Hey supporters

News in today. Lidia Thorpe is to table a 400000 plus petition to arrest Sewell and NSN members who stormed Camp Sovereignty in Naarm (Melbourne) on hate crime charges.Thorpe to table 400,000-strong petition urging hate crime charges for Camp Sovereignty attack

Hate crimes fall under different legislation than counter-terrorism laws, with different charges and scope for prosecution. The attack on Aboriginal people at Camp Sovereignty was obviously driven by racial hatred but the definition of hate crime does not include the propagation of an extremist ideology, which is also evidenced in recent anti-immigration marches and the unapologetic display of the Nazi salute.

In this case the attack on Camp Sovereignty prosecuted under hate crime laws, whilst a big step up from common assault charges, will not set a strong enough precedent to prevent future attacks based on racist Neo-Nazi ideologies and actions from these groups like the NSN. It will also be prosecuted as an isolated crime against Aboriginal peoples within the state of Victoria rather than look at the decentralised terrorist crimes committed by the NSN nationally, with ties to other international terrorist groups, and the protection of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, black and brown immigrants, Jewish, Muslim and other non-Christian religious groups, and the LGBTQI+ community- all targets of Thomas Sewell and the NSN. 

Please take the time (less than ten mins) to read the AI generated overview of the difference between counter-terrorism and race hate laws and the way they are prosecuted, with links to legislation and other verified articles for a deeper dive.