Members of the far right neo-Nazi group that descended on a Victorian beauty spot last week burning crosses and chanting racist slogans have whinged that they are the ones that have “suffered” in a series of perplexing social media posts.
The self-proclaimed “racist white men” of the National Socialist Network, based in Melbourne, also bragged about how police were unable to prevent their jaunt to the Grampians region of western Victoria.
So far right is the group, it has slammed the notorious US Proud Boys gang as “soft” and praised the “brave men” who stormed the US Capitol building.
But a look into the gang’s racist ramblings and anti-Semitism reveals a confused range of beliefs. They at once want to persuade people of the “merits of our cause” while also conceding their views are so unpopular the only way to achieve them would be to overthrow democracy.
The gang has used its social media presence to applaud some Australians, not connected to their group, for their deeds. But when news.com.au contacted one of these people, he said it was the first he’d heard of it and the neo Nazis were nothing more than “vile fascist pigs” that he hated with “every fibre of my being”.
Read the article by Benedict Brook in The Queensland Times.