“Good luck with the future, gentlemen,” County Court Judge Kellie Blair said to the pair, as she stepped off the bench at the end of hearing.
Shit’s getting really bad. I mean I’m not sure what I think on the judgement, but the fact that there’s people here walking around with Nazi symbols and openly literally becoming members of the National Socialist Network. How has it all gone so wrong and so… Weird.
We live under states, the right to use violence to protect ourselves and our community has been taken from us. The state is allegedly supposed to protect you so you don’t need to use violence, but as we can see, the state has failed at this.
There should not be NAZIs openly walking around – they should not be able to make it out of their neighborhood.
National Socialist Network
Maybe it would be a little less intellectually dishonest to not claim socialism = fascism, wouldn’t it be? Call it what it is, English fascism. The Nazi movement originally did carry INGSOC acronym, and “socialism” was used as a term by Hitler to lure working class and win their votes for their NSDAP Nazi party.
This:
“In both your cases your prospects of rehabilitation are good,” she said.
Does not really jive with this:
Sewell’s reprieve came nine months after he was also spared jail by a magistrate for a separate incident, when he repeatedly punched a Channel Nine security guard at the network’s Melbourne headquarters while on bail, as Hersant filmed.
Australia is already run by organized crime. I guess fascism isnt too much of a stretch after that.
“Good luck with the future, gentlemen”
What the, and I can’t stress this enough, utter fuck? “Good luck with your future hate crimes, gentlemen”
And one of these cunts was already convicted for assault (which the other Nazi filmed) but didn’t had to do jail time because of “his lack of criminal history”. So the excuse now is they have good prospects for rehabilitation. So the fucking judge thinks a violent repeat offender has a good chance at rehabilitation by doing community service. This judge is insane. Bet if it were anti-fascists they would be doing hard time.
I guess anti-fascists must be bad for business, or something.
She’s not insane, she’s a fascist.
If it was insanity, it’d be easier to understand her actions – she might not be completely completely in control of herself or aware of what she’s doing. She knows what she’s doing.
The judge is a female, maybe read the article before spewing incorrect genders all over the place.
Whoop, good point. I did read the article, it’s just that my native language has no grammatical gender so it’s like stupid easy to slip up with this stuff
As someone who has to learn the grammatical gender of nouns I feel for you. I’m constantly fucking up in my second language.
Grammatical gender just feels so, well… pointless. Like, why should I have to care about what someone’s gender is when I’m referring to them? If someone’s gender is actually relevant somehow I can just use words like “woman” etc. to specify (eg if I need to point someone out in a crowd or whatever), but it’s rarely relevant at all. Defaulting to “he” isn’t too great either even though I do it myself too sometimes because it’s so common and it was taught in school too etc., but it’s neat that “they” is more popular nowadays.
I should actually probably just fucking ditch gendered pronouns altogether and use “they” most of the time – would feel more natural, and as bonus it would annoy conservatives
The judiciary has always been sympathetic to fascists. That was true in Weimar Germany as well. It’s the reason brown shirts felt safe to beat up people in the street, there were no real consequences.
True that, and it’s not like it’s exactly a surprise either
It sounds like it’s in the context of sentencing and in the context seemingly of some discussion about their chances at rehabilitation so I imagine it was meant in that sense. “Good luck on your journey towards being not being a piece of shit any more”. Doesn’t sound like that journey is progressing very well though considering they immediately declared their innocence after entering guilty pleas and then spouted anti Semitic and homophobia remarks to the press outside court and walked off.
Oh yeah that was how I took it, but you pointed out the problem yourself. It was either an astoundingly stupid decision, or a malicious one.
Hey now Australia, I know we’re all in a race to the bottom, but give the rest of us a chance… 🙄
I like the TLDR bot but it could still use some fine tuning. It misses out on nuanced gems like: “Outside court, Sewell and Hersant told journalists they were innocent of the charges, despite entering guilty pleas.”
And
“They spouted homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs and walked off.”
On Thursday, Sewell told the court that he would be “very happy with a fine” and asked the court not to impose a conviction.
It’s almost like the court is encouraging their violence
Sickening
Well, it is Australia.
They’ve made great strides recently but there’s a huge cross section of society that seem like angry, hot-headed and intolerant people.
But I’m a kiwi, so could just be projecting…
And now one of them is reportedly under investigation for allegedly performing a Nazi salute after that court appearance: https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-news-first-person-to-be-charged-in-for-performing-nazi-salute-under-new-laws/accddf5a-d263-4a49-813c-3117adb674d1 (a law prohibiting Nazi salutes, displaying swastikas, etc… came into force in Victoria on the 21st October, 3 days prior to the court appearance).
Victorian hikers? Did they fucking travel back in time?
Victoria was a British queen. Sometimes places are named after famous people. This website has a .au adress. It’s Australian news. Australia was part of the British Empire when Victoria was queen.
Did they fucking travel back in time?
Yes. They travelled back in time from the 19th century/Victorian times to the 21st century.
Irony, people! It’s a fracking pun! And a funny one too 😤
This happens in every settler colonialist country. They let nazis walk because they’re ultimately on the same side.
Neo-nazis[citation needed]
The article you didn’t read.
Except I did, the article is sourceless
As Hyperreality says, the article is a source.
But if you would like more sources, you should check out Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sewell_(Australian_neo-Nazi)
EDIT: You can also have a scroll through these image search results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=thomas+sewell+nazi+salute&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
I stand corrected.
The important part was that you got the far-right talking point out there.
Too often I see people being called neo-nazis just because they have different world views from the woke herd. I’d rather treat labels like this with caution as it’s far too easy to hurt someone’s image undeserved, especially when biased media starts echoing these claims.
Different world views like what?
