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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Voice Of Britain (Original lyrics)
Chapter 3. Tomorrow Belongs To Me
Chapter 4. Europe Awake
Chapter 5. The Showdown
Chapter 6. Our Pride Is Our Loyalty
Chapter 7. Blood & Honour
Chapter 8. Strike Force
Chapter 9. Hail The New Dawn
Chapter 10. Back With A Bang
Chapter 11. Johnny Joined the Klan
Chapter 12. 46 Years
Chapter 13. Free My Land
Chapter 14. The Snow Fell
Chapter 15. Smash the I.R.A.
Chapter 16. When The Boat Comes In
Chapter 17. White Power
Chapter 18. Hail the New Dawn (reprise)
Chapter 19. White Power (reprise)
Chapter 20. Strike Force (reprise)
Chapter 21. Suddenly
Chapter 22. Free My Land (reprise)
Chapter 23. When the Boat Comes In (reprise)
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23
Jun
The rise of Hate 2.0
By Daniel Emery
Technology reporter, BBC News
The number of hate and terrorist websites has increased by a third in the past year, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The Los Angeles-based Jewish human rights organisation put the figure at more than 8,000 in its 2008 report Hate 2.0. It said the presence of such sites "demeans and threatens African Americans, Jews, immigrants, gays and virtually every religious denomination".
And the number of so-called hate sites is growing fast, while the use of social networks to push controversial messages is also on the rise.
In May this year, Facebook became embroiled in a row after a number of Holocaust denial groups were set up on the site.
Critics said Facebook was propagating anti-Semitism, others said that free speech was a cornerstone of society and Facebook should keep its hands off.
At the time, Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for Facebook, said it should be "a place where controversial ideas can be discussed".
"The bottom line is that, of course, we abhor Nazi ideals and find Holocaust denial repulsive and ignorant," he said.
"However, we believe people have a right to discuss these ideas."
The Home Office says Don Black’s actions could “lead to inter-community violence in the UK”.
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A few days later, the site had closed two of the groups, Holocaust is a Holohoax and Based on the facts… there was no Holocaust. It said they had breached the firm’s terms of service.
But there are still plenty of other Holocaust denial groups on Facebook: Holocaust is a Myth, 6,000,000 for the TRUTH about the Holocaust, The problem of forged Holocaust photos, and Holocaust Deniers, to name just four.
Denial outlawed
In a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in June this year, President Barack Obama criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had called the Holocaust a "great deception".
"To this day we know there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened, a denial of a fact or truth that is baseless, ignorant and hateful," Mr Obama said in a brief address.
Holocaust denial is illegal in 13 countries, including France, Germany and Israel. It was also a crime in Slovakia, although this law was repealed in May 2005.
The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and the United Kingdom have all rejected Holocaust denial legislation.
In Europe, citizens are covered by the European Convention on Human Rights which states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression."
But it adds that governments can restrict free speech, among other reasons, in the interests of national security, to preserve public safety and for the prevention of disorder or crime.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the BBC that it was not a freedom of speech issue.
"Holocaust denial is a perfect example of how a hateful idea was incubated on the internet. It promotes hatred, it promotes violence and it’s a kind of precursor to genocide.
Some groups advocate direct action against Holocaust denial sites
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"It’s not the idea that needs to be scrubbed; it’s fact that the internet elevates crackpot theories to a level it doesn’t deserve.
"These sites aren’t about the discussion of ideas; they are about getting people to subscribe to the ideal of hate."
But speaking to the BBC, Douglas Murray, director of think tank The Centre for Social Cohesion, said that society should be able to accept any point of view, even if that view was proven to be false.
"You have to allow different opinions, even lies, as long as they don’t incite violence. Otherwise what is true becomes dogma and then becomes incapable of being defended," he said.
White power
In 1995 Don Black founded Stormfront – a white supremacist website seen by many as the internet’s first "major hate site", although it had existed as a bulletin board for a number of years prior to that.
In May he was one of 22 individuals excluded from the United Kingdom by the Home Office for "promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence".
He told the BBC that – in America – people could say and think whatever they liked.
"We believe anyone has the right to discuss the issue [of Holocaust denial] without being censored and, in many cases in Europe, prosecuted and sent to jail.
"It goes beyond censorship on Facebook. We’re moving into a new dark age with an orthodoxy in which individuals hold the wrong opinion are prosecuted and in some cases, sent to jail.
"My getting banned from Britain – even though I haven’t even tried to visit Britain – is an example," he said.
While the views espoused by Mr Black and others may be offensive to many, in most countries they are perfectly legal.
Mr Murray holds a view that they should remain legal because "in a free society it isn’t hard to prove that their point of view is wrong".
Rabbi Cooper disagrees, saying that while you will never keep any idea off the internet, there was no obligation for private companies – such as Facebook, MySpace etc – to carry so-called hate groups; failing that the centre advocates more "direct action".
"We’ve gone from one problem group back in 1995, Stormfront, to over 10,000," he said.
Direct action
One group that does carry out direct action on occasion is the Jewish Internet Defense Force, a group that claims it "leads the fight against anti-Semitism and terrorism on the web". It is said that the JIDF has seized control of and deleted Facebook groups deemed to be anti-Semetic or anti-Israel.
In an e-mail exchange with the group’s spokesman, "David", the BBC asked why they took such issue with Holocaust denial.
"Holocaust denial is hate speech. It is an attempt by anti-Semites to make Jews appear to be liars and manipulators, those who accept the historical truth of the Holocaust to be dupes, absolve Nazis and their active and passive accomplices of guilt, and so rehabilitate anti-Semitic ideologies," he wrote.
Critics say the internet has enabled alleged anti-Semites to reach an audience of millions.
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"Facebook staff themselves seem very torn about these issues and wish to consider a lot of hateful ideologies as ‘legitimate political discourse’.
"However, if they are going to take down KKK (Ku Klux Klan) pages and pages which promote Islamic terrorism, then they should also take down hateful Holocaust denial pages and stop pushing the myth that they are for ‘free speech’."
He added the group would "do everything in our power" to convince Facebook to "do the right thing".
But Mr Murray said that the grounds for freedom of speech were already laid out.
"If someone thinks they are better because of the colour of their skin, their religion or where they were born, well it’s irrational and deeply hateful, but unless they say you should do violence, then I’m afraid we have to accept there are people who have unpleasant opinions."
Ghostbusters Breaks New Ground In… Jewish References?
By Stephen Totilo on June 23, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Video games arguably have not had their Citizen Kane. Less debatable is the absence of a video game Seinfeld or Mel Brooks movie. Enter Ghostbusters, the rare game with a Jewish joke.
A writer from the online magazine of Jewish news and culture, Tablet, reports delight at playing enough of the new Ghostbusters game to unlock an Achievement (or Trophy, it seems) called “Kosher.”
The Achievement is won by having your Ghostbuster use his or her proton pack on a honey-glazed ham that has been set up for a bar mitzvah in the hotel where Slimer is running amuck.
Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz writes: I froze in my tracks. It was time, I realised, to make a major decision about my identity. Was I a Jew first and a Ghostbuster second? Or was it the other way around? Do I catch the ghost? Or do I take care of the treyf? My heart beat fast. Then, suddenly, I knew just what I needed to do.
Leibovitz blasted that Ham and then got the Kosher Achievement.
The official text for that feat reads: “Remedy a dubious food choice to make the bar mitzvah as orthodox as it can be.” Honey-glaze ham, it should be known, is not kosher and therefore doesn’t belong at a bar mitzvah.
A Jewish joke would be unremarkable in other forms of entertainment. But in games, Jewishness is perhaps even more absent than homosexuality or Eskimos. Jewish people are seldom even mentioned in World War II games. Why that is is fodder for another post.
For now, put Ghostbusters in the same category as The Shivah, one of the few games that even mentions Jewish people or culture.
Song: Nationalism
Band: Stormtroop 16
Taken from album: Steel Capped Justice
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Song: Lust In Their Eyes
Band: Stormtroop16
Taken from album: Steel Capped Justice
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Song: Niggers, Niggers, Niggers
Band: Racist Redneck Rebels
Taken from album: Keep The Hate Alive!
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Should Retailers Sell Racist Hate Music?
As Barack Obama prepares to become our first African-American president, SPIN’s David Marchese weighs in on white power musicians.
By David Marchese 01.12.09 8:33 AM
Should Retailers Sell Racist Hate Music?
As Barack Obama prepares to become our first African-American president, SPIN’s David Marchese weighs in on white power musicians.
By David Marchese 01.12.09 8:33 AM
On January 20, when Barack Obama is sworn in, millions of Americans will appreciate the event as proof of racial progress, and deservedly so.
But in the course of reporting “Ugly Hate Machine,” the story I wrote about the availability of white power music online for SPIN’s January issue, I learned that racist Obama haters aren’t a media invention. They’re real, they’re angry, and they play shitty hardcore.
I got my first clue of this when one white power musician responded to my interview request with the phrase, “Eat a dick.”
That guy aside, I was surprised by how eagerly people like Jeff Schoep (head of the National Socialist Movement and its affiliated record label) would denounce Rage Against the Machine as “communists.” Or how calmly veteran English white power musician Ken McLellan explained that his call for a second Holocaust (e.g., “It’s our turn / They’ll burn”) was simply the equivalent of “pro-Black” rap lyrics.
Less surprising was how easy it is for these guys to sell their music. Basically, for a band like Grinded Nig to be prevented from selling an album called Freezer Full of Nigger Heads, its songs would have to feature explicit and specific exhortations to cause harm. So a lyric like this from Final War’s “Defenders of the Reich” — “Skinheads / Standing proud and true / Skinheads / We fight the Jew” — would be legal; “Let’s kill a Jew at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday night at Ray’s Bar” would not.
The general consensus among online retailers who stock white power bands like Brutal Attack and Skrewdriver is that they shouldn’t be in the position of making moral decisions about what consumers can and can’t buy. The argument goes that if they banned Final War’s “Land of the White,” then they’d also have to do the same for Ice T’s “Cop Killer.” And a common refrain among the white power advocates I spoke with was that it would be “un-American” censorship for retailers to refuse to stock their music.
But that’s not true. Freedom of speech guarantees the right to disseminate ideas. It doesn’t mean other people are obligated to help you. Wal-Mart, for example, has in the past chosen not to sell albums it deemed offensive. Retailers are copping out when they wash their hands of the moral implications behind the sale of their products.
I had an easier time with an idea offered up by CD Baby President Brian Felsen, who explained that it helps to think of the music industry as an economy of ideas as well one of goods and services. The thinking goes that in an economy of ideas, the best ones win out.
If that’s true, and I think it is (see: Obama), hateful music will lose. And it won’t be because of Jews, communists, or censorship. It will be because their ideas, and their music, are no good.
22
Jun
Racist Music Goes Digital
Where can one find the latest white-power band? iTunes, Amazon, and other online retailers.
By David Marchese 12.23.08 10:15 AM
Like any musician, Brutal Attack’s Ken McLellan wants to be heard. Only, what he wants people to hear are self-described “white power” anthems with lines like “This is the Final Solution / Our turn / They’ll burn.”
Unsurprisingly, McLellan, whose group has been labeled by the Anti-Defamation League as “one of the oldest hate bands in continuous existence,” has run into some obstacles. Most record stores don’t sell his music. Ones that do risk protest by activist groups like Turn It Down and the ARA (Anti-Racist Action), both of which target retailers that distribute white-power music. “Because stores wouldn’t carry us, selling records used to be laborious,” says McLellan, 44. “We relied on mail order. We relied on concerts.” Not anymore.
For $9.99, you can download Brutal Attack’s anti-immigrant, pro-white Tales of Glory from iTunes. It’s a buck cheaper on Amazon. A physical copy is yours for $16 on CD Baby. For McLellan and others like him, white-power music’s availability through mainstream online retailers holds the promise of a success immeasurable in money. “We’re far more interested in spreading our point of view,” explains Jeff Schoep, manager of NSM88 Records, which sells music online by bands like Grinded Nig and Inborn Hate. (Schoep is also the leader of the National Socialist Movement.) “If people can hear communist sympathizers like Rage Against the Machine on iTunes, then they should have the right to hear music that celebrates white culture. The Beastie Boys and other Jewish artists might support banning ideas, but we don’t. We support the American way.”
According to University of Dayton sociologist Paul Becker, who’s written about white-power music, the presence of bands like Brutal Attack, Skrewdriver, and Final War on high-profile music sites is no surprise. “White power follows societal trends,” he says. The real concern is accessibility. “In the past, someone interested in the music may not have wanted to go into a store looking for it.” Now it’s a click away.
A legal click. “The United States isn’t as strict about censoring hate speech as some other countries,” explains New York University law professor Amy Adler. “Unless a song says, ‘We are going to hurt these people, at this time, on this day,’ it’s probably going to be okay.”
But for Turn It Down’s Nora Flanagan, morality, not legality, is the issue. “Companies could choose not to sell this stuff ,” she says. “Instead, they hide behind the First Amendment. Refusing to make money from racism isn’t censorship; it’s the right thing.” Flanagan points to MySpace, which removes racially off ensive pages from the site, as an example of commendable behavior.
While CD Baby has donated to charities and nonprofits portions of its proceeds from albums it calls “troubling,” neither the company nor Amazon plans to limit its sales of possibly offensive music. (iTunes, which often stocks this music via third-party digital distribution, declined comment.) According to spokesperson Patti Smyth, Amazon “doesn’t feel it should be deciding what’s right for consumers. That’s a slippery slope that we don’t want to be on.” Similarly, CD Baby president Brian Felsen cautions against overreaction: “This is still a micro-niche we’re talking about. It’s competing against a huge diversity of voices.”
McLellan, though, thinks his music’s subculture status is due to change. “Being sold in mainstream places shows that white power isn’t so taboo anymore,” he says. “Attitudes are changing.” Of course, recent election results suggest being taboo isn’t nearly as much a problem for McLellan as is being, well, wrong.
Song: Where Is My Land?
Band: No Escape
Taken from album: Break The Silence
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Song: Whatever Happened To That Dear Ol’ Klan Of Mine?
Band: Racist Redneck Rebels
Taken from album: Keep The Hate Alive!
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Song: 18 (Adolf Hitler)
Band: Hassgesang
Taken from album: B.Z.L.T.B.
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