Simon Sheppard

Simon Sheppard (right) and Stephen Whittle

Simon Guy Sheppard (b. 1957) is a British nationalist, revisionist, publisher and political activist from Hull, England, who runs a number of websites promoting his nationalistic views; his main website contains many articles denouncing feminism, multiculturalism and the actions of Jews, stating that these have negative effects upon Western society and for white males in particular. He is currently imprisoned in the UK for "inciting racial hatred". Leftist Wikipedia states that he has been prosecuted and imprisoned in the Netherlands and the UK, for "Holocaust denial" and "hate speech". Wikipedia makes various allegations, many lacking even a dubious claimed source.

Biography

Career and work

Sheppard initially had a career as a recording engineer in the music industry, claiming to have met such famous figures as Robert Fripp and even Andy Warhol. Later, he went to study at Sussex University, obtaining a degree in mathematics. He then became a writer and independent publisher, setting up his own company, the Heretical Press, distributing his self-published books.

The Heretical Press website at heretical.com contains an eclectic mixture of excerpts taken from Sheppard's books, stand-alone articles by Sheppard, work by his associate Steven Whittle (using the pen name Luke O'Farrell), and many pieces of work by other writers whose work fits with Sheppard's ideas. Subjects mentioned on the site include racial theories, criticism of Jewish claims about World War II, anaylsis of Judaism, criticism of radical femnism and cannibalism amongst other topics. Sheppard is a psychologist and attempts to apply game theory and evolutionary psychology to the analysis of biological competition between the sexes and between different races, in a social Darwinistic sense. One particularly notable aspect of his theories is that he claims that it is the male instinct to be racist, because this has evolved as an evolutionary drive to try to prevent females, who are evolutionarily inclined to view alien males as having high biological fitness as they have penetrated a territory without being killed, from engaging in miscegenation in the presence of males of other races, which would be genetically disadvantageous to the males as a group.

One of his books, The Tyranny of Ambiguity, details his life in Amsterdam in the early 1990s and his interactions with other people, and his attempts to view the events in the book in terms of his own personal theories of psychology. Another of his books, All About Women, identifies Sheppard's self-created concept of "Big Sister" (analogous with Orwell's concept of Big Brother) as consisting of all groups within society that express "female characteristics" such as being dishonest, to conspire, and to manipulate, and that such groups include women, non-Europeans, and Jews.

Sheppard was also the host of Redwatch, a site used by patriotic activists, that publishes photographs, names, addresses and telephone numbers of communist campaigners from across the political spectrum. Redwatch also contained a section called "Noncewatch" (nonce being English slang for a paedophile) containing details of communist activists whom the site accused of paedophilia.

Sheppard has also met with non-White former BNP member Claire Khaw, who has blogged in defence of his views on feminism and against his arrests.

Trouble with the law

On 8 June 1999, Sheppard and David Hannam were arrested in Kingston upon Hull on thought-crime charges for distributing "racist election literature" on behalf of the British National Party. He was expelled from the BNP the same day (though not Hannam, who remained a senior administrator in the party). On 14 June 2000, Sheppard was convicted on anti-free speech charges at Hull Crown Court for publishing or distributing "racially inflammatory material". According to his website, Sheppard has been banned from every public library in Hull, Hull University and Hull College merely for expressing opinions. In 2005, Sheppard's house was raided by the controlled police/neo-Stasi following complaints about allegedly "racist material" published by his Heretical Press.

In 2008, Sheppard was arrested in the UK on thought crime charges, for using his website to circulate "material likely to incite racial hatred". The website is based in Torrance, California, so Sheppard rejects English legal jurisdiction over the published writings. Sheppard and his associate Steven Whittle absconded from bail, took a ferry to Ireland, and flew to Los Angeles, USA. After they demanded political asylum, the pair were put into Santa Ana Jail.

On 24 March 2009, the two appellants addressed the California court themselves before Judge Rose Peters. On 5 April 2009, with reasons reserved, Sheppard and Whittle were denied asylum, upon which the former stated that they would not appeal, and they were deported and returned to prison in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2009. On 10 July 2009, Sheppard was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in prison, and his co-defendant, Whittle, was convicted of five similar offences. These sentences for publishing material on the Internet were described as "groundbreaking" by Adil Khan, representing Humberside police, whilst Sheppard's lawyer, Adrian Davies, said in his defence during the trial that he had come from a "very troubled background" and revealed that his mother had committed suicide, whilst noting that Sheppard was an intelligent man who had problems with authority, especially the neo-Stasi controlled police. In January 2010, Sheppard and Whittle lost an appeal against their convictions, but succeeded in having their sentences reduced slightly.

Bibliography

• All About Women: what Big Sister doesn't want you to know
• Anna Frank's Novel: the 'Diary' is a Fraud
• The Tyranny of Ambiguity: being an account of the development of the system of behaviour analysis called Procedural Analysis
• The Science of Sex

Further reading

• Bradley R. Smith: British Publisher Simon Sheppard Arrested, His House Searched, His Computers Seized, but He Beats the Rap, 2014

External links

• The Heretical Press