Beware!
An alternative look at the New Zealand election, with writing from the 3news.co.nz team.
By James Murray
Kyle Chapman says we can look forward to more people wearing camouflage when “the people rise up” and the streets will be littered with enraged individuals in mock army uniforms unless we “sort out [our] shit”.
Chapman is the leader of Right Wing Resistance – who bravely busted their way into a Christchurch candidates meeting last night.
This is their mission statement:
Mission: We are an organized 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. We stand with an active structure that rewards those who work hard for the movement. Function:Our primary purpose is to recruit like minded individuals and groups into an organization of active men and women.
Suitably chilling stuff, they remind me a bit of Voldemort. But, to be honest, this really isn’t something anyone in their right mind should be worried about.
For a start, unless those who have risen up on the streets adopt urban camo, they will stand out like a sore thumb and be an easy target for Government forces, who as usual will be pushing their evil, multicultural agenda with water cannons and pepper spray.
Should the Right Wing Resistance’s threatened revolution come to violent fruition I am also worried they may be a little under-armed and few-in-number.
Take the picture below. Plenty of sticks and Viking-esque axes, but Chapman’s-army would be up against police or defence forces presumably armed with guns. Guns always beat axes - that’s why we aren’t ruled by woodchoppers.
If you factor in a lack of peripheral vision and a general feeling of claustrophobia and itchiness, all common balaclava ailments, my money is on more liberal-minded forces winning the day.
There is also the issue of numeracy of course. Any group which publishes a photo of themselves dressed in camouflage, faces covered, brandishing sticks and axes, just to prove the point that they were over thirty in number needs to have a good think about what constitutes a large group of people.
The picture is quite cute in a way – the determined spread-legged stances, the careful arrangement of “like-minded individuals” into neat rows, it was clearly taken by someone with an eye for the aesthetic.
Also, delivering your message via a megaphone? In a small room? Kyle… I didn’t realise you were so softly spoken.
Brendon Burns has been called out by Chapman as a liar, or at least a man who is unable to count. It’s a stinging accusation. The media, which includes me, stand accused of trying to make Right Wing Resistance’s numbers smaller than they are.
“It’s a consistent lie they do,” writes someone on the RWR blog.
Well, I am about to “do” another lie. Below is RWR's lovingly composed photograph crudely cropped in two. If you now go around thinking Right Wing Resistance is not an army of over thirty but an army of half that number then so be it.
