Simon Sheppard & Steve Whittle Seek Asylum Over Thought Offense Charges

8/11/2008

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Big Brother is watching Europeans Breaking News From Freedom’s Front Line

From JailingOpinions.com

Two British citizens, Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle, have sought political asylum in the United States after being convicted under Britain’s notoriously repressive race laws. Their case made legal history because they were convicted in connection with a website which is based in the United States, where its contents are legal.

The website concerned publishes articles satirising many aspects of modern liberal politics. Readers may disagree with much of the site’s content, but the criminalisation of Messrs Sheppard and Whittle is an especially worrying extension of the continent-wide attack on European freedom.

Until recently it had been thought that authors and publishers had some degree of legal protection if their work appeared on websites hosted on U.S. servers. The Sheppard and Whittle case shows that British courts are now claiming that their jurisdiction extends across the Atlantic.

The U.K. currently has no law specifically prohibiting Holocaust revisionism, but the Sheppard and Whittle case implies that the existing laws against “racial hatred” will be reinterpreted to criminalise some forms of revisionism.

Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle have chosen to publicise this attack on freedom by flying to California and claiming political asylum. This bold course of action has seriously embarrassed the British authorities, and puts the spotlight on the contrast between the First Amendment protections enjoyed by Americans and the increasingly severe crackdown on political dissent across Europe.

These embattled Britons need your help to pay the inevitable legal bills engendered by their brave stand. An appeal has been organised by Mr Paul Ballard, a well known British political activist.

Paul is a man of great personal integrity, and a friend of Simon’s, so well qualified to take on this task.

Not a penny of this money will go to the Heretical Two’s English solicitors or counsel, who are being paid out of the legal aid fund, and are neither permitted nor willing to accept a penny piece from well wishers.

The Jailing Opinions website has no financial connection with this appeal nor with any aspect of the case, but is happy to advertise the appeal address for those who wish to contribute.

Cheques should be made out to ‘The Croydon Preservation Society’ and posted to P.O. Box 301, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 4QW.

Alternatively donations can be wired to the following account via Paypal, Western Union etc.:

Croydon Preservation Society, Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 49 / 53 High Street, Sutton, Surrey SM1 1DT

sort code 77-30-03

account no. 86187860

Donations can also be paid in to this account at any branch of Lloyds TSB.

[You can send Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle letters of support care of the Santa Anna Jail P.O. Box 22003 Santa Anna, CA. 92701]

David Duke interviews Lady Michele Renouf

The case of the Heretical Two is discussed in the context of other recent European legal cases in a series of three radio broadcasts by Lady Renouf and Dr David Duke which can be heard in MP3 format:

1st August broadcast

4th August broadcast

8th August broadcast

While Simon Sheppard, Steve Whittle and others are given prison sentences for “inciting hatred”, an extreme genocidal form of hatred is actively promoted by the mainstream media. Soon after Sheppard and Whittle’s arrival in the U.S. the Israeli historian Prof. Benny Morris used the columns of the New York Times to call for the bombing (and even potentially nuclear bombing) of Iran.

Morris’s fellow Jewish academic James Petras provided an insightful commentary on his website:

On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians – 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust.

…“Iran’s leaders would do well to rethink their gamble and suspend their nuclear program. Barring this, the best they could hope for is that Israel’s conventional air assault will destroy their nuclear facilities. To be sure, this would mean thousands of Iranian casualties and international humiliation. But the alternative is an Iran turned into a nuclear wasteland.”

Morris is a frequent lecturer and consultant to the Israeli political and military establishment and has unique access to Israeli strategic military planners. Morris’ advocacy and public support of the massive, brutal expulsion of all Palestinians is on public record. Yet his genocidal views have not precluded his receiving numerous academic awards. His writings and views are published in Israel’s leading newspapers and journals. Morris’ views are not the idle ranting of a marginal psychopath, as witnessed by the recent publication of his latest op-ed article in the New York Times.

What does the publication by the New York Times of an article, which calls for the nuclear incineration of 70 million Iranians and the contamination of the better part of a billion people in the Middle East, Asia and Europe, tell us about US politics and culture? For it is the NYT, which informs the ‘educated classes’ in the US, its Sunday supplements, literary and editorial pages and which serves as the ‘moral conscience’ of important sectors of the cultural, economic and political elite.

…Truth to say, this is the logical outgrowth of the Times public endorsement of Israel’s economic blockade to starve 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza; the Times’ cover-up of Israeli-Zionist-AIPAC influence in launching the US invasion of Iraq leading to over one million murdered Iraqi citizens.

The Times sets the tone for the entire New York cultural scene, which privileges Israeli interests, to the point of assimilating into the US political discourse not only its routine violations of international law, but its threats, indeed promises, to scorch vast areas of the earth in pursuit of its regional supremacy. The willingness of the NYT to publish an Israeli genocide-ethnocide advocate tells us about the strength of the ties between a purportedly ‘liberal establishment’ pro-Israel publication and the totalitarian Israeli right: It is as if to say that for the liberal pro-Israel establishment, the nonJewish Nazis are off limits, but the views and policies of Judeo-fascists need careful consideration and possible implementation.

…The question of Zionist power in America is not merely a question of a ‘lobby’ influencing Congressional and White House decisions concerning foreign aid to Israel. What is at stake today are the related questions of the advocacy of a nuclear war in which 70 million Iranians face extermination and the complicity of the US mass media in providing a platform, nay a certain political respectability for mass murder and global contamination. Unlike the Nazi past, we cannot claim, as the good Germans did, that ‘we did not know’ or ‘we weren’t notified’, because it was written by an eminent Israeli academic and was published in the New York Times.