ARYAN GUARD BONEHEAD IN COURT ON ASSAULT CHARGES; VICTIM AND FORMER FRIEND TESTIFY AGAINST HIM

The mallrats of the Aryan Guard have gone from just a bunch of teenyboppers on a street corner with matching White Pride flags to a bunch of chump kids that are going to see the end of their crew real soon. They might want to rethink this path of assaulting random nonwhites because that is what’s putting them on the fast track A Japanese woman who just emigrated to Canada was assaulted last summer by one of the AG, some 17-year-old numbskull whose name we won’t reveal for the obvious reason. She and a former friend of his testified against him in court this week and the friend made mention of this association with the AG in court. They have had numerous contacts with the law in the past, but now it gets even more dicey with them. We of course will be laughing at the whole spectacle. You understand now why we don’t take mallrat Nazis seriously?

Edmonton Sun

CALGARY — The suspect in the assault of a Japanese woman belonged to a white supremacist group that commits random attacks on minorities, his former friend said yesterday.

The witness said his ex-pal, who is a juvenile, was a member of the Aryan Guard.

And he said the teen even wore red laces in his combat boots – symbolic among members of a willingness to lose your life, or act violently for the group.

“It means you’re willing to die or spill blood for the cause … the supremacist movement,” he told Crown prosecutor Karuna Ramakrishnan.

The witness is not being named because it could possibly identify the accused, who is protected under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The 17-year-old faces charges of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon, steal-toed combat boots he allegedly used in the attack last July 26.

Asako Okazaki, 26, a recent immigrant from Japan who speaks little English, testified she was kicked three times, including once in the back of the head, by a man identified by the friend as the accused.

The former pal said the accused was drunk and angry and took out his frustration on the victim.

He said they had gone to an alley behind Vern’s Pub where they were drinking and the youth ran up to the woman and drop-kicked her.

Okazaki, through an interpreter, said she felt pain in the back of her head and turned around to see her assailant ready to pounce a second time.

She managed to turn away, taking the second blow to her right shoulder before she was kicked a third time in the right knee. Okazaki, who had left a neighbouring pub to make a phone call, was still talking to her friend and mentioned she should fight back.

While Okazaki said her attacker had a mohawk haircut, the witness said the accused had a distinctive tattoo on his head which could be mistaken for such a hairstyle.

He also said the accused was angry after being bumped by an Asian woman inside the pub where he made a racial slur against her.

The witness, who said he fears the Aryan Guard will exact revenge on him for testifying, will be cross-examined by defence lawyer Jim Conway when the trial resumes next month.