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Note that the following comments are made by the lead vocalist (Chunga) for a band (The Worst) that has been selected to play with DOA at The Arty on October 19<\/a>. Claiming that ‘anarchy is a fag'[!], relaying information (first produced by local neo-Nazis) regarding the identity of an anti-fascist activist and scabbing on a boycott of a neo-Nazi pub certainly has its rewards eh?<\/p>\n

Monday, September 24, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

Coz it feels so empty without me…<\/a>
\nCurrent mood: amused<\/p>\n

So I write one little thing and it get’s [sic<\/em>] posted all over [sic<\/em>] the internet…<\/p>\n

Pffft… check this shit out!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=858<\/a><\/p>\n

@ndy… you think you’re getting to me… but you’re clearly not…<\/p>\n

I find it amusing that you are the Melbourne Punk Stalker<\/a>! You know everything that’s going on!
\nYour shitty little<\/a> website there is probably better off being a gig website. You know when ALL the shows are on!
\nIf I was a neo-nazi I’d definately [sic<\/em>] be checking your site for all the upcoming b&h shows<\/a>…<\/p>\n

But seriously… all you’re doing is bringing more hate<\/a> into this scene.
\nPeople<\/a> hate you… because they are showing up to the Birmy expecting a fun night with bands… with no Swastikas<\/a> in sight… and they show up to an empty pub because some loser is trying to boycott<\/a> the place.
\nAnd now… you got a whole bunch of your fuckbag mates<\/a> hating me coz apparently I’m a scab<\/a>…
\nAnd how am I wrong when I say you need to get a life???
\nSurely you must be surfing through blood and honour websites 24\/7 to be getting the information you put on your shitty site.
\nAnyway… anarchy is a fag<\/a>… that’s all I have to say to you Mr Moran<\/a>…<\/p>\n

See how fast words travel my friends? Be careful what you write on the internet…
\nCoz you never know when some stalker is gonna put it on there [sic<\/em>] website.
\nThanx to the people who have supported us… and to the random [sic<\/em>] people letting us know about this anarchist knobjockey Mr Moran…<\/p>\n

See you in hell[!].<\/p>\n

10:07 AM – 0 Comments – 0 Kudos – Add Comment<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sheesh.<\/p>\n

In addition to death threats and other threats of violence (one well-wisher commented<\/a> “I hope dirty muslim pakis rape your kids!” — which wasn’t very nice), I’ve been subjected to some fairly lame forms of abuse in the last few years, but I think Chunga must be coming close to having produced one of the<\/em> lamest. Honestly, when I read a line like ‘anarchy is a fag’, I can’t help but laugh. So too, at Chunga’s lament over all those “people” who hate me because when they show up to a gig, the only other<\/em> people there are people like themselves…<\/p>\n

Making for quite a small crowd, according to Chunga.<\/p>\n

At which point, it may be worthwhile recalling a little history:<\/p>\n

Captain Charles Boycott was a former English army officer who served as the agent for an absentee landlord in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century. He was very harsh, refusing to lower rents in hard times and dispossessing tenant farmers who couldn\u2019t pay. In 1880 the tenants, encouraged by the Irish Land League, retaliated: they organized a campaign to isolate Captain Boycott, encouraging the local people to refuse to have any dealings with him or his family. Charles Parnell of the Irish Land League said that those who refused to lower rents or who took the farms of people who had been evicted should be treated like \u201cthe lepers of old.\u201d Boycott and his family found themselves without servants or farmhands and without mail delivery or service in stores. Their own crops failed, and they eventually fled back to England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so back to the present, and to conclude. First, if I weren’t ‘getting’ to Chunga, I doubt he would’ve been motivated to post. Secondly, the only thing I want anyone to ‘get’ is the reasons for Boycotting the Birmingham Hotel<\/a>. Thirdly, I’m not the one helping to bring more ‘hate’ into the scene; on the contrary, I’m objecting to the use by neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour Australia and the Southern Cross Hammerskins of a pub in Fitzroy. These groups are part of international networks, members of which routinely assault non-Whites, people they perceive to be homosexuals, the homeless, trade unionists, anarchists, socialists, punks, skinheads and others, and do so on the basis of their contempt and hatred for such groups. For example:<\/p>\n

In June 1991, Arlington, Texas, was the site of further violence by Hammerskins. Three 16-year-old members of the Confederate Hammerskins murdered an African American, Donald Thomas, while he sat on the back of a truck with two white friends\u2026 That same year, in Birmingham, Alabama, Hammerskin Louis Oddo and his colleague Adam Galleon murdered a 50-year-old black homeless man on Christmas Eve. Oddo and Galleon killed the man, Douglas Garrett, by hitting him with a baseball bat and kicking him with their heavy boots. Oddo and Galleon were subsequently convicted of murder\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More recently, in 2004, B&H Australia and the SCHS organised for a band from Texas called the Bully Boys to tour Australia and to play the 2004 ISD memorial gig. A local bonehead describes their performance as follows:<\/p>\n

Next was the band that we had all been waiting to see and we weren\u2019t disappointed!! The Bully Boys!! They played an awesome set, with tunes like ‘Jigrun’ and ‘Fire Up the Ovens’. A few of the lads had gotten hold of some Jew[\u2019]s yarmulke and took a light to it and handed it to Scott while he was singing ‘Six Million More’! Seeing that burn to the tune of that song was brilliant. What a showman!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lyrics to ‘Jigrun’ read, in part: “Whiskey bottles \/ Baseball bats \/ Pickup trucks \/ And rebel flags \/ We’re going on the town tonight \/ Hit and run \/ Let’s have some fun \/ We’ve got jigaboos on the run \/ And they fear the setting sun”. The authors of these loving lyrics, the Bully Boys are closely linked to the Hammerskins. In 1990, drummer Sean Tarrant was one of several Confederate Hammerskins sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to civil rights convictions for involvement in the vandalization of a mosque and a Jewish community center in Dallas, and chasing and assaulting minorities in a park. Their current lead vocalist has also spent time in jail on assault charges.<\/p>\n

Speaking of vocalists, Scott McGuinness of local band Fortress, scheduled to play their last ever show on October 13, lovingly warbles the following: “Reject an alien government, don\u2019t recognise their laws \/ It\u2019s time to close the floodgates, it\u2019s time to shut the door \/ Repatriate, ship \u2019em out, send the bastards back \/ If they don\u2019t fucking like it, it\u2019ll be in body bags \/ Get out! We don\u2019t want you around \/ Get out! Want the people to shout \/ Get out! Get outta my sight \/ Get out! Parasites\u2026 Parasites\u2026 Parasites.”<\/p>\n

Most recently, three members of the Confederate Hammerskins lovingly attempted to assault an antifa in their house in Florida<\/a>. Fortunately, the three were beaten back, and arrested while fleeing.<\/p>\n