Жаңа Зеландиялық ақ үстемдікші және саяси белсенді Керри Болтон

New Zealand white supremacist and political activist

Kerry Raymond Bolton (born 1956) is a New Zealand white supremacist and Holocaust denier, and a published author and political activist on those subjects. He is involved in several nationalist and fascist political groups in New Zealand.

In 1980, Bolton co founded the New Zealand branch of the Church of Odin, a pro Nazi organisation for "whites of non Jewish descent". Two years later it was renamed the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi ("Order of the Left Way"), and in the same year created the fascist Black Order. It claimed to have a network of national lodges in six European countries plus Australia and the U. S.

Bolton was a co founder of the Nationalist Workers' Party, in which he promoted the 'patriotic socialism' of 1930s Labour hero John A. Lee. In 2004 he was the secretary of the New Zealand National Front and spokesman for the New Right group. In 2021, the University of Otago student magazine Critic Te Ārohi reported that Bolton is in regular contact with the white supremacist organisation Action Zealandia. He has also written articles which have been published in magazine run by the Church of Satan with the same name as the magazine he started as The Flaming Sword.

In 2008, a masters thesis written about Bolton published by the Waikato University was temporarily pulled from the library pending investigation after Bolton complained to the vice chancellor. It had been passed by the university, had been reviewed by senior academics from two other universities, and had received full class honors. After criticism from the Tertiary Education Union, Vice Chancellor Crawford issued a one page letter stating that the thesis was sound because it had been externally examined by "two well qualified academics". In December 2009, Bolton filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority concerning the Ideas programme on Radio New Zealand National, which featured Marxist poet and sociologist Scott Hamilton. Hamilton had stated that Bolton was an avid "holocaust denier", had a "close relationship" with the revisionist Adelaide Institute, insinuated himself into the anti war movement where he made anti Semitic and "holocaust denial" statements, and exercised a bad political influence over "unwary youth". Bolton claimed that all of Hamilton's allegations were incorrect. The Broadcasting Standards Authority initially upheld Bolton's complaint on all grounds, and criticised Radio New Zealand for not having verified the accuracy of Hamilton's statements before broadcasting the programme, but reversed this decision in December 2010 and declined to uphold any of Bolton's complaints. In December 2009, Bolton complained to the Press Council against a lengthy feature article run by The Press, Christchurch, "A Right Muddle" by John McCrone. Bolton stated that the article wrongly stated that Bolton was a "neo Nazi Satanist", that he was associated with "white power" and "pseudo fascist views", that he was the founder of New Right New Zealand, among other matters. The Press Council in a ruling dated for release as 26 March 2010, upheld parts of the complaint, determining that the article is "inaccurate and biased". In a revised preface to Phoenix Rising: The Epic Saga of James H. Madole republished in 2006, Bolton wrote about his past involvement in the occult and was critical of occultism, writing that "it is clear that Madole was waylaid by a belief in Theosophy and other occult paths which influenced the doctrines and policy of the NRP I merely want to offer testimony that Jesus Christ is the central figure of Western civilisation, and Christianity its basis the fight for the West is the fight for Christ".

In 2014, Bolton was involved in a campaign seeking (unsuccessfully) to save a young dog from euthanasia for allegedly nipping another dog on the hind leg in the course of play. The dog was euthanised two days early after threats on Facebook of violence against council staff members. In 2019, he appeared in court for breaching the name suppression of a sexual assault victim in 2018 on a radio show. Bolton was discharged without conviction by Porirua District Court judge Ian Mill on Thursday said the discharge was conditional on him paying reparation of $1500 to the victim within a month. Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Macky said it was inconceivable that he did not know about the suppression.