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05.05.2009 12:05pm EDT
(London) The British government has published a list of people permanently barred from entering the country for fostering extremism or hatred.
The list includes two well known American gay opponents – Rev. Fred Phelps and talk-radio host Michael Savage.Phelps is the founder of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.
Westboro’s members are made up mostly of Phelps’ relatives. Although it professes to be Baptist, it is not affiliated with any national Baptist group.
Westboro operates Web sites including GodHatesFags and GodHatesAmerica and has been described as a cult.
Phelps and the church first came to national attention when he organized a protest by his followers outside the 1998 funeral for Matthew Shepherd, the gay college student who was beaten to death in Wyoming. The killing, Phelps’ protest, and the reaction of townsfolk led to the play “The Laramie Project.”
Church members routinely demonstrate at the funerals of people with AIDS and most recently at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.
In February, Phelps announced that his followers would demonstrate a production of the play “The Laramie Project” at a British college. The British government said at the time that he would not be allowed into the country.
The government ban announced Tuesday bans Phelps permanently.
Savage was placed on the list not only for his anti-gay remarks but also for calling the Muslim holy book, the Quran, a “book of hate” and for saying autism in most cases is “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.” Savage also said greedy doctors and drug companies were creating a “national panic” by overdiagnosing autism.
In 2003, Savage launched into a homophobic tirade against a caller to his MSNBC cable TV show in which called the man “a sodomite” and told him: “Get AIDS and die, you pig.”
The network immediately fired Savage.
Savage issued what he called an apology saying he had been set up by a left-wing conspiracy.
The British government list also includes Stephen Donald Black, an American white supremacist, Hamas parliament member Yunis Al-Astal and Egyptian cleric Safwat el-Higazi.
Huckaboom: if we just change a couple of phrases, we can see how your rant applies better to you than to any of us — “That’s following the old play book – the old rules for radicals in the [wing-nut far-right] – demonize, slander, trivialize, person [sic] attack. It’s all been seen before. Just a simple dissent and you are said to be a [homosexual activist pedophile]. Way to go – really brings your cause to a high and enlightened plateau.” See how much better that works? Just a suggestion….
huckaboom: “Socialists want full government control and Conservatives want minimal government control”
By your statement, then, Conservatives = Communists
Huckaboom wrote “I wonder if any of the geniuses on this board know where our rights come from???”
Do tell us, dear Huckaboom, where you imagine our rights come from…I would love to hear your opinion, I need a good laugh. I won’t even proffer a guess, even though I could…but I want it to come from you and you alone. Please…dazzle us…we’re waiting…
Jonathan Said: the “brown shirts were all gay” no, they weren’t. They called themselves “conservatives”, just like you. —– Nice try – I said the leaders of the Brown Shirts were gay – fact. And of course they weren’t “Conservative” – I won’t fault you since you went thru the public school system – They were NAZI’s – a nice acronym that stands for NATIONAL SOCIALISTS – just like the Obamination. So I don’t know where you conflate Brown Shirts with Conservatives when they are Socialists – you know the good guys – like to Obamites. Socialists want full government control and Conservatives want minimal government control. I’m glad I could help you with a history and political lesson here. Anything else you need to know??
Jonathan Said: “RE:Huckaboom – you’re a fucking half-wit. Filled with Christian propaganda,…”
Ditto what Jonathan said.
Greg Said: “Two places come to mind, Somalia and Zimbabwe.”
If we could only convince the Somalis that homophobes taste like chicken….
Karen said we used to send them to Australia we need a new dumpinground. Two places come to mind, Somalia and Zimbabwe
HOW REFRESHING;A GOVERNMENT THAT ACTUALLY STANDS UP FOR “WHAT IS RIGHT”.
Huckaboom, so you’re saying that Matthew Shephard was only killed as part of a robbery, and not because he was gay? Yeah, that’s like saying the Holocaust never happened, and the KKK never harmed African Americans.
Matthew Shepard was pistol-whipped, tortured, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Keep spreading lies if you wish. Karma will soon catch up with you.
Kudos to the Brits. We can’t stop Phelps on the Internet but we canstop him in person. Canada should bar him too! I am in favour of free speech. This is hate speech which should not be condoned
RE:Huckaboom – you’re a fucking half-wit.
Filled with Christian propaganda, and the comment the “brown shirts were all gay” no, they weren’t. They called themselves “conservatives”, just like you. Once they got into power, they then went on a rampage and started to kill everyone who wasn’t just like them.
Exactly what you would do, if given the opportunity.
If we were gay fascists, we’d gladly get rid of you, fuckhead.
That’s following the old play book – the old rules for radicals in the obamination – demonize, slander, trivialize, person attack. It’s all been seen before. Just a simple dissent and you are said to be a “closeted homosexual serial killer”. Way to go – really brings your cause to a high and enlightened plateau. I wonder if any of the geniuses on this board know where our rights come from??? Again an inconvenient truth.
Poor huckaboom – thinks Mikey Savage always speaks the truth. Michael Savage, who broadcasts from San Francisco and has called the Muslim holy book, the Quran, a “book of hate,” is on the list. Savage also has enraged parents of children with autism by saying in most cases it’s “a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.”
People who take his hatred as fact aren’t any brighter than dog poop.
Huckaboom…I think I’ve seen you before…you have brown eyes, right? HAHA! Just kidding…I just guess you have brown eyes because you’re so full of shit! I bet your brown eyes go beautifully with your brown shirts. But seriously now…in an article about Fred Phelps (et al) you spout opinions w/o even knowing who Phelps is? Fuck off, ignoramus! And Michael Savage is a used douchebag. I guess you would take your paranoid delusions about the “Gay Mafia” and “Gay Fascism” elsewhere, except for your latent homosexual obsession/compulsion. I vote you most likely to be a closeted homosexual serial killer.
@huckaboom
Speech stops being protected under US Constitution when it takes away or threatens another person’s agency or safety.
Gay Fascism? Please.
Hahahahahaha. Love it. Serves them right. Good going Brits!