Four prominent nationalist figures have been charged with “offensive behaviour” over a peaceful counter-protest at a far-left rally in Melbourne where so-called refugees were demanding to stay in Australia forever.
National Socialist Network (NSN) activists Thomas Sewell, Joel Davis, Timothy Lutze and Nathan Bull are all accused of being present at the protest in Docklands on October 22 last year where their group of about 30 faced off with 300 far-left extremists.
Video of the protest shows police pepper-spraying the right-wing activists and striking them with batons both in the street and after they moved to a park with a banner reading “Fuck off, we’re full”.
Mr Davis, who was the only NSN member not wearing a mask at the protest, revealed on Monday the four activists have been charged with “behave in an offensive manner in a public place” for chanting slogans including “Fuck off, we’re full” and “Australia for the White man”.
Exclusive video obtained by Noticer News shows Victoria Police using pepper spray and batons on peaceful nationalist protesters who turned up at a “refugee” rally in Docklands, Melbourne, on Tuesday.
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He responded to the charges on his Telegram channel, calling them “outrageous” and a joking that “fuck off, we’re full” – popularised at the 2005 Cronulla anti-immigration protest – was an “ancient Australian proverb”.
“These offensive behaviour laws were passed in the 1960s, when the White Australia Policy was still in place, under the premiership of Henry Bolte – who never wavered in his advocacy for the White Australia Policy his entire political career,” he said,
“These laws were not passed with the intention of criminalising political speech, they were passed with the intention of punishing people for public vulgarity. Political speech has constitutional and common law protections in this country, legislators in the 1960s universally respected this.
“This flagrant disrespect for democracy and freedom of speech by the political division of Victoria Police that justifies itself under the absurd pretext of ‘counter-terrorism’ is truly egregious.”
He added that if the four were found guilty the verdict would make it a crime to tell foreigners to get out of Australia, and said he would take the case all the way to the high court if necessary.
Footage from the rally shows left-wing extremists hurling abuse at the NSN before police drew their batons and and used pepper spray to push the right-wing group down the street.
Another clip shows one of the nationalist activists being kicked by a Victoria Police officer before another strikes him with a baton.
Mr Sewell, who is in prison on remand on unrelated charged, spoke out about the actions of the police on Mr Davis and Blair Cottrell’s Rumble podcast The Joel & Blair Show afterwards, and was then charged with intimidating a police officer and his wife for his comments.
He was found guilty last month, despite not naming the officer or the officer’s wife, and sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
The far-left demonstration was billed as a “closing rally” after police ordered a group of immigrant protesters to pack up a noisy encampment outside the Home Affairs office on Bourke St where they had been protesting for 100 days.
David Glanz, a Jewish pro-refugee activist who has been helping organise the protests, said at the time that the demonstration was “a real festival of resistance, celebrating the incredible sacrifice that refugees have made with 100 days of round-the-clock encampment”.
The “refugee” protesters, who has also staged protests in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, have been organised and supported by anti-Australian left-wing extremist organisations including Socialist Alliance, and have been involved in ugly clashes with police and members of the public.
They are also backed by the Victorian Socialists, who want to “radically reorganise society” and aim to abolish capitalism and create a classless socialist republic in Australia.
Header image: Left, right, Joel Davis at the protest (supplied).
