Kerry Raymond Bolton was born on 1956 and is a New Zealand white supremacist and Holocaust denier, and a writer and political activist on those subjects.
17 Facts About Kerry Bolton
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In 1980, Bolton co-founded the Church of Odin as the New Zealand branch of the Australian neopagan organisation, First Anglecyn Church of Odin.
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Kerry Bolton is involved in several nationalist and fascist political groups in New Zealand.
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In 1980, Kerry Bolton co-founded, along with David Crawford, the Church of Odin, the New Zealand branch of the First Anglecyn Church of Odin, a pro-Nazi neopagan organisation for "whites of non-Jewish descent".
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Kerry Bolton has published and edited newsletters such as The Watcher, The Flaming Sword, The Heretic, The Nexus, Ab Aeterno and Western Destiny.
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Kerry Bolton founded the national-socialist Order of the Left Hand Path in 1992, following a quarrel with other members of the Temple of Set.
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Kerry Bolton created and edited the Black Order newsletter, The Flaming Sword, and its successor, The Nexus, a satanic-Nazi journal with special attention given to figures such as Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, and Ezra Pound, and which especially catered to the black metal movement.
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In 1996, Kerry Bolton formed The Thelemic Society which blended rightist politics with the teachings of the English occultist Aleister Crowley and the philosophy of the German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Kerry Bolton was involved with the New Zealand National Front but resigned because of disputes with neo-Nazi and white supremacist factions.
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In 2021, the University of Otago student magazine Critic Te Arohi reported that Kerry Bolton is in regular contact with the white supremacist organisation Action Zealandia.
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Kerry Bolton has written articles which have been published in magazine run by the Church of Satan with the same name as the magazine he started as The Flaming Sword.
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In 2008, a masters thesis written about Kerry Bolton published by the Waikato University was temporarily pulled from the library pending investigation after Kerry Bolton complained to the vice-chancellor.
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Kerry Bolton claimed the thesis was "poorly researched" and was "a poorly contrived smear-document against a private individual, namely myself".
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In December 2009, Kerry Bolton filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority concerning the Ideas programme on Radio New Zealand National, which featured Marxist poet and sociologist Scott Hamilton.
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In December 2009, Kerry Bolton complained to the Press Council against a lengthy feature article run by The Press, Christchurch, "A Right Muddle" by John McCrone.
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In 2014, Kerry Bolton was involved in a campaign seeking to save a young dog from euthanasia for allegedly nipping another dog on the hind leg in the course of play.
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Kerry Bolton was discharged without conviction by Porirua District Court judge Ian Mill on the condition that he pay reparation of $1500 to the victim within a month.