Sam Melia: the Gramsci of white nationalism
NIALL MCCRAE
‘Patriots jailed, paedophiles bailed’ was not one of the slogans on lamppost stickers produced by Yorkshire signpost-maker Sam Melia, Instead it was about him, at a protest by the nationalist group Patriotic Alternative in Leeds. Melia had been jailed for two years for ‘hate crime’, despite the judge accepting that the messages on his stickers about demographic replacement and Pakistani rape gangs were ‘legal and truthful’. Meanwhile BBC presenters (including ‘national treasure’ newsreader Huw Edwards) engaging in child sexual abuse remain at liberty.
Melia used his time of incarceration well, writing a diary of his experiences and insights, now published as Legal, Truthful, Guilty: Diary of a Political Prisoner. This gripping account is humane in presenting life in prison for the author and fellow convicts , and a polemic against the system. Verily, it is the Gramsci prison notebook of our time: when patriots (rather than communists) are persecuted by the state.
As in the gulags of the Soviet Union, thought criminals are the lowest of the low from the establishment perspective, below rapists, murderers and child molesters, because they are more dangerous. Melia has regular verbal jousts with officers of the state who abuse their power by making veiled threats about his political views: it would be easier to submit to re-education, but he is the toughest of English oak.
Three weeks after beginning his sentence at HMP Leeds on 1st March 2024, Melia had his first meeting with probation officers: –
Naomi and Heather opened with the same basic bitch questions shitlibs always do. ‘Don’t you know we’re a nation of immigrants?’ ‘Why don’t you think Black people can be English?’
Melia reflects on his trial, and the implications for white Britons concerned about the plight of their compatriots: –
When I was under cross-examination, the prosecution repeatedly pressed me on why I care about the girls involved in the rape gangs ‘considering you did not know them or share any relations’. I confess that I was confused as to why he was asking if I knew the victims directly. Could I not have empathy for someone unrelated?…It was not until his closing statement, a few days later, that it became clear. He asked the jury, ‘why would someone profess to care as much as Mr Melia does? He asserted that my tears, as we covered report after report of the brutality these girls faced, were actually cynical and manipulative, ‘a mere front for his racist beliefs’.
I was horrified at this revelation that exposed the state’s way of thinking: that we should hear of the rape and torture of thousands of girls in brutal and sickening circumstances and merely think, ‘it’s not my daughter, so why would I care?’ Realising the psychopathic mental state that the adherents to multiculturalism exist within, I understand how they can ‘not look back in anger’ and how tolerance became the primary value of their society.
How many Gazan families do the pro-Palestine protesters know personally? This required tolerance is fraudulent, because it is selective and thus devoid of principle. For progressive leftists, a favourite (but misconstrued) quote of their nemesis Margaret Thatcher was that ‘there is no such thing as society’, yet citizens are expected to look the other way when heinous crimes are committed that traumatise victims and rip the social fabric.
The prison wing is mostly filled by white men, but on one morning Melia saw a very different ethnic complement, as a long line of prisoners from F Wing is led through the gallery. .
F is the sex offender wing, and they’re kept entirely separate from all the other prisoners for their own safety. It is Eid, and they were filing down the corridor for some mass prayer event in the sports hall…Must have been over a hundred, followed by a female guard whom I clarified with,’ is that F-wing?’ She confirmed. I then asked if there was anyone left on F-wing with all these here. ‘Not really’, she replied with a resigned sigh.
This is the real ‘strength of diversity’ – it’s strength of numbers against indigenous Britons. We saw that after the Southport riots, where every northern town and city had its mob of Muslim men ready to attack the infidels if they come too close. It’s quite simply a territorial takeover, supported by the useful idiots of the privileged white middle-class. Most of the child rapists will be back on the streets within a year or two. There is no shame because the victims are ‘white trash’.
Opportunistically Melia catches the attention of the prison governor. Taking interest in a prisoner saying he is here for stickers, he asks whether Melia is left-wing or right-wing. In response, Melia says that he’s left on some beliefs and right on others (such as immigration). ‘You’re right-wing, then’, the governor retorts, and walks on as if the sentence is explicable on that ground alone.
Meanwhile Melia’s wife Laura is heavily pregnant. It was heartbreaking for him to miss the birth of his second child, who was born seven weeks into his time behind bars. Baby Violet was brought to see him four days later. But the vengeful authorities would soon block him from seeing his children.
After ten weeks Melia was suddenly and inexplicably transferred to HMP Hull, after he’d become fairly settled in Leeds. He gets plenty of positive reaction from inmates, one exclaiming on Melia’s arrival at the canteen: ‘that guy’s a legend’. A mountain of mail from friends and supporters arrives daily, with a spike after a protest by Patriotic Alternative outside the jail. Melia knows, however, that the majority of the populace has never heard of him or his case.
He is treated differently by the authorities at Hull. His status as a subject of counter-terrorism is emphasised, and there are worrying implications for the family from ‘child protection’. Required to complete a contact assessment form to continue to see his kids. Melia remarks: ‘the state put me through a three-year ordeal, imprisoned me and will now put me through a politically motivated assessment to determine if I’m a danger to children’.
His daughters’ visits are stopped pending this process, which takes several weeks. Melia threatens to go on hunger strike, but would the mainstream media? If they did, the act would be tainted by descriptions of ‘far-right extremist’. Let him die, would have been the metropolitan liberal attitude.
Three months into his sentence, Melia is informed that he is not eligible for early release due to his ‘racially aggravated’ crime. The probation team, Melia finds, is immersed in anti-white ideology, as promoted in the education system, welfare, crime and justice and by corporate news and entertainment. Sometimes the officers of the various agencies such as Prevent, social services and probation seem to relish their power to penalise Melia to the full for his offence against the modern mantra of equality, diversity and inclusion. Ed Dutton, reviewing Melia’s book on Occidental Observer, commented: –
My conclusion is that these people – so heavily invested in the regime – probably feel like the eastern European government workers in the 1980s. On some level they feel that something is about to change, and it must not be allowed to change because as happened in East Germany, the people will not easily forgive them for being the cowardly agents of a decadent tyranny.
Naomi, probation officer from the national security division, guesses that Melia would become a close friend of Tommy Robinson on release. This is ridiculous ignorance by an officer of a politicised agency who doesn’t know the politics of the political prisoner. All ‘right-wing’ elements are bundled together, despite their fundamental differences. Melia explains that he would not break bread with such a fanatic Zionist.
In October 2024 I was at the PA conference at Burton-on-Trent, advising members on how the Workers of England Union helps employees who run into trouble with management for ‘wrong-think’: Opening the conference, Laura spoke movingly about the nastiness of the regime, and her undiminished resolve. She knew that the authorities would take her children away, were it not for the publicity of Melia’s case.
Melia is told that he will not be going home before the end of his sentence, as he will be sent to an approved halfway house. This is devastating, as he has worked hard as a model prisoner and is desperate to return to his wife and children. Such a cruel blow is unlikely to be inflicted on Pakistani child rapists.
The reason why Melia is treated so harshly, I suggest, is not only because his stickers were Islamophobic or against multiculturalism, but due to his awakening to the root cause of the cultural onslaught and demographic replacement. Euphemised as ‘woke’, this is really a cultural revolution driven by the same instigators of Bolshevism and subversive gender ideology. It is all pushed by powerful people who also happen to be Zionists, from communism to Coudenhove-Kalergi to Cloward-Piven to the climate crisis. All to reduce the free people of Christian West to technocratic neo-feudalism, as the globalist elite are saving the planet for themselves.
On that note, I was in Brighton last weekend for the marathon, and found stickers on every lamppost with shrill ‘woke’ messages about race and gender. Stand up to Racism is increasingly aggressive in its thought-policing. I thought that a good response would be ‘Make Brighton Normal Again’, but it’s probably too late for that! Swelled by marathon cheerers, Brighton was almost all white, which is strange to see nowadays. A while ago I was watching a video clip on David Clews’ Unity News Network, showing scenes of London in 1990 (when I moved there). The crowds of commuters were mostly white, with a nice mix of other ethnicities too. The past is a different country: London is now a city of foreigners, and I feel alienated when walking in my capital city.
Melia reads a newspaper report illustrating the double standards, with over a thousand lawyers, artists and celebrities opposing the five-year sentence for Just Stop Oil activists who caused £2 million in costs on blocking the M25 motorway. The books in the prison library are just like the biased selection at a public library or Waterstone’s; left-wing propaganda that would be viewed as extremism if the boot was on the other foot.
Melia is confronted by his new probation officer Dick on ‘white supremacy’. No, he explains, it is not about being better, but simply having a right to exist in their homeland. Dick scoffs at this, asserting that no ethnic group has a right to exclusive ownership of their country. When pressed, he awkwardly states that the same principle would apply to Aborigines in Australia. While writing I was listening to the Australian band Midnight Oil, who sang about white people returning the land to its owners! Awkward indeed.
For Dick, the British are not inherently white, and he is glad that there are many more black and brown faces now. If whites become a minority, Dick said that he’d welcome that. There is no principle here, only a sneering condescension. Melia writes: –
At least some people have the conscience to be conflicted over the human cost of diversity. He almost seems to revel in it.
Melia pushes the boat out by calling Dick a ‘rape gang apologist’, but it is deserved criticism. Dick reacts by suggesting that the home environment is toxic for Melia’s children. When the time comes to set licence conditions, Melia is disturbed by the draconian restrictions proposed by Dick. No political activity or contact with politically active persons –difficult given that wife Laura is deputy leader of Patriotic Alternative!
Significant events occur in the country during Melia’s time in prison. Civil unrest after the murder of three young girls in Southport led to over a thousand protestors being jailed. Several arrived at HMP Hull. Melia laments the death in another jail of fellow Yorkshireman Peter Lynch, a 61-year-old grandfather who had shouted and sworn at riot police. Footage had shown Lynch with a homemade placard decrying the Zionist new world order, and this led to suspicions: the only post-Southport protestor to die at His Majesty’s Pleasure was a man who named the beast.
Over the course of fourteen months of struggle sessions with Dick and colleagues, Melia feels that this is ‘the most radicalising experience I’ll ever go through’. Dick is deliberately antagonistic, but like a good boxer, Melia sees every lunge coming, and doesn’t get angry or spout a sweeping statement that will be used against him. The exchanges help Melia to ‘sharpen my rhetoric, and reignited a political passion’ (as do the library books). Nonetheless, he observes: –
We seem stuck in the loop where probation deny any desire to change my entirely legal views, yet my ‘progress’ seems to rest on my views changing.
Almost nine months into his sentence Melia is moved to the halfway house, near Bradford. It’s a high-security approved residence for ‘the worst offenders and complex cases’, so Melia fears he will be surrounded by nonces. It’s not so bad, though, and he is now allowed to go home for a few hours every day. Some of the men there seem to sabotage their freedom, because they prefer prison, which Melia describes as being like an ‘adult nursery’ – no need for any responsibility.
In an accidental oversight, Melia brings a bag back to the secure lodging in which a handful of ‘white lives matter’ stickers are found. This is regarded as badly as having a Stanley knife or bag of heroin, necessitating profuse apologies to the powers-that-be. Melia was within a whisker of being recalled to prison.
Melia is hauled over the coals for stickers describe as ‘racist’. During the Black Lives Matter frenzy in 2020 I know of workers disciplined for merely commenting ‘all lives matter’. When Melia asks Dick whether BLM is also racist, he replies: ‘Blacks are subject to racial violence whereas Whites are not’. Tell that to the prey of the Pakistani rape gangs.
Another significant event, while he is on licence, is Baroness Casey’s report on the grooming gang scandal. Commissioned by Keir Starmer’s administration under public pressure, the report concluded that not only was this industrial-scale abuse endemic in towns and cities in northern England, but also the authorities tried to sweep it under the carpet, and in some cases were facilitating the crime. Again, an institutional report found institutional reluctance to act for fear of upsetting ‘community relations;’ (to which I’d add the Muslim bloc vote). As Melia remarks, people were prosecuted for saying what was now writ large.
But Dick has not changed his mind. ’White people do it too’, he states glibly. But can you imagine, if if had been white gangs raping Asian girls, the liberal intelligentsia shrugging their shoulders and saying ‘Muslims do it too’?
In a profound point in his conclusion, Melia considers how resistance to multiculturalism is cast as exclusively white bigotry, and that this is an insult to ‘British values’ of respect, tolerance, blah, blah… But if patriotic white people were eradicated, there would still be conflict between ethnic groups. The goal, however, would have been achieved, I suggest, because the purpose of mass immigration is Zionist annihilation of the Christian West. Tolerance (whether for other cultures o transgenderism) is only for white people.
Our country is in serious trouble, for sure. Democracy, trial by jury and the institutions of society are corrupted by liberal (Cultural Marxist) ideology and demographic transformation. Trust and cohesion have been destroyed. But ethnic communities are nurturing such trust and cohesion for themselves, something that white people are not allowed to do. Sectarianism is the inevitable (and planned) outcome of the multiculturalist project.
Melia argues, ‘we should be free to raise our children with our ideals, ones that celebrate our people, just as every other race does with their offspring’. Such rhetoric reads uncomfortably for most white Britons, who hope (despite the contrary signs) that we can all live together in peace and harmony. Most people would balk at the very idea of ethno-nationalism. But Melia presents a persuasive argument, and he has certainly been through enough hardship to deserve an audience. The foreword by Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett is testament to the character of this uniquely modest but determined Englishman: –
This is a story of an ordinary man whose case ended up being read about by millions of people all over the world – the state tried to break him as a terrorist and the courts treated him worse than they do real criminals. But for all their attempts to break him, the state turned Sam Melia into a symbol of resistance – the man who never gave in.
Footnote
After publishing this review today, I see online a large protest by local people in Epsom, after a woman was raped by a gang of men. Police have not issued a description of the men, and warn people ‘not to speculate’ due to potential tension between communities.
I’d like to ask the police chief, what communities do you mean – could you name them? Is there a white community on Epsom. or is that not allowed?
This article (Sam Melia: the Gramsci of white nationalism) was created and published by Niall McCrae and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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