Showing posts with label Dribnenki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dribnenki. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2019

Marc Lemire Out in Hamilton





Right to the end, Lemire continued to deny his long-time involvement with the Heritage Front, involvement that ranged from simple membership early on, work on the hate group's website and later hosting it and numerous other hate sites, and finally the leadership of the hate group. This is all outlined in "Marc Lemire: A Summary of Information" that includes links to article written about Lemire's involvement in organized hate.

While the removal of Lemire is positive, there are still a lot of questions regarding his employment and why he appears to have been protected by Hamilton government officials. We also still have questions about his access to sensitive information and whether that information could have been shared with his fellow travelers.



Sunday, May 12, 2019

Examination of Marc Lemire: Part XIII

Between 2008 and 2013, ARC published a series of articles detailing Mar Lemire's racist past and his involvement with the Heritage Front. I compiled all of the links on this single page:



It has been more than six years since I've added to this series of article that highlighted the history of Marc Lemire's involvement with and eventual leadership of the Heritage Front. When I posted the last few articles I sort of felt like I was beating a dead horse so whenever I had heard of Lemire's name come up in my investigations, such as his participation in the memorials of lawyers Doug Christie and more recently Barbara Kulaszka I either briefly discussed his involvement or ignored it all together.

Chris Edmunds, Malcolm Ross, Michele Erstikaitis, Marc Lemire

I had assumed there was no further use in covering Lemire since I believed he was of no particular significance any longer.

That turned out to have been a mistake on my part, but it is a mistake that journalists such as Mack Lamoureux has rectified:







Those articles on Lemire that I thought of as overkill I'm happy to say helped Mr. Lamouroeux in his research so I sort of feel a bit vindicated in having written them, but full credit to Mack for his dogged work.

I know there was another journalist who had been working on this story as well but she appears to have been stymied by the City of Hamilton for some reason which no doubt will result in a great deal of interesting speculation:




However, Ms. Craggs was able to get Lemire to speak about his involvement with the Heritage Front after the publication of the "Vice" article.
In news that will surprise no one who follow this blog, Lemire lied:
"The Heritage Front stuff dates back to when I was a teenager," Lemire said, linking to an article where he said he's not a Nazi or white supremacist. 
"I reject the Heritage Front for what it was, as I have stated consistently for over 11 years." 
But, as Vice reported, an archived web page from the Heritage Front's website from 2001 shows Lemire distributing flyers saying "immigration can kill" in Hamilton. A post on Lemire's own webpage from that same year also describes him as the "head honcho" of the organization.
ARC first published this a number of years ago:


Hmmmm, 152 Carlton Street....

When this was published on Lemire's website, he would have been 26 years old.

In fact Lemire hosted the Heritage Front on Freedom-Site from 1998 (age of 23) to roughly 2001 when he appears to have moved it to a separate server. Here is an example of one of those early Heritage Front websites (December 2000, I believe):


And here is the HF merchandise page where the hate group sold their magazine featuring former KKK leader David Duke and videos by the leader of White Aryan Resistance Tom Metzger:


Gee, 152 Carlton Street again?

Surely a coincidence.

And here is a request for donations to keep Freedom-Site alive:


There's that 152 Carlton Street again!

Curious isn't it? I mean, it would be amazing if one could link that address directly to Lemire, wouldn't it?

Oh! You mean he had a personal webpage?


Sigh....

And by the way, here is one of the images of the Canadian Patriot Network Lemire designed:


Subtle Marc. Real subtle.

And what did his other website look like when Marc would have been 23?


Tsk, tsk....

The reality is that Marc already tried to snow people regarding his past with the Heritage Front. In that case, he had a willing stooge in Ezra Levant who refused to challenge Lemire's claims because Levant also had an agenda:
Uh, the Heritage Front uh, was active back in, uh, the the 90s and I was a young kid at the time. I had some, uh, interest in some of the things that they were doing in particularly thing like uh opposition to employment equity, things like reducing immigration. So I uh, listened to some of what they were about, and uh, I went away from it. I mean I was involved with them peripherally in my teenage years.
Well, Lemire is right that he was involved with the Heritage Front as a teenager:

CANADA - FEBRUARY 23 Hearing Adjourned Heritage Front leader Wolfgang Droege and his white supremacist supporters leave University Ave. courthouse yesterday. (Toronto Star)





But he was also involved in his early 20s as he continued to count Wolfgang Droege as a friend:





Saturday, March 03, 2012

More Lemire Connections

A friend forwarded us a number of interesting screen shots from some of the hacked emails, including those from Kermit the Frog impersonator Bill Noble.

Back in late 2004, former WCFU co-founder and leader Glenn Bahr decided that he was going to engage in a massive (from his standpoint) flyering campaign to get out the "White Nationalist" message which would take place on January 15, 2005:


On this Stormfront thread, Bahr and other "White Nationalists" discuss how they will proceed and, once the campaign was over, brag about the success:


Thursday, January 05, 2012

An Examination of Marc Lemire VI

We're just going to cut to the chase on the extension of this series examining Marc Lemire's connection to extremism and specifically to the Heritage Front.

This past August, Lemire appeared on Ezra Levant's "Sun News" program where, when asked about a connection to the Heritage Front, said this (you can skip to 2:20 of the video if you wish):
Uh, the Heritage Front uh, was active back in, uh, the the 90s and I was a young kid at the time. I had some, uh, interest in some of the things that they were doing in particularly thing like uh opposition to employment equity, things like reducing immigration. So I uh, listened to some of what they were about, and uh, I went away from it. I mean I was involved with them peripherally in my teenage years.
He repeated this claim when he appeared on Levant's program again in December.

We are going to prove, yet again, that Lemire is being less than forthcoming and that he was actively involved with the Heritage Front until it finally went defunct sometime in 2005.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Quebec Boneheads. The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same

 
Boneheads in Quebec are, sadly, well represented in our timeline of racially-based violence that we published earlier in the month. One of those individuals, Steve Legault's (on the left in the photo above) name has once again come into focus as well as a few others who have fallen off our radar for a time but who have now caught our attention:


There's Steve, front and center and a member of a bonehead group going by the name, the Ragnarok Skinheads (fyi,"Leon" is René Lariviere lead singer of Vinland Warriors):


We always get a kick out of the melodramatic names these groups give themselves.

And so who are the Ragnarok Skinheads? While there are some who we don't yet know, we actually have managed to figure out more than a few of them in addition to Steve Lavalle:

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

More on Craig Cobb Firing: The Bill Noble Comedy Hour

"boom booom antifa, soon bullets will be flying "

The above message was left for us under the post regarding Craig Cobb concerning his firing from Xentel. We didn't allow the comment to pass moderation and hadn't initially intended to publish it, however given the recent posts by Bill Noble on Stormfront regarding the Cobb protests, we figured that it would serve as an interesting and telling counterpoint to the claims now being made by Bill Noble:


Here, Noble writes that the only reason why Cobb's residence would be published would be to harm him. He claims that anti-racists, "are well known for their firebombing and other forms of assault against their victims."

Look as we might, during the past decade we can't find a single instance of racists who's address has been who have been subject to any form of physical abuse or vandalism. When we look at the past 20 years, we find a single instance, that being the incident that occurred at Heritage Front member Gary Schipper's home. As for firebombing, we've yet to find a single case were that has occurred. You may try to claim the Zundel arson as having been committed by the ARA, however the only group to have ever claimed responsibility for that crime was an extremist and racist Jewish group with connections the JDL.

On the other hand, we can point to numerous examples in Canada alone during the last couple of years where anti-racists' residences' addresses have been published by racists, and those anti-racists were subject to assaults and firebombings. Jason and Bonnie Devine's home has been firebombed and vandalized on at least three occasions over the past two years. The apartment of the individual who organized the anti-racist rally in Vancouver on March 21 was attacked with some sort of incendiary device. Hell, racists are even attacking other racists, as the allegations concerning Kyle McKee suggest. And these are just a start.

During our research, we even came across an example of someone who's contact information YOU published was subject to harassment Billy:

It was only a matter of days before a Creator calling himself "Exterminance" took a trick out of Matt Hale's old playbook [we should mention that Noble, who not long ago was posting online as "Exterminance" was not a member of the Creativity Movement]. He posted an address, cell and telephone number for an Anthony Evola outside Chicago, "In Case Anyone Wants To Say Hi." Within hours, threatening messages had started to pop up on Anthony Evola's answering machine.

Just one problem: It was the wrong Anthony Evola.

Given this reality, we have to wonder what Billy means when he writes, "only if they taste their own medicine can they be made to leave decent human beings alone." What medicine did Mr. Evola have to taste, Billy?

And while we're at it, you're not saying that Cobb is a "decent" human being, are you? We admit that being decent can be somewhat subjective (one man's saint is another man's sinner), but were not sure how anyone who does this could be considered to be decent by most standards in civil society:

"Rosa Parks was a shitskin communist," he said. "I'm here to celebrate her death."

In another post, Billy addresses another Stormfront member who disputes the claims that Craig Cobb has ever advocated racial genocide on the website he created:

Well, there's a very easy way for our readers to determine the truth of Billy's claim here. While we will not provide the link to the site, we would invite our readers to type, "podblanc" into Google. There, you will find such charming videos as, "Skinhead beatings (best of)" which is a compilation of neo-Nazis attacking and beating minorities (you will also notice that these are often from behind and involve multiple neo-Nazis against a single, often much smaller, individual). You'll also find the video of Russian neo-Nazis who have kidnapped two people who appear to be from the Caucuses, cut off their heads and state that this is a warning of what will happen to other, "non-Russians" living in Russia. We managed to find videos supporting the mass murder of Jews. Of Muslims. Of homosexuals. And this is a site that was created and maintained by our friend, Craig Cobb.

But as we wrote, you needn't take our word for it. Check it out for yourself. You can also head on to VNN and take a look at what he posted there until he was banned (a bit of a spat with Alex Linder) including gems such as these:


Our favourite part of Billy's lament is that our criticism of people like Cobb, himself, the Aryan Guard and other groups is based on circular reasoning. The only reason why we think Billy is "evil" is because of his association with the Aryan Guard. The reason why the Aryan Guard is "evil" is because Bill Noble is a member.

Billy. Baby. That's simply not true.

While the links between the Aryan Guard and the National-Socialist Party of Canada are interesting, those links aren't the reason why we think you all are "evil" (a word used too much and often for the wrong reasons). That's more a case of like minded people coming together in their mutual douchebaggery. No, that we condemn the Aryan Guard has nothing to do with whom they associate with and everything to do with how they behave.

It was an Aryan Guard member who was convicted of assaulting a Japanese immigrant in 2008.

It was a member of the Aryan Guard who attempted to attack an city transit worker he lured into the compartment he was riding in, then attacking the police with the same knife.

It is the founder of the Aryan Guard who is currently behind bars on attempted murder charges.

It is a member of the Aryan Guard who has advocated murdering minorities, including children:


See. No need to invoke the NSPC to explain why you all are scum. You provide ample reasons yourselves why you should be loathed. We could provide more reasons, but I think you get the point.

Finally, and in a blow to Billy's claim that anti-racists represent some sort of great danger, even the boneheads don't believe that's true. On March 15, another well known Canadian bonehead posted a message on our blog. We'll go into more detail, and provide a context for her comment, at a later date, but for now we think the following excerpt should suffice:

Nobody thinks you are dangerous. You've had my email for years, and my last telephone number was in the phone book in Montreal.

We've been saying this for years, but maybe you'll believe one of your own. Who wrote this?


Why it's the lovely Tara Dribnenki, better known online as "love2hate" or "WindorForest" as has gone by for a few years on Stormfront.

Thanks Tara. How've you been? Still tone deaf? Can you still do that trick with the beer bottle?

Which brings us back to the message we were sent last week and which we began this post with.

Billy, you and we know who have carried out attacks, firebombings and in some cases murders. It isn't the anti-racists.

And to the person who left us the message, if you think for one moment you're going to intimidate us into silence, you've failed utterly.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Bandidos Murder Trial: The "White Nationalist" Connection.

Today, three men were convicted in the Bandido murder trial. Wayne Kellestine, Michael Sandham, and Dwight Mushey were all found guilty on eight counts of first degree murder. Two other men, Frank Mather and Marcelo Aravena were found guilty of one count each of manslaughter and seven counts of first-degree murder each. The final suspect, Brett Gardiner, was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter and six counts of first-degree murder.

The 2006 massacre is considered to be the largest mass murder in Ontario history.

We at the ARC Collective have been following this case since before there was an ARC Collective because of the links to the Canadian, "White Nationalist" movement. The first link became apparent to us when the father of one Bandito associate was interviewed in April 2006 by the media ("Winnipeg Sun") soon after the murders took place:

LONDON, Ont. -- A local Bandidos associate who recently moved to Winnipeg should "disappear" for a while following last week's massacre, his worried, white-supremacist father says.


David Weiche, described by one London biker as "the right-hand man" of Bandidos massacre murder suspect Wayne Kellestine, should keep a low profile, his father Martin Weiche, a well-known London neo-Nazi, warned.


"If I was David ... I'd go and hide," Martin Weiche told Sun Media, adding his son moved to Winnipeg about three months ago.


"I would quickly disappear for a few weeks. The murderers are still out there."


Martin Weiche's history in the Canadian racist movement goes back for decades. Born in Germany, Martin Weiche was a member of the Hitler Youth and fought for Germany during World War II. In 1968, he ran for for Parliament as a "National Socialist." He was an early associate of John Beattie, the founder of the Canadian Nazi Party. In 1981, Weiche was implicated in a failed coup called, "Operation Red Dog" which included Stormfront owner Don Black and the founder of the Heritage Front, the late Wolfgang Droege. Weiche is also believed to have been an early funder of Paul Fromm before some sort of falling out occurred between the two men.

Another more direct, and very interesting, link to the Canadian, "White Nationalist" movement occurred on July 10, 2005. On that day, the Canadian hate group the Northern Alliance was protesting, as they had done in the past and would do so in the future, the Gay Pride Parade in London, Ontario. Many of the regulars, including Fromm, participated in the protest:

Jason Ouwendyk, the then leader of the Northern Alliance (along with Tara Dribnenki in the white shorts).

Tomasz Winnicki.

Nathan Touchette, a former roommate of Kyle McKee of the Aryan Guard.

And David Ruud ("For Honour" on Stormfront).

There was also another group that showed up:

Dave Ruud was the first over to welcome the bikers, and ran quickly to them to shake hands as they were giving sieg heil (nazi) salutes.

Included among the bikers was Wayne Kellestine (right photo) who would later go on to face eight charges of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of eight men on April 8, 2006. Kellestine, also known as "Wiener," once served as the leader of both the Annihilators and St. Thomas Loners, two biker gangs that are now defunct.

According to the Toronto Star, Kellestine loved to pose for photographs in front of his collection of Nazi memorabilia at his London-area farmhouse.

And, of course today Kellestine and six others were convicted of several counts of murder and manslaughter.

At the time of the gay pride parade protest, the bikers were viewed differently:


Monday, March 17, 2008

Canadian Combat18 Moderators

Combat18 is one of the most violent racist movements in Europe, at least west of Berlin, Germany. There are no Canadian chapters per se (though Volksfront is affiliated with a rival Blood and Honour alliance of movements), but there are individuals who consider themselves to be a part of the movement, if only peripherally. The Combat18 forum's Canadian section is usually moribund with only the occasional member posting a message every couple of days. However, there are currently three Canadian moderators working the forums.

We begin with Melissa Desrochers, born September 18, 1980, is a woman from Montreal, Quebecwho works as a medical assistant. On Combat18 forums she uses the name "Boadicea." Based upon her own writing it seems Melissa was a bit of a hellraiser at one time, but is a bit more domesticated. One point in her favor might be the fact that she absolutely can't stand fellow Montreal-based racist Tara Dribnenki. Melissa posted this concerning Dribnenki:

TARA: T'es une ostie de punk crusty de merde.On s'en calisse de toi. T'es mieux de fermer ta criss de gueule sale au lieu de bullshitter... pis t'es mieux de surveiller tes fesses criss de chienne! Toi aussi 2 minutes après que j't'ai appellé pour avoir le numéro de Johnny, tu répondais pu au téléphone, sale merde!

TRANSLATION
TARA: You're a shitty crusty punk. We've had it withyou. You're better to shut your fucking dirty mouthinstead of bullshitting... and you're better to watchyour ass you fucking dog! You too, 2 minutes after I called you to get Johnny's number, you didn't answerthe phone anymore, dirty shit!