The BBC just reported that Michael Savage has been banned from the United Kingdom for fostering extremism and hate.
The BBC reports that Michael Savage is one of 22 people banned from the UK for his hatemongering.
On WND, he commented:
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?
He then goes on to show that he does not quite understand why we talk about the Constition of the United States of America when
Savage said he wants top First Amendment attorneys to represent him "in a major international case."
Personally, I am not happy about this - he does deserve to be put in the same category as the other 21 people, but nobody should be banned solely on the basis of speech. Even in a country that doesn't have a First Amendment or a Constitution.
According to the WND article, the others on the list include:
The U.K. list also includes Hamas leader Yunis Al-Astal, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe and radical American pastor Fred Phelps, known for his virulent anti-gay protests at funerals. Phelps' daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper also is on the list.
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The others on the list are Jewish nationalist Mike Guzovsky; imprisoned Russian skinhead leaders Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky; and Islamic leaders Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi , Amir Siddique, Abdul Ali Musa, Samir Al Quntar and Nasr Javed.