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03-01-2004, 02:00 PM
What the fuck? :dunno:
White supremacists scrap meeting plans
Leanne Dohy
Calgary Herald
A white supremacist gathering to be held Sunday near Innisfail was cancelled at the last moment, to a mix of relief and disappointment of a small band of Communists who had planned to confront them.
The meeting of Western Canada For Us -- also known as White Canada For Us -- was to be held in the remote Knee Hill Valley Community Centre, located about 10 kilometres east of Highway 2.
According to Stormfront.org, an international white supremacist website, the meeting was called to discuss the possibility of a settlement in the area.
"The plan is to buy land in the area and set up a whites-only homeland," said Jason Devine, a Calgary Communist and member of Anti-Racist Action, in an interview in the empty, nearly trackless parking lot of the community hall.
"Because of the crisis in the beef industry, they're thinking that they're going to be able to get land for cheap. It's not going to happen, but people need to know what they're trying to do."
Efforts to contact the creator of the Western Canada For Us website were unsuccessful.
Devine said that he'd been told by ARA sources that the meeting was cancelled because word had gotten out.
RCMP in Red Deer confirmed that the group had planned to meet in the area.
"I was informed that it would not be an issue for me," said platoon commander Sgt. Allen Williamson.
"I don't have a lot of details about it, but I did hear that a meeting was planned and then cancelled."
A resident of the area confirmed that Western Canada For Us had paid $50 to rent the hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
According to the discussion forum on Stormfront.org, the group had itself contacted RCMP to inform them of the meeting and the likelihood of Anti-Racist Action protesters.
Devine said his group had hoped to get photographs of meeting attendees to put on posters.
The posters would then be circulated to alert neighbours to the presence of racist groups.
David Lethbridge, a British Columbia anti-racist researcher and activist, said word of the planned meeting had spread across the country. Paul Fromm, a Toronto neo-Nazi leader, was expected to attend, as well as Melissa Guille, leader of the B.C. white power organization Canadian Heritage Alliance.
He said the planned community near Innisfail would be called Whiteville, and that the Knee Hill Valley meeting was meant to be a strategy session.
Devine had mixed feelings about the meeting's cancellation.
"It's good to think that publicizing their activities made them shut down the meeting, but I was also hoping to get a look at them," he said.
http://www.canada.com/calgary/story.asp?id=66413B27-7F30-4C0C-B541-479F7E31A6C5
White supremacists scrap meeting plans
Leanne Dohy
Calgary Herald
A white supremacist gathering to be held Sunday near Innisfail was cancelled at the last moment, to a mix of relief and disappointment of a small band of Communists who had planned to confront them.
The meeting of Western Canada For Us -- also known as White Canada For Us -- was to be held in the remote Knee Hill Valley Community Centre, located about 10 kilometres east of Highway 2.
According to Stormfront.org, an international white supremacist website, the meeting was called to discuss the possibility of a settlement in the area.
"The plan is to buy land in the area and set up a whites-only homeland," said Jason Devine, a Calgary Communist and member of Anti-Racist Action, in an interview in the empty, nearly trackless parking lot of the community hall.
"Because of the crisis in the beef industry, they're thinking that they're going to be able to get land for cheap. It's not going to happen, but people need to know what they're trying to do."
Efforts to contact the creator of the Western Canada For Us website were unsuccessful.
Devine said that he'd been told by ARA sources that the meeting was cancelled because word had gotten out.
RCMP in Red Deer confirmed that the group had planned to meet in the area.
"I was informed that it would not be an issue for me," said platoon commander Sgt. Allen Williamson.
"I don't have a lot of details about it, but I did hear that a meeting was planned and then cancelled."
A resident of the area confirmed that Western Canada For Us had paid $50 to rent the hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
According to the discussion forum on Stormfront.org, the group had itself contacted RCMP to inform them of the meeting and the likelihood of Anti-Racist Action protesters.
Devine said his group had hoped to get photographs of meeting attendees to put on posters.
The posters would then be circulated to alert neighbours to the presence of racist groups.
David Lethbridge, a British Columbia anti-racist researcher and activist, said word of the planned meeting had spread across the country. Paul Fromm, a Toronto neo-Nazi leader, was expected to attend, as well as Melissa Guille, leader of the B.C. white power organization Canadian Heritage Alliance.
He said the planned community near Innisfail would be called Whiteville, and that the Knee Hill Valley meeting was meant to be a strategy session.
Devine had mixed feelings about the meeting's cancellation.
"It's good to think that publicizing their activities made them shut down the meeting, but I was also hoping to get a look at them," he said.
http://www.canada.com/calgary/story.asp?id=66413B27-7F30-4C0C-B541-479F7E31A6C5