History Forum / General / British History / August 2008

FREE SPEECH ON TRIAL

   ‘Instead of – if I might put it this way – the man from Whitehall
always knowing best, it is the woman from the WRVS or Sure Start or
Community Service Volunteers or any of the NCVO organisations, that
knows better.’ Gordon Brown Moving Britain Forward: Selected Speeches
1997-2006.

   ‘Some may call it a nanny state, but I call it a force for good.’
Margaret Hodge, 2004.

The trial of Simon Sheppard and his co-defendant, the columnist Luke
O’Farrell, is to start on 2 June 2008 at Leeds Crown Court. The trial
is expected to last 8-9 weeks.

Reporting restrictions are in place, so this news update is limited to
some personal observations and opinions.

Sheppard has 18 charges, his co-defendant 5. The charges are
unprecedented and comprise a major assault on our democratic right to
express sincerely-held opinions, on the internet and elsewhere.

This is a political prosecution with a very strong Jewish element. One
only needs to contrast the state’s eagerness to press multiple charges
on the “Heretical Two” with its failure to prosecute Michael Levy, the
other individuals involved in ‘Cash for Honours’, Peter Hain, David
Abrahams and many others, who have in some cases admitted unlawful
payments to the Labour Party.

A large number of the unlawful donors to the Labour Party have been
Jews.

The instigators of the Heretical prosecution were Jewish and many of
the complainants appear to be Jewish. It is criticism of Jewish
behaviour and, in particular, exposure of their subversion of the
political process, that this prosecution attempts to suppress. The
weapon of suppression is legislation that was itself passed as a
result of Jewish agitation.

The government is seeking to make any criticism of Jewish claims –
even in the form of humour – “incitement to racial hatred.” Sheppard
is philosophical: “Nothing is ever gained without cost. We are ahead
of our time, and our conclusions are not appreciated by a government
already in its death throes,” says Sheppard.

All of the material was believed to be lawful at the time it was
posted on the Californian server or otherwise distributed, so the
government is attempting a major advance in the suppression of
political dissent. The state seeks to further impose its insane dogma
on intellectual dissidents. It is the culmination of a Marxist
revolution in slow motion, which has been in progress for several
decades.

The prosecution will be fought very hard as we seek to defend the most
basic freedom of all – the freedom to express an opinion. “Liberty, if
it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to
hear” (George Orwell).

ENDS

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