With
Mark and I already in the dock, the judge is trying to sort something out with
the prosecution and is irritated by the subdued chattering from people - the
press, our supporters and opponents alike, I guess - entering the public
gallery. I'd ask anyone reading this who is planning to come into court during
this case to maintain complete silence in court the moment they get to the door
of the courtroom. It's not the fault of the judge that this trial is being held
before him, he's just doing his job, and should be respected as such.
Prosecution
open by showing another of Mark's speeches. Unfortunately the DVD has no sound
at all and there is a scurrying of ushers to find a technician. Glad it's not
only BNP events where Mr. Sod arrives with examples of his law! The judge put it
differently: "There we are ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the gremlins
have got in and we'll have to get the gremlin hunters in to catch them,"
and adjourned the court for a few minutes. Gremlins duly eliminated, the jury
filed back in and the case finally resumed in earnest at just gone
The
next speech is the one made by Mark at the Crossroads Public House in Keighley
on
It's
only a 15 minute speech, and when it ends there is only a ten second break
before we go into another one of Mark's, this time in Morley on 14th April. This
opens with a very telling piece about the iniquity of asylum seekers getting so
much in Soft Touch
Again,
Mark says to people who might say he's a 'hater': "When people say do I
hate.. this is a very hateful speech some people would say - I'll say, yeah, I
do hate. I don't hate the asylum seekers though. I don't hate the Asians though,
cause they're doing what people do, they're doing what comes naturally to them,
but I don't hate anyone for that. I don't hate anyone for the colour of their
skin or who they are. The people I hate are the liberals, the multiculturalists
and the Labour party - the white people who have betrayed this country and
sold..." which is as far as he got before being cut off by a sustained
burst of spontaneous applause.
At
the end of this speech we again had to adjourn, this time as the judge had to
give directions to a jury in the case of an Asian man accused of manslaughter
(the jury wanted more evidence, the judge told them there is none, so the jury
couldn't agree, which means the CPS have to go away and decide if they want to
go for a retrial or to drop the whole thing).
Just
before we were called back we spotted the repulsive far-left 'researcher' Andy
Ali, doing his best to wind up three biggish young Asians from the other case. I
complained to the police officers on duty by the courtroom door and they duly
had a word with him. The three were nevertheless allowed into court, and have so
far behaved impeccably.
The next speech was mine, in
Morley Town Hall on 5th May 2004 - just a month before the Euro elections. This
was the one in which I warned: "... sooner or later there's going to be
Islamic terrorists letting bombs off in major cities.... it's going to be done
by asylum seekers or it's going to be done by second generation Pakistanis
living somewhere like Bradford." Members of the press, I am told by
supporters of ours in the public gallery, were clearly as amazed by this as they
had earlier been shame-faced when they watched the DVD of me berating the media
for ignoring cases such as the racist murders of young white lads including
Gavin Hopley, Lee Martin, Sean Whyte and Scott Pritchard.
A little later I went on to make a further prediction: That when that happened the Powers That Be would show their 'even-handedness' by arresting and jailing BNP leaders at the same time as radical Muslims. Once again, the spectre of Abu Hamza hovered over our courtroom in Leeds.
We
resumed after lunch, again with a legal discussion without the jury present.
This swiftly resulted in an agreement to complete the prosecution's evidence and
then to adjourn until tomorrow. The jury filed back in at 2.28 pm and Mr Jameson
QC gave them some additional material for their bundles of documents. This was a
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