From Prison to the Front Lines

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Britain’s shameful hate-speech laws are back in the news after veteran white advocate Sam Melia was finally allowed back on social media after a two-year prison sentence. He marked his return with a triumphant X post, “I’m back.”

“My time away hasn’t dimmed my spirit in the least,” “I rejoin the fray with renewed zeal.”

This is exactly what we expect from an Englishman.

At trial, Judge Tom Bayliss called Mr. Melia “xenophobic, nationalistic, and vitriolic,” and said his behavior was “corrosive to our society.”

On January 24, 2024, a jury accordingly found Mr. Melia guilty of “intending to incite racial hatred.”

How did he do that? For five years, he ran an internet group called Hundred-Handers, which designed stickers for people to download, print, and put up in public. A sign maker by trade, Mr. Melia laid out some 300 different designs, in a variety of languages. People posted them in Britain, Germany, Spain, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The most popular were benign: “We will be a minority in our own homeland by 2066,” and “It’s OK to be white.”

But some were sharper and some referred to Jews: “They have to go back,” “Make American White Again,” and “Anti-Semitism is caused by Semitism.”

Mr. Melia was well aware of hate-speech laws.

He instructed people not to post stickers in places where they might be considered incitement, such as non-white areas, mosques, or synagogues. At one point, he deleted a message that, after reflection, he thought could be interpreted as incitement. This made no difference. The jury found he “intended” to incite hatred — even though the prosecution had no evidence there had been any “hatred” from anyone.

Jurors were helped along by the prosecution’s expert witness, Professor Matthew Feldman, who has been writing about “Britain’s ‘New Far Right’ “ since at least 2011.

He spent the trial explaining that individual words in stickers had links to esoteric fascist concepts.

He’s now writing “a transnational study of fascist ideology,” called Full Circle: A history of fascism, 1919 – present.

Full circle. I suppose he’s already got someone pegged as Adolph and someone as Benito.

Fortunately, Mr. Melia did not have to spend the whole two years in the big house. After 10 months, he was let out “on license,” and with an ankle monitor for the remaining 14 months. For six of those months, he had to live in a halfway house, with a 6:00 pm to 6:00 am curfew and a mandatory check-in every day at 1:00 pm. At least he was able to spend some daylight hours with his children, one of whom was born while he was in prison!

Only in June 2025, 15 months after he went to prison, was he allowed to live at home, but he was permitted very limited contact with anyone outside his family and no social media presence. Only on March 1 did all these restrictions — and the ankle monitor — come off, and that was the day of his defiant “I’m back” posting.

Throughout his “license” period, Mr. Melia had to check in every week with officers from Britain’s counter-terrorism police. As he noted, this was a waste of time.

“The weakness of their arguments was breathtaking. Frequently breaking down to, ‘yeah, all that’s true, but why do you care?’ ”

During his unplanned leisure time, Mr. Melia wrote a book: Legal, Truthful, Guilty: Diary of a Political Prisoner, out soon, and available for pre-order now.

He is proudly unreconstructed, and we can no doubt expect more vigorous activism, along with his wife, shown here, Laura Towler, who is one of the leaders of the British nationalist group, Patriotic Alternative.

The British thought police never rest. On May 15, 2023, James Allchurch got a two-and-a-half-year sentence for “distributing audio material intended to stir up racial hatred.”

From 2019 to 2021, he made some 200 podcasts, which he posted on Radio Aryan, later renamed Radio Albion. Presiding Judge Huw Rees called the podcasts “a stain on our humanity for our fellow human beings.”

Nick Price of the counter-terrorism division said, “the hateful and grotesque views that Allchurch shared on his podcast were a threat to our society.”

In cases like this, British papers usually just tell you the defendant was “hateful” or “anti-Semitic,” and never quote him. I had to dig deep to find that he reportedly talked about “negroes,” “jungle bunnies,” and “ethnic purity.” He described immigration as “white genocide.” He said non-white people should not be allowed to enter Britain.

He said he was “glad to hear” when politicians were mugged by “migrants who they brought into this country.”

Also, “I really don’t like to say it, but we need to have one of these politicians’ daughters and get them raped by one of these grooming gangs and see if they do anything about it then.”

The media were shocked to learn that this monster had been living in a cottage in this cute Wales village, where he sometimes picked up shopping for older residents.

The jury listened to 15 of Mr. Allchurch’s podcasts, no doubt the most ferocious the prosecution could find. Interestingly, jurors found that five incited no hate at all. Mr. Allchurch was released about a year ago, and is back on Radio Albion.

His latest podcast, from March 2nd, is about how the current Iran war could cause another refugee crisis. He’s another incorrigible!

It’s all so tiresome. In 1993, I published an article by John Tyndall about a prison sentence he and a co-defendant served in 1986 under the very same laws that sent Mr. Melia and Mr. Allchurch to the big house. He titled it “Prisoner of Democracy,” which was exactly what he was.

John Tyndall was a veteran nationalist who was editor of Spearhead, which was the party organ while he was running the British National Party.

The jury heard many articles from Spearhead, but the prosecution never explained which passages were supposed to be illegal. “My own feeling,” Tyndall wrote, “is that it was not so much one specific reference that tipped the scales but the cumulative effect of all the material.”

Tyndall believed the timid-looking jurors didn’t think very hard about what “incitement of hatred” actually meant, but just did as they were told: “Well, it seems that the judge thinks these two are dangerous characters who must be given a lesson — and who are we to disagree with him?”

Tyndall spent his full six months in Wormwood Scrubs but found his jailers friendly and respectful.

He said that not long before his time was up, one of the staff told him, “You two are only in here for saying what three quarters of the country is thinking!”

Tyndall didn’t like hate-speech laws but considered them good discipline. Americans, he said, sometimes “express themselves in terms that are so crude and offensive that they are likely to alienate a great many would-be readers and appeal only to the mentally maladjusted.” Tyndall got right back into the fight — sometimes literally — just like Sam Melia and James Allchurch.

John Tyndall died in 2005, but I had the pleasure of meeting him some 30 years ago. I don’t doubt he would be dismayed that the same tyrannical laws that sent him to prison are still an excuse to lock up patriots 40 years later. But I’m sure he would be very proud of the men and women who follow in his footsteps and will not rest until the British people have reclaimed their country and made it once again Great Britain.

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