Hasn't a person been tried in Austria for saying the Holocaust was not a very important event, in historical terms?
David Irving. 'Revisionist' (in the actual dirty sense, not the commonly meant dirty sense) historian. Holocaust denial laws. Naturally the Germans and the Austrians are sensitive about the subject, but I can't support such laws.
As you can see above I was awake until the early hours, which has given me some time to think.
My initial reaction was the usual one to the 'I'm never going there, it's a statist nanny etc...' - check your own eye first. Then had the same reaction as Micro - we get to decide who we let in and who we don't. That's what the US government does, and on a grand scale.
Savage though. Well, he's quite right to be upset. He does not belong on a list of murderers and inciters of violence. Neither do the Phelps though. They are perceived undesirables, a category into which the US govt lumps all Britons with a criminal conviction.
Wilders is clearly a hypocrite and nasty little man, but I'd let him in too although I have issues with those who use freedom of speech as a defence when they advocate the removal of such rights from others.
Which brings me back around - I'm not sure many of you would like anti-US figures who stand for everything you oppose popping in and out of the country as they see fit, going where they like and saying what they like. Your No-fly list is huge. So criticise us equitably, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) may have made the list in error (along with many others), but he was still deported. We seem to have imposed a ban on a man who does not deserve it. I can't see how we are worse than you.