A young father who was arrested while trying to join fellow nationalist activists and celebrate Australia Day with an Australian flag in Adelaide has faced court.
Victorian man Nathan Bull, 23, appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court by phone on Friday after being charged with “carrying an offensive weapon or article of disguise” over a hat and sunglasses he had in his bag as he was on his way to a march with about 70 other National Socialist Network members on January 26.
He was arrested alongside 15 other men who were all kept in isolation for three days before being granted bail with conditions preventing them from entering the Adelaide CBD or contacting other members and associates of their political group.
Mr Bull, whose wife gave birth in December, told Magistrate John Clover he intended to fight the charge and would represent himself in court, The Advertiser reported.
“I think it’s ridiculous I was arrested, put in solitary confinement and charged for having sunglasses and a hat. May I say, the police that arrested me were wearing hats and sunglasses,” he told the court.
The magistrate said that Mr Bull should have appeared in court in person, but Mr Bull responded that he had been granted a phone hearing by email, which Noticer News has verified with Mr Bull.
The magistrate then adjourned the case until next month, giving Mr Bull permission to appear by video conference.
“The magistrate asked me to explain why I was disputing the charges, I started giving my reasons, he cut me off and said that the case was adjourned until April 28th which means I’m not allowed to venerate my ancestors with my folk at The Shrine of Remembrance on ANZAC Day,” Mr Bull told Noticer News.
“They laid down their lives so that we wouldn’t have to be subject to this kind of corruption by the gay communist Jews who have weaselled their way into our government.”
Video obtained by Noticer News shows nationalist activist Thomas Sewell being arrested seconds into a speech in front of the National War Memorial in Adelaide today.
“I am under arrest for celebrating Australia Day”, he says as police handcuff him. pic.twitter.com/Ac6unpgmTQ
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Members of the National Socialist Network sing Waltzing Matilda as they march through the Adelaide CBD on Australia Day.
Police later made multiple arrests. pic.twitter.com/czRIgdWKsX
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He also said that he was initially arrested for carrying a flagpole with the Australian flag, which he was allowed to take back to Victoria, but after searching his bag police found his hat, sunglasses and NSN shirt and laid the disguise charge instead, stating they believed he would use the shirt to commit an offence.
Police confiscated the hat and sunglasses, his necklace with a Mjöllnir pendant attached, his phone and phone case containing a Polaroid photo of his wife and baby, as evidence, Mr Bull said, adding that the whole process showed that the system was biased against White Australians.
“This entire legal fiasco is clear cut proof that the beast system hates White people, especially us patriotic White men who are willing to make sacrifices and stand with conviction in order to save the White Race which is under attack from all angles including from the legal system, non-Whites, the so-called ‘government’, the so-called ‘police’ and the media. I will continue to stand true with Honour in the struggle for the existence of the White race, Hail Victory,” he said.
Mr Bull’s court appearance comes three days after another nationalist activist had charges of wearing an article of disguise and displaying a Nazi symbol dropped.
West Australian man Mason James Robbins, 30, appeared in the same court by phone from Perth on Tuesday where prosecutors applied to withdraw the charges and agreed to pay his legal costs.
And on March 5 South Australian man Shannen Bartel, 24, who is not an NSN member but was arrested just for being in the vicinity of the march, also had his charge of failing to cease loitering dropped, with SA Police agreeing to pay an amount of his costs.
The remaining 15 men arrested over the march are due to face court his month, except for Stephen Wells, who refused to accept the conditions and remains in isolation in the maximum security Adelaide Remand Centre, even though his initial charge of loitering has since been withdrawn at a bail hearing.
He will face court on a single charge of displaying a Nazi symbol for his NSN patch on April 17.
Header image: Left, Nathan Bull. Right, the NSN during the Australia Day march (supplied).
