Pamphlets promoting white supremacy ideals and dropped in letter boxes have disgusted a resident in a Hawke's Bay suburb.
Households in Havelock North received the pamphlets in the mail on Wednesday, asking them to "support the Right Wing Resistance" because "it's alright to be white".
One Napier Rd resident who received the pamphlet - and did not want to be named for fears of his safety - said the propaganda was shocking.
"It smacks of a racist, xenophobic, totalitarian, right-wing flavour, and anything like that sends off warning bells for me," he said.
"It's not something that we expect in a place we like to think of as civilised, I like to think of New Zealand as being open to different cultures and ethnicities."
The Right Wing Resistance website described its organisation as having a "mission," and listed Hawke's Bay as one of it's Central Region branches.
"We are an organised unified resistance movement against mass immigration, the dilution of our European culture and pride, and the current multicultural agenda created by the current government networks designed to destroy our colonial rights and identity.
"Our primary purpose is to recruit like-minded individuals and groups into an organisation of active men and women,"the website said.
The resident spoken to by Hawke's Bay Today said he threw the flyer away, but the message it delivered was "unbelievable".
"The human race is one species, not fragmented into a hierarchy.
"I am European and I don't understand what these sort of people believe in."
We have mixed thoughts on this. First and foremost, we abhor the aims and aspirations of the Right Wing Resistance movement. They foment racial hatred, and follow an extreme right-wing agenda which is opposite to pretty much everything we believe in.
But we also believe in the freedom of speech. As we mentioned in our Anzac Day post, three generations of our immediate family saw combat in various wars. One of the things they fought for was freedom, including the freedom of thought and speech.
6 comments:
Personally I think they are within their rights to distribute pamphlet, call for a protest and protest with proper protection no matter how stupid it is (since when we decide to stop intellectual handicapped's right to protest !?)
However, if they are start calling for violence or social unrest or public disorder then there is a job for our respectable police :)
Nobody has the right to go through life without being offended and it is completely counterproductive to try to use some kind of state force to shut down their right (and they do have it) to free speech...unless there's some kind of mechanism to stop Labour Party junk mail arriving in my letterbox?
The only suitable response to groups like this, is ridicule.
I'd want to see the actual pamphlet before passing judgement on whether it should be allowed to circulate, but "It's alright to be white" is not an offensive slogan.
My go to ideology on these types of people is as follows: "Free speech gives racists the right to be racist, and everyone else the right to say how stupid they are".
I certainly wouldn't want American "free speech" - we have limits on the type of language you can use, and should respect the sactity of certain locations and events (ie. should not tolerate protests at funerals or on war memorials), but if it was within the bounds of general decency (no obscenity or incitement to violence) then I have no problem with these people wasting their money printing pamphlets most people will put straight in the bin.
The people behind this are loosers and far far less dangerous to the future well being of this nation than the sexual perverts and deviants in public life who are trying to rewrite humanity in their degraded image.
Take the pamphlet that was delivered to your mail box. Spray it with a floral fragrance, draw smiley-faces and cheerful flowers all over it, sign it with kisses XXXXXXX, then post it back to the sender.
That's how you deal with this sort of thing :-)
I'll add my thoughts;
I object to this bunch using the term "Right Wing" when their xenophobic views mirror the views of every left wing nutter I've ever read or heard.
I would love to know the history of the "European" who objected.
What part of Europe does he hail from? How old is he? why did he leave Europe? When? Why is he not, now, a New Zealander? How long is his visit?
As history shows the left-wing movements are inherently both racist and xenophobic, far more so in fact than any genuine right wing movement does the "European" object because the nutters (and of that we are certain) the writers of the pamphlet describe themselves as "right wing" or because they have stolen his "position"?
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