The fascist international is alive and well(funded)...
Bespectacled, mild, polite: the new face of white supremacy?
By Rachel Swarns in Pretoria
November 9 2002
The burly white man strolled into court, flanked by nearly a dozen black
police officers carrying rifles. The prisoner, polite and mild mannered,
wore a checked shirt and wire-rimmed glasses.
But authorities say Thomas Vorster is one of South Africa's most wanted
criminals - one of 18 Afrikaner extremists accused of plotting to overthrow
the government.
Vorster, who was charged with treason this week, is believed to be a leader
of a shadowy racist group called the Boeremag, or Boer Force.
Police say that he and his co-conspirators - including three white army
officers - hoped to restore white rule in South Africa by seizing military
bases, freeing jailed apartheid-era killers and chasing blacks out of the
country.
His arrest on Monday came six days after a black woman was killed in a
bombing in Soweto that officials say was the first co-ordinated attack by
white separatists since apartheid ended in 1994.
The police have not yet linked the Soweto bombings to the Boeremag, but
they say the two plots clearly reflect a resurgence of white extremism.
Some white conservatives are hailing Vorster and the bombers as heroes who
are simply trying to restore dignity and power to an Afrikaner community
demoralised by affirmative action, crime and its own dwindling political
clout, and still nurturing dreams of an independent Afrikaner state.
"They're freedom fighters," said Fred Rundle, of the Afrikaner Volksfront,
a white separatist alliance.
"We don't want the whole of South Africa. We only want some piece of ground."
The political parties that represent most of the whites - the Democratic
Alliance, the New National Party and the Freedom Front - condemn the bombings.
The Defence Minister, Mosiuoa Lekota, has emphasised that most white South
Africans are loyal citizens.
In the 1994 attack, white separatists set off bombs in the hopes of
stopping the country's first democratic elections. In the end, though, many
white politicians accepted the election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa's
first black president.
Hundreds of white farmers have been killed by blacks in recent years. The
police say the killings are random, but many Afrikaners view them as part
of a conspiracy to wipe out their community.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/08/1036308479713.html
The controversial group known as the Blackshirts make their official debut
in South Australia this weekend, in an effort to win support for their
campaign for so-called family values and criticism of the Family Court. The
group are best known for their black clothing, including masks, and their
habit of protesting outside the homes of people they believe have breached
community values on subjects such as paedophilia, adultery and fidelity.
Blackshirts founder John Abbott spoke with Matt Abraham and David Bevan
this morning and outlined how the group planned to win support in South
Australia.....
http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/stories/s720595.htm