“It's one thing to ban someone for inciting hatred or violence, but quite another to pass a law that silences anyone who challenges established values.
“I was in Parliament Square today – a statue of Gandhi looking down at me who was jailed for being extremist; Mandela who was jailed for being an extremist.
“History tells us that extreme views are sometimes needed to challenge a very established values that people at the time hold so dear.”Oh really, Mark Easton? And what "established values" that people "hold so dear" (you can hear the sneering contempt in those phrases) was...
...the hate preacher and recruiter for ISIS "challenging"? Democracy? Freedom of worship? Love of country? Liberty? Tolerance? Decency? Pluralism? The values that suggest innocent people have a right not to be hacked to death or blown up in their own country by vile, traitorous religious fanatics?
Anjem Choudary has now been found guilty of inciting British Muslims to support ISIS. Police have linked him to no less than 110 British terrorists. While Choudary was inciting treason against this country, the BBC - despite loud protests from many quarters - seemed only too eager to offer him a platform for his loathsome, dangerous pronouncements, thus helping turn him into the No. 1 homegrown poster boy for impressionable, violent malcontents.
The most shocking thing about Easton - a man whose salary if paid by you and me - drawing a parallel between Choudhary, Gandhi and Mandela, is that he is still employed as the Home Affairs Editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Most days, I'm extremely proud to have worked for the BBC. This isn't one of them.
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