Well done, Britspags--No Michael Savage for YUO!

[Jenne]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6238096.ece

The American "shock jock" radio host Michael Savage, who was included on a Home Office list of 16 people banned from entering the country, last night urged his listeners to boycott Britain.

He told his audience that Americans should not travel to Britain or buy British goods, and delivered a personal message to Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, who made the decision to include him on the list of unwanted foreigners: "Unless you remove my name forthwith, unless you admit you made a mistake, I will bring a major libel suit against you personally and I will win."

Mr Savage opened fire on the Home Secretary on the conservative news website WorldNetDaily , where he said that his message to her and the British people was: "Shame on you. Shame that you've fallen to such a low level."

"It's interesting to me that here I am, a talk show host who does not advocate violence, who advocates patriotic traditional values — borders, language, culture — who is now on a list banned in England.

Har, he's gonna sue for defamation.     (sorry, I find this all too amusing, even tho it's quite a misstep)

[Pariah]

I bet Britain is pissing their pants right now

[Jenne]

Oh I doubt it.  They're probably all to happy to have us keep our trash to ourselves.

[Pariah]

ARE YOU KIDDING?
Several old crazy conservatives and white supremacists won't buy their products!
Dear God! What have they unleashed upon themselves

[Jenne]

  Well, I do admit that the conservatards are more Anglophilic than most, srsly. 

[fomenter]

ARE YOU KIDDING?
Several old crazy conservatives and white supremacists won't buy their products!
Dear God! What have they unleashed upon themselves

he has a big audience "third largest" "400 stations" and "up to 10 million listeners"  according to his site and articals on the ban from England,
i doubt enough of them would get together and act on his suggestions but his audience isn't small

what happened to the other law suits he was doing? wasn't he suing CAIR and the department of homeland security? now England? i wouldn't mind being a lawyer on his payroll $$$

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6238096.ece

The American "shock jock" radio host Michael Savage, who was included on a Home Office list of 16 people banned from entering the country, last night urged his listeners to boycott Britain.

He told his audience that Americans should not travel to Britain or buy British goods, and delivered a personal message to Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, who made the decision to include him on the list of unwanted foreigners: "Unless you remove my name forthwith, unless you admit you made a mistake, I will bring a major libel suit against you personally and I will win."

Mr Savage opened fire on the Home Secretary on the conservative news website WorldNetDaily , where he said that his message to her and the British people was: "Shame on you. Shame that you've fallen to such a low level."

"It's interesting to me that here I am, a talk show host who does not advocate violence, who advocates patriotic traditional values — borders, language, culture — who is now on a list banned in England.

Har, he's gonna sue for defamation.     (sorry, I find this all too amusing, even tho it's quite a misstep)

I think this is fucking terrible.  A fucking disgrace to common law.

[Jenne]

Yeah, not one of the UK's finest moments, surely.

But there was a point made on the show I heard this on (npr--Michael Savage as a guest) that the notion "I may not have to agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right (and for some, DIE for your right) to say it" is more of an American concept.  Not necessarily a British one.  They started the ball in the right direction, back in the day, but lately we're all turning towards the so-called "safety" of society rather than the freedom to speak/act/live.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, not one of the UK's finest moments, surely.

But there was a point made on the show I heard this on (npr--Michael Savage as a guest) that the notion "I may not have to agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right (and for some, DIE for your right) to say it" is more of an American concept.  Not necessarily a British one.  They started the ball in the right direction, back in the day, but lately we're all turning towards the so-called "safety" of society rather than the freedom to speak/act/live.

The whole idea of freedom of speech, which ORIGINATED in England, is that EVERYONE gets to speak their mind without legal consequence.

Everyone.  Not just the "right" people.  This is a really bad sign.

[Jenne]

(I think there's always been an implication of who is the right people...but then I'm a bit jaded here and there.)

I was...a bit shocked at what was taken for granted in terms of violation of rights to privacy in the UK last Summer.  CCTV, mobile metal detectors in malls, ID cards...the whole nine yards.  So this actually doesn't surprise me in the latest rounds of "Let's Save the Brits"...but it is rather sad at how obvious it's now become.  It's no longer JUST the Muslim Fundamentalists (or   insert flavor of the decade here  ), but instead the rightwingnuts of Amurrica's finest stock, that are drawing the evil eye of the British Empire.

[Pariah]

"First they came for Micheal Savage,
but I didn't speak up
because I wasn't Micheal Savage"

Type of thing?

[Iason Ouabache]

This see me trolling. They hatin'. Patrolling, they tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty.
                                             \

[bds]

Britain shrugged.



Srsly though, all this closed border's bullshit is pissing me off. I mean, what the fuck? Half the rest of the EU doesn't even have borders, and here we are, hiding behind our little mile of water, making lists.

[Faust]

Yeah, not one of the UK's finest moments, surely.

But there was a point made on the show I heard this on (npr--Michael Savage as a guest) that the notion "I may not have to agree with what you say, but I'll fight for your right (and for some, DIE for your right) to say it" is more of an American concept.  Not necessarily a British one.  They started the ball in the right direction, back in the day, but lately we're all turning towards the so-called "safety" of society rather than the freedom to speak/act/live.

The whole idea of freedom of speech, which ORIGINATED in England, is that EVERYONE gets to speak their mind without legal consequence.

Everyone.  Not just the "right" people.  This is a really bad sign.

Man England has been going that way for a long time. American policies are funny. Englands are a joke but no ones laughing.

[LMNO]

As far as "freedom of speech" goes, I've always been under the impression that England might have done it first, but they never fully embraced it; a good example being the libel laws.