BNP Leader's Family Alleges Abuse
Antifa | 17.12.2009 04:16 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Repression
Arthur Kemp, the third highest-ranking member of the British National Party, is accused of years of unspeakable, sadistic abuse of his children, according to an interview with his family published earlier this month in the United States.
Kemp’s wife and children recalled beatings, death threats, denial of medical care and forced neo-Nazi indoctrination from Kemp, who now directs “ideological training” for voting members of the BNP.
Kemp’s family paints a chilling portrait of a cruel, messianic father who forced his racist beliefs upon them, often violently. When his son, Stephen, was eight, Kemp repeatedly punched the boy in the face until he was almost unconscious. By the time Kemp’s wife, Karen, pulled Arthur off the child, the bedroom walls were spattered with blood, she recalled in the interview. The marriage ended shortly after this incident.
Kemp’s family remembers him as a racist tyrant who would beat his children until they couldn’t walk. He made them read racist books, forced them to listen to racist music and would not allow his son or daughter to swim in a public pool if it had been occupied by non-whites.
Today, Arthur Kemp directs member training and sells racist children’s books and music for the BNP. He is in charge of the group’s merchandising arm, Excalibur.
According to Kemp’s book, March of the Titans, mandatory reading for all BNP leaders, race is the sole determinant to the success of any civilization. The depth of Kemp’s racism is reflected in that book and in the years of suffering he inflicted on his children.
When the family was living in the UK a few years ago, Kemp refused to allow an Indian dentist to treat his six-year-old daughter. She suffered excruciating pain with a tooth abscess for several days until Kemp could find a white dentist to treat the child.
Around 2003, Kemp’s son and daughter claim he threatened to murder them if he ever found out they were in a relationship with a non-white.
After years of psychological counseling, Kemp’s son Stephen, has come to terms with the cruelty of his father. Recently, Stephen legally changed his last name to Mills, his mother’s maiden name. If only the 16 year old could erase the memory of Arthur Kemp so easily.
Now safe from the sadistic abuse of their father, who has been out of their lives since 2006, Arthur Kemp’s teenage children and his former wife have finally come forward. They gave a shocking and disturbing interview to a US Intelligence magazine this month. An online version of the article is here:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1110
An excerpt is printed below:
The Price of Hate
When Stephan Mills was 10 or 11, his father sat him and his older sister down after supper one night and told them that if they ever became emotionally involved with someone of color, he would kill them.
"I just nodded in agreement," said Stephan, now 16.
The incident seemed normal to a boy who for years had been steeped in his father's bigotry. Arthur Kemp, a South African white supremacist who has ties to British and American hate groups, indoctrinated his children with racist and anti-Semitic beliefs from the time they were very young. Stephan mostly adopted those views as his own. Several years ago, however, he rejected all that his father stood for. The experience would radically change his life and lead to his ongoing estrangement from his father, who's now divorced from his mother and believed to be living in England.
"Stephan's resentment toward his father is based partly on the fact that, in his sister's words, he had to relearn to be a civilized human," said his mother, Karen Mills. (Karen and Stephan Mills live near Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Intelligence Report interviewed them by phone and E-mail).
There was a lot to relearn. Arthur Kemp "was a very involved and doting father" when his children were small, Karen Mills said. He read to them often, carefully choosing books he felt would reinforce his ideology. Among them were the original "Noddy" series, English children's books that featured Golliwogs, dark-skinned caricatures that were later removed from the text because they were deemed racist. In one of Kemp's favorite Noddy books, the Golliwogs steal Noddy's car. Kemp enjoyed telling his children that the Golliwogs' theft of the car amounted to typical behavior for blacks.
But it wasn't only in books that Kemp found justification for his racism; post-apartheid South Africa offered plenty for him to complain about. "He tried to imprint on the children how bad Africa and everything here was," Karen Mills wrote. After striking workers toppled trashcans, for instance, "Arthur took the children into the main streets of the town and made them walk among the rubbish."
He also forbade socializing with non-white children. If they arrived at a friend's party to find that a black child had also been invited, Kemp made his children go home. When Stephan was six, his father reluctantly took him and his sister to swimming lessons at a public pool where one of the children turned out to be black. "He told us to get out and that we were leaving," said Stephan, who now uses his mother's maiden name. "I was still pretty young so I didn't really understand what was going on."
Kemp's attitude didn't change even when his children's health was at stake. When the family was living in Britain, he plucked his 6-year-old daughter, Joanne, from the dentist's chair rather than allow her to be treated by an Indian dentist, Karen Mills said. As a result, she suffered for three days with a tooth abscess.
When his children grew older, he allowed them to listen only to "white resistance" bands. Rap, especially, was prohibited. Although baseball caps, sneakers, baggy pants and big T-shirts were in fashion, he considered these items "ghetto nigger" clothing and wouldn't let his children wear them.
He also relished showing them articles and statistics that purported to prove that blacks were inferior. He contended that blacks could never be race car drivers because they have poor depth perception, that they cannot swim because their bones are too dense, that they are not as intelligent because their brains are smaller.
"The children were actively encouraged to be vocal about their views and to challenge their peers," Karen Mills wrote. "In Stephan's case in particular, this resulted in him being ostracized and made an outcast as he followed his father's lead."
Stephan said he had few friends until his first year of high school. At times, he suffered from depression because his father's brainwashing had so alienated him from his peers, his mother said.
"I wasn't really someone that people wanted to hang around with," Stephan said. "They regarded me as weird because I was constantly talking about Hitler."
Karen Mills said she initially went along with her husband's views to please him, but the marriage grew troubled as he devoted himself increasingly to far-right politics. She refused to read his opus on white superiority, March of the Titans: A History of the White Race, and criticized him in front of their children.
With his marriage collapsing, Arthur Kemp became violent, especially toward Stephan, Karen Mills said. Once, when Stephan was about eight, he hit his son's face until his nose bled and blood spattered on the bedroom wall, she said. He stopped only when the maid's screams brought Karen rushing into the room and she pulled Kemp off Stephan. Later, Kemp allegedly beat Stephan while his mother was at work. The backs of Stephan's legs were so swollen that he could not bend them to get into his bath. "If you ever hit my child again," she told Kemp, "I'll kill you."
Still, she did not report the incidents to the police. "You try to block it out because maybe it's more than you can deal with," said Mills, a lawyer who now works for the South African government. "You hope that it'll resolve itself and turn a blind eye."
Kemp dismissed the allegations from his former wife in an E-mail to the Intelligence Report. "It is all a pack of lies from a mentally ill person," he wrote. "I am disappointed that you would stoop to exploiting a person with severe psychological problems in this way." Karen Mills responded that Kemp has always claimed she's mentally ill simply because she disagrees with him.
Mills still feels guilty for allowing her children to suffer what she now sees as both physical and emotional abuse. "Why couldn't I do something?" she asked. "I just never stood up to him."
Kemp's persistence in forcing his beliefs on his children — along with his disengagement from their lives as he immersed himself in white nationalism — led them to question their father and the values he espoused, Karen Mills said. In a September 2008 post on the anti-racist site Lancaster Unity, Stephan called his father a "racist ass" and said he should be deported to South Africa. He wrote: "I remember almost every night when we would ask for a bedtime story (when most NORMAL fathers would read their children a normal book) he would instead tell us stories about how the white race was all supreme and then read us chapters from his horrible book "March of the White Titans" [sic]. Well dad if you ever read this or even hear about it I just wanted to let you know that I HATE YOU!! You have no idea what i went through at school because of you, you twisted my mind and made my entire childhood a horrible misery."
As his wife and children lost respect for him, Kemp withdrew further from the family. Karen Mills believes that's because they no longer fit his image of the model right-wing family that would help him achieve his political goals. "His political beliefs are the absolute be-all and end-all of his life," she said. "I think the reason why he's cut the children off is they don't conform to his political beliefs and aspirations."
Instead, "he began to seek out people who admired him and particularly his book," she recalled. "The admiration, and in particular the view of him as this great right-wing academic, became his main driving force."
He left the family in November 2006. "Picture this situation," Stephan wrote in November 2008 on Lancaster Unity. "I am fast asleep on thursday morning and when i wake i find that he is gone and then i receive a phone call from him telling me he is on a flight to London… THIS ASSHOLE DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE MANNERS TO SAY GOODBYE TO MY FACE!! I have not seen my father in now [a]bout two and [a] bit years."
Karen Mills said Kemp has had almost no contact with his children since the divorce. "I don't think there's any way that Arthur could fix the broken relationship with Stephan," she said. Nonetheless, "Stephan has gone through something of a catharsis." In addition to his posts on Lancaster Unity, he chose to discuss his father when he was assigned to give a school speech on someone who had influenced him — only he said his father's influence had been entirely negative. Now, his social life is improving, and he has resolved to be as unlike his father as possible. "I am stuck with some of his traits and characteristics — Mom used to joke with me that I have the Kemp laziness gene — but definitely not his political views," he said.
Yet there's no bringing back the years he lost to his father's hate. "You," he wrote to him in the September 2008 Lancaster Unity post, "will never understand what you have done to me."
Kemp’s family paints a chilling portrait of a cruel, messianic father who forced his racist beliefs upon them, often violently. When his son, Stephen, was eight, Kemp repeatedly punched the boy in the face until he was almost unconscious. By the time Kemp’s wife, Karen, pulled Arthur off the child, the bedroom walls were spattered with blood, she recalled in the interview. The marriage ended shortly after this incident.
Kemp’s family remembers him as a racist tyrant who would beat his children until they couldn’t walk. He made them read racist books, forced them to listen to racist music and would not allow his son or daughter to swim in a public pool if it had been occupied by non-whites.
Today, Arthur Kemp directs member training and sells racist children’s books and music for the BNP. He is in charge of the group’s merchandising arm, Excalibur.
According to Kemp’s book, March of the Titans, mandatory reading for all BNP leaders, race is the sole determinant to the success of any civilization. The depth of Kemp’s racism is reflected in that book and in the years of suffering he inflicted on his children.
When the family was living in the UK a few years ago, Kemp refused to allow an Indian dentist to treat his six-year-old daughter. She suffered excruciating pain with a tooth abscess for several days until Kemp could find a white dentist to treat the child.
Around 2003, Kemp’s son and daughter claim he threatened to murder them if he ever found out they were in a relationship with a non-white.
After years of psychological counseling, Kemp’s son Stephen, has come to terms with the cruelty of his father. Recently, Stephen legally changed his last name to Mills, his mother’s maiden name. If only the 16 year old could erase the memory of Arthur Kemp so easily.
Now safe from the sadistic abuse of their father, who has been out of their lives since 2006, Arthur Kemp’s teenage children and his former wife have finally come forward. They gave a shocking and disturbing interview to a US Intelligence magazine this month. An online version of the article is here:
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An excerpt is printed below:
The Price of Hate
When Stephan Mills was 10 or 11, his father sat him and his older sister down after supper one night and told them that if they ever became emotionally involved with someone of color, he would kill them.
"I just nodded in agreement," said Stephan, now 16.
The incident seemed normal to a boy who for years had been steeped in his father's bigotry. Arthur Kemp, a South African white supremacist who has ties to British and American hate groups, indoctrinated his children with racist and anti-Semitic beliefs from the time they were very young. Stephan mostly adopted those views as his own. Several years ago, however, he rejected all that his father stood for. The experience would radically change his life and lead to his ongoing estrangement from his father, who's now divorced from his mother and believed to be living in England.
"Stephan's resentment toward his father is based partly on the fact that, in his sister's words, he had to relearn to be a civilized human," said his mother, Karen Mills. (Karen and Stephan Mills live near Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Intelligence Report interviewed them by phone and E-mail).
There was a lot to relearn. Arthur Kemp "was a very involved and doting father" when his children were small, Karen Mills said. He read to them often, carefully choosing books he felt would reinforce his ideology. Among them were the original "Noddy" series, English children's books that featured Golliwogs, dark-skinned caricatures that were later removed from the text because they were deemed racist. In one of Kemp's favorite Noddy books, the Golliwogs steal Noddy's car. Kemp enjoyed telling his children that the Golliwogs' theft of the car amounted to typical behavior for blacks.
But it wasn't only in books that Kemp found justification for his racism; post-apartheid South Africa offered plenty for him to complain about. "He tried to imprint on the children how bad Africa and everything here was," Karen Mills wrote. After striking workers toppled trashcans, for instance, "Arthur took the children into the main streets of the town and made them walk among the rubbish."
He also forbade socializing with non-white children. If they arrived at a friend's party to find that a black child had also been invited, Kemp made his children go home. When Stephan was six, his father reluctantly took him and his sister to swimming lessons at a public pool where one of the children turned out to be black. "He told us to get out and that we were leaving," said Stephan, who now uses his mother's maiden name. "I was still pretty young so I didn't really understand what was going on."
Kemp's attitude didn't change even when his children's health was at stake. When the family was living in Britain, he plucked his 6-year-old daughter, Joanne, from the dentist's chair rather than allow her to be treated by an Indian dentist, Karen Mills said. As a result, she suffered for three days with a tooth abscess.
When his children grew older, he allowed them to listen only to "white resistance" bands. Rap, especially, was prohibited. Although baseball caps, sneakers, baggy pants and big T-shirts were in fashion, he considered these items "ghetto nigger" clothing and wouldn't let his children wear them.
He also relished showing them articles and statistics that purported to prove that blacks were inferior. He contended that blacks could never be race car drivers because they have poor depth perception, that they cannot swim because their bones are too dense, that they are not as intelligent because their brains are smaller.
"The children were actively encouraged to be vocal about their views and to challenge their peers," Karen Mills wrote. "In Stephan's case in particular, this resulted in him being ostracized and made an outcast as he followed his father's lead."
Stephan said he had few friends until his first year of high school. At times, he suffered from depression because his father's brainwashing had so alienated him from his peers, his mother said.
"I wasn't really someone that people wanted to hang around with," Stephan said. "They regarded me as weird because I was constantly talking about Hitler."
Karen Mills said she initially went along with her husband's views to please him, but the marriage grew troubled as he devoted himself increasingly to far-right politics. She refused to read his opus on white superiority, March of the Titans: A History of the White Race, and criticized him in front of their children.
With his marriage collapsing, Arthur Kemp became violent, especially toward Stephan, Karen Mills said. Once, when Stephan was about eight, he hit his son's face until his nose bled and blood spattered on the bedroom wall, she said. He stopped only when the maid's screams brought Karen rushing into the room and she pulled Kemp off Stephan. Later, Kemp allegedly beat Stephan while his mother was at work. The backs of Stephan's legs were so swollen that he could not bend them to get into his bath. "If you ever hit my child again," she told Kemp, "I'll kill you."
Still, she did not report the incidents to the police. "You try to block it out because maybe it's more than you can deal with," said Mills, a lawyer who now works for the South African government. "You hope that it'll resolve itself and turn a blind eye."
Kemp dismissed the allegations from his former wife in an E-mail to the Intelligence Report. "It is all a pack of lies from a mentally ill person," he wrote. "I am disappointed that you would stoop to exploiting a person with severe psychological problems in this way." Karen Mills responded that Kemp has always claimed she's mentally ill simply because she disagrees with him.
Mills still feels guilty for allowing her children to suffer what she now sees as both physical and emotional abuse. "Why couldn't I do something?" she asked. "I just never stood up to him."
Kemp's persistence in forcing his beliefs on his children — along with his disengagement from their lives as he immersed himself in white nationalism — led them to question their father and the values he espoused, Karen Mills said. In a September 2008 post on the anti-racist site Lancaster Unity, Stephan called his father a "racist ass" and said he should be deported to South Africa. He wrote: "I remember almost every night when we would ask for a bedtime story (when most NORMAL fathers would read their children a normal book) he would instead tell us stories about how the white race was all supreme and then read us chapters from his horrible book "March of the White Titans" [sic]. Well dad if you ever read this or even hear about it I just wanted to let you know that I HATE YOU!! You have no idea what i went through at school because of you, you twisted my mind and made my entire childhood a horrible misery."
As his wife and children lost respect for him, Kemp withdrew further from the family. Karen Mills believes that's because they no longer fit his image of the model right-wing family that would help him achieve his political goals. "His political beliefs are the absolute be-all and end-all of his life," she said. "I think the reason why he's cut the children off is they don't conform to his political beliefs and aspirations."
Instead, "he began to seek out people who admired him and particularly his book," she recalled. "The admiration, and in particular the view of him as this great right-wing academic, became his main driving force."
He left the family in November 2006. "Picture this situation," Stephan wrote in November 2008 on Lancaster Unity. "I am fast asleep on thursday morning and when i wake i find that he is gone and then i receive a phone call from him telling me he is on a flight to London… THIS ASSHOLE DIDNT EVEN HAVE THE MANNERS TO SAY GOODBYE TO MY FACE!! I have not seen my father in now [a]bout two and [a] bit years."
Karen Mills said Kemp has had almost no contact with his children since the divorce. "I don't think there's any way that Arthur could fix the broken relationship with Stephan," she said. Nonetheless, "Stephan has gone through something of a catharsis." In addition to his posts on Lancaster Unity, he chose to discuss his father when he was assigned to give a school speech on someone who had influenced him — only he said his father's influence had been entirely negative. Now, his social life is improving, and he has resolved to be as unlike his father as possible. "I am stuck with some of his traits and characteristics — Mom used to joke with me that I have the Kemp laziness gene — but definitely not his political views," he said.
Yet there's no bringing back the years he lost to his father's hate. "You," he wrote to him in the September 2008 Lancaster Unity post, "will never understand what you have done to me."
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Kemp's revenge
17.12.2009 04:50
Racist child beater Artur Kemp
"Morris Dees, founder of the “Southern Poverty Law Center” is a step child molester, liar, blackmailer, wife-beater, sexual pervert, conman, fraud and scam artist - - at least that is what his ex-wife and work colleagues say about him."
The SPLC report on Kemp doesn't give the date on which it was published.
Clive Derby-Lewis
Re: Kemp's revenge
17.12.2009 10:13
Anonymous
Fascists are scum, but beware the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC)
17.12.2009 11:04
Supposedly just an anti-racist pressure group, they are strongly linked to US government agencies and have a history of collecting information and spying on progressive groups such as animal rights and environmentalists:
e.g. SPLC director Mark Potok visited Animal Rights 2001 undercover and secretly recorded activists.
They try to portray environmentalism and animal rights as "hate groups". I'm sure anything that doesn't fit their liberal statist views will fit into the same category. Treat them with suspicion.
vegan
Dear Vegan
17.12.2009 13:44
If you haver personal misgivings about "trusting" them then you might wish to examine your ideology. The SPLC is a practical organisation that has a liberal ideological position. They have a specific opposition to intolerance - no matter how "well founded". They oppose Nazi's in a practical way - pursuing prosecutions for "hate speech" and they pursue prosecutions against anti-abortionists and animal rights campaigners on the same basis. If your ideology allows you to utter hateful things about scientists, blacks, gynaecologists or smallholders from Nevada, then the SPLC will pursue prosecution if they believe they can win.
They might not be to your ideological taste, but the SPLC are a powerful ally.
An SPLC Sceptic
to SLPC sceptic
17.12.2009 15:23
Coming back to the original subject- if that stuff about this scumbag Kemp is true (which should be verified first) then it should be republished in as many places as possible.
antifa
A Sad, Sad, Tragedy
17.12.2009 17:58
They say you can judge a man's character by looking into the eyes of his child. I would not want to stare into the tragic abyss to be found in the hollow gaze of Mr. Kemp's kids. The interview linked above includes a photograph of young Stephen. I pray he recovers from his childhood. The article explores the horrific consequences of racism on the children of extremists. They are the seldom mentioned victims of a growing social pathology in this country.
The BNP leadership often parade their wives and children before the cameras as examples of the prototypical "British" family they envision for the future. I've always wondered about them. Once the photo-op is over, they are hidden from view and seldom given an opportunity to speak publicly.
Perhaps now, we can understand why.
BNP leaders claim they are protecting their children's privacy from the opponents of their ugly, corrosive brand of politics. This disturbing article suggests they may really be protecting themselves.
Jeannine
SPLC don't condemn "hate speech" against animals
17.12.2009 18:46
Maybe they are good at attacking neo-Nazis but in many ways they are just part of the system. Going undercover to animal rights conventions with the intention of grassing or snitching is unforgivable in my books. And working with police and government agencies like the FBI/CIA? For fuck's sake! Animal rights people are fighting to STOP oppression, neo-Nazis are fighting TO oppress people.
I hope I'm not detracting from the main point of the article though - I think fascists like Kemp are scum and deserve everything they get. I just wanted to warn people who might not be aware of SPLC's activities.
vegan
I may be a moron and a liberal
17.12.2009 20:01
Without the activities of the SPLC, the American Friends of the BNP would probably still be laundering money for Old One Eye. While Vegan can rattle on about the SPLC not giving a tinkers cuss about pursuit of animal rights through the courts, there are organisations such as PETA that are much better funded that do. The comments were not about assuming that liberals were, in any way, right. But that liberals are - in lots of ways - effective. Either you understand that or you lose a powerful weapon from your antifascist armoury.
As to being a moron or a liberal: I can be both. Equally, I could be neither and could just have a different perspective about showing liberals just how much danger there is from the right.
SPLC Sceptic
@SPLC Sceptic
20.12.2009 13:21
My main point though was just to warn people not to be lulled into a false sense of security around the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Treat them as you would the police or the state - i.e. sometimes their actions coincide with yours but ultimately they are untrustworthy scum. If they come sniffing around your group it may be not because they are wanting to help your cause, be that anti-fascism or whatever, but because they see you as "extremists" who may break the law, and are snooping for the state.
vegan
Don't trust it
28.12.2009 17:33
I think a hook's being baited for Antifa, Lancaster, Searchlight. Don't touch it with a bargepole.
Mark O
No One Is Intimidated
30.12.2009 18:06
Can't have this bad publicity in the middle of Arthur's victory lap, can we?
Threats of libel are always thrown about by Kemp. These threats sometimes work. Meanwhile, Arthur drafts and sends anonymous poison pen letters against his critics. When he is really upset he posts nonsensical rubbish on his blog. Look at his latest goofy allegations against the publisher of the interview with his family.
News reports claim Kemp allegedly used Gaye Darby-Lewis to send slanderous emails to Karen Kemp's employer to cause his former wife in South Africa to lose her job. There is a criminal hacking investigation going on about that right now in SA. Kemp's connections with racist blogs and his involvement in the Hani killing are also being revisited. This is not actionable libel, it's documentary fact.
The facts are also clear in this story. Kemp's son, daughter and ex-wife allege he is an abusive, sick, twisted freak. We are looking forward to even more unflattering comments coming from Arthur's latest failed marital partner, Jeannine Kemp, who is in the midst of a divorce from the "sadistic, atheist deviant." which is what she is accusing him of on her blog.
Encourage everyone to propagate this story far and wide. "Open to libel" threats may work for the BBC and CNN but they don't work here on Indymedia, mate.
Bring it
Hold on a Second
12.01.2010 09:30
Previously the allegations were that Kemp "betrayed" the Derby-Lewis's to the police . . . why would Gaye Derby-Lewis now be helping Kemp?
Something not quite right with the facts there! The anti-Kemp brigade need to decide which story they are going to propagate, as there have been so many contradictory stories already. First he was an "apartheid intelligence agent"; then he was "working for the ANC's intelligence"; then he was working for "British Military Intelligence",; then he was a Nazi; then he was a "mole in the Nazi network,"; then he was a homosexual; then he was a womaniser,; and now he is a "child beater" and "sadist." Quite a lot for one man to be!
Just from reading the SPLC article, it is clear that it is just an embittered ex-spouse making up stories to try and take revenge. If the allegations were true -- and they are serious -- then it is likely that they would have featured in the original divorce action and made big headlines at the time.
Of course they did not, and the fact that his ex-wife waited four years to make these allegations -- obviously in a fit of rage and jealously at Kemp's remarriage to someone else -- tends to indicate that the allegations are typical made-up ex-spouse lies.
I cannot find any comments from Kemp's second wife about him being a "sadistic, atheist deviant" though.
The Dreaded Cynic
Spin It Any Way You Want
15.01.2010 02:34
As regards the rest of the allegations about Kemp, what his own son had to say about him was enough for me.
Disgusted