All Cops Are Bastards

After Camp Sovereignty was attacked on the 31st August, no charges of hate crimes nor terrorism have been brought by the police against those involved. Perpetrators include known neo-Nazis such as Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network.

The National Socialist Network is a highly politicised group. Their crime was undoubtedly motivated by white supremacist beliefs, including some sort of a reclaiming of a white Australia, which is a fallacy in this settler colonial country. But this does not change the fact that advancing their political cause was the reason for the violence, which does fall within the Australian definition of terrorism.

As well, eyewitnesses report watching police escort the neo-Nazi group away from the site of the attack and onto trams, rather than arresting them.

On his 3CR radio show Black Block last Monday, Uncle Robbie had Palestinian Syrian activist Nathalie Farah on to speak about her experience of the attack. She recalled that during the day there had been two incidents of neo-Nazis wandering around the site, and after the actual attack, they’d seen footage of the police escorting Nazis away from the camp to the tram stop but not arresting them.

Tara Barnett, the Greens candidate for Cooper at this past election, talking about violence directed at protestors during weekly pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne. The protest was crashed by alt-right protestors, but the police focused most of their violence against the original group.