Date: January 30, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 16 Comments
By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
THE Australian National Socialists, commonly referred to by media and politicians as “neo-Nazis”, a “far right hate group” and other such pejoratives, are, as far as we know, an ultra-nationalist group that believes in maintaining Australia as a largely white European nation.
Once upon a time, the idea of maintaining a largely white European population was official Commonwealth Government policy – the so-called White Australia Policy.
This policy, under the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, lasted until the late 1950s – more than half a century. Immigration restriction also existed before Federation.
Britannica informs us that the policy “effectively stopped all non-European immigration into the country and that contributed to the development of a racially insulated white society.” The Australian Labor Party strongly supported this policy.
Discrimination was removed from the citizenship application process by enactment of the Australian Citizenship Bill 1973, which was followed by passage of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, reflecting the inroads of more “liberal” and New Left ideology into Australian politics.
But the New Left didn’t stop there. At state levels they pushed through new “anti-vilification” laws that made mere criticism of someone based on race or religion a punishable civil or criminal offence. Freedom to express political views was now seriously under attack, and still is, as South Australia’s cops demonstrated on the recent Australia Day.
The Australian National Socialist Network (NSN) apparently believes that the old white Australia policy is still a good idea. Good luck with that idea in this day and age where every nationality and ethnicity can be found in most western nations.
But if the National Socialists want to believe that idea and talk about it, isn’t that called expressing a political belief and exercising “political rights” as protected in Australian law?
Speaking outside court, Joel Davis, a National Socialist Network member, told the media he did not understand why the men had been held in custody since Sunday. “People commit violent offences and get granted bail on the same day — it’s ridiculous,” he said.
“I don’t believe they have broken the law — I think they will beat the charges in court.” He told the media that he believed the man charged with displaying a Nazi symbol had a tattoo of insignia on his arm.
And then Davis, outside the court, was suddenly asked for ID then accused by the cops of displaying a Nazi symbol. What symbol? he asked them. They ignored him and proceeded to charge him with two counts of displaying a Nazi symbol.
Even worse was the SA cops swooping in on the march and charging 16 of the National Socialists with loitering or “possessing a disguise”. The so-called disguises were sunglasses and black hats.
But the “legal” outrages continued. Their bail conditions forbade them from expressing any public “support for Nazi, neo-Nazi, Nationalist or racist ideology”. Perhaps the alleged enforcers of the law at SAPOL could have included “far right” or even “anti-globalist ideas”.
We now have to ask the question: Is displaying a poster promoting the White Australia Policy illegal in South Australia? The arrests were pure totalitarian political persecution of the type one would have seen in the East German Democratic Republic, the USSR, Maoist China and yes, even Nazi Germany.
Those arrested included Thomas Sewell, the leader of the NSN, who told SA Magistrate Luke Davis the police were telling “spurious lies” about him and indicated he would plead not guilty to the charges of loitering and displaying a Nazi symbol. Sewell refused to sign his bail conditions and as a result is being held in custody.
In addition to “possessing disguises” SA cops dredged up ridiculous charges of loitering, which the marchers clearly weren’t doing, unless standing in front of a monument with Australian flags or standing outside a court and talking to media constitutes that act.
It carries a maximum penalty of three months in prison, while the allegedly outrageous offence of displaying a Nazi symbol, holds a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison. The latter ridiculous statute needs to go to the High Court and given the appropriate boot.
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