Canada Bans UK MP George Galloway

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Canada joined the list of nations with a diminishing respect for the principles of free speech by banning the entrance of UK left wing MP George Galloway, apparently because they don't like his political views.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7954923.stm


George Galloway, a British member of Parliament, has been banned from Canada on security grounds, the country's immigration service has confirmed.

Mr Galloway, a Respect Party MP, said the ban was "idiotic" and he would look at legal action to try to overturn it.

British media reported the decision was due to his views on Afghanistan and the presence of Canadian troops there.

Here's a video of George making a US Senate comittee look like a pack of lying idiots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh6ZItn5ykY&feature=related

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

Word from here is that he tripped over one our antiterrorism laws.

Banned Brit hurls insults at Canada’s immigration Minister (http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Banned+Brit+hurls+insults+Canada+immigration+minis ter/1414784/story.html)
OTTAWA — George Galloway, the British MP who’s been declared persona non grata by the
Harper government, once demanded that Britain’s Labour government block a visit by
far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Galloway, an outspoken opponent of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was informed Friday
he won’t be allowed into Canada for a scheduled four-city speaking tour because he led a
convoy that delivered humanitarian aid to Hamas officials in Gaza earlier this month.

Canada considers Hamas a terrorist organization. In a letter, Robert Orr, the immigration
program manager at the Canadian High Commission, told Galloway his “material support”
for Hamas makes him inadmissible under Section 34 of the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act. < more… (http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Banned+Brit+hurls+insults+Canada+immigration+minis ter/1414784/story.html) >

He says he'll fight it in court but it's not likely he'll get that done in time for his speaking tour.

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A Canadian government spokesman said that the decision would not be overturned for a man regarded as an "infandous street-corner Cromwell". The description of the Respect MP may have led him to his dictionary the definition of infandous is "too odious to be expressed or mentioned". Galloway said the comparison to Cromwell was not so offensive as he was "the champion of parliamentary supremacy and the executor of supporters of autocratic and parliamentary power".