Fight dem back!

NF - Who are they calling ‘terrorists?’

Why are the National Front opposing bail for those arrested in the recent police raids against people who have been labeled “terrorists”? Perhaps the National Front should take a look at their own organisation and those that have made up its ranks past and present. There’s a lot for them to explain there.

Lets take a look, shall we?

Read the rest of this entry… »

The group has historically been lead by some rather dodgy types. The NF’s current National Secretary is Colin King-Ansell, who was jailed for attacking a synagogue back in the days when he was quite open about his Nazi politics. Interestingly, despite claiming to the Taranaki Daily News last year that he left far-right politics behind 25 years ago, he helped set up a nazi skinhead gang called Unit 88 in Auckland in the late 1990s. After that failed he set up the Fascist Union with Kyle Chapman and Kerry Bolton. The Fascist Union issued this poster containing an incredible array of spelling mistakes :

Chapman himself burned down the meeting house of a Southland marae in his youth, before becoming the NFs National Director. He was always talking about how the NF was setting up a “militia”.

Chapman issued a particularly odd press release in his time as the NFs Director in which he claimed the NF was close to declaring war on the NZ Government. When he left the NF he formed his own “militia”.

Then of course there was that business of a previous NF Wellington Representative and some of his NF mates getting into trouble for $70,000 worth of stolen explosives!

Lest we forget, the NFs (now ex-) Youth Representative and their former webmaster went to jail for attacking seven Auckland mosques. Don’t be fooled by National Director Sid Wilson’s claim of trigger-happy Ross Baumgarten being a “recent recruit”. He had been involved in and attended NF demos over a year before the attacks.The NF’s Hamilton representative at the time also took part in a vandalism attack on a Maori carving, causing $15,000 damage.

The NF aren’t too shy about flaunting nazi insignia on their clothing or tattooed upon their bodies at their demonstrations.

Neither are they shy about their “militia” training camp a few years ago.

Check it out, four NF leaders in one shot- and they all say they didn’t notice all the nazi armbands and salutes going down.

If you have a lot of skeletons rattling around in your closet, you shouldn’t go pointing the bone at others. The NF don’t seem to have learned that one.

« Hide it

Fight dem back · 23 October 2007 · Discussion

Kyle Chapman prepares for “Moari terrorists”

In the wake of 17 people from Maori activist and environmental groups being arrested in NZ recently for some sort of “terrorist” conspiracy, former National Front leader Kyle Chapman has begun organising public “meetings about terror Issues” with right-wingers around New Zealand.

Kyle wants to discuss “Moari terrorism and how we as a movemnet would react to it” [sic], and “police crack downs and how we can protect ourselves from them.” He’s put a posting, readable by all, on white supremacist website “Stormfront,” but states the meetings are only for those who know him.

Well, we know him. It seems a bit rich that Kyle is concerned about “Moari terrorism” (Note: Kyle’s not big on spelling!)

Let’s take a look at Mr. Chapman’s background.

Read the rest of this entry… »

Fight dem back · 19 October 2007 · Discussion

Threatened juror in Nazi case to flee country

From the Dom Post:

Swastika threat juror to flee NZ
September 8, 2007

A juror in a white supremacist kidnapping trial who received a drawing of a swastika with the words “not guilty” is leaving New Zealand so he can protect his family.

The note was left on the doorstep of his Hutt Valley home on July 13.

Lloyd James Bowling was ordered yesterday to stand trial for being party to an attempt to corruptly influence the juror, but no explanation has been given for how the juror’s home address was traced.

Read the rest of this entry… »

The juror, whose name was suppressed, said his first thoughts were for his family then he rang the High Court at Wellington where the trial was being held.

“I left a not very nice message on the answerphone telling them I was not very happy about what has happened,” he said from behind a screen while the public was excluded in Lower Hutt District Court yesterday.

The man was discharged from the jury and the trial continued with 11 jurors.

He said he was taking steps to protect his family, “as best I can”.

He would not stay in New Zealand.

Police searching the Stokes Valley home where Bowling, 40, was living, found photographs of the kidnapping victim from the trial in which the juror had been sitting.

Nazi propaganda and obscenities had been written over the photos. One of them included: “Lucky you didn’t die”.

Bowling, unemployed, was remanded in custody to appear in the High Court on October 15, when a trial date may be set.

Bowling’s lawyer, Keith Jefferies, had said there was no certainty about who wrote the note and no evidence about who delivered it.

For the police, lawyer Grant Burston said it was alleged Bowling had helped or encouraged the crime.

He was a close associate of the four men - Jaydon Russell Borland, Jason George Gregory, Mark Alexander Gage and Benjamin Peter McPadden - on trial for kidnapping and robbing Canadian tourist Jeremie Kawerninski in April last year.

Gage was discharged, and the other three have been sentenced on various charges.

Police say Bowling’s fingerprint was on the note sent to the juror and the paper was ripped from a notebook he had been using.

In a written statement put forward at the hearing, Detective Sergeant Brent Murray said Bowling denied knowing about the note, but then gave a “hypothetical” explanation.

“What if, hypothetically, I wrote the note but didn’t know it was being delivered?”

He Bowling said it was written, hung on the wall, then disappeared. He later read about it in the press.

« Hide it

News brief · 19 September 2007

Whuh? Yeah, we got plenty of Maori - now pass the nachos

Sid “the Squid” Wilson seems to have been taking a few more hits on the bucket bong lately; he’s now claiming the National Front are attracting Maori members.

Funnily enough, at all their demos there hasn’t been a single brown-skinned person present in their ranks, which seem to always consist of a bunch of guys with shaved heads and nazi tattoos. Maori people have been observed letting the NF know what they think of them though.
NF leaders of the past have had plenty to say about Maori people. Former NF Fuhrer Kyle Chapman burned down a meeting house at a Southland marae in his younger days, Nic Miller described Maori as being “a bunch of niggers” on the now-defunct nzpolitcs.com forums when he was the NFs Wellington Rep, and let’s not forget the escapades of the NFs former Hamilton Rep Troy Cullinane.

Sid may delude himself that the NF has put all that behind them now but we suppose self-deception won’t do him any real harm. However we do get the feeling that Sid’s touchy-feely statements about Maori have more to do with the rather hot reception the NF got when they turned up to Waitangi Day celebrations last year claiming that the Government had failed to honour what he claimed was the ‘real’ Treaty, which turned out to be a draft document signed by nobody!

We don’t want to appear to be Cynical Cyril’s, but we suspect the NF’s newfound Maori contingent may exist in the same universe as some of their other more fanciful recruitment claims.

Fight dem back · 8 March 2007 · Discussion

Kerry and the Holocaust Deniers

As the Adelaide Institute has been featured on FDB recently, we decided to take another look at what they get up to. The Adelaide Institute don’t feature much here, they’re basically a collection of dull old men who like to babble on about how the Holocaust never happened. A subject common amongst those on the far right. We had a look at their website and who should still have a series of articles on there but yet another dull old Holocaust denier - Kerry Bolton .

Read the rest of this entry… »

Fight dem back · 26 December 2006 · Discussion

NZ National Front now openly Nazi?

From the Sunday News:

Nazi Piece Of Work - US Racists Recruit Kiwis

American Nazis are spreading their hateful message of white supremacy in New Zealand - and have set up two chapters here.

And the deputy leader of the National Socialist Movement last night told Sunday News he plans to set up multiple chapters of the high-profile US white power group across New Zealand.

“We want more chapters in New Zealand. I would like to see dozens of chapters,” Colonel Tim Bishop said.

The Minneapolis-based hate group - which uses Nazi Germany’s swastika - has branches in most US states and has spread to the UK, Sweden and South Africa.

“We’re a white rights organisation, we’re here to safeguard our people and we’re here to safeguard our culture and in New Zealand to organise the people who founded New Zealand,” Bishop said.

“All these units will operate in their area. They operate within the (Minneapolis) headquarter’s unit, but they are able to operate … as their own entity.”

A Sunday News investigation has revealed one of the National Socialist Movement’s Kiwi chapters is right-wing political party New Zealand National Front.

Read the rest of this entry… »

The National Front has been linked to racially motivated arson attacks - including the arson of a marae.

In December 2005, National Front members Jason Molloy and Ross Baumgarten were jailed for the vandalism of six Muslim mosques and cultural centres in Auckland.

The pair smashed windows and sprayed “R I P London” on the Muslim places of worship after the 2005 London terrorist bombings.

National Front leader Colin “Sid” Wilson was last night unavailable for comment.

Bishop said Wilson was a sergeant major in the National Socialist Movement.

“That may sound like a low rank but we don’t give out ranks easily,” Bishop said.

“You get rank by joining, actively fighting for our cause, by preaching the truth and handing out literature.”

The National Front’s website lists “traitor MPs”, including Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Bishop would not reveal details of the second Kiwi chapter, or numbers of New Zealand members.

“All that I will say is that every white New Zealander has a right to be proud of his heritage and his people,” Bishop said.

“We have doctors, lawyers all sorts of people in our organisation. Some of them - like myself - are proud to show their colours, others understandably like to stay in the background.”

In August, Sunday News revealed Wellington-based Nazi sympathiser Nic Miller was posting addresses and phone numbers of Jewish community members on his vile website.

AT A GLANCE: Neo-Nazis

WHAT: The National Socialist Movement claims to be the largest white power group in the United States.

WHO: The registered political party has been linked to the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Brotherhood and the Racial Nationalist Party of American.

WHY: Inspired by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, members wear swastikas on their arms and Brown shirts similar to those of Germany’s World War II army.

WHEN: Founded in 1974, the National Socialist Movement claims to have chapters in most states of America, in the UK, Sweden, South Africa, Serbia and New Zealand. Leader of the group is commander Jeff Schoep and rank depends on length of service. Opened its first chapter in New Zealand - known as the New Zealand National Front - about two years ago and a second earlier this month.

« Hide it

News brief · 24 December 2006

National Front driven out of Wellington

From the Herald On Sunday:

National Front marchers clash

Sunday October 22, 2006
By Keith Ng

National Front members clashed with protesters as they marched on Parliament yesterday, shocking tourists but leading to only one arrest.

Around 30 members of the National Front were in Wellington for their annual rally to “celebrate the New Zealand flag”. National Front Director Sid Wilson attacked multiculturalism, describing it as “genocide” and “holocaust” against white and Maori New Zealand.

The rally was met by an 80-strong counter-protest.

Read the rest of this entry… »

Parliamentary security was tight after scenes of chaos and violence in previous years. Two dozen police officers escorted the National Front members as they marched. One protester was arrested after an altercation involving a Soviet flag, but was later released without charge.

Senior Sergeant Marty Parker said police were happy that there was no injury or property damage, but it has been a drain on police resources.

“At the end of the day, we’re here to protect the public and we have to do this sort of thing.”

The confrontation also made its way to the Hutt Park Holiday Park, where National Front members were staying. The park’s details were posted on the internet, and it is has received abusive phone calls about the National Front’s stay. Others at the park said that they were not told of the group’s presence and some were worried about safety.

Park management declined to comment.

And the Sunday Star Times:

Message to National Front: peace, love, spit and shove
22 October 2006
By RUTH HILL

Anti-racism protesters demonstrated their message of peace and reconciliation by spitting, shoving and shouting at National Front members who marched on Parliament yesterday to mark the 137th anniversary of the New Zealand flag.

One protester was arrested and charged with breaching the peace.

Twenty National Front members, mainly shaven-headed men in their 20s, some women dressed in black and a girl of about 12, marched from the railway station to the Cenotaph, where they had intended to stage a rally.

When they found the war memorial already occupied by about 100 peace activists and anarchists, they turned up Parliament’s drive and gathered at the statue of Richard Seddon. A wedding party there decided to leave.

After waiting for the protesters and media to regroup, National Front leader Sid Wilson announced his party would one day run the country.

“One day the National Front will be the government and we will be in that building and we will take the country back to where it should be: a place of peace and happiness,” he said.

In his speech, which was drowned out by chants of “Nazi scum, on the run”, he called for a halt to immigration and foreign investment.

One protester, who clambered up the statue and refused to get down, was hauled away by two police officers.

Protesters, mostly disguised in masks and scarves, jostled the group during the short walk back to the railway station, where police formed a barricade on the platform to let the group board the train.

The National Front gathering coincided with its annual meeting, which is being held this weekend at a Hutt Valley motor camp.

« Hide it

News brief · 22 October 2006

Holiday camp hosts fascists - Let them know how you feel!

Fight Dem Back! press release:

Australasian anti-fascist campaigners Fight Dem Back! are appalled at the hospitality shown to the New Zealand National Front (NZNF) by the Top 10 Hutt Park Holiday Park. The holiday park, part of a nationwide chain, is to host the fascist group for two nights, during which time they will hold their AGM and a rally at the Cenotaph.

The NZNF are to stay at the park on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st October, with their AGM to be held on Saturday afternoon.

Read the rest of this entry… »

Fight dem back · 19 October 2006 · Discussion

Ain’t no nazis here - Yeah, right! - Kerry Bolton revisited

The extreme right wing scene in New Zealand is a funny old freak show.

While there are plenty of young guys prepared to shave their heads and cover themselves in nazi tattoos, there are a few old guys who like to pretend that they aren’t like that. Kerry Bolton is one such person.

While being quietly supportive of the young guys, Kerry spends a lot of his time publicly trying to disassociate himself from nazism, but ends up in some rather interesting situations. Take for example, the Fascist Union. This was set up in early 1998 by old-school nazi Colin King-Ansell who hit the headlines a few months ago.

Kyle Chapman and Kerry Bolton were also involved in the Fascist Union. Kerry busied himself by denying in a few media articles that the Fascist Union had anything to do with racism or nazism, even though they had issued a somewhat extraordinary poster:

…which declared that ‘immigrants wouldn’t get beaten up if they didn’t come to New Zealand.’

Read the rest of this entry… »

A little more light has been shed on the situation via an article authored by none other than former NF National Director Kyle Chapman. The article outlines a basic history of skinhead crews and gangs in New Zealand. As can be expected, most of them were of a racist disposition. The funny thing is that, despite all of Kerry’s claims to the contrary, explicitly white supremacist skinhead organisations were affiliated to the Fascist Union.

Have a look at this extract from the article:

“The leaders of the Skinhead Union were linked with the New Zealand Fascist Union in 1998.
1999 The Skinhead Union joined the National Front. It then changed its name to National Front Skinheads (NFS). This caused more problems and eventually most of the clubs that had joined the Skinhead Union left or chose to not support the new Federation. By this time there were so many individual Skinheads involved that National Front Skinheads T-shirts were printed and sold throughout New Zealand.“

Notice that the Skinhead Union had affiliated to the Fascist Union in 1998. Kerry was issuing media statements for the Fascist Union in 1998 and 1999. Was Kerry therefore lying about having no connection to racist and nazi gangs, or did he not notice that affiliation? We know which option he’d have everyone believe.

A few years after the Fascist Union died, Kerry became National Secretary of the National Front. Now we all know that the NF spent a lot of their time saying the “nazi” label was just a smear tactic against them, but take another look at Kyle’s article. That’s right, the Skinhead Union had become the National Front Skinheads. And as Kyle stated, it involved those who he described as being “the Leading White Power Organisation in New Zealand, the first to have a pure white policy”.

The National Front Skinheads were very conspicuous with their t-shirts on a number of NF demos that Kerry and his wife Kathy attended. The NFS even produced a website. Some of it was cached before it was taken down, but unfortunately the hand-drawn images of muscle-bound skinheads in buttock-hugging tight black jeans were lost. But you can still laugh yourself silly as Kerry’s associates inform you about Beserkers, information about skinheads, their organisation, fighting strategies and structure and of course, the need to be seen fashionably dressed in the best uniforms.

Kerry claims that his book distribution service Renaissance Press is to allow the circulation of hard to obtain books, most of them promoting very questionable politics and racial views. He cited the fact that some have been used in academic studies as being proof of his claim that they are made available solely for the mature study of the subjects. In his booklet Red Alert, Bolton claimed that he didn’t use the internet to promote his booklist, as if to explain the unusual situation from 2004 onwards of the openly nazi National Socialist Movement in the USA publicising his books.

Despite Kerry trying to have us believe that the NSM have nothing to do with him or his various groups in New Zealand, there was an interesting person who attended a few NF demos in 2004 when Kerry was NF National Secretary.

Here he is (standing behind the banner) at a NF demo in June 2004 outside the Chinese Embassy in Wellington:

check the guy goose-stepping in the background...

He was also seen at an NF demo in Palmerston North the same year.

This character attended other NF events and was often seen talking to Kerry.

So what?

Well, the National Socialist Movement issued a DVD of some rally they held in 2004. One of the listed speakers at the rally was “Sgt Wilson of New Zealand”

Here he is again in a charming group shot:

Now there’s a surprise, another of Kerry’s mates with a uniform fetish! But didn’t Kerry state that the NF had a “No nazi insignia” policy?

‘Sgt Wilson’ even turned up in Unit 88, the nazi skinhead gang Colin King-Ansell was funding before he fell out with them and started the Fascist Union. That’s him on the right.

Doesn’t the guy in the Hammerskins t-shirt next to him look like Kyle Chapman?

Uncanny.

« Hide it

Fight dem back · 14 October 2006 · Discussion

When is a fascist not a fascist?

Quite some time ago, FDB got a sent a copy of a booklet from the little publishing empire of Kerry Bolton. It caused a few smiles and even loud laughter before it began collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Recently dusted off, we decided to give it another look. Bolton is an “old hand” of the far right scene in New Zealand and has made a career out of rehashing many of the same press releases and graphics over the last few decades.

But what of his more recent rantings? Well, for a mere $10 you can get a 44-page book titled “RED ALERT - Behind the smear campaign against Australasian Nationalists” by K R Bolton. Throughout the booklet Bolton tries to portray himself as a rather moderate right-winger, and constantly states that the various far-right groups throughout Australasia are the victims of a lefty smear campaign. The media have apparently been duped en-mass by this campaign and have gone forth to write endless articles saying these groups contain fascist, white supremacists and nazi elements, which in turn is what Kerry claims is what caused some people with dodgy right wing beliefs to join up. Yep, he’d have us believe that it was all a self-fulfilling prophecy. But we say bollocks! Those fascist, white supremacist and nazi elements have been there all along. And as Kerry’s booklet often uses the National Front to outline his argument, why don’t we do the same?

Read the rest of this entry… »

The National Front as it exists in NZ at the moment started in 1990, under the leadership of Anton Foljambe. It existed for years in obscurity, with one of its earliest media appearances being courtesy of Kyle Chapman

Oops! Things went quiet for a few years until the NF became embroiled in a stolen explosives scandal

Oops! Then the next year they were going on about forming a militia

Oops! Note the NF spokesman “Todd Sweeney” has a pie-eating reference to his name. Who could it have been? Then in 2004 in Christchurch a series of racist assaults led a group of people to haold a march against racism. For some reason the NF decided to protest against it. They weren’t very clear about whether that meant they were for racism, but one of them decided to wear a t-shirt with a swastika on it anyway.

Things were beginning to look up for the NF. They had obtained a bit of a media profile, they had established a network of groups around the country, so they decided to start some protests. For some reason they got some bad publicity quite quickly.

Undeterred they announced a nation-wide callout for a protest in Wellington for Labour Weekend. But something went wrong. You see, publicly they claimed they weren’t nazis, white supremacists or anything like that, but some incriminating photos began to circulate of NF leaders and key activsts such as Brendan Rimmer or Troy Cullinane and even a photo of Kyle Chapman posing with a gun and wearing what appears to be a SS Regimental Armband.

Then there was the photo of no less than four NF leaders posing with a banner and some guys doing nazi salutes.

Kyle claimed he didn’t see the guys doing the salute, but surely one of the other three leaders saw them. After all, it was on a NF militia camp. But where the hell were those photos coming from? All seems to have been revealed when this article appeared a couple of days before the NFs big day in Wellington. Oops!

Now Kerry Bolton was National Secretary for the NF throughout 2004. Kyle Chapman was its National Director. Both denied the NF had anything to do with racism, white supremacy, fascism or nazism. So why the hell were they allowing a NF members-only e-group to circulate such photos? It really does make Kerry’s attempts to blame the NF negative public image lefty-backed media smear-mongering look like, well…. a pile of shit. All those photos came from the NF, Kerry. They are part of what caused the negative publicity, and they came from the horses mouth.

Not ones to learn quickly, the NF went ahead with their rally in front of the Cenotaph (war memeorial). It went..badly. Nazi salutes were performed

and several members of the NF Security team proudly displayed their nazi tattoos

Oops! There had been a couple of desecrations of Jewish cemetaries in the months previously, a couple of NF-linked assaults, plenty of NF-linked nazi stuff going down on the internet, so people in Wellington were feeling pretty angry about it. A group calling itself Multi Cultural Aotearoa (MCA) organised a counter-rally to the NFs demonstration, and got 1,500 people. A couple of hundred of those people spontaneously broke off from the end of the rally when a group of NFers came walking past under police escort. Insults were traded, a couple of eggs thrown. Most of the NF piled into cars and drove off. Cale Olsen was left behind, and he began walking off with fellow NFer Melanie Short. An insult directed at Olsen seems to be what provoked him to rip a placard from someones hands and punch another in the face, before copping a brief beating himself. It all happened in front a several camera crews, yet Kerry’s version of events as per his booklet is that it was all a riot commited by “communist and anarchist stormtroopers who gutlessly attacked NF supporters”. Dream on, Kerry.

The following Labour Weekend, in 2005, the NF held another rally, again in front of the Cenotaph. The irony of one of their security team sporting a large nazi eagle atop his shaved head seems to have escaped them. Nazi-flag boy David Roycroft was there too. But wait…don’t they expell members who have nazi leanings? It appears not.

And of course, the NF Youth Representative and the former NF webmaster, both of them long-term NF members, were arrested for vandalising mosques

With so much evidence of white supremacist, fascist and nazi tendencies within the NF coming from NF sources, it really is hard to understand how Kerry can claim that they have just been misrepresented.

Moving right along, Red Alert contains some amusing attempts by Kerry to appear being a non-fascist right-winger. He cites an article from the 1980s when he was running the Nationalist Workers Party (NWP) whereby the NWP denounce nazi politics. Kerry uses this to claim that he has always been opposed to nazism. But what was Kerry up to between the NWP and the NF? For a while he got into Satanism with strong Nazi links.

For someone opposed to nazism, what was he up to? The mind boggles.

Then of course there is Red Alert’s cute dedication “To the late Sgt. Ron Keen who fought a real war against real Fascists, and then fought to preserve European civilisation in the aftermath of that war”. We wonder what Sgt Ron Keen would think of one of Bolton’s groups that he ran alongside Kyle Chapman in the late 1990s, the Fascist Union? You couldn’t get much more of a “real Fascist” name than that. And while Bolton often waxes lyrical about lefties vandalising public property with stickers and posters, check out this literary masterpiece that was glued up all around Christchurch.

With all those spelling mistakes, we’re left scratching our heads as to who authored that one, but it appeared alongside

Hmm, bad spelling? Militia fetish? Who could that be? Hey wait a minute…!

A key aspect to Bolton’s book is a listing of genuine, certified lefties of Wellington, New Zealand, as well as a few Australian FDBers. We won’t bother rebutting what Bolton says here simply because it would take up too much space. But as Bolton stated in his foreword that Red Alert “has been compiled as background material for police and journalists” we’re sure they would appreciate the large amount of assumption, conjecture, weird hypothoses and incorrectly captioned photos that comprise that section of the booklet.

But Kerry let himself down very badly right at the beginning of his booklet when he praises Leftywatch and goes on to issue the rather weak claim that “I do not know much about Mr Weerheym of Leftywatch…”. Really? But while Bolton quotes heavily from FDB and spends much time criticising articles published on the site, he obviously, and quite incredibly, somehow managed to avoid the plethora of information available about the creator of Leftywatch, Ben Weerheym. Perhaps now Mr Bolton may go and check out Weerheym’s involvement in the White Devils. What was that about real Fascists Kerry? Oops!

« Hide it

Fight dem back · 25 September 2006 · Discussion

NF - Who are they calling ‘terrorists?’

Kyle Chapman prepares for “Moari terrorists”

Threatened juror in Nazi case to flee country

Whuh? Yeah, we got plenty of Maori - now pass the nachos

Kerry and the Holocaust Deniers

NZ National Front now openly Nazi?

National Front driven out of Wellington

Holiday camp hosts fascists - Let them know how you feel!

Ain’t no nazis here - Yeah, right! - Kerry Bolton revisited

When is a fascist not a fascist?

About us

Archives