A very nice little piece from Perth Indy. If the author could contact us, it would be much appreciated.

This is a good read for those wanting a bit of background on the Australian Nationalist Movement guys including Ben Weerheym.

Perth: White Supremecist jailed for restaurant attack
by Des Carters - Perth

Perth Independent Media Desk 6:

20 Dec 05 - Former professed member of the West Australian white supremacist group the ANM, has been given a backdated 12-month jail sentence for his role in the racial attacks on a Chinese restaurant and a Jewish food store. “Hitler was right” and “Jews out” were among the racist slogans. Blaxall had pleaded guilty to daubing graffiti on a synagogue in Perth. Magisrate Robert Black described Blaxall’s behaviour as “shameful and abhorrent in any decent, civilised society.”

Meanwhile, Mr Blaxall’s criminal cohort, Ben Weerheym, who escaped a gaol term, reports that the “flawed, unwanted and alien ideology of multiculturalism has reared it’s ugly head” at the recent racist mob violence Cronulla…
TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER: The avowed member of a Perth-based white supremacist group has been jailed for 12 months for a racist graffiti attack on a synagogue in Perth. He was also found guilty of possessing racist material.

Damon Paul Blaxall, 29, was on trial for being part of a group - the “White Devils” - that defaced properties including a kosher food store and a Chinese restaurant with Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM) stickers and racist graffiti last July.

Magistrate Robert Black, sentenced Mr Blaxall in Perth Magistrate’s Court this week, describing the action as abominable and shameful. “Behaviour of that sort in any decent, civilised society is abominable, At the time you were involved with a group which apparently held certain views and took part in a shameful act,” he said.

Blaxall’s belated guilty plea indicated a lack of remorse, the magistrate said - saying he also took into account Blaxall’s pre-existing psychiatric condition.

Blaxall’s defence claimed his condition led to low-self esteem and that he was in a vulnerable position when he was approached by the ANM.

Since he was charged, Blaxall said he had divorced himself from the group and its views and was now engaged with the Wilderness Society.

The prosecution said in light of recent incidents, including the recent race-fuelled mob violence at Sydney’s southern beaches, it was necessary for the courts to provide deterrents.

Blaxall’s sentence was backdated to August 12, when he was taken into custody, and he will be eligible for parole. Damon Paul Blaxall was a member of the Australian Nationalist Movement and the White Devils when he sprayed slogans and swastikas on the synagogue in July last year.

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Whats the ANM?
The Australian Nationalist Movement: The ANM are a notorious Australian White Pride group, who’s leader Jack van Tongeren expouses openly racist views. Mr van Tongeren was released from prison on 20 September 2002 after serving 12 years on more than 50 charges, including arson, stealing, conspiracy and assault.

Upon his release, Mr van Tongeren, know widely as an “extreme right-wing leader” showed no regret for his terrorist actions which included the incitement of a string of violent actions in the 1980s, which involved fire attacks on Chinese restaurants.

He served 12 years in prison for arson, after firebombing Asian-owned local businesses across Perth in Western Australia.

Mr Van Tongeren, currently in jail again, faces charges that in June and July last year he began plotting with associates to launch firebomb attacks against four Chinese restaurants around Perth. Van Tongeren and his co-accused - John van Blitterswyk and Matthew Billing have denied the charge of conspiring to firebomb Chinese restaurants in the Perth suburbs of Willeton, Karrawara and Ferndale between June 1 and July 16 last year.

The attention of WA Police was drawn to van Tongeren, when a series of racist graffiti appeared across Perth, with posters and stickers promoting the ANM. After five men were arrested over the attacks, it appeared the group had links with the organisation and van Tongeren.

The ANM leader denied the claim. Detectives involved in Operation Atlantic, the investigation into the graffiti, raided van Tongeren’s house in Gingin, north of Perth, on July 29, where, they allege, they uncovered a plot to harm WA’s Attorney General Jim McGinty and other high profile community leaders.

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EARLIER THIS YEAR:

Another associate of the ANM was jailed for six months for his part in race-hate graffiti attacks on a synagogue and other buildings around Perth. Shannon Mark Post, 24, pleaded guilty to five counts of criminal damage, in relation to the graffiti spree around the West Australian capital last July that made international headlines. Of the five charges Post admitted, Magistrate Robert Black said the most serious was the attack on the synagogue in Menora, which was daubed with slogans including “Hitler was right” and “Jews out”, as well as swastikas and ANM posters.

“This was calculated to cause distress and fear to many people, and cause offence to almost the whole of the community,” Mr Black said. “To behave in such a manner can well cause disharmony and has the potential to inflame passions. Racial and ethnic intolerance is clearly the genesis of these offences, and cannot be tolerated anywhere.”

Graffiti and ANM posters were also plastered on the Bayswater police station, the fence and front wall of two Bassendean homes and at a nearby street and bus sign.

The court was told Post became involved with the ANM movement after moving into the flat of long-time member Damon Blaxall, 28. Post will serve six months for the synagogue attack, and four months for the four other offences - time served concurrently.

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Other Recent Perth Anti-Multicultural News

Ben Weerheym: The “unwanted and alien ideology of multi-culturalism…”

Ben Weerheym, 27, a former recruit of the white supremacist Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM) reported last week:

“The flawed ideology of multiculturalism has reared it’s ugly head.”

He says: “pushing the unwanted and alien ideology of multi-culturalism is like pushing a wheelbarrow of the proverbial up a hill. To add substance to this we can look toward thier upcoming plans as they are tryin to organize a some-what delusional feel good rally to “Unite against racism!” as they call it.”

He says “the associates of FDB like self described anarchists, communists, marxists, anti-white racists and promters of ‘elternative lifestyles will highjack the event and exploit the unwitting general public…”

Comparing the “The only thing different with how things have eventuated in Australia is that being Aussies, we eventually get to a point where we won’t take any more shit from people we have reached out to and let live here…”

To Ben Cronulla means: “You and I (Aussies) are in the firing line, the ongoing violence comitted by these people are the proof”

He writes, on the 13 December, “the British National Party is working with a recently established International Monitoring Group whose aim is to ensure that white communities around the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe which are on the front line of anti-white racism, violence and state sanctioned discrimination, get THEIR voices heard. The groups from New Zealand and Australia is already undertaking this role and will also offer it’s support.”

Come aboard,” he comments on his “anti-leftist “blog: See Here: http://www.aussiepatriot.i.am/

And in the National Alliance News 2005 - a news service that provides: “News for White People By White People”, Mr Weerheym writes: “We have struck back…”

“It has finally happened here, we have seen it happen all around the world - England, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the USA, the list goes on. The only thing different with how things have eventuated” (in Australia) is that “we won’t take any more from people we have reached out to and let live here. We have struck back”

[ http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=227 ]

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Who is Ben Weerheym?

White supremacist, Ben Weerheym was recently setting up a “hit list” website called Redwatch Downunder - “the site will feature names, photographs, home and work addresses, car registrations and family details of anti-racism campaigners, refugee advocates, gay rights activists and other progressives.”

A trans-Tasman campaign against racial hatred, xenophobia and fascism - [ http://fightdemback.org ] said it had discovered that Ben Weerheym, convicted over a spate of racist graffiti attacks in Perth last year, has been soliciting information to establish the website.

Local Perth Anti-racism Peace activists are now concerned that Ben - who appears to have infiltrated activist circles - will use the website to intimidate and harass them and, potentially, use as witnesses in the upcoming trial against his infamous mentor, Jack Van Tongeren.

In March last year he wrote: “The more the white youth of Australia stand up and show them their true feelings towards the invaders THE BETTER!! And about the ANM: “We are the most effective, organised, active and above all premier nationalist/pro-white organisation in Australia.”

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Mat Henderson-Hau, from Fight Dem Back, says he has evidence that dozens of emails had been sent to white supremacists around Australia and New Zealand seeking information. “They say they want information on ‘anarchists, reds, homos and multiculturalists’, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and vehicle registrations,” Mr Henderson-Hau said.

“The purpose of this website is to threaten, intimidate and facilitate physical assaults against people who stand up against white supremacists in our community. As far as we are concerned, this is a terrorist threat.”

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The “White Devils” - formed in Perth in 2004. It achieved notoriety because of the part it played in the imprisonment of Jack van Tongeren. The White Devils formed inside the new ANM group launched by van Tongeren after his release from prison in 2002.” Ben Weerheym was a member of the White Devils.

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