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The rise of the far right in Australia
ABC (Australia) ^ | 19 Sep 2016 | Ange McCormack, Sarah McVeigh

Posted on 09/19/2016 10:51:06 PM PDT by aquila48

In early April last year, 23-year-old Thomas Sewell headed along to a Reclaim Australia rally in Melbourne. It was one of 16 rallies attended by thousands of people across the country.

Thomas wasn’t draped in an Australian flag or covering his mouth with a mask; he wasn’t wielding placards; he didn’t look like the guys who were splashed across newspapers the next day.

“I was just curious as to what was going on,” Thomas told Hack.

“I rocked up with nice clothes, not looking for a punch-on. To hear people speak. All I wanted to do was hear people speak.

“It’s the first time I’d heard of a public demonstration in this country, calling for the government to look at its immigration policy in regards to Islamic migration.”

Thomas approached a group of protesters, not knowing they weren’t on his “side”.

They told me to ‘go f*** myself, Nazi’.”

“I was very naive of the situation, I was unaware there was any form of counter-protest.”

Today, Thomas isn’t naive to of the swell of counter-protesters who clashed with Reclaim Australia that day. He now calls them ‘Communists’, ‘Trotskyites’, ‘Fabian socialists’, ‘cultural Marxists’, ‘lefties’, or, sometimes, just ‘thugs’.

Today, now on the leadership team of the United Patriots Front (UPF), a group that formed off the back of Reclaim Australia, Thomas calls himself a Patriot.


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1 posted on 09/19/2016 10:51:06 PM PDT by aquila48
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Anything other than ball-less, politically correct, dumb-f*ck globalism is considered by the FAR LEFT media to be “far right”.


3 posted on 09/19/2016 10:55:40 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Fred Nerks

FYI....


4 posted on 09/19/2016 10:56:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: aquila48

Those who call others far right are usually far left people


5 posted on 09/19/2016 10:59:44 PM PDT by 4rcane
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Those who call others far right are usually far left people

Yep, one of those instant identifiers, as a matter of fact.

6 posted on 09/19/2016 11:02:15 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

Far right=works, pays bills, takes care of family, stands for the national anthem at sporting events, that sort of fringe behavior.


7 posted on 09/19/2016 11:07:22 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: aquila48

I don’t think Australia has been as bad as other nations with regard to Islamic immigrants. I might be wrong, just now aware of it.

At any rate, people aren’t idiots. Their leaders have bought into a strange alliance that will destroy Western civilization.

Citizens are getting very angry over it. They simply will not put up with this.


8 posted on 09/19/2016 11:19:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Forty-nine days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: aquila48

They’re going to be sorry they let “their” government disarm them.


9 posted on 09/19/2016 11:23:28 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: dp0622

Nope, since the media doesn’t want to label itself as being precisely that.


10 posted on 09/19/2016 11:24:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: naturalman1975

What’s your take on this ?


11 posted on 09/19/2016 11:24:50 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: aquila48

Always labeled the “far” right and never labeled the “far” left.

The left to these twits is always the righteous no matter what evil they’re up to.


12 posted on 09/19/2016 11:37:12 PM PDT by Bullish (I'm on a mission to make Hillary Clinton feel DEPLORABLE on Nov 8th.)
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To: dp0622

You stole my thunder on that one.


13 posted on 09/19/2016 11:37:56 PM PDT by Bullish (I'm on a mission to make Hillary Clinton feel DEPLORABLE on Nov 8th.)
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To: aquila48

They need Steve Lee {I like guns}.


14 posted on 09/19/2016 11:42:47 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: little jeremiah
OMG! LOOK AT ALL THOSE FAR RIGHT EXREMISTS!


15 posted on 09/19/2016 11:48:57 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum)
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To: Bullish

Happens to me all the time :)

If you try and read the whole article, you’ll NEVER be first with a good comment, I’ve learned.

Kinda funny.


16 posted on 09/19/2016 11:58:27 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: aquila48

http://snpy.tv/2cDMUqy Oauline Hanson full speech. She is the Aussie Trump. All the libs leave the chamber when she speaks truth about radical Islam and sharia.


17 posted on 09/20/2016 12:11:30 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: aquila48

Progressive infest everything. Especially language. Now, anyone who doesn’t support the wholesale submission of their nation to savage Muslims is “right wing” extremist nazis. etc. etc...

This gives me an idea for a new argument. Next time any of those progressive idiots call “us” racists and xenophobes I will ask why they hate Native Americans so much.


18 posted on 09/20/2016 12:11:35 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: antceecee

Sorry misspelled Pauline


19 posted on 09/20/2016 12:12:41 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: aquila48

The ABC is a menagarie of leftists. Every single one of its up front staff live in the so called leafy inner suburbs of every State capital city and the ACT where the federal government is. They all engage in group think. They sip their wine and eat their organic veges and opine relentlessly about how racist the rest of us Aussies are. They are all for this and that. Just as long as the that doesnt end up living next to them. They bemoan and wax lyrical about the plight of the nobel savage. But buggered if they would ever put up with a bunch aboriginals in their neighbourhood drinking plonk and crapping in the street. They sicken me. Pompous self righteous imbeciles who fancy to a man that they are intellectuals. but most wouldnt know karl marx from Groucho Marx.


20 posted on 09/20/2016 12:14:33 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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