United Kingdom bans radio host Michael Savage. Places him in same category as Hezbollah terrorist.
It appears that the government of The United Kingdom has banned radio host and NY Times best selling author Michael Savage. The Independent has the full story here. Link to Savage’s radio program website here.
Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were “named and shamed” by the Home Office today.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate.
The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host.
“I think it’s important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it’s a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won’t be welcome in this country,” Ms Smith told GMTV.
“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.
“We are publishing the names of 16 of those that we have excluded since October. We are telling people who they are and why it is we don’t want them in this country.”
She said the number of people excluded from Britain had risen from an average of two a month to five a month since October.
The list of the 16 “least wanted” includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
What crime did some of these people commit? Some are terrorists others just spoke out:
“If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later,” Ms Smith said.
“It’s a privilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviours that mean you forfeit that privilege.”
Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black and neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe are also on the list released today.
Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, the former leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang which committed 20 racially motivated murders, are also banned from coming to Britain. Both are currently in prison.
Making up the rest of the 16 named by the Home Office today are preachers Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique, Muslim activist Abdul Ali Musa (previously Clarence Reams), murderer and Hezbollah terrorist Samir Al Quntar and Kashmiri terror group leader Nasr Javed.
Now that’s an interesting list. Just how though did a radio host and best selling author make it onto that list? Exactly what did he say? Below is the list of books written by Dr. Michael Savage. I would love for someone to find something that is worth banning him from The United Kingdom.
This is a tragic event in this history of a once great nation. A clear sign of the power held by the fascist left that now rules and confines far too many western countries.
Bibliography:
Books as Michael Savage
- The Death of the White Male, Mill Valley, CA: Quantum Books, 1991, ISBN 0-9128-4508-2
- The Savage Nation, Nashville: WND Books, 2002, ISBN 0-7852-6353-5
- The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on our Schools, Faith, and Military, Nashville: Nelson Current, 2003, ISBN 0-7852-6102-8
- Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Nashville: Nelson Current, 2005, ISBN 1-59555-006-2
- The Political Zoo, Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006, ISBN 1-59555-042-9
- Psychological Nudity, 2008, ISBN 1-4276-3401-7
Books as Michael Weiner
- Plant a Tree, New York: Collier Books, 1975, ISBN 0471571040
- Bugs in Peanut Butter, Boston: Little, Brown, 1976, ISBN 0316928607
- Man’s Useful Plants, New York: Macmillan. 1976, ISBN 0027926001
- The Taster’s Guide to Beer: Brews and Breweries of the World, Macmillan, 1977, ISBN 0026256002
- Earth Medicine, Earth Food, New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1980, ISBN 002625610X
- The Way of the Skeptical Nutritionist, New York: Macmillan, 1981, ISBN 0026256207
- The Art of Feeding Children Well (with Kathleen Goss), Warner Books, 1982, ISBN 0446978906
- Nutrition Against Aging, Bantam books, 1983, ISBN 0553236423
- Secrets of Fijian Medicine, Quantum Books, 1983, ISBN 0912845023
- Vital Signs, San Diego: Avant Books, 1983, ISBN 0932238203
- Getting Off Cocaine, Avon Books, February, 1984, ISBN 0380679000
- Dr. Savage’s High Fiber Counter, Pinnacle Books, May, 1984, ISBN 0523422113
- Maximum Immunity, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN 0395379105
- Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer’s, New York: Stein and Day, 1987, re-published under the name Michael Savage, Ph.D., in 2007, ISBN 0946551537
- The Complete Book of Homeopathy, Garden City Park, N.Y.: Avery Pub., 1989, ISBN 0895294125
- The Herbal Bible, San Rafael, CA: Quantum Books, 1992, ISBN 0912845066
- Healing Children Naturally, San Rafael, CA: Quantum Books, 1993, re-published under the name Michael Savage, Ph.D., in 2007, ISBN 0912845104
- Herbs That Heal: Prescription for Herbal Healing, Mill Valley, CA: Quantum Books, 1994, ISBN 0912845112
- The Antioxidant Cookbook, Mill Valley, CA: Quantum Books, 1995, ISBN 0912845139
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Savage is not my cup of tea
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 11:54AM EST (link)but that is the point. They pick someone even most conservatives don’t like so we don’t raise a fuss. Of course as I have said about EVERY liberty stolen, it is the PRECEDENT that is the threat. The leap was banning a person who supposedly has no crime record and simply is not PC. It will be a much smaller step, once the precedent is set, to ban Rush, Hannity, and who knows, maybe Bob Dole.
Molon Labe!
Just PC posturing...
Diogenes314 (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 12:14PM EST (link)People still listen to this clown? Appearantly they’re just saying he can’t enter their country, not censoring him on their airwaves. Not that they would need to.
I’ll stick with Hugh Hewitt in that time slot, I prefer semi-intelligent dialogue over Weiner’s babble..
just saying he can't enter the country? Just?
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 12:28PM EST (link)even MSLSD’s pet “conservative” Joe Scarborough went off about this. The UK let’s people that call for the end of the UK in all the time, they are Muslim extremist Imams.
Molon Labe!
If the U.K. want's to ban me from their shores, I'm cool with it.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 12:34PM EST (link)I’ll go spend my money in Ireland. Again this is just posturing. And who the heck wants to go there anyway?
I miss the edit function.
Diogenes314 (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 12:45PM EST (link)I know, Ireland is technically part of the U.K. Australia’s nice this time of the year though. BTW, reading the comments in the article seems to show that the Brits (or at least the ones who read) think this is a joke. Just like the Labour government.
Well to me it is just one more chapter in the Abolition of Britain
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 1:02PM EST (link)btw, Northern Ireland is part of the UK, the country of Ireland is part of the British Isles. You are correct about the Labour Party going down, but Cameron is no Thatcher.
Molon Labe!
What makes you call Michael a clown?
antisocial (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 9:21PM EST (link)If you notice this diary is not about the quality of Michael Savage’s program. This is about defaming a radio host and clubbing him with terrorists.
probably you can’t stand his direct talk… you prefer “nice” and politically correct dialogue….
PS… Michael Savage has better grasp of history and human nature than most talk show hosts that I have heard.
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Would they ban
The Political Class (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 3:10PM EST (link)Louis Farrakhan?
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why don't we ban Geoge Galloway or Red Ken Livingstone?
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 3:48PM EST (link)Obama probably has mixed feelings, not to mixed, but just a little. Of course he hates Savage and anyone who opposes his majesty. But I don’t think THE ONE is too fond of the UK. Maybe the ONE can ban Lady Thatcher?
Molon Labe!
Few things are as entertaining
nessa (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 3:31PM EST (link)as when the Doctor throws a “sodomite” off the show! He has brought me to tears when he goes off about Olbermann! I can certainly understand people having an issue with his show, he’s passionate, loud and rough as sandpaper.
He was #3 in Conservative Talk Radio in 2008 with 8.25 million listeners a week. Rush and Hannity were 1 and 2.
I personally find his “Independent Conservative” stance very tempting. Many times you can’t tell the members of the two parties apart, Republi-crats and Demo-cans, they’re all in it for themselves. It’s a position I still consider, the seriousness I consider it with varies depending on how many Republicans “crossed the aisle” to help the Libs take away whichever of my Liberties they were aiming at that particular day.
He also filed a lawsuit against Janet Naploitano claiming DHS has violated the plaintiffs’ First and Fifth Amendment rights by “attempting to chill their free speech, expressive association, and equal protection rights.” This is after he won two lawsuits against CAIR.
Smith is their version of Napolitano, the same one who renamed terrorist acts “anti-Islamic activity”, she just wants to even the score after being outdone by “man-caused disaster.”
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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I am with you.
larueladue (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 1:26PM EST (link)He is an acquired taste, and is not everyone’s “cup of tea”, but he is definitely entertaining, and does have a common sense view of a lot of things.
Savage Nation Banned in a "Civilized" Nation
deweyfromdetroit (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 4:45PM EST (link)Compare Dr. Savage’s alleged sins to a few people that the UK has not banned: a Rwandan purveyor of genocide, pirates, 80 Albanian murderers. In addition to this crowd, Britain has also not banned Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Hugo Chavez, Fidel and Raul, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tony Resko, or Perez Hilton: you’re unlikely to stumble upon a more unsavory lot of racists, terrorists, mobsters and anti-heterosexuals.
Seems a bit twisted to me.
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This is why I have more respect for France than Britain
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 5:42PM EST (link)I am not here to debate the positive’s and negatives of France, its history, culture, or its people. And even though I gave it some plaudits in a recent post, I am not a Francophile
I respect France more than the UK because France still has illusions of grandeur. One of the main reasons why Americans and the French don’t get on is that that both nations believe they are the model for others. It is just like two strong willed or opinionated people don’t often get along, the more alike they are, the less they like each other.
Anyway, the UK has a history as great as our country. Sure I believe in American exceptionalism, but any student of Western History has to be amazed at the achievements and influence of that small, rainy, island nation. Yet the Brits have decided to thumb their noses at patriotism. They take pride in their lack of national pride. It is if they don’t accept their past greatness and the great men and women of their kind.
Look at Thatcher and Churchill. They are held in higher esteem in this nation than the nation they served. So many countries are not much more than a spot on the map. For a people to denounce, deny, and retreat from their own greatness is a strange and great sin.
Right now I would rather have an upstart nation such as Poland or Georgia at my side than the formerly “great” Britain.
Molon Labe!
what a joke
thetexan (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 6:11PM EST (link)And thus the reason for our Bill of Rights.
I'm ok with him being banned in the UK because
kyle8 (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 6:15PM EST (link)he is a quack who believes in homeopathy.
They ought not let Deequack Chopra in the country either.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
uggh, divide and conquer
Doc Holliday (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 6:57PM EST (link)Kyle, if that is your opinion, fine, but I hope people actually read my first response. I do not listen to Savage, I think he is a quack and jerk. But last time I traveled to the UK, they did not ask my political views. There are international agreements, normally they don’t let in convicted felons, we are going down a slippery slope.
Molon Labe!
I was being a bit tongue in cheek.
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 6:10AM EST (link)nt
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
oh yes, you were, my bad :) -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 9:30AM EST (link)nt
Molon Labe!
I wouldn't read too much into this
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 2:07PM EST (link)The UK apparently has a history of boneheaded bannings. Amongst those banned at various times in the past: Martha Stewart, Snoop Dogg, Paul Robeson, Dimitri Shostakovich, a random foreign tourist who “was denied entry after officials claimed it was ‘not credible’ for anyone to want to spend a week in Gateshead”, and most annoyingly, Dutch MP and leader of the Dutch Freeman Party Gert Wilders.
The last one concerns me far more than Michael Savage.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Political Class (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 2:28PM EST (link)The United Kingdom had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give a holiday address just after the queen. So they are OK with his nuke Israel and kill all jews statements. But Michael Savage is inflammatory? How can anyone defend such logic?
That is unless you are a liberal. In that case it’s more “Shut Up”.
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