Cops, Courts Show Race Bias

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FOR nicking a TV from Woolies and two radio clocks in the riots last summer, Carl Williams is to be deported to Jamaica for five years.

Carl is 18. He was born in Britain and has lived here all his life. Yet when Judge Clay discovered that Carl and his mother were going to Jamaica for a four week holiday soon, he delayed the trial, waited until their passports and air tickets were fixed up and then pronounced his verdict: that he would bind Carl over, on condition that he left the country for five years.

Petty crime

British residents have not been deported for petty crimes like this since a century and a half ago when convicts were transported to Australia. Judge Clay had no legal authority for his sentence. But it is happening to Carl now because he is black.

'Coincidentally', this deportation came in the same week, that Scotland Yard announced that 55% of people committing robberies and 'mugging' in the street are black (according to the victims).

After questioning Scotland Yard admitted that street crime accounted for only 3% of offences reported in London, and mugging, less than 1%. But there are no statistics for the skin colour of the other 97% of law-breakers. very existence of transsexualism subverts such a convenient classification since, in this case, an inner knowledge regarding one's sex identity remains entirely independent of gender ism, unlike forms of sexuality, is not a thing in itself, but rather a state of transition which those of us who are transsexual eventually have the courage to go through. None of us There can be no glib solution to the problem; it can only come through changing the nature of society and achieving a greater understanding of how that society moulds us.