The British government made up a list of troublemakers and decided to ban them from entering the country. Among those who have been told they are not welcome are Muslim fanatics preaching jihad, racists who support violence (including a leader of the KKK), Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps and a few neo-Nazis, including the Savage Wiener (aka Michael Savage).
The British government made up a list of troublemakers and decided to ban them from entering the country. Among those who have been told they are not welcome are Muslim fanatics preaching jihad, racists who support violence (including a leader of the KKK), Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps and a few neo-Nazis, including the Savage Wiener (aka Michael Savage).
The Savage Wiener is not only a racist and a gay-basher (telling one caller to his short-lived TV show that he hoped they got AIDS), but a racist gay-basher who uses Nazi terminology (like referring to Arabs as Untermenschen) and even plagiarizes his bigoted shtick from Nazi writers like Hanns Johst Schlageter. On top of that, he’s not above using his radio show to try to incite violent threats against those who displease him, like in 2007 when he told a guest that he should somehow obtain the names and addresses of the Marine Corps prosecutors and investigators looking into the Haditha Massacre. His show is filled with his paranoid, bigoted, violent fantasies.
So naturally, according to the morons at Fox News, this is a great crime against free speech. Just a few minutes ago, Falafel O’Reilly had a fit because the British government decided it was time to keep out the trash. O’Reilly had the nerve to whine about the UK (a country whose cities were bombed on a daily basis for several years by Nazis) barring Nazis from entry to the country. Glenn Greenwald pointed out that right-wing concern trolls were silent when British singer Cat Stevens was barred from entering the United States. On top of that, American citizens have been placed on "No Fly" lists by their own government, such as James Moore -a journalist and critic of the Bush Crime Family, along with tens of thousands of others.
Falafel Boy’s guest, Laura Ingraham, was also whining up a storm. But then, she has cause to be worried that the Foreign Office has yanked the welcome mat out from under racists and gay-bashers who promote violence. Ingraham got her start with a neo-Nazi student publication: the infamous Dartmouth Review. This paper was funded by fascists and white supremacists and was a a ripe source for Jew-baiting and racist insults aimed at black students, such as describing black students as talking like Amos & Andy clones ("We be up to our ‘fros in studies"). The paper ran a quote from Adolf Hitler on its masthead and staged a mock lynching of a black man for its pages. The paper also outed a number of gay students and sent goons armed with sledgehammers to smash a display erected by Dartmouth students who opposed Apartheid. To this day, Ingraham is unrepentant. In fact, she uses her AM radio show to gin up more racist agitprop (this time against Mexicans), and is a torture-loving sadist who thinks water torture is little more than a fraternity prank. If the Foreign Office is going to exclude race-baiting radio hosts who condone unlawful violence, they should add Ingraham to the list ASAP.