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source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-brit ...
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Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were "named and shamed" by the Home Office today.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate.
The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host.
"We are publishing the names of 16 of those that we have excluded since October. We are telling people who they are and why it is we don't want them in this country."
The list of the 16 "least wanted" includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner.
Also named are American Baptist pastor Fred Waldron Phelps Snr and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who have picketed the funerals of Aids victims and claimed the deaths of US soldiers are a punishment for US tolerance of homosexuality.
That one's a little hard to argue against. But this could be construed as taking away freedom of speech really. I mean there are some people I don't want in America, but are we prepared to kick them out for speaking their mind? I hope not.
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Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black and neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe are also on the list released today.
Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, the former leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang which committed 20 racially motivated murders, are also banned from coming to Britain. Both are currently in prison.
Murderers now that's something else entirely. I completely understand them. Why a radio host though. That's what's got me. How long before it's all preachers for just preaching in their pulpits unpolitically correct statements.
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