"We are National Socialists. Followers of Adolf Hitler and George Lincoln Rockwell. Nothing more, and nothing less."

 

That's probably more than enough for most folks.

It's easy to condemn the National Socialist White People's Party as a bunch of jackbooted racist Nazis because, well, they are a bunch of racist Nazis (the site makes no mention of their choice of footwear). But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this is America, and in America, people are free to hold and express whatever goofy beliefs they want. After all, we put up with Scientologists, don't we?

We find it a curious twist of logic that, because the NSWPP is considered a hate group by most people, overt hatred of the party is somehow justifiable, and that hatred further justifies denying them the rights to which they would otherwise be entitled. Following that line of reasoning only makes us small and mean.

 

"We are the last group of people who may be legally persecuted, defamed, insulted, dismissed from employment, denied housing, denied medical care, assaulted, framed on fabricated legal charges, harassed in a thousand ways, imprisoned without trial and even murdered-and "society" will not only do nothing whatsoever to punish the perpetrators of these acts, but will applaud them."

 

We're not overly sympathetic to the plight of poor, downtrodden Nazis, and we're certainly not endorsing the NSWPP's vituperous screed, but we think that judgement should be based on knowledge and reason rather than blind emotion, and that they have as much right to their opinions, however offensive, as any other political entity.

 

The National Socialist White People's Party isn't fielding any candidates in this election (thank you, NSWPP), and the site's extensive rhetoric doesn't define a specific platform, but the following should give you a pretty clear idea of what they're all about:

 

 

TEN PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL SOCIALIST THOUGHT

I. BE HONEST. A National Socialist faces a fact whether he likes it or not. Dishonesty is the mark of the enemy. National Socialism above all represents living truth in its purest form.

II. BELIEVE IN GOD AND YOURSELF. The God of Destiny subjects only His strongest mortals to enormous tasks which would crush lesser men. God wills only the best to fulfill the highest task of life: to perfect mankind. Give yourself utterly unto Destiny, and God will shield you in your fight. God helps only those who help themselves. We will lose only if we lay down our arms due to our weakness and cowardice. There is only one true disgrace: submission to the enemies of our race.

III. BE FAITHFUL TO YOUR RACE. No one must be allowed to spoil what Nature created down through aeons of racial evolution. Your highest purpose in life is to carry on that evolution toward a stronger, better, more beautiful mankind. The purity and strengthening of the Aryan race is the basic requirement of every future higher evolution.

IV. FIGHT FOR YOUR RACE. Fight for the holy ideals of National Socialism, the heart of your great race. Only in this struggle can you prove your true worth as a man or a woman. Only thus can you fulfill your potential for courage, dedication, and ennobling self-sacrifice. Life's struggle for survival brought Man upwards from the apelike beings of the distant past to the height of Aryan culture and achievement. The Party's struggle will produce the revolutionary elite who will lead the National Socialist ideal to victory.

V. YOU ARE A SUPERIOR INDIVIDUAL. You will be outnumbered in this struggle, because the best are always a minority. History-making decisions have never been the work of formless masses, but always victories by active and dedicated minorities. You are both the servant and the spokesperson for your race. Make sure you set an example worthy to be followed in your person and your life.

VI. LOVE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. You owe your existence to your racial family; let your love of them be your overriding passion in life. Do not fear the Undermen, the racially inferior, and do not persecute them. You are their superior, but you are not their owner. When the time comes to fight them, do not lose your senses through counterproductive hatred. Detach yourself, clear your mind, and destroy them completely, methodically, clinically, as if in a surgical operation. Nothing is more pointless than wasting time hating mud people; it detracts from the positive love of your own.

VII. IMPROVE YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. All Aryan men and women are your brothers and sisters, although not all are equally intelligent or courageous. It is up to you to inform them, to encourage them, and to instill their hearts with courage. Some of your kinsfolk have been misled and made ugly by the Judaic evil which is corrupting our racial soul. You must not hate them on that account, but rather strive to bring them back to their racial family.

VIII. REJECT THE DECADENCE. Decadence is anything which detracts either physically or spiritually from the health and the upward development of our Aryan race. You must hold your racial and spiritual purity above your very life, and not associate with anything which is decadent or which gives your life the appearance of decadence. Every aspect of life must be judged in relation to the survival and improvement of your race; anything hindering these attainments must be ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed.

IX. THE BEST MUST RULE. All great achievements on earth are the product of great leadership, political or scientific or artistic. The racial community can gain strength only by applying the Leadership Principle and placing in front the men and women who have demonstrated superior ability, dedication, and tenacity in the racial struggle. Democracy is a sickness which leads inevitably to chaos, corruption, and the collapse of society; from democracy steps forth the cruelest of tyrants.

X. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. Where there is a will, there is a way. Everything falls before the man of indomitable will. Suffering and sacrifice are necessary; we are hardening ourselves for the most decisive struggle in all of human history. Victory will fall only to the most truthful, the most fanatical, the strongest, the bravest, and the best. Be that.