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cyclezealot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 02:27 AM
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British MP to tour USA. ?-George Galloway.
Everyone recall how Senator Norman Coleman accused British anti-war MP George Galloway of collusion with Sadam Hussein in regards to oil interests..Well, George Galloway responded to Coleman's attacks and came to Coleman's Senate hearings and Cleaned Colemans's clock.
Galloway's passionate and intelligent speech making is something DC pr types are not used to. I read Galloway is to go on a US tour to speak his mind about Bush's illegal war.
Recall, Galloway was kicked out of Blair's Labour party and was returned to Parliament on an anti-Iraq war platform as a Liberal MP from London. Blair has had some rough days with the election of Galloway to Parliament and the re-election of the popular London mayor, also kicked out of the Blair Labour party.
anyone know any information about the details of Galloway's US speaking tour...I sure would not want to miss it.
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julianer Donating Member (964 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 04:22 AM
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1. I don't think the details of the tour
have been announced yet.

Couple of corrections. Galloway is an MP for Respect - the Unity Coalition, not the Liberal Democrats. Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London was first elected as an independent, having been thrown out of the Labour party and then was re-admitted and won his second term running as Labour.

He is 'old Labour', though. A socialist of the old school, famous as Red Ken during his leadership of the old London authority in the 80'. He was so popular that he posed a threat to Thatcher and she got rid of the entire government structure in London as a result.
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:30 AM
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2. If he does come to the US on tour, he should start in Boston.
We have a long history of dissent.

The Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770:
http://www.bostonmassacre.net/plot/detailed1.htm

The Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/teaparty/bostonxx.htm

The shot heard round the world April 18 and 19, 1775:
http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/RevAmerica/3-When/Shot.html

I think the symbolism of Boston as his first stop (if the tour happens) would be perfect.
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