Extremists banned from UK ‘named and shamed’
May 5th, 2009
Anti-gay protesters and a far-right US talk show host are amongst those ‘named and shamed’ in a list of 16 people banned from entering the UK by the Home Office.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of those people banned from October 2008 to March 2009 to demonstrate what standards of behaviour Britain would not tolerate.
Since 2005 the UK has been able to ban entry to people who promote hatred, terrorist violence or serious criminal activity.
Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper from the anti-gay church Westboro Baptist Church are on the list, as are two leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang, ex-Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Stephen ‘Don’ Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe, Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal and Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky.
“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,” 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.”
The list of the 16 “least wanted” includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner. Weiner’s views on immigration, Islam, rape and autism have caused great offence in America, and Smith believes that his entry to the UK could lead to violence.
“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,” said Smith.
Michael Savage is banned from England! Using its same freedom-hating standards, Britain should now ban from its shores that “hate-fostering extremist” known as Jesus - and of course also ban the Queen since she is officially the “Defender of the Faith” that Jesus started!
Caleb ∼ May 6th, 2009 7:53 amCaleb, I think you’ll find Jesus didn’t say anything to encourage hate fostering. Maybe you and Michael Savage should read the new testament WITHOUT pre-programmed prejudice. Here’s simplified version for you - God = Love, in other words where ever you find love you will find God. Where’s the love in your hateful statement (in other words, where’s God), we just want to be free to Love (experience God) in a way that’s true for us.
Jo ∼ May 6th, 2009 2:19 pmAbout time this government did something positive.
rhian ∼ May 16th, 2009 12:15 amI think its we’re proctecting the nation in such a British way