BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Teribus
Date: 08 May 03 - 08:23 AM

Guest Boab:

Following lifted from an article on your hero:

"Complaints had been received about an interview Mr Galloway did on March 28 to Abu Dhabi TV in which he "seemingly invited other Arab nations to fight against the British Army", according to party officials."

Now Gorgeous George sits as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Kelvin, quite a large contingent of the British Forces currently in Iraq are Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Scots Greys) and the Black Watch - I wonder if the parents, relatives, wives and children of those men would agree with you regarding GG, if the above is in fact true. A British Member of Parliament inciting foreign nationals to kill British troops - complete and utter f*ckwit certainly, maybe even traitorous, but not as Mr.Happy suggests, "a hero for democracy, freedom of speech, enemy of hypocrisy." - Not by a bloody long shot.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 08 May 03 - 08:22 AM

Gareth, its the hypocrisy of our western leaders, am I registering?. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: GUEST,T-boy
Date: 08 May 03 - 08:11 AM

Not a hero for democracy, but one who uses democratic freedoms to undermine them.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Gareth
Date: 08 May 03 - 07:04 AM

"How many pertinent questions did Thatcher ask Pinochet when she invited this tyrant to the UK"

And what has that got to do with the behaviour of George Galloway ???

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 08 May 03 - 06:58 AM

How many pertinent questions did Thatcher ask Pinochet when she invited this tyrant to the UK. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 08 May 03 - 06:36 AM

I found it very disturbing seeing him toady to Saddam Hussein in one of his visits, as I did watching Tony Ben not asking any pertinent questions of the murderous bastard.
As to the money issue, who knows, but it seems a rather stupid thing to do for a man who's obviously got a brain, despite his dodgy moral compass.

All the best PP

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Gareth
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:56 AM

No hero at all, his career has been punctuated with accusations of financial misfeasence.

He has not been gagged, he has not been deprived of his seat in parliament.

He has been suspnded from active membership of the Labour Party whilst his conduct is being investigated. Some people seem to forget that membership of an organisation has responsibilities as well as privaleges.

If, as a member of the Iraqui Parliament, Mr Galloway had critisiced Saddam Hussain in the same way he would have been suspended, by the neck.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: GUEST,Seacat.
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:42 AM

It is unwise to judge a person with the gutter press as his/her
prosecutor even the Grauniad takes sides.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 08 May 03 - 05:10 AM

There's a good article in today's Guardian by Ron Greenslade comparing today's treatment of George Galloway in the Press to that received by Arthur Scargill.

Jim McLean

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 08 May 03 - 03:05 AM

Like most folks, I don't know enough about what went on in Iraq between Mr Galloway and Iraqi officials. One thing I do know---even if he did accept cash payments for whatever from the regime, his alleged lies about it aren't nearly as bad as the gawd-awful deceptions and scene-shifting perpetrated by Tony Blair and Jack Straw which resulted in British participation in the recent power trip.

Subject: RE: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Teribus
Date: 08 May 03 - 01:59 AM

This is the same guy who was instrumental, as one of the guiding lights in arranging the "twinning" of Dundee and Nabulus. When invited over for the twinning ceremony the civic leaders of Dundee's Labour Corporation presented the leader of the Palestinian Delegation from Nabulus with a kilt and a bottle of whisky - Now exactly what the recipient of those gifts thought would be well worth recording, being as he was a legless (literally), moslem cleric.

His nicknames (George Galloway's) in Scotland are "Gorgeous George", or "Champagne George" - The Scottish Labour Party, particularly in Glasgow, is renown for it's corruption and cronyism. To earn such nicknames in such an environment says a great deal about the man.

Subject: BS: George Galloway: A hero for democracy?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 07 May 03 - 09:15 PM

i think he's a hero for democracy, freedom of speech, enemy of hypocrisy.

He's just been suspended from the new Labour Partly

what think you?