The Independent: “Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were “named and shamed” by the Home Office today . . . The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host . . . The list of the 16 “least wanted” includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner.”
UK Home Office Press release:
Michael Alan Weiner (also known as Michael Savage)
Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.
The tougher exclusions policy follows the Prime Minister’s commitment in the National Security Strategy to take ‘stronger action against those we suspect of stirring up tensions’ and the Home Secretary’s decision to introduce a presumption in favour of exclusion for extremists promoting hatred or violence.
Under the new policy we are preventing more promoters of hate from coming to the UK than ever before, with more than five being excluded a month as opposed to two a month under the previous policy.
WorldNetDaily: Britain defames Michael Savage, puts in league with mass murderers because of his speech
Joseph Farah writes at WorldNetDaily: Who’s hunting Savage?
Second of all, while Savage is a big fish in the U.S., his program is not widely known across the pond . . .
What would possess Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to single out Savage on a short list of 16 people worldwide who would not be welcome? . . .
Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress are conducting a scorched-earth war on the First Amendment. The Federal Communications Commission will soon be headed and controlled by an appointee who thinks government, not the free market, should control broadcast programming. The appointee to be regulatory czar for the administration has flirted with ideas like a “Fairness Doctrine” for the Internet and mandatory 24-hour, cooling-off periods before sending angry e-mails. As we speak, local “commissar commissions” are being established in every radio market to monitor programming and challenge broadcast licenses on the basis of content. Hate-crimes legislation has passed the House and is headed for the Senate – a bill that would punish thoughts and speech and provide, for the first time, special protections to a new “victim class” of pedophiles.
An Audio excerpt of Savage’s response is here. It runs just under 11 minutes. The entire May 5th broadcast of Savage’s show is here. Part 3 of the full broadcast has a discussion of Islam in the UK and its bearing on the situation.
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