Introduction
David "I am what you would call a breedist at best" Innes -- along with his brother Paul ('Steelcap Boot') and partner Lilith Peterson ('Lilith') -- has been the key organiser for the white supremacist Stormfront in Australia -- more commonly known as 'Scumfront' or 'Shitfront'; opinion is divided as to which is the most apt -- for some time now (mid-2004). Once a month, Der Baron and a few of his similarly racist mates gather for a 'Stormfront BBQ' at David's house in Perth, whereupon they intersperse their retarded political outporings with the consumption of burnt chops and lukewarm beer.
Now, Perth is not the only city in which Stormfronters have been active. Indeed, just a few months ago (November 2005), Stormfronters in Melbourne attempted to hold a BBQ of their vewy own.
Unfortunately for the ten or so net-Nazis who gathered in -- of all places -- Birrarung Marr, ZOG was an additional, uninvited guest. Even worse, ZOG -- in the form of one of FDB's most dedicated members, Agent Gerbil -- brought his (her?) camera along to take some happy snaps. As a result, more than one of the BBQ attendees decided that caution was indeed the better part of valour, and decided to 'retire', presumably to crawl back under the rocks from which they had (briefly) emerged.
Now, before the photos were published, opinion was unanimous. As 'International Controversy' put it: "[T]oday was a good event. Even if some people were convinced every asian holidayer taking pics was an anti, or any random person who walked within eye-sight of the bbq was a potential problem." One long-time member called 'Medieval' (MatThew Henderson) even claimed that "I am a man of mystery after all!"
Of course, it was a slightly different story after the photos were published. While 'Medieval', 'Polish Boy' and a handful of others chose to scatter like cockroaches before the coming storm, 'JN' (James Newman) -- he of Cronulla riot video fame -- took it as an opportunity to issue a 'challenge' to Darp.
(Hmmm... I wonder where James is now? Has he discovered a less-objectionable hobby?)
Still, while fascists living in Melbourne may have been comprehensively owned by FDB, Stormfront Perth is growing in leaps and bounds.
Well... that's what Der Baron would have you believe. (Mind you, Innes the 'Breedist'(!) also believes that 'The Jew is using the black' as a, ah, 'love muscle' against the White Race!) And while Melbourne is in many ways -- demographically, as well as culturally and politically -- quite a different city to Perth, it may be that Perth's time has well and truly come.
So who is David Innes? And what's Scumfront / Shitfront / Stormfront anyway?
The Only Thing Worse Than A neo-Nazi Is A Dishonest neo-Nazi
Last things's first. Stormfront is claimed by some to be the world's first "hate site", having been established in May 1995 by one Don Black, a businessman from Florida, USA. And while Chip Berlet identifies 'hate' as having been online since 1983 (see Chip Berlet, 'When Hate Went Online'; note also that Chip claims that "A small group of anarchist hackers tipped me off to the existence of the racist computer BBS's in late 1984"!), in many ways all that 'negative emotion' appears to have crystallised on one site: Stormfront.
Aside from functioning as one of the premiere sites for English-speaking fascists and racists the world over, Stormfront also appears to be a fairly successful cash-cow for Black. Members of the Forum are regularly invited by him to become one of the site's 'Sustaining Members': this means making regular donations directly into Black's bank account. And while those attracted to sites such as Stormfront tend to be (almost jaw-droppingly) stupid, it's far from certain that Stormfront / Don Black will be able to milk his audience for money forever, let alone 1,000, 100, 10, or even one more year.
Still, notwithstanding his rather obvious profiteering -- more accurately perhaps, including his profiteering -- Black's project has been reasonably successful. It has certainly functioned, as the Internet has more generally, as a valuable resource; not only for fascists, but their opposition as well.
In a broader, ideological sense, the overall direction of the site's politics is determined by Black's mentor, David Duke. And, in keeping with Duke's continuing struggle to achieve some degree of 'mainstream' political respectability, the Stormfront moderators frequently intervene in threads in order to clampdown on some of the more overt expressions of hatred made by its less-disciplined members. In the Australian forums, that role has recently (December 18, 2005) been granted by Black to Lilith Peterson, David Innes' partner and comrade. (Prior to this, the moderators were exclusively 'foreign'.)
For those who don't wish to peruse such forums, a few months ago Joe Hildebrand wrote a singularly entertaining piece on his 'life as an uber fraud', from which the following extracts derive:
'Life as an uber fraud - the one race I won'Innes The neo-Nazi
The Daily Telegraph
October 29, 2005
SOMETIMES in dark moments a beam of light can raise you from your malaise. A beacon of hope in a world of twilight.
Such a thing happened to me when, during a rough day at the office, I decided to become a white supremacist.
It all started when a wire service friend of mine had her story posted on the white nationalist website Stormfront...
First I had to become a registered user of Stormfront, so I adopted the username Curiouswhitey. I wanted to convey a sense of wide-eyed innocence...
Anyway I climbed aboard and suddenly found myself making great new friends like KLANSMAN, Canadian_Warrior, KeepBritainWhite, aryanprincess88, [Paul Innes] and – the most fearsome white supremacist of all – MrBadgerSir.
My original intention was to get all the guys over for a barbecue, a sort of get-to-know-you session where we could discuss everyday stuff like house prices, the lack of affordable child care, ethnic cleansing and the latest restaurants.
But I found myself drawn in to the rich online discussions that were taking place.
One topic, introduced by my new mate Yggdrasil, was entitled "I need your race riot videos!" Straight to the point – that's Yggdrasil for you, the old sausage.
Yggdrasil, always thinking ahead, noted "our struggle will be won or lost with the DVD" before asking people for footage of race riots, "especially the emotional stuff such as beatings of whites by blacks".
I wanted to help out but all I had was Finding Nemo. So I thought I'd try to get a broader discussion going: "Speaking of videos, has anybody here seen Rabbit Proof Fence?"
Looking forward to the reply. Those guys are great.
On the topic "In what ways were you brainwashed?" started by Steeltrump, I found myself opening up like I hadn't dared to before.
"My parents were so poor they couldn't afford a mirror. I always thought I was black until my 16th birthday. When I found out I was so mad I decided to hate all of them."
This was a slight exaggeration. I was actually 15-and-a-half but cyberspace lets you loosen up a bit.
In another discussion launched by Baron Von Hund about Aborigines, I tried to get in his good graces.
I was new to the scene and I needed a friend, so I simply said: "Couldn't agree more Baron. They should go back to where they came from."
Then I was ridiculed for apparently thinking I was the first person to say that. What? Had no one agreed with the Baron before?
...They're a pretty nice bunch of guys and girls there. When sweetthing25 said she was going to have another baby everyone sent heaps of congratulations.
Whiterider was particularly supportive, saying, "I believe that it is imperative that both women and men should sacrifice themselves more to have large white families".
Whiterider's kind of the big picture guy.
Other times we all just chat about stuff.
On one chatroom everyone had to say something about the person before them and boy, there were lots of yellow smiley faces being thrown around.
Spartan even wrote "Jeanway is the queen of smilies" but then aryanbrother88 said Spartan was just a suck-up.
Sometimes we talk about our feelings, like when Aikon said he was actually dating a Jewish girl but it was okay because she renounced her religion.
"I'm not a race traitor . . . I couldn't tell she was a Jew when I met her," he said. I dunno Aikon, it's a grey area.
...Also everyone is pretty big on Prussian Blue, those nice young blonde haired American girls who sing about racial purity, but I think they should change their name to Prussian White just to keep things straight.
['Prussian Blue' actually refers to the coloring of the Zyklon B residue used in the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps during WWII: commentary is superfluous.]
Still, it's nice to know that, despite the '60s, some mums and dads are bringing their kids up properly.
...Any way, I must rush off. SturmTiger is having book club at his house tonight and everyone has to bring a plate.
David Innes' online targets are 'all the usual suspects' of the far-right: Australia's indigenous peoples, homosexuals (gays specifically), ethnic minorities, 'communists' (anarchists and leftists generally) and basically anyone who finds the idea of a 'White Australia' both absurd and offensive.
And, of course, 'the Jews'.
Further, much like the other crazed denizens of Australia's far right swamp, Innes' ideology -- such as it is -- is in all important respects a foreign one which apes, often quite comically, its North American counterpart. Thus Innes is a follower of David Duke, and speaks with glowing praise not only of Duke, but also the dead neo-Nazis William Pierce and George Rockwell. In fact, notwithstanding his repeated denials, even a cursory examination of Innes' own site reveals a passionate commitment to White supremacy and its logical corollary: fascism/neo-Nazism.
Masochistic Taste In Music
Among one of the more unusual aspects of David Innes' "personality" (a term I use very loosely) is his taste in music. In essence, Der Baron simply loves antifa. In fact, if you wanted a list of HM bands that have and do regularly kick the shit out of fascists like David -- both on and off stage -- you'd be well-advised to tune into the same frequency he does. Among the more prominent of these multi-racial, multi-ethnic bands are: Anthrax, At the Gates, Biohazard, Bolt Thrower, Brujeria, Brutal Truth, Carcass, Entombed, Faith No More, Fear Factory, Godsmack, Helmet, Kreator, Linkin Park, Machinehead, Megadeth, Metallica, Nailbomb, Napalm Death, Paradise Lost, Pitchshifter, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Sacred Reich, Sepultura, Slipknot, Soulfly, Strapping Young Lad, Suicidal Tendencies and System of a Down.
In conclusion then, it's obviously very hard to be a fascist and a lover of hard music! Or to put it another way:
Nazi Punks Fuck Off!
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