Englands prestigious Oxford Union recently invited famed raconteur and talk-radio host Michael Savage to a debate on whether or not NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a hero. And that is certainly a matter for debate. Whatever Snowden is though he is definitely one thing: more noble than the British government.
You see Savage wont be attending the debate for a somewhat well-known but nonetheless shocking reason: Hes still banned from entering Britain.
Savage was placed on a list of persona non grata in 2009 along with Muslim extremists and race-group leaders for as Gordon Browns U.K. government put it seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred." Of course with the hate speech" laws in todays Britain where Christians are arrested for professing their faith such an accusation could be leveled for even just criticizing Islam or homosexual behavior. So what was it in Savages case? His message of borders language and culture"? We can ask but the U.K. government wont tell.
And it doesnt even matter.
Because Savage was placed on the list not for polemics but political expediency: Cowardly to the core the burka-brown-nosing Brown government didnt want to ban Muslim jihadists and the other miscreants without serving up enough white males for balance." And this speaks volumes about todays Britain.
Before getting to that however I have a suggestion for the Oxford Union. Why not offer to have Savage appear via satellite on a large video screen? I dont know if Oxford has used this technique before and my guess is that they like to adhere to a traditional formula in their debates but think about the delicious irony: Michael Savage banned alleged bad boy appearing on a huge Big Brother-like video screen to bedevil a government that is actually becoming Big Brother. The appearance could be dubbed The Savage Leak from the U.S."
The only problem is that Savages image might then appear larger than the U.K. itself. Dont get me wrong like many Americans I have the instincts of an Anglophile. Why do you think our old films even if set during the Roman Empire might feature actors with British accents? (Theres another irony: Britain was an outpost of the Roman Empire…and then we made movies with Julius Caesar sounding like Margaret Thatcher!) Americans have long wanted to love Britain.
Now Britain doesnt even love herself.
Those old films were made in the days when you could still say the sun never sets on the British Empire which at one time ruled a quarter of the worlds people. Now Britains life clock reads a quarter to midnight.
It didnt surprise me in the least when David Camerons conservative" government did nothing to remove Savage from the banned list; after all with a political spectrum situated where were heading U.K. conservatives are a lot like our quasi-moderate liberals.
Britain is now the Incredible Shrinking Land. Once a bold nation certain that English" was synonymous with civilization it is now contracting culturally into ever-tightening coils of callow and craven political correctness. If a boy says hes a girl and wants to go to school dressed like Maid Marian the headmaster (probably a mistress today) will order a round of sensitivity training for the rest of the 8-year-olds. And dare they question his gender" perception well its like the headmistress who recently threatened to attach a Racial Discrimination note" to the record of any child who didnt attend an Islamic workshop. Theyll be branded bigots. Heck this is a nation whose National Childrens Bureau" advised in 2008 that toddlers who say yuck" in response to foreign food may be racist."
So listen I still love traditional Britain though it has now been relegated to movies and memories. As far as its current culture goes however I say yuck. And this brings me to a word for Michael Savage.
I know he was taking it quite hard when he first was placed on the U.K. banned list. But I think here of what Jesus said: If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you." And if speaking the Truth is now a revolutionary act in Britain I would take their banning me as a badge of honor. Hey Savage could probably get off the banned list next week hed just have to have a sex-change or convert to Islam. The British government rife with capons bearing hyphenated last names will never reject one of its own.
So all I can say UK-LBGT is why dont you ban me too? Whatever Savages ideological trespass Im surely guilty of it as well. In fact you really need to ban millions of Americans and of your own citizens who still have the temerity to believe tradition isnt a dirty word.
Hey why not?
Youve already banned your true self.
Englands prestigious Oxford Union recently invited famed raconteur and talk-radio host Michael Savage to a debate on whether or not NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a hero. And that is certainly a matter for debate. Whatever Snowden is though he is definitely one thing: more noble than the British government.
You see Savage wont be attending the debate for a somewhat well-known but nonetheless shocking reason: Hes still banned from entering Britain.
Savage was placed on a list of persona non grata in 2009 along with Muslim extremists and race-group leaders for as Gordon Browns U.K. government put it seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred." Of course with the hate speech" laws in todays Britain where Christians are arrested for professing their faith such an accusation could be leveled for even just criticizing Islam or homosexual behavior. So what was it in Savages case? His message of borders language and culture"? We can ask but the U.K. government wont tell.
And it doesnt even matter.
Because Savage was placed on the list not for polemics but political expediency: Cowardly to the core the burka-brown-nosing Brown government didnt want to ban Muslim jihadists and the other miscreants without serving up enough white males for balance." And this speaks volumes about todays Britain.
Before getting to that however I have a suggestion for the Oxford Union. Why not offer to have Savage appear via satellite on a large video screen? I dont know if Oxford has used this technique before and my guess is that they like to adhere to a traditional formula in their debates but think about the delicious irony: Michael Savage banned alleged bad boy appearing on a huge Big Brother-like video screen to bedevil a government that is actually becoming Big Brother. The appearance could be dubbed The Savage Leak from the U.S."
The only problem is that Savages image might then appear larger than the U.K. itself. Dont get me wrong like many Americans I have the instincts of an Anglophile. Why do you think our old films even if set during the Roman Empire might feature actors with British accents? (Theres another irony: Britain was an outpost of the Roman Empire…and then we made movies with Julius Caesar sounding like Margaret Thatcher!) Americans have long wanted to love Britain.
Now Britain doesnt even love herself.
Those old films were made in the days when you could still say the sun never sets on the British Empire which at one time ruled a quarter of the worlds people. Now Britains life clock reads a quarter to midnight.
It didnt surprise me in the least when David Camerons conservative" government did nothing to remove Savage from the banned list; after all with a political spectrum situated where were heading U.K. conservatives are a lot like our quasi-moderate liberals.
Britain is now the Incredible Shrinking Land. Once a bold nation certain that English" was synonymous with civilization it is now contracting culturally into ever-tightening coils of callow and craven political correctness. If a boy says hes a girl and wants to go to school dressed like Maid Marian the headmaster (probably a mistress today) will order a round of sensitivity training for the rest of the 8-year-olds. And dare they question his gender" perception well its like the headmistress who recently threatened to attach a Racial Discrimination note" to the record of any child who didnt attend an Islamic workshop. Theyll be branded bigots. Heck this is a nation whose National Childrens Bureau" advised in 2008 that toddlers who say yuck" in response to foreign food may be racist."
So listen I still love traditional Britain though it has now been relegated to movies and memories. As far as its current culture goes however I say yuck. And this brings me to a word for Michael Savage.
I know he was taking it quite hard when he first was placed on the U.K. banned list. But I think here of what Jesus said: If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you." And if speaking the Truth is now a revolutionary act in Britain I would take their banning me as a badge of honor. Hey Savage could probably get off the banned list next week hed just have to have a sex-change or convert to Islam. The British government rife with capons bearing hyphenated last names will never reject one of its own.
So all I can say UK-LBGT is why dont you ban me too? Whatever Savages ideological trespass Im surely guilty of it as well. In fact you really need to ban millions of Americans and of your own citizens who still have the temerity to believe tradition isnt a dirty word.
Hey why not?
Youve already banned your true self.