You can see where I’ve tied back my mullet can’t you? Not a bad year for front page appearances. First the Herald and now the Northern District Times. All I need to complete the trifecta is to score a front page spot on Country Women’s Association monthly newsletter.

Shameless fame-whoring out of the way, let’s get to the article. Wait, oh come on, like I don’t deserve to be slightly proud of myself here! Have you got any idea how many far-right nutters are presently trying to put a cap in my arse? I have to respond the same way I always do when people are trying to kill me (yes, it happens a fair bit) — by being a cocky bastard who talks too much.

I really have to stop watching When We Were Kings.

For the record, I’ve only received two threats that I deem serious enough to take to the police and about a two dozen fickle ones from neo-Nazis based in Europe and the US.

Enough of me, here’s the article:

A white separatist youth group has emerged in the northern district, recruiting members from local high schools and Macquarie University.

The Sydney branch of the Patriotic Youth League, headed by Andrew Wilson, of Epping, has plastered stickers bearing slogans such as “Mass Immigration = Water Restrictions” and “Stop Racist Attacks Against Australia”, on telegraph poles in streets near Eastwood’s Marist College, Carlingford and Epping Boys high schools, and Macquarie University.

Mr Wilson refused to talk to the Times but on his group’s website, Stormfront, it quotes him as saying it was important to recruit at universities and schools.

“There are enough receptive Aussies in schools and unis to make the exercise worth its while,” it said.

The league president, Stuart McBeth, based in Newcastle, confirmed 12 high school students had been recruited in Sydney in the past month. Members had also been recruited from Macquarie University, with the Sydney group having a 20-strong membership.

Mr McBeth said the league was a “white separatist” group and only “Europeans” were accepted. “It’s not hate-based,” he said. “We’re a nationalist organisation and so, regardless of race, we have a degree of racial integrity. Race is important.”

An outraged Epping resident, Mat Henderson, has retaliated against the recruitment campaign, plastering his own stickers over the league’s displays.

Mr Henderson said he has met Mr Wilson at the Epping Hotel in August on the pretext he was interested in joining the group.

“He has a very negative attitude towards any migrant community that’s not white Anglo-Saxon,” he said. Mr Henderson feared that Mr Wilson’s “charismatic and articulate” traits could convince naive school students to join the league.

Marist College principal Michael Blowes said he was unaware the slogans had been posted outside his school but had noticed them at Lakeside Drive. “They were actually in a number of areas around Eastwood,” he said.

“I, like any other citizen, don’t like these things being put up on telegraph poles.”

Eastwood police commander Superintendent Geoff Beresford said a neighbourhood watch group had alerted police to the stickers in October. “People are entitled to freedom of speech and if they don’t do anything to break the law, they’re entitled to exercise freedom,” Supt Beresford said. “But we’re concerned something like that would lead to potential violence.”

I guess my main point of clarification here is that I live in Eastwood, not Epping.

So Stormfront is the official PYL website? Well, if the Murdoch press say so then it must be true. I’ve honestly got no idea how that particular facet of the story came about.

As for the Marist College principal, what a load of crap — those PYL stickers were absolutely plastered on every single street sign and telegraph pole surrounding his school. Of course he couldn’t admit to seeing them cos then he would be facing questions as to why he did nothing to remove them.

I’ll not comment on anything Supt Beresford has said here until after I meet with him in the coming days.

I uncovered a new stash of PYL filth on my way home from Parramatta this afternoon as well. Check these out.

The game has shifted up a gear.