Editing True Blue Crew

{{Evil Organization
|Box title    = Evil Organization
|image        = TrueBlueCrewLogo.jpg
|size   = 
|fullname = True Blue Crew
|alias = TBC
|origin = Australia
|foundation = 2014
|headquarters = Melton, Victoria, Australia
|commanders = [[Kane Miller]]
|agents = [[Phillip Galea]]
|skills = Knowledge of various terrorism tactics and guerrilla warfare
|goals = Eradicate all non-whites in Australia (ongoing)
|crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Misogyny]]
|type of villain = Extremist Terrorists}}The '''True Blue Crew (TBC)''' is an Australian [[Alt-Right|alt-right]] extremist group. Members and supporters have been linked to right-wing [[terrorism]] and vigilantism, and members have been arrested with weapons and on terrorism-related charges. Experts who have studied the group say it appears to be "committed to violence".

The group rose to prominence as an [[Islamophobia|anti-Islam]] group in 2015, and shifted more towards anti-immigration in response to public sentiment and police crackdowns.
==Background==
===History===
Beginning in 2014, members of what would become the True Blue Crew were involved in the "Voices of Bendigo" and "Stop the Mosques" Bendigo protests. A number of far-right groups, including the Q Society, Reclaim Australia, the Australian Defence League, the [[Antipodean Resistance]], and the [[United Patriots Front]] opposed the construction of a mosque and Islamic community centre in Bendigo, Victoria.

The True Blue Crew was formed in 2015 as a splinter group from the anti-Islamic Reclaim Australia group, along with a number of small far-right nationalist groups such as the United Patriots Front.

In May 2016, the group attended an anti-mosque protest in Melton along with members of the United Patriots Front and the Love Australia or Leave Party. About 150 people attended, opposing a housing development which they falsely claimed was being built for Muslims only. As the crowd dispersed following a similar protest in August the same year, fighting broke out between members of the True Blue Crew and anti-Muslim vigilante group the Sons of Odin.

In January 2018, United Patriots Front and True Blue Crew were reported by Channel 7 news to be attempting to arrange vigilante patrols to monitor young African Australian men. The report led to accusations that Channel 7 were giving [[neo-Nazi]]s a speech platform.
===Terrorism and criminal activities===
On 25 June 2016, police seized weapons including a knife and knuckle duster during an "Australian Pride" rally.

In August 2016, a member of True Blue Crew, Phillip Galea, was charged with terrorism-related offences, including collecting or making documents to prepare for terrorist acts and carrying out acts in preparation for a terrorist act. Police investigators said that Galea was linked to several far-right groups including Reclaim Australia, United Patriots Front, True Blue Crew and the openly neo-Nazi group [[Combat 18]]. Galea was accused of ordering ingredients for explosives and video footage seized in raids showed Galea carrying out reconnaissance of a target, the documents allege. His intended target was a small anarchist bookshop on a busy main road in Northcote, Victoria, opposite Northcote High School. Police stated that “Galea outlined his intentions were to cause as much devastation to these locations as possible in a team coordinated attack, using smoke bombs and [[improvised explosive device]]s”. Galea was accused of researching homemade bombs, ballistic armour and guns, preparing a terrorist document entitled “Patriot’s Cookbook”. Galea is incarcerated at the Thomas Embling Hospital, a high-security mental health facility.

In the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, it emerged that the alleged perpetrator, [[Brenton Tarrant]], had three years earlier given fulsome praise to [[Blair Cottrell]] as a leader of the far-right movements on social media. He made more than 30 comments on the now deleted UPF and TBC Facebook pages, singling out Cottrell for praise and disparaging [[Neil Erikson]] and Shermon Burgess as "useful idiots". The group was banned from Facebook after posting Islamophobic messages in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.
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