"Advertising Standards Authority says its hands are tied after racist pamphlets return to Auckland letterboxes - NZ Herald"
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Excerpt: A racist pamphlet describing Māori as "stone age" and "half caste" has resurfaced in Auckland, despite the Advertising Standards Authority ordering it to be removed from circulation in 2019.
The Authority's complaints board has this month upheld complaints from the public that the content of the pamphlets, which landed in Auckland letterboxes for a second time last year, was offensive and misleading.
In 2019 the Authority partly upheld similar complaint that the 1Law4All pamphlet was derogatory toward Māori and that it must be removed from circulation.
The organisation's 34-page booklet delivered to letterboxes in Auckland inferred the country was being "conned" by the Treaty industry, and asked readers to consider the "list of 24 common myths of the Treaty industry".
It suggested a "growing number of New Zealanders are upset with this wealth and power grab by the newly created tribal elite".
Complainants in the recent redistribution of the pamphlet were offended by the content they considered contained statements designed to enforce harmful stereotypes and which were of a racist nature.
One said the pamphlet made claims of ritual human sacrifice and described Māori as "stone age" people while inferring colonisation was "good for Māori" while reinforcing the white supremacist idea that "Western ways of life are better".
FLASH BACK - 2005
Note: WCOTR became the Creativity Alliance in 2007. Same people, same group, but with a more suitable name.
CAPTION: Message of hate: Commuter Brent Cantwell is disgusted by a poster stuck to a wall at Khandallah station.
Picture: ROBERT KITCHIN
Source: Dominion Post, The, Dec 15, 2005, pA6
Edition: 2, Section: NEWS--NATIONAL, pg. A6
Kim RUSCOE
INFLAMMATORY posters calling for New Zealanders to show "white power" and riot Australian-style are being pasted up at Wellington railway stations.
"If Sydney can do it so can we . . . let's take back our land," the posters -- found at Khandallah and Simla Crescent stations -- say. A poster was also reported to have been seen at Raroa station near Johnsonville.
Khandallah train commuter Brent Cantwell said he was appalled by the poster.
"It's just terrible, it's awful," he said.
John Grant, of Churton Park, said the posters were shocking but he did not believe race riots like those at Cronulla beach in Sydney over the weekend would happen here.
A 5000-strong alcohol-fuelled mob, some waving flags and chanting racist slogans, chased and beat people of Middle Eastern appearance at Cronulla beach in Sydney on Sunday.
White supremacist group "White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War" claims to be behind the Wellington posters.
Sergeant Maggie Windle, of Wellington, said the group was not known to police.
Nor was it known to Kerry Bolton, a former National Front secretary and now spokesman for breakaway group New Right. He was not impressed with the posters, saying New Zealanders would be better directing their attention to the politicians and businessmen who were responsible for immigration.
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said he had not heard of the group either but was not surprised it existed in New Zealand.
There had been a number of race hate incidents over the past year, including the vandalism of Muslim worship centres in Auckland and abusive letters being stuffed with pork and sent to Wellington Muslims.
"There are people in New Zealand who have the kind of views evident in Australia but they have never had much of a following in New Zealand," he said.
The White Crusaders' Internet website says the movement is based on the writings of Ken Klassen, the founder of Creativity, a religion that believes whites are royalty and shuns race mixing or any social intercourse with "the inferior mud races".
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/advertising-standards-authority-says-its-hands-are-tied-after-racist-pamphlets-return-to-auckland-letterboxes/FZKKVNJTAGS23KTCOCQBNMFIM4
Excerpt: A racist pamphlet describing Māori as "stone age" and "half caste" has resurfaced in Auckland, despite the Advertising Standards Authority ordering it to be removed from circulation in 2019.
The Authority's complaints board has this month upheld complaints from the public that the content of the pamphlets, which landed in Auckland letterboxes for a second time last year, was offensive and misleading.
In 2019 the Authority partly upheld similar complaint that the 1Law4All pamphlet was derogatory toward Māori and that it must be removed from circulation.
The organisation's 34-page booklet delivered to letterboxes in Auckland inferred the country was being "conned" by the Treaty industry, and asked readers to consider the "list of 24 common myths of the Treaty industry".
It suggested a "growing number of New Zealanders are upset with this wealth and power grab by the newly created tribal elite".
Complainants in the recent redistribution of the pamphlet were offended by the content they considered contained statements designed to enforce harmful stereotypes and which were of a racist nature.
One said the pamphlet made claims of ritual human sacrifice and described Māori as "stone age" people while inferring colonisation was "good for Māori" while reinforcing the white supremacist idea that "Western ways of life are better".
FLASH BACK - 2005
CAPTION: Message of hate: Commuter Brent Cantwell is disgusted by a poster stuck to a wall at Khandallah station.
Picture: ROBERT KITCHIN
Source: Dominion Post, The, Dec 15, 2005, pA6
Edition: 2, Section: NEWS--NATIONAL, pg. A6
Kim RUSCOE
INFLAMMATORY posters calling for New Zealanders to show "white power" and riot Australian-style are being pasted up at Wellington railway stations.
"If Sydney can do it so can we . . . let's take back our land," the posters -- found at Khandallah and Simla Crescent stations -- say. A poster was also reported to have been seen at Raroa station near Johnsonville.
Khandallah train commuter Brent Cantwell said he was appalled by the poster.
"It's just terrible, it's awful," he said.
John Grant, of Churton Park, said the posters were shocking but he did not believe race riots like those at Cronulla beach in Sydney over the weekend would happen here.
A 5000-strong alcohol-fuelled mob, some waving flags and chanting racist slogans, chased and beat people of Middle Eastern appearance at Cronulla beach in Sydney on Sunday.
White supremacist group "White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War" claims to be behind the Wellington posters.
Sergeant Maggie Windle, of Wellington, said the group was not known to police.
Nor was it known to Kerry Bolton, a former National Front secretary and now spokesman for breakaway group New Right. He was not impressed with the posters, saying New Zealanders would be better directing their attention to the politicians and businessmen who were responsible for immigration.
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres said he had not heard of the group either but was not surprised it existed in New Zealand.
There had been a number of race hate incidents over the past year, including the vandalism of Muslim worship centres in Auckland and abusive letters being stuffed with pork and sent to Wellington Muslims.
"There are people in New Zealand who have the kind of views evident in Australia but they have never had much of a following in New Zealand," he said.
The White Crusaders' Internet website says the movement is based on the writings of Ken Klassen, the founder of Creativity, a religion that believes whites are royalty and shuns race mixing or any social intercourse with "the inferior mud races".
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