Sam Melia, a British man who distributed stickers criticizing mass immigration, has been jailed for two years after a judge ruled he had “incited” racial hatred.
🇬🇧 UPDATE: Sam Melia has been given TWO YEARS in prison for sharing stickers opposing mass-immigration
— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) March 1, 2024
Sam's wife Laura is 8 months pregnant, and Sam will now be in prison for the birth of his second child
What a travesty of justice. Across the West, we are ruled by anti-white… https://t.co/RyPLhF0KKH pic.twitter.com/chmRkXJ3pM
The sticker included slogans like “Reject white guilt,” “It’s okay to be white,” and “Love your nation.”
These are the statements on stickers distributed by Sam Melia, for which he faces two years in prison
— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) March 1, 2024
Do they sound hateful? Do they sound like statements that should be illegal? The judge said it didn't matter if they were legal or true, the jury should only rule on his intent https://t.co/naKATdKEsU pic.twitter.com/gfuNtsltXU
The same judge gave another man who was caught in possession of child sex images no jail time.
same judge pic.twitter.com/qcEqLFMHNv
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) March 1, 2024
Melia, from Pudsey U.K., was part of an anonymous group of activists who distributed the stickers between 2019 and 2021.
As The BBC reported:
Prosecutors claim the stickers, which included slogans such as “Labour loves Muslim rape gangs”, “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066” and “Mass immigration is white genocide”, were intended to stir up racial hatred by telling non-white people “they were being targeted”.
Melia denied inciting racial hatred.
“The idea was always conversations about topics,” he said.
“They are topics like the grooming gangs or rape gangs that have been prevalent across this country.”
“The idea of the messages is to start a conversation, not to make someone feel intimidated,” he said.
Melia SAID he thought the stickers where an “accepted form of engaging in the democratic process”.
“It never even crossed my mind it would be criminal damage,” he said.
Meanwhile, U.K. rime Minister Rishi Sunak claimed democracy was under attack from the “far-right” after anti-establishment George Galloway was democratically elected in a by-election.
Sunak said that “Islamist extremists and the far-right feed off and embolden each other” and were “two sides of the same extremist coin.”
Sunak added that the election of George Galloway to a parliamentary seat was “beyond alarming.”
Galloway responded to Sunak’s comments, saying, “I’m as much against extremism and violence as anyone else and probably a little more so given my personal experience.”
