Sympathy for the extreme right ideology in the Netherlands since the early eighties not been so small as now. Since the local elections last year, where the splintered fascist movement 88 seats fell to a total of two, seems every effort to bring to the man racist ideas through elections futile. Is this the end of organized racism in Netherlands? Not according to the men of Voorpost Netherlands.
The originally Flemish Voorpost since 1978 active in the Netherlands to the United Dutch public thought: Netherlands and Flanders should be merged as soon as possible after the dissolution of the historical monstrosity Belgium. Outpost had no success. Her message was misunderstood and hardly heard in Netherlands. The few times that she scolded in a market trying to arrange this led to police intervention or hordes of angry protesters. The organization remained smaller than marginal and led an underground existence. Only during visits to the Flemish comrades boots could be recruited and in a cheerful gathering of the Dutch heroics, Flemish and South African brotherly nations are sung.
In the early nineties, the membership rose slightly, when the radical party CP'86 interest received for the whole thought-Dutch. Many CP'86 members joined the Dutch branch of Outpost. In 1996 the CP'86 was however prey to internal strife and fell apart in several clubs. CP'86-Men Marcel Rüter and Tim Mudde left the sinking ship and took the Voorpost organization. Rüter was chairman and Mudde action leader and editor of the Voorpost magazine 'Revolt'. The new leadership was Outpost at a furious pace to the last bastion of right-wing activists in Netherlands.
From the beginning a three-pronged approach was used that Marcel Rüter had already released in vain for the CP'86. This policy was distinguishable in activities aimed at supporters, focused on sympathizers and focused on the rest of the world. Supporters need to be taught, sympathizers encapsulated and the rest of the world who are involved in a serious, depth discussion of the views of the extreme right. This plan Rüter not invent, it is a well-known political strategy of the extreme right-wing groups in France, Germany and Flanders, known as New Right (New Right). Its origins lie in France in May 1968.
After the smoke cleared in Paris realized the extreme right than anyone that she had completely lost the initiative. To regain the initiative were set far-right extra-parliamentary study groups throughout France who developed the plans for post she now wants to unleash Netherlands.
The first track of Outpost is aimed at supporters, Post-members and members of other right-wing groups, mainly from the CP'86. They should be taught in the New Right ideology. Marcel Rüter will not work with idiots, drug dealers and dumb skinheads who have no ideological basics. For this purpose he had in his CP'86 time already the study club 'Study, Building & Fight’ (SOS) Founded. This club organized 1995 en 1996 for CP'86 members thematic days on nationalism, campaigning, solidarisme, political intimidation and the interaction with the media. Now Rüter switched to Outpost these seminars continue. Moreover Rüter regularly gives a leaf (SOS Newsletter) To equip Outpost members with some intellectual baggage. In this paper several times authors themselves against internationalism, globalization and multi-culture and advocated Outpost core theme: The People's Identity. Internationalism and multi-culture lead to the destruction of the people own, the dissolution of the company and thus inevitably to ruin. Back to blood and soil, the aim is.
Therefore it is called for solidarity with the displaced Kurds, Indians and makes SOS strongly against the destruction of nature and vegetarianism. Leaving the great predecessors not be forgotten evidenced by articles about include the pre-war fascist ideologues Julius Evola and Joris Van Severen. So far this internal education Outpost has known no great thinkers or ideological delights. SOS is primarily a machine quotes, which the authors play borrows from New Right authors from Belgium, France and Germany.
The second track that follows is Voorpost find the connection with potential supporters. The extreme right in the Netherlands since the mid-eighties to a properly functioning “cordon”. Every self-respecting politician or organization will guard against ever to be associated with far-right parties or their ideas. Even youthful of a sixteen-year-old right-adolescent can help a political career to hell. According to the analysis of Outpost this is the big problem of extreme- rechts. Because of the complete isolation will sympathizing intellectuals never make the transition to the extreme right. In addition, never far-right views are seen as respectable opinions and therefore never be involved in political or social debate. For Post sees it as a prerequisite for any success of any far-right group whatsoever, this isolation is broken.
At this point Outpost now seems to have some success. Where the existing far-right parties in the recent years have seen their framework has run away outpost there over the past year came with new people. This particularly comes to veterans of the extreme right environment, that is shorter or longer time ago withdrew from the snake pit of the competing factions.
An important development in this area is the reactivation of Alfred Vierling. Quad was in the seventies, an environmental activist who shortly after the establishment of the Centre Party at the party landed and knew himself there to work as a second man behind Janmaat. Quad is then important for the far right because he is intelligent, beaked particularly well and has a good sense of humor. These are qualities which it properly within these circles is missing. He also has a great influence on the ideological education of the Centre Party and is responsible for various actions that led to media coverage of the so-called Centre movement '.
Quad left in 1984 the Centre Party to join a few years later successively in the CD and Dutch Block. When he was in this last batch 1994 left it looked as if the fascist shenanigans Quad. A year later, there was even a riot, when it appeared that the Ministry of Education and Science had written a letter, Quad which was recommended as a new teacher at Imam Training in Turkey.
But Drs. Alfred Vierling is back and we will know! Ranting and raving he goes in an article in the right-wing magazine Heem Country’ railing against immigration, Social Democracy, neo-liberalism and the environmental destruction. Then to focus his tirade on the existing right-wing factions in the Netherlands and as a solution to all these problems to praise the strategy of Outpost: “But we just need a platform, a dispute, political cafe, a forum discussion in this country. We have the rare writers who now Elsevier’ or "The Green Amsterdam’ write access and bows in a web of sympathizing middle, exhausted and converted teachers, police chief as Cooper Amsterdam and others who shew finally, that our society is bursting at the seams.”
Another old friend's Mart Giesen, medical examiner and active since the early eighties in the extreme right in the Netherlands. He came from the Center Party, through the CD and Dutch Block ended up in Voorpost circles.
In the early eighties he regularly managed to reach the press with remarkable plans. So he pleaded among other things to stop operation of sick elderly because of the low probability of success, and he proclaimed in party circles that euthanasia should be conducted on mentally retarded. These plans earned him within the Centre Party nicknamed Doctor Mengele on. Giesen kicked it in 1990 to provincial parliamentarian for the Centre Democrats and began at that time to the issue of the regional CD-leaf 'Heem Land', that he filled with newspaper clippings and copies of meeting minutes of the Provincial Council of South Holland. In 1994 Giesen contact the competitive Dutch block and put the CD, which also cost him his seat states. After that little more was heard of Giesen.
Since last year Giesen is a regular visitor to Voorpost meetings and he has the magazine 'Heem Country’ revived. However, the magazine is not a regional newspaper cuttings more, but a pretty decent magazine featuring articles about all kinds of subjects publishes under the umbrella of the New Right area of interest: “For discussion Heem Country sets as discussion forum of national-minded column space in this document available. The editorial endeavors by publishing this magazine to make a modest contribution to the maintenance of national consciousness who recognizes the value of the Dutch nation”, says Giesen in number 12 from 1998.
Furthermore Giesen late Heem Country abundantly clear in which direction he hopes the circle of nationally-minded will expand. There is discussed very extensively on the role of various commentators from the magazine Elsevier, including Pim Fortuyn, a declared opponent of multiculturalism. Furthermore, the Rotterdam Professor Wim Couwenberg article long welcomed.
The courtships of Dutch New Right Pim Fortuyn have not led so far to his direct involvement in Outpost or similar organizations. What Wim Couwenberg concerned is different. The emeritus professor Wim Couwenberg is a fiercely anti-communist Cold War Veteran. It stems from the corner of highly conservative organizations, who resisted during the seventies and eighties in no uncertain terms against the leftist uprooting of society (Ancient Warriors Legion, Civil Mundi). Couwenberg has always been a prolific writer, which makes everything about his unvarnished opinion public. Anil Ramdas ever characterized him as a “scientific Archie Bunker”.
In recent years Couwenberg has turned a corner and the pure conservatism left behind. He has more and more engrossed in political theory and the left- legal contradictions.
He also committed sharply against the “politically correct” thinking and publishes highly critical comments on asylum policy and multiculturalism.
That he is perfectly within the ideological framework of Outpost fits showed when he spoke in Belgium in November last year at the colloquium “How do we survive decadence?”. The organization was in the hands of the New Right organization Delta Press. Besides Couwenberg hall was partly addressed by New Right leaders as Luc Pauwels (foreman Delta Press, VB-sympathizer and regular visitor of Outpost- meetings in the Netherlands and Belgium), Alain de Benoist (leader of the Front National think tank GRECE) en Edward Goldsmith (New Right ecologist). Delta Press and its magazine 'Texts, Commentaries and Studies is represented in the Netherlands by Guus Looy, co-founder and board member of the Dutch People's Union polyunsaturated (NVU).
This step Couwenberg passed a border, that the political and scientific establishment in the Netherlands until now had gone out of the way: openly contact with a far-right group. Whilst this is happening abroad, however, it must be seen as a major step forward for Rüter and consorts.
The third branch of the three-pronged strategy of Outpost is focused on the outside world. Which must be bombarded with articles, Letters to the editor, participation in discussion forums and other contributions to the political debate. This is so far hardly emerged from the paint. On a single letter to the editor after Outpost is still unable to provide publications in mainstream media. Whether this will remain so in the foreseeable future is questionable. Notably Alfred Vierling has always been a lover betoond of looking political opponents to enter into discussion with them. In recent months, he also out in force in this area and bombed a Leiden institution that conducts research into sects with emails. An employee had Vierlings criticized right-wing ideas in an article and Quad demands since a debate with him.
Or attempts by Outpost effect will have been questionable. The right-wing extremist parties remain divided and internal training to be desired about the necessary. The public debate which is longed for is anything but get off the ground. Only breaking through the cordon sanitaire seems to work slightly, now a renowned professor emeritus is willing to take a step across the border. This is not a big, but a worrying development.
