Thread by @slackbastard

#auspol #ausvotes #AusVotes19 #ausvotes2019

1) A brief thread w a coupla relevant additions inre >>>

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2) Ref is freq made in media reportage to Erikson's SEP 2017 conviction (along w fellow UPF members Blair Cottrell & Chis Shortis slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=41657) for srs religious vilification -- rather less frequently, his FEB 2014 conviction for stalking/harassing a Melbourne rabbi.

3) In that case, 'Magistrate Donna Bakos said she had no doubt Erikson's calls were motivated by prejudice & found he had little remorse for his crime'.

This is critical to understanding his subsequent & future behaviour, yeah?

sbs.com.au/news/no-jail-f…

4) Also absent in these accts, though for understandable reasons, is Erikson's assoc w the short-lived #nazi gang the Crazy White Boys. In 2012, they beat a Vietnamese student, Minh Duong, almost to death; Erikson had earlier decided not to join the Boys on their expedition.

5) Note that Duong's story has a happier development ...

vimeo.com/119717710

6) A missing link in the narrative is Ben & Dan Spiller, the QLD-based Mormon businessmen who just a few years ago -- as 'AE Media' & 'Future Now Australia' -- decided to become radical right-wing propagandists, & to that end put Erikson on their payroll.

7) The Mormon church in VIC has, ofc, been one religious community the VIC Liberals have been busily recruiting from in the last few years.

Weird coincidence huh?

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8) Ref is also made to Erikson's complaints inre @Facebook removing several of his pages, & him directly blaming Scott Morrison for the removals; so too, FB COO Sheryl Sandberg declaring The Lads Society, UPF, Antipodean Resistance & NFNZ properties as having been removed.

9) As I've pointed out previously: while the main TLS pg has been closed down since #Christchurch, its members remain active; the UPF pg was closed in MAY 2017 (leading to its collapse); AR never had a pg (though its members were & remain active); & NFNZ was tiny presence.

10) There are, moreover, & even since Sandberg's announcement a mth ago, hundreds if not thousands of AUS-based pgs & grps dedicated to propagating white nationalism. white power & white supremacy, inc explicit neo-Nazi ideology.

11) One ex. Note that Pierce is the author of The Turner Diaries, a key contemporary neo-Nazi text; the black sun (sonnenrad) symbol was adopted by the Christchurch killer.

12) Here's another ex, making explicit ref to #auspol, inc antisemitism (echo adl.org/education/refe… & The Happy Merchant), run by one of Erikson's mates -- & 100% kosher acc to @facebook.

13) QUOTE Asked about Erikson's numerous claims, a Coalition campaign spokesman told BuzzFeed News on Tues: "These matters have all been addressed on the public record. The views of Mr Erikson are well-known & odious & we should avoid giving them any oxygen." UNQUOTE

14) In that other place called reality, in OCT 2018 the Coalition voted in favour of Pauline Hanson's Senate motion "It's OK To Be White''; oddly enuff, at about the same time, Erikson declared he'd be forming a party called "It's OK To Be White''.

15) When there were some delays to the visa app for semi-pro Canadian racist propagandist Lauren Southern in mid-2018, the Coalition soon sorted them out.

sbs.com.au/news/it-s-ok-t…

16) And the only reason the nazi-sympathising pedophile-apologist Milo Yiannopoulos was refused a visa was because, *post-Christchurch*, the Immigration Minister, David Coleman, thought issuing one would, y'know, make it a bit obvious ahead of #AusVotes19 >

17) > precisely where the Coalition was hoping to shore up support; foll a Newscorpse campaign, he'd issued a visa to MY over & against his Dept's own advice.

Real principled stuff this; no commonground w folks like Erikson, that's for sure.

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18) Finally, an inveterate liar, Erikson's claims of mtg w/working for snr Libs are obviously not facts if & until proven; Lobster Guy denies all knowledge. END.