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Steve Moxon is a British former civil servant who first came to prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004 while he was employed as a caseworker at the Home Office, which is the ministerial department of the United Kingdom that handles immigration, security, and law and order. Since being dismissed from his job at the Home Office and accepting an out-of-court settlement to an employment tribunal case he brought against his former employer, he has worked as an independent researcher on the relationship between the sexes. He was selected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate for the 2012 local elections in Sheffield, but was forced to stand as an independent candidate after UKIP deselected him following comments that he made on his blog about the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik. Moxon has written two books: one on immigration and the other on the science of the relationship between the sexes. The former attracted praise from some critics, but was criticised by others as "highly selective" and Islamophobic. The latter has been described as "singularly odd" and "wilfully controversial". ==Home Office== Moxon came to public prominence as a whistleblower in March 2004, while working at the Home Office.〔 Moxon was a caseworker in the Home Office's Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Sheffield. He claimed that immigration checks had been waived for people from the eight countries in central and eastern Europe that were due to join the European Union in May of that year, so as to make migration flows following EU enlargement look less dramatic. The allegations were published in the ''Sunday Times''. Moxon's revelations, along with those of two other whistleblowers, resulted in the resignation of junior minister Beverley Hughes. Moxon himself was dismissed from his civil service job. Initially, he was feted by figures from the opposition Conservative Party including Michael Howard and David Davis, but they distanced themselves from him when it was revealed that Moxon had e-mailed the website of the BBC's ''Panorama'' programme claiming that: "An international alliance of Islamic Year Zeros feverishly exporting death to 'infidel' and non-fundamentalist Muslims alike...eventually will have to be silenced by nuclear weapons".〔 Moxon subsequently wrote a book, ''The Great Immigration Scandal'',〔 which was published by Imprint Academic in August 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Great Immigration Scandal )〕 David Davis had been scheduled to chair the launch event for the book, but withdrew "amid claims that the book was an Islamophobic rant". A Conservative Party spokesman reported that Davis "had agreed to go provisionally and talk in favour of Steve as a whistleblower. But that was before he saw the contents of the book. He then felt unable to attend". According to ''The Guardian'', the book "claims the term 'paki' is not racist; predicts immigration leading to Ulster-style civil war; and Asians are more likely to be organised criminals". Labour MP Frank Field reviewed the book for the ''Sunday Times'', describing it as a "slow-burn Molotov cocktail on immigration". It received positive endorsements from commentators including Andrew Green of MigrationWatch UK and David G. Green of Civitas.〔 Academic Neil Lunt, reviewing the book in the journal ''Political Studies Review'', gave it one star and wrote that: "Scandals are everywhere and doomsday scenarios litter the text. There is a lack of clear and judicious argument: referencing is highly selective, and there are frequent sweeping and unsupported statements. Moxon fails to convey an understanding of many issues including structural discrimination, the 1951 Refugee Convention and Britain's relationship to Empire. In some places the text is well written; in others it resembles a teenager's diary. Further, alongside the now familiar caricatures of migrant scroungers, there were also inappropriate and offensive references ''vis-à-vis'' women, disability and race". Following his sacking, Moxon announced that he would take the Home Office to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal.〔 In July 2005, on the day the tribunal was scheduled for, Moxon and the Home Office reached an out-of-court settlement. Moxon reportedly accepted a settlement of between £40,000 and £50,000, and signed a gagging clause. In a study of media coverage of whistleblowing, academics Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Joanne Hunt use Moxon's case as an example of how, in a sample covering the period 1 January 1997 to 20 March 2009, "whistleblower stories featured prominently in tabloids when they chimed with the political orientation of that particular newspaper". They note "the right-leaning, anti-immigration ''Express coverage" of his whistleblowing. They also note that the ''Express'' compared the whistleblowing of Moxon with that of Clare Short and Katherine Gunn. The newspaper described Moxon as "brave" and suggested that he "said what he did to protect his country", and Gunn as "acting on principle", while it claimed Short's revelations about the British government's illegal surveillance at the United Nations "hurt her country". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Moxon (whistleblower)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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