George Galloway is the Brit MP [and bit of a loon I might add; on Celebrity Big Brother he pretended to be a cat] who has been barred from Canada coz he is a danger to our social fabric.
John Ivison had an insightful piece on page A3 of today's National Post where he at once eviscerates and supports the erstwhile Labour MP who now is the Respect Party at Whitehall.
I will be talking to Joel Harden of the Ottawa Peace Assembly about this issue and how, in a Niemolleresque way, the proscription on MP Galloway is a slippery slope and one that I, as a proponent of free speech, find abhorrent.
And, jeez, even the frigging Americans let him into their country. Aren't we supposedly better than them? For one, my CKCU pal Tic tells me that all the time.
Mr. Galloway is no angel when it comes to defending the rights of others though; to quote from Mr. Ivison's article, "Mr. Galloway was quick to call on the British government to ban far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen from visiting the U.K., on the grounds that he objected to his views."
Mr. Galloway was wrong in that case and our guv is equally wrong in keeping him out of the Great White North.
One last thing, and I cut and pasted this directly from Joel Harden's email to me, if you want to get more educated and perhaps more involved in this cause celebre, check the following out:
"Please follow this link to find the latest developments in our "Defend Free Speech Campaign" to oppose the current travel ban on British MP George Galloway. Canadian groups planning to host Mr. Galloway are holding a media conference tomorrow at 10:30am in the Charles Lynch Room on Parliament Hill. We will brief you on the latest details in our campaign for the days ahead."
Plus, later in the hour, the ever interesting Tic, tomorrow morning, six to seven a.m. on 93.1
CKCU.
WFDS
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