Darrin Hodges is a Protectionist: he wants to protect (White) Australia from Asians, Muslims, Communism, Multiculturalism, teh Gays, Muslims, and Asians. (And Muslims.) Once an admirer of Hitler, a Jew-hater, a member of Don Black’s Stormfront website and Dr James Saleam’s Australia First Party, Hodges has since been expelled from/renounced his membership of the Party (denounced as the ‘Australian Faggot Party’), denied his membership of Stormfront, made his peace with ZOG, and, presumably, learnt that public expressions of support for Mr Hitler are unlikely to endear him to the electorate. What kind of expressions?
“I’m more interested in the purer form of fascism… and while I don’t subscribe to the whole ‘worship Hitler’ thing, his comments on multiculturalism and politics in general are still just as relevant today as they were 70-odd years ago” he once wrote.
On June 20, 2005, he added that “i cant say im into the whole national socialist thing - as far as im concerned, National Socialism died with it’s [sic] creator, not that i do not have any regard for his writings, indeed, they still have much relevance today - he laid a foundation that we should build on”. And just for good measure, a week later (June 26) Darrin further noted that “i have some good colour footage (no sound) of Adolf Hitler at The Berghoff. PM me if you want a copy of the footage”. (’darrinh’ joined the world’s premiere White supremacist website in June 2005.)
Currently, Darrin is preparing to contest the upcoming local council elections in NSW on behalf of the recently-formed Australian Protectionist Party, and is hoping to win one of three seats in Ward D of the Sutherland Shire Council, whose current occupiers include the Mayor, David Redmond (a Tory). Last September, however, wearing his ‘revolutionary’ hat, Darrin was a ‘national anarchist’, one of about twenty who formed a ‘black bloc’ at the APEC protest. (The same mob has now declared itself to be composed not of Australian patriots but oppressed Tibetans.)
Darrin is nothing if not persistent. Either that, or a very slow learner. Having initially been exposed to the public following his enthusiastic embrace of the White ‘civil uprising’ in Cronulla in December 2005, as already indicated, Darrin reacted by renouncing his membership of both the Australia First Party and Stormfront. It was only a little while later, however, that he re-joined both. Later still, he left Stormfront and — together with letters to the editor and commentary on other websites — reverted to using one of several blogs to publicise his views. Darrin also established a group he called the ‘Anglo Australian National Community Council’ (the existence of which he announced in November 2006). As the only known member, in this capacity he also organised a number of film screenings and public meetings.
Darrin’s disillusionment with Saleam’s ‘Australian Faggot Party’, and eventual membership of the APP, really began following the less-than-successful NSW state election in March 2007, in which the Party fielded one candidate, John Moffat, in — where else? — the seat of Cronulla. Three months later, in June, Darrin was expelled. (At about this time, Darrin’s blog featured in an episode of Media Watch.) And three months after his expulsion, the APP was formed.
Interestingly, AF — Saleam having successfully wrestled control of the organisation from Diane Teasdale, and registered it in NSW as ‘The Australia First ‘Council Elections’ Party’ — is also standing candidates at the upcoming election (Blacktown, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Sutherland Shire), using the stirring slogans “Reclaim New South Wales! Reclaim Australia! Voting For Anything Other Than Australia First Is Largely A Waste Of Time”. And while Darrin and the APP are looking to Nick Griffin and the British Nationalist Party (BNP) for inspiration, AF has recently stitched up an agreement with the kooks in the New Zealand Nationalist Alliance.
On the BNP, see The BNP Uncovered (PDF), 2005. The Canberra Times article is available here.
