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TemporalHominid
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posted 13 April 2005 08:08 PM      Profile for TemporalHominid   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
gunned down

Who was this racist?

Warning this HF link is to a White Supremecist Site

[ 13 April 2005: Message edited by: TemporalHominid ]


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posted 13 April 2005 08:15 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good Lord.
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posted 13 April 2005 08:32 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Drug deal gone bad?
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posted 13 April 2005 08:49 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A link to an interesting story about Droege by oldgoat since the other thread will likely be shut down as a duplicate.
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posted 13 April 2005 10:36 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I used to see Droege in criminal court from time to time. As I recall, he had numerous charges connected to auto insurance scams, and similar activities.

he was a Nazi, but he was also a crook.


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posted 13 April 2005 10:46 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The fake Rufus Polson is making idiotic bleatings about the Droege killing over at free dominion.

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]


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lagatta
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posted 13 April 2005 10:59 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Should we make up some doggerel?

"Springtime for Zündel
in Germany...

Curtains for Dröge perchance?"....

(...)


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posted 13 April 2005 11:47 PM      Profile for Rufus Polson     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
Rufus Polson is making idiotic bleatings about the Droege killing over at free dominion.

[ 13 April 2005: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]


Y'know, I'd really appreciate it if you'd put in a qualifier there.
Like "The fake" Rufus Polson, or "The scumbucket with a sick idea of a joke pseudo-" Rufus Polson or something like that. People around here, especially new ones, might get the wrong idea otherwise, like that it was actually me.

Thanks awfully.


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Doug
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posted 14 April 2005 12:42 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, let's just say I won't be crying at the funeral. I am curious about who did it and what the motive's going to turn out to be.
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I don't condone murder for sure, but that seems like a fitting end to someone who promoted hatred.

You live by it, you die by it.


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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
"The fake" Rufus Polson is making idiotic bleatings about the Droege killing over at free dominion.

Ya, you gotta love his the "anti-racists" are far more violence prone and dangerous than any 'neo-nazi's' or far right. While springer is calling for separation and saying how good it is amongst principled people.


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posted 14 April 2005 01:28 AM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Well, let's just say I won't be crying at the funeral.

I would think that attending his funeral would be a quick and sure way to get a CSIS file opened on yourself. And if they have to have a picture of you then ya, no sense in it being of you bawling over a seedy little klansman like this. Imagine that pic ending up in the paper some day: "Doug is seen weeping uncontrollably over the untimely passing of a notorious racist he didn't even know in this file photo".

File it under "O" for "Oh well".


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posted 14 April 2005 02:11 AM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ha! While it would be awfully cool to have my own CSIS file, I'll definitely pass on this opportunity for one.
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Too late, you probably already have one
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aka Mycroft
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quote:
Originally posted by Rufus Polson:

Y'know, I'd really appreciate it if you'd put in a qualifier there.
Like "The fake" Rufus Polson, or "The scumbucket with a sick idea of a joke pseudo-" Rufus Polson or something like that. People around here, especially new ones, might get the wrong idea otherwise, like that it was actually me.

Thanks awfully.


Sorry about that, I hadn't realised you'd been the victim of cyber-identity theft. Have you complained to Connie?


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lagatta
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posted 14 April 2005 04:42 AM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As the Toronto Star put it: "The Dark Side consumed him".

A babble joke?

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: lagatta ]


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posted 14 April 2005 04:52 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:

Sorry about that, I hadn't realised you'd been the victim of cyber-identity theft. Have you complained to Connie?


I think lots of people have. She probably gets a real kick out of having some white supremacist Jew-hater appropriating the real-life name of a progressive person on her web site.


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Hephaestion
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posted 14 April 2005 05:29 AM      Profile for Hephaestion   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Connie?! Naw, never. Not her... Shane says she's a *nice* lady.
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kuri
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posted 14 April 2005 07:39 AM      Profile for kuri   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I thought I recognized that name. If I'm remembering the Walrus article about Bristow and Droege correctly (that issue's been recycled now) , there was some evidence that Droege attempted to purchase WMD materials in Libya. It will be interesting to follow as more details about shooter emerge.
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skdadl
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Amazing news, isn't it. Presumably they have to lay charges and make the accused's name known very shortly?

I was thinking about that article too, dokidoki. It read to me like part of a projected book -- author will presumably be planning now to update. (Why can't I remember anyone's name? Must check the Walrus site.)


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kuri
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It was Andrew Mitrovica who wrote the article. I was trying to see if there was an online version of it to refresh my memory of the details, but I couldn't find one.

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: dokidoki ]


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That's right, Mitrovica. Bet he's writing a book.
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Rufus, you should have a lawyer send FD a libel notice and then go ahead and sue them if they don't remove the "Rufus Polson" postings and stop future ones from being made. Seriously. If it's a matter of money I'm sure we can raise some here for a small claims court filing.
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I'm in, Rufus.
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posted 14 April 2005 09:15 AM      Profile for Macabee     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Back to Droege, any news on motive or accused?
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skdadl
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The CBC still isn't publishing a name.

How long can the police hold anyone without charging him? It can't be long. And don't they have to make the name public?


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It does seem odd. After all he was arrested almost immediatley. The longer the delay the more questions arise.
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posted 14 April 2005 09:25 AM      Profile for WingNut   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Back to Droege, any news on motive or accused?

It sounds like a neighbour or roommate.
No word on motive.

Can't say I'm sorry he's dead.


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quote:
remind:
Ya, you gotta love his the "anti-racists" are far more violence prone and dangerous than any 'neo-nazi's' or far right. While springer is calling for separation and saying how good it is amongst principled people.

That's a silly statement for sure. However certain anti-racists are kina violent in response to them. I find the tactics of groups like ARA to be very counter productive. Particularly from the anarchists in those groups. They're basically feeding an ideology which lives off of violence. And they don't get that they should be fighting the effects of rightwing social conditions that lead people to that type of ideology. How many leftist types are willing to really talk that politcally incorrect white person for example who could be subversively taken in by the David Duke types.

Instead they go for the ritualistic street fight. I mean certain militant tactics are good for more immediate problems&threats(ALF/ELF) But I find the attacking the Fascist thing one of the most losing redundant strategies the Left ever came up with. And the statist reponse to try and sensor them is stupid to.


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One newspaper account said that after Droege was shot one person ran to the exit and another ran into the apartment which suggests there may have been more than one person involved in the attack (then again, if I'm wandering down a hallway and gunfire erupts in front of me, I'd sure as hell head for the nearest exit).

According to Droege's buddy Marc Lemire, the assailant's name is Keith and he is the boyfriend of a woman who Droege has known for years.

So, I don't know, drug deal? bad loan? domestic?


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Vigilante, you don't like anyone on the left, do you? Not anarchists, who are street fighters and "violent", not Marxists - "vanguardists" - or even if not vanguardist, in thrall to "mass movements", and I suppose social-democrats are "statists".

Sure it is important to talk to racist colleagues (if possible) that they are mistaken in their choice of enemies, but I think some kind of action against organised fascist bands is essential too. Back in the 1970s there was a horrible wave of violence against people of colour, in particular targeting South Asian people ... some of the younger babblers won't remember their role in P...-bashing.


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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Droege's short but illustrous career as a Reform Party security guard.
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quote:
Originally posted by Scott Piatkowski:
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Droege's short but illustrous career as a Reform Party security guard.

I heard on CBC radio this ayem that he had worked as a court bailiff. Someone with a criminal record can be a court bailiff?


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posted 14 April 2005 10:38 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Stunning link, Scott.
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Michelle
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quote:
Originally posted by Scott Piatkowski:
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Droege's short but illustrous career as a Reform Party security guard.

Isn't it odd, how racist, white supremacist types often seem to be attracted to the Reform/Reformatory party.

I wonder why that is?


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quote:
Originally posted by fern hill:

I heard on CBC radio this ayem that he had worked as a court bailiff. Someone with a criminal record can be a court bailiff?


He wasn't a court bailiff, he was a "regular" bailiff - more comprable to a repo man (they really should call them something else to avoid confusion)


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Oh, repo man with criminal record, yeah, that makes much more sense.
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I'd been thinking more along the lines of violent racist harassing, evicting or repossessing poor people, many of whom tend to be recent immigrants and/or people of colour. - Nothing like adding insult to injury.
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quote:
Vigilante, you don't like anyone on the left, do you? Not anarchists, who are street fighters and "violent", not Marxists - "vanguardists" - or even if not vanguardist, in thrall to "mass movements", and I suppose social-democrats are "statists".

I don't hate them. I agree with them retoric wise on more things then the right obviously. But it's the consistant losing tactics that I don't care for. I don't nessesarily have a problem with street fighting, but do it against the right people. I am for Diversity of Tactics in the end, but I will call out something that I don't care for. As for Vanguardists,I see no reason why they won't recreate the mistakes of the 20th century. Certain people here(cough Todd) Seem to say, 'oh we should just give it another go, trial and error' no thanks. And I think the 'mass' thing is a problem. People are too different to be swept up into some big movement.And when leaders like Lula apply this strategy it usually entails shaking hands with someone like Gadhafi or shacking up to China. All for the sake of taking on the US while in the process of doing this informally negating liberation movements in that particular country who wouldn't mind a Lula type as opposed to a Gadhafi. That to me is what mass movement tactics can entail. As for Social-democrats, get some reforms in, have them obliterated later.

As for your 2nd point, yes action can be nessary against these guys. I'm not a pacifist or anything. But to attack them almost as such is what I have a problem with. I think the leftist/antifa types do wrong by trying to match their violent intensity in battle. One ideology is specifically built for eternal physical struggle. I think giving it to them should be a last resort.


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quote:
Originally posted by skdadl:
Stunning link, Scott.

Yeah, when I googled "Droege + Reform + security", I had to look past all of the links to the Zundelsite. This was one of the few that I could see myself linking to without feeling ashamed of myself.


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Just thought I'd cut and paste my remarks from the other thread that Michelle referred to above, as this seems to be where the conversation's happening.

..........

http://tinyurl.com/6kmhu
Let me start out by being very clear on one point. I absolutely do not support or condone shooting people as a way of solving problems. Whoever did this should face whatever legal consequences are appropriate. As is also legally appropriate, motivation should be taken into account if it comes to sentencing.

I'd like to share why this headline grabbed my attention. A number of years ago, when I was working in the children's mental health field, I had a very angry 14 year old boy in one of my programmes. He had suffered a number of significant losses, most recently his grandfather who had been an important, and I guess the last solid male role model in his life.

Through people he met on the street he ended up running into Wolfgang Droege, and began hanging around the white supremist movement. Wolfgang became a mentor to him. He used to threaten me with calls from Wolfgang when I called him on such behavior as wearing Klan emblems to school. He was developing a hatred for Blacks, Jews, the "Mud Races", and all the usual groups whom he blamed for all his problems.

You know he wasn't such a bad kid, just damaged. The Heritage Front honed in on his vulnerabilities and exploited them. They met his need for a sense of belonging. Long story short, that was one tug of war I lost. It was a long time ago, and maybe the kid ended up ok, I'll never know.


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I just came into check. Droege is still dead today?
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Yes. Soon clansmen from around the world will be gathering in their impressive white robes to meet in conclave to elect a new head thug.
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Was he a big name in the Klan too?
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Not really, but these guys move in the same circles. The Papal conclave is starting today, and I just had an image of a bunch of irrelevant old farts in wierd outfits. Sort of segue'd in my mind to the Klan.
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I listened to Bernie Farber on the radio about Droege. While most of what he said was quite true, I was surprised that he credited Droege with revitalizing the nazi-racist movement within the Heritage Front.

I thought the real reason for relative success among the Heritage Front was some kind of state sponsorship. The cops dropped an organizer into the group, and, if I am not mistaken, gave him monetary support.

I distinctly had the impression that the RCMP had a role in the creation and success of the group.

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail's article today failed to mention that organizer, Bristow, in their account of the movement's rise.


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Yes, I recall that as well, CSIS propp-ed up a small meaningless group and organized them into a real threat in order to get the credit for taking them down. Another case, as is the Air India bombing, where the "security" authorities incite the action they pretend they are trying to prevent.
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I dont believe that there was any money pumped into the Front from CSIS but it is clear that Bristow played a role. However, what is also clear is that it was Droege's racist recruiting skills that was the impetus in formulating the HF. Let's not overplay Bristow's role. Important? Yes to some extent but I believe the HF would have succeeded with or without Bristow. It would never have succeeded without Droege.
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There was a very interesting, in-depth story about Bristow's activities in The Heritage Front in an issue of The Walrus from late last year - September or October, I think. It was very interesting.
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Yes it was.
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The problem with informers is that they tend to do things to make themselves indispensable to their operators either by exaggerating the importance of the group they've infiltrated or helping to make it more of a threat than it woud otherwise be by acting as a provocateur (this can be done both to provoke indivduals into doing things that will get themselves arrested or actually making the group more of a threat in order to justify more resources from the state in combatting it -- I seem to recall the McDonald commission finding that either the RCMP or the Montreal police were doing things like planting bombs in mailboxes after the October Crisis in order to obtain more resources to fight an FLQ that was already defunct).

I always got the feeling that Bristow and perhaps his CSIS operatives played the same sort of game. Helping build up the Front in order to make them enough of a threat to justify more state resources in combatting it and, in the case of Bristow, making himself more important and more valuable to CSIS (after all, if the HF wasn't a threat, why bother pouring money into Bristow's bank account) while at the same time betraying his friends in the HF to CSIS.

No informer ever got rich by telling his operator that the group he's infiltrated isn't a threat.

Of course, these days Bristow downplays any illegal activity he might have engaged in and plays up his role in restraining the group from even greater violence. But I got the impression from the Walrus article that he was dancing around the facts to a degree.

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I think Droege was a real threat, even if his group was relatively small. For example, he once tried to take over the country of Dominica.

In the early 90s, his gang had a few meetings in Kitchener (in the back of a local stereo store, owned by someone who called Hitler "a good man" in a media interview). The home of a local Jewish woman who protested outside their meetings was burned down a few weeks later, with arson being determined to be the cause.


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Probably Maccabee is right that funds were not purposely pumped into the Heritage Front to cause the rise of a far-right-wing racist group.

But I also agree with Mccroft...I mean aka Mycroft..that there is an uneasy symbiosis between informers and their groups.

The last thing the informer wants is for the group to fail.

So, they go the extra yard to keep propping it up.
I believe that the informer admitted at one time that he was doing substantial free xeroxing and similar organizational activities using his CSIS money, didn't he?

And didn't they always say that he had access to CPIC records and other "miraculous" capacities?


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It was the September issue that it appeared in - just found the thread where we talked about it briefly.

I wasn't sure what to think. The Walrus article was definitely very sympathetic towards Bristow, which I actually thought was good considering that it sounds like he got a really rough ride about his spying stint with the Front.

On the other hand, I can see the point about how any resources - even human resources such as the full-time manpower of the spy himself - directed towards a group like the Heritage Front is propping it up.


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quote:
Acquaintance of Heritage Front leader charged with second degree murder

TORONTO (CP) -- An acquaintance of notorious white supremacist Wolfgang Droege has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with his shooting, sources told The Canadian Press on Thursday.

Two sources identified the accused as Keith Deroux, 44, of Toronto.



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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
The problem with informers is that they tend to do things to make themselves indispensable to their operators either by exaggerating the importance of the group they've infiltrated or helping to make it more of a threat than it woud otherwise be by acting as a provocateur (this can be done both to provoke indivduals into doing things that will get themselves arrested or actually making the group more of a threat in order to justify more resources from the state in combatting it -- I seem to recall the McDonald commission finding that either the RCMP or the Montreal police were doing things like planting bombs in mailboxes after the October Crisis in order to obtain more resources to fight an FLQ that was already defunct).

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]


Perhaps the most historically disastrous example of this phenomenon was when the Weimar republic sent Adolf Hitler to keep infiltrate and tabs on the microscopic Nazi Party in the mid twenties.

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: arborman ]


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I'd just like to say that Operation Red Dog would make for great film*.

* A comedy, of course. What a bunch of maroons!


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Wasn't the short buzz of the heritage front due to the ressesion in the early 90s? Those types tend to do well during these sorts of things.
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I'm not convinced Droege is really dead. I suspect it's all a hoax by the Jews.
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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
I suspect it's all a hoax by the Jews.

No, that would be Christianity.


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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
I'm not convinced Droege is really dead. I suspect it's all a hoax by the Jews.

Not a joke and not funny.

The sad thing is this quote is similar to the sort of filth that Droege himself used to say.


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quote:
Originally posted by johnpauljones:

Not a joke and not funny.

The sad thing is this quote is similar to the sort of filth that Droege himself used to say.


Well that is the point, isn't it.


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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:
Well that is the point, isn't it.


Sorry I do not see any reason why you even made the joke.

IMHO that attempt at humour crossed the metaphorical line in the sand.


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quote:
Originally posted by johnpauljones:

Sorry I do not see any reason why you even made the joke.


The guy spent much of his life "denying" an undeniable fact. Your self-righteousness is misplaced.

[ 14 April 2005: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]


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Perfectly good use of ironic humour to make a point IMHO. jpj, if you think Mycroft is being anti-semitic in some way, you're certainly not familiar with his posting history here.
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Oldgoat: I am familiar with akamycroft's posting history and that is why I was shocked at his use of this joke.

I think the joke was unnecessary period full stop and commented on it.

others disagree with me and that is fine. IMHO the joke crossed the line


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Oh for god's sake. If Mycroft admitted he was a self-hating Jew, would that help you to move on and get over it?

Unbelievable. Everyone else figured out what Mycroft was talking about. Get over yourself.


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Hm, "Rufus Polson" has been banned from Free Dominion. He or she has now resurfaced as... Michelle!
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Well when I saw this news, I must confess I didn't have any feelings along the lines of "murder is terrible...", although intellectually of course, I don't support murder. On an emotional level, I was just pleased that he is gone. Good riddance to an unreconstructed Nazi thug.

As for ARA, actually, it can be argued that their violent tactics in the early 90's were one of the things instrumental in pushing the Heritage Front out of Toronto. It's less fun being a thug when you might get your ass kicked for it. Probably ARA's biggest victory.


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skdadl, now severely confused, is going off to re-read the collected works of John le Carre.
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AKA Mycroft, could you check your private messages?
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This headline about it is one of the best ever!

Droege "love triangle" probed by police


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quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
This headline about it is one of the best ever!

Droege "love triangle" probed by police


That goes in the headline file. Geez, whatever happened to editors needing "dirty minds" to do their job?


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quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
This headline about it is one of the best ever!

Droege "love triangle" probed by police



The lead from the article is appropriately awful, too:
quote:
For years he stood for hate, but in the end notorious white supremacist Wolfgang Droege may have died for love.

*barf*

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If he were alive, betcha he'd feel proud about being killed over a woman. Sure sounds like the kind of accomplishment that would make a white supremacist walk like John Wayne. Handsome devil, no doubt. He may have got the bullet, but at least he got the white woman!
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What if she was Black?

Reminds me of the story of those old Nazis holed up in South American countries taking up with a local lady and producing all sorts of brownish kiddies ...


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Sssshhhhhh! Don't start any rumours! What would his followers think of him if they thought something like that?
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His followers are mostly brain dead. Im not sure they can think.
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For those of you who want to hear a band sing "Give the Fascist Man a Gunshot". Sorry couldn't find an Mp3 for ADF, but there's some lyics you can sing.

Chumbawamba: Enough Is Enough (Kick It Over) MP3

Lyrics

OR

ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION — Th9 Lyrics

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Mick, seems to me the second song (link didnt work on the first) is advocating violence, even murder. Am I mis-reading it?
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No, I don't think you are...
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La Marseillaise, among many other national anthems, advocates killing the enemy. The song doesn't contain any specific threats against any individual. I'm sure I could summon up a whole batch of partisan songs about taking vengeance on murderous fascist thugs, whether the original Italian flavour, Nazis, Francoists, etc.

I can't quite figure out the reference to Vienna (about persistent and unrepentant Nazism beneath elegant manners). Kurt Waldheim?
Or perhaps Haider - though the latter is not Viennese?


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Sorry Lagatta but those songs were specific to a time. They were fascists and Nazis operating brutal dictatorships oppressing , murdering and committing genocide.

In the lyrics of this song it is clear that we are looking at anarchists identifying evreything as fascist. Take this line for example:

quote:
Every institution in this city, right
Is prejudiced against us

My God when you make those kinds of judgements coupled with calls for violence and murder, well its a not a call to overthrow fascism, its a call to revolution against the system, agaisnt everything. Its a call to chaos and murder in my books.

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quote:
My God when you make those kinds of judgements coupled with calls for violence and murder, well its a not a call to overthrow fascism, its a call to revolution against the system, agaisnt everything. Its a call to chaos and murder in my books.

What's wrong with a revolution against the system?

And I think it's important to have a foucauldian view of fascism as being deeply imbedded in individuals. Recognizing and fighting that should make for a freer society for human life and life in general.

Though I don't have such a manichean view of fascism as many of my fellow anarchists do.


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quote:
Originally posted by Macabee:
Sorry Lagatta but those songs were specific to a time...My God when you make those kinds of judgements coupled with calls for violence and murder, well its a not a call to overthrow fascism, its a call to revolution against the system, agaisnt everything. Its a call to chaos and murder in my books.

Ca ira.

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quote:
Originally posted by Vigilante:

What's wrong with a revolution against the system?

And I think it's important to have a foucauldian view of fascism as being deeply imbedded in individuals. Recognizing and fighting that should make for a freer society for human life and life in general.

Though I don't have such a manichean view of fascism as many of my fellow anarchists do.



And exactly who are targted by this view?, Teachers, civil servants, gas station attendants, bank tellers, politicians...who gets to draw up the killing list? And at what age are targets targeted, can an 18 year old be on the list? Or say a 10 year old daughter of a n identified fascist?

This is just another excuse for planned violence in the guise of anarchy. And in fact it is no better than the plans in the sick mind of the late Wolfgang Droege and his ilk.

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*warning: pedantry*

Mycroft, you said something way back about the RCMP (CSIS?) perhaps planting mailbox bombs after the October Crisis, as a way of keeping alive the fear of the FLQ in people's minds, even though the FLQ was at that point finished.

I can well believe that the RCMP continued playing all sorts of clumsy games like that (burning down barns, eg), but in my memory the mailbox bombings were all early sixties, all pre-dated October 1970, and were the work of pre-FLQ groups -- the RIN? the RN? (I'm remembering Hubert Aquin going to jail when he was caught with bomb-making stuff -- and he really had the stuff, too.)


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I'd never heard about any such thing following the October Crisis, but I do remember some sort of commision establishing that they had engaged in those sorts of things prior to October 1970. Though skdadl, I'm pretty sure RIN/RN had nothing to do with these, and that it was the FLQ. The RIN was a political party, not a revolutionary group.
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Hmmmn. Well, Aquin was not in the FLQ. If I could just find my copy of the bio ... There were mailbox bombers in the early sixties, and they were not the FLQ.

The RCMP barn burnings, though, did post-date October 1970, I believe.


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Yes while there were barn-burnings by the RCMP post October, I haver searched and can find no mention of mailbox bombings after the crisis.
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There were bombings, mailbox and otherwise, in the sixties and the FLQ was apparently behind them if this article can be taken at face value.

The barn burning took place in 1972 and it was supposed to prevent a meeting between two FLQ members and the Black Panthers. This was the incident that led to the MacDonald Commission which recommended that the Mounties be removed from the intelligence business and that CSIS be created for that function.

Off-topic I guess, but taking the RCMP out of the spook business was actually first recommended by the Mackenzie Commission which was struck under Pearson and reported to Trudeau. The Trudeau government ignored most of Mackenzie's recommendations.


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Thank you for those links, pogge. I should have said barn burning, singular -- I knew there was only one.

I'm still a bit surprised to see the initials FLQ applied to the earlier group, wrapped up by 1963; or at least, I am still thinking that there were others who were not FLQ who were plotting these things. But until I unpack the books, I can say no more. Give me, oh, six months, ok?


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quote:
Originally posted by skdadl:
*warning: pedantry*

Mycroft, you said something way back about the RCMP (CSIS?) perhaps planting mailbox bombs after the October Crisis, as a way of keeping alive the fear of the FLQ in people's minds, even though the FLQ was at that point finished.

I can well believe that the RCMP continued playing all sorts of clumsy games like that (burning down barns, eg), but in my memory the mailbox bombings were all early sixties, all pre-dated October 1970, and were the work of pre-FLQ groups -- the RIN? the RN? (I'm remembering Hubert Aquin going to jail when he was caught with bomb-making stuff -- and he really had the stuff, too.)


I recall reading a few years ago that either the RCMP or the Montreal Police conducted activities in the 1970s it blamed on the defunct FLQ in order to justify continuted allocation of resources for anti-FLQ efforts. I thought the article I read mentioned a fake mailbox bombing incident but I could be wrong. There are a number of post-McDonald Commission books on the RCMP you might want to check out.

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Mycroft: see pogge's links above.
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Seems this thread has veered pretty much off course. And you dont even have me to blame. My God what are people to do..who will they blame??...o woe is us
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We can blame Wolfgang, after all he's dead.

Anyway,point remains that it's not unheard of for informers or even for the police/security services themselves to provoke or create incidents in order to justify the continuation of their operation. My feeling, reading the Walrus article and other information, is that Grant Bristow's role was far more complex than he claims ie he wasn't just a passive participant and informer but played an active role in some of the violent and illegal activities the HF was involved in, with or without the complicity of CSIS.


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C'mon, Mac: we should all be proud Canadians on this topic. We have such a long history of coping with actual terrorist incidents in this country that we can bother to get pedantic about it. Compared to us, the Americans are novices, eh?
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Mycroft, I know no more about Bristow than what I read in that Walrus article, but I sensed from Mitrovica's narration that he was keeping a certain nervous distance from his subject, perhaps for the reasons you cite.
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posted 17 April 2005 02:46 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
PS: I thought that Mitrovica's piece was, btw, a very raw piece of reporting, especially for the Walrus. There could be a number of reasons for that; but if he's turning it into a book, it needs a few more passes through the typewriter, as we used to say when we used typewriters. Or the conscience, as I hope we still say.
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posted 17 April 2005 04:12 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So the latest news is that the woman in the purported love triangle denies there was such a thing. Perhaps the cops are reading too many cheap crime novels?
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posted 17 April 2005 04:45 PM      Profile for Macabee     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If I recall this woman is Nicola Polinuk one time lover of that other waco racist Don Andrews.

As the story goes when Droege returned to Canada he hooked up with his old friend Donny then proceeded to have an affair with Nicola. Various bouts of Andrews sending thugs to pummel Droege followed by Droege doing likewise ended as all White Supremacist love triangles ...no one spoke to each other for a while. Later Droege, as the story goes partnered with Nicola and though they eventually parted remained "close" till his death.

Can't verify this but it is honest to god apcraphyl within certain circles.


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posted 17 April 2005 09:30 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Don Andrews has a hilarious obituary of Droege on his website:

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Wolfgang Droege was born in 1949 in Forchheim, Bavaria and came to Canada in 1952.

I met him in a 1970's upscale disco — he was well-dressed, soft-spoken and set in his Germanic views. After many discussions he became a hanger-on/lieutenant in the Western Guard that I led. He was common-sensical, easygoing and snobbish towards all üntermeunchen. Unhappy with the lower-economic scale membership of the Guard, he was quick to affiliate himself with the high-flying David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan.

I sent him to the Caribbean island nation of Dominica to set up a base for an attack on the Marxist-controlled (New Jewel Movement) island of Grenada, but instead he made links with American criminal elements and secretly plotted to overthrow the Dominican Government with a mercenary invasion, supposedly to make it a Mecca for White Nationalists and drug dealers. This attempt was thwarted by loose talk and government agents, and he was arrested in what was to be known as the "Bayou Of Pigs" fiasco.

After serving some time in prison he returned to Canada, and. using his David Duke connections, started a Canadian branch of the KKK under the leadership of another lieutenant of the Western Guard former Toronto Sun 'Sunshine Boy' Alexander McQuirter. When McQuirter was convicted of the attempted murder of a rival Klan member, the Klan collapsed.

Soon after, Wolfgang served six years in the notorious U.S. Federal prison in Lompoc, California. Upon his return, the Western Guard had morphed into the Nationalist Party of Canada, and Wolfgang was invited to join a free trip to Libya with seventeen other NPC members, where he conspired with phony NPC member Grant Bristow (hired by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to infiltrate the White Nationalist movement) to form the Heritage Front in Canada. It truly was a 'front', a routine move by the authorities to monitor and control dissidents in a sandbox. This time, he was the window dressing-leader of a "White Rights" group.

With the help of CSIS agent Bristow, over $250,000 of taxpayers' money was pumped into the phony Front, while they aimed to besmirch the reputation of White Nationalist ideology by attacking and harassing street punks and suicidally-deluded anti-racist activists. After five years the Front was exposed by the same Mark Bonokoski who reported — the day after Ernst Zündel was deported from Canada to Germany — that he was a Jew by birth (see the article "The Jewish Card" March 2 Toronto Sun). Wolfgang once told me that reaching "success" was more important than how one got there.

After many scrapes with the law on bail conditions, it was arranged for Wolfgang to step down from the Heritage Front, handing the mothballed organization to a confederate. To my knowledge, he never recognized any of the efforts and activities of the Nationalist Party and its members, preferring to pay lip service to amorphous, "racialist" organizations and figures like Ernst Zündel and David Duke (who was recently released from prison on a plea bargain agreement with the U.S. authorities for a 17-month sentence for mail fraud and promising never to run for public office again).

Many people questioned the ease with which Wolfgang crossed borders and purportedly dealt in drugs. He was never without a giant bankroll of high-denomination bills which he was proud to display. He was generous to kids with candy and money and to strippers with sob stories, a swashbuckling New Canadian who often talked about suicide and the futility of life and a general disdain for the unwashed masses. He was a gentle man in spite of his reputation, with plenty of secrets, who was eager to pick peoples' minds for information and ideology.

He was gunned down by a methadone Mick Jagger wannabe, a product of Whorehouse North America (sex, drugs and rock 'n roll). Wolfgang Droege will be missed. He was a one-of-a-kind. I'm sure that he's pleased with all the attentive media coverage.



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posted 17 April 2005 09:32 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Here is the rather shocking Toronto Sun column on Zundel's Jewish heritage:

The Jewish Card


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posted 17 April 2005 09:34 PM      Profile for aka Mycroft     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Macabee:
If I recall this woman is Nicola Polinuk one time lover of that other waco racist Don Andrews.

As the story goes when Droege returned to Canada he hooked up with his old friend Donny then proceeded to have an affair with Nicola. Various bouts of Andrews sending thugs to pummel Droege followed by Droege doing likewise ended as all White Supremacist love triangles ...no one spoke to each other for a while. Later Droege, as the story goes partnered with Nicola and though they eventually parted remained "close" till his death.

Can't verify this but it is honest to god apcraphyl within certain circles.


This remainds me of that Doctor Who story that had rival gangs of Daleks, one led by Davros, hunting each other down and yelling "Exterminate!" as Daleks are prone to do.


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posted 19 April 2005 03:36 PM      Profile for TemporalHominid   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:

This remainds me of that Doctor Who story that had rival gangs of Daleks, one led by Davros, hunting each other down and yelling "Exterminate!" as Daleks are prone to do.



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