cI should be able to walk down here in a bikini and [eat] a bacon sandwich and not be attacked,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Cerminara has also been savaging the current UPF leadership accusing it associating [of] with skinheads [sic], which he says damages the anti-Islam brand. \u201cThere is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, just as there is no such thing as a moderate neo-Nazi,\u201d says Cerminara, 37, an IT worker.<\/p>\n<p>This is a divisive distraction from the rolling battles with the far-Right\u2019s most hated enemy, Antifa, the masked anti-fascist movement of the extreme Left.<\/p>\n<p>Cerminara, who was allegedly slashed while shooting video of an anarchist bookstore in Newtown earlier this year, says anti-fascists have published his address and made home visits \u2014 where he lives with an Asian wife.<\/p>\n<p>He has a machine-gun response for every question, pausing only when pressed on what his wife thinks of his 24\/7 obsession: Muslims and the extreme Left.<\/p>\n<p>Cerminara says she has received death threats and became dismayed when Nathan Abela, once a Cerminara lieutenant, had his home in Sydney sprayed with bullets in 2014. Abela has since then kept a very low profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife saw that and she got upset,\u201d says Cerminara. \u201cShe wants me to stop it. She knows it\u2019s right, but she wants someone else to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the UPF Facebook page, inviting people to the Bush Pig Inn, someone has urged Cerminara be attacked if he shows, due to his criticisms of the UPF\u2019s skinhead [sic] element (Cerminara did not attend, and says he did not see the post).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018IT\u2019S APPEALING TO JOIN SOMETHING LIKE THAT\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melbourne man Neil Erikson, 31, was one of the founders of UPF who has since left the organisation for what he sees as a shift towards neo-Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>Talking on the steps of Federation Square in Melbourne, he tells how his mother-in-law recently received a cut-up photo of a foetus in the mail, which he thinks was meant to represent his young son.<\/p>\n<p>That letter came from within the far-Right, he guesses, but two weeks earlier he\u2019d been bashed by Antifa activists who\u2019d spotted him while attending a meeting of the Australian Liberty Alliance, which is fielding anti-Islam candidates in the federal election. Erikson, whose facial scars are only starting to fade, doesn\u2019t feel too comfortable in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough out there being anti-Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI originally started out in the neo-Nazi movement when I was about 16, until about four years ago,\u201d says Erikson, who in 2014 was sentenced to a community work order, and a visit to the psychologist, for phone threats to a rabbi. \u201cIf you wanted to show pride in Australia, there was no other place to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn hindsight, it\u2019s appealing to join something like that. But there are darker sides to neo-Nazis \u2014 lost kids, lost people. Until this patriotic rise of Reclaim last year, there was no one to hang out with apart from neo-Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The neo-Nazis Erikson associated with were \u201cin and out of prison all the time, for bashing some random Asian on the street.\u201d Like the 21-year-old Vietnamese student from Pascoe Vale, severely beaten in an unprovoked attack by skinheads [sic] while walking home from work, in Moonee Ponds, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was there that night, just before,\u201d says Erikson, who saw young neo-Nazis shaving their heads earlier in the day in anticipation of a random attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I started turning off that Nazi stuff. It\u2019s not his fault he\u2019s here,\u201d says Erikson of the Vietnamese man. \u201cHe\u2019s come here for a better life. It\u2019s our government\u2019s fault for letting him in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wants the public to march against Islam, but people are too scared after the first Reclaim Australia rally at Federation Square, in April last year, fell to violence, with a grandma \u2014 among others \u2014 getting hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes of screaming, masked anarchists \u2014 whose contribution to the federal election campaign is street posters of party leaders dangling from nooses \u2014 and skinheads [sic] marching on the frontlines with the UPF has seen the public retreating from rallies, but not from its views.<\/p>\n<p>The Reclaim movement \u201cwoke everyone up and got them out of their houses,\u201d says Erikson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s now lost support. The neo-Nazi movement has scared people away. If Reclaim were to hold a rally now, they\u2019d be lucky to get 20 people. It\u2019s all gone online. They\u2019re safer at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>III. UNPLEASANT TRUTHS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WORLDWIDE, says Andre Oboler, Australia ranks third or fourth for supporters of anti-Islam, anti-Semitic and pro-white sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we consider the size of Australia\u2019s population we see that a far larger portion of Australian Facebook users are actively joining such hate groups online than occurs in other countries,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As a Jewish organisation, OHPI, which attracts no federal funding, has not been able ignore what has happened in the last 18 months: anti-Semitism has been replaced with anti-Islam. They are bound to report hate, whatever its flavour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s an element of bigotry and racism that has [been] brought into the political sphere in the last few years at a much higher level than we\u2019ve seen since World War II,\u201d says Oboler.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, online bigotry \u201chas risen steeply over the past year\u201d, and especially in the last six months with \u201ca shift with more Australians starting to engage in a small number of significant Australian specific (hate\/patriotic) groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oboler tracks the rise of hate in Australia to the English Defence League, which began in 2009 with football supporters fighting anti-war Islamists on the streets of Luton. It eventually became controlled by white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>The EDL\u2019s argument was original and appealed to many: they weren\u2019t racists because Islam is a religion, not a race.<\/p>\n<p>Oboler says the distinction is not legitimate. \u201cNo. It\u2019s like saying, \u2018I\u2019m not racist, I\u2019m just homophobic.\u2019 Well, you\u2019re still a bigot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was nonetheless a powerful argument that took the far Right a lot further than it had under the founding anti-Islam matriarch, Pauline Hanson, who first appeared in 1996 with her anti-multicultural agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It caught on with the Australian Defence League, \u201cFuck Off We\u2019re Full\u201d bumper stickers, anti-Halal and anti-Sharia movements, and then Reclaim Australia \u2014 formed partly in response a belief that the Lindt siege was created by favourable immigration policies to Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the extremist groups and the street clashes.<\/p>\n<p>There are up to 50 anti-Islam Senate candidates standing on July 2, but most \u2014 possibly with the exception of Hanson, who is running in Queensland \u2014 will have trouble under the new ballot system gaining preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Nalliah\u2019s Rise-Up Australia has 11 Senate candidates. The Sri Lankan-born Victorian developed his antipathy for Islam while living with his Asian wife in Saudi Arabia, before coming to Australia as a migrant in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Nalliah wants a 10-year moratorium on all Islamic migration to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He says the concept of multiculturalism should be replaced by \u201cmulti-ethnicity\u201d, meaning people retain their culture while complying and integrating with Australian life and law. Which is how it already is for the Muslim majority who reject militant Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t call me a racist because I\u2019m black,\u201d says Nalliah. \u201cPeople laugh. It\u2019s taken a blackfella to stand up for Australian culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a Saturday morning Rise-Up election campaign in Bendigo, the town that has become the nation\u2019s unwanted anti-Islam focal point for its no-mosque campaign, Nalliah\u2019s group are shooed away from the Bendigo Marketplace, as they hand out leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard is at a loss when asked whether she would also order Malcolm Turnbull or Bill Shorten to leave. The Rise-Up people then congregate downtown outside a cafe, where the owner tells them to get lost or she\u2019ll call the cops. They move, again.<\/p>\n<p>Oboler says anti-Islam political groups should be allowed their voice. Australia has limited constitutional free-speech rights, but the High Court says we have the right to open political communication to enable the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be leeway for political parties,\u201d says Oboler. \u201cIf you force them to code what they\u2019re saying, people might vote for them accidentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bendigo mosque was last week cleared to be built, but Cerminara tells me plans are afoot to block it: \u201cIt will not be built. The Greens tie themselves to trees. We will do it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV. THE LANGUAGE OF HATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE UPF leadership group sticks close to each other at the Bush Pig Inn, scanning faces, not sure of who is who among those who have arrived in response to its open Facebook invitation.<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t let us take crowd photos, because \u201csome of these people have jobs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They nevertheless extend politeness to two members of News Corp. The UPF expects bad press, so doesn\u2019t have much to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to explain core beliefs, Cottrell says: \u201cIt is essentially racialism, but it\u2019s not what you think it is. It\u2019s not supremacist. We actually advocate for an exclusive existence for all the races of the world \u2014 not this blending, multiculturalism, egalitarianism nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to encourage different cultures to stay who they are to remain as they have always been. Every culture, every race, must have exclusive existence. Anyone who tries to take that away is an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cottrell\u2019s language sounds like one of white supremacy. He proposes that one race \u2014 the white one \u2014 controls Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, says the former neo-Nazi source, is that UPF leadership \u2014 even if they are not themselves advocating terror \u2014 will attract kids, just as ISIS does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re an ISIS guy, the majority are not even believers in Islam,\u201d he says. \u201cMost of it is attachment problems, being bullied at school and mental illness. They get disaffected and have got to find somewhere where they belong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same with white extremists. They don\u2019t really believe in racial segregation, but they go along with it because they need something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This man, himself a master indoctrinator, building a far-Right army of 150 people to attack Asians (whom he later went back to and tried to de-radicalise), explains how it works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say to the guy, \u2018Come here, we\u2019re your mates. Who was it who bashed you? We\u2019ll get them.\u2019\u201d Then they\u2019re hooked. But the real threat comes from those who are too unmanageable even for the white extremists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe danger is the people on the fringes who might get rejected,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be your lone wolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says of the far-Right groups: \u201cThey want chaos in order to rebuild the nation. And they\u2019re inviting everyone to join them. If Muslim kids look at this, how will they feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says that the feds and state police are watching closely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018OUR FREEDOMS HAVE DIMINISHED\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the UPF are asked if they can channel patriotism into love of sport, they sneer. Asked about the first Australians, they trip up, because they are outranked. Questions become futile, because they have it all figured out.<\/p>\n<p>Shortis makes the extraordinary claim that Australia\u2019s constitution is a \u201cnationalist\u201d document, which sets out a formula for a nation to be ruled on separatist lines. This is news. The Australian constitution does not use the words \u201cnation\u201d, \u201cnational\u201d and especially not \u201cnationalist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The constitution creates a federation. Nothing in the document mentions race or exclusion. That is why Aborigines are fighting to get a brief mention in the preamble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael has laws to preserve Israel as a Jewish state,\u201d says Shortis. \u201cBecause they want to preserve their racial and cultural identity. I ask the question to the far-Left: why are we called white supremacists?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s far from the case. If anything, the white race is the most disgusting, self-loathing race on the face of the earth. How long does the white man have to pay for the perceived evils of our colonial history?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is nostalgia here for a time before they were born. \u201cOur freedoms have diminished in the last 40 years,\u201d says Shortis. But do you diminish the freedoms of others? \u201cThis lie that we go out looking for Muslims to seek them out, I don\u2019t know who invented that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We take our leave. There\u2019s a game on back in Melbourne at Etihad I\u2019d like to see. Shortis says something about my \u201cpoor priorities\u201d. But I\u2019m not so sure.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, departing the stadium with 28,000 people, mostly white but a whole lot more, you can\u2019t help look at the little Asian and Indian kids at the game with mum and dad.<\/p>\n<p>Do they want to hear bad things about who they are, or where they come from? Do we want to make them [feel] hated? We do not. That is why most of us refuse to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Most who leave this stadium wear the tribal insignia of their teams. But all who leave the stadium pass untroubled, in peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-20\/there-s-a-country-immune-to-populist-mood-stoking-trump-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">Australia Dodges Populist Lurch as Brexit, Trump Hit Markets<\/a>, Jason Scott, Bloomberg, June 18, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>>> This SUNDAY, JUNE 26 \/\/\/ 11am \/\/\/ Victorian State Parliament \/\/\/ Say NO to Racism in Melbourne<\/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":[4,12,6,16,11,9,8,893,15],"tags":[2375,1232,2284,1758,2115,2033,2049,2099,2041,2286,2312,2373,5062,2316,1686,2242,1913,1970,2043,2377,2376,2102,2233,2047,2374],"class_list":["post-40002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-art","category-history","category-media","category-music","category-state","category-television","category-thats-capitalism","category-war-on-terror","tag-andre-oboler","tag-antifa-notes","tag-aryan-nations","tag-australian-liberty-alliance","tag-bendigo","tag-blair-cottrell","tag-campaign-against-racism-and-fascism","tag-chris-shortis","tag-danny-nalliah","tag-elijah-jacobson","tag-eureka","tag-jo-cox","tag-kevin-combes","tag-kevin-coombes","tag-online-hate-prevention-institute","tag-perth","tag-ralph-cerminara","tag-reclaim-australia","tag-rise-up-australia-party","tag-stories-from-the-inside","tag-the-bon-scotts","tag-thomas-sewell","tag-true-blue-crew","tag-united-patriots-front","tag-wanda-marsh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-apc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40002","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=40002"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40020,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40002\/revisions\/40020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}