Michael Savage Banned from UK — Who will be next?

Michael Sav­age, host of The Sav­age Nation, has been banned from Great Britain for — wait for it — being a “con­tro­ver­sial daily talk radio host”.

This is what Home Sec­re­tary Jacqui Smith said about the situation:

Com­ing to this coun­try is a priv­i­lege.  If you can’t live by the rules that we live by, the stan­dards and the val­ues that we live by, we should exclude you from this coun­try and, what’s more, now we will make pub­lic those peo­ple that we have excluded.

Just to give you some per­spec­tive, here’s some oth­ers who are on the ban list (after the fold):

Abdul­lah Qadri Al Ahdal — Preacher.  Considered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glo­rify ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs and fos­ter­ing hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.

Yunis Al Astal — Preacher. Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glo­rify ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs and to pro­voke oth­ers to ter­ror­ist acts.

Stephen Don­ald Black — Set up Storm­front, a racist web­site.  Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by pro­mot­ing seri­ous crim­i­nal activ­ity and fos­ter­ing hatred, which might lead to inter-community vio­lence in the United Kingdom.

Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim — A pro­lific speaker and writer.  Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glory ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs and to pro­voke oth­ers to com­mit ter­ror­ist acts.

Eric Gliebe — Has made web-radio broad­casts in which he vil­i­fies cer­tain eth­nic groups and encour­ages the down­load and dis­tri­b­u­tion of provoca­tive racist leaflets and posters. Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by jus­ti­fy­ing ter­ror­ist vio­lence, pro­vok­ing oth­ers to com­mit seri­ous crime and fos­ter­ing racial hatred.

Mike Guzovsky — Leader of a vio­lent group and actively involved with mil­i­tary train­ing camps.  Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glo­rify ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs and to pro­voke oth­ers to ter­ror­ist acts.

Safwat Hijazi — Tele­vi­sion preacher. Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by glo­ri­fy­ing ter­ror­ist violence.

Nasr Javed — Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glo­rify ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs.

Abdul Ali Musa — Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by foment­ing and glo­ri­fy­ing ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of his par­tic­u­lar beliefs and seek­ing to pro­voke oth­ers to ter­ror­ist acts.

Fred Wal­dron Phelps Snr and Shirley Phelps-Roper — Pas­tor and lead­ing spokesper­son of West­boro Bap­tist Church.  Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by fos­ter­ing hatred which might lead to inter-community vio­lence in the United Kingdom.

Samir Al Qun­tar — Spent three decades in prison for killing four sol­diers and a four-year-old girl. Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by seek­ing to foment, jus­tify or glo­rify ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs and to pro­voke oth­ers to ter­ror­ist acts.

Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky — Lead­ers of a vio­lent gang that beat migrants and posted films of their attacks on the inter­net. Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by foment­ing seri­ous crim­i­nal activ­ity and seek­ing to pro­voke oth­ers to seri­ous crim­i­nal acts.

Amir Sid­dique — Preacher.  Con­sid­ered to be engag­ing in unac­cept­able behav­iour by foment­ing ter­ror­ist vio­lence in fur­ther­ance of par­tic­u­lar beliefs.

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 descrip­tions are per the UK Home Office web­site.  If you have ever lis­tened to Michael’s show, you absolutely know that their descrip­tion is false, disin­gen­u­ous, and libelous.  He has never pro­voked oth­ers to seri­ous crim­i­nal acts nor does he “fos­ter hatred which might lead to inter-community vio­lence.”  Sure, he can be bois­ter­ous, but it is mostly for the rat­ings (although there is some dis­gust there towards our cur­rent soci­ety and sit­u­a­tion).  All of the oth­ers on this list have car­ried out actual acts of vio­lence or have openly embraced acts of vio­lence against groups of peo­ple and should be on the list.

My ques­tion is:  Why isn’t Kim Jong-Il, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Cas­tro, Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden on this list?  If you have Michael Sav­age on the list, why not Jere­miah Wright?  Bill Ayers?  Heck, why not put Whoopi Gold­berg and Rosie O’Donnell on there also?  These folks have spewed far worse state­ments than Michael Sav­age ever has (and Ayers has actu­ally com­mit­ted ter­ror­ist acts against his own government)!

I believe this is a polit­i­cal stunt to get the ball rolling against con­ser­v­a­tive talk radio in earnest.  I believe this woman should be sued for defama­tion, and should be forced to retract Dr. Savage’s name from the list.  Who knows?  Maybe one day we aver­age Amer­i­cans will be on the “banned” list.  For the British to be so “tol­er­ant”, this seems highly intol­er­ant.

Sources:  World Net Daily and the UK Home Office

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