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JEWS LOSE IN LEEDS CROWN COURT
British
printer acquitted
LEEDS, England —A British printer accused under Britain's notorious Race Relations Act for printing two controversial pieces of literature has been found not guilty by an all-white Yorkshire jury. Printer Tony Hancock was charged with two counts of "aiding and abetting" under the law for printing a booklet and a leaflet written by veteran National Socialist and racial-rights campaigner Colin Jordan. The Crown prosecution had contended that the booklet Merrie England 2000,* a satire on contemporary multiracial society in Britain, and the leaflet "Jack Straw's Jewish Justice" were "intended or likely in all the circumstances to incite racial hatred." Jack Straw, now Britain's foreign secretary, is the former home secretary who tried to prosecute Jordan and suppress his writings in earlier police actions. Straw is Jewish. Jordan himself has never been tried or convicted for producing the items in question. He has, however, been ordered by a court to "cease and desist" from all political activity, a draconian imposition which is now being contested before the European Human Rights court. Witnesses brought by the prosecution included left-wing Labor MPs—who expressed their "outrage" at receiving a copy of Merrie England—as well as David Michael Wein, a leading figure in the Jewish Board of Deputies, the main body of organized Jewry in Britain. Countering the convoluted arguments of the prosecution, attorney Adrian Davies put on a brilliant defense, demolishing the "evidence" of Hancock's accusers. In a rigorous cross-examination of Wein, Davies cited the hateful, pornographic, anti-Gentile and anti-Christian contents of the Talmud, leaving Wein shaken and wildly flailing his arms in the witness box. In his instructions to the jury the judge stated that if they thought the defendant had a right to express his views, "however extreme," a decent society should show tolerance for such dissenting views and the defendant should be acquitted. He directed that the leaflet charge be dropped on technical grounds that the prosecution had not produced significant evidence as to "publication"—i.e., distribution—of the item, thus failing to validate a charge of "aiding and abetting." The jury took little time in finding Hancock not guilty for printing Merrie England 2000. The verdict represents a sharp repudiation of the attempt by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to bring printers within the scope of the Race Relations Law, simply for printing something which others have written and to which it objects. Despite the implications of the case for free speech and a free press, the establishment media decided to ignore the trial, and no mention of it appeared in their news coverage.
* All copies
of the first edition of Merrie England 2000 were seized
and confiscated in raids by the British police. Copies of a replacement
edition are available once again, however, for $5 postage paid from:
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