PrintMay 10, 2009
Michael Savage Banned in the UK
Well-known "independent conservative" radio talk show host Michael Savage has been catapulted to a new level of controversial notoriety, this time on an international level. On May 5, 2009, the Drudge Report broke the news in the U.S. that Savage had been put on an official list of people banned from entering the United Kingdom.The so-called "least wanted list" of foreign undesirables who are now prevented from traveling to the UK is maintained by the British government's Home Office, roughly the equivalent of the U.S. government's Department of Homeland Security. "Since 2005," the BBC noted in reporting on the list, "the UK has been able to ban people who promote hatred, terrorist violence or serious criminal activity." On May 5, the Home Office published the list, contained in the document "Home Office name [sic] promoters of hate excluded from the United Kingdom," on its official Web site. The sixteenth and last name on the list was...(Read Full Article)
