From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:44:55 +0000
Subject: Re: euroland and racism



> 
> yes, i saw an article about it in the newspaper today. I liked the bit when
> they wrote that when it was clear the report was not so good on the lonodn
> cops, Blair decided to keep the report secret.
> 

To be fair to Blair, certain sections of the report were leaked to 
the press and Jack Straw tried a court injunction to stop the leaks 
pre-publication. The publication was always going to be this week, 
and there has been such a fuss nationally that they wouldn't dare 
suppress it. Plus it will be useful to HM Gov in rooting out parts of 
the Met Police they don't like.

Incidentally, the campaign to get the murderers [who were never 
charged because of racist and inept police work], reached national 
prominence, after a lot of activist agitation, when the editor of the 
Daily Mail, possibly our most right wing paper, realised that Neville 
Lawrence the father had done some building work for him and was a 
thoroughly decent chap. He then ordered his reporters who were going 
to ignore the story to do the decent thing, and though no murder 
charges had been brought, the Mail named the 5 alleged perps and 
defed them to sue.

The case has unfortunately only been prominent because these are 
'deserving' black people i.e. just like us whiteys.


_as