Simon Sheppard (activist)
Simon Sheppard is a controversial far-right activist who has applied game theory and evolutionary psychology to the analysis of competion between the sexes and between different races. While Sheppard presents himself as a psychologist, there is no evidence he holds any qualifications in this field. He runs a website, heretical.com, devoted to publicizing his theories of Procedural Analysis and his related interests.
His website expresses many negative opinions about the behaviour of Jews and women, with black people and others as its secondary targets. One section contains photographs of Jews in Nazi death camps, with mocking, insulting captions. Sheppard is an ex-BNP member who has been imprisoned for promoting racial hatred. [1] He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment at Hull Crown Court on Wednesday 14th June 2000 for the crime of "Publishing or Distributing racially inflammatory material" after distributing a leaflet attempting to poke fun at politically correct attitudes to race, with a false map representing supposedly humorous fictional areas such as "Wigger Way" and "Pakistani Avenue". Abusing Holocaust survivors was another source of its humour, in keeping with Sheppard's website. (The leaflet can be seen on Sheppard's site.)
Sheppard was one of the far-right activists who set up the Redwatch web-page, an explicitly neo-Nazi site that openly promotes violence against left-wing opponents. [2] Many people have received death threats after their details appeared on the site, including Members of Parliament and their families. [3]
Sheppard continues to be involved with hate-site Redwatch. In 2005 his house was raided by police in connection with death threats towards various figures, including the left-wing comedian Mark Thomas. [4]
See also
- Simon Sheppard — disambiguation page
External link
Heretical.com -- Sheppard's website
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