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works of the last one hundred years” because it demolished the sacred cows of
“christianity, humanitarianism, pacifism, egalitarianism” and, furthermore,
“Realist Publications dedicated this edition of ‘Might is Right’ to this emerging
generation of “Iron Youth”, that they may grasp the opportunity to take the
future” 85 . In issue 3 of The Watcher an article was published by the Order of Nine
Angles, an English based Satanic group who had made earlier contributions to
The Watcher and The Heretic, entitled ‘Satanism and Race’, which advocated an
internal European Imperialism, a Europe for Europeans by which “racismwhether
White, Black or whatever- is a means, a tactic used by Satanists to
achieve … a European Imperium” 86 . The Order of Nine Angles, like Cox’s Pan-
European Brotherhood, was an openly neo-Nazi group- not that readers of The
Watcher or The Heretic would have initially had any prior cause for guessing this
was the case as such political affiliations were nowhere in evidence at the time.
However, issue 3 also ran articles entitled ‘Germany Awake!’, a slogan which was
carried on the banner poles of the National Socialist Party during rallies, and
‘Victory for Holocaust Heretic”, in which “German-Canadian civil rights activist”
Ernst Zundel was congratulated for having a conviction for Holocaust denial
overturned. Bolton, in commenting that “the Holocaust legend has been elevated
into Holy Writ in much of the world”, and that to challenge the legend is to “bring
down the wrath of the contemporary inquisitors”, deftly utilises language that
resonates with Satanic identity. The “Holy Writ”, defended by the “inquisitors”,
evokes images of Christian oppression and torture, and so the heretic is thus
obliged to oppose this “legend” (i.e. ‘non-fact’) on a matter of principle and in this
way the reader is encouraged to identify with Zundel himself, another
Satanic/Luciferian rebel fighting against the orthodoxy and oppression of
Jehovah/‘the State’.
In issue 8, the masthead changed yet again, reading “A Journal of the
Kulturkampf * Realpolitik * Esoterrorism”, invoking not only a National
Socialist aesthetic by utilising the word kulturkampf, but associating it with the
‘hardcore’ and ‘no bullshit’ implications of the words ‘realpolitik’ and
85 The Heretic 1, 1992
86 The Heretic 3, 1993
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