THE STICKY MATTER OF INTENT

Last week in England, Sam Melia (pronounced “MEAL-ee-uh”)—described by the British government as a “far-right activist who set up an online library of racist stickers for supporters to download and put up in their area”—was sentenced to two years behind bars. In January he’d been found guilty of two crimes: stirring up racial hatred through the distribution of his stickers and “encouraging racially aggravated criminal damage” by providing downloadable PDFs that enabled aspiring racist vandals to print out the stickers and deface public property with them.