I would like some democracy-loving American to start a petition to keep Piers Morgan in the USA.
The grounds would be the what I believe are his comments being protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The framers maybe didn't anticipate the abuse of the rights nor the mindless mutterings that would be protected under the amendment but they were good people acting in a good way and they would, I believe, have accepted that sometimes the greater good is served.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I do have another motive. I don't want this over-rated ass, back in the UK. The USA is a big country and you have absorbed the witterings of many fools, in the past, so please, do the UK this favour.
A major concern, for me, is that people might look at Morgan's journalistic record and conclude that his First Amendments privileges are forfeit because of his prior mendacity or rather the lying that occurred on his watch. He was the editor of the UK tabloid, the Daily Mirror, when they published expose photos that purported to show British troops torturing Iraqi prisoners. Thing was, the photos were speedily exposed as being frauds. I can't remember the exact details but I seem to recall something of the apology which said that 'yes, these were made up but they depict real events' Or words to that effect.
Please though put this to one side and consider the service you are doing for an old ally.
Of course his ravings about gun-control, coming as they do, from someone raised in the super-controlled (some would say, over-controlled) European environment, take no account of how the US has come about and stayed together as a union. How could they? In Europe, the concept of protecting your own home or life is something that is 'farmed out' to the police. In the UK this is particularly worrying when there are regular exposes of police lies, cover-ups and evidence fabrication, such that, today, many question who it is the police actually protect.
The US Constitution and its Amendments are not to blame for the horrific massacre in Newtown.
Neither are the gun manufacturers. We don't blame car manufacturers when the product they produce is involved in the deaths of three times more people than die of gun related deaths.
The one to blame, seems to be universally accepted as being Adam Lanza. You might, just might look at apportioning some responsibility to a state that didn't offer better medical treatment for people with mental health issues but fundamentally, it was a person, Adam Lanza, that did the killing.
Morgan and his gun control zealots can take all of the guns away from all of the people but that won't, I am sorry to say, stop mad people killing innocents.
On the same day as the Newtown massacre, a madman ran amok in China and stabbed 20 children. So, ban knives?
The grounds would be the what I believe are his comments being protected under the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The framers maybe didn't anticipate the abuse of the rights nor the mindless mutterings that would be protected under the amendment but they were good people acting in a good way and they would, I believe, have accepted that sometimes the greater good is served.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I do have another motive. I don't want this over-rated ass, back in the UK. The USA is a big country and you have absorbed the witterings of many fools, in the past, so please, do the UK this favour.
A major concern, for me, is that people might look at Morgan's journalistic record and conclude that his First Amendments privileges are forfeit because of his prior mendacity or rather the lying that occurred on his watch. He was the editor of the UK tabloid, the Daily Mirror, when they published expose photos that purported to show British troops torturing Iraqi prisoners. Thing was, the photos were speedily exposed as being frauds. I can't remember the exact details but I seem to recall something of the apology which said that 'yes, these were made up but they depict real events' Or words to that effect.
Please though put this to one side and consider the service you are doing for an old ally.
Of course his ravings about gun-control, coming as they do, from someone raised in the super-controlled (some would say, over-controlled) European environment, take no account of how the US has come about and stayed together as a union. How could they? In Europe, the concept of protecting your own home or life is something that is 'farmed out' to the police. In the UK this is particularly worrying when there are regular exposes of police lies, cover-ups and evidence fabrication, such that, today, many question who it is the police actually protect.
The US Constitution and its Amendments are not to blame for the horrific massacre in Newtown.
Neither are the gun manufacturers. We don't blame car manufacturers when the product they produce is involved in the deaths of three times more people than die of gun related deaths.
The one to blame, seems to be universally accepted as being Adam Lanza. You might, just might look at apportioning some responsibility to a state that didn't offer better medical treatment for people with mental health issues but fundamentally, it was a person, Adam Lanza, that did the killing.
Morgan and his gun control zealots can take all of the guns away from all of the people but that won't, I am sorry to say, stop mad people killing innocents.
On the same day as the Newtown massacre, a madman ran amok in China and stabbed 20 children. So, ban knives?
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