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.