Posted on 10/07/2009 1:07:49 PM PDT by honestabe010
British society cites 'legal issues' just days before event
Just one week before Michael Savage was scheduled to debate via video link at the Cambridge Union in England, the co-presidents of the two-century-old society informed the top-rated radio host they have canceled the event.
As WND reported, the invitation from the Cambridge Union Society for the Oct. 15 debate was issued in July after Savage was banned from entering the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government along with Muslim extremists and leaders of hate groups.
In an e-mail today to Savage producer Beowulf Rochlen, Cambridge Union leaders Julien Domercq and Jonathan Laurence wrote, "It is with great regret to inform you of the difficult decision we have taken to cancel the event."
Domercq and Laurence pointed to problems with the cost and feasibility of setting up the necessary video link, but they also cited "legal issues."
"We have reconsulted with our counsel, and been informed that there are numerous legal issues with Dr Savage speaking here," they wrote, "and so because of all of the technical, financial and legal problems involved, we have come to the reluctant conclusion that the event cannot proceed."
Rochlen told WND the video link should not have been a problem, noting the society previously has conducted debates with participants at remote locations. The society had proposed using a Polycom video conferencing unit to enable Savage to participate from a studio in the San Francisco Bay area, Rochlen said.
The society has not elaborated on the legal issues they faced, but Savage believes the British government clearly didn't want the debate to take place...
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Libtard chickens.
Probably they thought the hanging-up and name-calling would prove unpopular.
I’m not a huge Savage fan, but it is wrong for the other conservative radio hosts to ignore his banning from Britain.
His producer’s real name Beowulf? I thought he was making it up like Rush’s Snerdly. I notice he’s been letting Beowulf talk a little bit on the show lately. I like that.
“His producer’s real name Beowulf?”
Perhaps that’s what scared the Cambridge Union off!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Go MIKE! I bet bammie's "peeps" are just drooling over the desire to "ban" people.
Domercq and Laurence pointed to problems with the cost and feasibility of setting up the necessary video link,
Sounds like sixty years of socialized medicine has left them too poor to spring for a laptop projector and Skype....
Were institutions of higher learning, such as our Ivy League schools still committed to critical debate and free speech, Michael Savage would not need to debate with British intellectuals, but could actually hold court here in America. Saudi petrodollars to higher learning have all but guaranteed that Islam is above criticism. Islamic human rights abuses and its discrimination against women, children, apostates and homosexuals is an anathema to the foundation of democracy.
Were institutions of higher learning, such as our Ivy League schools still committed to critical debate and free speech, Michael Savage would not need to debate with British intellectuals, but could actually hold court here in America. Saudi petrodollars to higher learning have all but guaranteed that Islam is above criticism. Islamic human rights abuses and its discrimination against women, children, apostates and homosexuals is an anathema to the foundation of democracy.
Use this whenever the libs put forth Europe as the land of the free. Ahmanutjob, a proponent of genocide against the Jews in Israel, spoke at one of our universities with absolutely no legal worries. But a simple radio show host can’t have his voice heard in Britain.
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