{"id":7580,"date":"2009-09-11T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2009-09-11T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:42:14","slug":"the-tale-of-denis-donohue-and-donny-ryder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7580","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Denis Donohue&#8230; and Donny Ryder"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>Neo-Nazi skinheads belonging to Blood &#038; Honour (B&#038;H) Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins are gathering in Melbourne this weekend to commemorate the death of B&#038;H&#8217;s co-founder, <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=405\">Ian Stuart Donaldson<\/a>, in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>As in previous years, the boneheads have organised <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=6811\">a gig<\/a> to remember Ian, and arranged for a number of different bands to play, including &#8212; it seems &#8212; a US band called &#8216;Rebel Hell&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse ******, a leading Australian Hammerskin, will be playing at the gig with his band Ravenous. Jesse maintains both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/genocidal88\">a YouTube channel<\/a> and an online shop called 9 percent productions [http:\/\/9percentproductions.com\/].<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, 9 percent sells (neo-)Nazi music &#8212; including the album &#8216;Freezer Full of Nigger Heads&#8217; by the US band Grinded Nig &#8212; and merchandise &#8212; including swastika pins and keyrings. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jesse singing with the Belgian neo-Nazi band Kill Baby Kill, who played the 2008 memorial gig (at The Beaconsfield Hotel). Note that KBK vocalist, Dieter Samoy, has a conviction for assaulting a black man.<\/p>\n<p>The song is called &#8216;Oh no here comes an Abo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u7HypWx4K1A&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/ul>\n<p>NT &#8216;Nazi&#8217; makes tearful on-air apology<br \/>\nninemsn staff and wires<br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2009<\/p>\n<p>A man who sold racist T-shirts in Alice Springs has <a href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/news\/audio\/news-audio\/200909\/20090911--abcalice-red.mp3\">gone on radio<\/a> to make a tearful apology \u2014 but doubts remain about his sincerity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denis Donohue<\/strong> went on ABC Radio in Alice Springs today to make amends after receiving death threats for selling garments emblazoned with a Nazi swastika and the phrase &#8220;White Power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d just like to apologise to all the good people in Alice and around Australia,&#8221; he said, adding that the shirts were only a drunken joke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry about what I said and there&#8217;s no real malice or reason behind it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Choking back tears, Mr Donohue said selling such T-shirts was &#8220;just the things you do when you have a bit of a drug problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2422\/3909498724_5ae26ee03e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that&#8217;s not the excuse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll cop it sweet. I dug my hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But <em>National Indigenous Times<\/em> editor Chris Graham questioned Mr Donohue&#8217;s apology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really, it&#8217;s a matter for the people he&#8217;s harmed whether they accept his apology,&#8221; he told ninemsn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I actually think it takes some guts to go on the radio like he did but I find it very hard reconciling that with the stream of racist abuse he directed at me yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He says he was drunk but he sounded precisely the same as he did on the radio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Donohue had previously said his business venture was only meant to be a &#8220;bit of a giggle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was only meant as a joke,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You do-gooders are just going to make a bloody mockery of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>National Indigenous Times<\/em>, local police and council officials had refused at least two requests by local residents to shut down the man known as &#8220;Red&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He had been selling the offensive merchandise from his car in the main street of the desert town.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Donohue also told the paper that he was giving the shirts to people who wanted them, including some police officers.<\/p>\n<p>He said Aboriginal people were the source of all the desert town&#8217;s problems and described them as &#8220;mongrels&#8221; and &#8220;bludging leeches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Graham said that the sales of the t-shirts \u2014 which apparently followed the death of an Aboriginal man who was beaten to death allegedly by a gang of white men \u2014 points to &#8220;a larger issue that we have out here and that the community on all levels has to deal with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody except Australia thinks we have a race problem \u2014 it&#8217;s like an alcoholic who won&#8217;t admit that he&#8217;s a drunk,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The five men accused of the fatal assault of trainee ranger <strong>Donny Ryder<\/strong> are facing murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>Nazi T-shirts &#8216;a bit of a giggle&#8217;<br \/>\nAAP<br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2009<\/p>\n<p>A MAN who sold racist T-shirts emblazoned with a Nazi swastika and the phrase &#8220;White Power&#8221; in Alice Springs has gone on radio to make a tearful apology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denis Donohue<\/strong> said his business venture was only meant to be a &#8220;bit of a giggle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was only meant as a joke,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You do-gooders are just going to make a bloody mockery of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>National Indigenous Times<\/em>, local police and council officials had refused at least two requests by local residents to shut down the man known as &#8220;Red&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He had been selling the offensive merchandise from his car in the main street of the desert town.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Donohue also told the paper that he was giving the shirts to people who wanted them, including some police officers.<\/p>\n<p>He said Aboriginal people were the source of all the desert town&#8217;s problems and described them as &#8220;mongrels&#8221; and &#8220;bludging leeches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Donohue went on ABC Radio in Alice Springs today to make amends after receiving death threats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d just like to apologise to all the good people in Alice and around Australia,&#8221; he said, adding that the shirts were only a drunken joke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry about what I said and there&#8217;s no real malice or reason behind it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Choking back tears, Mr Donohue said selling such T-shirts was &#8220;just the things you do when you have a bit of a drug problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that&#8217;s not the excuse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll cop it sweet. I dug my hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White power shirts &#8216;a joke&#8217;, says vendor<br \/>\nNick Calacouras<br \/>\n<em>Northern Territory News<\/em><br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2009<\/p>\n<p>POLICE are investigating white supremacy T-shirts featuring a Nazi swastika that are being sold in a Territory town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denis Donohue<\/strong> said he had been selling the shirts in Alice Springs for two years and had given them to police officers, nurses and prominent members of the Territory&#8217;s legal community.<\/p>\n<p>The T-shirts and baseball caps have the words &#8220;White Power&#8221; emblazoned on them with a Nazi swastika.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Donohue said it was all a joke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was just a novelty thing because I was sick of them all breaking into my home,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just trying to stick a thorn into them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Assistant Commissioner Rob Kendrick said police were investigating the shirt sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shirts are provocative in nature and we certainly consider them offensive,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the sale could breach laws regarding obscenity and offensive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will, if necessary, pursue a prosecution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(But) our focus at the moment is tracking down the man selling these shirts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kendrick said he was concerned by claims that police officers had obtained these shirts.<\/p>\n<p>When the <em>Northern Territory News<\/em> suggested to Mr Donohue that his shirts could promote ethnic cleansing or racial violence, he replied: &#8220;says who?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just did it to grab attention. We&#8217;re not holding meetings or anything. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m in the Ku Klux Klan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Donohue said he has advertised these shirts for years from a sign in the back of his car &#8211; but he has never sold them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t sell them. Nobody wants to buy them. But I do give them away to people who want them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only ones who are complaining are white bastards. It is just the do-gooder whities and it has been blown out of the bloody water&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>========================<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Graham (<em>National Indigenous Times<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nit.com.au\/news\/story.aspx?id=18613\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>NATIONAL, September 10, 2009: An Alice Springs resident has responded to the alleged bashing death of an Aboriginal man by five young white men by selling \u201cAlice Springs White Power\u201d t-shirts and caps from his car.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s all happening outside the Alice Springs Town Council offices, with local police and council officials refusing at least two requests by local residents to shut the man down.<\/p>\n<p>The t-shirts and caps were yesterday on display in the passenger side window of a 4WD ute parked directly across the road from the council chambers. The number plates on the vehicle read &#8216;GANGSTA&#8217;, and a hand-written sign was taped to the back passenger window advertising the shirts and caps.<\/p>\n<p>The sign included pricing &#8211; $25 for a shirt, $25 for a cap or to [sic] for $35. The shirt includes a Nazi swastika symbol, and the sign includes a mobile number, 0410 366 701.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of the merchandise follows the July 25 death of <strong>Donny Ryder<\/strong>, an Aboriginal trainee ranger, aged 33. Mr Ryder was walking home along an Alice Springs back street when a group of five white youths aged 19-24 allegedly alighted from a 4WD and bashed him to death.<\/p>\n<p>The youths have each been charged with murder, and up to nine counts of reckless endangerment &#8211; about a half hour before the bashing death the youths also allegedly drove their vehicle at itinerant Aboriginal men and women camping on the dry bed of the Todd River&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neo-Nazi skinheads belonging to Blood &#038; Honour (B&#038;H) Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins are gathering in Melbourne this weekend to commemorate the death of B&#038;H&#8217;s co-founder, Ian Stuart Donaldson, in 1993. 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