February 24, 2006

London Mayor Suspended Over Nazi Crack

From the Guardian:

Ken Livingstone was today suspended from office for four weeks by a disciplinary tribunal for likening a Jewish Evening Standard reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Here's what Hizzoner said to reporter Oliver Finegold:
While being recorded, the mayor asked him: "Were you a German war criminal?" On being told the reporter was Jewish, he added: "Ah, well, you might be but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard, you are just doing it because you are paid to, aren't you?"
The mayor's lawyer invoked a rather...questionable... defense:
"When John Profumo apparently slept with Christine Keeler and then committed the far more serious offence of lying to the House of Commons about it, he was compelled to resign, but no one could seriously think that that affected the reputation of the office of secretary of state for war. It reflected badly on John Profumo but not on his office.

"When David Blunkett was allegedly inappropriately involved in assisting an application for a work permit and he resigned, that could not be regarded by an informed observer as damaging the reputation and bringing into disrepute the office of home secretary."

Ix-nay on the esign-ray stuff solicitor, right now the mayor's only being suspended.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto .

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1 "Red" Ken, waste of space, glad he is gone and pray they dont let him back.

Posted by: dave clarke at February 24, 2006 04:06 PM (TL20Q)

2 It seems not long ago I was under the impression problems of racism, dissention and hatred just didn't exist in multicultural, progressive no-guns England. After some time now reading media like the Guardian, BBC, Mirror, Independent etc., its easy to wonder how they haven't yet turned into a basket case.

Posted by: Javapuke at February 24, 2006 04:32 PM (B8Lwy)

3 Red Ken is the guy reponsible for inviting in the radical clerics who like to hang around on street corners and preach hate. This is what likely resulted in the London subway bombings. And he did it all with the noblest of intentions.. "tolerance and diversity". Another glaring example of socialist failure.

Posted by: Richard at February 24, 2006 04:37 PM (7KF8r)

4 It's only a precursor to then enforcing censorship for hate speech towards Islam. After all if you do it for Jewish hate speech you then have to do the same for the Islam faith. This is no victory, it will become yet another tool to censor free speech, and surpress those that have no intention of paying a Dhimmi tax, or putting their wife in a Burka.

Posted by: dave at February 24, 2006 04:42 PM (CcXvt)

5 London's mayor has been suspended from office on full pay for four weeks because he dare talk to a zionist journalist and this racist fascist zionist jew Flemming Rose is protected and supported just because he offend muslims,double standards,hypocrisy,unjustice,criminal zionist plots and conspiracies against muslims Flemming Rose the responsable of the prophet cartoons born 3/14/1956 into a Jewish family in the Ukraine Flemming Rose, a Jewish extremist supporter of Israel and close friend of Neocon Jewish extremist Daniel Pipes. Either we in the West believe in Freedom of Speech or we don't. If we really have free speech then why is world-renowned historian David Irving sitting in a prison in Vienna right now facing up to 20 years imprisonment for having a dissenting opinion on some details of the Holocaust? Why was Germar Rudolf, a Chemist Doctoral Candidate, kept from receiving his degree and now sits in a dank prison meant for terrorists with a five year sentence for simply scientifically challenging some forensics of the Holocaust? Why has a pacifist Canadian, Ernst Zundel been in prison for 3 years and now faces trial in Mannheim, Germany for expressing his conscience on an historical period now over 50 years old! It should be obvious to all the fair-minded people that the pro-Israel, pro Clash of Civilizations, pro World War III cartel of media brazenly supports freedom only when it supports their own nefarious agenda, they cannot afford criticism or dissent.

Posted by: hansrussen at February 24, 2006 06:08 PM (8kpQK)

6 hanrussen, the jailing of Irving and Zundel have one important thing in common. They were jailed by socialist countries where the state (not God) giveth and taketh away their freedoms. Today, the threats to freedom of speech are coming from the Left. And yes, I agree with you that the hypocrisy is rank.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 24, 2006 06:19 PM (8e/V4)

7 well JLC I see some of that coming from the right also. ALL bureaucrats want to hold onto whatever power they have. Islamofascist states comes to mind as examples.

Posted by: john ryan at February 24, 2006 08:58 PM (TcoRJ)

8 john ryan, care to elaborate on that? It didn't make any sense.

Posted by: Oyster at February 25, 2006 07:47 AM (YudAC)

9 Don't worry about it Oyster; he rarely makes sense.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 25, 2006 10:47 AM (0yYS2)

10 Wait a second. How can a mayor be suspeded from office in the first place? Some democracy they have, whereby an elected official can be suspended by a "three-man Adjudication Panel for England" Also, as hansrussen points out, "Either we in the West believe in Freedom of Speech or we don't." Obviously they don't in the UK. I don't think many Americans realize that they don't have the same rights in most of Europe as we do here.

Posted by: Tom the Redhunter at February 25, 2006 11:12 AM (TcuR4)

11 >>>I don't think many Americans realize that they don't have the same rights in most of Europe as we do here. Tom, I would say that zero Liberals realize that, and that many conservatives do realize that.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 25, 2006 01:21 PM (8e/V4)

12 Then they should suspend WARD CHURCHILL over his remarks and what about ALEC BALDWIN?

Posted by: sandpiper at February 25, 2006 02:22 PM (AQZCQ)

13 How about we just kill them all? What? I can dream, can't I? Hey, everyone's gotta have a hobby.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 26, 2006 07:28 AM (0yYS2)

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