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From: DMaA	5/7/2009 9:40:06 AM
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I've been thinking this too. Our state department should at least lodge a protest about refusing an American Citizen with a valid passport entry into GB for NO GOOD REASON. It's an outrage and the fact that there's not a peep from our State Department about it is an abrogation of their duty to protect our citizens right to travel the world boblonsberry.com The government of one of our close allies is denying an American citizen the right of entry – rejecting an American passport – for political reasons. The British government doesn’t like this man’s political views and it is discriminating against him as a result. A foreign government is punishing someone for exercising in America American freedom of the press. And the president is silent. Ditto for the secretary of state. An American citizen is penalized by a foreign government without reason or precedent and the American government – responsible for protecting the rights of its citizens abroad – is absolutely silent. That is a double standard. But not much of a surprise. The Democrats who control Washington stand up for every Third World journalist taking heat for doing his job, but when a foreign power sticks it to an American broadcaster for doing his, nary a peep is heard. Because he is a conservative. Because freedom of speech is in the optional portion of the Democrat Constitution. He’s threatening to sue, and listeners are vowing never to visit Great Britain or buy its products, but one guy shouting into a microphone is not going to get England to budge. His only consolation is that the controversy will drive people to his program in droves. Many people will find there something they enjoy, a perspective that validates them. The home secretary will have cut her nose off to spite her face. In the end, Michael Savage will be better off for this, and he may even have a court order overturning the visitation ban. The bad news in all of this is the precedent set overseas and here at home. Our silent president and secretary of state have acquiesced to the foreign criminalization of American speech, and our politically correct ally has allowed itself to be used as an instrument of domestic oppression of political comment. How long before another nation decides that it doesn’t like what an American commentator has to say? If Iran takes offense to a newscast, or if Russia doesn’t like an editorial, will the Obama government follow this precedent and silently capitulate to foreign meddling? I hope not. But I suspect so. Because the silence of official Washington is telling. .

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