Abstract
In this polemic, originally published in the magazine CARF in March 1979, the authors show through a number of cases, how the police are failing to protect black people from racist attacks and then how the criminal justice system compounds this failure by penalising those who are forced to defend themselves, and then ruling out of court the whole issue of racial provocation. Why, ask the authors, should other liberal freedoms take precedence over the freedom to life?
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References
1.John Kingsley Read was acquitted of incitement to racial hatred after uttering these words after the racist murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar in Southall in 1976 . See Harsh Punja, ‘The need for unity: an interview with Vishnu Sharma’, in this issue .
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Thatcher
Margaret
, soon after becoming Tory leader in January 1978 on an interview with Grenada TV said people were afraid of ‘being rather swamped by people with a different culture’ , available at: http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103485.