No, it’s not Ben Weerheym. He’s had his day (for now).
It appears the Western Australian legal system is still working through the trials of Jack Van Tongeren’s mates.
Man denies racism, graffiti charges
By Tim Clarke
July 28, 2005
From: AAP
A SELF-confessed member of the white supremacist Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM) has told a Perth court he was not racist, despite police allegedly discovering stickers in his flat bearing slogans such as “ragheads out”.
Damon Paul Blaxall, 29, is on trial at Perth Magistrates Court for being part of a group that defaced properties including a kosher food store and a Chinese restaurant with ANM stickers and racist graffiti last July.
Blaxall has pleaded guilty to daubing graffiti on a synagogue but he has denie
d involvement in seven other attacks on property.
Police today dropped a further charge due to a lack of evidence.
He has also pleaded not guilty to possessing threatening or abusive material intended to promote racial hatred.
Giving evidence today, Blaxall said he was a member of the ANM, but did not consider himself a racist.
“The ANM’s goal is to make Australia a better place for the average Australian worker,” Blaxall said.
“We are asking for any immigration (authority) to slow down the numbers coming in. Australia is only a small place – we cannot let everyone in.”
Blaxall said today the inflammatory material police found at his Gosnells flat had been sent to him by a white supremacist group called the White Devils, founded by Daniel Tyrone Klavins, 26.
The court was told police found stickers in Blaxall’s flat bearing slogans including “Ragheads out”, “Two wongs don’t make a white” and “Asians out”.
Blaxall said today the stickers were “junk mail”, sent to him by Klavins, who had also asked him to attend the synagogue on the night of the graffiti attacks.
He also told the court he had been denied his prescription drugs – an anti-psychotic medication and valium – by police before being interviewed by them on July 19 last year.
The trial continues.
