RIGHT HONOURABLE BORIS JOHNSON, PLEASE REMOVE MICHAEL SAVAGE FROM THE UK TRAVEL BAN
Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am writing you to petition for redress of a grave injustice. On May 5, 2009, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith published a list of individuals to be banned from entering the United Kingdom owing to their posing a threat of some kind to the people of your country. Amongst the terrorists and other undesirables on the list were two individuals of upstanding character and accomplishment . One of them, Geert Wilder of the Netherlands, managed to have his name removed through a formal process undertaken that year. The other, Dr. Michael Savage of the United States of America, is still on that list. You wrote in response to that announcement: "America still has a constitutional protection of free speech, and I have been amazed ... to see how few people in this country are willing to stick up for that elementary principle ... a country once famous for free speech is now hysterically and expensively sensitive to anything that could be taken as a slight." And writing in The Guardian, Catherine Bennett stated: The Guardian, "The ban on Savage is so far from being a comprehensible act, so staggeringly capricious and stupid, as to defy evaluation." Dr. Savage has been President Trump's frequent guest at the White House, it is anomalous that he is banned from your house, the entirety of Great Britain. The ban has stood in place for a decade. Now is the time to lift the ban and take a stand for the rights of free speech that have come under assault in the land of the Magna Carta. Sincerely, Daniel Horowitz, Attorney