ASIO has eyes on Australian neo-Nazi group Antipodean Resistance
DANGEROUS neo-Nazi activists are being monitored by ASIO spooks who warn the extremists are “willing to use violence to further their own interests”.
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DANGEROUS neo-Nazi activists are being monitored by ASIO spooks who warn the extremists are now “willing to use violence to further their own interests”.
The revelation is contained in a secret ASIO briefing to Federal Parliament and comes after Nazi activists Antipodean Resistance plastered swastikas and racist murals around Sydney.
Last week the white power group — which has sworn allegiance to Hitler — covered Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Nazi posters and painted a mural of a Nazi flag on a brick wall.
University of Sydney was also targeted in April.
The group hosted “radicalisation camps” in Queensland last week and targeted universities in Melbourne with homophobic posters in an attempt to sway the Same Sex Marriage debate.
The extremists are also active on Twitter and YouTube and recently uploaded footage of its radicalisation camps in an attempt to gain new members.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal ASIO has warned a parliamentary review into expenditure of security agencies that “right-wing and extreme left-wing ideologies” had the propensity to become violent.
“Members of these groups are diverse and have differing agendas, including extreme right-wing and extreme left-wing ideologies,” ASIO said.
“A few small subsets of these groups are willing to use violence to further their own interests.”
The parliamentary committee released ASIO’s comments in a public report which warned of growing anti-Islamic sentiments in Australia.
The Sydney lads postered up Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management last night: pic.twitter.com/iDmwSUA4CA
— AntipodeanResistance (@NS_Australia) August 27, 2017
The full ASIO report will never be shown to the public.
The public report added: “ASIO noted that while Sunni Islamist extremism was the pre-eminent terrorist threat facing Australia, ‘other groups continue to engage in politically motivated violence and the promotion of communal violence”.
“ASIO explained that while violence at protests was rare, ‘social discourse around anti-Islam and anti-migration issues’ had increased, with public protests for and against becoming more frequent and providing more opportunities for convergence between ideological adversaries.”
YouTube has repeatedly promised to crack down on extremist content but the Antipodean Resistance appears to simply be creating a new channel when one gets removed.
Its Twitter page has been active since January this year.
Last week they tweeted photos of Nazi symbols being posted around Sydney.
“The Sydney lads postered up Macquarie University’s Graduate School of Management last night,” the post read.
The group also runs a website which is filled with obscene anti-semitic and homophobic comments.
“You must be White to join our organisation … no Blacks, Asians, Jews or mixed abominations,” the website reads.
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“We oppose substance abuse, homosexuality, and all other rotten, irresponsible distractions laid before us by Jews and globalist elites.”
Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus condemned the group after reports anti-gay posters were being used in the same-sex marriage campaign.
“The prime minister needs to be condemning neo-Nazi groups,” he told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
The ASIO warning comes after a member of neo-Nazi group Vanguard America allegedly killed a woman by deliberately driving into her at a rally in Charlottesville in the US.
Originally published as ASIO has eyes on Australian neo-Nazi group Antipodean Resistance
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