Further Update (June 13): On Facebook, rally organiser Darrin Hodges claims that the event is officially endorsed by the APP, making its National Chairman, Andrew Phillips, a liar (below).
Update: The APP has denied endorsing Darrin and Nicholas’ protest, as well as the effects of torpedoing boats.
@slackbastard 1. NOYB 2. Not an official APP event, but as if they mean that. Try torpedoing Gillard’s ridiculous policies.
— Aust. Protectionists (@AustProtParty) June 9, 2012
LOL.
Credit where it’s due: the two leading members of the Sydney-based ‘Australian Protectionist Party’ — Darrin Hodges and Nicholas Hunter-Folkes — have seized upon one of the latest controversies surrounding “Smugglers’ Paradise – Australia” and declared that on Saturday, June 23, they’ll be rallying Australians to demand that the government
Torpedo the boats!
The dynamic duo’s publicity stunt feeds on the publicity stunt spearheaded by ‘Mission Australia’, which has declared June 23 to be a Day upon which Australians should assemble and declare ‘Welcome to Australia’. Their Mission in this instance is
Cultivating a culture of welcome in Australia. Providing practical opportunities for everyday Aussies to give asylum seekers, refugees and other new arrivals a warm, positive and dignified welcome to Australia. Obtaining millions in government subsidies for tax-exempt religious institutions to micro-discipline the poor…
Formed by disgruntled former Australia First party members, disillusioned Tories and those seeking to emulate the once-successful BNP, the microscopic forces of the APP have two main selling points: hatred of Muslims and hatred of refugees. Included among its recruits (of which, at least on paper, there are over 500) is Joel Buckley. Joel is (or was) a very proud member of the Australian Navy, and would presumably be appointed captain of whichever Acheron-class torpedo boat the Australian government assigns the APP should its campaign succeed. Also certain to be there on The Day is Martin Fletcher, whose re-publication of the video game Muslim Massacre and the board game Cronulla 2230 (as well as Nazi cartoons) was indeed memorable but since supplemented by Darrin Hodge’s Refo Invaders.
Silly games aside, since its establishment in 2007, the APP’s success has been severely limited, partly because of the calibre of their cadre, mostly because xenophobia is an over-saturated market. Thus voting tallies have been feeble and public support minimal. Where the APP have been able to assemble more than a handful of (radically inarticulate) dissidents, it’s been because of a temporary alliance with similarly microscopic groups such as the quasi-mythical ‘Australian Defence League’. In summary, I haven’t been paying much attention to the antics of the APP of late: they’re non-existent in Melbourne, and elsewhere there’s been little activity of real interest to comment on. (Well, until now.) That said, the observations I made about them (and their rivals in AF) back in February still seem accurate, and unless a local mentalist commits an atrocity, I can’t see much changing.
In any event, the Facebook page promoting the mass murder of asylum seekers is Troll City, so as Rambo might say, go for it.
Thought I was a keyboard warrior that did not do anything outside the house?
That’s what I thought. But then you made a comment on my blog which told me otherwise. Therefore, you will most definitely be at
Martin PlaceParliament House, Macquarie St from 1pm and walking to Belmore Park, Eddy Avenue on Saturday, June 23 demanding that Australia be protected from the men, women and children on board the boats to our north… by having them all blown to pieces. Amirite?The way I have seen it over the years is, there is a particular argument that gets brought up and spreads like a virus, for example ‘they’re stealing our jobs’. Usually the argument gets proven wrong but I believe most of the time people just get sick of repeating the same crap over and over again. The argument just fades away, much like fashion. I believe the latest fear is ‘white genocide’. It’s a very desperate attempt to make a somewhat educated argument. To be honest I feel for someone who suffers so much from that way of thinking. Anyway, what I wanted to say is, I’m a little bit confused now because I thought blowing up the boats was old news? Like fashion, has it become popular again?
For some, asylum seekers are a virus, a deadly one, and they are invading Australia in massive and increasing numbers.
Hence the call for their physical extermination.
As noted, this particular publicity stunt has been called by the APP, and is timed to coincide with a small number of public events intended to ‘Welcome to Australia’ refugees. Those who express such welcoming and positive sentiments are regularly derided as being ‘refugee lovers’ (a substitute term for ‘nigger lovers’) by the APP. Further, such groups — in this instance, mostly religious organisations, but including some government agencies and other, secular NGOs who give formal support to refugee and immigrant rights, multiculturalism and so on — are viewed as being traitors by the tiny cluster of xenophobes surrounding the APP, and as responsible for the degeneration of Australian society into a ‘Third World hellhole’.
This kind of rhetoric dates back many years and echoes the concerns of a wide swathe of the Australian population; it’s been given a new twist by the introduction of concerns over the impact of Islam (‘Islamification’), a fear largely attributable to the ‘War on Terror’. Non-Whites seeking to enter Australia — especially but not only asylum seekers — are viewed as being parasites and corrosive of national culture and identity. In other words, asylum seekers are not recognised as being human but destructive, foreign elements requiring eradication. What the APP are demanding the Australian Navy perform, Anders Breivik enacted in Norway, tho’ his main target was the political forces he deemed responsible for allowing the sub-human trash into his country.
In some ways, it’s a very old story …
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain. Deuteronomy 2:34
And we utterly destroyed them, … utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. Deuteronomy 3:6
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them. Deuteronomy 7:2
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them. Deuteronomy 7:16
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. Deuteronomy 13:15
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. Deuteronomy 20:16-17
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. Joshua 6:21
So smote all the country … he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded. Joshua 10:40
Thus saith the LORD of hosts … go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1 Samuel 15:2-3
The bottom line is this, islam wants the whole world to be islamic. You only have to look at whats happening in nearly every country in the world that is at present non islamic. Does anyone think this is all a coincidence. Every western country has varying degrees of problems with muslim groups and its all over one thing sharia law. Muslims want their own laws, well Im sorry but it simply wont work. Stonings, beheadings, marrying girls at the age of six, cutting off peoples limbs to name just a few things are things I never want to see in australia. Sharia law is something I will fight against with every breath of life I can muster. The more muslims we allow into this country, the sooner we will become a islamic country outnumbered by a higher birth rate. Remember dont call me a racist, islam is not a race, it is a political ideology hiding behind the thin veil of religion. Muslims can be any race, including caucasian. If this situation is allowed to continue then all we will see will be civil wars all over the world including australia.
What does your fear of Islam have to do with the mass murder of asylum seekers?
What does fear of Sharia have to do with reality?
Doug, have you not looked out your front door lately. There are mosques and beheadings in the parks everywhere. My neighbour’s house is now a place where people get stoned to death, and have you not been to a six year old’s wedding yet?
Hehe.
Andy, from personal experiences, I don’t think people can go that far through life with this much fear, anxiety etc, they will have to come to their senses sooner or later, if not they will take drugs and alcohol or do something to shut out their own reality, then they might wake up, because they (might) realise if they keep going, they will probably die. These days there are a lot of paranoid people but as a result there are also a lot of people waking up to themselves for whatever reason. Racism is at the peak of insanity, like you said people are recognised as destructive or ‘something’ and not human. When you can’t recognise a human, you have nowhere else to go unless you start killing the humans. That seems to only happen when people can get away with it tho. Our government being a great example.
How can they be taking our jobs as well as living the high life on welfare?
Lumpen,
They do both, just like anyone else with half a brain, the State is there to be ripped off, the more people doing it the better.
Aussie,
I don’t get out much, Saladin’s hordes could be rounding up all the virgins in Northcote and riding off to the Casbah with them and I’d probably never notice.
So it [is] wrong for people who live in this country to try and preserve there [sic] way of life[?] I don’t see Andy jumping up and down and criticising Israel’s policy of forcing the [A]fricans out of there [sic] country with little or no warning. Seems the [Z]ionist state is taking a page from history and doing to the [A]fricans what the [N]azis did to them.