George Galloway: Human Or Snake?
I ask because you can’t crawl any lower on your belly than this:
The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair. In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: “Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber – if there were no other casualties – be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?”Mr Galloway replied: “Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it – but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq – as Blair did.”
The Labour MP Stephen Pound, a persistent critic of Mr Galloway during previous controversies, told The Sun that the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London was “disgraceful and truly twisted”.
He said: “These comments take my breath away. Every time you think he can’t sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It’s reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone.”
The Stop the War Coalition criticised Mr Galloway: “We don’t agree with Tony Blair’s actions, but neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations.”
Mr Galloway yesterday made a surprise appearance on Cuban television with the Caribbean island’s Communist dictator, Fidel Castro – whom he defended as a “lion” in a political world populated by “monkeys”.
Mr Galloway shocked panellists on a live television discussion show in Havana by emerging on set mid-transmission to offer passionate support for Castro. Looking approvingly into each others’ eyes, the pair embraced.
That’s Galloway in a nutshell – friend to dictators, defender of tyrants, and traitor to his own country…
AND…
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: “Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber – if there were no other casualties – be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?”
Just what the hell kind of sick and twisted question is that for a reporter to ask? IMHO the reporter is in the same sewer as Galloway.
Carol
Indeed…
I can’t agree with that. I mean, if the reporter agreed with the sentiment, that’s one thing. But just asking the question to see how low George could go seems defensible to me. If anything, he did us all a favor, because he showed us definitively how there’s barely a dime’s worth of difference between Galloway and your average terrorist.
Is Galloway skating on some legal thin ice here? Saying someone’s murder would be “morally justified” and then getting cute and saying you’re “not calling for it” seems dicey to me, especially given that English free speech laws aren’t as expansive as American laws. But I’m not sure.
Well, context may be everything here…I’ll try to find the full interview, if possible…
George Galloway Justifies Murder of Tony Blair
Bush and Blair have decided to “Concede Missteps on Iraq.” Hot Air has a video of the news conference.
In a joint news conference, Bush said he had used inappropriate “tough talk” — such as saying “bring ‘em o…
Is there a law in the UK similiar to the one in the US making threats against the life/advocacy of the assassination of the cheif executive illegal?
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Aaron and Dennis, I think Galloway is NOT on thin legal ice (just on thick morally repugnant ice) – he gives himself an out with his aside “I’m not calling for it”…
George Galloway Has Lost It
When I first read the headline, I assumed they were taking liberties with some of his words to perhaps twist them a bit. I was wrong:The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide
Hey, see here. No reason to libel snakes
[...] You know it’s going to be good. Responding to the recent interview where Galloway stated that the murder of Tony Blair would be morally justifiable, our man Hitch hits all the right high notes: Much of the commentary that I read about this amazing statement seemed to conclude that Galloway had provided himself with enough “wiggle room” to avoid the charge of incitement or advocacy. And it is true that suicide-murderers do not require his warrant in advance to go about their work. (They tend to get his approval, or his defense, only after they have blown themselves up.) But if you examine his statement, and the statements that he has made subsequently, you will have an idea of the complete mental chaos that has overtaken a whole section of the “left” who regard Galloway as an anti-war champion. [...]