Brits have responded to the petition calling on the
White House to deport Piers Morgan for his anti-second amendment stance
by lodging a petition of their own with UK Home Secretary Theresa May
entitled ‘Stop Piers Morgan from being deported back to the UK from
America’.
The original petition
to deport Morgan for his unconstitutional rhetoric following the Sandy
Hook school shooting has now achieved almost 70,000 signatures, well
beyond the 25,000 required to mandate a White House response.
However, a counter-petition which features on the change.org website calls on the UK government to prevent Morgan from returning to the UK.
“We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer
again. The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him. We
washed our hands of him a long time ago,” the petition reads.
The petition is authored by a user named “hackergate”
and includes a YouTube video of the former News of the World editor
testifying before the Leveson inquiry into the phone hacking scandal.
Morgan has been accused of being complicit
in the scandal but only appeared in front of the inquiry via a video
link from the United States. The CNN host’s claim that he had no
knowledge of the phone hacking scandal wasdescribed by Lord Justice Leveson as “utterly unpersuasive”.
Morgan was hired by CNN as a prime time host despite the fact that he was fired from his editorial position at the Daily Mirror for publishing a fake news story in May 2004.
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson has also weighed in on the controversy over Morgan by tweeting a plea for him to remain in America.
“Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Please don’t send him back,” remarked Clarkson.
Morgan himself addressed the controversy, which quickly
turned into a viral story after the petition was first lodged by
Infowars.com, commenting yesterday, “Merry Christmas! Even to those who
want me deported.”
As Infowars documented in a previous article,
Morgan’s assault on the constitutional rights of American citizens is
not protected under the first amendment because he is not a U.S.
citizen.
Legal precedent suggests
that Morgan could be deported from the United States for openly
engaging in subversion by calling for Americans to be disarmed, but the
fact that he has cultivated a friendly personal relationship with Barack Obama, something which denigrates his supposed impartiality on CNN further, makes that outcome a long shot.
Article Source: Prisonplanet
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