George Galloway

[Argus]

Yes, it was absolutely wrong of them to oppose C-250.

The only reason C-250 was ever passed was an appeal to wedge politics. It wasn't needed and serves no purpose other than for those who voted for it to portray themselves as gay friendly and liberal to the gullible and ignorant.

[msj]

Time for an update:

A story about Galloway being in Canada today (the horror, the horror).

And the court decision.

I think the judge got it right.

[msdogfood]

Time for an update:

A story about Galloway being in Canada today (the horror, the horror).

And the court decision.

I think the judge got it right.

he is in!!

GOOD!!!!!!!!!!.

[waldo]

Time for an update:

A story about Galloway being in Canada today (the horror, the horror).

And the court decision.

I think the judge got it right.

wait... what's changed? ... does Conservative Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney now advise that Galloway is no longer a "terrorist sympathizer"? Has Jason Kenney retracted all those previous claims, charges, innuendo, etc.? Oh my... where's Ezra Levant!

not to worry - Conservative Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, is now carrying the torch for Conservative Speech Warriors - MacKay bans imam’s appearance at event for Islamic History Month

[Keepitsimple]

Time for an update:

A story about Galloway being in Canada today (the horror, the horror).

And the court decision.

I think the judge got it right.

I assume I'm reading the decision right - Galloway and his supporters applied to have a "judicial review" of Canada's decision to consider him inadmmissable.....and the court dismissed the application - so he's still inadmissable....throw the loudmouth bum out.

Edited October 3, 2010 by Keepitsimple

[DogOnPorch]

Heeeeeee's baaaaaaaaaaaack...

[scribblet]

You know Galloway wasn't actually banned.

Nevermind, he's a moonbat who can spread his hate this weekend,

http://www.am770chqr.com/Blogs/RobBreakenridge/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10145915

Galloway was made aware that a preliminary assessment of his admissability was unfavourable. He was invited to provide submissions, but never did. He was invited to present himself for entry to Canada, but never did.

Keep in mind that Galloway had no trouble coming to Canada in 2007, with this same Conservative government in power.

What transpired in the meantime was a trip to the Gaza strip where Galloway had delivered some aid to the Hamas government. Galloway, though, also handed some $45-thousand dollars in cash to the leader of Hamas declaring that, "This is not charity, this is politics."

Now Hamas is a banned terrorist organization in Canada, so should it be surprising that Galloway's actions might prompt concern?

[jbg]

Time for an update:

A story about Galloway being in Canada today (the horror, the horror).

And the court decision.

I think the judge got it right.

I assume I'm reading the decision right - Galloway and his supporters applied to have a "judicial review" of Canada's decision to consider him inadmmissable.....and the court dismissed the application - so he's still inadmissable....throw the loudmouth bum out.

What the learned Court did was elegantly duck the merits of the issue on a procedural basis. This is common when a matter is "too hot to handle"; the Court will look for a basis to rule other than on the merits and hope that the issue, if it comes up, arrives with a more politically palatable manner.

I myself had this happen to me. I was representing a person who wanted to sign bankruptcy schedules and participate in the creditors' meeting without waiving his 5th Amendment privileges. I sought a declaration that he could engage in such activities without waiver. The Court found that the application was "hypothetical" since he had not presented a particular matter on which he wished to participate without waiver. As a practical matter there would be no time to approach the Court for each such proposed activity, but the Court ducked a difficult and contentious issue.

Here, I suspect the Court thinks that Galloway may not take the trouble to present himself at a Canadian airport or border crossing and not be allowed in.

[Saipan]

Galloway arrives at Toronto airport.

Edited October 3, 2010 by Saipan

[waldo]

I assume I'm reading the decision right - Galloway and his supporters applied to have a "judicial review" of Canada's decision to consider him inadmmissable.....and the court dismissed the application - so he's still inadmissable....throw the loudmouth bum out.

no... Simple... the ruling was a Harper Conservative government tried to politically suppress Galloway's opinions. You know, Harper Conservative Speech Warriors fighting the good fight!

given that prominent Speech Warrior, Conservative Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney, said some rather pointed and what some are describing as rather defamatory things about Galloway (outside the protections of the HOC), apparently, Galloway's Canadian legal advisers are, "exploring options".

[Argus]

he is in!!

GOOD!!!!!!!!!!.

Because you think we should bring as much scum as possible into Canada?

[Argus]

wait... what's changed? ... does Conservative Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney now advise that Galloway is no longer a "terrorist sympathizer"? Has Jason Kenney retracted all those previous claims, charges, innuendo, etc.? Oh my... where's Ezra Levant!

not to worry - Conservative Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, is now carrying the torch for Conservative Speech Warriors - MacKay bans imam’s appearance at event for Islamic History Month

Maybe the Tories are just not as comfortable and friendly with hate mongering scum as you people on the far fringes of the Left.

Edited October 3, 2010 by Argus

[Argus]

no... Simple... the ruling was a Harper Conservative government tried to politically suppress Galloway's opinions.

I find it kind of amusing that people on the Left who are unalterably opposed to freedom of speech try to use it to champion bringing over the supporters of terrorism.

I have championed freedom of speech many times - invariably against leftist zealots, but just because I believe Canadians should have the right to free speech does not mean I believe foreign baboons have the right to come here, climb our trees, howl and chant and throw excrement at people.

Let vermin like Galloway speak their minds in their own countries. And let Canadian vermin who want to see them close up leave.

[Shakeyhands]

Because you think we should bring as much scum as possible into Canada?

You're still here right?

We shouldn't discriminate.

[Shakeyhands]

I find it kind of amusing that people on the Left who are unalterably opposed to freedom of speech try to use it to champion bringing over the supporters of terrorism.

What freedom of speech have you championed? It would seem to me that the only time anyone on the "left" says anything about someones free speech is when the speaker clearly identifies a particular religion, race, or sexual preference as bad, evil, etc... This 'freedom of speech' should be called out. I'm sure you'd agree.

Galloway has supported terrorism my arse anyway.

[Argus]

What freedom of speech have you championed?

My previous posts are a matter of record. Don't be lazy.

It would seem to me that the only time anyone on the "left" says anything about someones free speech is when the speaker clearly identifies a particular religion, race, or sexual preference as bad, evil, etc... This 'freedom of speech' should be called out. I'm sure you'd agree.

I have reluctantly come to accept the need for hate speech laws - interpreted narrowly. But the kinds of anti-free-speech concepts espoused by many on the Left go way beyond hate speech into anything which offends anyone (or rather, anyone who offends them).

[Argus]

You're still here right?

We shouldn't discriminate.

Just because my dog piddles on the floor does not mean that my drunken neighbour has the right to come over here and piddle on the floor. And the fact one of the kids thinks its amusing to watch him do so and so wants him to be let in is beside the point. The drunken neighour has no right to enter my house if I don't want him to.

Discrimination is something which comes with judgment, of which you have little, and intelligence, of which you apparently have none.

[DogOnPorch]

Treasured memories....good times.

[capricorn]

Galloway has supported terrorism my arse anyway.

Police have confirmed that they are “compiling evidence” after West Wales British National Party deputy organiser Mike Green lodged a formal complaint against the UAF’s George Galloway following an inflammatory speech made in London last month.

Mr Green laid the complaint with the police after viewing YouTube video copies of the speech by Mr Galloway given at a UAF rally in east London in which an overt threat of violence was made.

During the speech, Mr Galloway warned that anybody who “dare[d] touch a hijab [hair cover] on a Muslim woman’s head, if you dare touch the hair on the beard of a Muslim man in Tower Hamlets, you will have to fight your way through 10,000 dead bodies first.”

Mr Green’s complaint with the Metropolitan Police was backed up by at least a dozen similar complaints organised through a Facebook campaign.

The police have video footage of the former Glasgow MP, who is a founding member of the Respect Party, telling the rally: “To the EDL, take a look around you boys. Take a look around you.

Footage of Mr Galloway’s speech has appeared online at YouTube under the heading: “Why half a million Brits vote BNP. George Galloway incites race violence.”

The London rally at which the speech was made was organised by anti-BNP organisation “Unite Against Fascism” and their trademark purple anti-BNP posters were widespread amongst the 3,000 strong Muslim crowd in attendance.

UAF secretary general Weyman Bennett was arrested in March this year by police and charged with suspicion of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/police-investigate-bnp-man%E2%80%99s-complaints-against-uaf%E2%80%99s-george-galloway

Egypt has been closely following news about the kick-off of a new aid convoy on its way to North Sinai’s Rafah border crossing, Zaki added — the only gateway to Gaza that bypasses Israel.

Earlier this week, the Viva Palestina charity organization led by former British MP George Galloway sent a new aid convoy, Lifeline 5, from London to help provide support for the ailing Gaza Strip.

“The Egyptian government, at this [phase], aims to avoid any tension in relations or on the borders … [during] the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks sponsored by Egypt and other Arab countries under the supervision of the US,” Nabil Abdel-Fatah, a senior researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said on Tuesday.

“Galloway and a number of activists in the region attempt to cause a state of tension in order to support a Hamas faction that rejects … [any] negotiations between the Palestinian government led by President Mahmoud Abbas and Israel,” Abdel-Fatah told Daily News Egypt.

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In January, Galloway was leading the Lifeline 3 convoy, loaded with aid intended for the Gaza Strip. Clashes erupted between a number of the convoy members and the Egyptian police near the border at the time. Upon his return, Galloway was deported from Egypt and declared persona non grata.

http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123270&catid=1&Itemid=183

By openly supporting Hamas and its aims Galloway has aligned himself with the terrorist movement. If you lay with terrorists, be prepared to be branded a terrorist, pure and simple. Anyone who has read and viewed his speeches knows he incites hate and violence. He's a media whore and he's not about to slow down the bile he spews.

And does anyone else think it's comical that Galloway blames his defeat in the 2010 UK elections on the Canadian government?

Mr. Galloway said Kenney's terrorist allegation cost him his long-held seat in the U.K. House of Commons in May

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/allowed-into-canada-george-galloway-comes-out-swinging-against-jason-kenney/article1739596/

From what I've read in the comments from the UK, many of his constituents feared he was working too hard at the Islamification of Britain. He placed third and received 17% of the vote.

[jbg]

I have reluctantly come to accept the need for hate speech laws - interpreted narrowly.

I haven't. Speech is too subjective.

[Argus]

I haven't. Speech is too subjective.

"The Jews need to die. Every one of them. Drag them out of their houses and put a bullet in their heads and the world will be a better place."

Tell me any possible subtleties I might have missed with the above, or any other interpretation I might put on it but the obvious.

[Shady]

Maybe the Tories are just not as comfortable and friendly with hate mongering scum as you people on the far fringes of the Left.

Well, it definitely depends on what type of hate the hate mongering scum like to participate in. If it's anti-Western, anti-Israel, anti-Capitalism, type hate. They're all for it.

[scribblet]

Shady has that right, I bet there won't be any protests wherever he's speaking, but if it were Ann Coulter - watch out!! Free speech is only good for the left when it suits their agenda.

[Bitsy]

"The Jews need to die. Every one of them. Drag them out of their houses and put a bullet in their heads and the world will be a better place."

Who are you quoting? Thanks.

[Shakeyhands]

Discrimination is something which comes with judgment, of which you have little, and intelligence, of which you apparently have none.

lolzzz at your zing big boy...