Month: December 2007

The Sound and the Fury II

The Sound and the Fury II

Being an entirely random depository of evidence, findings, musings, observations, questions, & notes from my study of Vlaams Belang.

This is the ugly part of journalism – raw notes and research, cut and pasted here. I wanted you to see some of the process and effort that goes on in the background to research things, it ain’t pretty, but you can see that it’s thorough and also multi-sourced. In other words the analysis and conclusions come to here are not just on a whim, or after looking at one thing. I am not posting the VB site things I’ve dug up, because that is already out in other articles at other sites. Enjoy.

Let’s start at the beginning – when the debate over Vlaams Belang first came up, I was one of their initial defenders, saying they were less fascist than the Swedish Democrats, but after more research at their sites to validate what I was saying, I came across a few things, this was among the first and it prompted an article in the series at Little Green Footballs. This is the banner that VB cartoonist, Fre, uses for his column on cartoons in the VB youth magazine.

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Another example of how they indoctrinate youth:

Jonger Acktief (JA)

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This site is now “independent” since the court ruling against Vlaams Blok, but it was the outlet for youth propaganda. Note however that they still have the latest Vlaams Belang stuff, and still sell Odin’s cross necklaces. The new VB stuff they have to get from somewhere and would assume they need permission to sell it.

If you dig around on the site you will see Voorpost flags and lebensrunes in some pics along with a flag. I”m still researching the flag. (White background, Black Cross, Red Dragon over all.)

[*Note that the grave marker on the left bar at the site above is from Ijzer, (Yser river) near Diksmuide, it commemorates World War 1 and the Flemish who died in the fields there, and is a historic marker important to all Flemish people. It’s in memory of the lost generation, the horrific trench warfare that disillusioned all towards war, and the battles commemorated by the poem “In Flanders Fields.” There’s not a darned thing wrong with it, please do not get it confused with the white power sign as it’s completely different. The difference is the shape of the arms, and the width of the base as it follows the traditional religious Celtic Cross cross use. In the banner above you can see the Odin cross variety typically used to designate white power or “Identity purists. This is the banner of stormfront. The cross in the banner is outlawed in nearby Germany, the stylized Celtic cross with widening arms as seen on graves clearly is not.]

Kaffir – Kuffar?

Just a reminder : Kaffir was used extensively in Apartheid South Africa, it dates far back and might be borrowed from the Muslim denigration for non-believers: “Kuffar.”

Vlaams Belang group is still linked into the Flemish and Dutch supremacist fronts via voorpost and Ijzerwake activities. There are usually solidarity speeches with White South Africa, or the Afrikaaners at every Zangerfeest and Ijzerwake, at Voorpost this poster is a permanent fixture of the wall, as you can see they’ve run electric conduit over the top:

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“Flemish Solidarity with White South Africa”

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An Interview With Al Qaeda Emir of Training at Haditha

In this MEMRI clip there is a lot to be learned. It’s an interview with a Palestinian AQ operative who outlines how they were trained, supplied, funded, as well as their structure. Some of it is probably elaboration, but there are grains of truth here.

It also speaks well of our efforts, as AQ has suffered massive defeats, even though they had troops from almost every Islamic country in the world.

Hats off to our troops who took them all on and put them all away except the cowards who ran away like this one.

The Sound and the Fury

stmaartensfonds-flag.jpg “The Flemish nationalists are the heirs of the collaborators of 1940-1945”
Karel Dillen in 1990.
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Introduction 

It’s time to detail the full facts of the controversy over Vlaams Belang simply because the main issue around the feud has become entirely obscured in the back and forth and the emotions of the spat.

I want to lay out the argument and the facts I know in concise form, because many are are confused by the piecemeal nature of the back and forth posts over weeks. The problem with the back and forth is the focus on single details and rationalizations rather than the collective mass of facts or larger picture.

You should also be aware before you read that I’ve decided on the matter — my conclusion is that allying with Vlaams Belang would be strategically inept while providing little value, and would both harm our efforts to stem illegal immigration and sap support for our anti-Islamofacist efforts.

This is the case whether VB is taking a course to reform or not. There is too much evidence from their own sites, manifestos, statements, party publications, and affiliated groups that their leadership is not distant enough from the stance on collaborators, identity politics, and immature political theater to make any alliance with them sane. Even if they are making whole-hearted honest efforts to reform, the track record is just not long enough. (Some in their leadership are I think, some others aren’t.)

There is a also a large moral question in the midst of this bickering which I cannot decide for you — what I can do is leave the moral questions aside for the moment and put forth just the facts and the positions.

What I know

After investigating Vlaams Belang I found many indicators that their post-Vlaams Blok metamorphosis for their leadership is surface-veneer only; somewhat forced by the Belgian court decsions against their prior incarnation as well as EU laws against overt anti-semitism and overt Nazism. Couple that with the realpolitic of the alliances they need to control Antwerp, and you have a posture, not a firm stance.

The court order would have stopped public funding and since public funding is the only type that parties in Belgium are allowed to spend, the order would have killed Vlaams Blok; hence the softer, kinder, more compassionate Vlaams Belang.

Since the court order a second attempt has been tried to cut funds from Vlaams Belang based on Filip Dewinters statement that he is an “Islamophobe.” There’s really nothing wrong with that other than choice of words. (He is essentially saying that he is not rational – the definition of a phobia is an “irrational fear” – regardless, that’s not something that should be taken to court, and it’s wrong of other parties to do so.)   Continue reading “The Sound and the Fury”

Black Tuesday

It’s Black Tuesday once again, which means Microsoft has released new patches for their operating systems. Please got to Microsoft update and get patched, the updates are below:

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – December 2007 (KB890830)
Update for Windows XP (KB942763)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB941568)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB941569)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB942615)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB944653)

You can also find more detail at Sans Internet Storm Center. There are three criticals and one Blazing hot PATCH NOW! warning, so get out there soon — don’t become some bot-driver’s bitch….

I’m a Fool to do Your Dirty Work, Oh Yeah

Israel sent ten tanks into Southern Gaza in a limited incursion to take out missile launching sites used by Hamas today. Hamas was thoroughly ineffective in stopping them, as you can see by the report. The kicker is at the end of the article however.

 The Islamic Jihad militant group said one member was killed and three others were wounded in an Israeli ground attack on a rocket-launching squad.
The violence came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged to “forge a historic path” toward a final accord with the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

On Wednesday, the two sides are to launch their first formal peace talks in seven years. But Olmert has warned that Israel would not implement any peace deal until Abbas regains control of Gaza and reins in militants there and in the West Bank.

So no peace until Fatah gets HAMAS under reign in Gaza — well we’ve seen the fabled “bravery” of Fatah, so you know who’s going to do the dirty work in the end, the initials are IDF.

I’m a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
I don’t wanna do your dirty work
No more
I’m a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah…

Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same

Al Qaeda Attacks in Algeria, 40 or More Muslims dead

algerian-attacks.jpgTwin coordinated bombings in Algeria have the fingerprints of Al Qaeda in Algeria all over them. One against the UN refugee agency, the other was a car bomb near the supreme court building where most of the casualties took place – it was triggered to coincide with the passing of a bus full of law students. Story from AP:

One bomb tore apart the front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) building. A second blew apart a bus packed with university students outside the Supreme Court.

Algeria has been hit by a number of bomb attacks this year — in which scores of people have been killed — and most have been claimed by Al-Qaeda.

Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni said a suicide bomber triggered the explosion outside the Algiers office of the UNHCR.

The front of the red brick building was badly damaged and the UNHCR said staff were among the casualties.

In the second near-simultaneous attack, a car bomb was detonated outside the Supreme Court as a bus packed with university students passed by, heading for a nearby law faculty.

Security sources said the bus took the full force of the blast and most of the dead and injured there were students.

“The death toll is very high,” the minister told reporters without giving a figure.

Hospital sources said 52 people were killed in the two attacks but did not give a breakdown. They added that several foreigners were among the seriously injured.

UPDATE: Death toll Climbs to 62

UPDATE II: Jammiewearin Fool notes that AQ has now claimed credit.

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Pakistan Update: Offensive in Swat continues

To bring you up to date, the offensive in Swat continues with the government reporting 230 Taliban killed and 150 captured. On Friday they took over Fazlullah’s madrassa compound and sealed it off. They also razed his and his key aide’s homes. The remaining TNSM fled to the North and east into higher mountainous country.

Above them lies Chitral, to the East Pakistani controlled Kashmir, and to the West are passages to the Kunar valley in Afghanistan. The elevation of the valley floors they are are in is about 4,300 feet, with peaks surrounding them rising to as high as 11,000 feet.

The pursuit after this will be slow going since the Pak army has a policy of taking all surrounding high ground before advancing. (This is something that was pointed out as a failure of the troops who got captured earlier this year.) In December at those elevations the options for the Taliban are running out as many of the high passes and paths are blocked by Ice and snow.