tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post9029963939738764286..comments2024-01-22T04:45:58.881+02:00Comments on Simply Jews: Sheik Raed Saleh and his connection with the truth...or not.GideonSworthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951672633294843881noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-17984886259051863512011-10-16T18:13:53.974+02:002011-10-16T18:13:53.974+02:00<span>"I just don't want Big Brothe...<span>"I just don't want Big Brother telling me what I can say, even if it is discriminatory." Which is fine by me too, providing the sayer is prepared to take the consequences, if the words, said or printed, are an encouragement to others to take action against equality laws. It's when the sayer or writer claims that such restrictions are against their freedoms that it gets out of hand. And Saleh is claimed to be such a person.</span>Brian Goldfarbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-41870314888456224102011-10-15T03:31:02.674+02:002011-10-15T03:31:02.674+02:00I'm glad there is no such legislation (yet) in...I'm glad there is no such legislation (yet) in the U.S. and I hope there never is. Speech codes are inherently fascist, etc. I think if any such ad appeared its creators would be smothered in lawsuits, which is fine by me. Not to mention boycotts of the product, group, etc. Also fine. I just don't want Big Brother telling me what I can say, even if it is discriminatory.Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-45424109854331452642011-10-14T16:22:14.254+02:002011-10-14T16:22:14.254+02:00I should have added, Dick, that in many countries ...I should have added, Dick, that in many countries (and I assume that most of Europe and the Americas are the same), anyone but a citizen can be declared to be unwelcome and deported on the grounds that their presence is "not conducive to the public good". This applies in the UK to members of the European Union, despite the supposed right to free travel throughout the member states. This will have been the means by which Saleh was served with a deportation order. Whether he has to prove he isn't a "danger" to public order or the other way round, I don't know. Plainly the UK government thinks he is not a nice person, and as he is citizen of Israel and not the UK, Israel is welcome to him.Brian Goldfarbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-54091718283082119382011-10-14T00:12:35.857+02:002011-10-14T00:12:35.857+02:00Ac tually, Dick, it would be discriminatory behavi...Ac tually, Dick, it would be discriminatory behaviour (including both words and actions - e.g., saying in a an advert that blacks and/or Jews are not welcome here), and the legislation specifically includes religion and cultural aspects as well as concrete actions. So if the University & Colleges Union actually carried out its boycott against Israeli (and only Israei) universities, it would fall foul of the UK Race Relations law. Which the UCU activists see as curbing their freedom! Never mind anyone else's freedom, and never mind the racist attitude of the so-called Progressives against Jews and Israelis. Brian Goldfarbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-12069230592527655442011-10-13T15:18:04.365+02:002011-10-13T15:18:04.365+02:00If anti-Semitism is illegal in England, they'd...If anti-Semitism is illegal in England, they'd better get cracking, cause they've got a lot more arrests to make.Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.com