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ON THE PROWL #4 - SPRING 1995 COURTROOM DRAMAS KEEP NAZIS BUSY FIRE AT ZUNDEL'S NAZI-RUN STORE CLOSED HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL FIASCO

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COURTROOM DRAMAS KEEP NAZIS BUSY The month of May is a busy one for the bigots in Ontario's court- rooms, and for their lawyer Harry Doan. So busy that some can't get a single friend to come with them to show some support. Looks like the Racial Holy War will have to go on hold for another month...Wolfgang Droege is back in the pokey! On April 19 he was released from jail on bail to appeal his conviction of aggravated assault on an anti-racist. Well that didn't last long! By May 1 he was rolled back inside until his appeal is heard on a conviction of contempt of court, dating back to the days when he set up a second hateline to get around the court order against the Heritage Front hateline, then under investigation. Three members of the now-defunct Church of the Creator are finally going to trial for kidnapping, forcible confinement and uttering death threats. The target of their wrath? One of their own "racial comrades", Tyrone Alexander Mason! Even after his nightmarish exerience at the hands of Eric and Elkar Fischer (former members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment) and their driver Drew Maynard in June 1993, Tyrone kept working for Ernst Zundel. Now that's loyalty to "the cause" (??). Three gun-toting nazis are facing Toronto courts on various weapons charges: George Harbottle, the elderly spokesman for the Northern Hammer-skins, his partner-in-crime Karen Lyons, and Heritage Front's founding potato-head James Scott Dawson. They were all busted in October 1994 after a night of pointing guns at each other, followed by a "rat race" the following week as they turned each other in to Metro Police. Dawson goes to trial in July, while Harbottle should be facing the courts sometime in June. Heritage Front tough guy, Chris "the Tongue" Newhook, is back in jail for violating his probation. Convicted after the June 1993 brawl with anti- racists, and was parolled at the end of 1994. Despite his brief freedom and a grim birthday party hosted by Ernst Zundel, "the Tongue" was picked up by the cops on Yonge Street for possession of weapons and narcotics. Last but not least, most Reverend George Burdi was sentenced to one year on May 10, having been convicted of aggravated assault during an Ottawa demonstration in May 1993. Burdi is the former leader of the COTC and was the second man in the Heritage Front until he got bored and started up the racist record label, Resistance Records. The crown asked for eight months, but the judge figured a little more time might be a deterrent. FIRE AT ZUNDEL'S Fire at 206 Carlton? IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! May 7, 1995 - a pre-dawn blaze engulfs the fortified home of Nazi propagandist and Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel. By 8 a.m. the community is abuzz: people stop by on their way to wherever and openly applaud. Streetcars pass the bunker and everyone riding cheers. Cyclists raise a fist: motorists honk. Common wisdom prevails: not too many people are shedding any tears, and if they are, it's only for the "collateral damage" done to the next-door property which unfortunately caused temporary homelessness for people who, if they had known beforehand that a Nazi lived next door, wouldn't have moved in. And who's responsible for this fire? Zundel's enemies come from Left, Right and Centre. Local popular CFNY radio hosts comment that the list of suspects for this action are about as long as the Metro Toronto telephone book! Zundel is out west conspiring with lawyer Doug Christie, but his videographer-buddy Jurgen Neumann is bunker-sitting and gets to blab away about anti-racist violence. Even Wolfgang Droege gets a chance at the camera, forever destroying the "distance" Zundel once tried to (publicly) keep from the Heritage Front. Zundel immediately blamed ARA and the local anti-nazi neighbourhood group, C-CANON, for the firebombing. We're all touched he thought of us first. But a group called the Jewish Armed Resistance Movement took responsibility. What we can take credit for is helping to educate the public about this Nazi in Toronto, who after years of court challenges only strengthened his own position in the far-right. The fire caused considerable damage, although the basement appears to be the last refuge of this nearly-homeless fascist. Less than three weeks later, Zundel received a pipe bomb in the mail. He didn't open the suspicious package, but drove it around the neighbourhood to the cop-shop balanced on a bag of birdseed. Just think of all the birds that would have been denied lunch if the thing had gone off! In short, it's getting dangerous to be a fascist in Toronto these days. Shit happens. But of course, it didn't happen. And if it did, it was the right idea. NAZI-RUN STORE CLOSED Nazi-run Queen Street store closed: Yonge St. store next! IXL's Queen Street store shut down as of January 1995. ARA has been postering, leafletting and demonstrating against the two IXL stores in Toronto since June 1994, to expose their nazi character to the broad community. The ARA campaign began after ARA scouts watched 40 boneheads gathering at the Yonge Street location on their way to a Hitler's Birthday party planned for April 23 last year. This only confirmed long-time rumours that the stores were owned and operated by nazis, Roderik Peer Jackson and his son Alaric. They sure must be pissed every time they go by the Queen Street store -- they sold out to an Asian-owned business! Highlights of the campaign against the stores so far include: A big and noisy picket/demonstration outside the Queen Street store on December 10, 1994. Roderick called the day "a disaster" for the store, which normally does a lot of business on the Saturdays before Xmas. We also got to waste a lot of police dollars -- at least 200 cops were there to keep control of the 80-strong anti-fascist crowd for most of the afternoon! When the International Women's Day march (March 3, 1995) passed by Yonge Street IXL, the entire demo picked up anti-fascist chants. Alaric came out to defend the store and got into a short scuffle with some protestors. The crowd marched on, leaving in its wake a shop plastered with gay and lesbian, AIDS activism and other stickers. Not a great day for the woman- haters! A 250-strong demo to prevent a celebration of Hitler's Birthday on April 22 this year. The demo was so successful before it even started that the fascists didn't organize a Hitler's B-day party this year (unlike the past two years at least). We took to the streets and marched on the dark and empty Yonge Street IXL. Some people were frustrated that the demo didn't give them enough chance to express their anger at the Yonge Street bonehead presence - mostly because the bones kept away from our rowdy crowd! But taking and making anti- fascist space on Yonge Street for a few hours on a Saturday evening has its own effects, and many bystanders were educated about the store and its role in the neighbourhood. Meanwhile, a few bones were holed up at Zundel's place, hiding behind their plastic sheet. ARA scouts were treated to the sight of Wolfgang Droege hoisting the condom earlier in the afternoon. Couldn't Zundel get one of his young lackeys to do the shit-work? After all, Droege was released from jail just days before, appealing his conviction of aggravated assault on an anti-racist (more on his trial this page). The campaign against the remaining Yonge Street IXL is ongoing, and you can be a part of it. At the very least, you can write or call ARA for copies of the IXL leaflet to pass around among your friends. Better hurry - the Yonge Street store might be shut down before you know it! HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL FIASCO Human Life International gets "worst reception ever" in Montreal! According to Father Paul Marx, the founder and present-day chairman of Human Life International, the Maryland- based group received its worst welcome ever in Montreal this April. The anti-abortion group, which is also virulently homophobic, AIDSphobic, anti-semitic and anti-Moslem, was in town for its "Fourteenth World Conference on Love, Life and the Family". APRIL 19TH DEMONSTRATION HLI's members were confronted with from 2-5 thousand demonstraters outside their opening Mass at Notre Dame basilica. People threw eggs, fruit, picket signs, bottles and condoms at the xtians as they walked quickly to their hotel, protected by Montreal's finest riot cops. Later that night, due in part to people's exuberance (a cop van got trashed) and in part to undercover police officers and cop provocations, eight people were arrested. At least one of these people was arrested by an undercover cop who had managed to infiltrate at least one meeting of the Coaliution against HLI. Most, but certainly not all, of the arrested were punks. Four of the arrested were held for five days, under a tricky legal pretext whose name I do not know in English. The charges are the routine for such a situation: mischief, assaulting a police officer, obstruction of justiuce, etc. Although HLI is a far-right group, it is also respectable and, above all, committed to traditional Catholicism. But nazi skinheads of the Northern Hammerskin variety were skulking around our demonstration. Also spotted spying on us were Michel Larocque (of the local KKK chapter, Longitude 74) and a member of the Mouvement pour une Immigration Restreinte et Francophone (a "respectable" front for racists). There were fascists attending the HLI gathering, of course. Angelus Books of Barrie (38 Jill's Court, Barrie Ontario, Canada, L4M 4L7; telephone: 705- 726-3607) had a stall where they peddled John Birch Society books, as well as stuff from Action Familiale et Scolaire - a far-right Catholic group in France. One of these books was a long anti-Moslem rant, while another was an anti-Freemason rant, with a chapter entitled "Freemasonry and Judaism" for those of us too out of it to know that there really is no difference! Angelus Books would be a project worth doing a little more research on. It seems to be run by one John Potter, the author of "Where have all the little girls gone?" (Canisius Books), "A Study in Syncretism" (distributed by the Canadian League of Rights) and "Environmentalism or Pantheism?" (Instauratio Press). The latter pamphlet includes quotes from Larouchite sources, as well as other right-wing Catholics. A catalogue of Angelus Books' reveals a true far-right perspective: Confidential and Jeune Nation, two highbrow but openly fascist Montreal periodicals are distributed, as in Canadian Intelligence Service (of Canadian League of Rights). Ron Gostick even gets a special mention. Gostick is the man behind the Canadian League of Rights, a holocaust denying, anti-semitic, far-right organization presently based in Alberta. One of the big HLI stars was notably absent. Because of the wide publicity anti-HLI organizers gave to Dr. Paul Cameron's calls for murder of HIV+ people, HLI was forced to bar him from the conference unless he apologize (he didn't apologize: big surprise!). HLI still sells his literaure though, and it remains to be seen if this ban will apply to other HLI events. Yehuda Levin, the Brooklyn rabbi behind the Jewish Anti-Abrotion League, was integrated into the HLI apparatus at this conference. Levin now has some title like "Jewish Community Liaison", or some such thing. He basically gets to talk at HLI events from now on, basically saying that just because Paul Marx blames Jews for sex education, contraception and the abortion "holocaust" doesn't make him an anti-semite, for these are just painful truths. Of course, anyone who has read Marx's shit realizes that Levin is either an idiot or a self-serving turncoat* -Excerpted from a Montreal-based HLI watcher's coverage

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