"White Pride" March a Failure? Not According to Boneheads

Hey, we call them boneheads for a reason.

The "Calgary Sun" published the following article:

Racists rally

By Nadia Moharib, Calgary Sun

Last Updated: March 19, 2011 11:09pm

Calgary police, out in full force in the downtown, kept sparring white-pride supporters and anti-racists a safe distance apart for several hours Saturday.

Given about 200 anti-racists and 16 white-pride supporters — with a shared history of confrontations — chose to hold simultaneous rallies, dozens of police stood guard between the two and kept the factions a block apart.

Edmonton Bonehead Case Delayed Two Weeks

These four had been promoting the march that occurred on Saturday and would likely have attended had they not been otherwise, well, busy.

And while we are happy that these men are facing the consequences of their actions, we do find ourselves saddened by this brief article as well:

Annual neo-Nazi march in Calgary fizzles

So it has been universally determined by most thinking people that the bonehead march today was a complete failure. Here we have an account published by, "The Globe & Mail" a little while ago:

Annual neo-Nazi march in Calgary fizzles 
Canadian Press and Globe Staff
Calgary— Globe and Mail Update
Published Saturday, Mar. 19, 2011 4:50PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Mar. 19, 2011 5:48PM EDT

With the movement's foremost figure in prison for the second year in a row, an annual neo-Nazi march in Calgary has flopped. 

There was plenty of anger but no violent confrontation after police kept neo-Nazi and anti-racist groups apart at parallel rallies in downtown Calgary Saturday. 

About 200 members of Anti-Racist Action Calgary gathered at Calgary city hall after word that the neo-Nazi group, Blood of Honour, was planning a march. 

But the 16 members of Blood of Honour, chanting “White Pride Worldwide” found their paths blocked by Calgary Police officers, including riot squad members, who cordoned off several streets in the downtown. 

"The anti-racists succeeded."

One of the first msm accounts of the bonehead march and counter rally:

Two arrested during white pride rally, counter demonstration

By Jen Gerson, Calgary Herald March 19, 2011 3:01 PM

At least two protesters were believed to have been arrested during a white power rally, and anti-racism counter demonstration held downtown on Saturday morning.

First Account of the Rally and More Pictures.

 

We received this report of the march from one of our longtime readers. Suffice it to say that the boneheads seemed a little bit deflated by the turnout:

Very Well Written and Researched "Globe" Story on Calgary WN Movement

Normally we would post the whole article, however it is quite extensive and detailed so we invite our readers to go directly to the source:

Calgary’s in-your-face neo-Nazis take to the streets

Full disclosure. ARC was in contact with Mr. Wingrove and provided some background information about the Movement in Calgary. We hope that we were at least a little bit helpful, but even if we weren't it is evident that Mr. Wingrove was able to provide the general public a great deal of insight into the racist movement in Calgary. Perhaps the one quibble we have with the article is with the labelling of some of the pictures. Two of the photos in the story seem to identify the subjects as Aryan Guard supporters, however they are in fact members of W.E.B. This however is pretty minor and doesn't take away from the article itself.

The article was timed to come out during the morning of the march on Saturday, which we guess is today (damn insomnia).

We have also included a link to the article in our selected bibliography on the left side of the blog.

March on Saturday

So, will the boasts of the boneheads turn out to be true that this will be their biggest showing in Calgary yet, or will it, as we suspect, be a dud?

Not entirely sure.

No matter how it turns out though, we ask our dear readers who attend the counter rally send us their pictures and accounts of how things go down. We also ask our readers who may wish to show their solidarity with the anti-racists to head to City Hall downtown to attend their rally.

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known.

McKee Pleads Guilty: Sentenced to 27 Days

Oh, don't think for a moment that we forgot about Kyle McKee's hearing today.

Today, Kyle McKee plead guilty to charges of uttering threats which were directed at Jason Devine. As a result, McKee was given 60 days. As he has already been in custody for 33 days, he will spend another 27 days in a place where he will be unable to harm anyone.

And yes, we are disappointed that it wasn't longer.

Still, there were a few other interesting things we learned today during the hearing. We had received word last night that Lee Ebel had been released sometime yesterday and we passed that information to our friends in Calgary. According to Devine, who wrote about the hearing today, Lee Ebel was present in the court house and attended the hearing.

More Trouble For Boneheads Planning on Attending Calgary Rally

We suspect we know who this is (meaning, we know exactly who this person is), but as he is a minor we won't publish his name.

Military investigates racist claims by teen who plans to attend Calgary white pride rally

By Jamie Komarnicki and Jason van Rassel,
Calgary Herald March 17, 2011

As Calgary police gear up to monitor a white pride rally on Saturday, a Winnipeg-based teenage Canadian Forces member who’s apparently intending to attend the event is being investigated by the military over “serious allegations of racist activity.”

Capt. Karina Holder of the Canadian Forces Military Police said a probe was launched after the allegations came to light this week.

The 17-year-old reservist’s name isn’t being released, but Holder said he’s a “recent entry” to the Canadian Forces.

The Black Book? Who the Hell Are the Black Book?

First, we've been made aware that someone with the initials "K.S." is interested in contacting us. We are open to a discussion so we ask that you leave your email in the comments and we will be in touch with you (we prefer not to talk by phone).

That said, we were mildly amused when we read one of the latest articles, albeit a brief one, concerning the events planned for this Saturday:

W.E.B. Claims They Will Not Attend March 19 Rally

We aren't usually in the business of acting as a press release for bonehead gangs, and we really think our readers need to be skeptical about this for a variety of reasons, but we figured we would post this message which purports to be from Robert Reitmeier since it concerns W.E.B.'s participation in the bonehead rally on March 19.

W.E.B. Will not be attending any planned C-18/ATB event in Calgary this year. reasons are our own. Take from this what you like. From past experiences it has proven the media likes to use our pictures/videos in these events while labeling our members/associates under false names and incorrect affiliations.

-Rob

We take this with a grain of salt (for instance, it might not even be Reitmeier who wrote this message), though given the antipathy W.E.B. has towards any group in which Kyle McKee is a member, it shouldn't be unexpected that they would decide not to participate.

To March Or Not to March?

First more on the bonehead arrest front. Most of our readers who are well versed in their knowledge of the Canadian WP movement will recognize the name Jordan Hamelin. Since he was a minor for much of the existence of this blog we haven't specifically mentioned him by name, however he has been a player of sorts for some time..... and our longtime readers know exactly what we are talking about so we'll leave it at that.

We received a report today claiming that Hamelin has been jailed due to parole violations. So far we haven't received a secondary source to verify the accuracy of this report, but the source that provided us the information has been pretty reliable so we thought we would go with it. Hamelin and other Hamilton-area boneheads had stated they planned on attending the March 19 WP rally in Calgary this coming Saturday, so we don't know if this has changed any of their plans.

Of course it begs the question, will there be a march at all? As John Marleau pointed out on Stormfront, the Aryan Guard/Blood & Honour/Combat 18/ATB/MENSA/Friar's Club has been left devoid of experienced organizers as a result of some recent arrests:

Bernie Miller Tries to Shut Down ARC Blog

First, thanks to John Marleau. Without you leaving the comment, we wouldn't have been able to read Bernie's status update.

Looks like Bernie Miller (who goes by the pseudonym "14aryan88" online) is a bit troubled by being outed:

Let's take down the ARC blog!

Here's the link to report them [provides link], pick the report as "Posting personal information" and fill out the short form and send it in to Google! I am sending about 10 reports a day and I have a few others sending around the same!

Miller then goes on to provide a website to complain to Blogger about us.

Marleau later comments, "I just filled it out" which allowed us to read the update.

Gee. We thought you guys believed in freedom of speech.

Poor Bernie here doesn't realize that he's engaged in an exercise in futility. If he were to read the requirements for a complaint, he might find the following:

Another Blood & Honour Member, This Time in Calgary, In Custody?

Continuing the theme of the last few weeks, we've learned that another bonehead, this time in Calgary, may currently be in custody:

Wow. Nice Job Todd Babiak. More on Edmonton Bonehead Assault Case.

We were sent a link on Facebook that posted a screenshot of a recent "Edmonton Journal" article regarding the alleged hate crime that occurred in Edmonton last month:


After a brief search, we found the article in question online. Suffice it to say Mr. Babiak does a fantastic job exposing the bankrupt views of these people:

Hate-crime incidents unlikely to build neo-Nazi popularityRacist philosophy can't do any better than remain on fringe 

By Todd Babiak, Edmonton Journal March 12, 2011 EDMONTON - This week, the Edmonton police hate crimes unit charged four men with assault and other offences. 

The men were distributing flyers for a white nationalist organization called Blood and Honour, which will hold a rally in Calgary later this month. 

 One of the accused, Keith Virgil Decu, claims to be a druid on a metaphysical chat group and lists German neo-pagan spirituality and cooking as interests and activities on his Facebook page. Another of the accused, James Brooks, is an artist. On his Facebook page he claims the charges stem from a "horrible night" of "drunken stupidity."  

Brooks, when we spoke on the phone this week said he was "a well-established artist." 

His tone was exceedingly formal. 

"I guess I'm someone you'd call a revolutionary, visionary artist. I like to push the boundaries. But my art has nothing to do with what happened that night." 

Brooks plays the lead role in a forthcoming low-budget film, Blue Eyed Devil, directed by Edson-based filmmaker kelvin Zawadiuk, about a violent neo-Nazi. 

"James is a really intelligent guy, really charismatic," Zawadiuk said. "He has a real screen presence and he was perfect for this, a skinhead character. It's an ode to the 1970s and 1980s exploitation movies, a character study, a man descending into madness. It's just meant to terrify you." 

Travis Watzenberg, from Blood and Honour, confirmed that Brooks and the other accused aren't members of his organization.  

"We're the figureheads and speakers of the movement," he wrote, in an e-mail, "the intellectual types if you will. Blood and Honour is more of a philosophical group. I don't think these guys were deliberately trying to make us look bad but they've succeeded in doing so." 

There is an online photograph of another of the accused, Jason Anderson, posing with a punching bag, a Nazi flag and two pitbulls, but other than that it sounds like those involved with white power would be more comfortable in a chandelier-lit salon, sipping Liebfraumilch, watching kinky art films and reading quotations from Mein Kampf than punching people outside nightclubs. 

Some historians find the roots of German nationalism during the Renaissance, when the dominant Italians mocked them for their lack of sophistication. Its eventual peak, as Nazism, was also a reaction to feelings of humiliation and inferiority after the First World War. Hitler was a frustrated artist, a romantic idealist, a loser with a desperate desire to win. 

Leaders of contemporary white nationalism have borrowed from Hitler's reading list -misreadings of Arthur de Gobineau, Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler -and they've expanded it to include their own versions of decline: immigration, multiculturalism, pluralism, demographic trends and race-mixing. These men are, like their spiritual leader, unhappy and underemployed, the authors of absurd, self-pitying terms like "reverse racism." 

The fact is, if you're a healthy white man and you can't succeed in Alberta, in 2011, there's only one person to blame. 

In Canada, we protect everyone's right to sit in salons and philosophize, to publish books and make movies about the superiority of the poor, picked-on white race. The philosophy will be as weak, as limiting and destructive as it ever was, as it is for all racial nationalists -white, black, Asian, aboriginal or Arab -for religious or even ideological purity. 

When hate remains in the realm of free expression, we're all better off for it. No one is going to rid the world of these ideas. They belong in the marketplace. The trouble is, no matter how inconvenient it may be for the classy intellectual neo-Nazis, it's an inherently violent philosophy. From time to time, young men with trouble finding girlfriends or jobs or hot cars are bound to start believing the speeches. 

"We do strongly advocate for freedom of speech," said Const. Ken Smith of the Edmonton police hate crimes unit. "We have no trouble with people having white nationalist views."
Despite the four men charged with hate crimes this week, Smith does not sound worried. 

"These guys clearly see this is not a popular societal opinion," he said. "It's a unique issue. You don't see one person, not one, standing up and saying, 'I know why he did that.' No one's with them." 

The revulsion we feel at seeing a swastika is more powerful than any arguments a white supremacist can make at a rally. Zawadiuk is on to something: we are terrified, and bewildered. It remains important for us to express, freely and respectfully, that we do have trouble with white nationalist views. 

tbabiak@edmontonjournal.com

While we really enjoyed his article (which seems to use some of what ARC had written as source material, at least in part), Bernie Miller (who is using the pseudonym "Travis Watzenberg" below) appears somewhat troubled by it:


Well, at least we enjoyed reading it.

Sieg Fail. Again.

We had heard rumblings of a rally organized by boneheads aligned to Combat 18 which was to take place today in London, Ontario. There were claims that upwards of 50 members of the violent bonehead gang would show up, a number that was repeated yesterday in the "London Free Press":

Neo-Nazi group plans local protest
Police: Councillor upset

By Joe Belanger The London Free Press
Last Updated: March 11, 2011 9:38pm

Police and city officials are bracing for a protest Saturday by a “violent, neo-Nazi” group outside city hall.

The Free Press has learned upwards of 50 members of the so-called Combat 18 will gather at 1 p.m. Saturday, but it’s unclear of its focus.

Bonehead Admits Assault; Claim Self-defence

Well it looks like "14aryan88"has admitted that the incident involving four Edmonton boneheads assaulting bystanders unprovoked did in fact occur, despite claims by Brooks to the contrary. Except that he's saying that none of them have anything to do with Blood & Honour. And that they were attacked first and are the real victims:


Sorry if this rings just a little bit hollow to us. For example, where did said shovel come from? When we hit the town bar hopping, as a general rule we don't take garden tools with us.

It's at this point that we figure we should introduce our readers to "14aryan88" formerly of the White Nationalist Legion, but which was absorbed by Calgary's Blood & Honour movement:

Brooks Proclaims Innocence and More on Anderson

Guilty by association is always the case. A horrible night in which I am now deemed something that I am not by a night of drunken stupidity by me and some newly acquainted individuals, of whom I decided to partake in drink with. Then we have the twisted facts and over embellished stories by the media and others there due to what was said.

So says James Brooks, one of the four men accused of being involved in what has been described as a hate crime on February 12. Brooks evidently posted this on his Facebook profile yesterday and a mutual friend sent it to us.

Apparently it was all a big misunderstanding. Brooks was never a member of Blood & Honour. In fact, he barely knew any of the other three who were involved in the crime.

More on that later.

In the meantime, shall we introduce our readers to one of the other accused in the crime? Yes, I do believe we shall:

Accused Named In Suspected Edmonton Hate Crime: James Brooks One of the Accused

Not to long ago, we learned that the White Nationalist Legion, which seemed little more than an Internet group, had folded itself into the larger Blood & Honour movement as represented by the former Aryan Guard in Calgary. We knew a few of the names of the people involved, including Bernie Miller, Kosak, and James Brooks. And now, due to their gross stupidity, we suspect we now know a few more names now:

Crimes motivated by hate, police say

CBC News Posted: Mar 8, 2011 1:55 PM MT

The hate crimes unit of Edmonton Police has laid numerous charges against four men who allegedly assaulted two men and a woman and made hateful comments against lesbian or gay and non-white people on Whyte Avenue last month.

March 2011 Bits and Bites: The "Where Are They Now?" Edition

As we continue to creep up on March 19 when the planned bonehead rally may or may not occur (what, with McKee in jail and all) we thought we would take a moment to look back at one bonehead who had fallen off our radar for a while and another who we wish would fall into a hole.

That latter person is Richard Martin. Big, dumb, and ugly has managed to find his way to Calgary and is presumably living with his life partner Andrew Benson. That is until he inevitably screws up and ends up back behind bars himself.