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The race to be the number one enemy of the master race has begun in earnest.
Jockeying for the top of the Redwatch Downunder hit list has kicked into overdrive with noted New Zealand gay rights campaigner Jeremy Lambert putting his hand up for consideration.
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Peter Kohn profiles Fight dem back! for the Australian Jewish News.
Website seeks net loss for net-Nazis
A new trans-Tasman group is taking the fight against neo-Nazis to a new plane – cyberspace.
Describing the internet as “the Wild West for right-wing hate groups�, Mat Henderson-Hau has formed Fight Dem Back, a website to monitor the activities of Australian skinheads and “net-Nazis� such as Whitepride and Hitler’s Gas Bill (HGB).
Careful scrutiny of extremists’ websites can reveal a lot of unintended logistical information that police can use to combat their activities�, said Henderson-Hau, a Sydneysider who is the website’s campaign manager.
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Fight dem back! Aotearoa campaign manager Robert Trigan talks to the Christchurch daily The Press:
Website target of hate emails
Mike Houlahan
Political activist Robert Trigan does not mind talking to the media, but is not keen on having his photo taken.
“They don’t know what I look like and I want to keep it that way,� he says.
Trigan is not suffering from paranoia. “They� are members of far-Right political orgamsations, and Trigan is a New Zealand spokesman for Fight Dem Back, a trans-Tasman group waging a campaign against racial hatred, xenophobia and fascism.
The New Zealand Herald reports on that the latest National Front protest falls flat:
When the National Front raised a voice of protest yesterday, it managed a chorus of two.
That was the showing after the organisation announced a protest outside the Chinese Consulate to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Sid Wilson, spokesman of the two, also said the National Front wanted to hammer home its message that Chinese people should stay in China - even with its human rights problems.
With one flag each and a hot thermos of coffee, the pair seemed hopeful others would join them. One other apparent supporter did appear, but would only watch from the other side of the road.
Mr Wilson, who described himself as the political adviser to the National Front Patriot Party, said the group also claimed responsibility for a coloured flour-bomb strike on the consulate.
He said the flour-and-paint bombs would become a signature attack by the National Front.
Story syndicated in The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Adelaide Advertiser, Courier Mail, The Australian and the general AAP newswire at News.com.au:
Probe into anti-racist ‘hit list’
By Tim Clarke
June 09, 2005
From: AAPPOLICE in Perth are investigating claims a known associate of the white-supremacist Australian Nationalist Movement (ANM) is planning to set up an online ‘hit list’ of anti-racist campaigners in Australia.
Western Australia Police was today passed details of the Redwatch Downunder project, which anti-racism campaigners Fight Dem Back claim was being established by a former supporter of the ANM.
New Zealanders are sceptical about the reasons Kyle Chapman gave for his resignation as head of the racist National Front. A recent editorial in the Waikato Times explains why:
Most New Zealanders would see Kyle Chapman as one tough customer… But the National Front leader and spokesman for the extreme right seemed to show a soft side when he resigned from the organisation’s top position last week because of claims his family was being affected.
Mr Chapman says the resignation was forced after his son was shunned by other children’s parents at kindergarten. He claimed his family was being persecuted for its beliefs.
Is this some kind of publicity stunt? Or just a ploy to attract the sympathy vote? Whatever, it just doesn’t ring true.
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It’s not difficult, though, to believe other parents might not want to have anything to do with Mr Chapman or his family. Mr Chapman’s opinions and political aspirations are completely opposed to those of the majority of New Zealanders and he has admitted he is willing to work outside the law to achieve his ends, confessing to a series of arsons.
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In this latest case, Mr Chapman’s child could easily have been moved to another kindergarten. Instead, we are told, Mr Chapman saw no other option than to resign from his leadership position in his organisation. That seems like an extreme — and pointless — action. It suggests he might have been looking for an excuse to drop the high profile role even though he says he has not changed his views and presumably continues to believe in the National Front’s misguided policies.
We at Fight dem back! don’t believe it either.
This link should get you in the mood for what you are about to read.
It’s official: Kyle Chapman resigns from National Front Leadership.
FDB knew about Kyle’s resignation last week but it was good to have everything one-hundred percent confirmed in yesterday’s Sunday Star-Times.
His grounds for throwing in the towel are somewhat tenuous:
The future of the far-right National Front is in jeopardy after its leader resigned last week because his son was being “persecuted” at kindergarten.
“My son was being told he couldn’t play with kids in kindy,” said Kyle Chapman. “The other kids’ parents were saying he couldn’t play with them because of who his dad was.”
So he quit the NF because the other kids wouldn’t play with his kids at kindy?
We’re not going to speculate on whether or not this happened. If it did, it’s pretty low as the poor kid can’t help who his father is. Instead, we will delve a little deeper into some of the other reasons why the big fella pulled up stumps.
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Whatever grounds Kyle has given in this article pale into significance compared to the demoralising impact of failing to sign up 500 members in order to be registered as an official political party. Our campaign most certainly helped with his decision making process as well.
Chapman said agitation from left-wing activists had contributed to the “hassle” that prompted him to resign.
Mat Henderson-Hau, an Australian-based internet activist who has been campaigning against the Front for the past year, said he was delighted by Chapman’s resignation. He attributed it to co-operation between anti-racism networks in New Zealand and Australia. “We’re taking care of each other’s shitheads.”
Despite our enmity, all at FDB wish Kyle and his family the best for the future and hope that the big lug mellows out one day and becomes more accepting of his fellow human beings.
Many of you will know Nic Miller as the Kiwi skinhead currently before the courts accused of assaulting Somali refugees.
What some may not be aware of is that he is also the former Wellington representative of the National Front. Sick of copping flack from other NF members over his inability to tone down his Hitler worship, Nic and the NF did a Fleetwood Mac and went their separate ways a month back. Both sides siting irreconcilable differences.
Kyle Chapman, for his part was saddened by Nic’s departure as the two chaps have always been reasonably close. Nic, was reportedly smarting over his being pushed out of the group for openly Nazi tendencies when people like Jason Molloy, who also openly fly the swastika, are permitted to stay in the NF.
Either way, Nic has been very busy since parting company with the National Front and has set about the business of becoming the Fuhrer of his own organisation.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you the New Zealand National Socialist Party.
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