Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:35 p.m. EDT
Michael Savage: Deport Protesters
A group of illegal immigrants who demanded he be taken off the air because they didn’t like Michael Savage’s comments about their hunger strike in favor of immigration rights drew a scornful response from the talk show host.
Commenting on a hunger strike by supporters of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, which would make higher education or military service a part of the path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants, Savage lived up to his name by suggesting that it might be a good idea if they kept fasting until they inevitably died of starvation.
During a broadcast of his nationally syndicated show “Savage Nation” on July 5, Savage told his millions of listeners: “I would say let them fast till they starve to death. ... Because then we won’t have a problem about giving them green cards because they’re illegal aliens.”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, more than 30 protesters publicly denounced Savage and his remarks outside San Jose City Hall. They said his comments, which they labeled both vile language and “hate speech” should not be excused on the grounds of freedom of speech.
The group, which the Chronicle reported included San Jose State University students who participated in the hunger strike and a variety of community activists, demanded that radio stations such as Clear Channel Radio’s KNEW 910 AM in San Francisco apologize for airing vile language and hate speech and cheered in support of the immigrant students who fasted.
The Chronicle quoted Mark Silverman, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who compared Savage’s comments to those of talk show host Don Imus, who was fired after making racist remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team earlier this year.
“I think wishing the death of people is just beyond belief for someone who has access to 10 million listeners,” said Silverman, a longtime immigrant rights advocate.
The students, after all, were on a hunger strike, Savage told NewsMax, adding that “the logical conclusion of a hunger strike is starvation. That’s their right.”
Savage went on to explain that the hunger strikers are illegal aliens, “who stole free college educations and then had the audacity to demand citizenship because they were slippery enough to beat the system out of a college degree!”
The strikers, he said “owe the U.S. taxpayer reimbursement for their college degrees, and any other public benefits they may have cadged over their years here illegally. Then they should be deported.”
He said Silverman, who he described as “the far-left lawyer who is behind them, tied up Proposition 187 through endless litigation. He “stole” the votes of over 6 million Californians who voted to pass this proposition through judge shopping. He stifled the will of the people by preventing this proposition from becoming law.”
The ballot measure, Savage said “would have simply prevented illegal aliens from obtaining public welfare, public medical assistance, and access to public schools, and would have increased the penalties for the counterfeiting of documents used by illegals to gain jobs.
“Silverman teaches courses on how get around various aspects of immigration law; including ‘winning asylum cases, winning suspension cases and so on’ and he is very proud of his work on behalf of illegals.”
Said Savage “We are discussing having Congress investigate him and his “clinics” for illegals, working first through Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/15/215119.shtml?s=ic
Silence Savage?
I’m no big fan of his but he does have the guts to call it as he sees it.
Besides, if the tables were turned and someone suggested silencing some liberal talk show host, the cries of *censorship* and *the First Amendment* would be deafening.