[mobglob-discuss] Towards freedom: The G8 and beyond

[martin william fournier]

hey mac this is Martin F. from Douglas. The title of the email says Towards 
Freedom, etc. I thought you were gonna give a criticism of my piece. Who 
cares about AGAN? They're a boof of white supremacist goofs and not really a 
threat. Anyhow drop me a line on my piece if you'd like.

CU
Martin F.
--In times of crisis rhetoric is absurd and action is wise-- Martin Fournier


>From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at tao.ca>
>Reply-To: mobglob-discuss at resist.ca
>To: mobglob-discuss at resist.ca
>Subject: Re: [mobglob-discuss] Towards freedom: The G8 and beyond
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:37:29 -0700
>
>Actually David: It appears worse than that, simple lunatics that is. Check 
>this
>out (thanks to NEFAC for the mail)
>This is the Neo-Nazi, wanna be militia group the National Alliance.
>
>AGAN is their puppet front group. Further down this turgid (and 
>eye-opening)
>rant, they discuss exactly what happened at the fence and descibe their
>participation.
>
>As a friend recently put it well, if our movement wasn't in a near-crisis 
>and at
>a major turning point, this wouldn't matter. However, despite those who 
>think
>"we won" or whatever, with our movement in decline and on the defensive,
>shitbags like this will try to be the leadership vacuum our increasingly
>disoriented movement seems to have.
>We need to have a larger policy on this, for all activities in Vancouver 
>and
>elsewhere. We also need to re-examine what our own orientation is vis-a-vis
>allowing oppressive views (racist, sexist, etc) within our organising.
>
>This is important and not to be taken lightly. I've only met one skinhead 
>on a
>personal level in my life: He went to my college, tried to recruit people 
>there
>and then gave up and went off and joined in the curb stomping murder of a 
>Sikh
>Caretaker.
>
>Macdonald
>---
>Beyond Left and Right
>by NA Canada . Monday July 08, 2002 at 08:47 PM
>
>A report on recent National Alliance activity, including its presence at
>the G8 demonstrations.
>
>Beyond Left and Right
>
>"One of the difficulties people have in trying to understand us, is that
>they can't figure out quite how to categorize us. They are accustomed to
>putting everything they encounter in life into little mental pigeon holes
>labelled right-wing, left-wing, communist, racist, and so on, and once
>they have done that, they think that they understand the thing. Now, the
>trouble is, that we don't quite fit any of the customary pigeon holes, and
>that is because the doctrine of the National Alliance, the truth for which
>we stand, is not just a rehash of old and familiar ideas, but is really
>something new for our people. Perhaps, the best way to approach an
>understanding of the National Alliance is to start by getting rid of some
>of the most troublesome pigeon holes all-together. That is, by pointing
>out what we are not. We are not, as many people tend to assume at first,
>either a conservative or a right-wing group, and I am not just trying to
>be cute when I say that. I am not just trying to emphasis that we are a
>special right-wing group, or a better right-wing group. In fact, our truth
>has very little in common with most right-wing creeds."
>
>These words were spoken by Dr. William Pierce in 1976. Over twenty-five
>years later, many people are still suffering from misconceptions about
>what the National Alliance is, and what we are trying to achieve. The
>'mental pigeon holes,' labelled right-wing and left-wing, are just as
>confining in 2002 as they were in 1976.
>
>It is undeniable, that most National Alliance policies would traditionally
>be labelled right-wing, just as it is undeniable that other aspects of our
>worldview would traditionally be labelled left-wing. What brings life to
>the National Alliance is not an allegiance to a particular end of the
>ideological spectrum, but our all-encompassing allegiance to race and
>revolution.
>
>Others have recognized the importance of charting a new path, and
>disassociating themselves from both stagnant conservatism and rootless
>liberalism. Britain's intrepid Oswald Mosley stressed that National
>Socialism, "combines the dynamic urge to change and progress
>[traditionally associated with the left-wing] with the authority, the
>discipline and the order [traditionally associated with the right-wing]
>without which anything great cannot be achieved" Spanish philosopher and
>revolutionary Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera expressed largely the same
>sentiment when he stated, "All revolutions have hitherto been incomplete,
>in that none of them have served both the idea of the Nation and the idea
>of Social Justice at once. We combine those two things: the Nation and
>Social Justice, and upon those two unshakable principles we are
>categorically resolved to make our revolution."
>
>The National Alliance in Canada has participated in two recruiting
>campaigns during the first half of 2002, and a preliminary discussion of
>the National Alliance's rejection, of both the traditional right and
>traditional left, serves as a useful introduction to these campaigns.
>
>Trouble in Harper Land
>
>As reported in the Calgary Sun and lampooned in Frank magazine, the
>National Alliance was embroiled in a controversy earlier this year,
>surrounding both the alleged support of the 'Stephen Harper Leadership
>Campaign' by National Alliance members, and the participation of National
>Alliance members and supporters at a Canadian Alliance convention held
>later in Edmonton.
>
>Under pressure from the media, Stephen Harper quickly condemned the
>National Alliance, and personally called for a purge of racists from his
>party, even as National Alliance activists were rubbing shoulders with
>delegates and distributing literature on the floor of their annual
>convention.
>
>While there is potential to radicalize some conservatives, and bring them
>into the fold, it is a mistake to believe that since conservatives share
>a number of our concerns, that they can be more easily recruited, or will
>make better members, than someone coming from the traditional left.
>
>While conservatives look back fondly on a less-complicated and cleaner
>(both physically and spiritually) world, and often understand the racial
>dimension to society's problems, they seem incapable of making the leap
>from reformer to revolutionary. Conservatives tend to react, when
>something unsettles their immediate surroundings, but have a hard time
>proactively looking beyond their immediate surroundings to see the bigger
>picture. Revolutions are unsettling affairs, and convincing a conservative
>to risk his personal status and comfort, for the future collective
>security and health of society is a challenge.
>
>Efforts to recruit conservatives from within the Canadian Alliance may not
>surprise many, but the active participation of National Alliance members
>and supporters in recent demonstrations against the G8 Summit, might catch
>others off-guard.
>
>Welcome to the Police State
>
>Following violent demonstrations in Seattle, Quebec City, and Genoa, the
>establishment spared little expense in discouraging dissent and showing
>force in Alberta. Hospitals may be running out of beds and factories
>closing their doors, but the Canadian government still found 300 million
>dollars of tax-payer's money to spend on security measures.
>
>An overwhelming police presence in downtown Calgary, and a belligerent
>municipal government, helped to create a climate of intimidation. Marketed
>as the largest domestic security operation in post-war Canada, police
>officers from as far away as Ontario patrolled virtual 'no-go' zones in
>the city, as helicopters, jet fighters, and armoured personnel carriers
>turned once-pristine Kananaskis into an armed camp.
>
>Despite the over-reaction of the establishment, and the
>smaller-than-expected crowds that it produced, the National Alliance did
>enjoy some success in reaching out to established anti-globalists. One
>group rashly announced its cooperation with the National Alliance as part
>of a publicity campaign, only to be denounced as racists themselves in a
>classic case of 'guilt by association.' The ensuing mix of paranoia and
>sloppy research led to an amusing string of allegations and conspiracy
>theories on websites as far away as Norway.
>
>Some of the resulting fall-out was encouraging. One self-described
>anarchist had this to say, upon listening to an American Dissident Voices
>broadcast, "I scared myself listening to those broadcasts. I had prepared
>myself for some pretty blatant racism, what I hadn't prepared myself for
>was finding myself agreeing with some of what they said."
>
>The march, the trampoline and George Bush
>
>Billed as being one of the more radical demonstrations, the 'Show-down at
>the Hoe-down,' was organized in opposition to corporate Calgary's official
>welcome for G8 functionaries and media hacks. While National Alliance
>members participated in a number of activities during the summit, the
>'Show-down at the Hoe-down' is illustrative of how the week unfolded.
>
>By the time I arrived, a crowd of several hundred, which would later swell
>to two thousand, had gathered around the cenotaph at Memorial Park. After
>listening to a couple of weak speeches plagued by acoustic problems, and
>locating my comrades, the march got underway.
>
>Without a permit to hold a rally or to march on city streets, two thousand
>people blocked-off traffic and began to walk towards Macleod Trail in
>defiance. Unmolested by the swarms of police officers who surrounded the
>march on mountain bikes, the crowd blocked off one of Calgary's busiest
>arteries for hours and held a comical street party.
>
>Stereo speakers blasted music, people danced or sang, and a trampoline
>appeared out of nowhere in the centre of the street, which earlier that
>morning had been clogged with commuters. Others wrote political messages
>or drew outlines of themselves in chalk on the pavement. The event reached
>its surreal height, as egged on by the crowd, a figure in a George Bush
>mask performed on the trampoline and posed for photos with protesters.
>
>Not satisfied with a street party, part of the demonstration later broke
>away from the party and continued marching, towards the Stampede Roundup
>Centre, ostensible location of the corporate function. As the motley crowd
>moved towards a possible confrontation with the police, many people began
>to join in chanting, "This is what democracy looks like!" I looked around
>me at the disorganized mob, without leaders, without direction, and agreed
>whole-heartedly. "This is what democracy looks like!" Smiling at the irony
>of the situation, National Alliance members added their voice to the
>crowd, as several of the more militant demonstrators began to work their
>way towards the metal fence, which separated the crowd from the police.
>"This is what democracy looks like!" As the fence began to sway, however,
>the chanting was quickly replaced by shrill calls for the militants to
>back away from the fence, lest a night of trampolining and dancing be
>tainted by direct action. "We need to vote," screamed one protester. "Yes,
>a show of hands," another desperately agreed. Others, upset at the crowd's
>timidity, tried to shout down those wanting to hide behind a last-minute
>vote. In the end, the impression given to the media, and to the police,
>was one of weakness and disorganization. This is precisely what democracy
>looks like.
>
>I was not the only one who found the lack of order bewildering. I was
>encouraged to see other people in the crowd casting frustrated glances,
>first in one direction and then in the other, as if looking for someone to
>explain to them what was going on and why no one was in control. I engaged
>one clearly dismayed protester in a conversation, which immediately turned
>to the chaos around us. "Unless something radical changes, then this will
>be the last demonstration I'll attend," he confided. "When are these
>people going to realize," he continued, "that leadership and discipline
>aren't things to fight against, but things to embrace?"
>
>Keeping the door open
>
>Many anti-globalists may never support the National Alliance, and a
>minority within the anti-globalist movement would not be welcomed into our
>ranks even if they were so inclined. These 'un-salvageables' include the
>radical homosexuals, drunks, native-fetishists, and mental deficients,
>that helped to alienate mainstream society from the demonstrations. In
>reality, the demonstrations included countless real people, with real
>concerns about globalism, the environment, and corporate greed. These
>people have been abandoned, both by the political mainstream, and by the
>radical left, which has failed to provide them with a realistic worldview
>or long-term direction.
>
>The National Alliance must be prepared to fill this political void, by
>providing dissatisfied anti-globalists with a real revolutionary
>alternative. Not only must the National Alliance continue to speak out
>against globalism, and attempt to make further inroads into the
>anti-globalist movement, but we must do a better job of marketing
>ourselves to those within the anti-globalist camp who may be receptive to
>our message.
>
>There are particular challenges to recruiting from the traditional left,
>which must first be understood and then overcome. Unlike conservatives,
>who often accept the importance of race, yet not of revolution, much of
>the left has abandoned any hope of reforming the system, yet does not
>understand the importance of race. The challenge is to convince people
>from the traditional left that race, rather than class or gender, is the
>key component of the struggle.
>
>The National Alliance in Canada accepts the challenge of recruiting from
>both ends of the political spectrum, and looks forward to the next
>opportunity to do so.
>
>
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