From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Return of the Thing from Swamp Valley
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:36:38 GMT
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization

[Please note that i am posting this to both soc.culture.nordic and
talk.politics.misc because i believe it may be of interest to both
groups.  Therefore please watch the follow-ups!  Some of the
discussion on s.c.n may go right over the heads of t.p.m readers;
similarly, if other countries are brought into the discussion it
may not be relevant to s.c.n. -cgk]

The following is a translation of two related articles from
_Dagbladet_, (a Norwegian daily newspaper) Sunday 27 September.
For those who are not familiar with Arne Myrdal, he is the leader
of a group called Norway Against Immigration, or NMI.  Until
recently he has been claiming his group was not racist, a claim
hard to support since they saw nothing wrong with a little 
Western European immigration but were totally opposed to other
groups.  Last year they held a public meeting in a small town
called Brumundal, which led to a rock-and-bottle throwing contest
with an anti-racist group.  Since then they have only attempted
one major rally, in Oslo, that ended in failure but less violently -
the majority of the crowd turned their backs and made enough noise
that he could not be heard.  

Translation is done by me, and i make no claims about absolute
accuracy, but the main points are correct.

MYRDAL CHOOSES THE NEO-NAZIS
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Arendal: Arne Myrdal and Norway Against Immigration (NMI) have
entered into a cooperation with Neo-Nazi Jan Holthe and his 
supporters.  Friday and last night the leaders of NMI and Boot-Boys
[Holthe's group -cgk] met for strategy-planning meetings in Arendal.

The meetings were held at Myrdal's home in Bjorbekk outside downtown
Arendal.  When Dagbladet met Myrdal on Friday night and confronted him
with this claim, he confirmed that NMI is choosing new partners from
the extreme right wing.

COMMON STRATEGY
"We must cooperate to strengthen our position.  Now anti-immigration
movements are sailing with the wind behind them, and we want to use
this situation to our best advantage," says Myrdal.

"I have known Jan Holthe for a long time, and believe that the time
has now come for us to plan a common strategy for the future."

And the new common strategy for Myrdal and Holthe is much more
aggressive than before.

"Together we will build up action groups which will protect our
meetings.  If the police won't get the troublemakers away from our 
legal meetings, we will chase them away ourselves."

"Would you use violence?"

"I will use my fists to protect our right to speak publicly," he
responded.

HEIL-GREETING
Myrdal also does not deny that it can be necessary to use violence to
drive foreigners out of the country.  But so far he is not interested
in attacking either politicians nor Muslims [the group he is most
opposed to allowing to immigrate or remain in the country -cgk] other
than verbally.

"We have to first see how things go in Germany and in the rest of
Europe." 

At Friday's NMI meeting in Arendal Neo-Nazi Jan Holthe showed up with
his girlfriend, supporter and friend Arild Elsveen and many other
figures from the Norwegian Neo-Nazi movement.

During the meeting they greeted Myrdal with the Nazi Heil-greeting.

One of the other NMI-speakers at the Arendal meeting, Frank Helgesen, 
even called Myrdal the new "Father of our Country".

Also as a speaker, Myrdal has become much more aggressive and
goaal-oriented than before.  He no longer denies that he, like the
Neo-Nazis, wants a "pure" NOrway.

Like other right-wing extremists, he pulls religion into the debate.
He calls himself a true Christian and uses a long series of Bible
verses pulled out of context to support his position.

[Article Two:]
NORWEGIAN RACISTS IN GERMAN RACE-WAR
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Arendal: Dagbladet today can confirm that Norwegian racists have been
at the race riots in both England and Germany.  Their goal: to build
up a "network" of European racists, and learn from the actions of
foreign Neo-Nazis.

While Myrdal, in his speeches, advises against going into direct
confrontation with asylum-seekers, refugees and immigrants he supports
a network for European racists and Neo-Nazis.

"BATTLE FOR EUROPE"
"We must be prepared for the day that the battle in Europe will ebgin.
That day we can get rid of all Muslims for good, for that we must
be united," Myrdal told Dagbladet.

When Dagbladet confronted him with the fact that NMI has had
"representatives" at the race riots taking place in Germany, he
admitted that.  But Myrdal insists that NMI-representatives have never
taken an active part in the attacks on asylum-seekers.  

"We have only been there to observe.  Both in Germany and in England,"
says Myrdal.  

In Germany, the NMI-delegation made contact with German Neo-Nazis and
racists in Hamburg and Rostock.

This was also confirmed by Myrdal to Dagbladet.

Myrdal's work with building a racist network in Europe has already
come a long way.  He has already made permanent contact with
supporters in Denmark and Sweden.  Now he is trying to do the same in
the rest of Europe.

"Our man in England is coming hokme in a week.  And according to the
messages i have received so far, we also have gotten good contacts
there," Myrdal told us.

Myrdal will not comment on which groups inSweden and Denmark he has
these contacts with.  But from the information Dagbladet has, Myrdal
has come in contacts with the Swedish Neo-Nazi group White Aryan
Resistance (VAM) through Jan Holthe.

"We want to organize ourselves better, and at the same time we must
learn from each other and begin a cooperation across the borders in
Europe.  This is the only way to get rid of 'them'," says Myrdal to
Dagbladet.

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Not stuff that was very pleasant to type in, and i don't think many
people will find it pleasant to read, but i feel this is important,
damn important.  There are racists everywhere - not just in the places
that make the evening news - and none of us can sit by and let them
do their thing.  They are dangerous to all of us, and they are
dangerous to democracy and freedom.

Thank you for reading.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway
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