By Board of Directors, E.A.U.
Dated: Nov 24, 2008
Summary: The British government has detained twelve persons for the “crime” of distributing booklets informing British subjects about racism and violent attacks directed against the autochthonous people of the British Isles. E.A.U. calls for their release. Illustration: The Magna Carta
The Board of Directors of European Americans United has noted with dismay the arrest of twelve (12) community activists distributing literature on behalf of the British National Party in Britain.
The literature being distributed, a booklet entitled “Racism Cuts Both Ways” has been distributed by the thousands in recent weeks, and points out the fact that racism and racially motivated violence directed against the autochthonous people of Europe are no less evil or pernicious than when directed against persons of any other ancestral background.
Across the world, in European homelands and in the homes of the European Diaspora from the United States to South Africa, persons of European ancestry are routinely the victims of violent crime in which their race is a primary motivating factor in their choice as victims. The New Century Foundation has collected documentation to this effect from FBI Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Victim Surveys. Such crimes are very rarely prosecuted as hate crimes. A similar circumstance prevails in the United Kingdom, and the British National Party is calling attention to this fact.
Calling attention to a fact of reality, no matter how uncomfortable it may make us feel or how inconvenient it may prove for powerful people with various agendas, is not criminal. Throughout the English-speaking world it has long been understood that a person has a right to tell the truth. Nay — not merely a right, but an obligation.
The fact that the police forces of the United Kingdom have been brought to bear in order to squash peaceable persons in the exercise of both a moral obligation and a recognized fundamental right is an abomination and an affront to all that the Western world has held dear for centuries. An arrest for distribution of political literature is something one would expect in Cuba, China, or the former U.S.S.R., but not on British soil.
Therefore, the Board of Directors of European Americans United calls upon the government of the United Kingdom to release the twelve British National Party prisoners forthwith and to vacate any charges brought against them pursuant to their exercise of a fundamental right of any British subject.###
EAU is an ethics-based European-American ethnic advocacy organization that supports Constitutional Republicanism, Third-Way economics and social justice. EAU specifically opposes racial hatred directed at any group, including European-Americans.