Posters calling for the execution of gay people appear around Sydney
Image: Photo: Antipodean Resistance.
Posters calling for the execution of gay and Jewish people have appeared around Sydney, and police are reportedly powerless to do anything about the Nazi group responsible.
The posters, produced by the group Antipodean Resistance, bear images of killing gay and Jewish people, and slogans including “legalise the execution of Jews” and “get the sodomite filth off the street”.
In an interview on Radio 2GB, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadef said action is needed to stop the hate speech—and that inadequate laws against vilification mean police are powerless to stop the posters going up.
“It’s disgraceful, it’s horrific, it’s unacceptable that anybody in this country in 2018 can publically call for violence, death, murder against any group of fellow Australians,” said Alhadef.
“The law in New South Wales effectively says, go for your life. Let’s wait until something happens before we take action.
“The police cannot have their hands tied in that way.”
Alhadef said community group Keep NSW Safe has made a submission to the New South Wales government to get the law changed, making such hate speech illegal without the existing requirement for violent crime to directly follow.
Dr Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, said the posters are part of a growing trend of homophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda appearing around Australia.
“Clearly, Antipodean Resistance has declared ‘open season’ on Jews and gays and is increasingly growing radical and brazen,” said Dr Abramovich.
“These posters are part of a disturbing and dangerous surge in virulent hatred, and we should not wait until this abhorrent incitement and dehumanisation escalates into violence.
“It is no wonder that the primary targets of this extremist rhetoric are feeling fearful, vulnerable, and unprotected by the law.
“This pressing issue demands priority attention because of the threat it poses to the fabric of our society and to the safety of our citizens, and we all have a stake in countering this virulent bigotry through effective legislation before it explodes into physical injury or worse.”
The Nazi group’s hate posters have also appeared in other cities, including Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart in recent months.
New South Wales Police have been contacted for comment.
I suggest anyone who is Jewish and/or Gay and has seen one of these posters takes a photo and files a vilification complaint with the NSW anti discrimination board. http://www.antidiscrimination.justice.nsw.gov.au/Pages/adb1_antidiscriminationlaw/adb1_vilification.aspx This page explains that posters are included.
free speech,
remember the biggest group of hate speach are the same that want to censor everyone else- the- RELIGIOUS
Below is a legislation that could be put into action regarding this issue.
It’s the Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Act 2012 No 9
https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/act/2012/9/full
5 Commissioner may apply for declaration
(1) The Commissioner may apply to the Court for a declaration that a particular organisation (the respondent) is a criminal organisation for the purposes of this Act.
Or
7 Court may make a declaration
(1) The Court may make a declaration that the respondent is a criminal organisation for the purposes of this Act if the Court is satisfied that:
(iv) information suggesting members of an interstate or overseas chapter or branch of the organisation associate for the purpose of organising, planning, facilitating, supporting or engaging in serious criminal activity,
Supporting murder and mass executions is certainly grounds for making a declaration that the respondent is a criminal organisation.
They fear anything that is different to them…diversity gets under their skin…heartless humans…
It is not just the NSW government that needs to do something about fascist hate in Australia. It is the job of the federal government and they need to be pressured by all groups in Australia to stop this creeping hate sort of organisation in its tracks before many of us start getting hurt or worse, such as being killed.
I grew up in South Africa, a police state and apartheid state and many groups assisted in hate crimes which the government was mainly guilty of.
It is time the Australian government and opposition did something to outlaw such activities and organisations.
Australian politicians are great on human rights selectively, so when it suits them they respond, and when they want groups like gay communities and other minority groups to be attacked they completely forget about human rights.
Legislation has to be brought in federally and it has to be brought in now before the situation becomes totally uncontrollable.
Of course, the Rainbow Community’s got Mr ‘Lace-Parachute’ Turnbull to ‘thank’ for his cowardly acceptance of the right-wing’s ‘postal-vote’, which allowed such hatred to fester and get worse through the ‘respectful’ public debate he ‘promoted’ would happen; indirectly giving cowardly rednecks, like these – who hide behind stupid-looking skull-heads, the Ok to be venomous and threatening to us and any other group they feel threatened by.
Rip them down wherever you see them. Let these dirtbags keep paying to make them & we’ll just keep pulling them down.