There is something deeply gratifying in the thought that if you are bad enough you won’t be allowed to come into the UK. The moral implications of this decision making process may not seem like anything new. Even if you are caught with pot you can’t cross many boarders. Ask half of Canada’s musicians. When you put these people up against minimal crimes like pot possession, it is no wonder. I guess it is just seeing them isolated out. Fingers pointing. They are mean mean people. They don’t deserve to come into the UK.
One of the people, Michael Savage, happens to strike a particular cord with me. I only learned about him recently when a comment he made went ballistic on my fat acceptance forums. He suggests that fat people should not only be refused health care in North America, but put into concentration camps. I am sure it isn’t this particular comment that put him on the list of bad boys, but I am not arguing. I don’t want him here either.
Here is a good article written by Paul Campos bringing to light the other side of the whole "fat people are costing healthcare to skyrocket" debate. Here is the crap spewed by Savage.
The list, in general though, is comprised of extremists that propagate hate and potential violence. What is great is that they aren’t all Muslim, something that I think western culture has been really using as a scapegoat for a long time now. Is this a sign that we are looking beyond the middle east as the source of all our societal problems? I sure hope so.
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