{"id":48,"date":"2006-01-05T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-05-01T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T15:26:54","slug":"darrin-hodges-is-a-glutton-for-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Darrin Hodges is A Glutton for Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Due to personal circumstances I will be no longer [be] posting\/visiting stormfront. I have also resigned my membership of Australia First<\/a>. I apologise to anybody who may have been offended by my posts on stormfront.<\/p>\n

I would appreciate it if a mod could disable\/delete this account, thankyou.<\/p>\n

(Source: Stormfront, December 19, 2005)\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Liar, liar, pants on fire! Just two and a half weeks later, Hodges is back!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>OK, OK, it’s not exactly Earth-shattering news, but still. The question is: why? I think that there’s basically two possibilities: i) there’s been another change in Hodges’ “personal circumstances”; ii) he has cunningly uncovered a terrible truth: I am an advovate of ultraviolence<\/a>. Well, that’s what our amateur neo-Nazi filmmaker reckons anyway.<\/p>\n

On Stormfront, Proud to be an Infidel (Hodges, presumably) somewhat breathlessly breaks his silence by announcing that I “support utter lawlessness and destruction” and approve of the murder<\/a> of Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec: “a retired Renault employee who was the only fatality of the 2005 civil unrest in France<\/a>“. (He died in a coma while in hospital on November 7 after fracturing his skull, an injury which resulted from falling over and hitting the ground after being struck by a youth on November 4. Jean-Jacques had been attending to a burning trash can outside his apartment building in Stains at the time.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Am I evil?
\nYes I am
\nAm I evil?
\nI am man
\nYes I am<\/p>\n

Actually, Hodges maintains that I’m a “pretendy anarchist” (ouch!) who likes nothing better than to “sit in [my] comfortable western lifestyle” while “inciting others” — like, presumably, rioting French youth — to “violent confrontation”. This, according to Hodges, is “real” anarchy; whereas Reclaim the Streets<\/a> is “safe” anarchy, “where socialists get to show off their dancing and bongo playing skills”! (Well, it may be obvious that he’s never attended an RTS action<\/a>, but at least he’s got a sense of humour… which I imagine is quite a plus if you’re a neo-Nazi and you look like Hodges does.)<\/p>\n

That said, there’s a few flaws in Hodges’ argument:<\/p>\n

1) My entry on the French riots<\/a> was not, as far as I’m aware, published and distributed by a group of other anarchists to the ‘gangs of youth’ in question who, having received their orders, then proceeded to riot. In fact, until very recently, I doubt it would have been read by anyone apart from myself and my housemate! Still, the world really is an amazing place, so — who knows? — maybe French authorities will blame me for the 8,973 vehicles torched and 126 police injured during the 20 nights of rioting. (Further Sketchy Thoughts may be read here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

2) This entry was published on November 6. The riots began on October 27, peaked on November 7, and had largely ended by November 16\/17, at which point the French authorities introduced martial law.<\/p>\n

3) Hodges fails to mention that my entry contains versions of this message in English, Russian, Greek, Dutch, French, English (again) and French (again). Well, sort of. They’re all machine translations<\/a> of the text of the ‘open letter’. Further, the bombastic tone is a conscious parody of similar<\/a> ‘open letters’, and alludes to previous events in French history. But to appreciate this, you’d need not only a sense of humour, but a sense of history too: both virtues that Hodges sadly lacks.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I could go on, but I won’t. Instead, I may add a few links as I encounter them. (In the meantime, read more here<\/a>.) The events in France in 2005 are certainly worth discussing, but as far as I can see, there’s little point in engaging in dialogue with neo-Nazis like Hodges about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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