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Sunday, July 29th, 2001

Chuck Martino Shoots New Video For Sin City

From AVN.com: Porn veteran Chuck Martino has rekindled his relationship with Sin City Entertainment as a freelance producer/director for the company's Sinister line. A former head of production for the label, Martino has just finished shooting his first Sinister video in two years.

Martino's new project is an as-yet untitled gonzo effort, which he promises will be "unbelievable." The cast includes Monica Sweetheart, Daniella Rush, Kiana, Flick Shagwell, April, Mark Davis, TT Boy, Dale DaBone, Cheyne Collins and new girl Jody.

"[Sin City head] David Sturman is one of the few loyal owners around, and he's the best boss in the world," Martino said in an interview with AVN.com.

Chuck tells Luke: "The reason I think my gonzo stuff is the best because I have the best cameraman in the business - Marc Giffy. Without him, I'd be nobody."

New York Times Reports File-Swapping Is New Route for Pornography on Internet

From NYTimes.com: The file-swapping services that have grown in popularity as Napster has waned can be used to trade pornography as well as music, presenting a new environment in which minors can be exposed to hard-core photographs and even videos, two members of Congress warned yesterday.

A report released by the lawmakers warned that most of the popular methods that parents use to block access to pornography on the World Wide Web are not useful against the new services, which use decentralized "peer-to-peer" technology that is difficult to control or to trace.

Neither congressman recommended new legislation be passed. "We don't know what to ask for legislatively and we don't know quite what to do technologically," Mr. Waxman said. "We thought we should make this information available so the parents, at a minimum, will know what they are facing."

Mr. Largent sent a letter to the attorney general, John Ashcroft, asking that the Department of Justice step up enforcement of existing obscenity laws. "We must not allow the benevolent neglect of obscenity prosecutions under the Clinton administration to continue under the Bush administration," Mr. Largent said in his letter to the attorney general. He also wrote: "The Lord has blessed us both immensely, and I am willing to stand with you in any way you feel necessary to begin eliminating this scourge from our nation's soul. I believe that Jesus asks no less of us."

Kacey Becomes Daphne Rosen

Ralph writes: So now she is willing to do boy-girl she says she's Jewish. Is that some sort of status symbol? On her web site she even mentioned she was born in Israel and her father is a professer. For $600 a slob like me could even make a video with her. Before she became www.daphnerosen.com she was Kacey and never did boy-girl. She made videos for www.deep-trances.com I have no motive in promoting her, just wondering what your take is on that. She doesn't fit the mold of the sterotypical porn star. Boston? If your interested scroll down. She looks like a 70's hippy chick to me. Chubby but cute. I am just making a truthful observation.

Heather Barron Waves Goodbye

Heather Barron writes: Dear Luke, Today my hosting company wildcherry.net gave me an ultimatum, drive traffic to their new adult sites or be hit with a monstrous credit card charge. I declined the swap...the sites they are putting up do not jive with the way I think porn should be presented and I don't appreciate a "suggestion" with a gun to my head. Sites without a sense of individually where the girls are nameless, faceless bodies are the antithesis of everything I believe and thus I'd much rather be off the internet entirely at this time than pressured by my hosting company to help market material I don't support. My site will be shut down as of tonight. I am open to suggestions with regards to hosting companies. 'Til then, I venture underground.

Brandy Alexandre writes: Yay! Go Heather! It's nice to see I'm not the only one who stands on principal regardless of its effect on my bank account. All porn is *not* created equal, and sites who want to leach off the traffic off of a bona fide to promote what more often than not is infringed intellectual property, doesn't deserve one iota of thoughtful consideration of a "suggestion," let alone any action upon it.

Ed Kramer Legal Defense

Mark Kramer writes: A most unusual story unforlds in Atlanta--a child-molestation witchhunt centered on writer/editor/convention-founder Edward E. Kramer [no relation to me]. Take note that the persons banging the gong loudest for this man's conviction are penile amputee Joe Christ and his wife Nancy A. Collins. Naturally the erotopathic nature of this trumped-up witchhunt resides with the inquiritorial climate of the American South in general and Joe Christ's staus of as a penile amputee in particular. Take note many, if not most, high-profile child-abuse scandals are phony to the core and, like the McMartin trial in California and the Margaret Kelly Michaels prosecution in New Jersey, end with acquittal...although exhoneration in court does not avert the ruined lives that inevitably follow. This Ed Kramer thing, and the inquisitorial fervor with which penectomy survivor Joe Christ and his suety wife are pursuing it, may well be the stuff of a Luke F-rd expose.

Let me also add that the accused is a devout, observant Jew who has experienced overt anti-Semitism during his incarceration. Did you ever read Bernard Malamud's "The Fixer"? Will, this is "The Fixer" Redux....

XXX writes: The way I heard it from an insider, Joe Christ tried on a cock-ring, fell asleep with it on, and when he woke up he was told by the ER "no there isn't a pill or shot to counteract that. He then tried to market the snafu as an "artistic statement."

Lydia Lunch

Mark Kramer writes: It occurred to me that another prurient personality who might be a worthy interview subject for your site and its "Stars" archive is my friend Lydia Lunch. Check out http://www.lydialunch.org plus the numerous google.com entries on her. She gets fist-f---ed in the movie "Fingered" and delivers a memorable blowjob in "The Right Side of My Brain" [both by Richard Kern]. Her's is a ball-busting variety of erotica that subverts the porn formula for her own fiendishly womanistic purposes.

Luke Gets Mail

Jack writes: On the subject of bad checks, there is a DA division set up to specifically handle them. All the person has to do is call and talk to someone. From then the DA will look into and get someone in their to make things right. Also, the company will go into a database and should it continue to happen, the DA will prosecute them.

Killer writes: Luke, Chasey Lain must be on drugs-NOTHING from Vivid could ever has a "Greg Dark edge"! Even if it did, Vivid would just edit it down to nothing a few months later, like they do with all their rip-off releases.

Gilles writes: It's kind of curious to hear Jenna concern about the clothes she's gonna wear at that party. It always seems that finally, these girls wear almost nothing!

Tom writes: Luke, This may seem like a silly question--I mean I know the answer but maybe you can elucidate: Is there a veritable infinity of pictures from photo shoots, both for magazines and video boxes, that have never been published or seen? I mean they'll put three pictures on a box cover...what happens to the rest? In the photogs posession I assume.

Question #2: Ron Vogel shot my all time favorite set in 1986 of which, again I'm assuming, only a handful of the pictures taken were ever published. How might I discover if these pics are still extant? Contact Vogel? If so, how might I inquire? E-mail? How would I find his e-mail?

Galactic Galaxina writes: Hi luke I was looking at your photo section, I seen two amazing beautiful woman,Bridgett Kerkove and Keri Windsor, now they do not look like no 18 year old out of a strip dive, theses feature adult entertainers really stuck a key with me, made me come out of my dam amnesia and denial, what my DR did to me and my life for the past few years was dam near 3d world country tactics or extreme cruel and unusual punishment, my court date is coming up this November (multi million dollar law suit up to 23 million) if you ever feel the need to verify this drop me word I can give my lawyer name number it's all true, next will be the law suit on JW of buffy for copyright infringements, takes money and a lot of energy but I will do it, but I saw theses two woman and realized everything I wanted to be and have been running around like some hippy gypsy chick which there is nothing wrong with that but I let my self go and my dreams goals, I wish if other adult entertainers out there if they see this I don't know if they have gone through something kind of similar set back for years gone done some did they make a come back, I know giner Lynn did I met her personally been reading about her and she don't look her age she is incredibly beautiful outside and inside,anyways thank you luke for being more wise with concern compassion and understanding, your like a rolling stone ; a great journalist even they know it .

Jacob writes: Hey Luke, Saw you on the Bravo documentary about the adult film industry. I caught it part way through, not sure exactly the title, but it was quite good. You came off as quite intelligent, although you were portrayed as the bad guy by lots of people. It also focused on young Katie June and her porn plight. She had signed with Jim South and had already done movies with Randy West. Needless to say, her cute face kept me interested.

Bravo! is a channel here in Canada. http://www.bravo.ca/ Usually not much on it, but it caught my eye when I was flicking through and saw Katie June's boobs.

Time Square Smut

Professor Jay Gertzman writes on ThePosition.com: Until recently, the rest of us with prurient leanings had to shop under the disdainful gazes of Billy Graham, Father McCaffrey, or Donald Wildmon at the 42nd Street dirty book stores and sex- and- violence theaters. However, perhaps not any more. As book stores and movie theaters get condemned on the basis of the subjective criteria of their "negative effects" on surrounding businesses, bulldozers have been having a go at the vice areas of Boston, New York, Washington and Baltimore. Ironically, these developments further democratize, rather than suppress, sex- related businesses. Entrepreneurs now favor internet and phone sex, sex boutiques, hotel room cable TV, Hollywood's NC17 films, day spas for men, and gentlemen's clubs. It's an Everyman's "pornocopia." Porn kingpins are no longer pariahs like Eddie Mishkin, Bob Brown, or Mo Shapiro. They are more sophisticated, and more respectable. With the mainstreaming of pornography into popular culture, sleaze is on the way out. Politicians, property owners, and media moguls can take a very dubious credit. They have eliminated the transgressive atmosphere of a Times Square, where criminality and creativity shared a common border, and where one felt guilty for being there, and yet free from the moral consensus which spurred him to visit.

Luke's Diary

I spent most of my therapy Friday discussing the Jerusalem Report article on me...and I told my therapist the only thing I regretted about it was that I didn't communicate more clearly that I regard Dr. William Pierce and his National Alliance organization, and its ilk, as evil. Just as I regard pornography as morally destructive, yet don't clearly opine such every time I reference porno or a porno narrative etc.

I do believe that Dr Pierce, though evil, raises important issues (that multiculturalism, whether in US or Israel doesn't work) and I believe that him, his organization and the issues he raises should be confronted head on, not ignored.

There are plenty of times when it is appropriate to ignore evil, to not give it any energy or publicity, to totally shun it...and that may be the most appropriate approach for Pierce and co, but I think direct confrontation, shoving Pierce in people's faces is more right...but I could be wrong.

I think if you look over my adult life, I've long had a fascination for evil. I was fascinated by Marxism for years, as I wrote in my bio, have been fascinated by the underworld, aka porno aka Mafia, for years and written reems on that, and then over the past year or so, become fascinated by Pierce and co. This evil fascination has been a thread running throughout my life, perhaps starting with the devil in my youngest years.

I have not had any feedback on the Jerusalem Report article, aside from my readers, whose feedback I printed. Not one phone call, not one email from someone having read it... What is the circulation of the JR?

I did hear from one member of the local community who heard the Jewish Journal was doing a piece on me and asked me if I wanted to commit suicide, that nobody in the community would talk to me after it came out. I don't hold that. As long as the article is accurate, I am willing to live with the consequences of whatever is printed.

I admit for about two weeks after my dismissal, I was quite disoriented and depressed and seriously thinking about abandoning LF.com and any nexus to the porn industry or anything that would get me in trouble with my religious community, but I snapped out of one day when I encountered people I deeply respect who in turn told me that they respect the work I do on l-keford.com.

Gregory Bowman writes: LUKE! don't leave we love you right where you are; making no money; being liable for slander and defamation and making no money. Its good for you and just think of the 401k you are socking the money into. Youll be able to retire when you are in your early 90s. Not a bad deal.

Besides, if you go out into the real world and be successful, which I know you can be, it will lead to bedroom furniture and we all know what that leads to...........dancing!! We can't have that for the Prince of Porndom, Levy Luke F-rd. Keep up the good work for all of us, and sleep well knowing you are being exploited by the lowest of low. Its your mitzvah, Luke, don't let G-D down.

On Sabath morning, I got into a long discussion with a leftist post-Zionist academic who hates the current Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and NY Times conservative columnist William Safire. He mentioned a particular Safire - Ariel Sharon column which I said was posted on the office door of the new Orthodox rabbi in town.

The lefty responded: "Really? I heard Rabbi XXX was a nice man."

Luke (I am known in non-Orthodox Jewish life as Luke F-rd): "Well, can't you be a nice man and still vote for Likud?"

The academic did not think so. He did not believe it was possible to support Sharon and be a nice person. Because Sharon and his political party Likud stood more for Jewish nationalism and chauvinism than for democracy and universal human rights.

I asked the lefty if he had to choose between Israel being a democratic non-Jewish state with a one-man one-vote system or a Jewish state that discriminated against its Arab residents, which side would he choose? He chose democracy while I would choose a Jewish state.

Then I was invited home for lunch by some elite rabbis. And it was great to hang out with religious, learned, yet also secularly educated folks, around a lovely shabbos table with excellent food and hearty convivial conversation.

Bill writes: I recently read the profile written about you in the Jerusalem Report and found the article very interesting. The part that caught my attention was the mention of your struggle with CFS. My wife is currently suffering from that disease. We have two children and we are struggling with finding a remedy for my wife's illness. She has days where she feels that she can't get out of bed. I am concerned that her situation might deteriorate to the point where she may become completely bedridden. I am writing to you in the hopes that you might share any information that you might have in how to battle this disease. I would appreciate any information you might have with regards to doctors who are knowledgeable in this area. Most of the medical doctors we have seen simply try to push sedatives and painkillers on my wife. These drugs are not a long term solution and once the temporary effects wear off, the doctors have no other suggestions. Do you have any information on treatments that were effective in your case? We are currently seeing a chiropractor who is providing nutritional supplements designed to rest and health the adrenal gland. My wife has been on this treatment for six months. She has seen a slight improvement but is frustrated by the lack of substantial progress. Any information that you could share would be greatly appreciated

Luke replies: I found the drug NARDIL, an MAO inhibitor helpful.. Also, I went to a classical homeopathic doctor and found this treatment helpful.

Arab Youths Rape 70 Australian Girls

Chaim Amalek writes: OK, you're Australian, so YOU can tell us if this report is credible. I got it off Drudge (you didn't think I learned of it from anything controlled by Sumner Redstone, did you?). Further proof of the insanity of multiculturalism. These muslim arab boys belong in arab countries, where there are developed cultural defenses against arab conduct such as this (chadors for women, severe penalties for men or boys who violate women, NO MTV-like porn imagery of white women to inflame their kaffir desires, etc):

POLICE examining more than 20 brutal sexual attacks on teenaged girls in just 10 months believe they have uncovered a frightening new crime associated with race. Hospital records and police data show that at least another 50 similar incidents have been reported in the Bankstown area of south-west Sydney over the past two years.

The victims, one as young as 13, were allegedly lured to meetings then gang raped and horrifically humiliated. All of those suspected of perpetrating the acts come from the same cultural and religious backgrounds. Now police are concerned that the acts may become culturally institutionalised.

Fifteen youths and men have so far been charged with more than 300 offences relating to matters since mid-2000 alone. They are all of Middle Eastern extraction. Their alleged victims have all been Caucasian, aged between 13 and 18.

Chaim writes: Enoch Powell was a very well respected and fearless British conservative politician and academic, a very major player, who was consigned to the political netherworld for giving a prophetic speech against open immigration in the 1960's. It is not fair to term his views as "racist" any more than it is accurate to dismiss all of your little zionist friends as being "racist" for favoring jewish immigration into palestine over Palestinian or Christian or Muslim immigration. He was a tribalist.

And by the way, THIS is the key argument white people should make - that a policy of tribally/racially closed immigration would be no more racist for the U.S. or Europe than it is for Israel. Serious question - what do your Zionist friends - like Sheldon T. - think of that one? Zionism is not racism, but it certainly is tribal, and THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. I think that was Enoch Powell's point, not that the Negro or the Kaffir was inferior to the Brit, but that they were, on account of culture and appearance, not assimilable and not worth trying to assimilate.

Zionism Can be our Zitadel against Multiculturalism

Chaim writes: What does the Hollywood Jew think of Enoch Powell's speech? Assuming that he is hostile to it, how can he reconcile the bases for that hostility with his love of Zion?

Enoch Powell R.I.P.

Anthony Lejeune writes in the 03-09-1998 National Review:

ENOCH Powell was a member of the House of Commons for nearly 37 years, a Cabinet minister for 15 months, and prime minister never. Yet, in the history of twentieth-century British conservatism, he ranks with Winston Churchill as an orator and Margaret Thatcher as an ideological force.

There has been no other political figure remotely like him. He was a rigorous scholar -- professor of Greek at the age of 25 --relentlessly, even gleefully, following the logic of an argument to its often uncomfortable conclusion. He was a speaker whose every sentence emerged lucid, grammatically and syntactically correct, and yet powered by an almost mystical zeal. He could make an audience of seaside landladies enjoy a lecture on monetarism. And he was a man of the strictest principle, repeatedly damaging his own career by refusing to fudge or compromise.

Such a man was never likely to prosper within the system. As an editorial in the London Telegraph observed, "He suffered among his political contemporaries as a man with perfect pitch suffers among the tone-deaf."

His governmental prospects were ended by a single speech delivered in 1968, when he warned of social disaster if the flood of Afro-Caribbean immigration continued. "Like the Roman," he said, quoting Virgil, "I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood."' Liberal opinion was outraged, and Edward Heath promptly sacked Powell from the Shadow Cabinet. Simultaneously, a considerable section of the non-intellectual British public, seeing him as the first politician to articulate their own fears, made him a hero. But what became known, misleadingly, as "the rivers-of-blood speech" distracted attention from everything else he said.

But in one field at least, his ideas have triumphed. There was "Powellism" before there was "Thatcherism." He tirelessly preached the virtues of a free market; that fixed exchange rates are madness; that an " income policy" is absurd; that inflation is a government-caused monetary phenomenon; that high taxation can be avoided only when governments stop doing things which they ought not to be doing. Margaret Thatcher learned much of her economic philosophy from Powell, and the message has been partly absorbed even by Tony Blair's "New Labor."

"All political careers," Powell once said, "end in failure." His own was manifestly unfulfilled: but the words of the Prophet Enoch will be read, recalled, and discussed long after his more conventionally successful opponents have dwindled into footnotes in a PhD thesis.

Rivers Of Blood

This speech is included on this website simply because it is one of the most famous political speeches ever made. The inclusion of this speech on this website does in NO way constitute an endorsement of it. Please take this into account before reading the speech.

"Like the Roman, I see the River Tiber foaming with much blood"

By Enoch Powell:

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future. Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: "If only," they love to think, "if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen."

Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical. At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician.

Those who knowingly shirk it deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after. A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: "If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country." I made some deprecatory reply to the effect that even this government wouldn't last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: "I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man."

I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history. In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's Office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.

As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead.

The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: "How can its dimensions he reduced?" Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent. The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping, or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.

It almost passes belief that at this moment 20 or 30 additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week - and that means 15 or 20 additional families a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiances whom they have never seen. Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 25,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay.

I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so. Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement of re-emigration. Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent. Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects.

The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr Heath has put it we will have no "first-class citizens" and "second-class citizens ". This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendent should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to imposition as to his reasons and motive for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.

There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it "against discrimination", whether they be leader writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same news papers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is that they know not what they do.

Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American negro. The negro population of the United States, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come. The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knew no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service. Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration, but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different from another's.

But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.

They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. They now learn that a one way privilege is to be established by act of parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent-provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.

In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me:

"Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet street became a place of noise and confusion Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.

"The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7am by two negroes who wanted to use her phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. Her little store of money went, and after paying rates, she has less than 2 per week. She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl,.who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were negroes, the girl said, 'Racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country.' So she went home.

"The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house - at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out. Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letter box. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist', they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder."

The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration". To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last 15 years many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one.

We are on the verge here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population - that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly. The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a minister in the present government "The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should they say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned." All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.

For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrator communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood". That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century. Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.