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Web of hate: meet Sydney's KKK

Date: 02/06/99

By GREG ROBERTS

The Ku Klux Klan has established what it describes as a "real nice size
Klavern in the Realm of Australia", organised by a Sydney man 
associated
with the notorious Australian Nationalist Movement and the One Nation
party.

In the first confirmation of the presence of the feared white supremacist
group in Australia, a major KKK group, the Imperial Klans of America,
based in Kentucky, has set up branches in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. A
second group, the New Order Knights, based in Montana, plans to start an
Australian chapter soon. Other groups have individual members in
Australia. The KKK boasts it is recruiting Australians through the
Internet. The Web is giving it a virtual office here free of official
scrutiny.

The Imperial Klans has appointed the Sydney man, Mr Peter Coleman, as its
Australian "Exalted Cyclops".

"I am happy to shout it from the rooftops," Mr Coleman told the Herald.
"There is nothing illegal or extraordinary about it. The only reason
groups like this exist is that if you try and talk in a normal manner, you
are pilloried from post to post. Just look at Pauline Hanson. You are
forced to be extremist.

"Our aim is for a white Australia, a fair Australia."

In the past two years, there have been a series of KKK-style attacks on
Aborigines, especially in north Queensland, but police have denied the
existence of a Klan presence. Mr Coleman denied his members were involved
in such attacks but said members of other KKK factions may have been, and
he could understand such behaviour. "People are at their wits' end," he
said. "They don't know what else they can do."

The Imperial Klans' international leader, Mr Ron Edwards, was subpoenaed
to appear last month before a US Federal Grand Jury investigation into
allegations of a plot by right-wing extremists to blow up government
buildings. His appearance followed a raid by more than 100 police on the
group's head-quarters searching for explosives. Mr Coleman said they found
nothing incriminating and the KKK was not involved in any such plot. "We
don't condone violence." Mr Coleman is a former member of the Australian

Nationalist Movement, whose leaders, Jack Van Tongeren and John Van
Blitterswyk, are serving jail sentences for firebombing Asian restaurants
in Perth in the late 1980s.

Mr Coleman, who asked that no details of his personal background be
revealed, has been a member of One Nation since its inception. He says he
greatly admires Ms Pauline Hanson, and that the party's electoral fortunes
have given legitimacy to groups such as the KKK. When told of his KKK
ties, however, One Nation's national director, Mr David Ettridge, moved
immediately to expel Mr Coleman. "We don't support that sort of extremism
in any way," Mr Ettridge said.

Mr Coleman said the Klan's Australian groups held monthly meetings, with
members wearing the traditional hoods and robes and conducting what he
described as "cross lightings". "It's just like the Masons dressing up in
their pretty wild gear," he said. "It's a traditional thing." The Klan had
about 70 members in the three eastern States but membership was growing
rapidly. "We're getting a tremendous amount of applications from Australia
via the Internet. People are intrigued by us, not repelled." Mr Coleman
claimed some races were "genetically programmed" to commit crime; that
"there is Jew under every rock"; that homosexuals are "abnormal"; and that
Aborigines are "beyond help ... the worst of the whites mixed in with the
black". The KKK's emergence has prompted anti-racism groups to call on the
Federal Government to expand its legislation censoring Internet
pornography torace hate groups. "If offensive material such as pornography
on the Internet must be regulated, so too must hate," said the director of
the B'nai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission, Mr Danny Ben-Moshe. "If the
KKK were to succeed in doing in Australia what they have done overseas, we
could see a serious deterioration in racerelations."

With the revelation coming in National Reconciliation Week, the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission called on the Government to examine
urgently ways of banning the Klan.

ATSIC's social justice commissioner, Mr Terry O'Shane, said: "This has the
potential to shake the social fabric of our community, and Australia as a
society simply can not tolerate it in any shape or form. It has got to be
outlawed."

Tomorrow, the Herald examines other Australian organisations which believe
in the supremacy of the white race.

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