As posted originally on Slackbastard.org.  I strongly suggest following the links and even checked out some of the other stuff on his site to understand these people.

White supremacist group operating in Adelaide…

• …and Brisbane, and Melbourne, and Sydney, and Perth…[video deleted, see original post for content]

  Above : Australian band ‘Open Season’ play a right ‘orrible song called ‘Australian National Socialist’. Open Season played Melbourne on September 12; the band is scheduled to play next year on the Gold Coast (a few days before Adolf Hitler’s birthday), along with Melbourne band ‘Ravenous’ and, apparently, a foreign group of neo-Nazi string-pluckers, tub-thumpers and warblers. Oh yeah: some of Open Season’s other song titles include ‘Kill the Poofs’ and ‘Nigger Hunt’, which suggests — and I admit that I could be wrong — that the boys may harbour some degree of hostility towards homosexuals and blacks…

White supremacist group operating in Adelaide
Sam Rodrigues
The Advertiser
November 3, 2009

AS racial tensions in Adelaide escalate, a white supremacist group is planning family fun days and using music to lure young people to its cause.

[See : Adelaide : City of Churches (And White Power), October 13, 2009.]

The South Australian chapter of “white racialist” group Blood and Honour Australia will hold a Christmas barbecue for like-minded people this month, in a “family-friendly environment”.

The group is promoting the event as its “white Xmas”.

The like-minded apparently excludes Asians, Africans, Indians, Jews, Arabs and other racial groups, as well as those with partners from these groups.

The national group, linked to international chapters, promotes music as the “powerful medium” of white resistance.

“We hold regular gigs around Australia for all those interested to attend and subsequently help a strong resistance grow,” its website said. “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Social Inclusion Commissioner Monsignor David Cappo has highlighted racism as a growing issue.

YouTube clips linked to Blood and Honour Australia feature violent clashes and highlight anti-Australia protests overseas – apparently to justify vilifying ethnic groups.

“In these dark times it’s our children’s future that is paramount and ultimately that’s what we’re all working for,” the website said. The group also holds regular “community building functions”.

Forums on its website and others linked to it have drawn comment on the stabbing death of Sudanese father Akol “Alex” Akok, 25, at suburban Ottoway last month. A spokesman for acting state Multicultural Affairs Minister Paul Holloway said he was reluctant to comment and give publicity to any such group.

Police could not say if they were monitoring the group, or its website. The group did not respond to interview requests yesterday.

Blood and Honour South Australian Section did not respond to email requests from The Advertiser for comment yesterday.

Melbourne media reported this weekend on a meeting of the group attended by members from across the country, particularly Adelaide, describing it as “resembling a scene from Romper Stomper”.

Of course, anyone interested in finding out more about Blood & Honour Australia could do worse than examine their forum, hacked and uploaded onto Wikileaks in March. 76 members of the forum nominated Australia as their place of residence. See also : Nicole Hanley : For Blood & Honour, April 6, 2009.

Now I just gotta find out if there’s counter-demonstrations being organised in this fair city of mine.

I don’t usually know what to expect from the local newspapers.  The general consensus among everyone seems to be that they are not worth the read, particularly due to their bias, lack of understanding and that naughty little habit of standing up to demand from the powers that be some new element of a fascist police state.  Yet, even with this in mind, I persisted in performing the same ritual as thousands of other South Australian’s on a Sunday morning and cracked open the Sunday Mail.

Somewhere between the articles concerning truancy, which made the front page, calls for the police to saturate Hindley street and a badly written editorial towards the end that lamented the rise of video games with a sort of ‘back-in-my-day’ feel (written by someone who could not have been more than 20).

The two pieces devoted to truancy alone completely missed the point.  I have high standards, I admit, but the grasp of the fundamental issue by each article’s author was non-existent.  I like a little more from my newspapers than the logic behind, ‘kids missing school is bad, we need the strong arm of the law to deal with it, or create some statutory mechanism to punish truants by making it more difficult to get a license’.  Of course this all sounds well and good, with the obvious fact that it’s completely wrong.  The reason for most truancy, is that the current formulation of ’school’, is a prison.  Where else in the world must a person be forced to spend their time in a place where the routine is dictated to them from on high, where they must ask permission to do so much as piss and where guards with dogs and guns patrol the perimeter.  Perhaps it can simply be said that so many kids of high school age are truants because they don’t want to be there.  Even the teachers, many of whom are intelligent, bright people and actually give a damn about these kids, often don’t want to be at school and must not only put up with a similar domination by the powers that be, but are themselves forced to run their classes like a concentration camp.  In many cases, that fact that many kids don’t want to be there impacts negatively on the kids that do, leading to all the bullying problems, and even, the problems our society is facing in regards to teen drinking.

But, the argument goes, that education is a right and the kids are missing out on the prospects for better employment or higher education and so on and so forth.  The problem here arises where a right is something that an individual may or may not choose to exercise.  A child not attending school isn’t the violation of that right, so long as the opportunity is there.  As for the whole ‘jeopardising’ the child’s prospects, it is in my experience and the experience of others who I talked to that kids who do not want to be in school, generally aren’t looking to be a astro-physicist, let alone want to spend another 3 years of their lives in university.

As for younger children, primary schooling becomes more a case of baby-sitting.  Experts will often say this time of a child’s life is critical and that they need schooling and so on.  But in the end primary school achieves nothing.  Children from the ages of 5-9 are taught to colour inside the lines and make pretty creations out of paper, card and so on.  The thing about primary school is that it’s about socialising with others and learning the basics of reading, writing and math.  Unfortunately, it’s not like kids miss much when they don’t attend.

There also leaves something to be desired when a writer demands that statutory offences be applied to truants; it stands to reason that if you want to help them avoid a life of crime, it doesn’t help to introduce them to the criminal justice system for ‘wagging’ school at 12.

After truancy, came a massive article discussing the need for more police on Hindley street to curb the violence or whatever.   Now, it’s been said before and it needs to be said again, Hindley street is the only street in Adelaide with real character; there are people there from all walks of life come to frolic and on occasion, vomit.  The street has its nay-sayers that love to point out all that bad that is frequent there, but as in the words of comedian Dylan Moran, ’so is everything else, including sex, coffee and conversation.’  Still, the nay-sayers go on and, in their mind, the only solution to the decadence of Hindley street is to saturate the place with police in a manner truly reminiscent of Singapore.  Unfortunately, the downside to this isn’t mentioned; that if there isn’t stuff going on to arrest people for and there a whole bunch of paid, bored police, saturating Hindley street, stuff gets created… once again, reminiscent of Singapore.  Just without the bribes.

While it may be better of me to avoid bringing attention to the small editorial towards back of the ‘news’ section of the paper, I’m going to do so anyway.  On principle.  The piece, as I said earlier, is the poorly written opinion of someone in their 20’s getting a head start on the nostalgia that plagues the elderly, conservative mindset — the kind of people that propose national service as a solution to all the country’s problems.  Basically, ‘video games are bad’ is the battle cry and the author laments the decline in plastic lego blocks and Barbie dolls, even though I suppose the author is ‘concerned’ about global warming and a reduction in lego blocks and Barbie dolls might does the planets ecology a little good, what with all that oil be used to create little plastic blocks and unrealistic representations of woman-hood.  There was also included a comment made by a researcher at Adelaide university claiming that video games do not stimulate the imagination; and he would be right save for the existence of entire genres of games designed, specifically, to stimulate the player’s imagination such as RPG’s, Simulations (Sims2 and Life, for example, as well as the entire Sid Meier portfolio) and even those dastardly strategy games.  Don’t even get me started on how playing video games has lead many people into programming or anohter area of the IT industry, where they have to be creative problems solvers.

So we come to our conclusion and my justification for spending 935 or so words ranting about the quality of material in a newspaper.  My reason is because these are the people who have control over what is discussed over coffee at breakfast tables and in cafes, but more importantly, the scope of that conversation.  It is all too often portrayed that the only solution to our problems lies in the hands of the state, to be paid for by sacrificing what liberty we have for greater restrictions — a process which will only end moments before we realise we have hung ourselves from the rafters with the red tape we demanded.

As I was about to call it a night, I happened to chance upon this little article tucked away that details the security plans for the Australian armed forces.  Given that I’ve already posted tonight, I thought I’d give you another dose of lovin’ by bringing the article to the attention of any wayward travellers that happen upon it.  To summarise the article, it basically states that the Australian Defence Force is going to be pumped up with millions of dollars more to increase its strength in the coming decades as American power and influence recede.

Joy.

This should come as no surprise to any Adelaidean with a conscience; South Australia is the go-to state for defence force research, manufacturing and construction.  We’re basically the ones contributing the most to all the bombing and shelling going on overseas.  However, try telling some people that maybe having all this defence spending in one state is not such a good idea.  Never mind that it’s totally immoral as it feeds of the death of other people and the destruction of their livelihoods.  Some may even be offended if you were to put forward the proposition that choosing drug dealing as an occupation would be morally preferable to manufacturing warships.  After all, defence spending creates jobs — though it could very well be argued that so does drug dealing.  In a way.

And yes I will probably wind up getting in the shit somewhere down the line for those statements.

But more to the point, here are some of my favourite extracts from the article.

It details the purchase of a massive list of military hardware expected to cost more than $100 billion. The weapons include a new generation of very long range submarines to provide “strategic strike” with cruise missiles and 100 state-of-the-art Joint Strike Fighters.

…

The plans outlined in the white paper will change the Australian Defence Force from a broadly defensive organisation with a bit of everything to a much more focused force able to launch damaging attacks vast distances from home.

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The oceans closer to home will be protected by a new class of warships, Offshore Combatant Vessels. They will be used for border security, to protect offshore resources, to carry out hydrographic and environmental research and potentially, to clear anti-shipping mines.

The ADF is likely to get seven large unmanned patrol planes — probably the US-built Global Hawk — capable of staying airborne for days at a time and covering huge areas in search of terrorists, enemy forces and smugglers of people and drugs.

Australia’s agencies will also be given the resources they need to engage in cyber warfare — defending Australia’s computer systems against sabotage and attacking an enemy’s computer systems to cause economic chaos. Intelligence gathering resources also get a big boost.

And here’s the kicker.

By 2030 Australia’s annual defence spending is likely to have jumped from its present $22 billion to nearly $40 billion.

To help pay for it’s new equipment, the ADF has been told to find internal savings of $20 billion.

That would be enough to cover the $16 billion cost of the strike fighters and some of the submarines at $3 billion each…

Stimulating the economy by militarising it after a recession?  Not like that hasn’t been tried before.  Sure, it will create jobs, but one wonders whether the benefit derive from building new toys for the military may not have been better allocated by leaving the money in people’s pockets.  At least then they will decide for themselves where the money should go and society would see an overall benefit as positive investments are made; as opposed to negative investments whose primary function is to destroy and all to often go up in smoke themselves.

And last, but certainly not least, I wonder whose paying for this all?

While I will confess that I am a far cry from the green activist, and don’t really base my Anarchism off a kind of ‘green-consciousness’ as I’m sure many Green-Anarchists do, I confess I care about the planet and even take global warming seriously. I credit this to Mike Kaulbars for convincing me of the importance of Global Warming, although he played little active part in that performance.  Iwill also confess that in the past I wrote a rather bad public-letter to Mike, (which I shall not link to in order to preserve some of my dignity, although I’m sure it can be found if you wish).  This letter contained the beginnings of my thoughts relating to the politics of global warming, something which Francois Tremblay rightly observed was the main reason a great many of my own political persuasion have such a hard time accepting global warming.  Often, the argument put forward by many Green activists, in general, seems vulgar and calls for state intervention that would quite often see the poorer segments of society starve, while politicians sit happily in their ‘carbon neutral’ mansions.  So, this is my attempt to bring that debate into focus.  While I realise that there’s probably some Green-Anarchist site out there that has gone through something similar, I commence this topic with absolutely no prior reading of that material (and so I apologise if I repeat anything said elsewhere or miss something entirely) and I would like to state, outright, that I am not arguing the science of global warming.  I am taking it to be true.

It’s a great wonder to me that around Adelaide, I’ve been hearing increasing concern by individuals regarding environmental issues, primarily that process of Global Warming.   As I originate from Adelaide’s Northern Suburbs I am all too often confronted with the latest tales of stabbings, arrests or racism, rendering those with a “green consciousness” foreign to me.  I tend to concern and found my philosophy in a certain quest for justice, rather than environmentalism.  All too often, however, I hear those who do subscribe to a sort of environmentalism privately debate amongst themselves over what action Rudd should take regarding emissions trading schemes in coffee shops or on street corners while I’m usually thinking over something more important like whether or the shrapnel in my pocket will buy me lunch.  Each time this happens it usually involves some rather vulgar people arguing for massive state intervention, following which I imagine a kind of Orwellian world.  Understandably, this is where my outrage has been directed when confronted with green activists in the past.  If Stalin were to reappear in flames following some kind of environmental ideology and saluting a green star, these people would be partying in the streets.  All too often I will turn on the TV at night to watch some news report about some minister calling or going to a summit to discuss the effects of global warming and how to combat it or chastising the community on the seriousness of global warming.  Each time nothing gets done or it gets done badly and each time I think the same thing; “Fuck off.”  And while I apologise to any readers that are offended by my low-brow cussing, I offer you the following explanation: Politicians have a nasty habit of screwing things up.

The chief concern of a politician of any brand, tier or pay grade is power.  Primarily, the acquisition of more power at the expense of those they rule.  If you haven’t guessed already, that would be you and me.  It is the politician who one day may be playing civil engineer by ruling on the construction of a bridge and the next will masquerade about as some kind of transit official.  Add onto these truths two more, politicians professionally lie and politicians live parasitically upon our labour.  I will guarantee that the politicians of the world aren’t going feel the pangs of the recession unless the system by which they dictate their commands and extricate their ‘earnings’ come crashing to the ground and they are confronted with many angry people wanting to know why their entire life savings can no longer buy a Big Mac.  But to those of you who right now are thinking, ‘what has this to do with global warming?’ I simply wish to establish for you the nature of the people whom many would entrust our salvation with.  As has been said so many times before, this rock is in danger.  Do we really want to trust the survival of our planet to a bunch of parasitic, professional liars who work daily to encroach upon our freedoms and like to play catch with explosives in the Middle East — which, I might remind you is full of oil and thus highly flammable.

If we do decide to take such a leap of faith, can these people really bring about any solution?  Their track record throughout history seems to be a deafening, ‘no’.  Western governments conquered half the world to ‘bring civilisation and western values to the uncivilised’ (or words to that effect) and each time wound up massacring people, destroying cultures, enslaving entire peoples, destroying priceless artworks and plundering the wealth from their discontent pupils.  America under BushII ventured forth into the Middle East to halt the spread of terrorism and has only made things worse.  Better still, Obama looks set to continue with Gulf War II.05: occupation-lite.  Then, again in America, the US government regulations created an environment which lead up to collapse (or near collapse) of major banking institutions which sent a ripple throughout the world, taking Iceland out with it.  Instead of allowing this mis-managed firms to go out of business and allow a quick, albeit, painful end to the financial crisis, governments around the world look set to draw out and worsen the period with their various stimulus packages and the nationalisation of industries reminiscent of fascism at its best.  In short, they’re going to make it more painful.  Then you have cases such as the Danish counter-cultural enclave known as Christiana suffering in state-issued cuffs.  But most importantly mother earth suffers just as much as people do from over-excited government officials keen to get their hands dirty and ‘help’.  Glen Allport sums it up most succinctly in his article about inflationary debt.

This is perfectly in line with a well-known natural law, which states that – as social philosopher and noted economic expert Ringo Starr once put it – “everything government touches turns to crap.” (My own formulation of the law is that “coercive government is The Worst Way to Do Anything.”)

Hell, closer to home the Adelaidean state government (or local council), which ever is responsible for the river Torrens, hasn’t been able to come up with a solution to it’s unexpected draining and required refilling, or the toxic state of its water anyway.  Then both State and Federal levels of government have failed miserably in finding a solution to the problems associated with the Murray river.  Can we trust any of these people with something so serious as the future of our planet?  Ask yourself.

So then we must ask ourselves whether or not the heart of the problem doesn’t somehow lie with government already?  I am far from being in possession of the research necessary to answer that question strongly in the affirmative, so instead I will leave it open for anyone else interested in pursuing it.  But I have a hunch that if someone were to dig a little deeper they’d find a massive amount of waste involved in the basic running of government buildings, services and departments that contribute high amounts of CO2.  It doesn’t take much to imagine how much carbon is being released from government buildings that play a key role in the mass production of bureaucracy — imagine the millions of trees alone used for hundreds of tedious forms, which might otherwise have survived to absorb said carbon.  Picture all the little black bubbles being produced by the growing fleets of government cars for its workers, or from many of those needless trips to hold a summit about a summit planned for next year.  As sure as politicians are corrupt, the immediate effect on the environment by the routine running of government infrastructure would be massive.  Ever walked into a government building on a warmish day and found it not running the air conditioning?

Allow me to further seed you with some more mutinous thoughts; those involving the way in which senior polluters, (which usually include the largest corporations from industries heavily subsidised by government or protected in some other way from honest competition through licensing, taxes, tariffs and so on) lobby hard to turn any effort by the government to combat global warming (even though we know it is doomed to be done badly, to our detriment or our doom) into a shadow of its former self.  Not only that, but it’s even conceivable that while anti-climate change legislation is being watered down, what measures remain may simply serve to diminish their competition further, while not really having a too damaging negative effect on the lobbyists business anyway.  Once again, though I do not have the resources to perform the necessary research in order to say this is so, I’ll leave these statements open in the hope that some wayward economists, or environmental activists may look into it further.

Even when government is doing good it will do bad.  Sort of like a puppy whose just been toilet trained but then goes and drags his ass on your new replacement carpet before asking for food.

It is at this point I would then argue that a better way to combat climate change is, undoubtedly, a grass roots movement that benefits people while it benefits the planet.  Proposals by governments to introduce emissions trading schemes will invariably fail and even exacerbate the effect of any recession.  Such is the nature of government and if Green Activists waste their time by putting their resources in that basket, we will wind up with an atmosphere like Venus in no time — either that or we’ll all starve to death.  Which isn’t an exciting prospect either.  No, a serious effort needs to be undertaken to get communities themselves, and not their elected officials, to voluntarily pool resources for their own benefit.  How this may be achieved, I will not say concretely for I cannot.  It is not my intention to blueprint a single program to be rigidly adhered, and if I did I would be rightly laughed at.  I don’t care whether such organisations maintain a focus on creating community gardens which limit people’s dependency on farmers and transport to acquire their food, a community power project involving solar energy or something similar or even whether the emphasis is on other eco-engineering projects, reforestation — whatever.  I don’t have all the answers and would hope some greater mind than I will take up similar ideas and expand upon them in ways I could not.

So I ask you, Green?  Then kill the cop, in your head.  If you’re going to go Green, you need to be anti-state.  The state has been responsible for not only our pain and suffering but the suffering of entire eco-systems.  Take the pro-state line and you condemn us all to the pressure cooker.

A big hat-tip to Strike-the-Root.

In order to explain my recent inactivity in amongst headlines regarding the latest world happenings, I offer up the excuse that there has been an extreme heatwave in the Southern States of Australia and so it has put a dampener on any urge to debate and argue seriously.  But I am happy to inform you that this has given me a chance to rant and rave.

Government can’t deal with problems and it matters not whether it’s a catastrophic natural disaster, similar to America’s New Orleans, or whether it’s a heatwave in Adelaide.  Adelaide’s inhabitants have spent the last two days in temperatures that have hovered around the 44 degree market, give or take.  Some places north of the city record temperatures of 48 degrees yesterday.

So it could just be the heat, but something about the following report really pisses me off.

THE State Government says a press release urging people to use alternatives to air conditioning during a 40C-plus heatwave was merely intended to save you money.

Acting Energy Minister Paul Holloway called a media conference this afternoon and told reporters the Government was “merely suggesting to consumers a range of complementary measures to help them save money”.

Citing our community’s environmental responsibilities, the Government today put our a press release saying there were many alternatives to using air conditioners, urging South Australians to instead insulate ceilings, use external blinds or a pergola to shade windows, and use fans.

Doctors said the suggestion that people should use alternatives to air conditioning during a 40C-plus heatwave was “highly dangerous” - and a strong majority of AdelaideNow readers voting in the poll on this page agreed.

Mr Holloway today said air conditioning was most effective if there was good insulation, the curtains were closed to keep direct sunlight out, air flow was directed properly and the system was well maintained.

“Certainly, it is not the Government’s intention that people should not use their air conditioners,” Mr Holloway said.

Thank you Energy Minister Paul Holloway.  I assure you, your edict has been noted, immediately forgotten and I offer up this posts as a metaphorical, one fingered salute.

What amazes me, is whether Mr Holloway imagines that South Australians are going to run out, in the middle of a heat wave and hire someone to properly seal and insulate their roof, upgrade their air conditioning to a more efficient model and so on.  Or perhaps he imagines that South Australian’s are too simple to think of closing the curtains or lowering the blinds to make the air conditioning more efficient.  Maybe he even imagines that these measures might alleviate the need for air conditioning all together!  In that case I would seriously suggest Mr Holloway kindly takes himself out of his air conditioned office, and I guarantee it’s air conditioned, and spend some time in a Northern Suburban housing trust home to see if a fan can provide an ‘effective’ alternative to air conditioning, simply so that he may understand how hot it is even with the curtains closed.

I am from the poor northern areas of Adelaide, the domain of housing trust homes old and new, with some areas populated by immigrants of one community only to have the next one occupied by a completely different community.  These are suburbs with the most affordable housing for the lower income portion of society, particularly single mothers and fathers, young families, the working families too often appealed to by Rudd in his election campaign (to the point that I wanted to vomit), the elderly and so on.  These are the places where the heat gets hotter than in the city and are the places where air conditioning becomes important.  In some cases it is a matter of life and death.  It’s hard enough that these people don’t always have the money for the most effective and efficient air conditioning.  Quite often their systems are barely able to drop the temperature to a less oppressive level, but it is what they can get and it is better than suffering the oppressive 44+ degree heat in full force.  Fact is, the alternatives don’t cool and have limited effect.  Even the air conditioning has limited effect.  It’s so hot that the train tracks have warped and have stopped public transport.  These people need air conditioning and even the limited effects it provides.  The attitude of this government department is typical of any statist in a crisis.  They don’t understand, don’t care and there inflexibility makes our life suck.  It’s just lucky that these are only ‘guidelines,’ though it takes only one or two zealots to turn such ‘guidelines’ into enforceable legislation.

Then there’s other public figures such as Greens MP Mark Parnell, who has said,

“People should not be told not to use air conditioners, especially if their health is going to be put at risk.”

To which I would ask if people would actually give a damn what they are being told to do.  It’s Australia.  It gets fucking hot and these last few days have been extremely fucking hot.  Logically, it follows from instinctive principles of self-preservation that when it is hot, the air conditioning needs to be used to keep oneself and ones family cool, and to ensure a good nights sleep so that you may get up in the morning for work to make sure you are going to eat over the next week.  And before anyone dares point it out, I am aware of the irony of an Australian complaining about the heat — which is why it’s always amusing to see the looks on the faces of backpackers and tourists who seem to be under the impression we’re all used to it.

But to the point.  Such senseless comments from politicians make me wonder why they haven’t been dethroned yet.

However, the following comment was submitted to this editorial.

“Doesn’t matter who you vote for, a politician always gets in.”

Things mights be looking up.

EDIT: It’s good to see that ‘the public’ are at least getting to make use of something that they’re paying for, even while they’re being urged to find alternatives.