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The New Zealand National Front is a small nationalist political party in New Zealand.
Policies
Policies of the National Front include:
- Preservation of NZ-European heritage.
- Tightening of immigration laws.
- Rejection of immigrants or refugees who are not ethnically and culturally European.
- Distancing New Zealand from the United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
- Abolition of the Treaty of Waitangi.
- Reintroduction of capital punishment, and harsher penalties for offenders.
- Reintroduction of conscription.
- Relaxation of gun control, thereby allowing "men to defend their families".
- Elimination of policies it describes as political correctness
- Creation of a National Bank
- Withdrawal from international trade
- Return to farm-based economy
- Opposition to abortion, but support for state-supported child care
- Re-constitution of the "White Commonwealth of Nations".
- Keeping the current flag of New Zealand
- Preservation and protection of the environment.
Support
The National Front has received some public support, with 1.9% voting in favour of Kyle Chapman in the 2005 Christchurch mayoral election.
Activities
On October 23, 2004, the National Front held a protest in Wellington in support of retaining the current New Zealand Flag, which was attended by an estimated 45 persons. A 3000-strong demonstration was organised by the MultiCultural Aotearoa coalition to expose the Nazi sympathies of the National Front. Over 200 demonstrators from the anti-fascist march chased and cornered National Front members, injuring one.(pictured right) was hurt. One National Front member said "The white revolution starts here and now," but, according to the "New Zealand Herald", Kyle Chapman complained the following day of "insufficient police protection". . Kyle Chapman also complained that the police had not arrested more of the anti-racists.
In mid 2004, a number of attacks on immigrants and attacks on Jewish property and grave stones were blamed on racist skinheads associated with the Front. The NZNF denied involvement, and although one arrest was made, charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence. British World War Two historian and Nazi sympathizer David Irving offered a US$5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, claiming that the vandal was most likely a deranged Jew.
The National Front claims to have benefitted from favourable media coverage, with Kyle Chapman telling the Dominion newspaper that "the media is our best recruiter". National Radio host Linda Clark, claiming the need to "give a voice to all New Zealanders", has interviewed both Chapman and Irving, as well as Australian One Nation founder Pauline Hanson. It was on Clark's show that Irving accused local Jews of desecrating their own cemetery.
In July 2005, two members of the NZNF were arrested for allegedly unlawfully possessing a firearm and presenting a firearm . The same two people were arrested a few weeks earlier for allegedly vandalising Auckland mosques following the 7 July 2005 London bombings .
Website
The NZNF operates a website to promote the party. It lists party policies, and has downloadable member application forms. The website had previously offered a few free downloads of flyers, and had links to an affilited forum and other affiliated groups. NZNF's website also previously offered for sale T-shirts, hats, and books on topics of interest to NZNF members, some written by Kerry Bolton. Among the flyers for sale were those titled: "Abortion is genocide", "Zionism is Racist", "NZ Workers sacrificed to coolie labour", and "Family – Folk – Nation". The list of books that were for sale included: The Kosher Connection: Drugs, Israel, Gangsters & Zionism; Protocols of the Elders of Zion; We of the white Race – the Coming New Reformation; Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race; Lothrop Stoddard's Rising Tide of Colour; and Adam: the First white Man.
See also
External links
- Official website
- Interview With New Zealand National Front members Questions posed by Jim Saleam of the Australia First Party, answers written by Kyle Chapman, Anton Foljambe & Kerry Bolton. February 28, 2005
- Press release:National Front Thwarted in Wellington Illustrated account of June 8, 2004 demonstration, from counter-demonstrators, "Wellington Activists Against Racism".
- NZ National Front Responds to Anarchist PR A reply to the above press release, from Kerry Bolton.
- Scoop Images: National Front's Bad Day In Wellington Photos of October 23, 2004 demonstrations.
- Scoop Images: Fairies Against Fascism Vs National Front More of the same.
- Fight Dem Back, a group which specifically focuses on the NZNF and related organisations.
- stuff.co.nz National Front's Anzac plans upset vets on 24 April, 2005
- NZHerald Death threats against National Front members condemned.
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