| Emperor's Clothes Newsletter * 1 January 2008 The Emperor's New Clothes (TENC) * http://www.tenc.net Please send this link to a friend. You may post any TENC article on the internet as long as you credit TENC and the author(s). http://tenc.net/sonew-mail.htm Subscribe to the TENC Newsletter - Receive articles from Emperor's Clothes. To join, send a blank email to: join-emperorsclothes@pr2.netatlantic.com Then reply to the confirmation email; if you don't receive it right away, please check your SPAM filter. And please add the Newsletter address to your personal address book: emperorsclothes@tenc.net Our readers make TENC possible. Please donate! http://emperors-clothes.com/donate.html ================================================ Croatian Ustashe (clerical-fascists) in Australia? So what else is new? ================================================ As Croatian clerical-fascist rock star Thompson's Australian tour reaches its half-way mark, with the big question: will Immigration Minister Sen. Chris Evans do the right thing and rescind Thompson's visa, which he granted with the remarkable proviso that Thompson "will be told that he must not 'vilify, incite discord or represent a danger to the community'" [1] (which raises the question: why not just grant visas to armed suicide bombers as long as they promise not to set themselves off?), it is worthwhile noting that in Australia Thompson is currently playing to the children and grand children of serious Nazis. Thompson states in his song "Geni Kameni" (which translates, "Genes [as in DNA] of Stone"): "1945 was hard on us, It scattered us all over the globe" 'We' being the Croatian Ustashe, many of whom fled the Partisan victory in Yugoslavia, emigrating to places like the US, Canada and, especially, to Australia, where they apparently received tender loving care from the secret service, producing an international scandal and leading to the remarkable 1973 New York Times article, posted below, following which I have posted some explanation from Richard West's "Tito and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia." -- Jared Israel Editor, Emperor's Clothes ================================================ This from The New York Times of March 17, 1973 "Australian Police Raid Offices of the Nation's Secret Service," by the Associated Press, published by The New York Times, March 17, 1973, p. 11 The scanned text can be read at http://tenc.net/sonew.htm#scan (C) 1973, The New York Times, Posted for Fair Use Only ================================================ [Title] Australian Police Raid Offices Of the Nation's Secret Service [Body] SYDNEY, Australia, March 16 (AP) – Commonwealth policemen raided the headquarters of the nation's secret service, the Security Intelligence Organization, in Melbourne today. Government soruces [sic] in the Federal capital Canberra, said the police were seeking files on Croatian liberation movement operating in Australia. The informants said that agency, which is under Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's control, had refused to hand over the files and that police acted on the orders of the Attorney General, Lionel Murphy. A government official in Canberra declared: “It's like the army attacking the navy.” In the United States, the equivalent would be a raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. [Subhead] Statement Was Expected Mr. Murphy, who refused to comment, had been expected to make a statement in Parliament this week about the Croatian groups, which have been blamed for bomb attacks on Yugoslav buildings and supporters in Australia. The statement was scheduled to precede the visit to Canberra next week of Yugoslavia's Premier, Djemal Bijedic. The Yugoslav Government has charged that Australia is being used as a training ground for Croatian secessionists, who return to Yugoslavia for terrorism against President Tito's Government. Government sources in Canberra said this was confirmed to Mr. Murphy by the F.B.I. when the Attorney General visited Washington earlier this year. The groups operated under the banner of the Ustashi, the wartime brown shirt organization of the Nazi puppet dictator, Ante Pavelic. [Subhead] 2 Bombs Are Defused Meanwhile, two bombs were found here today, one of them along the route Prince Philip later took into the city from the airport on his arrival here for a visit. Experts defused the bombs, and the police guarded his route. The second bomb was found in a locker in the central railway station. A report of another bomb in a government office building opposite a club Prince Philip was opening tonight proved to be false. So did a fourth suspicious object found in a garbage bin near the busy Taylor Square intersection, where the Prince's limousine was to pass. Extra policemen were rushed to the airport to meet the Prince, touring the country as president of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Welcoming ceremonies were cut back to less than a minute. The bombs were found following an anonymous call to the office of the state Premier. ================================================ And this from "Tito and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia," by Richard West New York, Carroll & Graf, 1995 (Originally published: London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994), chapter 15, pages 301 - 303 ================================================ The Ustasha, now [after WWII - J.I.] called [renamed by Croatian Fuhrer Pavelic himself - J.I.] the HOP, and the other Croatian terrorist groups found a more tolerant home in such democratic countries as Canada, Sweden, West Germany and above all Australia. The Liberal Party governments in the 1960s not only welcomed but gave support to these anticommunist militants. Ustasha soldiers trained with the Australian army near Woodonga, Victoria. The editor of the HOP newspaper Spremnost, Fabian Lovokovic, who was also a prominent Liberal Party politician, was able to boast in 1963 that the ASIO, the Australian intelligence service, 'does not view the Croatian Liberation Movement in an unfavourable light'. Thanks to the tolerance shown them by the authorities throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, the various Ustasha groups in Australia were able to carry out bomb attacks on Yugoslav consulates, a bank with a display of Yugoslav dolls, the Adriatic Tourist Agency in Sydney, and a cinema showing a Yugoslav film, and to make three separate attempts on the life of a prominent anti-Ustasha Croat. Due to the favourable political climate, the most violent of the Ustasha groups, the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood, established its world headquarters in Australia in 1968, when it was banned by West Germany. The front page of [Ustasha] Spremnost in January 1963 carried a story on Ustasha military training under the banner headline: 'Today on the Murray River - Tomorrow on the Drina' ('Danas na Rieci Murray - Sjutra na Drini'). To prove that this was no idle boast, an Ustasha group from Australia attempted to start an uprising in eastern Bosnia, not far from the River Drina. This first of several Ustasha gangs to be sent from Australia to Yugoslavia was rounded up and its members imprisoned. In 1970 Vladimir Rolovic, the Yugoslav Assistant Secretary for Foreign Affairs, visited Canberra to hand over an aide-mémoire giving specific details of Ustasha personnel, organisations and involvement in terrorist actions. The Australian authorities, who had not only tolerated but even trained the Ustasha, took no action except to inform them of Rolovic's information about them. The following year, when Rolovic had become his country's ambassador in Sweden, he was murdered by two young Ustasha who claimed they were taking revenge for his mission to Canberra. The murderers of Rolovic were released when the Ustasha hijacked and threatened to blow up a plane. [On the September 15, 1972 hijacking and its consequences, see http://emperors-clothes.com/tour2.htm#1972 - J.I.] The Ustasha were the first terrorist group to threaten to plant bombs on aircraft, and the Yugoslav national airline, JAT, was the first to institute baggage and body searches. Despite these precautions, in Stockholm in January 1972 Ustasha agents succeeded in planting a bomb on a JAT DC9, which blew up over Czechoslovakia. The sole survivor, a Montenegrin air hostess, fell 33,330 feet without a parachute, to enter the Guinness Book of Records Hall of Fame.[Footnote] 10 In 1976 the Ustasha hijacked an aircraft flying from Chicago to Paris, forcing a detour to London to scatter leaflets over the city. A number of Ustasha bomb attacks inside Yugoslavia, in cinemas and at Belgrade railway station, caused people to grumble that the UDBA [Ministry of Interior Security] had become less efficient since [Minister of Interior, a Serb - J.I.] Rankovic's sacking [by Yugoslav President Tito - J.I.]. Moreover those countries in western Europe that had abolished capital punishment refused to extradite terrorists to be executed in Yugoslavia. The UDBA therefore sent death squads to gun down Ustasha in Munich and other centres abroad, leading to diplomatic incidents with the governments concerned. [Footnote 10, page 416:] 10 Joan Coxsedge, Ken Caldicott and Gerry Harant, Rooted in Secrecy: The Clandestine Element in Australian Politics (Melbourne, 1982), pp. 43-59; Mark Aarons, Sanctuary: Nazi Fugitives in Australia (Melbourne, 1989). Mystery still surrounds the JAT aeroplane disaster. It has been alleged that the aircraft had illegally crossed Czechoslovak territory and was brought down by the Warsaw Pact defences. The Belgrade government did not want to admit that aircraft of the national carrier were vulnerable to sabotage. The Western press and police showed no interest in the affair. [End quoted text from Tito and the rise and fall of Yugoslavia] ================================================ Footnotes and Further Reading ================================================ [1] "Tour visa for 'fascist' rock singer attacked," by Greg Roberts, The Australian, December 22, 2007 http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22962054-2702,00.html * Further Reading: * * Debate on Croatian Fascist Rock Star's Upcoming Australia Tour by Jared Israel [Dec. 21, 2007] http://tenc.net/ajn.htm * Lyrics of "E moj narode," translated: "Protocols of Zion" set to music [Dec.15, 2007] http://tenc.net/moj.htm * Bizarre Antisemitism from the Croatian Clerical-Fascist Lobby A debate [Nov. 16, 2007] http://tenc.net/biz.htm * How the New York Times Doctored its Count of Croatia's W.W.II Victims Part 2 of "Oppose Fascist Rock Star's US Tour with the Truth" by Jared Israel [Nov. 6, 2007] http://tenc.net/tour2.htm * Oppose Fascist Rock Star's US Tour with the Truth Part 1 by Jared Israel [Nov. 3, 2007] http://tenc.net/tour.htm * 'Slightly Fascist'? The New York Times Prods Croatia. Gently. by Jared Israel [1 August 2007] http://tenc.net/croatia/times1.htm ================================================ Emperor's Clothes Needs Your Donation! ================================================ Our work depends on donations. If you find Emperor's Clothes useful, please help us to pay website, research and technical expenses. Every donation helps, big or small. If you would like to donate but can't afford to now, you can help by posting Emperor's Clothes articles on websites and discussion lists, and distributing them by email. If you can afford to donate now, please do. Our best is yet to come! Here's how to make a donation: * At our secure server: https://emperor.securesites.com/transactions/index.php * Using PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=emperors1000@aol.com&no_shipping=1 * Mail a check to: Emperor's Clothes P.O. 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