Shocking mystery: Neo-Nazi rant in ladies' charity mag
The Adelaide Advertiser | 18 August 2015
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/country-womens-association-members-shocked-by-anti-migrant-article-in-their-magazine/story-fni6uo1m-1227489068776
A RACIST rant sourced from a neo-Nazi website has been published in the SA Country Women's Association's state magazine under a fake name, leaving members offended.
The opinion column appears as a "Thought for the month'' in this month's edition but the supposed author, a CWA member in Port Lincoln, has denied any knowledge of it.
While supporting migrants who came to Australia during the early 1900s in the first dozen paragraphs, the column launches an attack in its conclusion.
"So here we are in 2014 with a new kind of immigrant, who wants the same rights and privileges but not to learn or speak English,'' the opinion column states.
"I drink beer, I eat pork and I want my Australia back.''
The opinion piece was in fact copied from a 2008 blog post on the Canadian neo-Nazi website Stormfront, which has as its motto "Every month is white history month''.
The only difference in the wording comes from the word Canadian being removed and replaced with Australian.
Angry CWA members have contacted The Advertiser to express their shock at the letter, which they say does not represent the organisation, many members of which support migrant women on their arrival in Australia.
One Adelaide CWA member, Linda Pennock, said she and other members were shocked when the rant was printed in this month's edition of the magazine, under the heading "And so say all of us''.
Ms Pennock said that "everything about the CWA was extending the hand of friendship''.
"This does not represent us at all, and none of us can even work out how it got there. There was a flurry of phone calls going around as soon as it was published and some people have been terribly offended."
The woman whose name appears above the opinion piece confirmed on Tuesday she is a member of the Port Lincoln CWA, but denied she had submitted it for the magazine.
"I'm looking at it here, my husband has got it for me, but that is not mine, and I'm the only one of that name over here,'' she said.
The Advertiser has chosen not to publish her name.
The CWA, whose slogan is "Caring and sharing with action'', is a service organisation which raises money for charity and helps the needy.
The Advertiser understands the Plympton branch of the CWA has sent a strongly-worded protest to CWA headquarters in Kent Town, which has also received protest phone calls. Other members have sent letters of complaint to the supposed Port Lincoln author .
The CWA was unable to explain how the rant came to be published. State president Linda Bertram couldn't be contacted for comment..
Stormfront is a global internet-based white power organisation and the author of the blog urged readers to use the letter and disseminate it throughout the world.
The wording of the rant is almost identical, the CWA magazine version stating: "They (migrants to Australia 100 years ago) made learning English a primary rule in their new households, and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.''
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The Adelaide Advertiser | 18 August 2015
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/country-womens-association-members-shocked-by-anti-migrant-article-in-their-magazine/story-fni6uo1m-1227489068776
A RACIST rant sourced from a neo-Nazi website has been published in the SA Country Women's Association's state magazine under a fake name, leaving members offended.
The opinion column appears as a "Thought for the month'' in this month's edition but the supposed author, a CWA member in Port Lincoln, has denied any knowledge of it.
While supporting migrants who came to Australia during the early 1900s in the first dozen paragraphs, the column launches an attack in its conclusion.
"So here we are in 2014 with a new kind of immigrant, who wants the same rights and privileges but not to learn or speak English,'' the opinion column states.
"I drink beer, I eat pork and I want my Australia back.''
The opinion piece was in fact copied from a 2008 blog post on the Canadian neo-Nazi website Stormfront, which has as its motto "Every month is white history month''.
The only difference in the wording comes from the word Canadian being removed and replaced with Australian.
Angry CWA members have contacted The Advertiser to express their shock at the letter, which they say does not represent the organisation, many members of which support migrant women on their arrival in Australia.
One Adelaide CWA member, Linda Pennock, said she and other members were shocked when the rant was printed in this month's edition of the magazine, under the heading "And so say all of us''.
Ms Pennock said that "everything about the CWA was extending the hand of friendship''.
"This does not represent us at all, and none of us can even work out how it got there. There was a flurry of phone calls going around as soon as it was published and some people have been terribly offended."
The woman whose name appears above the opinion piece confirmed on Tuesday she is a member of the Port Lincoln CWA, but denied she had submitted it for the magazine.
"I'm looking at it here, my husband has got it for me, but that is not mine, and I'm the only one of that name over here,'' she said.
The Advertiser has chosen not to publish her name.
The CWA, whose slogan is "Caring and sharing with action'', is a service organisation which raises money for charity and helps the needy.
The Advertiser understands the Plympton branch of the CWA has sent a strongly-worded protest to CWA headquarters in Kent Town, which has also received protest phone calls. Other members have sent letters of complaint to the supposed Port Lincoln author .
The CWA was unable to explain how the rant came to be published. State president Linda Bertram couldn't be contacted for comment..
Stormfront is a global internet-based white power organisation and the author of the blog urged readers to use the letter and disseminate it throughout the world.
The wording of the rant is almost identical, the CWA magazine version stating: "They (migrants to Australia 100 years ago) made learning English a primary rule in their new households, and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.''
Update: Link fixed and now working.
Note: You only get one go at looking at it. If you want to see it again, empty your browser history and cookies.
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