Here are some of my initial views on Roel van Leeuwen’s thesis, “Dreamers of the Dark”. A quick flick through finds pages 118 to page 152 (Appendix 3) to be what appears to be an almost verbatim copy of the Renaissance Press Catalogue, 2007. The accompanying footnote gives a link to http://www.freewebs.com/renaissancepress/thecatalogue.htm. The inclusion of this catalogue amounts to 34 pages (out of 182 or 18% of the document) of “filler”. If the Appendices etc are ignored 34 pages amounts to the equivalent of more than 34% of the actual bulk of thesis, given than it is 100 double spaced pages, and the Renaissance Press Catalogue is not double spaced. The catalogue only lists one book title mentioning “Satanism” and that is Mr Bolton’s Occult Origins of the New World Order. The context is relating to Marx and Bakunin Satanists, Satanic cult behind modern art, Carducci’s “Hymn to Satan”, Luciferic origins of New Age, and New Age/Luciferic origins of “New World Order”. One entry out out of the numerous titles on 34 pages hardly seems to support the thesis which claims to be showing a link between Satanism and neo-Nazism. The significance of the book catalogue don’t seem to be adequately explained, but it appears that Roel van Leeuwen may be a disgruntled customer of Renaissance Press. Five sentences prefacing Appendix 3 simply make claims about the profit margins of Mr Bolton’s enterprise: “Two representative examples of books sold by Bolton suggests that he makes a significant profit from his sales if material costs only are taken into account.” and “Other examples all show an approximately similar profit margin over production costs.”
I have a vivid imagination but currently can’t come up with any suggestions as to the relevance of production costs and profit margins to a thesis which suggests a very sinister motive – which in this case would seem to be accusations of Capitalism and Free Market economics. No, maybe I can imagine something wildly speculative, that Roel van Leeuwen is advocating price fixing of publications in some kind of fascist way, as a counter to Capitalism.
There is another issue here though, and that is of copyright. There is no indication that permission was gained to include this catalogue in the thesis. Judging by Mr Bolton’s website set up to “expose” the thesis, it seems highly unlikely he would have given permission. Under New Zealand law, copying verbatim is a breach of copyright if no permission was given, and generally, in Academic institutions, this would amount to plagiarism. Perhaps the University of Waikato has no problem with copyright infringement when used in a thesis to illustrate a point which backs up a thesis. However, as said above, complaining about Capitalist profit-margins doesn’t seem to fit the thesis.
Perhaps we will see books written by Roel van Leeuwen which are sold at-cost, or perhaps given away free so as to make the world a better place.
A couple of sentences that stuck out in Appendix 3:
“Banking Swindle. K Bolton. Succinct account of rise of international bankers, how usury banking system operates, its political power and how it was opposed by Catholic and Islamic social doctrines, Ezra Pound, Father Coughlin, Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln and American Revolutionaries”
The above would seem to constitute an unbiased look at banking, including opponents who were Catholic and Islamic, as well as American Presidents (Kennedy and Lincoln). It hardly seems to support a claim of Satanism and neo-Nazism
“Historical Revisionism: Note: Revisionism is stereotypically portrayed by vested interests as being motivated by anti-Semitism or neo-Nazism. In fact the founders of post World War II revisionism were the Left-wing scholars the American Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes, and the French resistance leader and concentration camp inmate Prof. Paul Rassinier. Revisionist scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including both Left and Right, conservatives libertarians, and a significant number of Jews.”
This note suggests that the founders of revisionism relating to World War 2 were actually Left-wing scholars, rather than Nazis or neo-Nazis, and that even some Jews (Satanic neo-Nazi Jews?) have questioned the holocaust. This again does seem to fit a thesis of Mr Bolton being a narrow-minded neo-Nazi working away at creating a synthesis of Satanism and neo-Nazism.
Tags: Dreamers of the Dark, Kerry Bolton, neo-Nazism, Roel van Leeuwen, Satanism, thesis, Waikato University
