{"id":624,"date":"2007-03-14T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2007-05-11T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T03:32:13","slug":"the-kkk-took-my-perspective-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"The KKK took my perspective away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two recent articles from Crikey<\/strong> on the KKK<\/strong> and FDB!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The KKK took my perspective away
\nCam Smith
\nCrikey<\/strong>
\nMarch 12, 2007<\/p>\n

The news last week<\/a> that a Ku Klux Klan group (The White Legion Knights of the KKK) was attempting to recruit in the Queensland city of Toowoomba via a leaflet campaign has been blown somewhat out of proportion and is just a little bit pathetic. Surely a proper Invisible Empire would never do anything as tacky as sticking propaganda (American propaganda! Very UnAustralian) under people’s windscreen wipers. It’s just not the done thing.<\/p>\n

The Mayor (Dianne Thorley), the local members (Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane and Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine) and Premier Peter Beattie have all come out slamming the pamphlets. Just how worried should they actually be?<\/p>\n

Let’s put this group into perspective. There’s already a KKK group operating in Australia — they’re called the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Australia and the organisation is run (Grand Wizarded) by a bloke called David Palmer, a retired electrician who divides his time between doing his bit for the incredibly beleaguered white race and sinking beer at his local RSL. Unlike these classless Toowoomba sheet-heads, he reportedly does much of his recruiting the old fashioned way: in mental institutions and jails.<\/p>\n

The crowning achievement of the IEKKKKA has probably been the establishment of their 100% Aryan Breeding Program, wherein women wishing to ensure the racial integrity of their offspring can (for a small fee) do the “horizontal Austrian polka” with Dave or one of his kameraden. To date there have been no takers.<\/p>\n

We are possibly not dealing with the cream of the crop of Australian society. The fact that Dave completely disavows any connection to this new group and disparagingly refers to them as “the Toowoomba Centrelink Mob” speaks volumes as to just how insignificant they are. If these losers can’t even organise themselves some jobs, how are they expected to organise a cross burning (it’s actually harder than you’d think).<\/p>\n

The authorities should definitely keep an eye on them (in case they should grow beyond what we estimate are 5-10 members), but as Dr Mark Copland from the Catholic Social Justice Commission has pointed out, there are actually more important racial issues in Toowoomba for Di, Ian, Kez and Pete to be dealing with. Perhaps the shocking state of Aboriginal education and health should be prioritised above the activities of a few losers in bedsheets.<\/p>\n

Cam Smith \u2013 poseur or van Tongeren?
\nChristian Kerr
\nCrikey<\/strong>
\nMarch 13, 2007<\/p>\n

Crikey made an error of judgement granting space to the self-styled anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith yesterday, since Smith is either one of two things: a poseur or an advocate of violence.<\/p>\n

Smith says he represents an organisation called “Fight Dem Back”. Fight Dem Back has a website<\/a>, but like most groups on the political fringe there appears to be little more to the entity than some self-selected spokespeople and a message.<\/p>\n

In Fight Dem Back\u2019s case, that message is ambiguous.<\/p>\n

The organisation\u2019s homepage talks about its “opposition to all groups who would seek to propagate racial hate and division”.<\/p>\n

It provides chapter and verse on some strikingly obnoxious groups and individuals who do this \u2013 people such as Jack van Tongeren, the white supremacist who served 12 years in prison from 1989-2001 in Western Australia for firebombing Asian businesses.<\/p>\n

Nowhere, however, in all the detail on its site, does Fight Dem Back precisely spell out how it expresses its “opposition” to racism.<\/p>\n

Violence plays no part in political decision making or debate in Australia. We recognise this. It is why we send people like van Tongeren to jail.<\/p>\n

Yet Fight Dem Back explicitly meets violence with violence in its name. Does it also do so in its activities?<\/p>\n

It might not have all that many. Smith and his confreres may do little more than run a website and occasionally offer opinions to hard-pressed, na\u00efve or gullible journalists and editors.<\/p>\n

If this is so, then they are nothing but… puerile political poseurs. Political poseurs who exploit decent minded people\u2019s repugnance at racism to gain themselves media notoriety.<\/p>\n

And if Fight Dem Back uses or condones violence, then Cam Smith is as offensive to our democracy as Jack van Tongeren.<\/p>\n

Either way, Crikey should be embarrassed for giving him a platform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, how embarrassment…<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to know precisely what Kerr was thinking when he wrote his rejoinder to Cam; perhaps he wasn’t doing anything else on Sunday afternoon. Or maybe he’d had a bit too much to drink. But who’s Christian Kerr anyway, and why has he bothered to produce such a grotesque caricature?<\/p>\n

To begin with, it’s obvious that he’s a Christian: Christian is, after all, his name, and such a conclusion simply follows from Christian the Christian’s impeccable logic regarding the violent implications of the name Fight Dem Back!<\/a><\/strong>. Kerr is also, according to The Age<\/em>, a former Tory party hack and corporate propagandist (Susan Brown, ‘Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt’<\/a>, July 4, 2004), having been employed by “a string of federal Liberals and a premier”, including Senators Robert Hill and Amanda Vanstone and former South Australian premier John Olsen.<\/p>\n

As for Kerr’s diatribe… more later.<\/p>\n

However Crikey readers may respond to Kerr’s smears, its publication has certainly been warmly received on Scumfront Down Under<\/a><\/strong>. Thus David Innes<\/a><\/em> (‘Baron von Hund’) exclaims “In your face Cam”, and extends a note of appreciation to the neo-Nazi New Right<\/strong> group for bringing the article to his meagre attention span. Note that, like most groups on the fringes of the far right, New Reich<\/strong> is little more than a platform for the articulation of bizarre racist conspiracy theories, in this (nut-)case, those produced by one Welf Herfurth<\/a><\/em>: a former member of the German neo-Nazi NPD<\/a><\/strong> and One Nation<\/strong>, and current member of the Australia First Party<\/strong> and Blood & Honour Australia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Responding to an enquiry by neo-Nazi Carl D. Thompson<\/a><\/em> (‘Wodensvolk’) as to Cam’s identity, Canadian racist Frank! White!<\/em> informs Thompson that Cam is “the loon who goes by the name Dr. Sexwithmeninheimer”: hurr hurr<\/a>. Ever-helpful, convicted neo-Nazi criminal Ben Weerheym<\/a><\/em> (‘Patriot Alliance Downunder’) points interested readers in the direction of his blog, where he has published a profile<\/a> of Mr. Smith, further stating that “He is a deviant peice [sic<\/em>] of slime that likes to joke about homosexual rape, illicit drug-taking and sodomy”, and requests further information on Cam “so that we can help parents that live in his vicinity know about this creep so they will be able to be vigiliant [sic<\/em>] when letting their kids go to the local park in Collingwood”.<\/p>\n

Hmmm, yes.<\/p>\n

Luke Connors<\/a><\/em> (‘young_soldier’) joins in the critical chorus, augmenting Kerr’s not-quite-accurate description of FDB! by further claiming that it’s composed of middle-aged men who “spend their time trying to rev up 16 [year old] kids who hate their parents and John Howard to attack people they don[‘]t like”; which is an odd remark coming from someone who, as ex-spokesperson for the now-defunct Patriotic Youth League<\/strong>, celebrated the racist pogrom in Cronulla in December 2005, claiming that “about 15 [PYL] members handed out literature to the Cronulla crowd, as well as buying drinks for some participants”, and who eagerly predicted further outbreaks of racial violence in the Melbourne suburbs of Heidelberg, Preston, Reservoir and Springvale.<\/p>\n

Bonehead James Newman<\/em> (‘JN’) — like Welf Herfurth, a member of both the Australia First Party and Blood & Honour Australia, and most notorious for uploading to Scumfront celebratory videos of the racist pogrom \/ ‘White uprising’ in Cronulla for the enjoyment of other racists and fascists around the globe — concludes that, while he and other racist schmucks have long-maintained that FDB! are “idiots”, “apparently mainstream people do too”. Well yeah… if Kerr can be considered ‘mainstream’, as well as representative. Time will tell who, if anyone, wishes to join Kerr and Scumfront in their condemnations. Indeed, perhaps Kerr would like to supplement his accusation of ‘violence’ — on the basis of the occurence of the word ‘Fight’ in the group’s name — by also highlighting the belief among the fine folks at Scumfront that FDB! is the product of a Jewish conspiracy to keep The White Man down?<\/p>\n

By crikey, that would be interesting.<\/p>\n

PS<\/strong>. Fear and loathing of Jews<\/a> is “Official Stormfront Policy”, and those who question it are not welcome, no ifs, buts or maybes. “Chief of Staff” ‘jack_boot’ lays down the law:<\/p>\n

Insofar as [Scumfront] has a policy, or platform, that platform consists of three major planks:<\/p>\n

First, we share a racialist vision for the general prosperity, security, and betterment of our people.<\/p>\n

From that commitment flows our most important message: we name the Jew as the deadliest, if not the only, threat to our existence as a race. Forge this message in titanium…<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is one of the reasons why neo-Nazis such as David Innes, his brother Paul Innes<\/em> (‘Steelcap_Boot’), David’s partner and Scumfront Down Under moderator Lilith Petersen<\/em> (‘Lilith’), Carl D. Thompson, Ben Weerheym, Dr. James Saleam<\/em> (‘radnat’) and James Newman (Australia First Party), Luke Connors, and all the other racist losers find Scumfront to be such a happy home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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