True Blue Crew: Difference between revisions

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|goals = Eradicate all non-whites in Australia (ongoing)

|crimes = [[Terrorism]] [[Hate crime]]s [[Islamophobia]] Xenophobia [[White supremacy]] [[Anti-Semitism]] [[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]

|type of villains = 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.

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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.

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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 |goals = Eradicate all non-whites in Australia (ongoing)
 |crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>Xenophobia<br>[[White supremacy]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]
-|type of villains = 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".
+|type of villains = 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.
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 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.
+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.
 [[Category:Organizations]]
 [[Category:Terrorists]]