The other day we asked whether Australia First would be disassociating themselves from National Vanguard.

Quite aside from the fact that National Vanguard is a violent neo-Nazi group, there was the small matter of their founder recently being charged with possessing child pornography and their Boston unit leader recently being charged with raping a 14 year old girl.

It would seem that we have an answer.

John Moffat, their candidate for Cronulla, writes on his blog:

Horror of horrors; it was discovered that I had written articles for National Vanguard, a website with links to all manner of political equivalents of pedophiles and heroin dealers. There were white supremacists aplenty, holocaust deniers, haters and a host of other such dazzling undesirables in whose company the garden variety racist almost sinks unnoticed.

Guilty, I plead. Guilty, I boast. In this upside-down, arse about, inside-out, Alice in Wonderland world, I am honoured to be guilty of association with National Vanguard.

Political equivalents of paedophiles? The last time we checked the founder of National Vanguard had not been charged with possessing “political child pornography.” Nor had their Boston leader been charged with “politically raping” a teenager.

One can easily imagine Australia First’s response if a rival candidate was associated with these types of people. Why is it any different when the accused is another neo-Nazi?

There is also the matter of Aus First selling dodgy KKK shirts out of their bookstore.

John Moffat defends the use of the Celtic Cross and the slogan Our Race Is Our Nation on Aus First merchandise by saying that “a lot of people are using that slogan these days.”

We don’t know what circles Moffat mixes in - but the only people who use that slogan are white supremacists. Invented by the KKK and adherents to Christian Identity (not to be confused with mainstream Christianity) it quite literally means what our erudite representative Cam Smith said it did: It’s a declaration of loyalty to skin colour above all else.

The Celtic Cross is a slightly different matter. While it is also a mainstream Christian and Pagan symbol, it was introduced to the milieu of white supremacist symbology by the KKK quite some time ago. Separated from any extremist shenanigans it can be assumed to be innocuous. However in this case it is not.

John Moffat says that they use the symbol and slogan because it “represents what we stand for.”

On that point we can agree. Australia First stands for violence towards those who do not fit their vision of Aryan supremacy (with exceptions obviously to be made for Jim Saleam).