Way to go Jason. I knew you had it in you.

That page pulls up a nasty popup.

Galloway is such a seedy charter, even news about him comes with a virus.

Exactly; I'm glad to see that weasel Galloway turned away, but I don't appreciate the malware that comes on that page.

thats a "dirty link", just got out in the nick of times, Beware!!!

Hey Lefties! See that? That's what a SPINE looks like.

Just so you know what we mean when we say you're -spineless-.

Before it begins - this isn't a "free speech" matter. This low life has a history of providing material aid to terrorists.

As well as lapping milk from a bowl on the floor on national tv.

DON'T CLICK ON THAT LINK!!! IT BRINGS UP ONE OF THOSE FANTASTIC MALWARE PAGES THAT ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET OUT OF....

Show your support for Minister Kenney by coming out to his fundraiser with Sen. Mike Duffy.
http://tinyurl.com/chy4qu

but, but , but......lapping milk from a bowl on the floor is.....uh, "performance art!"

And it signifies, uh, um, how the evil Nazi Israelis treat the poor peaceful Palestinians as sub-human animals....yeah, that's it!

Why is this man an MP? Galloway should have NO platform to stand on, period.

Well, I certainly do not like the man but he has a right to speak. I refuse to censor him even if he is an idiot.

I say let free speech exist. Let the moron speak in Canada.

Galloway is a mutton head. He can spout all the rubbish he wants. Instead of visiting Canada he should go to Afghanistan where the Taliban are reportedly going to behead a Canadian woman.

If he wants to do something useful go save somebody.

But wait...all cultures are equal, except the ones that have a demonstrably pathological bent.

Convert to Islam or not the Taliban will still behead you.

Nice to see that these characters are equal opportunity killers. Everybody gets the same treatment, death.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090319.wpakistan19/BNStory/International/home

Oh and good luck with that mission there Mr. Galloway, you will need it.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

Had to alt+command+esc and force quit Firefox to get the ad to go away. Don't click the link.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2307028.ece

Seems the Palestinians don't like him either.

Galloway wants to come to Canada? I didn't know the CBC was hiring.

My firewall stopped it too.
Can't open the link.

Not letting him in isnt a free speech issue, it is about national soveriegnty and th absolute right of a county to decide who is allowed in.

He was named and admonished in the oil for food scandal. That on its own is enough to prevent him from coming in, he was enaging in illegal activity.

As for national security, yes a good argument can be made that he provides aid and comfort to the enemy. That being said once he was in the country, if he got in ther eis no need to shut him down. He is a blowhard in the best British tradition. I dont see Jack Layton and MI asking for their 20 minutes this potentially "visiting dignitary".

No ill effects here with the link. Galloway can spout his BS from anywhere in the world and be seen or read. That's free speech. He doesn't have to show up here in person to do it.

By the way, the Sunshine girls are yummy.....

"Jason Kenney For Prime Minister"

Hahaha, never happen, too Catholic. And hey, I thought we were all free speechers here?

Let Galloway come and debate, surely we can find a worthy opponent to put up a fight? Kenny let a huge Tamil Terrorist rally right on Parliament Hill slide, he can let George Galloway come give a speech or two, which in any event will likely be no more inflammatory than a million Matthew Goods right here in Canada who are arguably more sympathetic to the Taliban.

To preach the right to free speech, than, saying no to free speech to Mr. Galloway is hypocritical. I do not agree at all with Mr. Galloway's views, but he (or the organization that wanted him to speak) is entitled to those beliefs in Canada, however repulsive they are!

No, no, some of you aren't getting it; galloway is still entirely free to spew his repulsive crap, but there's no reason he should be allowed in to Canada to do so, any more than Bin Laden or Amhadinejad should be allowed to do so.

More:

"'Infandous*' George Galloway banned from Canada on grounds of national security (*look it up)

Outspoken anti-war MP George Galloway has vowed to fight an 'outrageous decision' to ban him from Canada on the grounds of national security.

Mr Galloway said the ban was 'not something I'm prepared to accept' and pledged to use all means at his disposal to challenge the ruling.

But a spokesman for Canada's immigration minister Jason Kenney insisted the decision, taken by border security officials, would not be overturned for a 'infandous* street-corner Cromwell' (*'infandous: too odious to be expressed or mentioned)."

"This Hamas photo shows the head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh, right, embracing George Galloway during their meeting in Gaza City on March 10 this year"
urlm.in/bybc

This isn't a speech issue. It's a sovereignty issue.

Canada can prevent any non-citizen from entering our country for any reason or no reason at all. Our country is our own. Canadians decide who comes here. A-hole hatemongering, oil-for-fraud members of foreign governments do not.

So now Galloway is going to sue PM Harper.

http://tinyurl.com/cfs7j9

No-one is shutting up Mr. Galloway; no-one is hauling him before an HRC star-chamber to defend his beliefs. He is free to speak his mind (such as it is) and publish whatever he wants.

But there is no obligation whatsoever to invite him in to our country to do so.

Freedom of speech does not mean rolling out the red carpet for every street orator; it means not throwing a hissy fit and trying to silence them if you don't agree with what they're saying.

I don't see the point of 'Kenney for PM'. I prefer Harper. Why?

I prefer someone who is proficient in economics, finance and foreign affairs - and that's Harper. He's quiet about it, that's his nature. So, I prefer a solid analytic economic mind as the mainstay of Canada.

Kenney is doing an excellent job in his portfolio.
As for Galloway, I'd agree with SDC; he isn't Canadian so it isn't an issue of the fundamental right of free speech for citizens of Canada.

I'm no fan of Mr Kenney but I will give him credit here. This was a good decision. Mr Galloway supports people who are trying to kill Canadians. He has no business in Canada.

Canada should also ban his sidekick - Maurice Strong. Google them.

Canada: A mare usque ad mare.
"I am a Canadian*...".
...-

CALGARY - Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says immigrants who can't speak English or French well enough should be denied citizenship.

Kenney told an immigration conference in Calgary that more efforts need to be made to integrate individuals coming to Canada. He said newcomers should be required to have a working knowledge of either official language."

"MP wants Canada to get tough on immigrants"
urlm.in/bybd
...-

* John Diefenbaker

"I am a Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong,
or free to choose those
who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom
I pledge to uphold
for myself and all mankind."

From the Canadian Bill of Rights,
July 1, 1960."
http://www.ggower.com/dief/

Although Mr Kenney is doing a great job, I think we're giving him too much credit. All he's had to do is take the George Costanza 'do the opposite'(of the Liberals) and something good is bound to happen!! /sarc

Good show!! Every day that passes I see our gov't instilling a little more backbone and leadership and giving Canadians a reason to be proud.

The malware link didn't affect me. Why? Because I use Firefox and have NoScript installed. It's the most invaluable of tools. Highly recommended!

On the actual website of the story the comments, mostly from Brits, is very telling. People are sick of the Radical Left agenda that has been shoved down their throats. But for them it's too late.

For us Canadians and our cousins in Obamaland it is NOT too late. So keep fighting the good fight!!

"Canada can prevent any non-citizen from entering our country for any reason or no reason at all."

In a nutshell. Mr Galloway is neither a Canadian citizen nor a legal resident here.

Canada is neither obliged to admit him nor required to explain the reason for not doing so.

Remember Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) being refused entry to the US? Same thing. He was not a US citizen nor did he have any residency status. The US was under no obligation to let him in.

As soon as he got back to the UK, Islam made much noise about "how there would have to be an explanation" etc., etc.

Nothing came of it of course because he had no basis for a legal case. Ha ha!

Gorgeous George might be under the impression that Canada is still a colony and therefore he is to eb let in regardless. Twit.

What should make him even more furious is that Chris Hitchens gets in on a regular basis, no problems. Mention that a few times and I am sure Galloway will howl with outrage. Expect some impotent thundering in the Mother Of Parliaments by the Mother of Imbeciles.

Reading Brit newspaper comments online, it would appear that they applaud the action and wish Galloway could be denied re-entry to the UK.

I wonder, as posted above, if he's supporting people trying to kill Canadians, can we let him enter the country and then arrest him and put him on trial for crimes against the Nation?

Kenney is also on the news today for saying that immigrants to Canada should learn one of the official languages.Makes sense to me. If you are going to line the streets of our cities screaming "Death to the Jews",at least have the courtesy to do it in an official Canadian language.---http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/03/20/8825056-cp.html

Two words.....Geert Wilders.

Have a taste of your own medicine, George.

I agree with Kate, it's not a "Free Speech" issue it's a domestic safty issue. He has provided material support for terrorist isn't that a crime in most countries including his own? He isn't just pro-terrorist he actively promotes Jihad against our allies another violation of our laws.

We in Canada don't have dialog with trash, we kick it to the curb.

Great news! And I agree it's simply not a free speech issue at all. Free speech does not entail the provision of a platform, a simple distinction which, notwithstanding their legal training, alluded the sock puppets. Canada has every right to bar entry to anyone for any reason whatsoever.

I notice that the slippery, slithery "moderate" Islamic "scholar" Tariq Ramadan (grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood) is trying again to get into the US, what with the terror-sympathizing mansurian-candidate TOTUS in the Black House. Evidently he's dying to "teach" at a Ivy League college.

I'm guessing he won't bother trying to get into Canada.

John Luft
"Two words.....Geert Wilders.

Have a taste of your own medicine, George."

Yes, I was already relishing the irony.....

However, we cannot bar Maurice Strong entry because he is Canadian born.....and that we are obligated to turn me over to Obamaland, becuase he is wanted there.....

That is.......if a committee of citizens doesn't decorate a lamppost with him first. I would hold the rope.....even tie the knot.

John Luft

You took that thought right out of head.

I would love to see Geert come here and tell some truths.

John Luft

You took that thought right out of head.

I would love to see Geert come here and tell some truths.

Good work, Jason! Now we need to get rid of a few of our phony citizens-in-name-only

Splendid. Galloway is an insect.

It's probably correct to say Galloway has no legal "right" to enter Canada, but then neither did George Bush--torture-authorizer--when he came to Calgary.

"We're going to uphold the law, not give special treatment to this infamous street-corner Cromwell..."

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay...

Looks like the reason is his professed/bragging about giving money to Hamas. hamas is an organization that is on our terrorist list. So lets put this another way, canada denies entry to a confessed terrorist fundraiser.

In that light it is completely agreeable, once again Gorgeos George has bragged about giving money so no trials are required.

No controversy here, please move on.

Why would anyone want to replace the liberal leader of the Conservative Party with another liberal.

Genuine small-c fiscal and social conservatives want to replace left-plunging Harper with one of our own so that we will finally be represented in Parliament. We currently are not.

Brits should charge Galloway with treason, or at least with sedition. But I suppose there are too many over there who think exactly the same way he does.

Before it begins - this isn't a "free speech" matter.

Uh, of course this is a free speech issue. Just because you don't like where the speech is coming from doesn't make it any less so. I just love those conservative, free speecher values...deep as a birdbath. Not unlike the Dear Leader's commitment to balanced budgets and the free market.
Come to think of it, not one issue comes to mind on which right whingers are not totally hypocritical.

Sadly it brings Gorgeous George the attention he craves.

We can only hope he is a one day story. Being prevented from coming to Canada isnt an easy thing to do.

Seems the Border patrol has grown a pair. It wont just be the minister, who generally doesnt get involved in these decisions. It will come from a directive given by the Minister to tightern up in general....is there a new Deputy Minister in place, who would be the one to make it happen. I suspect the border patrol is now quite happy to be allowed to do its job.

Philboy: "Just because you don't like where the speech is coming from..."

Read this four or five times, or until it sinks in:

Galloway provides material support to a terrorist organization that is banned in Canada. He brags about it.

May I recommend a remedial comprehension course? Typing, in and of itself, isn't an argument, eh?

If bringing shame upon oneself and one's extended family was a felony offense Galloway would be on death row:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09Fj0yOM-E

Galloway provides material support to a terrorist organization that is banned in Canada. He brags about it.

So what. If you and Kenney have the courage of your convictions, then clap him in irons when he gets here. But conservatives have neither courage nor convictions. George W is guilty of mass murder but he's allowed in.
No, which ever way you slice it, it's still baloney, ebd. Freedom for speech that YOU like. Stalin would concur with that sentiment.

Freedom of speech and expression. Imagine that.

Galloway isnt a criminal in the UK. To top it off, he is democratically elected by citizens of the UK.

Courage of conviction is one thing. Keeping a democratically elected people's representative of another country because the Government of the day disagrees with his politics is quite another.

Is this worthy of applause? Only if you want Canadian MPs banned from visiting the UK because of their political views. Incidentally, that would be considered an insult to Canadian voters. Not that it would ever happen. Nobody abroad pays enough attention to Canadian politicians to know what they stand for. In fact they don't pay attention to anything Canada says or does, let alone individual MPs.

Methinks Kenney might just be jealous of Galloways fame. Maybe its pen1s envy: size matters.

You can tell the decision to keep this lunatic out of Canada was the right one when the left wing moonbats go ballistic.

By the way, completely off topic, it was really great that George Bush was in Calgary to give a speech. He was very well received

Yet again pointing out the boundless capacity of right wing hypocrisy is hardly going ballistic, luft. It's hilarious, really.

First watch (Taylor YouTube) George Galloway praising Saddam Hussein.

Then watch Evan Sayet explaining how Liberals rationalize their behavior.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196873.php

Iraqi's today are happy with their new democracy. Thanks to the USA.

So how can Galloway be so wrong ? Like many Liberals, they simply ignore the truth. Favor wrong over right. Prefer statism over freedom. Reward failure while punishing success. Grant the same or more protections and rights to criminals as to victims.

How n' hell can they live with themselves ? They stroke themselves and say, there can be no discrimination. None ! None what so ever. We are "civilized". We are "Intellectuals".

Gun registry turns blind eye to gangs , self inflicted brain fried druggies rights to health care, 911 terrorists not guilty because we must have deserved it, disruptive students have a right to disrupt the class, treasonous Arab groups protected under the Charter, Canadians speaking out against despicable Muslim treatment of women are racist - according to Liberals. (Seen any western women's groups protesting stoning lately ?)

Under Saddam, Galloway's bombastic attitude would have led to Gallows Way.

philboy....you would know all about Stalin, wouldn't you? Fortunately, Galloway's feet will never touch Canadian soil. We need more of that sort of action, really.

Haha, that's effin awesome!!! Go Kenney!!

I would support Jason Kenney for PM, let Harper drop back to being finance minister, that's the only thing he cares about anyway. He's had three years and two months to speak out on free speech and political correctness issues, and he has said nothing constructive, just weak spineless jellyfish talk that extends the Chretien-Martin undeclared social revolution against mainstream values in Canada.

Harper is useless, time for the H-bots on here to give your heads a shake and get with the conservative program.

To all you leftards no one has silenced him, he can scream his anti-semetic bigoted stuff across the boarder. LOL what will they do now that Englands most noted anti-semitic bigot can't be quest speaker? Perhaps Osama or a visitor at gitmo will come out of the cave or cell for you bigots and haters on the left.

"Harper is useless, time for the H-bots on here to give your heads a shake and get with the conservative program.

Posted by: Peter O'Donnell at March 20, 2009 5:46 PM"
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Whoo Hoo, Sheesh O'Donnell too funny. Do you honestly think that FD group of whiners you belong to are "conservatives"?

As noted the old Galloway terrorist lover is given as much free speech in his country as any radical terrorist lover. His refusal to enter Canada has nothing to do with his 'free speech' ... Even the Scots are ready to toss him and his insanity into the deepest Loch -- near Galloway.

philboy 4:40PM - "If you and Kenney have the courage of your convictions, then clap him in irons when he gets here."

Actually, that would also work for me.

We have the left here in Canada supporting the terrorist, funding and speaking up for them. We sure as hell don't need some brit coming over and getting the leftie jihadist on our soil all riled up and giving them money to kill us.

Let him stay there and encourage the jihadist on England's soil to kill his own people.

This is all good, whenever Canadians think of the liberal party they think terrorist supporters.

Another superb piece by lefty blogger Terry Glavin. Excerpt:

"George Galloway, the British MP who has just now been denied entry to Canada, is a petty and notoriously corrupt streetcorner demagogue who moonlights as a scab for the journalist-jailing authoritarian regime in Tehran. He is perhaps the English-speaking world's most strident defender of the boodthirsty, far-right religious movement Hezbollah, Tehran's proxy army in Lebanon. He is a successful fundraiser for the religious-fundamentalist death cult Hamas, which is banned in Canada and for which it is specifically illegal to raise funds in Canada.

"Galloway is a thug, a collaborator with totalitian Baathism, and one of the most sinister champions of a global Islamist reaction that has resulted in the jailing, torture and execution of tens of thousands of Muslim democrats, women's rights leaders, socialists and liberals. A proper left-wing debate about what to do about someone like George Galloway might focus on whether he should be summarily executed as a counter-revolutionary, allowed to serve out the remainder of his miserable life in prison, or allowed to remain at large so that the people could laugh at him, insult him, or ignore him to their heart's content."

Glavin has a problem with the wording of the law that keeps Galloway out -- "the effect of the law is to close Canada's doors to any freedom fighter engaged in armed struggle, or evening advocating armed struggle to overthrow precisely the tyrannies Galloway can't stop himself from sucking up to" -- and thinks it should be rewritten. "We should be allowed by our own laws to determine the company we keep. Much of the Left in Canada may well be too far gone to be able to recognize a dirty little blackshirt like Galloway for what he is. But that doesn't mean that the rest of us should not be entitled to live in a country with laws sufficient to welcome our friends in the struggle for democracy and against tyranny, and laws sufficient to deny safe harbour, of any kind, to any of their sworn enemies."

Be sure to read the whole thing, including the plentiful provided links:

http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2009/03/company-we-keep.html

Great news. Galloway has no inherent right to step onto Canadian soil, especially if he's going to dis the Canadian military and our role in the war in Afghanistan. I'm with Minister Jason Kenney all the way. It's time the uber-left moonbats and their bullying swagger are told to shut up and butt out because that they're not welcome here.

I'm kind of feeling like the tide is beginning to turn. I sure hope so for the sanity of the planet.

how i detest these calls to dump PMSH and replace him with Kenney....only a political corinthian would think Kenney is acting without having received the imprimatur of the prime minister...

Should change his name to George Go Away, would be more fitting. or maybe George Gallows Eh?

mid island mike

Four Canadians killed today by the same scum that Galloway kneels before. It is not just 'his different political views' that makes him undesirable,it is that he supports the barbaric ideology that devastates many in this country.Any questions,sycophant cowards?

Good for Jason and good for us. We don't have to let EVERY piece of scum into the country, do we?

"This low life has a history of providing material aid to terrorists."

Yeah, but so do your guest bloggers and we don't hold that against them.

Kathy Shaidle has twice in the last month written posts trying to get people to come out to a JDL meeting. The JDL is a violent, banned terrorist organization in Canada and America and other countries, with a history of assaulting Canadian free speechers. They have a history of bombings and have been implicated in murder.

Kathy Shaidle is an organizer for a terrorist organization, which, judging from the extremely large terrorist rally on Parliament Hill this month, hardly makes her unique in Canada. So I don't see what the big deal is about Galloway, it's not like he's even organizing a terrorist meeting or anything.

Are you sure it's worth blowing your credibility as a free speecher over this?

Wait; the JDL "is a violent, banned terrorist organization in Canada and America and other countries..."?
That's the Jewish Defence League, or some other JDL?
What are you talking about, Monford?

Tokyo Rose probably wouldn't have been allowed. Lord Haw Haw likely would have met the same fate. As far as replacing PMSH, without a majority it would make no difference, Kenney can be next, then Wall. WK provocateurs can go try make Iggy a man.

Bravo Jason Kenny. Please ban for life the pious gas bag George Galloway. Hooray. Nobody can do self righteous indignation like that jackass.

Jason Kenny is gaining respect!

John Luft nailed it........Galloway would have been in the front pew when Geert Wilders was banned from the UK.

Hmmmmm fun when the shoes on the other foot, no? Good for the Harper govnt again.

Ignatieff weighs in on the matter,from cbc.---""If he is being barred on free speech grounds that is an outrage," said Ignatieff. "He can come to Canada and talk rubbish all day long as far as I'm concerned."--- Michael Ignatieff,not a leader.

"Are you sure it's worth blowing your credibility as a free speecher over this?"

Well it's so obvious the left side of a leftards brain never functions but here's a little secret. This issue has nothing to do with free speech. Try looking up "enemy" or "supporting terrorists" or something like that. Use Google if that helps.

http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-en.asp

I don't see any JDL there..so consider yourself fact checked. Behold the awesome power of google retard. The only Jewish group even listed is Kach and the Jewish Defense league is not one of its aliases.

If he was Canadian let him speak, yell, or make a CNFB film.. Being an import why do we have to listen to foreign fascists when we have so many of our own? Free speech should be for everyone here, but having a British national speak against our war effort & troops for our enemy is just plain nuts.

Probably totally wrong but when I first read this I thought it may be retaliation for the Brits banning another foreign Parliamentarian who is pro Israel. Geert Wilders. As we all know is not on the side of Jihad.
That would speak well in my opinion, of Harpers crew. If there is one thing this government has stayed almost 100% on. Its Israel. In that regard PM. Harper has been fearless. Jason Kenny I think has seen the light when it comes to anti-Zionist protests, as just more Islamist propaganda. Frankly I don’t think any group ought to be subsidized by tax dollars. There own folks should pay the tab. If they can’t support it than obviously it ain’t much of a cause is it, if even popular?
JMO

I also think it shouldn't even be worthy of mentioning that barring entry to the country of a seditious terrorist sympathizer like Galloway isn't a 'free speach issue". The fellow brags about raising money for illegal terrorist organizations why on earth should we let that sort of riff raff into our country - although I'll second the call that we should allow him in and promptly arrest him.

The JDL isn't banned in Canada and never has been. Monford is totally out to lunch

From the article:

"We're going to uphold the law, not give special treatment to this infamous street-corner Cromwell who actually brags about giving 'financial support' to Hamas, a terrorist organisation banned in Canada," he said. "I'm sure Galloway has a large Rolodex of friends in regimes elsewhere in the world willing to roll out the red carpet for him. Canada, however, won't be one of them."

George Galloway should be in the jailhouse, certainly not traveling anywhere outside the Uk! The man made a fortune in the oil for $$ scandal that he, his Liberano-type left wing pals (in Canada), and hard left goons from UN, USA, and GB...raked off the backs of the people in Saddam's Iraq. www.slate.com/id/2170981/nav/navoa/ - 44k .

Jason Kenny was absolutely correct to ban him from Canada. Bravo Jason.

We have an excellent Prime Minister - no replacement should be even considered by sane people.

poor iggy...pathetically trying to make even a handful of political hay....i find him as contemptible and risible a pol as taliban jack....he simply can't make the intellectual vault from political correctness to a principled stand....i'm convinced the man is ignorant of events on the point as they have developed over the last decades.....i don't suppose he's ever heard of the international conspiracy to use lawfare to undermine our institutions and our conviction in their rightness...i KNOW we in the West are superior in thought word and deed....and i really doubt he's ever heard of Podhoretz and WW4....and yet he considers himself an intellectual...?

so what motivates a putzenheimer like the two dicks in the last para ?

Despite his bragging in a speech he just gave in Winnipeg -- "I am an academic" -- Ignatieff struck me as embarrassingly uninformed.

He rattled off a list of accomplishments that, apparently, Winnipegers had pulled off and came across as a total phony. The problem is, it's clear that someone else put the list together for him to read off and that he, actually, doesn't know what the heck he's talking about.

His darting eyes and languid arrogance simply rankle. I sense that the more Canadians see of him, the more unpalatable he will become.

When he started to dis Prime Minister Stephen Harper, my husband switched to another channel.

"The JDL isn't banned in Canada and never has been. Monford is totally out to lunch"

Well, if the FBI is to be believed,perhaps they should be banned. But lets not hold that against Shaidle. Freedom of speech is only for the priviliged few who agree with us.

"Jewish Defense League
Investigation by the Los Angeles JTTF revealed that Irving Rubin and Earl Krugel were active members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a known violent extremist Jewish Organization. A Cooperating Witness reported statements made by Rubin and Krugel indicating a plan to attack the Islamic Muslim Public Affairs Council (IMPAC) office in Los Angeles or possibly the California office of United States Congressman Darrell Issa. Statements made by Kruger indicated the motivation for the attack was to serve as a "wake up call" to the Muslim Community. Rubin and Krugel were arrested by members of the Los Angeles JTTF for conspiring to build and place an improvised explosive device at the IMPAC office."

Statement of John S. Pistole, Executive Assistant Director, Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence, FBI
Before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
April 14, 2004

So how about we all have a go at Ms. Shaidle for promoting an organization that likes committing terrorist attacks. Whats that I hear? Sounds like silence.

Galloway is a nutjob, but theres no shortage of nutjobs allowed into this country. He doesn't plan to stay, and there are, ostensibly, Canadian citizens who would like to meet him (why else was he coming here?). Instead we have a government that disagrees with his political views, so hes disallowed. If that isn't arbitrary, what is?

As for freedom and speech and all that, people here love waxing lyrical about them, but when it comes to freedom of expression of those Canadians who want to see Galloway here for whatever reason, the concepts go flying out of the window. The protestations here are really quite pathetic.

You all say you support terrorism, but how many will criticise the JDL or Shaidle? Its this kind of petty and vindictive governance that gives the Tories a bad name.

galloway is easily one of the most ignorant assholes to ever crawl off the BritishIsles, but to deny him his horrible idiotic words on national security grounds is xenophobic, at least.
Let the hopeless pathetic freak throwup and the people decide, not the effing state.

howsabout just banning the cockroach from coming here....and just looking at it as US putting one across THEIR bow....?

just to show them we're NOT pussies or pushovers....just to make georgie boy look bad...and to hopefully ruin his day..and piss him off...or just to piss ANYONE off...to make soharwardy and elmo look over their shoulders....stuff like that....

It is interesting to see all the muddled thinking from some. The only way one can justify that it is a free speech issue is if one believes in a one world government with completely open borders and with no country having sovereignty and control over its borders.

Fortunately we are not there yet, so Canada retains the right to deny entry to those considered to pose a threat to national security.

Most of the commentors here support the Tamil Tigers terrorist group and their right to hold terrorist rallies on Parliament Hill, should they be banned from Canada too?

ET for example aids and abets the Tamil Tigers with her strong support of them and their right to rally on Parliament, and nobody here seems to have a problem with that.

So that's two terrorist organizations that SDA commentors support, JDL and Tamil Tigers, just off the top of my head. This terrorism concept, which not incidentally has its providence in Lenin's USSR, seems more trouble than it is worth if we're only going to use it as a political tool when convenient.

Don't shoot the messenger, kids, I'm not the one who supports the JDL and the Tamil Tigers here, and if I don't point it out someone else will.

Galloway got banned because he is an amazingly powerful speaker; ask Hitch what happens to people who take on Galloway in a debate, they get smoked. Kenney just made Galloway a free speech martyr and the effects of that will be felt long after this government leaves office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNXcbLuGAc

Sorry, Monford, and others. The free speech meme that you use is a red herring. This is not an issue of free speech at all. It's an issue of Canada exercising her sovereignty over who she allows to enter. Period.

Let me put it another way: Galloway is perfectly free to spew his hateful screed in this country....via satellite video feed. There is nothing stopping him from doing so, just not in person.

So, please stop with the (frankly lame) posturing trying to paint this as an issue of free speech. It doesn't hold water.

monford - I think that you should stick to the facts and don't betray your complete ignorance.

I don't 'aid and abet Tamil Tigers'. Prove it. I support the right of free speech of people of Tamil descent who are citizens of Canada. I bet you think that any and all Tamils in Canada are members of "Tamil Tigers', don't you. Heh. Try to think once in a while. Ignorance isn't a virtue.

And as others have pointed out, as well as myself, refusing Galloway entrance has zilch to do with free speech. He's not a Canadian citizen; the Charter doesn't apply to him. Not even one article applies to him. The issue is whether or not he is, in common terms, a rabble-rouser and likely to promote violence when he is here. Since he IS a rabble-rouser and this is irrelevant of his speech topic, and a foreign one at that, then, we don't need him.

Readers can read ET's brave defense of the Tamil Tigers and their right to have a terrorist rally on Parliament Hill here:

www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=10997#comment-371401

"The Sri Lanka have been violent in their repression of this separatist movement...not all Tamil are terrorists and the ones in Toronto were rallying, peacefully"

(Not true, by the way, they forcefully shut down traffic with the threat of violence just like the Mohwks did. Seems to happen a lot in Canada. Anyway, ET just told a verifiable lie in defense of a terrorist group.)

"It is notable that Tamil in India, which treats them differently than they are treated in Sri Lanka, are not advocating separation or violence."

Nobody disagreed with her, either, so it is fair to call this website one that supports the Tamil Tigers terrorist organization. Hell, if I had a blog and someone wrote what ET wrote it would be ban city, and if I were a commenter I'd set here straight, but then again I don't support terrorists.

ET, when it was brought to your attention that there was a terrorist rally on Parliament Hill, your response was not "Holy sh*t that's wrong!", like a normal person, but instead you clearly and unambiguously made excuses for them and in at least one case made a false statement covering up an actual terrorist incident.

You are a terrorist supporter of the terrorist group LTTE, the Tamil Tigers. I'm pretty disappointed to see this go unchallenged at what presents itself as a Conservative website.

justanotherwesterner...@10:24

Awesome video!...if that is a CPC production they'll get my measly support in the mail!!!

Check it out folks...no puffin poop!

And for all the Canadians who are Jason Kenney fans...more great news!

WTHT...not just the title.

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090320/kenney_lang_090320/20090320?hub=Toronto

Monford, don't know which of the series of debates you were at,or have watched, However, I never saw Hitch get "smoked" at any of them. As former colleagues of the "shinning" tomorrow Galloway and Hitch, for that matter have done the same crap for so long its, rather redundant, sorry, nothing new. Powerful speaker, Galloway? perhaps, speaking total crap, absolutely. Kinda like the sound of one hand clapping. To the masses that adore his rubbish. The man is total crap, and he is more than happy to sue you for saying anything about it. It fuels his passion for idiocy, and for that matter, his passion for nancy clothing. A total wanker.

From Wikipedia

Education and early life

"Kenney was born in Ontario and raised in Saskatchewan. He/She graduated from the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a Catholic, co-educational, boarding high school located in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. He/She studied philosophy at the St. Ignatius Institute of the University of San Francisco, a private Roman Catholic university founded by the Society of Jesus, however, Kenney dropped out before completing his undergraduate degree to begin work in Saskatchewan provincial politics."

He/She??? WTF???

Anyways, I'm happy with Harper, and happy that Kenney is there.

Same here, had enough of fiberals and UN types with their al-taqiyya experts ramming their twisting lies down our throats. Hollow galloway embraces our enemies and their acts of murdered of the innocent. Steals ample money to keep it all going as well. Keep the criminals out of Canada, we have enough already.

Very thankful for Kenny's common sense on this.

Looks like I'm not the only one who notices the risible double standard applied to "terrorism"; in addition to denouncing Kenny's decision to ban critics of Israel from Canada, the Post had this editorial today, pay attention ET:

"Terrorism double-standard

As members of this editorial board watched tens of thousands of Tamil Canadians throng downtown Toronto on Monday, we couldn't help but be struck by a curious double-standard that afflicts Canadian ethnopolitics. To wit: Why are Canadian Tamils permitted to express support for terrorism in a manner that would be considered outrageous if the demonstrators were Arab or Muslim?

The rally that took place in Toronto on Monday was not just, as organizers claimed, an expression of support for Tamil civilians in war-torn Sri Lanka. Many of the participants carried flags of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group that practices suicide bombings and abducts children to use as soldiers. (In 2006, Canada's federal government officially designated the Tamil Tigers a terrorist group, a move that criminalized the group's fundraising efforts in this country.) Some of the banners displayed on Monday also depicted Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, a wanted mass murderer who personally authorizes the acts of terrorism the group has committed over the last three decades.

Yet there was little outrage. To our knowledge, no politicians at any level of government have come forward to denounce this open demonstration of support for a banned terrorist group. In fact, Liberal MP Gurbax Singh Malhi recently appeared personally at a similar rally in Ottawa, and another Liberal MP, Derek Lee, has urged other MPs to join in, too.
...
The message must be: Terrorism is a criminal affront to Canadian values, wherever it is practiced. Just because Canadians don't pay as much attention to Sri Lanka as they do to Israel doesn't change that fact."

www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1399829

For those who didn't read the whole thing, I'll offer a summary: people who ignore extremely large Tamil Tiger terrorist rallies lose all credibility. Nobody will listen to your retarded spiel about Islamofascists when it is clear you have no problem with SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER AND MORE AGGRESSIVE TERRORIST GROUPS.

If one drop of Canadian blood gets spilled to these Tamil bastards, the blood will be on the hands of people like ET and Jason Kenny who support the right of terrorist groups to hold large terrorist rallies in Canada. Traitorous. Disloyal. Treasonous.

I commended Kenny for his stance in the comments section for the "Star". It was not posted... hmm I guess the star is for the terrorists to. Only friendly comments were allowed , so a RED star for that rag.

Well, Monford, I have objected to the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) demonstrating by the thousands in the heart of downtown Toronto. I wrote to Mayor Miller to object and to ask why this demonstration, involving support for an outlawed terrorist group and pulling as it did on a police presence which would have cost the Toronto taxpayer a pretty penny, was permitted.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011012.html

I was told by the City of Toronto that demonstrations of this kind are justified by Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees the right of "peaceful assembly."

I have still not had my question answered concerning the efficacy of rights being extended to groups in our midst who support outlawed terrorists groups. And I don't anticipate that I'll be hearing from Mayor Miller again. He tends to avoid sticky questions and seems to think that his office as Mayor of Toronto precludes having to be accountable to Toronto voters and taxpayers.

I would like a justification as to why the LTTE are permitted to rally anywhere in Canada. And, I would like to know from someone who is conversant with the workings of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms if the right to "peaceful assembly" can legitimately be extended to supporters of known terrorist groups that have been outlawed in Canada? My sense is that no terrorist group outlawed in Canada should be "protected" by Canada's Charter.

If Charter rights, in fact, extend to them, what is the protection offered by the Charter to law-abiding citizens of our country?

Well, Monford, I have objected to the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) demonstrating by the thousands in the heart of downtown Toronto. I wrote to Mayor Miller to object and to ask why this demonstration, involving support for an outlawed terrorist group and pulling as it did on a police presence which would have cost the Toronto taxpayer a pretty penny, was permitted.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011012.html

I was told by the City of Toronto that demonstrations of this kind are justified by Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees the right of "peaceful assembly."

I have still not had my question answered concerning the efficacy of rights being extended to groups in our midst who support outlawed terrorists groups. And I don't anticipate that I'll be hearing from Mayor Miller again. He tends to avoid sticky questions and seems to think that his office as Mayor of Toronto precludes having to be accountable to Toronto voters and taxpayers.

I would like a justification as to why the LTTE are permitted to rally anywhere in Canada. And, I would like to know from someone who is conversant with the workings of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms if the right to "peaceful assembly" can legitimately be extended to supporters of known terrorist groups that have been outlawed in Canada? My sense is that no terrorist group outlawed in Canada should be "protected" by Canada's Charter.

If Charter rights, in fact, extend to them, what is the protection offered by the Charter to law-abiding citizens of our country?

Perhaps I should say, what use is a Charter of Rights and Freedoms if it equally extends protection to outlawed terrorist groups and law-abiding citizens?

Then, what's the point?

"It's an issue of Canada exercising her sovereignty over who she allows to enter. Period."

This isn't an issue of Canada exercising her sovereignty over who is allowed to enter or not. This is, however, and issue of the Government of the day abusing its mandate by arbitrarily keeping a single individual out because it,even though it holds a minority in parliament, happens to be in power.

If Galloway was an enemy of Canada or whatever, any government in power would have refused him entry. Its quite clear that in this case Galloway would not have been banned if any other political party was in power.

What this boils down to is, is the Conservative Party abusing its mandate. That is why it becomes a free speech issue. The free speech issue isnt a red herring. There are Canadians who want him here. And there are Canadians who don't. And the Canadians who don't have overruled the ones who do because they happen to be in power.

Its arbitrary as hell because no one here can prove that ANY government of Canada would keep Galloway out. Only the Conservatives - and newsflash - the Conservatives do not represent every Canadian. By virtue of their banning him on arbitrary grounds, they are violating the right of freedom of expression and speech of those Canadians who do want him here.

I don't particularly want him here, but I don't understand why he should be banned either. I bet you would kick up a storm if some hard-right joker was stopped from entering Canada by the Liberals.

It would be interesting to see their reaction if there was a huge rally in support of the IRA in downtown Toronto although largely defunct and not currently on the “Banned list”.

http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-en.asp

What part of the list do Canadian supporters of the Tamil Tigers and Islamic Fanatical groups not understand? How many more Air India bombings do you want to see launched from our shores, or attacks on the American people planned and perpetrated from your neighborhood?

How long do you think it will take for “peaceful” rally’s to take a turn for the worse once the rallies are acceptable to the mainstream and their support and numbers grow? When will more turn on their adopted government and the lovely Canadian citizens that supported them?

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005668.html

If you believe this is acceptable and the normal way Canada should function “Times change” you are either an incompetent moron, or a socialist anarchist.

Just to put things in perspective, if we were to go by the arguments of those supporting this move, then Canada has a right to exercise its sovereignty by keeping FOX News or Ann Coulter out because the former broadcast the latters explicitly anti-Canadian views. FOr what its worth, I doubt many of you disagree with her views - being anti-Canada is as much in fashion here as being anti-US is on leftist blogs.

So how many of you would let that pass? Or Jerry "the antichrist is Jewish" Falwell?

It doesnt add up;/

"Just to put things in perspective, if we were to go by the arguments of those supporting this move, then Canada has a right to exercise its sovereignty by keeping FOX News or Ann Coulter out because the former broadcast the latters explicitly anti-Canadian view"

Let me know when Ann fund raises for a group of terrorists that want to attack Canada...until then your analogy is pretty weak at best.

For the reprobate, brainless leftards, once again, he's an admitted Islamic terrorist supporter, financially and politically.

Your equivalency arguments do not work. Not that they ever did.

Thank you, irwin. Well said. Monford, trigger, and others are simply clueless on this matter.

trigger: "Just to put things in perspective, if we were to go by the arguments of those supporting this move, then Canada has a right to exercise its sovereignty by keeping FOX News or Ann Coulter out because the former broadcast the latters explicitly anti-Canadian view"

h.ryan, you took the words right out of my mouth. Good G*d: All this "equal rights" talk for the past 25 years has totally dulled too many people's discernment abilities.

There's a vast difference between a duly elected and democratic government upholding the laws of the land vis a vis those who champion the cause of illegal, terrorist groups vs. a U.S. writer/news network airing anti-Canadian views which in no way threaten Canada's security or safety.

It would appear that the lying equal rights industry is turning out nothing but idiots!

I don't see the harm(national security!? ha!, how can anyone use that argument and at the same time realize that his crap is piped in?) in allowing an avowed moron to speak. The media will be all over it and his hole will be twice as big.
I think galloway has more negative effect on young people via the airwaves than inperson and close up.

Posted by: trigger at March 21, 2009 2:08 PM>>

“being anti-Canada is as much in fashion here as being anti-US is on leftist blogs.”

That statement in a nut shell speaks volumes for how out of touch you are. Either that or a blatant lefty PC spin doctor attempting to paint SDA and conservative bloggers as un-Canadian with zero evidence to support the claim. Every thread or conservative comment made on SDA, whether critical of government policies or not is to some degree made towards the preservation of the Canadian status quo.

Your comment clearly puts you in the lefty troll category, a petty anarchist and blog site hacker attempting to spread a malicious virus. You don’t have an opinion or an argument; you have an arsenal of insults and petty PC slogans to derail discussion and debate.

all the worlds a stage so lets see amongst Galloway and Wilders who gets to speak

act accordingly folks

Looks like the reason is his professed/bragging about giving money to Hamas. hamas is an organization that is on our terrorist list. So lets put this another way, canada denies entry to a confessed terrorist fundraiser.

Posted by: Stephen at March 20, 2009 3:48 PM

Oops - looks like canada dropped the ball with D'ohbama a few weeks ago; he was allowed entry and is giving $900 million to hamas for "palestinian rebuilding". Thankfully, none of that cash will be used to buy guns or bombs.

That'd be a hoot if we stopped and turned back the Messiah at the border for "security reasons", eh?

/smiling in gratuitous pleasure at the thought

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