Re: Radical-Right Youth Recruitment

[Jim Jaszewski <jjazz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 1995, Zodiac wrote:

> As to SKINHEADS... which group Louis mentioned earlier... I wanna make
> one thing clear: There are plenty of anti-racists skins. Indeed,
> anti-racist skinheads refer to the racist/fascist ilk as BONEHEADS.  I
> rather like the distinction and use it as part of my everyday language.
> You can usually tell which are boneheads by the patches they wear and a
> few other signals (like bootlace colors -- "white" for white
> supremacist, "red" for national socialist).

        I still have a business card with `You have been patronized by the
Ku Klux Klan' on it -- graphic and everything -- one of these early
`boneheads' gave it to me where we worked when I used to live in
Montreal in the 80's...

        I also worked and socialized with anti-racist skinheads there, so
I understand where you are coming from -- not everyone with a peachfuzz
head is necessarily a fascist, but it sure gets confusing (they would want
to rob a bank, but they sure weren't racist..!)


> The most famous case is that of Elise Hategan -- a young, giggly,
> pretty teen female who became a Heritage Front spokesperson. She was
> another part of the strategy that was making the Front a growing
> concern in Toronto through 1992 and 1993. Her face was splashed all
> over the mainstream papers.
>
> Eventually, the Anti-Racist Action would get her to turncoat. She is
> now an outspoken anti-fascist anti-racist.

        Ya, I came all the way to Toronto to see her speak at the ARA
meeting, along with that smart guy from Quebec (forget his name (Pierre ?)
-- he's often interviewed on the radio.  Maybe Doug could get him on his
radio show...) Besides the fire-alarm going off the whole time, the bag
searches and all the paranoia that night, (not to mention the usual
ultra-left groups flogging their papers to the Converted outside) it was a
very informative event.  I especially liked the Nazi farm film... :>


> Most importantly, Hategan would be instrumental in exposing the
> Canadian government spy mole, Grant Bristow, as a main organizer of the
> Front. (The government effectively PAID for the Front; and Bristow was
> the main mover in the anonymous harrassment campaigns against
> anti-racist activists.)

        On the way there, I got off at the wrong subway and had to walk a
few blocks.  This woman followed me the whole way, and I finally started
talking to her -- turns out she was the Toronto Star's reporter sent to
the event.  I told her I couldn't be bothered to read the bourgeois rag
any more (politely, of course) and I got all my info from left papers and
radio... Her body language told me she was `filing' my talk away in her
head, and I later saw her wandering around at the event with that
`detached' look so favored by the bourgeois press...

        How DID that event play in The Star the next day (if it did at
all)?




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