A British man has been sentenced to two years in prison on charges of inciting racial hatred for creating an online library of downloadable anti-immigration stickers. One of the stickers read “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066.” Others say “It’s okay to be white.”
Samuel Melia, 34, of Pudsey in West Yorkshire, has been found guilty of encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage. He was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday at the Leeds Crown Court, according to BBC News.
Melia, who is the Yorkshire organizer for the British Nationalist Group Patriotic Alternative, has been accused of being the head of the Telegram Messenger group Hundred Handers, which generated printable anti-immigration stickers that were then displayed in public places, court documents show. Some of the stickers are labeled with the logo of the leftwing Extinction Rebellion group, and read “Sink the boats, save the world,” “Save the environment, end mass immigration,” “Only white people care about the environment,” and “House the world, destroy the environment.”
Judge Tom Bayliss KC said the stickers contained “ethnic slurs” which were “corrosive to our society” and he branded Melia in court as an “anti-semite” who has “Nazi sympathies.”
Court documents state that Melia had an “obsessive interest” in Sir Oswald Mosley and was attempting to “peddle the same antisemitism.” Mosley was the founder of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. Melia also reportedly had a poster of Hitler in his garage.
The majority of the material that Hundred Handers published was “xenophobic, nationalistic and vitriolic,” according to the court.
Melia claimed to the court that the stickers were intended to “start a conversation.”
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