Late January 2004 made the Amsterdam Wim Beaux known to leave the New National Party and he joined the NNP-splitting “Nationale Alliantie”. This Beaux began his fifth extreme-right party since he 1980 became a member of the Center Party. In this 23 jaar is Fine’ political career all but gone about roses.
Shortly after the establishment of the Centre Party heard Beaux Janmaat speak on the radio and he joined the party. The first years stuck Beaux’ head is not above the parapet. In 1984 came to a series of quarrels between different figures from the Center Party and Janmaat left the party to form the competitive Centre Democrats. After this break Beaux penetrated through to the party framework and was a board member of the Center Party. In 1985 Beaux participated in the provincial elections in Flevoland. It was not for nothing, because in elections 1983 en 1984 knew the Centre Party in Lelystad and Almere achieve all good scores. This time the party had success and Beaux was elected parliamentarian. This is despite the negative publicity surrounding his person: Police arrested him right before the election because refinishing election posters and illegal possession of weapons.
In 1986 Beaux was also elected to the city council of Almere. A month after his installation, the court declared bankrupt, however, the Centre Party (#1). In order to continue the Centre Party '86 was (CP'86) Founded and Beaux moved. As a councilor Beaux knew further does not really work in the history books. The only thing that could apply as striking is a story that he sometimes wants to tell: in a heated debate he would have a glass of water to the mayor of Almere thrown.
He tried 1987 his seat in the Provincial Council to extend. This time he was in the news, after a number of elderly people under false pretenses supporting signatures had cajoled. That, however, gave him no electoral success, and he had to give up his seat.
The CP'86 developed meanwhile anything but prosperous. There were many disagreements and trademark “Janmaat” Competitor CD proved stronger than the party expected. In the second half of the 80s CP'86 disappeared further and further from the scene, while the Centre Democrats (CD) more and more members- and booked votes profit. In 1989 Janmaat paid on behalf of the CD back in the House, while CP'86 not even competed. The party had at that time only a few dozen members. Several times they tried to bring the two sides together again, but these attempts have never had any success.
In 1990 have changed a thing. A very active group of young people from the Youth Front forbidden Netherlands was included in the CP'86. This group first made sure that the party was much more active and bigger, but radicalized the party also. Increasingly were active CP'86 members to catch on Nazi sympathies.
The CP'86 achieved some success in municipal elections in 1990. Competitive CD holds true 11 seats, CP'86 but did it nice and obtained four. Remarkably, two of the four seats at the expense of Beaux: he was both elected in Almere and Amsterdam. Beaux chose Amsterdam, so the seat remained vacant in Almere. An attempt to be again elected a member of the Provincial Council, however, stranded.
Along with the rejuvenation of the party also changed Beaux: he became more activist and more radical. This earned him a short time some harsh confrontations with the government. In 1990 Beaux wild with Filip the Vlaams Blok Winter organize a press conference at an exhibition of Anne Frank. Beaux agreed to this joint action with the Vlaams Blok, on the condition that the disc would be held outside. At first they tried to hold a press conference in the Amsterdam city hall. However, that was banned by Mayor Ed van Thijn. When it subsequently failed to rent a room, was finally held a press conference at the home of CP'86 Secretary Egbert Perée in Dordrecht. Also this press conference was banned by the mayor. The police intervened when Filip Winter with a megaphone began to read a statement from the bedroom window of Perée: All attendees, including Wim Beaux, were arrested.
A second incident took place in September 1991. Beaux was controlled by the Dutch-German border and customs found except a big pile of pamphlets for CP'86 also 189 booklets entitled 'The Zündelproces: outdated Holocaust lie ". For the leaflets, who had a clearly racist nature, he was later sentenced to three-week suspended prison sentence and fined one thousand guilders. For the booklets – in which the Holocaust is denied – the court sentenced him not. Beaux namely stated that these were by mistake in his car at the printer. The printer (the home printer of the German far-right NPD) confirmed that story in court. (#2)
A third confrontation was the most radical: In 1993 was there at all Board members CP'86, Fine waaronder, search done by Justice. This was the prelude to a lawsuit against the party that 1995 would begin.
In de periode 1993 tot 1996 the CP'86 made her heyday by. The party managed to get a nationwide structure of any scale from the ground, had several hundred members and appeared in elections 1994 (for the City Council and the House) to go quite a success books. Beaux also invested heavily in the party. He stomped to move the circle Amsterdam from the ground and knew the Amsterdam members to participate in a number of actions. The elections 1994 eventually went quite different than hoped. The various extreme right-wing parties were in total 88 council seats to pick, nine of the CP'86. Beaux itself was, to his no small disappointment, However, not re-elected in the city council. Another disappointment was the participation in the parliamentary elections. Beaux was a candidate and predicted that his party would get two seats. That, however, there were zero. Around the elections were numerous incidents. Beaux himself was arrested twice for distributing racist propaganda. When one of these arrests, he also appeared to have a baton and a machete in his car. But above two incidents around the CD made for the poor election result of the extreme right: Party leader Janmaat declared for the camera to be happy with the death of Labour celebrity Ien Dales. Further famous Amsterdam leader of the CD for a hidden camera was responsible for several attacks.
Despite these relatively unsuccessful elections CP'86 continued its activities, but found since then increasingly political opponents in her path. In november 1994 the party congress was disrupted by AFA. In 1995 the party made several attempts to organize demonstrations. Due to actions of AFA and the unwillingness of the party to adhere to these agreements were demonstrations however almost always prevented or forbidden. Some small demonstrations, which were held in secret, however, could find passage. Beaux was with practically all these demonstrations present, which resulted in a banned demonstration in Rotterdam to his arrest and yet another penalty.
Eventually caused the commotion all these demonstrations into a political discussion on the right to demonstrate extreme right. This allowed the CP'86 and CD 1996 demonstrating twice legally.
These successes, however, were nothing compared to the problems the CP'86 meanwhile was stuck. In 1995 was a process initiated against party and party executive, what the Defendants – Fine waaronder – eventually resulted in a conviction and a hefty fine for membership of a criminal organization. That was up to there, but the party was already deeply divided over a number of themes. On the one hand there was an ongoing discussion or had to be worked or merged with Janmaat CD and on the other hand, there was much internal struggle around the overt Nazi and violent practices of some of the supporters CP'86.
The discussion on cooperation with the CD eventually led to nothing. There appeared especially in the old Center Party members, Fine waaronder, to be too old grudge to work together. Henk Ruitenberg, CP'86 the chairman and major supporter of the merger, went after this failure worsening function. Eventually he resigned as chairman and was succeeded by Wim Beaux.
For problems with the Nazis in the party no solution was found. On one hand, the Nazis were doing much harm to the party by the bad publicity that their operations were. On the other hand, they were responsible for the bulk of the action and performed a lot of work for the party. The debate persisted and eventually derailed in summer 1996. Then came pictures of publicity, which some CP'86 members spent the Hitler salute. One of them, Rotterdam councilor and actual leader of the Nazi wing Martijn Freling, was subsequently disbarred. The argument that it did give the party eventually cracks. The Nazis managed to keep the CP'86 owned, while the others, Fine waaronder, continued in the People's Nationalists Netherlands (VNN). Also from this party Beaux became chairman.
The remnants of the Nazi CP'86 touched after the rupture rapidly in decline. The party imploded and was eventually 1998 forbidden. For the other extreme right parties CD, VNN and Dutch Blok was 1998 disaster year. The elections for parliament and local councils made that all seats, two council seats after (#3), were lost.
The VNN therefore not a single seat, despite a strategy in which the party with actions the newspaper and television tried to persuade. As Beaux announced two demonstrations in Amsterdam, both of which were forbidden. Furthermore, a number of party raided a camp of refugees in Dwingeloo and was a VNN delegation demonstratively present an anti-racism meeting in Amsterdam. Beaux was present in both actions (#4). However, these activities do not availed: the party so took a seat.
VNN this episode had a tail Beaux. He became, as party, sued for racial publications on the Internet site of the party. This earned him and a fellow- board first month prison sentence on. That they were the first people who were convicted in the Netherlands of racism on the Internet. On appeal, however, they were acquitted, because it could not be proved that they themselves had put the lyrics on Internet.
Despite the disappointing election result 1998 the party went well by, albeit under a different name: de Nieuwe Nationale Partij (NNP). The reason for the name change was a bad legacy from the past: the risk that the VNN could be regarded as the successor to the banned CP'86. Thus, the party and the board members would make themselves namely criminal. The revolving presidency of the Beaux CP'86 and VNN produced additional evidence in that direction. The old CP'86 framework also disappeared when a board was formed for the new NNP. The old VNN (I CP'86)-framework but remained active in the party. Beaux was responsible for the party store and for the North Holland Department. He visited nearly all NNP activities and when the election year 2002 came, he tried to get the party in Amsterdam from the ground. He organized two meetings for NNP members. The second meeting, just before the elections, was disrupted by anti-fascists, who took all the propaganda of the party. Hardly achieve success in this municipal knew the NNP. Only in the Rotterdam district council Feyenoord got the party two seats. Beaux pulled in Amsterdam 764 stemmen, too little for a seat. The lack of success was the NNP'ers mainly attributed to the rise of Pim Fortuyn. The party found it difficult to determine a course towards the emergence of Liveable Netherlands. They had to work together, infiltrate or private, radical, item? The party did not really matter here, but decided in part because of competition from the LPF to not participate in the elections. For Beaux was the result as a sore thumb: “Of course we agree on the LPF”. Fortuyn's murder also hit hard at Beaux and the NNP. The party still tried to obtain any benefit from the anger among Fortuyn supporters: a hefty NNP delegation with banner and flags joined himself to the silent march that kept Fortuyn supporters in Amsterdam. Beaux played a prominent role in this action, determined not in good earth fell to the organizers of the commemoration. For the rest, the NNP remained trouble keeping up with the changing relationships in the post-Fortuyn era. The increased sympathy for harsh anti-foreigner views did the party not to deploy some success.
Wim Beaux in January Teijn
Finally seemed to have a solution from the Fortuyn corner. The NNP was in 2003 increasingly reaching out to the New Right. NNP president Florens van der Kooi was even fraction employee of the New Right-chairman Michiel Smit. Beaux initially appeared to agree with this approach: When Michiel Smit in November 2003 a speech held on a VB meeting he was accompanied by a group of supporters of the New Right and the NNP, Fine waaronder.
Over a month later left the Beaux NNP along with two other executives from North Holland (Peter van Egmond and Ton Steemers). According Beaux was largely worthless actions of the government reason for the party to say goodbye. But besides this excuse is there any reason to believe that there were ideological differences. Beaux is known as someone with anti-Semitic ideas and Peter van Egmond has been caught in the past anti-Jewish statements. This clashed with the further movement towards the New Right.
New Right has in the first year of its existence, namely a – to say the least – lurching course conducted regarding her views on Jews. Some of the supporters are pronounced Israel apologists, while there are also a number of anti-Semites in. This naturally resulted in heated discussions on. Furthermore, it was also part of the NNP-supporters not enamored of the pro-Israel and pro-Jewish views of the New Right, which led to unrest in the party. Meanwhile, the New Right party stated that if they had no opinion about Jews or Israel. From the extreme right circuit remains found that New Right is too pro-Jewish, not least because of the participation of people of the Jewish Defense League in two demonstrations of the New Right.
In his explanation for his farewell to the NNP and the transition to the National Alliance (#5) Beaux emphasizes the “Own people first position” he found back at the National Alliance. That seems a clear reference to the rapprochement of the NNP to “pro-Joodse” New Right. Especially because the leaders and active supporters of the National Alliance in words and context as Jew-haters have let himself lately.
Or the National Alliance is a success or not is hard to say. At Beaux, however, will not be this: he is, despite his age (73) still one of the active right-wing extremists in the Netherlands and is planning now for this to turn into new game.
(#1) – The Centre Party forged by the Municipal Council of 1986 signatures in order to be able to take part. Some victims sued. The Centre Party was sentenced to pay 57.000 guilders compensation. That paid the party not, which the bankruptcy has been requested.
(#2) – In 1993 search was done in the in 1998 deceased party president Wim Vineyards. With him are the plates and negatives of conscious booklet found, which suggests that the CP'86 – and thus also Beaux – knew more of the booklet.
(#3) – Schiedam remove the CD and a seat in Utrecht Dutch Block. Block loses its last seat, however in 2000, bij gemeentelijke herindelingsverkiezingen. Schiedam CD councilor soon let nothing themselves heard, which the CD also actually disappeared from the local councils. Beaux itself did in Amsterdam with, but achieved only 413 votes and no seat.
(#4) – Just before the elections wants VNN still hold a demonstration against drug use by Martijn Freling, leader of the competing CP'86 in Rotterdam. This action is forbidden. If there still appears some VNN members, are there some arrests, Fine waaronder.
(#5) – The National Alliance was recently founded by Jan Teijn. Teijn as part councilor for the NNP in Rotterdam Feyenoord selected, but left the party after arguing with chairman Florens van der Kooi. Meanwhile the Nazi and anti-Semite Virginia Kapic has joined the party as a sort of party-ideologe.
