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Count Chocula, Hannibal Lecter, James Earl Ray: not welcome in Britain

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If you aren’t watching the current British government walk in little circles pee its pants, you’re missing a sweet schadenfreude-y treat. Yesterday’s boob move: revealing that 22 people have been banned from entering the UK in the last nine months. Sixteen of them were named.

Why is that retarded? Wellll, for one thing, there was no particular reason to release that list now. In fact, there’s no practical reason to release it at all. What do we look like, border agents? Why tell us?

For another — eh, go read it. I can just hear the Home Secretary shrieking, “for chrissakes — it’s all Pakistanis and Palestinians! Quick everybody! Think up some evil Jews or Christians or something!”

So they rounded out the list with people who — as far as anyone knows — had no plans to visit Britain.

Think about that — a no-fly list that includes people who didn’t intend to fly. And it took them nine months to think of 22 of them? I mean, if you’re talking purely hypothetically and you have the whole fucking world to choose from, couldn’t you come up with A LOT more than 22 dangerous evil assholes?

And would Michael Savage make your list? Dude. Michael Savage. He’s a rude, mouthy jerk, but come on. He was just sitting in his bathrobe yesterday morning, innocently being his own rude, mouthy jerk self, and bam — some government officially lumps him in with the father rapers and mother stabbers, forbidden by name to travel somewhere he didn’t want to go.

Sue. Sue like the wind!

The Home Office was obviously so desperate to include Righties to break up the monotony of Islamic splodey dopes, they included a pair of Russian skinhead murderers who won’t be out of Russian prison for ten years. A no-fly list that includes people who couldn’t fly if they wanted to and would automatically be rejected as ex-felons in the distant, unlikely possibility that they ever can.

Really, at this point, aren’t you simply making a hypothetical list of the general kinds of things that piss you off?

Comments


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 6, 2009, 7:51 pm

Though, as a general observation, why some nice, clean-cut Marine hasn’t taken Fred Phelps out behind the woodshed and beaten him to a lumpy, squishing pulp…I will never understand.


Comment from Allen
Time: May 6, 2009, 8:05 pm

Hey now, I was on a no-fly list for a bit. I found out when I tried to get on a plane in Houston to get home a few years ago. So, I asked, what’s the deal? Apparently questioning the listing implies that you need to be on the list. Oooo, it gets cold in those back rooms.

I blame Bush. The first that is. The main damned airport is named after him.


Comment from dfbaskwill
Time: May 6, 2009, 8:59 pm

There are probably people who deserve to be on the list, who tried to get on the list, that were pushed off the list by Mr. Savage. Political decisions made for political expediencies often leave a lot to be desired, and rarely turn out well in the long run. It won’t be long until they regret making and then publishing such a list.


Comment from Phineas
Time: May 6, 2009, 9:24 pm

I bet Thomas Paine would be the # 1 guy on the list if he hadn’t died in 1809, boy he was a radical pamphleteer. I guess Britian hasn’t any freedom of non-pc speech? Also notice how the put Savage’s “real” name then is psuedonym, so we wouldn’t be confused with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Savage

“Savage brought an almost religious fervour to his politics. This, and his death while in office, has made him become something of an iconic figure to the
Left. ”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage_(politician)

“Mr. Savage has also served as General Manager of S. Cunard & Co., a home and heating retailer in Nova Scotia, and later became the Director, Residential/General Business Marketing and Sales for Nova Scotia Power.”


Comment from Roman Wolf
Time: May 6, 2009, 9:32 pm

S.Weasel. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by having a bloody opinion that doesn’t rubber stamp the current Labour Government.


Comment from Gnus
Time: May 6, 2009, 10:18 pm

Doesn’t Fred Phelps have a whole freakin’ ship load of family that are lawyers?


Comment from Buffoon
Time: May 6, 2009, 10:30 pm

Not a plug Stoaty but Savage’s response to this garbage can be heard here
http://dequalss.com/2009/05/06/michael-savage-reacts-to-being-banned-by-britain/
if any care to hear it. I guess being a mouthy, rude bastard myself would explain my Savage Nation fan status…


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: May 7, 2009, 9:10 am

General Kinds of Things That Piss Mrs. Peel Off:

1. The fact that Fred Phelps hasn’t been beaten into a squishy pulp yet
2. Squishy pulp in orange juice
3. When people give you a bunch of papercuts and rub lemon juice on them
4. Paper that’s too lightweight or too heavy
5. Having Wickedpinto describe me as someone who “doesn’t finish her dinner”
6. Not being able to finish dinner even when it’s really really delicious
7. The fact that you can’t get decent fish ‘n’ chips in Texas
8. Not being able to get decent fish ‘n’ chips at the source on account of being a potty-mouthed Rethuglican


Comment from David Gillies
Time: May 7, 2009, 12:07 pm

This government, and Jacqui* Smith in particular, are circling the drain. It’s being said that this latest debacle might be the final nail in her coffin. If so, good riddance to the worst occupant of her office from a list of recent tenants, none of whom have exactly covered themselves in glory.

* the mere fact that a woman of, to put it charitably, mature years, and holder of one of the great offices of State, should deem it necessary or prudent to use this vapid diminutive rather than the more sober Jacqueline, speaks more about her than a five-volume biography.


Comment from TexMex
Time: May 7, 2009, 12:41 pm

“I can just hear the Home Secretary shrieking, “for chrissakes — it’s all Pakistanis and Palestinians! Quick everybody! Think up some evil Jews or Christians or something!””

Once again, S. Weasel, you have a knack for coming up with brilliant blurbs! And, I would put money on the table that the above quoted was the EXACT thought running through that Home Sec.’s head.


Comment from JuliaM
Time: May 7, 2009, 1:22 pm

Apparantly, at least, according to the ‘Mail’, he’s planning on suing the UK government. And legal experts (yeah, yeah, what would the ‘Mail’ be doing with them, right?) say he has a damn good case:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1177428/Jacqui-Smiths-latest-disaster-Banned-U-S-shock-jock-tried-visit-Britain–hes-suing.html

*gets the popcorn*

This’ll be good…

“And, I would put money on the table that the above quoted was the EXACT thought running through that Home Sec.’s head.”

And a sad, lonely thought it will have been….


Comment from The British Government
Time: May 7, 2009, 2:02 pm

A no-fly list that includes people who couldn’t fly if they wanted to and would automatically be rejected as ex-felons in the distant, unlikely possibility that they ever can.

It’s a preemptive notion that you radical rightwingers are too dim to perceive properly.

Next week we’re adding Godzilla, Mothra, and the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics.


Comment from Roman Wolf
Time: May 7, 2009, 3:13 pm

I have it on good authority that Godzilla doesn’t fly. Last time he did, he was required to buy a second seat because he was too fat. After that, he swore never to leave Japan again.

That’s why you no longer see any Godzilla movies here in the States.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: May 7, 2009, 5:33 pm

Fun fact: Godzilla versus Mothra was the first film I ever saw in the theater. Okay, it was a drive-in. I was about five.

Those two creepy little pixies in that tiny carriage on a wire still haunt my nightmares…


Comment from Lokki
Time: May 7, 2009, 8:53 pm

I eagerly await the savage attack on Old Bailey. I don’t care for him much, but it sould be a fun show. Here’s a question – do they have to let him into the country to defend himself against ‘the charges’ against him?

No matter how it turns out he gets to make a circus out of the government. Can’t wait


Comment from wendyworn
Time: May 7, 2009, 11:12 pm

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LISTS AND FRIKKEN RULES ANYWAY!!!!!

Cant people just mind their own fucking business!!!! I have had it with little pimply-faced nazi burecrats and their damn lists. I have quit my job (yes mother I AM CRAZY!!!) given my notice at my nazi apartment complex (with their constant little notes about my oil leak and the fact that they are becoming a non-smoking complex and my friends can’t have a smoke on my back porch) and am going to spend the next couple months driving up and down the Oregon coast where the “green” police can’t find me because I won’t have a cell phone or a gps or forwarding address and later, when I want to work again, I will sell candy to tourists or maybe work pumping gas and if someone asks my opinion I will drool and pretend I’m retarded so they will GO THE FUCK AWAY! GRRRR!!!


Comment from Shambling Strider
Time: May 9, 2009, 12:38 pm

Lol @ Wendyworn rant.

As for Savage, I have to agree with Mark Levin on him… he calls him “Weiner Nation” or “Dances with Ginsberg” (his real name being Michael Weiner). He is a bit too egotistical for me (same reason I don’t care to listen to Rush much either), and going off on meatballs in the middle of a political discussion just drives me bonkers.

Despite my dislike for him though, it’s amazing to me the censorship they’re employing here. Sounds like the Fairness Doctrine’s already taken root o’er in the Blighty eh?

Jeez these folks in gubmint… isn’t there a Department of Not Sticking Foot in Mouth somewhere?


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: May 10, 2009, 12:52 am

“why some nice, clean-cut Marine hasn’t taken Fred Phelps out behind the woodshed and beaten him to a lumpy, squishing pulp… I will never understand.”

The Phelps gang always have a video camera going. If someone punches them out, they sue. If the puncher has no assets they sue the local government for failing to protect them. If they’re on private property, they sue the owner.

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