[Vision2020] Radio "Shock Jock" Michael Savage Banned From Britain

[Paul Rumelhart]

I don't really care about Savage, I'm happier that Fred Phelps made it onto the list.  He's the guy that protests at military funerals and often waves his "God Hates Fags" sign.

In any event, I don't think these bans are a good thing.  It gives the targets of the bans more power. 

Paul

--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Radio "Shock Jock" Michael Savage Banned From Britain
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 10:48 AM

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-list6-2009may06,0,5748988.story
 

The outspoken San Francisco radio personality is among 22 people who have been barred from entering the nation as 'hate promoters.'

By Henry Chu 
May 6, 2009 

Reporting from London -- Britain has just two words for controversial California radio talk-show host Michael Savage:

Keep out.
 

The San Francisco-based Savage, known for his fiery right-wing views, is one of 22 people who have been banned from entering Britain since October, when the government here concluded that they were agents of extremism and intolerance.


Officials Tuesday publicly identified most of the people on the blacklist, in keeping with the national penchant for "naming and shaming" anyone guilty of a crime, a gross injustice or an outbreak of really bad manners.


Among those for whom Britain has pulled up the welcome mat are radical Islamist preachers, a Jewish extremist, a pair of Russian gangsters and at least five Americans: Savage, who has attacked the Koran as a "book of hate"; two white supremacist leaders; and a father-daughter team that travels up and down the U.S. vilifying gay people, sometimes with placards using an epithet for gays and proclaiming that God hates homosexuals.


 
Jacqui Smith, Britain's home secretary, said she made the decision to publish 16 of the names because potential visitors ought to be aware of what British society considers acceptable behavior.


Six of the barred individuals were kept anonymous, probably for intelligence reasons.

"It's important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it's a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won't be welcome in this country," Smith told a television interviewer.


Savage told the Internet site WorldNetDaily that he was considering legal action against Britain.

"Darn! And I was just planning a trip to England for their superior dental work and cuisine," he joked to the website. "Then it sank in, and I said, 'She said this is the kind of behavior we won't tolerate? She's linking me with mass murderers who are in prison for killing Jewish children on buses? For my speech? The country where the Magna Carta was created?' "


The government's descriptions of the 22 barred "hate promoters" provide almost no details of their religious or ideological backgrounds, or of the targets of their hatred. The published blacklist merely alleges, in bureaucratese, that one man glorified terrorist activity "in furtherance of particular beliefs" or, in Savage's case, engaged in "unacceptable behavior" that could "lead to inter-community violence."


Among those named were Yunis al-Astal, a radical anti-Western Islamic cleric and Hamas member in the Gaza Strip; Mike Guzovsky, an Israeli Jewish extremist said to be involved in militant training camps; and Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, Russian skinheads who, as teenagers, boasted two years ago of killing about 20 members of ethnic minorities.


Besides Savage, the list identified Americans Stephen Donald Black and Eric Gliebe, both of whom openly espouse white supremacist views, and Baptist preacher Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., and his daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, who call for divine wrath to be visited on gays and lesbians

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Listen to National Public Radio discussion of this issue:
 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103819122
 
Michael Savage Banned In The U.K.
 
Conservative radio host Michael Savage's name has been placed on a list banning his entrance into the U.K. The list also includes a white supremacist and a member of Hamas. 
Michael Savage, host of The Savage Nation, joins us with his story. We'll also hear from Michael Harrison, founder and editor of Talkers Magazine. The magazine recently awarded Michael Savage its "Freedom of Speech Award." 

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