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. heraldsun.com.au/leader/south-e…
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?
PROUD BOY Ben Shand "Dusty Bogan" attended the @AustralianLabor "True Believers dinner" in Brisbane for an audience with @AlboMP last night. He's an antisemite and an Islamophobe. He's not even a voter. How'd he get an invite?
Here's Ben Shand replying to a neo-Nazi with an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Jews smelling like sulphur, after interviewing Christian Zionist Mark Leach, a friend of Israel. Shand recently attended a "Never Again Is Now" rally organised by Leach.
Ben Shand referred to the attendees of this rally, Jewish and Christian Zionists, in a video titled "Circumcised Boomer Brain" published on Gavin McIness' Censored TV platform.
✍️THREAD: We worked with @jason_a_w to expose the man behind the Shirion Collective as Daniel Linden, variously of Florida and Colombia. theguardian.com/world/article/…
Shout out to @BriacLao, who archived several of Linden's opsec errors before he could delete them and brought the ID to us. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and help get their work published.
@ShirionOrg's big claim to fame is that it had created an "AI" that would identify people and interfere in their lives. This AI is a complete fantasy. Linden often used technobabble when describing it to give it a veneer of realism.
This is an event to sell stolen land in Palestine. These events are held at synagogues deliberately to frame any protest as an antisemitic provocation. Violent Zionists at the event threatened to rape and behead our comrade, journalist @Katerqburns.
You can read Kate Burns' thread for Left Coast Right Watch on the event and counter-protest here:
Drew Pavlou never fact-checks; he posts whatever daily narrative he's given to fill his quota.
"Attorney-General Dreyfus signalled new anti-doxxing laws will be aimed at criminalising the disclosure of a broad range of personal information for malicious intent...activists and others could face jail for leaking private details without consent." theage.com.au/politics/feder…
The law "using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence" is already incredibly broad, they just aren't used! Victims of doxxing who don't have money or power go to the police and nothing is done, even when the perpetrator is known.
Let's not forget about ACT Police "accidentally" providing Brittany Higgins's phone data to Bruce Lehrmann's lawyers. Her texts were then leaked to the media and published. smh.com.au/politics/feder…
In January we worked with Mike Hohnen, @BenHillier16 and antifascists around Australia to cancel the tour of fascist and Nazi Black Metal bands Taake and Akhlys. theguardian.com/music/2023/jan…
We contributed some research and writing to this excellent article by @BenHillier16 in Blunt Magazine on the Taake and Akhlys tour and the importance of denying the stage to bands like this in the metal scene. bluntmag.com.au/music/why-are-…
This is well worth watching — MyPlace are a sinister sovereign citizen group threatening local councils. Their leader, Darren Bergwerf is a Holocaust denier.
Tweets last night calling this “platforming” were wrong. Twitter doesn’t always need you to post a take in real time. Watch and reflect. ABC audience is exactly who needs to know about groups like this, and it was carefully done. Holocaust denial was confronted, not amplified.
Inevitably there will be an incident involving violence or weapons linked to MyPlace, as we’ve seen with other sovereign citizen groups over the last few years. Better to start educating and warning now as they grow in size.