We're proud to work with @Ageinvestigates on this important expose. Neo-Nazis and their fellow travellers on the far-Right have not only infiltrated the anti-lockdown movement, but are intimately involved as organisers and key participants. theage.com.au/politics/victo…
In recent days we have seen serial pests such as convicted antisemite Neil Erikson and murder victim memorial vandal Andy Nolch buzzing around the protests. They have not been turned away by organisers.
We have previously revealed with @mmcgowan in The Guardian that central rally organiser Harrison McLean posted about using his Telegram chats to push people towards the 'Jewish Question' and that he had joined a vetting channel for prospective Proud Boys. theguardian.com/australia-news…
We now can also reveal that McLean joined a Telegram chat controlled by disgraced Young Liberal Stefan Eracleous. In this chat, in which the Christchurch murderer is regularly celebrated, McLean promoted his rallies and agreed to unite wherever they saw eye to eye.
Today The Age reported that another anti-health movement organiser is a longtime neo-Nazi. Kate Callan came to attention this week for posting a trial run of the homemade gallows which was later towed to Parliament House.
Callan's allegiance to Nazi beliefs is signalled clearly on her social media to anyone who knows the coded language and symbols.
Callan's political stance is accelerationism- the belief that there are no political solutions to current problems. Accelerationists embrace violence and advocate fomenting chaos or "riding the Kali Yuga".
Callan's partner is Scott McGuinness, founder of the infamous white supremacist and "rock against communism" band, Fortress. She regularly posts this hate music in her anti-lockdown Telegram channel 'Freedom Reigns' and her Bitchute account.
"Damn the other races, want to keep my country white/ Send the bastards back, if they don't fucking like it, it'll be in body bags." (lyrics, Fortitude, 1992)
Callan runs a protest group, Project Phoenix, with Becky Spelman and Daniela Martignetti. They've organised a number of anti-lockdown protests in the midst of the pandemic. news.com.au/world/coronavi…]
Becky (Rebekah) Spelman is a former Frankston local councillor and recent failed Knox council candidate with right wing views who strongly supported the anti-Muslim and racist movement, Reclaim Australia.
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While MCing last Saturday's large protest, Spelman called for the hanging of Dan Andrews. This call for violence was not spur of the moment, as her social media reveals.
The deep involvement of people like Callan, and the frequent calls to eliminate "traitors" that we have seen reported this week, are not aberrations.
For months, leading figures within the anti-lockdown, sovereign citizen and conspiracist movements have been openly calling for the removal/murder of those they see as traitors: politicians, journalists, health workers.
These are not rare positions within these spaces, as the Age report today has shown.
Leaders claim their movement is peaceful but they have done nothing about extremists, calls for violence or even acts of violence. They've taken no responsibility.
How long until this movement produces another Peter James Knight, the fanatic who shot and killed security guard Steve Rogers outside a Melbourne medical clinic in 2001?
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