{"id":9744,"date":"2009-11-01T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2009-11-01T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:08:56","slug":"blood-honour-in-the-sunday-herald-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=9744","title":{"rendered":"Blood & Honour… in the ‘Sunday Herald Sun’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

No place for race hatred<\/a>
\nEditorial
\nNovember 1, 2009<\/p>\n

THERE is no place in a modern multicultural society such as ours for race-hate groups.<\/p>\n

Sadly, they do exist. One that has recently come to our attention is an insidious neo-Nazi group calling itself the Australian chapter of Blood and Honour.<\/p>\n

Members of this group profess hatred for Africans, Asians, Jews, Arabs, Indians and Pakistanis – in fact, all non-white races. They detest Barack Obama, multiculturalism and refugees, while paying homage to the memory of Adolf Hitler and the symbol of the Holocaust – the swastika.<\/p>\n

About 30 members of the paranoid hate group came from around the nation to a secret meeting at the Tivoli German Club in Windsor on September 11. In appearance, they were mainly stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Many had shaved heads and wore bomber jackets. Some had racist slogans tattooed on their bodies. They came to share their hatred of “the enemy” and to meet with potential new members.<\/p>\n

The Tivoli Club, now expressing regret for unwittingly hosting the meeting, said it had a “no-swastika” policy.<\/p>\n

It is inappropriate for the Tivoli Club, or any local community venue, to allow neo-Nazis to gather at their premises.<\/p>\n

The extremist groups, according to human rights groups, are becoming more dangerous because they can now use more sophisticated means of communication in the cyberworld and link internationally.<\/p>\n

It is bad enough that the internet allows such groups a vehicle to peddle race hatred, misguided beliefs and poisonous propaganda.<\/p>\n

But it is perhaps even more disturbing to realise that a neo-Nazi group can gather in a renowned Melbourne community venue to spew hatred.<\/p>\n

Only four years after race riots in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla, we must come to terms with the reality that groups of white supremacists also exist in our part of the country.<\/p>\n

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These extremist groups are small in number, but their fist-clenching hatred is real. They are dedicated to recruiting new members into their armies, sometimes through seemingly innocent rock concerts.<\/p>\n

We urge police to keep a close watch on all white-supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in our midst. All reasonable Victorians, who celebrate our multiculturalism, will be opposed to their existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

B&H has been operating in Australia for many years.<\/p>\n

The meeting on September 11 at the German Tivoli Club took place the day before B&H — together with their neo-Nazi comrades in the (Southern Cross) Hammerskins — organised a gig to commemorate the death in 1993 of B&H co-founder (with similarly dead bonehead Nicky Crane<\/a>) Ian Stuart Donaldson<\/a> (‘ISD’). The gig took place at an undisclosed venue, and featured local neo-Nazi bands ‘Open Season’, ‘Ravenous’ and at least one and possibly two other bands. In 2008, the annual ‘ISD’ gig took place at ‘The Beaconsfield Hotel’ in Beaconsfield; in 2007 at the ‘Melbourne Croatia Social Club’ in Sunshine; in 2006 (and in previous years) at ‘The Birmingham Hotel’<\/a> in Fitzroy. (Note that The Birmingham has since undergone a process of de-Nazification, following what, according to Doug Smith — of Bulldog Spirit \/ Marching Orders \/ Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice<\/a> — was “a pretty unsuccessful boycott”<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In Victoria, the principal organiser \/ ‘state representative’ for B&H is Justin O’Brien. Justin manages a tattoo shop in Burwood: ‘Hold Fast Body Art’<\/a>. On Monday, September 28, Justin and three of his comrades paid a visit to the ‘Melbourne Anarchist Resource Centre’ in Northcote, where they interrupted a meeting of a group campaigning against sexual violence. According to witnesses, Justin stated, inter alia<\/em>, that he wanted to know my location — and not, I think, in order to exchange recipes for lemon cheesecake — and threatened those present, and any other group — in fact, all other users of the space, and ‘antifa’ generally — with (continued) violence if anti-fascist activity in Melbourne did not stop.<\/p>\n

This activity would include, presumably, my own blogging on the subject.<\/p>\n

Thus far, Justin’s visit has received minimal publicity — only one local newspaper<\/a> reported on it. On the other hand, news of his declaration of war upon all those in Melbourne who may not be kindly disposed towards Nazism — and those, like Justin, who continue to celebrate its legacy — has been spread around various local activist communities, and the general consensus, it seems, on my estimation, is that this action was neither big nor clever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of neither big nor clever, John Kopko, one of the men involved in a knife fight during a speech given by Holocaust revisionist David Irving in Florida several days ago<\/a>, was reportedly a member of ‘Crew 38’, the subsidiary mob for prospective members of the Hammerskins.<\/p>\n

Of the four men who attended MARC on September 28, one was equipped with a ‘Crew 38’ patch.<\/p>\n