From the Washington Post:
Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced new deportation measures against those who foster hatred and advocate violence, as his government tries to counter Islamic extremists in Britain.
Blair said the government would draw up a list of extremist Web sites, book shops and organizations and said that involvement with them could be a trigger to deport foreign nationals.
Hmmm. Galloway. That’s a Scots-Syrian surname, isn’t it…?
One of the most disturbing things I saw during the 7/7 coverage was a man-on-the street Sky News interview with a twenty-something Muslim who condemned the subway and bus bombings —but only because they frustrated his ability to get around on the Tube. Instead, this gentlemen offered, the terrorists should have targeted British Parliament and 10 Downing Street. Or maybe Buckingham Palace.
Right then, it became abundantly clear to me that though this bloke (and likely many more like him) spoke the Queen’s English perfectly, his sympathies rested with a half-blind, hook-handed cleric and a filthy rich Saudi whose enormous ego led him to declare war on the progress of civilization itself.
Make no mistake: this is not an example of legislating against “thought crimes”; this is a pragmatic attempt, on the part of a concerned government who is starting to realize the danger their country is in, to begin addressing the horrific damage done by an extended milieu of multicultural permissiveness that has in fact resulted in enclaves of British “citizens,” grouped into self-protecting communities, who openly swear allegiance to the destruction of the West.
Why the crew interviewing him didn’t wrestle the ungrateful puke to the ground and beat him into submission with the collected works of John Milton, I have no idea.
Other than the unlikelihood they’d be carrying the collected works of John Milton, I mean. But a boom pole would have worked just as well.
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update: others commenting include Jeff Jarvis; Another Day in the Empire; Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler; Ben Hanbury
Galloway seems like a prime candidate for deportation.
I bet a copy of The Riverside Shakespeare would work pretty damn well in a pinch.
Camera battery. About 7 pounds.
Trust me.
How about a flute? This once, in band camp …
I’m happy to see the British taking these steps. Now, if we could only do the same in the US =x
“Why the crew interviewing him didn’t wrestle the ungrateful puke to the ground and beat him into submission with the collected works of John Milton, I have no idea.”
Because they’re journalists, not vigilantes. They’re neutral.
Neutral my foot. They’re freaking Britons is what they are and it’s about damn time they woke up and realized that.
Sean H,
Amen. Why the crew couldn’t even engage in some aggresive questioning (ie, Would you support a modern day gunpowder plot?) really shows the vacuousness of the journalist. People who want to violently overthrow your government are the enemy, and don’t be afraid to treat them as such. They certainly aren’t affording you the same courtesy.
Oops! Forgot the sarcasm tag. My bad.
How intolerant! Which, y’know, is exactly what is required. I’m sure we’ll hear the usual howls from the fever swamps of leftdom, but who cares? Blair has it exactly right – if someone directly threatens his country, or supports those who do so, he’ll kick their Wahabbi arses out.
Would that we’d do the same on our shores.
You folks have a SHORT memory.
If I recall the numbers correctly, under quickly revised Immigration “Rules” (Oct/Nov 2001) the U.S. deported somewhere around 400 people in about 6-months, most deportees were deported to their home country, where if they returned there, they would be tortured and killed. (Sorry, but my research on this would take some time to unearth.) This is just because they were picked up for questioning and held for long periods of time without contact with anyone in the outside world, such as family, much less an attorney, held in isolation, and grilled by the US and then deported because their Visas had, by this time, expired. This was done predominatly because they were here on a Visa and because of their ethnicity.
We really started this whole interrogation and human rights thing on the right course, don’t you think? Maybe next time, we will go after the brown eyed men and women from (pick an ethnicity or background) in order to protect everyone else from their mere presence.
Go figure.