blood and honour ook actief in australie
roos - 02.10.2006 11:16
Het wereldwijde nazi-netwerk blood&honour is niet alleen in europa bezig haat en angst te zaaien, maar ook in Melbourne (Australie) zijn ze actief. ze lijken hun activiteiten voorlopig te concentreren op het organiseren van nazi-concerten en worden daar bij gesteund door een lokale bar.
Het wereldwijde nazi-netwerk blood&honour is niet alleen in europa bezig haat en angst te zaaien, maar ook in Melbourne (Australie) zijn ze actief. ze lijken hun activiteiten voorlopig te concentreren op het organiseren van nazi-concerten en worden daar bij gesteund door een lokale bar.
Dit is wat de Australisch/Aziatische antifascistische groep 'Fight Them Back!' erover schrijft:
Australasian anti-fascist campaigners Fight Dem Back! [1] say the
Birmingham Hotel (Smith St, Fitzroy) has endangered the local community
by hosting a large neo-Nazi skinhead gig.
On Saturday the 23rd September, neo-Nazis from around Australia and the
world came to Melbourne for the annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial
gig. Ian Stuart, who died in a car crash in 1993, was the lead singer
for neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver [2].
The gig was held by the local branch of Blood & Honour - a global
neo-Nazi network banned in Germany and considered a terrorist
organisation by British and Belgian authorities - and the Southern Cross
Hammerskins (SCHS), the local branch of another international neo-Nazi
skinhead network. These two groups are responsible for numerous murders,
bombings, arsons and assaults around the world.
Fight Dem Back! discovered that the gig would be held at the Birmingham
Hotel after an infiltrator expressed an interest in attending. To their
surprise, they were informed that the concert would be held in Fitzroy,
and not at the Jam Tin in Cheltenham - a venue which Blood & Honour had
used in the past.
Although the manager of the Birmingham has denied hosting the event, all
three bands listed on the poster for the concert played at the
Birmingham that night and approximately 50 members of Blood & Honour and
SCHS were present.
Fight Dem Back!'s Australian spokesperson, Cam Smith, says the matter
must be taken seriously by the wider community and the authorities.
"These are violent thugs who believe they not only have a right, but a
duty, to harrass, intimidate and assault those who do not fit their
bigoted ideal. If you are not white, not heterosexual, and if your
politics are anywhere to the left of Adolf Hitler then you're fair game
as far as they're concerned. The community needs to let the Birmingham
know that they're not happy with this element being brought into
Fitzroy. This is a multicultural area and houses many vulnerable
citizens - easy targets for neo-Nazis."
"We are sending a powerful message to the Birmingham Hotel to stop
providing a venue for these people to spread their vile message. These
are dangerous fanatics - we don't want what is happening in Europe to
happen here," he continued, referring to the uncovering of a Blood &
Honour plot to destablilise Belgian democracy by way of mass murder
earlier this month [3].
"As far as we are concerned, these scumbags are the real threat to
Australian values."
NOTES
[1] Fight Dem Back, founded in 2004, is an Australia and Aotearoa/New
Zealand wide network of anti-fascist activists. Their website can be
found at  http://www.fightdemback.org
[2] Skrewdiver were a pioneer of the "white power" music scene. More
information about them can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrewdriver
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