Media black-out over murdered English squaddie

YOU WOULD have thought that the murder in a Manchester
street of a British soldier, just back from serving his country in
Iraq, would have made the news headlines.

Twenty-two year-old, Private Lee Martin was attacked as he left a
restaurant on Wilbraham Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy in
Manchester. Two men knocked him to the ground, and as he lay
on the pavement they repeatedly kicked him around the head.

Lee Martin was rushed to Wythenshawe hospital, but on
Tuesday he died from his injuries.

A British soldier . . .
Who survived the war in Iraq . . .
Only to return home and lose his life on a British street . . .
At the hands of his 'fellow countrymen' . . .

There has to be human interest story here, yet apart from two,
half-inch reports in the Manchester Evening News, the media
have totally ignored it.

Why do you think that is . . . .?

Could it be something to do with Manchester Police describing
Lee's murderers as 'Asian and in their 20s?'

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The Home Office is deliberately failing to collect crime figures at
odds with New Labour's Politically Correct fantasy view of Britain
being a multi-racial paradise except for the problems caused by
wicked white racists.

The latest Home Office spin was revealed on BBC Radio 4's
Today Programme on Monday 12th April. During an item about
recruitment campaigns in secondary schools by members of the
Young BNP, reference was made to a YBNP leaflet which points
out that – contrary to the impression given by media reports of
the subject - the majority of the victims of racist attacks in
England & Wales are white. The Home Office was quoted as
saying that such figures are not kept, with the implication that the
BNP is lying.

Home Office manipulation

The truth, however, is that it is the Home Office that is lying – or at
least manipulating and concealing the statistics so as to cover
up what is really going on. The figures quoted in the YBNP leaflet
are official Home Office statistics for 1999, and reveal that, out of
155,000 reported racist attacks, 111,000 involved white victims
and non-white perpetrators.

The Home Office is technically correct in saying that figures for
the racial origins of racist attackers are not kept, because the
practice of collecting them was abandoned in 2000, as a direct
result of the figures producing Politically Incorrect results.

Nor can the Home Office or Home Secretary pretend that the
1999 figures were an aberration. According to the Home Office's
own booklet, `Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice
System 1999', the British Crime Survey estimated that, in 1995,
380,000 offences were considered by the victim to be racially
motivated. Of these, 143,000 were committed against ethnic
minorities and 238,000 against white people.

0.27% whites v 7.3% non-whites

Taking 1995 population estimates

(http://www.statistics.gov.uk/stats/ukinfigs/pop.htm) and
assuming one attacker per incident, this means that just 0.27
per cent of whites committed a racist crime in 1995, while the
figure for non-white racists was a staggering 7.3 per cent. Such
shocking indications of minority racism should be the subject of
urgent and in depth investigations, rather than being shoved
down the memory hole in David Blunkett's office.

This is not the first time that the Home Office has fooled
journalists with deliberate lies in order to `refute' BNP exposes of
failings in New Labour's multi-cultural dream. Last year Carlton
TV's Central News programme reported our revelations that
asylum seekers get brand new colour TVs and kitchen
appliances, and their telephone bills, TV licences and even
window cleaning paid. The claim was then `rubbished' by
reference to a "Home Office spokesperson" issuing an outright
denial. This is not, however, a claim which the Home Office has
repeated since we published its own Joint Tenancy Agreement
on our website, because all these things are indeed confirmed
in the Home Office-produced document.

Warning to journalists

In view of the Home Office's appalling record of lies and deceit
on every question relating to immigration and race relations, we
can only warn journalists to check and double check any claim
made by the Government before repeating it. David Blunkett and
his department lie. Perhaps they can't help themselves, but
those – including John Humphries and the researchers on the
Today programme - who continue to be taken in by their lies
have only themselves to blame.

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