Center, American Nazi party presidential candidate John Bowles, and his entourage: (l-r) Nick Chappell and Kevin Swift.
Nazi visits Valley City on 2008 election campaign swing
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
By Carla Kelly
Times-Record Staff Writer
Valley City had a visit Tuesday from a 2008 presidential candidate for the National Socialist Movement, better known as the American Nazi Party.
John Taylor Bowles, accompanied by his head of security and head of the party's youth movement, are on what Bowles calls his "2007 winter election offensive." This includes a swing through North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.
"The American Nazi Party is a good choice," Bowles said. "We're concerned that Americans have a limited choice in candidates."
One goal Bowles expressed was to get enough signatures to have his name placed on the North Dakota ballot for the 2008 presidential elections.
Bowles said he only planned to visit Valley City and Fargo before moving on to Minnesota.
"This is a beautiful place, and a nice way of life," he said of North Dakota. "It's a good example to the rest of the country. With people spread out in rural areas, you're protected from the problems in the rest of the country."
One problem Bowles sees is illegal immigration, and the twin problems of drugs and crime associated with it.
Bowles was more forthcoming on the campaign flyer he distributed, which said Bowles, "the white people's candidate," supports:
?Encouraging illegal non-white immigrants to leave, telling pushy minority agitators where to go.
? a government of, by, and for the people, not for special minorities, illegal non-white immigrants, traitors, race-mixers and sellout politicians.
Another reason why Bowles and his entourage are touring the Upper Midwest was to get more recognition for the American Nazi Party and encourage its supporters to run for office.
When asked, he said that no members of his party have been elected to state or national office yet, "but we're getting closer. You have to run in order to win. Third-party candidates need to be heard from."
On the international level, Bowles feels the United States should re-think its longstanding alliance with Israel.
"This would lessen the tension in the Middle East," he explained.
When questioned, he also had an answer for the Holocaust, in which more than 6 million Jewish men, women and children were killed, as part of Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution."
He doesn't believe it happened.
"Sure, there were concentration camps," Bowles said, "but those were for people causing problems in Germany. Most deaths came because of typhoid in the camps."
When asked where all those Jews went, then, he countered with a question of his own: "Germans are orderly and efficient. If Germany did such a good job of killing the Jews, why were there so many survivors?"
As the self-proclaimed "white people's candidate," Bowles also had a suggestion for America's racial problems.
"Send the blacks to Africa," he said, "or put them somewhere in their own area in the United States."
Bowles, a 30-year-member of the American Nazi Party, is a former employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He lives in South Carolina, as do the two men who accompanied him to Valley City.
Kevin Swift, 23, is his chief of security. Nick Chappell, 18, is the director of the party's youth movement.
"My job is to educate youth," Chappell said. "We discuss the problems of America. I help them see those problems, and I push them in the correct direction."
When asked about the party's membership, Bowles said that is privileged information. He claimed the party garnered 1,000 new members last month alone.
"We're the number one, largest pro-white political party in the country," he said. "Our commander gets calls on the hot line. He can barely keep up."
Bowles said the American Nazi Party gets support from Germany and all over the world. "We hardly get hate mail from anywhere."
After Bowles and his security force complete this winter offensive, they are planning a campaign swing through the South in the spring. They might follow that with a trip farther west, too.
"Starting early like this (for the 2008 presidential campaign) gets early recognition, don't you think?" he asked. "White people deserve fair representation."
Bowles had a ready answer when asked if he thought potential voters might be repelled by the swastika armband on his uniform:
"It's an ancient symbol. I think it looks better than a jackass or an elephant, don't you? Besides, it's coming back in style."
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