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Old 27-01-2006, 04:37 PM   #347
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This made me laugh. "But Mum, all the other kids are blowing up things!":

'Supremacist' has to stick with mum

27jan06

BAIL has been continued for an alleged white supremacist facing charges linked to Sydney's race violence.

Andrew Scott Sanders, 25, today made a brief appearance in Penrith Local Court charged with prohibited weapons offences and possessing a disguise with the intent of using it to commit an indictable offence.

He was ordered to live with his mother and not leave her side while in public.

His mother also had to pay $1000 surety.

The former Sydney security guard was arrested on December 19 when police who raided his Willmot home, in Sydney's west, allegedly found smoke grenades, mace, capsicum spray and an unlicensed pistol.

The previous day police had stopped Mr Sanders at a roadblock in Brighton-le-Sands, when his car was allegedly carrying a 25-litre drum of petrol, gloves, a first aid kit, riot helmets, a utility belt and knife and literature from a white supremacist website.

They also found two ventilator masks, a two-way radio and portable radios tuned into a supremacist broadcast.

After his first court appearance in December, Mr Sanders was granted conditional bail despite newly legislated tough bail laws introduced after the December 11 Cronulla race riot and the retaliatory attacks that followed.

A magistrate found police did not have a sufficiently strong case to keep Mr Sanders in custody but ordered strict bail conditions.

Sanders bail was continued and he was ordered to appear again in Penrith Local Court on February 24, when the prosecution is expected to deliver the brief of evidence.

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." -- C.P. Snow
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