{"id":582,"date":"2007-02-05T22:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2007-02-05T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T12:42:50","slug":"kkk-is-the-australian-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"KKK is the Australian Way?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ku Klux Klan logo used on party website<\/a>
\nGreg Roberts
\nThe Australian<\/em>
\nFebruary 5, 2007<\/p>\n

THE Australia First Party<\/a><\/strong> has defended its sale of merchandise featuring Ku Klux Klan<\/a><\/strong> symbols and its association with a group headed by an American neo-Nazi leader facing child pornography charges.<\/p>\n

The AFP is supporting a campaign by independent candidate and party member John Moffat<\/a><\/em> in the southern Sydney seat of Cronulla in next month’s NSW election.<\/p>\n

The AFP website shows the party is selling T-shirts displaying the Celtic Cross with the words, “Our Race Is Our Nation”.<\/p>\n

The cross and the slogan have long been identified with the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Mr Moffat has based his campaign for the election on what he describes as a “civil uprising of the Australian people” — the December 2005 riots at Cronulla.<\/p>\n

Anti-racism campaigner Cam Smith said Mr Moffat should disassociate himself and the AFP from the KKK.<\/p>\n

“The use of this slogan and symbol makes it clear the first loyalty of these people is to their race, not to Australia,” Mr Smith said.<\/p>\n

But Mr Moffat yesterday said he was not concerned about the association of the slogan and symbol with the KKK. “A lot of people are using that slogan these days,” Mr Moffat said. “It represents what we stand for.”<\/p>\n

The Australian<\/em> reported last month that Mr Moffat had posted messages attacking Muslims on the extremist right-wing National Vanguard<\/a><\/strong> website.<\/p>\n

National Vanguard leader Kevin Strom<\/a><\/em> has appeared before a court in West Virginia on child pornography and witness tampering charges.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : U.S.: The White Supremacist Movement’s Metamorphosis<\/a>, Fred Burton, January 17, 2007:<\/p>\n

Since Dec. 22, 2006, three white supremacist leaders have been arrested on sex-related charges. Two of them — Matthew Downing<\/em>, National Vanguard’s Boston unit leader, and Gordon Young<\/em>, former leader of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan<\/strong> and current member of the National Socialist Movement<\/a><\/strong> — have been charged with sexually assaulting minors. The third, Kevin Alfred Strom, founder of the National Vanguard organization, has been charged with possession of child pornography and witness tampering…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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