12 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment
To update an earlier post, Geert Wilders arrived in London this afternoon and has been detained at Heathrow. I just listened to a live interview with him on the BBC News Channel. He said he’s in a detention center at Heathrow, where they have confiscated his passport and told him he will be sent back to Amsterdam within two hours.
His film is going to be shown at the Houses of Parliament this evening anyway, so this ban has achieved nothing besides the appeasement of religious extremists, who are as powerful here as any branch of government. I watched part of Wilders’ 17-minute film Fitna online last night. I stopped watching it because it shows extremely graphic footage of dead people from the WTC and I don’t want to see that, but overall, the production values of this “film” are a joke and worse than something the average 15-year-old would upload to YouTube. That the British government has banned him from the UK for this would be laughable if it weren’t such a terrifying example of the erosion of freedom of speech and human rights in this country.
Anglofille said @ 4:16 pm | news & politics | 3 Comments
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Ken Says:
February 12th, 2009 at 6:13 pmThe pathetic (and doomed) Labor Government: Dishonest, craven and stupid.
Unfortunately, the Tories don’t exactly inspire confidence. And the Liberals are just plain confounding.
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The Liberal Democrats put out a statement in favor of Wilders being banned. This all seems very surreal to me.
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Ken Says:
February 12th, 2009 at 9:44 pmI wish I could say, where is the outrage? But I know in my heart this country isn’t any better.
After all, we made torture official policy, kidnapped people and dumped them in black prisons. And we trashed habeus corpus. And the people don’t really care.
