Remem­ber a few years ago when a bunch of punks dressed up as fair­ies chased the Nation­al Front guys around the Rail­way Sta­tion beat­ing them up?  LOLarama.  Any­how…

Anti-racism act­iv­ists will be hold­ing a rally and pic­nic at the Wel­ling­ton Ceno­taph at 10am on Sat­urday Octo­ber 25. The rally and pic­nic is in oppos­i­tion to plans to hold a “Flag Day” rally by the “Nation­al­ist Alli­ance”, a coali­tion com­pris­ing the Nation­al Front, New Right and Nation­al Demo­crats. 

More about these asshats after the jump.…

Spokes­man for the anti-racism rally, Josh Sim­mons said:

The Nation­al­ist Alli­ance claim to be cel­eb­rat­ing New Zea­l­and Flag Day but their lead­er­ship all have a long his­tory with­in the extreme-right polit­ic­al move­ment in New Zea­l­and.

The Nation­al Front in par­tic­u­lar have had a num­ber of key mem­bers and lead­ers who have been con­victed and even jailed in recent years for offences such as racial attacks, van­dal­ism of Auck­land mosques, theft of explos­ives and destruc­tion of a Maori carving worth $15,000 in Hamilton.

In pre­vi­ous years mem­bers of Wel­ling­ton gang the Ham­mer­skins have joined the NF on their Labour Week­end rally. The Ham­mer­skins are an openly white-suprem­acist gang who last year held a con­cert to cel­eb­rate Adolf Hitler­’s birth­day. The con­cert was organ­ised in con­junc­tion with “Blood and Hon­our”, a white-power music organ­isa­tion banned in some coun­tries as a ter­ror­ist organ­isa­tion after assaults and murders com­mit­ted by mem­bers.

This year the Nation­al Front are bring­ing Aus­tralia First Sydney Sec­ret­ary Jim Saleam to New Zea­l­and for their rally. Saleam has served time in jail for fire­bomb­ing a Bris­bane book­shop and organ­ising a shot­gun attack against a rep­res­ent­at­ive of the Afric­an Nation­al Con­gress. 

The fact that a num­ber of NF mem­bers have turned up to their ral­lies wear­ing nazi insignia shows the lie to the NF’s claim that they are the vic­tims of a smear cam­paign

con­cluded Mr Sim­mons.

Media release (Scoop) ends.