NAZIS

The emergence of the nazi skinhead began in 1976, when the media of the day were focusing on football and political violence. They made it attractive to young wanna be warriors.

They also natured it with news and television features that turned it into a fad. I sometimes wondered if it would have died a natural death. Had it not been for the publicity it was afforded.

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. Began life as a non-political organization that wanted to highlight that not all skinheads were racist. They succeeded to a degree, but were compromised by the infiltration of their ranks by members of "AFA" and "Red Action" who would beat brotherly love and racial tolerance into anyone they suspected of being a nazi.

FENCEWALKING

Is the standard accusation of both factions against the none political element of the cult, who are trying to maintain the roots of the movement.

Members of both wings have a policy of if your not for us your against us. For that reason I have had trouble with both factions with false accusations of being a commie or fascist.

TROJAN SKINS

I started the term Trojan skins, in London in the mid eighties. As a way of identifying with the roots and Jamaican influence within the cult.

I felt no need to wear a badge to prove I am not a racist. Or go out of my way to fight nazis or communists. Purely from the fact I don't want to add to their sense of self importance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POLITRICKS

Political extremes have been the bane of my life. I have come into contact with both fascists and anti-fascists in my time. I've always had the view that political skinheads are ethereal - all the look and none of the substance. I personally hark back to the days when a skinhead was a skinhead, not a political activist. you'll find a poem I wrote on globalization on the web site, which contains the line:

"A matrix web of temple knights - set social traps for guttersnipes"

Political extremes to my mind are a social trap, that behaves like a religious cult for the atheist. Like all fundamentalists they want to corrupt the world around them to fit their view. They believe in the written word of their chosen propaganda, no matter how blatantly it fly's in the face of reality.

I'm not against the odd ruck. as a teenager I was active on the terraces and streets. Yet I always believed in "Fair play" and would stay out of a fight if it didn't measure up to my standards that I had set for myself. At football we only targeted those who wanted to fight us, like minded hooligans. A police inspector once said about the crack down on football violence - it'll displace the conflict to somewhere else! I think he was right its gone from casual violence on the terraces. To something far more vicious and cowardly.

Though I have been on the receiving end of Agrro from nazis and left-wingers. I haven't felt the pull to choose sides. Like religion I read politics as an individual choice. Its only when they have said "If your not for us your against us" that its degenerated into trouble. Usually when the numbers or weapons are in their favor.

Some people have a daily need for violence, its such a strong impulse that the reasons to fight become superfluous and lack integrity. Making the aggro more important than the reason, I've found the same mentality present in members of opposite wings and consider them to have more factors in common with each other, than opposing. Its the polarity of political opposites. Thinking in terms of a circle place the right wing in any position, then following the logic that the opposite extreme is at the furthermost point away from that. They end up being neighbors in the same ball park. The people who are middle of the road stand at a point that is in the middle. Normality is furthest away from these two opposing political factions.

I'm not saying politics doesn't have its place in our lives. There are things in this world I'd like to change. Yet I am a socialist, not a communist or Nazi. I believe in fair play and equal rights. Yet political extremists seem to share a common factor, sociopathic in its nature. They're more alike than opposite. Sensing that there is a prerequisite mentality to all extremists and fundamentalists, whether they are political or indeed religious, I think the governments should spend more on tackling mental disorders. As well as study deprogramming techniques for the brain-washed mentality is another factor I have noticed very strongly among the extremists.

What I am saying about political extremes is true about the religious ones as well. There are lessons to be learnt, as collectively and in some cases individually these people can pose a danger. Whether they can change the world is irrelevant, I think half of them are hard pressed to change their boxer shorts without help!

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