January 13, 2010 12:52PM 

# Michael Savage: Still Banned in the UK 

By [Jason Kuznicki](https://www.cato.org/people/jason-kuznicki) 

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In my Policy Analysis “[Attack of the Utility Monsters](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10952),” I noted that U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage had been [preemptively banned from entering the United Kingdom](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6233105.ece), for fear that he would incite hatred on arrival. I also noted that [the ban had been rescinded](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200636/Alan-Johnson-ditches-Jacqui-Smiths-wanted-list-blunder.html) — which, anyway, it appeared to have been at the time. Today I read that [Savage’s travel ban is back on again](http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/01/12/entry-ban-on-anti-gay-us-shock-jock-to-stay-in-place/).

What had Savage done that was so terrible? I’m not exactly sure, but here are some things that he’s said:

> On homosexuality, he once said: “The gay and lesbian mafia wants our children. If it can win their souls and their minds, it knows their bodies will follow.”
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> Another of his pet topics is autism, which he claims is a result of “brats” without fathers.
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> He has also made comments about killing Muslims, although in one broadcast he cited extremists’ desires to execute gays as a reason for deporting them.

None are sentiments I agree with. In fact, I think all of them range somewhere from foolish to idiotic. Which is exactly why I’d welcome Michael Savage into a liberal, tolerant society: Let him contend with his betters, and he will lose. Treat him like a danger, and the tolerant society will appear weak — and intolerant.

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