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From the Oz:
Racist bomb-plotter paroled
By Nicolas Perpitch
April 24, 2008A RIGHT-wing nationalist who conspired to firebomb Chinese restaurants has been released on parole after 14 months in jail.
John Anthony Van Blitterswyk, 56, was convicted in May last year of plotting with neo-Nazi Australian Nationalist Movement head Jack Van Tongeren and two other conspirators to blow up the restaurants in Perth.
From the West Oz:
World of white supremacists
Suellen JerrardA confessed racist reveals the dark side of the Australian Nationalist Movement
A former right-hand man of Jack van Tongeren has given a rare insight into the white supremacist Australian Nationalist Movement, describing it as a misunderstood and unfairly portrayed political organisation despite its involvement in countless racist attacks.
Benjamin Weerheym said that for the most part the ANM was nothing more than a social club where members enjoyed playing pool, watching football and sharing a drink.
But the 30-year-old admitted there was a darker side that ranged from walking the streets in packs on recruitment drives and putting up political and racist posters to planning fire bombings and talk of shipping all non-Caucasians out of the country. Mr Weerheym believed the ANM ended up going too far in its “patriotic efforts”, prompting him to cut all ties with his life as a foot soldier on the streets of Perth during its resurgence from 2002 to 2004.
From the Albany Advertiser:
“I’ve Changed” - Ex Neo-Nazi Begs for Forgiveness
By Richard CharltonONCE he was a hate-filled white supremacist. Today he is pleading for forgiveness.
Albany resident Benjamin Weerheym, a former Australian Nationalist Movement recruit who now goes by the name of Benedict Williams, faced Albany Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, where he pleaded guilty to gains benefited by fraud and driving with no driver’s licence.
Williams, who had attempted to obtain a driver’s licence under his current name, received a 120-hour community-based order and a nine-month accumulated suspension of his driver’s licence.
From Crikey.com.au
Notorious anti-Asian hate movement bites the dust
Australian Nationalist Movement: 1984 - 2007Anti-hate campaigner Cam Smith writes:
A particularly putrid boil on the pockmarked arse of Australian politics was lanced last week when the West Australian District Court sentenced John van Blitterswyck, a prominent member of the Australian Nationalist Movement to two years’ jail for his part in a conspiracy to firebomb a number of Chinese restaurants. He was the final person to be convicted over the plot.
From The Age:
Racist jailed for ’stunt bomb plot’
May 24, 2007White supremacist Jack van Tongeren’s right hand man was labelled “un-Australian” as he was jailed for more than two years for plotting to bomb four Chinese restaurants in Perth as a publicity stunt.
John Van Blitterswyk, 56, was sentenced in the West Australian District Court for conspiring with three other men, including van Tongeren, to bomb the restaurants in 2004.
From the West Oz:
Racist conviction reveals plot
Ryan PedlerThe man who helped Australian Nationalist Movement leader Jack van Tongeren wage a racist terror campaign in the late 1980s was yesterday found guilty of teaming up with him again in 2004 to plot the firebombing of four Chinese restaurants.
A District Court jury deliberated for six hours after a one-week trial before convicting John Anthony Van Blitterswyk. He could be sentenced as soon as this morning.
The end of Van Blitterswyk ’s trial meant suppression orders on reporting van Tongeren’s case were lifted, allowing The West Australian to reveal that he made a dramatic confession to ordering the firebombings and was sentenced to time he had already spent in custody on the condition that he leave WA.
From the West Oz:
Van Tongeren’s right hand man found guilty
23rd May 2007, 16:15 WSTA member of the ultra right-wing Australian Nationalist Movement has been found guilty of conspiring to firebomb Asian restaurants in Perth.
John Van Blitterswyk has been on trial for more than two weeks in the West Australian District Court where he pleaded not guilty to plotting to firebomb four Chinese restaurants in Perth in 2004 in conspiracy with the leader of the ANM, Jack van Tongeren.
Van Blitterswyk will be sentenced tomorrow.
From the West Oz:
Man admits racist graffiti role
Ryan PedlerA second member of racist group the White Devils yesterday admitted his involvement in a graffiti campaign across Perth three years ago.
Benjamin Weerheym told a District Court jury that he and several other men met Australian Nationalist Movement leader Jack van Tongeren and his deputy John Anthony Van Blitterswyk to discuss the campaign in June 2004.
From the West Oz:
Racist tells of bomb request
Ryan PedlerA young, self-confessed racist said yesterday he accepted a request from two leaders of the Australian Nationalist Movement to take part in a plan to firebomb Chinese restaurants in Perth but claimed he later backed out.
Ian “Monty” Johnson, now in his late 20s, told a District Court jury that Jack van Tongeren and John Anthony Van Blitterswyk asked him during a meeting at a Perry Lakes carpark in 2004 to firebomb four Chinese restaurants using Molotov cocktails.
From the West Oz:
I was stupid to agree to bomb plot: witness
David DarraghA former Australian Nationalist Movement member testified yesterday that he had been stupid when he enthusiastically agreed to firebomb four Chinese restaurants and took part in an “orgy” of racist graffiti in Perth in 2004.
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