If UK can deport "hate" preachers, why can't we deport Robertson?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Or is his message so powerful that we want him to stay to prove to Americans that the rightist fundies are not just creepy but dangerous?

[Child_Of_Isis]

1. Good point!

You can bet if it was a Dem Leader, they would be up on terrorist charges.

[KeepItReal]

2. What's Robertson's homeland?

You can only kick out people that are foreigners in the UK.

[havocmom]

4. Yep. He could be deported from the UK, but the US is stuck with him,

as he is a native son.

[truebrit71]

7. Um...actually I think he is Canadian......

..

[havocmom]

9. Is he? That would be the best news of the week

If we can confirm it, shall we start the clamour for him being tossed out?

[KeepItReal]

11. Not quite...he was born in Virginia

<eom>

[truebrit71]

12. Are you sure?

..I had heard differently years ago...

[KeepItReal]

13. According to Wikipedia he is...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#Life_and_career

[meow2u3]

14. He could be deported to the moon...

...or maybe to Mars...:evilgrin:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. hey, stop with the lunar abuse

I happen to like our moon the way it is.

[getmeouttahere]

3. Like BushCo would deport his buddy Robertson...

I don't want to live in the same country with these sub-humans.

[KyndCulture]

5. nobody will take him...

[Ian David]

6. We give free speech much more leeway in our country

If you'd asked me in 1999 if this was a bad thing, I would have said yes. People like Pat Robertson should be kicked-out or silenced.

But since November 2000, I have come to jealously guard what little freedom we have left. I do not want to take that first step down the slippery slope that our government is now more eager than ever to exploit.

So, although it gives me great pain to say it, I have to defend Pat Robertson's right to spew his nastiness without government interference.

We need to concentrate our efforts on the corporate world. Get the companies that broadcast him to remove him. We need to use "market forces" to take out the trash.

[kilo]

8. Amen

The last thing we want is the government deciding what is hate speach or not.

I'm sure they would count "Bush Lied, people died" as a deportable offense.

[Eric J in MN]

10. Because Pat Robertson is a citizen. (nt)

nt

[dalloway]

15. damn. that is a great question!

[alfredo]

16. Name him an advisor to the Chad Navy.

Let them deal with him and is old wrinkled ass.

[noonwitch]

17. Because we have a Bill of Rights that the UK doesn't have

Even our lunatics are allowed to say what they want.

If Pat Robertson was kicked out for saying something that was considered seditious or traitorous, the current government could apply that same standard to the left.

[theboss]

19. We have a First Amendment and they don't

There you go!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. Anyway, we THINK we have a 1st amendment. (see Patriot II)

We shall see how long it lasts under Herr Busch.

[tx_dem41]

21. Because the Brits are wrong in doing what they're doing?

in an American perspective, at least.

[genius]

22. Isn't he a natural born citizen? But, his words were a crime. We should

lock him up. We lock up people for no reason at all so why not lock up someone who has committed a crime?