{"id":794,"date":"2007-08-01T18:07:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2007-08-05T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T09:06:33","slug":"the-most-dangerous-men-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Men In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, according to ZOO<\/a><\/em> (Issue 75, August 6, 2007, pp.40-44) anyway, are:<\/p>\n

D\u00e4vid Palmer, Imperial Wizard of the Australian Ku Klux Klan : THE NEO-NAZI!<\/em>
\nDavid Innes, anti-immigration writer and radio DJ : THE WHITE SEPARATIST!<\/em>
\nJohn Drew, Australia First Party : THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ACTIVIST!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Australia is proud of its multiculturalism and fair-go attitude for everyone, no matter where they’re from. But recently there has been an increase in right-wing activity across the whole country, from a Ku Klux Klan recruitment drive in Geelong (“We just want to promote our own race, which is the white race”, one leader, called the Exalted Cyclops Brian told the Geelong Advertiser<\/em>) to protestors calling Townsville the “Ku Klux Klan capital of Australia” over “the black deaths in custody” trial of Queensland copper Chris Hurley.<\/p>\n

Th foiled terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and the arrest of foreign-born Gold Coast doctor Mohammed Haneef, heightens the risk of inflaming tensions still running high since the race riots that gripped Sydney in December 2005.<\/p>\n

Most people would say that anyone who calls Hitler their hero must be a deranged lunatic, and yet One Nation’s now-thwarted success and the Cronulla riots show how just a handful of right-wing extremists can deeply influence the wider community. With this year’s federal election fast approaching, what effect will this bizarre racist rhetoric produce?<\/p>\n

ZOO<\/em> spoke to three of Australia’s most extreme white supremacists — not to promote their views in any way, but to uncover the depths of hatred still clearly present in Australia.<\/p>\n

ZOO<\/em> also spoke to two anti-racism activists who dedicate themselves to combating this kind of race-based paranoia: Cam Smith, from anti-racism group Fight Dem Back<\/strong>, formed in 2005 to expose neo-Nazis in Australia and New Zealand; and Jeremy Jones, the Director of Community Affairs for the Jewish Affairs Council<\/strong>, who has been writing about extremist groups for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Palmer calls himself ‘Der F\u00fchrer’ and his ambition is to rid Australia of multicultural ‘mongrels’ and Jews…<\/em><\/p>\n