From: Pierre Nortje
Subject: Australian Numismatist Scott Balson hates Jews : Email sent to 1000 South African Coin Collectors
Balson himself described Australian Jewry as an "elite racist community", whatever that is meant to mean, Israel as "the world’s most racist state", and referred recently to George Soros as "a Jewish parasite". He has referred to Jews as Nazis and claimed Israel survives because of "well placed Jews in the US".
As editor of the daily "newspaper", Balson has directed readers to bizarre antisemitic conspiracy material web-sites which have included direct promotions of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and published articles referring to Jewish "tentacles". Openly antisemitic postings have included claims that Jews "have certainly been reading" the anti-Jewish forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and "acting on" their blueprint for world domination, with another containing an appeal for the English to "rise up against the filthy rotten zionist infested British Establishment".
Drawing mainly on his own imagination, with such reliable sources as convicted US fraudster Lyndon LaRouche, the promoter of Australian Christian Identity (ie. white supremacy) Ray Platt and a bevy of "One Nation supporters", Balson’s book is not the first attempt at bringing internet "wisdom" to the world of the book, but it is most likely one of the intellectually lamest.
At the time of writing, Balson’s main foci of animus are the evil conspirators who successfully plotted to delay a Brisbane-Sydney flight to cause him personal inconvenience, the battalions of secret service agents violating his personal property and the mainstream media who haven’t hailed his volume as the greatest contribution to human knowledge since, well, the internet.
Author-as-victim Balson sees a conspiracy in the fact that the mainstream media see no news value in his railings and an iron-hand of censorship behind the fact that, at the very most, one (anonymous) journalist attended the launch of a book exposing the ills of journalism.
I don't suppose it's defamatory to refer to this Scott Balson guy as a complete and utter kook with an overinflated sense of his own importance?
Posted by Sarah at 8:48 pm
Date: 10/12/2016 10:33:00 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
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Source of Nortje's cut and pastes
Response:
Before Balson responds to the content of Nortje's defamatory email let us consider this simple question.
Who supplied Nortje (if he is telling the truth - which is questionable) with the email addresses of 1,000 people interested in S African coins?
Balson understands that Nortje, because of his financial contributions through sales on BidorBuy (BoB), is the moderator of their coin forum in which he is basically the only participant now.
Who knows what other links he has within this organisation that refuses to stand by its own conditions of use in its forums. Conditions that Nortje repeatedly breaches without any ramifications.
What we do know is that he does not personally have the email addresses of 1,000 South African coins collectors. So how did he get this list?
The only answer Balson has is that BoB has supplied Nortje with your own private and confidential information either through his position as a forum moderator or, even worse, by providing him with a list from their records.
What Balson does know is that coin collectors who had never heard of Nortje received this email only because they were buyers and sellers of coins on BoB.
As someone who is a member of Bob this is a huge breach of your privacy if Balson's suspicions are correct.
Balson will now respond to Pierre Henri Nortje's latest defamatory outburst in the email copied above:
First of all there is only one grub - not kook here - and that is Nortje. Balson has never lowered himself to personal attacks - just exposed Nortje for what he is - a research fraud.
If you take the link that Nortje provides as his source above you will see the following comments below the 2008 article written in a nobodys private forum.
Quotes:
Suggest you be careful on this one.
You called him a Nazi (The Australian didn't) - doesn't matter if you have diddly-squad in your piggy bank.
The Australian newspaper don't apologise for fun.
And Bankruptcy hurts (especially if you are newly married).
Gam like Sarah I have Googled this guy and he is not a white supremacist... he actually runs a global village homestay business for the benefit of indigenous people.
Do your own research and see for yourself just why The Australian tried to defame him. It isn't that hard.
He is on your side and you have taken a cheap shot which could turn out to be real expensive.
Word of advice don't presume anything when it comes to the law. Cheap talk can become real expensive later on.
Gam, Sarah take the blinkers off and read the Australian Press Council Ruling carefully:
Mr Balson said that the views in question were printed on an open forum on a news website that has been inactive for over seven years and were clearly referenced then as not his personal views. He argued that equally extreme views were now commonly aired on websites run by media organisations.
The report quoted a spokesman for the Council of Australian Jewry (Jeremy Jones) that Mr Balson had long been associated with extremist right-wing views and conspiracy theories, without indicating whether this was a recent comment.
The article you have posted was written in 1999 by Jeremy Jones. See the link?
If someone posted a hate message on your open blog should you be forever labelled because of that?
My advice, for what its worth, is to just apologise and move on. One day you could well be in Balson's shoes. You don't know the whole story and, by your own words, you presume much.
This is their ruling:
The Press Council has upheld a complaint that The Australian unfairly associated author and webmaster Scott Balson with organisations known to espouse racist, conspiracy and extreme right-wing views.
The report, on 5 October 2007, alleged that right-wing extremists were behind a move to damage the then Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd by reviving the Heiner Affair a 1990 Queensland controversy arising from alleged government shredding of documents relating to a judicial inquiry. At the time Mr Rudd was a senior government officer.
Mr Balson maintains a website devoted to keeping the Heiner Affair in the public arena. In a backgrounding of Mr Balson, The Australian listed a number of extremist groups whose controversial views have been published on his websites.
Mr Balson said that the views in question were printed on an open forum on a news website that has been inactive for over seven years and were clearly referenced then as not his personal views. He argued that equally extreme views were now commonly aired on websites run by media organisations.
The report quoted a spokesman for the Council of Australian Jewry that Mr Balson had long been associated with extremist right-wing views and conspiracy theories, without indicating whether this was a recent comment.
Mr Balson complained that the report lacked balance in that during his brief interview via email with The Australian he was not made aware of the full nature of the article nor given the opportunity to rebut such criticism.
The newspaper itself did not specifically accuse the complainant of being either anti-Semitic or racist but Mr Balson said that linking organisations with known anti-Semitic views from his long closed website, together with comments by the Australian Jewry spokesman, would lead readers to infer that he was anti-Semitic, a charge he has vehemently denied for nearly a decade.
In upholding the complaint, the Council notes that people active in the political arena can be burdened with past associations long after such connections may have ceased to have any relevance. While the report refers to Mr Balson as a “former” One Nation webmaster, and he does not deny that one of his website forums once carried extremist material, it is important that newspapers identify when these associations occurred, or demonstrate to readers that such associations are held contemporaneously.
Pierre Henri Nortje is a lying grub - be very careful in any dealings with him.