{"id":49536,"date":"2022-08-11T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=49536"},"modified":"2022-08-12T21:46:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:46:27","slug":"nazi-trouble-at-the-irish-times-pub-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=49536","title":{"rendered":"Nazi Trouble at The Irish Times Pub in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update<\/strong> (August 12, 2022) : Neo-Nazi pub incident more complex than it seems<\/a>, Tom Tanuki, Independent Australia, August 13, 2022.]<\/p>\n

The Irish Times Pub<\/a> in Melbourne has inadvertently become the centre of a trans-national campaign in support of a small handful of local neo-Nazis and the site of an alleged exortion:<\/p>\n

A Melbourne publican claims a neo-Nazi extorted hundreds of dollars from him after a staff member recognised a far-right tattoo [a sonnenrad<\/a><\/em>] on the shoulder of a patron and spat in their drink.<\/p>\n

The neo-Nazi members have been bragging on secret and encrypted social media channels populated with right-wing supporters that The Irish Times Pub manager … handed over $651 after they threatened the pub with complaints to regulators and flooded Google with negative reviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See<\/em> : Neo-Nazi allegedly extorts pub owner after barman spits in beer<\/a>, David Estcourt and Nick McKenzie, The Age, August 11, 2022.<\/p>\n

Named in the report are Jimeone Roberts, Neil Erikson and Stefanos \u2018Stefan\u2019 Eracleous, all members or associates of Tom Sewell’s neo-Nazi groupuscule ‘National Socialist Network’.<\/p>\n

Last week, Roberts featured in Man who displayed swastikas avoids jail by \u2018an absolute whisker\u2019<\/a> (Adam Cooper, The Age, August 1, 2022):<\/p>\n

Magistrate David Starvaggi told Roberts he avoided jail by \u201can absolute whisker\u201d, and ordered he complete an 18-month community correction order. He said he would have jailed Roberts had he not pleaded guilty. \u201cThis is one of the most disgusting, vile, repugnant acts of anti-Semitism and racial behaviour that I have ever seen,\u201d Starvaggi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erikson is a veteran neo-Nazi serial pest who is currently appealing a jail sentence<\/a> for disrupting a church service (Churchgoers ‘traumatised by Erikson abuse’<\/a>, Emily Woods, The Canberra Times, August 2, 2022):<\/p>\n

Parishioners at a queer-friendly Melbourne church refuse to go back inside a room where far-right extremist Neil Erikson spouted homophobic abuse three years ago. Erikson crashed a Mother’s Day service at the Metropolitan Community Church in Hawthorn in May 2019 with two women, live-streaming the ordeal to his followers online. A few minutes after a bible discussion began, Erikson got up from his seat and, while standing in front of about 20 parishioners, asked: “Does your church marry Sodomites?” He hurled further abuse, including “you’re not Christians you’re a bunch of “fa***ts”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eracleous is another relative veteran, gaining a smol degree of notoriety recently for burning the Aboriginal flag in a propaganda video (Neo-Nazi unmasked as former Young Liberal<\/a>, Nick McKenzie, The Age, February 2, 2022) which:<\/p>\n

… began to gain traction with mainstream news outlets, largely because it singled out Greens senator Lidia Thorpe, who is also Indigenous. The senator\u2019s name, alongside a vicious racist slur, was written on a sign behind the men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The neo-Nazis have spent considerable time and energy since the incident on August 2 organising in defence of Eracleous, Erikson and Roberts, inter alia<\/em> encouraging their supporters in Australia and overseas (especially Ukraine) to flood the pub’s socials with negative reviews: an interesting case study in cross-national campaigning by neo-Nazis on Telegram.<\/p>\n

No doubt there will be continuing fallout from the incident and the neo-Nazi response to it, and I hope that anti-fascists in Melbourne and elsewhere continue to pay close attention to their antics.<\/p>\n

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