[following is from email from Martin Webster]
Dear Bob,
Thanks for this story……
> Finland Cracks Down
> by Baron Bodissey
>
> [snip]
……..which I run out in full below.
The thrust of the story would seem to be that Finland has just enacted laws against “incitement to race hatred” in order to protect its Muslim population. The line taken is very simplistic and I suggest the following background be taken into account:
The extract quoted from Finland’s law against “race-hate” quoted in the story bears very close similarity to Britain’s “Public Order Act (As Amended by the Race Relations Act)”. The Act has probably been amended (yet again!) since I last had to study it, but the relevant part was Section 19 in which it was a criminal offence to: “……. publish any matter intended or likely in all the circumstances to incite racial hatred……”
I was convicted at Kingston Crown Court in 1978 for publishing in two issues of ‘National Front News’ (the NF’s broadsheet which I edited) material held to be in contravention of that law. I received two 6 month jail terms (suspended for two years); an £800 fine, plus court costs.
The articles in NF News were equally against the permanent settlement in Britain of ALL aliens and against alien influence over British affairs. More coverage was given to the Coloured aliens, as they were the more visible intruders. NF News was tabloid-style was aimed at the man-in-the-street.
Britain’s race laws have been replicated in White nations the world over, except in the USA where the First Amendment protects free speech except in cases of direct incitement to criminal violence.
You and your Finnish bloggers should be aware that Britain’s law against “race hate” was first drafted and promoted by the Board of Deputies of British Jews during the later 1940s/early 1950s. Their name for this law at that time was “The Group Libel Bill”. It was substantially adopted and put into law (amending the Public Order Act) in 1967 by the then Labour Government, but with the support of most Conservative Party MPs.
Since then the “race hate” component of the Public Order Act has been revised several times. On every occasion the
revision has been floated by…..guess who?…….the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
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