By Byron C Clark on Stuff…
The following is extracted from the new book Fear: New Zealand’s hostile underworld of extremists (HarperCollins NZ, RRP $39.99) available from Wednesday. Researcher Byron C. Clark investigates how violent scenes outside Parliament in early 2022 was the culmination of trends that had been developing for the better part of a decade.
Like Action Zealandia, Manawatū-based Wargus Christi emerged as a far-right group a few months after the demise of the Dominion Movement [pictured above]. On their (now removed) Facebook page, the group described itself as ‘a martial-monastic Christian brotherhood of swole saints, meat monks and beef bishops’, and wrote: ‘Our work is to achieve and maintain authentic manhood in defiance of the degenerate and effeminate carcass of the West.’
The page promoted a mediaeval-style Christianity, with a heavy emphasis on Crusade imagery, and a particularly fascistic idea of health and well-being. They encouraged their members to regularly work out at the gym, frequently described as ‘the temple of iron’ (a phrase popularised by Marcus Follin, better known as ‘The Golden One’, a Swedish white nationalist YouTuber, bodybuilder and online fitness coach).
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